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Mango Red delicious apple Peach Frozen Blueberries Banana Topped with cinnamon Happy 4th of July! Original Article

Mango
Red delicious apple
Peach
Frozen Blueberries
Banana
Topped with cinnamon

Happy 4th of July!

Original Article

Nothing like a bowl of wholesome veggies, quinoa, and curry to make an evening complete! You’ll Need 2 stalks of celery 2 carrots 2 handfuls of kale 2 cups of quinoa 1/2 jar of non dairy curry 1 lemon 1 table spoon earth balance spread Cast iron skillet Now What Chop celery, carrots, and kale Heat up skillet with earth balance spread Toss in celery and carrots Simmer until a little brown Add kale Simmer and stir Squeeze lemon on mix Add quinoa Add curry Simmer and stir Serve it up and squeeze lemon on top! Enjoy! Original Article

Nothing like a bowl of wholesome veggies, quinoa, and curry to make an evening complete!

You’ll Need
2 stalks of celery
2 carrots
2 handfuls of kale
2 cups of quinoa
1/2 jar of non dairy curry
1 lemon
1 table spoon earth balance spread
Cast iron skillet

Now What
Chop celery, carrots, and kale
Heat up skillet with earth balance spread
Toss in celery and carrots
Simmer until a little brown
Add kale
Simmer and stir
Squeeze lemon on mix
Add quinoa
Add curry
Simmer and stir
Serve it up and squeeze lemon on top!

Enjoy!

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The surprise is that this tastes amazing and will leave you feeling fantastic! And it looks like a sunburst work of art so that’s fun too. You’ll Need 1 cup of quinoa (prepared and set aside) 2 handfuls spinach 1 orange pepper 1 lemon Now What Prepare quinoa Steam spinach Cut pepper into slices Build your sunshine from the bottom up Quinoa on the bottom Topped with Spinach Orange pepper slices around the base Squeeze fresh lemon all over Enjoy! xo Tara Original Article

The surprise is that this tastes amazing and will leave you feeling fantastic! And it looks like a sunburst work of art so that’s fun too.

You’ll Need

1 cup of quinoa (prepared and set aside)

2 handfuls spinach

1 orange pepper

1 lemon

Now What

Prepare quinoa

Steam spinach

Cut pepper into slices

Build your sunshine from the bottom up

Quinoa on the bottom

Topped with Spinach

Orange pepper slices around the base

Squeeze fresh lemon all over

Enjoy!

xo

Tara

Original Article

You are your own guru for me that is true to the philosophy of yoga. - from Dutch Yoga Magazine. The guru is within. People that pose as gurus are phonies. No person is a guru and all people are gurus. So no one can be a guru over another. Phony gurus are dying and yoga is coming back to people. If you choose to give your power to a guru you are playing into the blind submission that brings you further away from the experience of yoga and closer toward the experience of something strange and out of alignment with the self. When the emperor has no clothes it’s wise to point that out. Original Article

You are your own guru for me that is true to the philosophy of yoga. - from Dutch Yoga Magazine.

The guru is within. People that pose as gurus are phonies. No person is a guru and all people are gurus. So no one can be a guru over another.

Phony gurus are dying and yoga is coming back to people. If you choose to give your power to a guru you are playing into the blind submission that brings you further away from the experience of yoga and closer toward the experience of something strange and out of alignment with the self.

When the emperor has no clothes it’s wise to point that out.

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As filling as risotto, but even tastier and way healthier. You’ll Need 1 cup black rice (cooked) 1/2 pineapple 1 nectarine 1 pear 1/4 jar non-dairy curry Now What chop up fruit combine with cooked rice in sauce pan add curry stir and simmer for 5 minutes Enjoy! Original Article

As filling as risotto, but even tastier and way healthier.

You’ll Need

1 cup black rice (cooked)

1/2 pineapple

1 nectarine

1 pear

1/4 jar non-dairy curry

Now What

chop up fruit

combine with cooked rice in sauce pan

add curry

stir and simmer for 5 minutes

Enjoy!

