Excuses

Today I acknowledge that the only obstacle to me having privacy in my house of 3 children is myself. I am the obstacle. Consciously and unconsciously we like to give ourselves all kinds of excuses why we cannot commit to our discipline; yet though we are aware of our predicament we choose to let our [...]

Why your are not just a yoga teacher or instructor but a Master?

I heard lately that we ought to call ourselves Masters and not just teacher or instructors of Yoga. Seriously! ok really calling myself a Yoga Master sounded presumptuous, really pompous. I started looking up the dictionary for the academic definition of an Instructor, Teacher and Master . So it says that an instructor is someone [...]

Gratification and Karma

We teach young children from the early age that if they behave properly they will get rewarded. The society is driven by the reward, the gain, the result waiting at the end of the road. At school we are taught that knowledge should be rewarded through grades if learned properly. The system is designed as [...]

Eat your share of red veggies with this recipe….

Diana Henry’s Beetroot goat’s cheese and Hazelnut tart This recipe contains nuts. Walnuts can be used instead of hazelnuts. Right now the weather in Singapore is really nice to have a warm tart, well it’s not cold but it’s cooler and it’s a great comfort food after a day of Asanas. Beetroots a an excellent [...]

Gratitude

We tend to take for granted people around us, services that we have so called “paid for”, everything in our life we take it as it was owed to us either because we’ve paid for it or because we believe we’ve earned it or simply because we think we deserve it. All is just an [...]

Pomegranate and cucumber salad

This recipe is yummy I got it from vegetarian living magazine. I tried it, husband loves it and my 9 year old too. I’ve made some alteration as I found the onion taste too strong. It’s a 6 serving recipe, it only contains 75 cals per serving and it is rich in anti-oxidants. Prep time: [...]

On happiness, contentment and asanas

We are born to be content with the vital minimum, against the breast of a mother, feeling her warmth against the hushes of her heart beat. As we grow into adulthood, we are impregnated with do’s and don’ts, shoulds and shan’ts. Marketing, movies, parents, society, churches brainwash our minds with illusionary images of happiness. It [...]

We are what we eat.

The old adage “you are what you eat” has become very trendy these days. More or so for ecological reasons, or religious reasons or health reasons. If the saying is true then am I a beast if I eat meat? Well a lot of studies have showed that meat eaters are prone to a more [...]