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Raw Banana Cacao Chia Pudding

These types of dishes are so easily customizable, they’re a lot like having oatmeal for breakfast; you can make it with any ingredients that you like. For this one in particular, I choose to use a perfectly ripe banana for a little natural sweetness, some tart goji berries, and raw cacao powder to accompany the gooey chia seeds.

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Ingredients

1 (16 ounce) package uncooked orzo pasta (I like to use whole wheat)

1 (10 ounce) package baby spinach leaves, finely chopped

1/2 red onion, finely chopped

1/2 teaspoon dried basil (fresh would be good, too)

salt and pepper to taste

1/2 cup olive oil

1/2 cup...

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White Bean, Asparagus and Mushroom Cassoulet

(adapted from Cooking Light)

Ingredients

3 cups asparagus, sliced into 1 inch pieces

2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, divided

3 cups chopped chanterelle or oyster mushrooms (or your favorite!)

1/3 cup finely chopped shallots

6 garlic cloves, minced

¼ cup dry white wine

1½ cups vegetable broth

½ teaspoon dried marjoram or dried oregano

2 (15-ounce) cans cannellini beans, rinsed and drained

Freshly ground black pepper

Salt

½ cup Panko bread crumbs

¼ cup grated Parmigiano-Reggiano cheese

Preparation

Steam or boil asparagus and set aside.  Heat 1 tablespoon olive oil in a large sauce pan over medium-high heat.  Add chopped mushrooms, shallots, and garlic; sauté until mushrooms are tender.  Add wine and cook until liquid evaporates.  Stir in broth, marjoram, and beans; bring to a simmer, then reduce heat and cook until soup is thick and beans are tender.  Stir asparagus into bean mixture and add salt and pepper, to taste.

Mix breadcrumbs with Parmesan cheese in small bowl.  In a small skillet, heat 1 tablespoon olive oil.  Add bread crumbs and cheese mixture to skillet, stirring until well combined and golden brown. Plate soup and sprinkle with breadcrumbs before serving.

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Reverse Warrior (Viparita Virabhadrasana) | Taninah Resort, Playa del Carmen, Mexico (in the middle of a jungle)

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Arugula Pesto over Baked Spaghetti Squash

It’s a quick and easy dinner that is great for making during the week, when you may not have time on your side.

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More yoga, less drama.

Noah Maze (via crazylovewords)

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Fennel and Yellow Split Pea Soup serves 10 4 1/2 cups dried yellow split peas, rinsed 4 tbsp butter 2 bulbs fennel, diced 2 onion, diced 8 stalks celery, diced 12 small carrots, diced 4 cloves garlic  salt and pepper 1 tsp turmeric 14 cups vegetable stock 2 cups water 4 medium potatoes, peeled and diced Directions: Place peas in a ginormous pot where they take up from 1/4 to under 1/2 of the room, then fill up to the 3/4 line with water and a sprinkle of salt.  Bring to a boil, lower the heat slightly to prevent boiling over, and let cook for 30 minutes.  Stir occasionally, being aware that the peas will significantly expand.  When finished, drain, rinse, and set aside.

In any even more gigantoid pot, melt butter over medium-low heat.  Cook fennel, onion, celery, and carrots with garlic and salt and pepper, stirring occasionally, for 10 minutes.

Add the turmeric, stock, water, potatoes, and peas; mix well.  Bring to a boil and then simmer, covered, for 2 hours.

Once cooled (this will take hours), use a food processor to puree in batches until smooth.  

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Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.

Rumi (via fuckyeahyoga)

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you are. // the page

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This is what chatturanga should look like

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Here are a few interesting recipes I might try in the lunchboxes, definitely the chick pea one!

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appreciate everything, even the ordinary. especially the ordinary.

pema chodron (via marybethlarue)

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Lao Tzu

In the end,  The treasure of life is missed by those who hold on  and gained by those who let go.

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What we speak becomes the house we live in.

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From an article: How Yoga Can Spark Your Creativity.

According to Chakra theory and Chinese acupuncture meridian theory, we hold grief in our lungs, anger in our inner thighs, trauma in our hips, and weakness in our knees. We also learn that the throat is the center of expression in our bodies—it’s where we hold all the words we didn’t say, where we get tired if we haven’t been listening hard enough, and where we lie to ourselves. Opening the physical throat and chest area can help to release old blockages in the throat chakra, opening up space for truth and honesty, and then its creative expression. The hips, on the other hand, are the source of the body’s creativity because it is related to our sexual center—svadisthana chakra, where we literally create life. Often if one is blocked, the other will follow—the anger seething in the hips needs to get out through the throat, and moving the physical body can help us access some of this stuff.

Very good reading!

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