Original Article

This lunch rocks! Super savory, a bit sweet, and never boring! You’ll Need Handful of organic spinach A few olives 1 organic pear 2 grape leaves A couple mushrooms wrap - your call Now What chop everything up mix everything together wrap it up and enjoy! xo Tara Original Article

This lunch rocks! Super savory, a bit sweet, and never boring!

You’ll Need

Handful of organic spinach

A few olives

1 organic pear

2 grape leaves

A couple mushrooms

wrap - your call

Now What

chop everything up

mix everything together

wrap it up and enjoy!

xo

Tara

Original Article

I wrote this post for MindBodyGreen. Deep breaths and enjoy! The veil has been lifted on the fat free craze (thank you Michael Pollan), fad diets are losing steam (bye bye South Beach Diet, hello natural foods), and now it’s time to tackle the exercise myth. Working out, sweating your body weight, pushing yourself, and burning calories, whether it’s at the gym or yoga studio, DOES NOT lead to weight loss. Pushing, burning, and sweating often actually leads to WEIGHT GAIN. Screech! What? Hold the phone, right?! Let’s examine what you practice and what’s going on in your body and mind. Pushing yourself at any activity builds tension in your body, along with the associated stress cocktail in your brain. Tension in your mind leads to lots of tense habits and activities. Let’s be honest, does this internal dialogue sound familiar: “Man, this is tough, gritting my teeth, ugh, I hate my body, I hate where I am right now, I hate what I did last night, if only I could do this pose or spin faster or run faster, I could make up for it and achieve all my goals!” That type of dialogue causes stress. You start holding your breath, and a whole lot of not-so-nice stuff happens in the physiology of your body. Don’t worry. No judgments here. It’s internal dialogue, so no one can actually hear your self-deprecating thoughts. But you know they are there! It’s ok. We should talk about it, because it’s a super common behavior, and no one is talking about it. If we do shed light on what’s going on in our minds and bodies when we’re exerting physical effort, we can begin to choose how we are, in a way that creates what we want. This will be a big step up from getting caught in the hamster wheel of making up for (or punishing ourselves for) unhealthy behavior, and the misinformation that tags along about calorie burning and fat blasting. We get good at what we practice. If we practice responding to stress with aggression - whether it’s in the gym, on the track, or in the yoga studio - we get good at aggression. We’ll relate aggressively, work aggressively, eat aggressively, generally without noticing - because we’ve practiced it so much! We might burn some calories along the way, but no way it will ever match up to what we can eat and drink, long before we begin to notice how our bodies feel and what we need to be healthy. Here’s the thing: if exercise doesn’t change how we eat for the better, it will never ever lead to weight loss and a healthy body. In particular, if our way of exercising is aggressive, pushing, forcing, we’ll just build tension and carry it through the rest of our lives. We’ll eat aggressively, mindlessly, without the self-connection that’s our best road to being healthy. And there’s no amount of fat-blasting and calorie-burning in our lives that ever comes close to correcting what the wrong foods can do to us. Tension in the brain leads to tense habits. Eating for reward, emotional eating, and over-eating to “get through the tough workout” all come from tension in our minds and bodies, rather than ease. When you practice tense, you reinforce tense. If you love your form of exercise, whether it’s spinning, running, yoga, hiking, dancing, whatever, that enjoyment is causing a different cocktail of chemicals in your brain, that lead you in the direction of treating yourself well. Doing what you love leads you to happiness and good health. Activities that make you feel free, connected, calm and capable reinforce