My Favourite Green Smoothie Recipe:-)

Ingredients:
1 Stalk Celery including leaves, chopped
1 Mango, chopped
1 Banana, chopped
Handful of parsley, chopped
Handful of almonds, soaked overnight in filtered water
Handful of sultanas, soaked overnight in filtered water
Juice 1 lemon
Filtered Water

Instructions:
Place celery, parsley, almonds, sultanas, lemon juice and enough water to cover in blender. Blend until smooth. Add banana and mango, blend again...Enjoy!

Best first thing in the morning to cleanse and energise your system...also great as dinner if you are game:-)

An amazing Display of Partner Yoga In Philadelphia.
A Beautiful Display of Partner Yoga


Yoga Unites® for Living Beyond Breast Cancer is an annual fundraising event that provides a way for individuals and teams to join the community in supporting women affected by breast cancer while experiencing the healing benefits of yoga. It's an outdoor yoga class & Healthy Living Expo set on the steps of the Philadelphia Art Museum. I was deeply moved by my experiences with Yoga Unites for Living Beyond Breast Cancer. It's quite moving to see so many people doing yoga together while looking out over the beautiful skyline of Philadelphia. Seeing over 1,000 beautiful people doing yoga in such a historic and grand location is a monumental sight. What I wasn’t prepared for was the incredible feeling of love, trust and hope that surrounded us. When we did our first pose and the clouds move away to let the sun shine on us, I realized that this was bigger than just a yoga class, it felt like a movement. The half-day event included an outdoor yoga class and Healthy Living Expo, where participants were engaged in informative conversations that highlighted yoga and exercise, healthful foods, natural cosmetics and goods and services to improve quality of life.

Video provided by Synergy By Jasmine Partner Yoga Classes in Philadelphia.

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Spiritual Ideals for a Fulfilling Marriage

By Paramahansa Yogananda

If you seek the One Friend behind all friends, true friendship can be established in all of your relationships—familial, fraternal, marital, and spiritual.

Friendship is vital in a marital relationship. Sex alone will not bring a couple closer together; in fact it will all too soon throw them apart if the higher instinct of true love and friendship is not predominant. When sex is made the most important part of marriage, the couple lose interest in one another when the initial blush of sensual gratification pales. Those who do not discriminate between true love and sense attraction are disillusioned again and again.

People who want to marry should first have to learn to control their emotions. Two people placed together in the arena of marriage without this training battle worse than opponents in a World War! Wars, at least, come to an end after a time; but some marital partners engage in combat throughout life. You would think that in a civilized society people should know how to get along, but few have learned this art. A marriage should be nurtured on high ideals and the wine of God’s inspiration; then it will be a happy and mutually beneficial union.

Once in Boston I was invited to speak at the silver wedding anniversary celebration of a supposedly ideally happy couple. The moment I entered their home I felt something was wrong. I asked two trusted students to quietly observe the couple throughout the evening. They told me that when the husband and wife came before others they smiled and addressed each other sweetly, “Yes, my dear,” “Of course, my dear”; but when they thought they were alone in the kitchen or pantry, they fought like anything.

So I talked with them: “Why do you behave like this? I feel great inharmony in this home. There is a lot of iron in this silver wedding.” At first they were offended. But I pursued the matter. “What do you gain by fighting all the time?” I gave them a good talking to. They approached me later and asked my forgiveness. I told them, “You stay together just because of your reputation as an ideal couple, but I want you to truly live that way, for your own happiness.”

One’s ideals should be lived in behaviour, thought, and speech. If two people come together and their moods are wrong, they become insincere with each other. When deception creeps in, the marriage is “on the rocks.” Why this hypocrisy? Such mistakes should be prevented from the very beginning.

When you go beyond the consciousness of
this world, knowing that you are not the body
or the mind, and yet aware as never before that
you exist—that divine consciousness is what
you are. You are That in which is rooted everything
in the universe.
The aftereffects of Kriya bring with them
the utmost peace and bliss. The joy that comes
with Kriya is greater than the joys of all pleasurable
physical sensations put together.
Through the use of the Kriya key, persons
who cannot bring themselves to believe in the
divinity of any man will behold at last the full divinity
of their own selves.
from the writings of
Paramahansa Yogananda

Special Guest Blogger Jasmine Kaloudis-Slim yet Enlightened through Yoga.

