It's Friiiiday!
Your challenge today is to dance like nobody is watching, easy!
Here's a video of me dancing like an idiot :-)
http://www.elfyourself.com/?mId=62611112.3
Happy weekend xx
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Change your perspective on anything you're struggling with. We do not see things as they are, we see things as we are and sometimes turning that thing totally upside down and looking at it from a different angle helps everything fall into place
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If you have been following my Advent Challenge, you will have seen Day 8 was a challenge to try to become a weekday vegetarian. Becoming a weekday vegetarian you would be cutting 70% if your meat intake, but still able to have that burger on the weekend! By cutting 70% of your meat this would greatly help to reduce your carbon footprint as meat causes huge emissions and also uses 100 times the water that veg does to produce. Apart from saving the world, you will also be much healthier, save money, and maybe even lose a bit of weight. Win win if you ask me :-)
So here are a few of my favourite veg recipes to get you inspired:
Pre-heat the oven to 180C. Take as much fresh kale as you desire, chop it up into bite size pieces, place on a baking tray, drizzle in olive oil and sprinkle in rock salt and bake for 10 mins or until crispy. While the kale is crisping, make your hummus:
Whizz all the ingredients together in a whizzer (yes, that is the technical term) and voila, healthy delicious hummus and kale crisps ready! YUMMY!
This one is SO easy. Turn the oven on to 200 C, wash and dry your sweet potato and then prick it all over with a fork. Put it in the over for circa 40 mins or until the potato is soft. Then remove from the oven, cut it in half and add all your favourite goodies. I like to load mine up with ricotta, followed by tomato, and grated zucchini, torn basil, avocado and topped with some pine nuts, pumpkin seeds and sunflower seeds. YUM!
This is a Jamie Olivier recipe which I love!
Prehat your oven to 180ºC. Heat a large saucepan and add a splash of olive oil. Add the leeks and sliced red onions, and sweat, slowly, until soft – about 10 minutes. Add the chopped spinach and briefly cook until wilted down. Set aside to cool slightly, then drain off any excess liquid in the pan.
Mix the ricotta into the leek and onion mixture and season with a tiny pinch of salt and pepper.
Spoon a quarter of the base tomato sauce into the bottom of a 3-litre ovenproof dish. Cover with sheets of lasagne. Spread half the leek and ricotta mixture over the lasagne, then add a third of the remaining tomato sauce. Repeat with more lasagne sheets, the remaining leek and ricotta mixture and then half the remaining tomato sauce. Finish with a final layer of lasagne sheets, then spread the rest of the tomato sauce over the top.
Tear the mozzarella into small pieces and dot over the top of the lasagne. Sprinkle with the Parmesan. Place on a baking sheet and bake the lasagne for 45 minutes – it needs to be cooked through and golden brown on top.
http://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/vegetables-recipes/sweet-leek-ricotta-and-tomato-lasagne/
Here's a Nigella soup which is a real Winter-Warmer
Dry fry cumin and chilli in a large saucepan over a low heat until the aromas are released. Scoop out half and set aside
Add the oil, carrots, stock, lentils and milk to the saucepan then bring to the boil. Simmer for 15 mins until the lentils have swollen and softened.
Blitz the soup in a liquidiser or with a stick blender.
Season and serve with a dollop of sour cream and the spices you set aside earlier. MMMMMMMM!
http://www.nigella.com/recipes/view/spicy-carrot-and-lentil-soup-2764
Please feel free to comment if you try any of the recipes, and let me know your take on any of them!
xx
Find some sunshine in your soul today!
Here in Malta it's a stormy, windy, rainy, grey day but despite what may be going on around us, it's important to always be able to find that sunshine in your soul. Understanding that we can never control what happens to us no matter how hard we try, but that we can control our reaction and attitude to what happens to us and there lies the magic!
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Be the reason someone smiles today, simples!
It's actually very easy and very welcome. It will be fun too
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In an attempt to put my own Christmas shopping off for even longer, I have put together a yogi Christmas guide for you. The perfect gifts for that health conscious person in your life!