habits that keep creating the same feelings. Activities that make you feel anxious, stressed, and not good enough also lead to reinforcing habits. The activity itself doesn’t matter. What matters is how you feel about it. How you practice is most important. Yoga is not the magic wonder drug, and I’m not yoga’s agent. I’m for everyone discovering ways to connect with themselves, and find the space to create their own best lives. I see plenty of people who walk into Strala and grit their teeth through the entire class, as if it’s one more task to get through. It’s so unnecessary. You can do hard things easily. It’s actually possible and everyone can do it. Life doesn’t have to be tense. Yoga doesn’t have to be tense. When you move with ease, whether you’re attempting a handstand, running 10 miles, negotiating a business deal, or talking with a friend, your brain has space to flow in creativity and intuition. Sounds like meditation? When you exist in ease, every moment in your life becomes meditative and space has a chance to enter. You have room to breathe, room to release tension, room to create yourself healthy and happy. When you’re in this space you begin to expand and see beyond each moment. You become yourself. You’re able to make good decisions, be in the zone, and allow room for synchronicity. Your life heads in the right direction when you give it space. When you squash it with tension, well, it gets squashed. So what happens when things aren’t so healthy? When you move through the activities of your life tense, the brain has no space. You end up moving without understanding, seeing or feeling you. You find your way into tension-related activities, like over-eating, drinking alcohol, or yelling at a cab driver. It’s much nicer to feel expansive and connected to yourself. When you’re feeling this way, you are back to your natural state, happy and free. Sounds nice right? You can do it! We all can live in happiness and feeling good. It’s a practice of cultivating ease. You can practice tense or you can practice with ease. Practice ease during challenging and simple movements alike. If you practice tense, say jumping into handstands and forcing yourself into poses that your body isn’t able to do easily (ease comes with practice!), you will wind up more tense than when you started. This leads to tense eating habits, most likely reward and over-eating habits. Of course it’s a practice. Getting to easy is a practice and probably isn’t always perfect. With yoga, and any other activity in life, we have the opportunity to observe without judgment, and then do something about it. Of course physical activity is good for you. It can be fantastic for your mood, energy, range of motion, shape and tone of your body, breathing capabilities and more. Keep exercising! Just understand that - despite a large volume of persistent outdated information - exercise on its own has very little to do with weight loss. How you live has to do with weight loss. How you handle stress, how you practice calm connection to yourself, has to do with the life and health you’re able to create. You are what you eat. Now we come down to what you are actually putting in your body. Food rules. Food is fuel, it shapes our body, it determines our health, our energy levels, and our liveliness. If your exercise isn’t helping you dial your eating habits to fresh, simple, natural, whole, inspired, colorful foods, lots of water, not so much on the booze, and easy on the caffeine, you might want to take a second look at how you feel about your exercise routine. Are you doing ____ (insert yoga, spinning, running, dancing, etc) to burn calories, or are you doing it to feel great in your body, improve your mood, and feel vibrant? Are you doing it to correct a bunch of mis-steps, or because you love it? When you find a routine that makes you feel vibrant, and offers up a stream of new challenges to explore and enjoy, simmer in that. It will have a very positive impact on your overall health, and your waist line. Original Article

