The summer here in Sweden is one of those rainy ones. People here get so effected by the weather sometimes it seems to be all we talk about. Maybe it´s no wonder because for 9 months it´s dark, gray and cold here.

I´m NOT a person who likes the cold weather, but I´m learning how to work my way around those rainy day blues.

I got my dose of sun, heat and vitamin D in France so I´ve had a bit of summer. But back here I refuse to let the weather get to me. Little can be done to the forces of nature.

I ones read that if you´re standing wating for the bus and someone next to you is somking and you get annoyed, if you´re a non smoker that is. The thoughts of that smoke and the person can be more harmfull than the smoke it self.

We can control our moods by choosing not get get worked up about things we can not change. Like weather, traffic and other peoples behaviors.

If we learn how to we will be able to see what we actully can do to change a situation we find annoying.

Take a few minutes everyday and contemplate what you can do and what you can´t. Try to focus on making small shifts instead of big ones. Be with people that make you feel good about yourself and give back.

Stay away from the TV and go for a walk even if in the rain. Make pretty meals and live both healthy but indulge in that extra from time to time. I know I´m a food nerd but eating well is an easy boost to your health and well being.

This will make you feel better and you will not drain yourself by getting worked up for no use. It will make your mind calm, your face smile and your body feel warm from the inside.

To lift this grey monday I made raw vegan sushi with quiona sprouts and some rice paper hommus rolls, loaded with good stuff such as pickled hokkaido pumpkin and chiogga beets.

Sunday breakfast with foradged berries

Turn your body upside down, good for your mind

Raw vegan sushi and rice rolls

Balance the retox and the detox. Work and play to get the most out of life. Photo to the left: Fredrik Skogkvist.

Red berry love found on a walk

Yoga has been in my life for the last 15 years. I used to be a teacher and that was 12 years of my life.

I loved to teach and I think I was pretty good at it. But for many reasons I stoped and that halt took me to where I am today.

As I continue to contribute the Rawness blogg we will touch all those places of my life. But for now all I can say about it that I´m finally really happy. I´m starting to like who I am and I love what I do.

I´m lucky. I´ve worked with the three of my passions in life. Fashion, yoga, now food and writing about it.

It´s both a blessing and a curse to do this. Or not a curse but it takes you places you´ve nerver thought you´d end up in. And it teaches you stuff you didn´t think you needed.

Without the daily practice of yoga I´m not sure I would´ve survived my crash courses of emtions. I wouldn´t have developed into a better version of who I was before.

Gone are the days when yoga was my jobb and with that the luxury of always having a shala to pracitce in AND the time…..

But I´m greatful. Now working with what I do I get the best produce, products, plants, education, food and drink a girl could wish for.

Yoga teaches us many things about our bodies and minds. But if you listen a bit more to the words and the actions you will see it also and foremost mirrors you in life and where you stand.

You get to meet the supernovas of your personality. Like handstands, deep back bends, thouching of toes, standing still in chaos, being able to keep on breathing in deep unknow waters and simpliy returning to your mat.

And wheter you want it or not your demons will come out and play with you. Fuck with you until you see, feel, live, talk, reason and learn to live with them in peace.

The demons or your bad habits are the keys to getting your life in balance. When you can have a glass of wine with them or a coffe then you´ll know they´ll be THE creative force to becoming you.

And that´s the reason why yoga is my choice of cure for all my vices.

Where ever the yoga takes you, you will need cruches and side tracks to help you see where to focus.

The pulling of the yoga top, touching of your hair.

The nervous cough.

The aggressive force vs the lethargic.

The I´ll start tomorrow or the I must must do every day.

All those things need to be there till you´re ready to let go and learn how to walk without the aid of a bad habit.

That´s how you learn to make a great entrance and a graceful sortiee.

Plum

Walnut

Pouring olive oil in 30 degrees is hotness galore….

Bliss

Entering

Executing.

Sortiee

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