Transformative Wellness E-Newsletter

Spring / Summer 2010 News Headlines:

Jivamukti Yoga on Thursday’s 7:30-8:45pm (East Side Yoga)

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Full Yoga Schedule

Thursday:

12:10pm: Power @ Vancouver Corporate Yoga (Unit #134-1055 W. Georgia St. - corner of Burrard and Georgia)

1:10 pm: Hatha @ Vancouver Corporate Yoga

7:30-8:45pm: Jivamukti Yoga @ East Side Yoga (1707 Grant St. off Commercial Dr. )

Recipe of the Month:

Fresh and Roasted Veggie Salad topped with Toasted Seeds

Leaf lettuce is rich in chlorophyll, iron, and vitamin A and C

Ingredients:
1 head of red leaf lettuce
1/2 small sliced fine red onion
Tbsp coconut oil (other cooking oil)
Tbsp Braggs all purpose seasoning (soy sauce optional)
Tsp high quality sea salt
1/2 zucchini lengthwise slices
1 large red pepper slices lengthwise
8-10 brown mushrooms sliced in two
1/2 cup sunflower seeds roasted
Handful of chopped cilantro
Handful of chopped parsley

Directions:
In a large bowl clean and tear lettuce.  Add the red onion, cilantro and parsley.  In a separate sautéing pan add tablespoon of oil at med-high heat.  Once the oil is hot put zucchini and mushrooms and sauté at a high heat while stirring for 4/5min.  Then add the red pepper and Braggs for 2 minutes.  Take off the heat and set aside.  In another frying pan put sunflower seed at medium heat.  Keep stirring constantly until seeds have turned golden brown.  Take out of frying pan in a bowl and add tsp salt.  Serve by first placing lettuce then roasted veggies on top finished with roasted seeds. Add your favorite dressing to finish.

Benefits:
Leaf lettuce is much richer than head lettuce in nutrients, especially chlorophyll, iron, and vitamin A and C.  It is cooling in thermal nature; bitter and sweet flavor; diuretic; sedative; dries damp conditions including edema and digestive ferments and yeasts; contains the most silicon of common vegetables.  Used to starting or increasing the production of mother’s milk; also useful in the treatment of hemorrhoids.  Combines well with fruit at the same meal.  Lettuce contains the sedative lactucarium, which relaxes the nerves without impairing digestion. 

To a fabulous summer,
Natasha

Pose of the Month:

Photo by: Iljaherb.com

Garudasana (Eagle Pose)

Method:

1. Stand in Tadasana (mountain pose).  Bend the right knee. 
2. Bring the left leg over the right thigh above the right knee and coil the leg around so the left foot tucks behind the right calf and the left big toe hooks just above the inner side of your right ankle.
3. You are balancing only on your right leg.
4. Bend the elbow and raise the arms to the level of the chest.  Rest the right elbow on the front of the left upper arm near the elbow joint.  Then move the right hand back to the right and the left hand back to the left and join palms.  Now the arms are coiled also.
5. Bend the knees deeper and lift the elbows to the height of the shoulder.  Hold for 15 to 20 deep breaths.
6. Repeat on the other side.

Benefits:

This asana develops the ankles and removes stiffness in the shoulders.  It is recommended for preventing and removing cramps in the calf muscles and in the legs.  The major girdles of the body hips and shoulders are loosened.  The kidney channel is stimulated and the will power is strengthened.

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