I wrote this post for MindBodyGreen. Deep breaths and enjoy!

The veil has been lifted on the fat free craze (thank you Michael Pollan), fad diets are losing steam (bye bye South Beach Diet, hello natural foods), and now it’s time to tackle the exercise myth. Working out, sweating your body weight, pushing yourself, and burning calories, whether it’s at the gym or yoga studio, DOES NOT lead to weight loss. Pushing, burning, and sweating often actually leads to WEIGHT GAIN. Screech! What? Hold the phone, right?!

Let’s examine what you practice and what’s going on in your body and mind. Pushing yourself at any activity builds tension in your body, along with the associated stress cocktail in your brain. Tension in your mind leads to lots of tense habits and activities. Let’s be honest, does this internal dialogue sound familiar: “Man, this is tough, gritting my teeth, ugh, I hate my body, I hate where I am right now, I hate what I did last night, if only I could do this pose or spin faster or run faster, I could make up for it and achieve all my goals!” That type of dialogue causes stress. You start holding your breath, and a whole lot of not-so-nice stuff happens in the physiology of your body. Don’t worry. No judgments here. It’s internal dialogue, so no one can actually hear your self-deprecating thoughts. But you know they are there!

It’s ok. We should talk about it, because it’s a super common behavior, and no one is talking about it. If we do shed light on what’s going on in our minds and bodies when we’re exerting physical effort, we can begin to choose how we are, in a way that creates what we want. This will be a big step up from getting caught in the hamster wheel of making up for (or punishing ourselves for) unhealthy behavior, and the misinformation that tags along about calorie burning and fat blasting.

We get good at what we practice. If we practice responding to stress with aggression - whether it’s in the gym, on the track, or in the yoga studio - we get good at aggression. We’ll relate aggressively, work aggressively, eat aggressively, generally without noticing - because we’ve practiced it so much! We might burn some calories along the way, but no way it will ever match up to what we can eat and drink, long before we begin to notice how our bodies feel and what we need to be healthy.

Here’s the thing: if exercise doesn’t change how we eat for the better, it will never ever lead to weight loss and a healthy body. In particular, if our way of exercising is aggressive, pushing, forcing, we’ll just build tension and carry it through the rest of our lives. We’ll eat aggressively, mindlessly, without the self-connection that’s our best road to being healthy. And there’s no amount of fat-blasting and calorie-burning in our lives that ever comes close to correcting what the wrong foods can do to us.

Tension in the brain leads to tense habits. Eating for reward, emotional eating, and over-eating to “get through the tough workout” all come from tension in our minds and bodies, rather than ease. When you practice tense, you reinforce tense. If you love your form of exercise, whether it’s spinning, running, yoga, hiking, dancing, whatever, that enjoyment is causing a different cocktail of chemicals in your brain, that lead you in the direction of treating yourself well. Doing what you love leads you to happiness and good health. Activities that make you feel free, connected, calm and capable reinforce habits that keep creating the same feelings. Activities that make you feel anxious, stressed, and not good enough also lead to reinforcing habits. The activity itself doesn’t matter. What matters is how you feel about it. How you practice is most important.

Yoga is not the magic wonder drug, and I’m not yoga’s agent. I’m for everyone discovering ways to connect with themselves, and find the space to create their own best lives. I see plenty of people who walk into Strala and grit their teeth through the entire class, as if it’s one more task to get through. It’s so unnecessary. You can do hard things easily. It’s actually possible and everyone can do it. Life doesn’t have to be tense. Yoga doesn’t have to be tense. When you move with ease, whether you’re attempting a handstand, running 10 miles, negotiating a business deal, or talking with a friend, your brain has space to flow in creativity and intuition. Sounds like meditation? When you exist in ease, every moment in your life becomes meditative and space has a chance to enter. You have room to breathe, room to release tension, room to create yourself healthy and happy. When you’re in this space you begin to expand and see beyond each moment. You become yourself. You’re able to make good decisions, be in the zone, and allow room for synchronicity. Your life heads in the right direction when you give it space. When you squash it with tension, well, it gets squashed.

So what happens when things aren’t so healthy? When you move through the activities of your life tense, the brain has no space. You end up moving without understanding, seeing or feeling you. You find your way into tension-related activities, like over-eating, drinking alcohol, or yelling at a cab driver. It’s much nicer to feel expansive and connected to yourself. When you’re feeling this way, you are back to your natural state, happy and free. Sounds nice right? You can do it! We all can live in happiness and feeling good. It’s a practice of cultivating ease.

You can practice tense or you can practice with ease. Practice ease during challenging and simple movements alike. If you practice tense, say jumping into handstands and forcing yourself into poses that your body isn’t able to do easily (ease comes with practice!), you will wind up more tense than when you started. This leads to tense eating habits, most likely reward and over-eating habits. Of course it’s a practice. Getting to easy is a practice and probably isn’t always perfect. With yoga, and any other activity in life, we have the opportunity to observe without judgment, and then do something about it.

