Retreat with us
Take some time out for you for a stunning 3-day yoga, dance, meditation, and breathwork retreat in Mount Lyford – alpine village.
Fuss free fruit cake
If you like a piece of Christmas cake with a cup of tea, or your evening dram over the festive season and time got away on you – here’s an easy recipe that’s ready in 3 days. Suitable for vegan, fat free, and gluten free choices – it’s a winner in our house.
Ways with broad beans
Transform the humble, nutritious broad bean into a delicious complement to this smoky eggplant & pea curry.
Lime & coriander hummus
When the limes are flinging themselves from the tree, bursting with juicy flavour and a neighbour harvests a carrier bag full of fresh coriander for you to rescue it from seeding – there’s a delicious hummus waiting to be created!
Carrot daal
I love it when a recipe makes itself through produce and situations that just eventuate when I get in the kitchen. This one was born when I lived in East London doing my Intensive Care training, short on cash, and surrounded by good, cheap Indian grocery stores with surprisingly hot chillies this particular day!
Daal Tadka | a cleansing reset
If you’re feeling the effects of different, or excess foods and drinks that tend to come with social, holiday, and away from home times; this simple tempered daal recipe is a great soother, cleanser and reset for body-mind-digestion.
Taking care with breathwork
With different opinions about exercises, practices and beliefs about how to breathe for optimal health it can be confusing. The truth is there is non one breath practice that suits every body, every time. As unique individuals with different constitutions, health balance, structures and stressors we need an individualised approach
Zucchini Kasundi
A delicious spiced Indian relish with immune, metabolic, and digestive health benefits – use as it is, or as a base for a delicious coconut, or tomato based curry. A great way to preserve a variety of excess vegetables or fruit for a tasty, long lasting pantry staple.
Silverbeet mallung
If your winter silverbeet, or spinach is starting to bolt as the ground warms up try this delicious light, fresh, spicy, tender coconut and chilli silverbeet curry for an antioxidant, vitamin boost that can help your body release toxins and build healthy red blood cells.
Complete decongestive therapy
Clear accumulated ama (waste products and unmetabolised compounds) from your body-mind with complete decongestive therapy. When we combine manual lymphatic drainage with diaphragmatic release, breathwork, and specific movement practices the natural waste disposal and cleansing functions of your body-mind can be optimised, or given a kick start into doing what they need to do with more ease.
Pelvic pain
Whether it’s adenomyosis, endometriosis, fibroids, perimenopause, or post surgical recovery – pelvic pain can create a debilitating cycle of inflammation, immobility, restriction, more pain, and more inflammation. Yoga therapy can open up the possibility of fuller breath, subtle pelvic floor and diaphragmatic activation and the movement required to minimise back pain, pelvic tension, and bladder weakness.
Overactive upper traps?
If you commonly find your shoulders migrate up to your ears, shoulder muscles are tired and tight, or headaches and upper back tension are frequent companions, read on for some self-care yoga therapy tips and to retrain dominant upper trapezius muscles.
Post viral recovery
Viral ilnesses like covid, colds and flu deplete our metabolic resources and can leave us feeling slow, sludgy, bogged down and in need of quick sources of energy from our food and drinks. However, the crash that comes after high energy foods enhances the abundant qualities of Kpaha dosha that can hang around, sapping energy levels and motivation. Learn how to restore energy balance by eating well.
Frozen shoulder
A common and debilitating diagnosis. Frozen shoulder is a painful, restrictive condition – particularly common in women and can be associated with hormonal changes and increase in inflammation associated with menopause and perimenopause. Read about one client’s experience of relief and hope with yoga therapy.
Ayurveda explained
Understanding Ayurvedic principles, dosha type (elemental constitution), and the specific signs of balance and imbalance for you can help you to chose the ‘right’ path to optimal health, and a supportive lifesytyle to avoid dis-ease. Read on to learn about Vata, Pitta and Kapha dosha and the elemental qualities that can guide self-care and wellbeing strategies.
Breaststroke & hip health
Sore hips can be a real pain, especially when we add the weight of gravity into movement. Immersion and supported movement in water can create greater range or movement with less or no irritation and reduced pain from stiff and sore joints.
Mindful eating
Think differently about being present with your food to support energy, eat less to feel full, and boost digestion. Bringing awareness to how we eat can change our whole experience, and satisfaction with food…bringing mindfulness into every bite.
The 6 tastes – Ayurveda
Learn about the 6 tastes of ayurveda & how to include them in every meal to stay well, balanced & energised.