Super happy and healthy almond meal cookies! Sjuuper pehmed tervislikud mandlijahu küpsised!15/6/2015 After eating breakfast, I was dreaming about cookies. At first I tried to ignore my thoughts, but the picture of fresh, smooth almond meal cookies with raisins, was coming back into my mind. I was struggling with myself for an hour not to go to the kitchen and surrender to cooking, but I couldn`t resist. All my senses cooperated with the cookies and I could already feel the smell of fresh baked cookies in my kitchen. Moreover, who could resist healthy cookies that make your heart warm and belly happy? Peale hommikusööki hakkasid mu peas keerlema pildid mandliküpsistest, mille sisse on sattunud hulganisti rosinaid. Tükk aega proovisin neid ahvatlevaid küpsiseid enda peas ignoreerida ning tegeleda millegi muu olulisega, aga küpsisemõtted tulid ikka ja jälle tagasi. Kõik minu meeled allusid küpsiste manipulatsioonile ning hakkasid küpsistega koostööd tegema. Ühel hetkel tundsin juba köögis värskete küpsiste lõhna ning ma andsin alla. Pealegi, kuidas on võimalik üldse vastu panna tervislikele mandliküpsistele, mis teevad südame soojaks ja kõhu rõõmsaks?
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This is my favourite time of the year. It started in the beginning of May- nature started to wake up from grey season. The grey season lasts almost 6 months in Estonia, no lightness, recent years, less snow. People wear black and grey, it is cold and windy. But in May, grey turns to bright green. People start to wear bright colours and some of them even smile modestly:) Flowers start to bloom. Firstly, sharp-lobed hepatica, then snow drops, primulas and finally my favourite spring flower: lily of the valley. This is the time when my running season starts, it is not so cold and slippery any more. While running, you can feel and smell spring, could notice every day something starting to bloom. New start and new life every day. When I began my yoga-life, I had to explain several times what kind of yoga style I practice. There are many different yoga styles and approaches to yoga: hatha, ashtanga, hot yoga, vinyasa yoga, yin yoga, kriya yoga, kundalini... etc. You name it! Everybody has some-kind of understanding of yoga: some consider yoga as fitness practise concentrating on stretching and bending. Others describe yoga as complicated acrobatic routine. Some have seen people sitting on the floor chanting in sanskrit or looking into the emptiness wearing turbans and dressed entirely in white. You all are right, it is yoga. There are different styles of yoga. Each practice, perception on yoga is different. Each body and mind is different. When I started my yoga practice, it was all about fitness routine: hour and half of workout sweating, muscle work, bending and challenging myself with complicated postures. Sometimes I even used heart rate monitor to measure my energy consumption. It was extremely difficult to relax and turn off the everydays hustle and bustle, so I had to push myself very hard to end the practice with peaceful mind. At one point, I felt that I needed more and more to calm and empty my mind than just make the physical exercise. Sometimes when there were busy times at the office, I dreamed of going home and take my time just for savasana (relaxation pose in the end of a yogaclass). There was an inner need to let go thoughts and emotions accumulated during the day and have a time to think about nothing. Yoga was quietly sneaking into my everyday life and this compulsory workout session became more conscious way of life, not that I would have given up my yoga practice :)
Now I realize that yoga is not about breathing (pranayama), position (asana) and meditation. Yoga is a way of life, a self-awareness, and listening to what do you really need and what makes you happy. Art and challenge is to spend whole life in yoga, learn how to live in peace with yourself, even when things do not go the way you have planned. I have understood that the aim of the yoga practice is to teach people to take time off, stop for a moment and find balance in their lives. This is the time to practice happiness in your life. By practising yoga, you practice happiness and day by day you start looking for things in everyday life that make you happy, whatever they are. My yoga is cooking, teaching, and my yoga practice :) I could spend days looking for recipes, read all kinds of articles on nutrition, find new tastes and share my cooking with my loved ones. It makes me happy. Same thing with teaching- I like to share what I've experienced, and learn what others have experienced. I get inspired by meeting new people, discovering foreign cultures and share knowledge, experiences and skills. After yoga class I feel inspired by my people, how much they have learned and how much I have learned, I love creating new learning environments. I'm happy in my own yoga practice, when I practice time flies and thoughts disappear and sometimes even I`ll get my posture:) Good music, dancing and eating is yoga. Reading, looking into the blue sky is yoga. Your everyday job could be yoga ... Lately, I've wondered how to find your own yoga, because you can spend your whole life doing things that do not make you happy or you keep on dreaming that some day you will do those things... Sometimes it is the same as to look for a needle in a haystack . Sometimes you have to try thousand times to find the right one. Here are some random ideas how to find your own yoga: 1. What are the things or activities that make you happy or do you do gladly without anyone forcing you? 2. What are the activities while doing time flies? 3. What kind of information attracts you? What kind of articles are fascinating you ? 4. If you could have unlimited resources (time, money , etc.) what would you spend it on? 5. What kind of things would you do without having paid for it ? 6. What kind of things do you spend on even if you do not have much to spend? 7 ..... What is your yoga? How to find your yoga? |
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