Of course physical activity is good for you. It can be fantastic for your mood, energy, range of motion, shape and tone of your body, breathing capabilities and more. Keep exercising! Just understand that - despite a large volume of persistent outdated information - exercise on its own has very little to do with weight loss. How you live has to do with weight loss. How you handle stress, how you practice calm connection to yourself, has to do with the life and health you’re able to create.

You are what you eat. Now we come down to what you are actually putting in your body. Food rules. Food is fuel, it shapes our body, it determines our health, our energy levels, and our liveliness. If your exercise isn’t helping you dial your eating habits to fresh, simple, natural, whole, inspired, colorful foods, lots of water, not so much on the booze, and easy on the caffeine, you might want to take a second look at how you feel about your exercise routine. Are you doing ____ (insert yoga, spinning, running, dancing, etc) to burn calories, or are you doing it to feel great in your body, improve your mood, and feel vibrant? Are you doing it to correct a bunch of mis-steps, or because you love it? When you find a routine that makes you feel vibrant, and offers up a stream of new challenges to explore and enjoy, simmer in that. It will have a very positive impact on your overall health, and your waist line.

Original Article

saw this on my friend Jan’s facebook page. Couldn’t resist posting :) Enjoy! Original Article

saw this on my friend Jan’s facebook page. Couldn’t resist posting :) Enjoy!

Original Article

Hardly any food in the house, just goes to remind ourselves, that it’s possible to make a delicious meal with whatever is left over (and not gone bad!) in the kitchen. Veggie Curry You’ll Need 1 red onion 1 sweet potato 1 orange pepper 4 carrots 2 cups rice (cooked) Cast iron Now What prepare rice (1 cup rice, 2 cups water, 1 table spoon earth balance) simmer onions in cast iron chop sweet potato and add to onions simmer while you chop carrots add carrots chop orange pepper should simmer for about 20-30 minutes add cooked rice to cast iron stir and simmer on low add jar of non-dairy curry.Maya Kaimal) is good brand you can find at whole foods. simmer for 5-10 minutes on low Enjoy! And now for dessert! You’ll Need 2 frozen bananas (freeze in zip lock bag over night) a few squares dark chocolate (I like dark mint chocolate!) Vitamix it up! enjoy! Original Article

Hardly any food in the house, just goes to remind ourselves, that it’s possible to make a delicious meal with whatever is left over (and not gone bad!) in the kitchen.

Veggie Curry

You’ll Need
1 red onion
1 sweet potato
1 orange pepper
4 carrots
2 cups rice (cooked)
Cast iron

Now What
prepare rice (1 cup rice, 2 cups water, 1 table spoon earth balance)
simmer onions in cast iron
chop sweet potato and add to onions
simmer while you chop carrots
add carrots
chop orange pepper
should simmer for about 20-30 minutes
add cooked rice to cast iron
stir and simmer on low
add jar of non-dairy curry.
Maya Kaimal) is good brand you can find at whole foods.
simmer for 5-10 minutes on low

Enjoy!

And now for dessert!

You’ll Need
2 frozen bananas (freeze in zip lock bag over night)
a few squares dark chocolate (I like dark mint chocolate!)

Vitamix it up!

enjoy!

Original Article

Orange Avocado Arugula Surprise

Orange Avocado Arugula Surprise

I like to add “Surprise” at the end of a lot of these meals because it’s fun, but it’s also surprising how delicious these super crazy healthy meals actually are. I mean really surprising! Try it out and let me know how you like it!

You’ll Need
2 handfulls of arugula
1 orange
1 avocado
1/2 cup pine nuts
Earth Balance spread
Sea salt

Now What
Heat cast iron or skillet
Add a bit of earth balance spread to skillet
Toast pine nuts in skillet
Peel orange, cut half in small slices
Slice avocado
Add avocado and orange slices to arugula
Squeeze the rest of the orange over the salad
Add toasted pine nuts (toast in skillet until they are a little brown)

Add a pinch of sea salt

enjoy!

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