Spice Rack: Cumin - Jeera Aloo

Spice Rack: Cumin - Jeera Aloo

Cumin is the ubiquitous underlying flavour that is the source of all deliciousness in cuisines across the globe, from Morocco to Mexico. A gently warming spiciness that is deep and earthy, you can go easy and make it the star of the show in a simple jeera rice or take advantage of its ability to hold its own in a massaman curry paste.

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Mudra of the Month - Vishnu Mudra

Mudra of the Month - Vishnu Mudra

Mudras have been used in the Eastern world for thousands of years, their purpose is to channel and redirect energy within the body to achieve optimal health and vitality. The word mudra translates as "seal", it is used to describe a physical gesture made with the body or the hands.

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After Abundance; On Becoming the ‘Less Is More’ Generation

After Abundance; On Becoming the ‘Less Is More’ Generation

The term ‘Bodhicitta’ in Sanskrit means a mind that strives towards awakening for the collective wellbeing of all. Beyond surface-level stress reduction, mindfulness-based meditation practices and ways of living can bring us closer to that sense of profound comfort and ease within ourselves that exists whenever we are thinking and acting out of our innate sense of compassion and connection with other beings.

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Mudra of the Month - Apana Mudra

Mudra of the Month - Apana Mudra

Mudras have been used in the Eastern world for thousands of years, their purpose is to channel and redirect energy within the body to achieve optimal health and vitality. The word mudra translates as "seal", it is used to describe a physical gesture made with the body or the hands.

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How Yoga Can Help You Find Your Voice

How Yoga Can Help You Find Your Voice

Voice is more than vocal chords – it’s what we say, how we say it and the influence that has on both our inner and outer worlds.  Phoebe shares a yoga practice that focuses on developing the depth and resonance of your voice as a powerful way to becoming your authentic self, making real in the world, what you envisage internally. “the voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls” ― Friedrich Nietzsche

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Avoiding Wastage: A Mindful Personal Accounting System

Avoiding Wastage: A Mindful Personal Accounting System

Natalie takes a look at how preventing waste in our own internal world can have a lasting impact the way we treat external resources. She offers the practice of Mindfulness as one potential solution to the economy of waste that we find ourselves in. This is meditation and activism all rolled into one.

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Cool as a Cucumber: How to Cool Down with Green Juice

Cool as a Cucumber: How to Cool Down with Green Juice

A lot has been written on the virtues of a cold press vegetable juice, but did you know that it can also be a very good temperature regulator? Blanka, who has to spend some time in Summer working from her boss’s home office space ‘under a hot tin roof’, shares her strategies for cooling it down when you have no access to air conditioning.

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Everyday Epiphanies: ‘The Mirror Within: a new look at sexuality’ by Anne Dickson

Everyday Epiphanies: ‘The Mirror Within: a new look at sexuality’ by Anne Dickson

This month, Lauren’s been reading ‘The Mirror Within: a new look at sexuality’ and is here to share what she’s learnt. From appreciation of your physical body, to acknowledging the erotic in everyday life; what can we do as friends, lovers, sisters and mothers to help ourselves and other women better connect with their sexual selves?

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