Between the sunflower seeds and the sprouts, this salad is protein, vitamin and mineral feast!
Ingredients: Escarole, rocket/rucula, misuni, beet greens, lamb’s lettuce, grated carrot, black olives, tamari toasted sunflower seeds*, sprouts: alfalfa, radish, cress, green mung bean, brown lentil, raisins, balsamic vinegar, olive oil.
*Method for Tamari Toasted Sunflower Seeds: Heat a heavy pan (I use cast iron), then add seeds and let them sit, without stirring, until you hear one or two pop. Then, reduce the heat and move the seeds gently around the pan until some of them are beginning to brown. Don’t overheat or overcook as you will destroy vital nutrients. Place the seeds, still warm, in a bowl and add tamari or soy sauce, stirring immediately. Allow to cool, then sprinkle on your salad. They are also lovely with brown rice and nori sprinkle, for a simple and nutricious evening meal.
Mix it all together and, voilá, baby!
Recipe time: QuInOa sAlAd
Quinoa Salad
I often 
advise people to eat more salad. I don’t mean iceberg lettuce and tinned corn, though! Ideally, you should have a big salad every day, at lunchtime. It can even be your main meal, in the summer time. Obviously, if you have candida and need to avoid lettuce, or if you have diverticulitis or polyps in the colon, be careful with the raw veg.
Mix together: Escarole, rucula (rocket), misuni, beetroot greens, lamb’s lettuce, grated carrot, sprouts (I used mung, brown lentil&watercress), cooked quinoa grain, balsamic vinegar, olive oil,black olives, pink rock salt, walnuts and a tiny bit of cubed melon.
How to choose a yoga teacher
As a yoga teacher, this is a healthy and humble article to post. I have had a long journey with yoga, and have been gifted with humility as a result. Believe me, I did not arrive at adulthood knowing how to love, nor how to transmit compassion, nor how to respect other people’s limitations, beliefs or lifestyles. In yoga, this is fundamental, because every single student is singular, unique and on their own journey. You can only teach yoga from the heart, respecting physical limitations of the human body, and believing wholeheartedly that there is a Spirit guiding us from within if only we learn to tune into it. Om.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/oct/27/yoga-injury-class-regulation-bad-practitioners
102-year old lady who does yoga and looks amazingly happy!
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-norfolk-37775585
Need another reason to practice yoga?
Best Diet To Prevent Cancer? Paleo? Ketogenic? Vegan? — Breast Cancer Authority
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pib7TS3yITI
What is the best diet for preventing cancer? Does the paleo diet stop cancer? What about the ketogenic diet and cancer? Can a wholefood plant based diet prevent cancer? Can we be healthy if we don’t eat meat? Do we need meat to be healthy and cancer free? What about free range, organic, grass fed […]
via Best Diet To Prevent Cancer? Paleo? Ketogenic? Vegan? — Breast Cancer Authority
La neurobiología del yoga
http://m.eluniverso.com/vida-estilo/2016/08/14/nota/5743332/doctor-psiquiatria-explica-neurobiologia-yoga-beneficios
Yoga in prisons
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/10/doing-a-stretch-how-yoga-is-cutting-stress-in-south-african-prisons
How to be a good yoga student
There is a lot of talk out there these days about how to be a good yoga teacher. I think that the best way to be a good yoga teacher is to be a good yoga student. Here are my tips for how I try to be a good student of yoga.
- I use my own yoga mat. This is a pretty basic aspect of yoga. You will spend quite a lot of time on your mat. Your bare feet and your sweet face will most likely touch the same parts of the mat on many occasions. I don’t know about you, but I don’t tend to nuzzle strangers’ feet. I also happen to think that, over time, your mat becomes impregnated with your psychic energy. I really encourage all good students of yoga to invest in a non-slip mat, and to keep it clean (they launder on a cool cycle really well – tip of the day!)
- I don’t eat for two hours before practice, and don’t drink for one hour. I don’t drink during class. The energy of digestion is a downward-moving energy. In yoga, we are channelling energy and moving it upwards, usually. If you are digesting, you create confusion within. Better to practice while fasting.
- I don’t practice when I have my period. Guys, you beat us on this one. The ladies are required to miss a few days per month, for the same reason as above. The menses are downward-moving. Yoga moves things upwards.
- To be a good student of yoga, I maintain silence before and during practice. Enough said.
- I practice six days per week, usually the same practice for a period of months, if not years. I know that this sounds craaazy to a beginner, but it really is the essence of the yogic mind. I figured this one out right at the beginning: I took a beginner’s class at the Sivananda Centre in London. There, they told me that the objective of the course was to encourage home practice. I thought “ok”, bought their book and started practising their simple sequence of Sun Salutations and 12 postures. I encourage you to do the same. The only way to be a good yoga practitioner is to practise!
¡Profesores de yoga por favor, por amor al yoga, paren de enseñar!
On death
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Now, there really isn’t anything radically wrong with being sick or with dying. Who said you’re supposed to survive?Who gave you the idea that it’s a gas to go on and on and on?
And we can’t say that’s it’s a good thing for everything to go on living, from the very simple demonstration that if we enable everybody to go on living, we overcrowd ourselves.
So therefore, one person who dies in one way is honourable because he’s making room for others
We can also look further into it and see that if our death could be indefinitely postponed, we would not actually go on postponing it indefinitely. Because, after a certain point we would realise that that isn’t the way in which we wanted to survive. w
Why else would we have children? Because children arrange for us to survive in another way, by, as it were, passing on a torch, so that you don’t have to carry it all the time. There comes a point where you can give it up, and say ” now you go.”
It’s a far more amusing arrangement for Nature to continue the process of life through different individuals than it is always with the same individuals. Because, as each new individual passes through Life, Life is renewed. And one remembers how fascinating the most ordinary, everyday things are to a child. Because they seem them all as marvellous, because they seem them all in a way tat isn’t related to survival and profit. When we get to thinking of everything in terms of survival and profit margin, as we do, then, the shapes of scratches on the floor cease to have Magic. And most things, in fact, cease to have Magic. So therefore, in the course of Nature, once we have ceased to see magic in the world anymore, we are no longer fulfilling Nature’s game which is to be aware of itself. There’s no point in it anymore. And so we die. And so something else comes to birth, which gets an entirely new view. It is not, therefore, natural for us to try to prolong Life indefinitely.
But we live in a culture where it has been rubbed into us, in every conceivable way, that to die is a terrible thing. And that is a tremendous disease from which our culture, in particular, suffers.
The gentleman says it much better than I can. Please enjoy the video. I will blog this week, promise.