There are a number of yoga lifestyle practices that can lead to increased sense purity and vitality as it relates to a yoga lifestyle. Since the modern American diet, with supersizes, happy meal, super gulps and combo meals is centered around convenience, speed and mass production often does not correlate to food that is vitalizing and full of nutrients. Since we are usually unprotected by our government to regulate sanitary food production and health for the food industry, one is left to their own devices to find food that gives vigor and strength.
A vegetarian diet is often more ideal since all the chemicals and hormones that are in meat and dairy products can make us sick. Even in eating a vegetarian or vegan diet it is best to abstain from “the whites” or white flour, white pasta, white rice and white sugar, as well since these products have been severely denourished with plenty of dangerous chemicals, such as bleach added in the production process.
The most basic advice is when reading a package of ingredients and nutrients and you don’t recognize what is inside them, then it most likely means that they are damaging chemicals that can only cause disease and illness to the body. The more unrecognizable ingredients, the worse it must is for you.
As far as food choices go, eating raw (uncooked and dehydrated) is more revitilizing and I try to have a few meals a week this way. When I prepare meals for myself with real food ingredients, instead of buying pre-made and prepackaged items, I tend to feel the most vitality. I endeavor to patronize organic food stores that have their supplies from local sources in order to respect our earth. In order to not deplete more resources than necessary, why not aim to buy local, or what some call the “slow foods” movement which means not patronizing companies that fly and ship food from large distances which only adds more traffic and pollution.
The more I learn about the harmful (and often inhumane to animals) methods that the food industry practices, the more disciplined I become about what I buy in the grocery store. I have read a good amount of books about food production, animal husbandry, eating for optimal health etc. Each book or article I read, I endeavor to incorporate a few key principles into my diet.
I recently read a book where I learned the difference between different production methods of olive oil which make a tremendous difference in how one assimilates this very popular and often used ingredient in the body. I was fairly surprised to learn that the way that olive oil is pressed makes a huge difference in the benefits we will receive (or not receive). These days, I buy cold-pressed or expeller pressed, first press extra virgin olive oil. Self-reliance, education and a determination to find out the healthiest ways to feed ourselves are paramount in a time where we depend on others to grow, prepare and regulate what we put in our bodies.
We attach so much emotion to mealtimes since that is often how we first interpreted love and a central aspect of social and family gatherings. When our Mother stopped what she was doing and fed us from her own body, we felt love. Some scientists attribute the huge popularity of the flavor, vanilla, to its milky scent and (artificial) color to milk. We are often rewarded with yummy, sweet things, most often, in the unhealthy form of candy and dessert as a child. We are often made to eat healthier items on our plates such as green vegetables which does not create a later motivation to eat them as adults. We are also often made to eat the full portion on our plates, not matter how big they are which can lead to a later habit of overeating.
Obesity could be handled better if people understood how toxic and fattening common foods like white bread, white sugar, processed foods and junk sodas can be. The FDA does not protect us from ingredients that cause diabetes, heart disease and other health impediments. We need to monitor our own food consumption and demand an objective government agency that can produce independent food research so we can make educated choices. If you don’t understand what an ingredient is in a food, then it’s probably not nourishing for you. If you don’t know what disodium sulfate is, then it’s best to limit or avoid.
Eating foods with unprocessed, clean and whole ingredients is a smart start. After you eat something, do you feel full of vitality or do you feel slow and yucky? One you start to notice the effects food has, you begin on the path to making more nourishing food choices. Try eating only soda, cookies, ice cream and soda for two days straight and you will realize how devitilizing these mainstays of the American snackfood diet are. Yoga leads us to become aware of how we respond to and process materials in our environment and our bodies and helps us on the path to vitality and calm, in our bones and in our brains.

Jasmine Kaloudis teaches yoga at Synergy By Jasmine in Philadelphia. For free images of partner yoga poses with tips on how to do them, email info at jasminepartneryoga dot com with "Request Partner Yoga Poses and Tips" in headline. Twitter - synergyjasmine - For inspiring quotes, vitality, meditation and yoga.

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