Breakfast time at Azul is all about deliciously healthy homemade food and happy smiling faces around the breakfast table. Jo’s fabulous homemade marmalades make such a delicious topping for your bread or sweetener in your porridge and they are so simple to make at home. Here she shares with us the recipe for her apple, date […]
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by Celestia Loeffler of Yoga and Yum Grapefruits are a beautiful citrus fruit that can help bring a little zest into our lives, and help get our bellies back on track. According to Ayurveda (yoga’s sister science), bitter and sour are the two flavors to favor this month, as we transition past holiday indulgence and move toward cleansing
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Another beautifully tasty and easy-to-make recipe from retreat chef Jo Dombernowsky. If you would like the opportunity to cook alongside Jo, to learn more about nutrition, or to do a detox with her, she’ll be running a number of special retreat weeks this year, including a Yoga, Ayurveda and Yogic Cooking Retreat in June and a Yoga, Cooking
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With the holidays upon us and resolutions warming up in the gates ready for their New Year starts, I was thinking about the impact fresh starts can have on us. In most cases the new year, new you, is a wonderful, positive thing. Change for the better and healthy intentions can only be good, right?
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With Christmas and New Year being a time of change for many, we want to keep you motivated with tips, thoughts and inspiring stories to help you through the holiday season. In our latest newsletter we suggested ideas for setting your resolution goals, and how to stay on task. In the latest blog we have an inspirational story
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There is a lot of focus on the nutritional content of foods in Western nutrition – for example, how much calcium, iron, vitamin D, etc a food contains. Nutritional content is important, but digestion and absorption are indeed very important too. We should be able to digest and absorb all that healthy food we eat,
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This easy-to-make marmalade makes a delicious spread that always goes down well at the Azul breakfast table – try it and see for yourself! And don’t forget that Jo will be running a hands-on cooking and nutrition workshop in London, at Central Street Cookery School. Please see ‘Truly healthy, London’ for more information. You can win a
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The combination of the rosemary and chili work surprisingly well – and this a fantastically healthy alternative to creamy spreads. Easy to make, full of protein and really satisfying. It’s a winner all round.
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Getting ready to leave Fuerteventura once again, the thought of lengthy layovers, untimely flights, delays, and the serious disturbance of my circadian rhythms was making me anxious. As I write this, I’m more than halfway through my journey home to the West Coast. I left the sunshine in Fuerteventura Saturday night, arrived in Dublin, Ireland
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Early in 2011, into my sophomore year of college, elbow deep in work I had no hunger for, following the traditional track toward university and career; soon I would defer my acceptance to Bastyr University, sell my car, quit my job, and buy a one way ticket to the Canary Island of Fuerteventura. I found
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