Although giving gifts is great, remember that there is so much more that one can give all throughout the year than a gift on one day a year. If we all gave more love throughout the year, the world would be a much happier place :-)
Happy gifting xx
Become a weekday vegetarian and save the world and yourself Did you know that meat causes more emissions than all of transportation combined (that's cars, trains, planes, buses and boats) and beef production uses 100 times the water that veg does.
Just by becoming a weekday vegetarian you would be cutting out 70% of your meat intake, but you can still have that hamburger or steak on the weekend! Your carbon footprint will reduce, you will save money, you will be healthier, most likely live longer, and maybe even lose some weight! What are you waiting for?
Check out this TED talk by Graham Hill on becoming a weekday vegetarian for more on the subject
http://www.ted.com/talks/graham_hill_weekday_vegetarian?language=en#t-72341
Take care of yourself this Sunday, give yourself some extra time to relax! For me that means spoiling myself in a nice long bath with my favourite bubbles, scented candles and book (which is currently Man's Search for Meaning by Victor E. Frankl- highly recommended). Maybe it's an extra long lie in without feeling guilty (which I also did today hence the lateness of this post!). Maybe it's having your most favourite meal. Maybe it's a gentle stretch and flow on your mat. Perhaps today it means lazing on the sofa nursing your hangover which is totally fine too!
As long as you remember that you are number one and if you're not taken care of, then everything and everyone that you take care of will suffer too.
"I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent, caring for myself is an act of survival" Audrey Lorde.
Get your hands dirty and plant something!
"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds that you plant"
Thank you to Louise Aquilina for inspiring this challenge!
Grow baby grow!! Don't forget to take a picture of your seed and tag @lisalahlahyoga and #lahlahadventchallenge
A simple hello could lead to a million things. Today is about connection to the people around you. Make an effort to actually connect to the girl who always serves you your morning coffee, or the man you always see in the supermarket.
"If you could only sense how important you are to those you meet; how important you can be to people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person." Fred Rogers.
So today, leave smiles and compassion with every person you meet for you never know what that person may be going through.
Happy Friday!
Be a nice human!
If you're driving, be a nice driver and let that person out. Say please, say thank you. Smile. Strike up a conversation with someone you don't know. Help someone who's struggling with their shopping.
Whatever it is, be nice and have fun!
Send a BIG SMILE and HELLO to an old friend you haven't spoken to in a while. Mine goes to @naisudavie @pollygredley @eracarter @emmaparnisengland @aishajeffo @butter_o @tinali1978
HELLO!
MOVE your body! Whatever you do today, make sure you move. Do yoga, go to a class, go for a walk, jump up and down, stretch, go and dance in the rain. It doesn't matter what it is, just MOVE and have a great day! :-)
Happy December!
This year I have decided to create an advent challenge! Instead of eating ourselves silly full of chocolate let's take care of ourselves and our loved ones too, and spread smiles and laughter!
The rules are: there are no rules! If you'd like to follow please do, if you do I'd love to hear about it so do post and tag me @lisalahlahyoga and #lahlahadventchallenge but you can also follow quietly. You can do one day and then skip five, you can do everyday (which would be great :-) ) but it's totally up to you! There are no prizes, this is just some fun to spread some joy, peace and happiness!
So here goes! Day 1 of the #lahlahadventchallenge is to just breathe. Simple as that, just sit and breathe deeply for a few minutes and let your mind relax and see how you feel. For a moment, just be. Let go of all your to-do lists and being a human-doer and just become a human-being for a few minutes. It's crazy how often we actually forget to breathe and how shallow we breathe when we're busy and stressed. Notice how good it feels as you begin to deepen the exhales and lengthen the inhales.
Simples :-)
With the summer solstice, the longest day of the year fast approaching, it is a great time to stop and reflect on your journey this year so far, and perhaps to set intentions for the coming 6 months until the winter solstice. From now until the winter solstice everything in the earth will be withdrawing in, a great time for us to focus on what we wish to nurture and develop in ourselves. Here's a little how-to for sun salutations...
As hard as it is not knowing what is going to happen tomorrow, or where something will lead us, sometimes we must have faith and trust that there is something greater than us out there, and that everything happens for a reason. Sometimes it is hard to see the reason at first, but this force will guide us and help us through even the hardest of times.
