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Holding Space for Mystery
In Living With the Devil (134) Stephen Batchelor writes “In letting someone else into your life, you open to the risk of being astonished. For intimacy to remain alive, the other must remain a mystery for you. To know someone intimately is to embody the unknown. … Over time, you tend to enclose the other within limits that define them according to your own needs and desires.” In the Biology lab in high school there was a cross-section model of an animal cell that sat open-faced like a deep dish pizza with shiny plastic...
read moreStuffed Brazil Nut, Apple and Fennel Portabellos
Serves 6. Mushrooms 6 Portabello mushroom caps (spores scraped out with spoon). Place face up on cookie sheet with a bit of olive oil beneath. Bake for 15 minutes at 425 to remove some (not all) of the excess moisture. Stuffing Sautee the following in olive oil: 1 medium fennel bulb, chopped fine 2 cloves garlic 1 medium eggplant (diced in small cubes) 1 spartan/mactintosh/baking apple with peel removed salt & pepper when the above has sauteed / softened, remove from heat and add: a few tablespoons of fresh thyme & oregano 1 cup...
read moreGrilled Eggplant with Chickpeas and Pistachios
Serves 6. I made this alongside an Quinoa salad with green olives and golden raisins (recipe below). Ingredients: 2 medium eggplant 4 Roma tomatoes 2 bell peppers 1 medium onion 1 500ml can chickpeas 1/2 cup pistachios garlic & ginger cumin hot chili pepper ( or powdered) ground cloves cardamon allspice turmeric paprika cinnamon (dash) Directions Turn on broiler. Slice eggplant 1/2″ thick. Salted and left to sit to sponge out some of the water (optional step but they’re less mushy). Rinse. Toss with oil olive & pepper. 4...
read moreSweet Chili Tofu with Cashew Nuts
Serves 4. Ingredients: 2 tbsp olive/canola oil 2 tsp dark sesame oil 1 small chopped red onion 1-2 clove(s) garlic 2 tbsp ginger (more or less, depending on how much you like ginger) 1 cauliflower head 6 crimini mushrooms 1 can baby corn 1 block firm tofu green kafir lime leaves (Thrifty’s carries these now in the fresh herb section) 2 tbsp soy sauce/tamari 1/4 cup sweet chili sauce Method In a large wok, heat 1 tbsp olive/canola oil mixed with 1 tsp sesame oil (or a big pot) add… chopped onion, saute til translucent crushed garlic...
read moreAnd Liftoff
It’s been two years since I launched my first personal website, Food and Yoga. The original blog came from a time of creative outpouring that sprung from a significant career and life change. I was terrified, ecstatic, raw, and thrilled to be uprooted; and I still reawaken to this every day. The past two years have been the most fulfilling years of my life. Although we are always recreating ourselves, in this particular time I have been especially aware of the shifts in my priorities, interests, understanding of myself, and my capacity...
read moreMade on the Mat
1.1 hours, 12 songs View on iTunes Song Artist Alone Glideascope Sehnsuncht (Featuring D.Batistatos) Side Liner Condensed Light DaKsha Cosmic Consciousness Magic Sound Fabric Satori (Spiritually Remixed) Downbeat Corp. Phoenix Rising Bluetech New Hopes Oman Chali Trara Entheogenic Dead To The World Royksopp Return Home Eli Kazah Gone Forever (Robin Guthrie Version) Ulrich Schnauss Om Spirtual Ahanu: Music for Yoga, Meditation and...
read moreGoddess Invocation
1.1 hours, 13 songs View on iTunes Song Artist Green Grass of Tunnel Múm Goddess Invocation Go-Ray & Duke Massage Situation Flying Lotus Union Dub Sounds from the Ground Karama Go-Ray & Duke Hidden Place Björk Virtual Insanity Jamiroquai Jungle Trail Tha Roman Moon Rise Tarana Even After All Finley Quaye Paradise Circus Massive Attack Let Your Be Known Remix Steve Gold Passing Afternoon Iron & Wine Orange Sky Alexi...
read moreEther and Piano
Suited for a Hatha class or slow vinyasa. Even tones and chill rhythms. Inspired by Clara Roberts-Oss. 1.1 hours, 13 songs View on iTunes Song Artist Close My Eyes and Burn Robin Guthrie Hamsa Ben Leinbach & Outlaw Dervish Intention Featuring Morley EarthRise SoundSystem Cosmic Consciousness Magic Sound Fabric Road to Benares Thunderball Anagram Dousk Elephant (Dub Mix) Spiral System & Lottie Child Cleopatra In New York (feat. Carol C) Nickodemus Same Sun Boozoo...
read moreStrings, Grooves and Alternative
55.7 minutes, 12 songs View on iTunes Song Artist Re: Stacks Bon Iver Utopia Goldfrapp Ever So Lonely Monsoon Trigger Hippie Morcheeba In One Ear & Out the Other Fujiya & Miyagi Such Great Heights The Postal Service Fake Empire The National Summer Skin Death Cab for Cutie Exile Vilify (From the Game “Portal 2″) The National White Winter Hymnal Fleet Foxes Don’t Give Up The Whitest Boy Alive Possibility Lykke Li See more...
read moreI Can’t Help It
Yoga Intensive Day 1. Disclaimer: These are going to be outward-facing rambles, I’m prioritizing sleep over properly structured posts! Ahimsa means non-harming or non-violence. It’s the first yama (observance) of classical yoga, and fittingly it became the first subject put forth in the yoga intensive today. Ahimsa can be projected outwards on inwards, but it radiates from the same source within us. In our formal yoga practice (aka on-the-mat) it’s easiest to frame and observe the inward-facing reflection of ahimsa. So here...
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