I was totally worn out and sick when I boarded the plane to Biarritz. At home I wake up 45 minutes earlier to do my practice.
Peoples reaction to this is why?
I can´t see how I could not. Daily practice has been part of my life for the past 16 years in one form or another.
It´s a thermometer of my physical, mental and emotional state. It gets me through the days and mirrors where I am.
Of course the physical aspect is a big part of it, even more so when not working as a yoga teacher.
My body is active the whole day and stress is the key ingredient in my life at the moment.
Ideally it would´t be like this but life is seldom ideal. I´m working with and thru whats around me. Trying to not get sucked into the dramas at work and in my personal life.
Of course this is impossible but with the practice it becomes very apparent what I can change and what I can´t. This makes it easier to focus on transforming a shitty situation into something productive.
I have not succeed with this the weeks prior to my trip.
So even though not part of the yoga retreat as a student and with work to be done both there and else where.
The nature, silence, people, making food the way I love to, local organic markets, and with time to really practice every day made me feel a little bit less fragmented than when I left.
And we’ve laughed a lot. Josefin, Peter, Isabel, Gonzalo, Jessica and Shay where a great crew.
Yogaakademin and Surfakademin are run by Peter, Jens and Josefin. They are travel agencies for yogis and surfers looking to deepen or learn to practice yoga and surf in different parts of the world.
Vera learnt how to surf with Surfakademin who took her to the beaches along the coast of France and Spain to find just the right waves.
New friends where made and I remembered a part of me that has been neglected for far to long.
It´s important to get your fibers and protein. Or you´ll end up playing the “Hunger Games” like I´ve the past week.
In France it was easy to eat lightly. The days where filled with only plant food breakfasts, juice for lunch and something more foody after the sun had set. With the heat the most important intake of the day was water and minerals such as salt.
When I practice a lot of bikram yoga or if I´m exposed to warmer weather I use my Friway Well salt spray. Made with ionised water and mineral salt it´s a great little invention to keep your salt intake without adding the bad salts.
Also on vacation there is no stress and yoga everyday so my system gets pretty much balanced out from the city lifes overindulgence and work.
A clean body is more receptive to the food you eat. A little yoga everyday helps as well
But once I got back home and the heat diminished, I was back at work and my hunger kicked in. I´m pretty good at reading my bodies signals but this time my head was`t with me so instead of eating more and drinking less juice I just continued as the week before.
Cold, tired hitting the snooze button each morning instead of yoga before work I just didn´t get it. Untill a couple of days later I realized that even though loaded with nutrients I needed something more meaty and had to add more fibers to my diet when back at my regular speedy life.
So this weekend I´ve been making gluten free flat bread and eating fish. Carbs and protein.
ENJOY LIFE
Fishlys and oysters
More oysters…. Great for minerals and salt, maybe post yoga 🙂
Everyday is a new day and so are you listen to your needs move from there
For many years I didn´t eat meat due to yoga filosophy and not listening to my needs. I ended up totally depressed and just craving bad stuff such as too much coffee, sugar and bad habits.
For every coffee drink dubble the amount of water and up your intake of greens
And before those years I didn´t eat anything. So even though my mind and body can work on starvation mode my soul can´t anymore.
So from time to time. REGULARY, once a week or more I eat animals. I´m happier and more free this way and working with food I just couldn´t eat everything.
I mean why do we call it nut cheese, plant yogurt, zuccini pasta or raw vegan beef if we weren´t inspierd by the tastes and forms used in the more traditional cooking. Also it´s easier to explain the foods and a busniess to made money from, so easy does it.
It´s not only animal protein that is excluded from peoples diets but carbs, gluten and lactoes.
Pizza lover
Eat your carbs with flowers and cheese
Gluten free flat bread brunch
Get an expert to tell you what you can and can´t eat, don´t guess. There are many important nutrients in these products and to exclude them for random diets could be realy bad. To eat organic and local is also a great way to stay away from allergies and upset tummies, bad ph level and mood swings.
I tought I was allergic to gluten and lactoes but if I eat “lagom” and choose organic products there´s no problem at all. Veggies should come from the earth and soil. Meat should be grassfed and chickens roam freely.
Life is so much richer these days when food is not an issue and just something to enjoy.
SWISS CHARD
Swiss Chard
Beets are a great bloodsugar stabalizer
We got some beautiful Swiss Chard and beets to the work this week. Both these plants are great blood sugar stabalizers since they help regulate the speed of digestion and keep food moving at the right pace through our digestive tract.
Like beets, chard is a unique source of phytonutrients called betalains. The betalain pigments in chard have been shown to provide antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and detoxification support.
Take care if your pregnant you should stay away from these 2 and spinach. Also included in this family called the chenopod is quinoa.
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….
