Veggie Wrap

May 17, 2017

Looking for an easy vegan recipe for dinner? Our veggie wrap is easy to prepare, and you can really use your creativity here and adjust it to your taste. Today I choose to fill it with a veggie mix of peas, carrots and potatoes, so it can be also a perfect option for your lunch box!

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Ingredients:
Gluten free wrap base
Veggie mix:
Peas, Carrots, Potatoes
Tomatoes
Onion
Curry powder
Coriander leaves (optional)
Hummus Ingredients:
Chickpeas
Tahini (sesame seed) paste
Olive oil
lemon
salt

I. To get started fry the onions in coconut oil and then add 1 cup water, curry and salt and cook for another 2 minutes. Add the chopped carrots, cubed potatoes and peas and steam until soft.

II. To prepare the hummus boil some per-soaked chickpeas (3cups). Blend the chickpeas with tahini paste, 2 tablespoons cold-pressed oil, 1 cup water, half lemon, salt. Use a good quality powerful blender or hand blender.

III. Spread the hummus on one half of the wrap. Add the vegetable mix and tomatoes, salt and serve it with iceberg lettuce or any type of green. Bon appetit!

Lentil Burgers

May 17, 2017

People sometimes ask us: oh, so you’re vegan so what the h… do you eat, vegetables? Are you not hungry all the time? I am proud to share with you the recipe of my lentil burgers, meat-free and vegetable-free 🙂 Lentil burgers are filling and delicious, and easy to prepare. Here’s how:

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Ingredients:
500g lentils
100g chickpea flour
2-3 onions as you like
2dl water
1dl coconut oil
Salt, curry, sweet paprika, pepper

I. Boil some lentils until they become super soft. Red lentils take less time to cook (10 min), brown lentils take longer (15min).

II. Fry the chopped onions in coconut oil until they change color, then add the spices and very little water and cook for 2 minutes.

III. Mix the chickpea flour with salt and sodium bicarbonate, then add water and stir it well.

IV. Mix all ingredients well and then form mini-burgers from the mixture

V. Bake for 10 minutes on 220C and for another 5 minutes on 140C.

Enjoy!

Yogic Nutrition & Raw food ism: How to prepare raw food soups

Jun 17, 2015

Raw food soups

We use the following ingredients to play with the taste when creating our salty soups: Avocado, cumin, red peppers, sundried tomatoes, dates, onion, garlic, cashew nuts. (Onion and garlic should not be used if your purpose is to enhance your meditation practice!)

• Ingredients: Try different vegetables to blend every day.
• Make it chunky and use it as a dip or as a topping for your main dish
• Make it smooth by adding more water and eat it as a soup.
• Decorate with parsley, almonds, seeds, nuts, colorful peppers, tomato, fine sliced veggies.
• Best to use Himalayan salt & cold pressed oils like, linseed oil, pumpkin seed oil, olive oil.
• To have a warm raw food soup simply add some warm water to your blender and mix.
• Stop to worry & start enjoying the process of inventing new recipes yourself.
• Raw soups and sauces are simple to make and ready in 2-6 minutes!

To learn more join our next Alkalizing Nutrition workshop! +356 9999 1844

Why does Fit Yoga incorporate Pilates Exercises?

Apr 30, 2015

The Pilates core-strengthening exercises can invigorate the yoga practice.

By focusing on targeted movements that develop core strength, Pilates
can help yogis build a stable centre, lengthen the side body, increase awareness of alignment.

It can help yogis get stronger, avoid injury, and sometimes advance into poses that they hadn’t previously felt were possible.

The core, also called the Powerhouse, is the body’s centre of gravity; it is composed of the muscles of the lower abdomen, lower back, buttocks,
and pelvic floor.

How to locate your Powerhouse: Stand with one hand on your lower abdomen and the other on your lower back. Inhale deeply through your nose and then exhale through your mouth while pulling the lower abdominals up and into the spine, simultaneously drawing your pelvic floor muscles up and squeezing the base of your buttocks together.

The aim is to engage and strengthen the transversus abdominis (the deepest layer of abs that wrap around the torso horizontally), the obliques, the lower back muscles, and the pelvic floor during complex movements. By doing so, you develop a strong, corset-like support system that protects your back from injury.

In Pilates breathing, unlike in yogic pranayama, students exhale through the mouth and aim to attain a “scooped,” or flattened, abdominal wall on the exhalation. Exhaling through your mouth will make you engage your pelvic floor and thus it will assist you in Mula Bandha.

After experiencing the emphasis on precise, controlled movement and core strength, you may find that a simple Tadasana becomes an opportunity to explore your newfound corset of muscles, or that a Handstand becomes a vehicle in which to engage the obliques and obtain balance.