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YOKE YOKE offers group and private yoga lessons, reiki healing sessions and Ayurvedic wellness consultations. Learn more at www.yokemindandbody.com

We also offer interactive workshops, seasonal tips and recipes for mind, body and spirit.

Rebranding, refocusing and planning…. My yoke mind and body website was compromised so, I’m back to my original account ...
04/13/2025

Rebranding, refocusing and planning…. My yoke mind and body website was compromised so, I’m back to my original account name for now. 💛 C

Tridoshic churna. Churnas are spice blends that aid in digestion, help keep doshas in balance and taste delicious too. T...
02/02/2025

Tridoshic churna.

Churnas are spice blends that aid in digestion, help keep doshas in balance and taste delicious too. To learn more about your dosha message me to set up a time to discuss!

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In case you missed on Friday night (which was amazing) here’s my soup that was served to keep you in the loop! 🫶🏼Trido...
02/02/2025

In case you missed on Friday night (which was amazing) here’s my soup that was served to keep you in the loop! 🫶🏼

Tridoshic Winter Melon Soup

6 lbs winter melon
2 fennel bulbs, frawns reserved for later
2 stalks of celery
1 leek
3-4 cloves of garlic
2 T of Tridoshic Churna
2 T ghee
2 qts vegetable stock
1/4 c chopped cilantro
2 c split mung dal; soaked overnight and drained

1. Process the winter melon by removing skin and seeds. Cube into 1” pieces.
2. Bring a large pot of water to a boil and add winter melon. Cook for 10-12 minutes, strain and set aside.
3. In a large sauté pan melt ghee then add your spices. Allow them to bloom in the ghee for 1-2 min.
4. Chopped fennel, garlic, leek and saute in the fragrant ghee until soft.
5. Return all the veg to a large pot and mix together over med-low heat.
6. Once incorporated add stock and continue to cook for another 25-30 min.
7. Blend soup using an immersion blender.
8. Once smooth add in cooked mung dal, cilantro and fennel frawns
9. Serve with lime or fried leeks.

As always enjoy and please feel free to DM if you have questions about this recipe.

Love to you all! 🙏🏼🌿

01/31/2025

Frequency Chicago tonight at ASNA yoga and wellness. Dm for last minite tix!!

🍊Oh My Ojas Treats🍊8oz dried apricots8oz dried prunes 8oz dried dates1.5 c pumpkin seeds1.5 c sunflower seeds1/4 c ghee1...
12/23/2024

🍊Oh My Ojas Treats🍊

8oz dried apricots
8oz dried prunes
8oz dried dates
1.5 c pumpkin seeds
1.5 c sunflower seeds
1/4 c ghee
1 oz sesame seeds, divided
1 tsp ground green cardamom
Zest of an orange
Nice pinch of Himalayan salt

1: Bring 2 qt of water to a boil. Remove from heat and pour over the dried fruit. Let sit for 5-10 minutes or until they have become soft and plump.
2: Toast pumpkin seeds lightly; set aside and allow to cool.
3: Separately, process the seeds to your desired consistency. Reserving some sesame seeds whole for garnish. I processed all of them until they were fine ground.
4: Combine the seeds together along with the cardamom, zest and salt.
5: Process the dried fruit along with the ghee and transfer into a large bowl.
6: Gently fold the seed mixture into the fruit.
7: Once combined, transfer into a greased 9x13 pan and sprinkle the remaining sesame seeds.
8: Cut into bars and enjoy!!

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My new yoga. Still here, just busy. Love to you all! 💖
03/10/2023

My new yoga. Still here, just busy. Love to you all! 💖

03/02/2023

"Grandma, I'm tired. So tired of this life..."

"Take your tiredness, my child, and wrap it around yourself. Like a blanket in the cold winter months. Tiredness comes to make you a nest, to bring you to wear comfortable clothes, to make you sink into its warm embrace. I invite you to stay within yourself. Without strength, without thoughts, without actions. Like the snow that covers everything to soften the world, to make it muffled, to protect it from noise. Accept the flakes of your tiredness and let yourself be completely covered by them."

"I could die buried under there..."

"You will be reborn instead. Like the seed in the ground. Do not resist your weariness, do not reject it with a thousand actions, a thousand intentions, a thousand feelings of guilt. It just wants to take you by the hand and lead you to sink into the void. Right there, where the source of every inner strength lies. They taught us to be strong by resisting. But it is in surrendering that the true heroes emerge."

"I'm afraid, grandmother. What if fatigue will annihilate me?"

"My child, you are not afraid of tiredness but of losing control of yourself. The time has come for you to give yourself to life. And to generate together with it the most wonderful children: the fruits of your soul!"

Author: Elena Bernabè

Picture by Martin Harvey

09/01/2022

When working with relationship patterns, it's often the things we are doing to keep the love that waters it down. What do I mean by this?

For the past few years I have run Becoming the One Group Coaching sessions. Time and time again, women will describe their dilemma to me - the person they were dating dropped off the map, things were going so well and then all of a sudden they pulled their energy back, they ghosted etc.

Usually when we get to the core of the story, these women were holding back some aspect of their authentic voice. A boundary, a need, a desire, a non-negotiable, or even a vulnerable aspect of themselves that felt tender and unlovable.

One woman pondered out loud on a call "I think maybe I used my voice too soon because we were only a few months in and as soon as I set a boundary and asked for a need to be met, he ghosted me".

I can promise you, the challenge is never that you are using your voice too soon, it's that you're not using it soon enough.

There's a difference between projecting your demands onto a person, and standing authentically in your truth, using your voice and being whole in yourself while stepping into relationship with another being.

The challenge when we hold back is we condition people to expect us to always be the way we're presenting. Subdued, "super easy going", needless, compliant, and none of these things create polarity - the necessary energetics and chemistry that make the relationship interesting. A little bit of healthy challenge is a good thing. We're not talking chaos here.

If a person is only in it because they think they don't have to show up and you suddenly change the game, they may bow out.

Withholding our energy always creates problems. No matter what, bringing yourself to the table and taking the risk to show up as who you truly are is always the answer.

That doesn't mean you won't get a no sometimes, or that magically people will always communicate with maturity and grace.

It means you stand firm in who you are and set the tone from the start. It means be willing to release those who aren't aligned for you without making it mean something about your worth.

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