Awaken Your Heart Song
Orange almond is a gluten free favourite, and if you’ve tried the High Aspirations offering before you know it’s moist and delicious! Something to whip up for a Sunday afternoon, perhaps…
Photo shows Kel’s version made with coconut sugar and 
served with passion fruit, strawberries and hazelnut ice cream 😉
Once we get the hang of yoga for shaking out the body and releasing stress, we start to talk about going ‘deep’ into the self and layers of being. If you’re looking for a way to do this on a daily basis, here you go!
You know we have 1440 minutes in every day. If you can spare two lots of 10 minutes to connect a little deeper first thing in the morning and last thing at night you will feel a difference.
If you are not already making time to sit in stillness and honour the highest part of you, give this a go. Here’s the challenge:
Keep a journal and give this a go for one month. A great app that I use is iSamadhi, which allows you to set a timer with a nice tone and also has a journal function where after your meditation you can type a couple of words, or more if you wish, to record your experience. (If you’re an Android user, tell us what your favourite meditation app is!)
I would love to hear how you get on and how this impacts your day.
Namaste
Sarah
It’s with great pleasure that we share with you this week a great photo of Judy taking yoga off the mat and onto the board on the Blackwood River in Augusta.
Judy is a wonderful advocate for taking yoga off the mat as she so often demonstrates when we are on retreat together. Always up for some yoga in the bush, and in any weather, Judy brings her sense of adventure to her yoga practice wherever she goes.
Keep it up Judy, you’re inspirational 🙂
The art of slow living is noticing the gifts given freely to us everyday.
For Mother’s Day this year Kelly and Rolf have me a box of tulip bulbs, my favourite flowers. Kelly and I shared the experience of planting these bulbs in my front garden and getting our hands in the dirt as we planted and blessed the bulbs being lovingly placed in the earth.
Imagine my delight on the first day of spring last week when I noticed the first bulb had opened up to reveal its beauty.
I received many gifts in that moment:
– The sight of the beautiful flower
– The thought of Kelly and Rolf giving me a gift that would keep on giving pleasure
– The memory of Kelly and I planting those bulbs in the earth a few months earlier
– The pleasure of photographing it and sending it to them with my excitement, a moment shared gratitude in my heart as I relished the moment and let the smile on my face ripple into my cells to savour
So grateful was I to have been going slow enough to notice that first tulip and the associated feelings it evoked. It wasn’t the most perfect tulip but it evoked the most perfect feelings of love and gratitude.
Gratitude – one of the keys to slow living.
Did you know that September is Australian Organic Awareness Month?
The campaign aims to spread the important values of certified organic across all industries including food, beverages, skincare, cosmetics, textiles, cleaning products, garden products and even pet food.
The values include:
• Non GMO
• Free to range
• Biodiversity friendly
• Sustainably fished
• Socially responsible
• Pasture fed
and of course grown free from harsh synthetic pesticides, herbicides, antibiotics and added hormones.
Five Benefits of Choosing Certified Organic:
1. Good for the soil – Organic systems rely on a modern and scientific understanding of ecology and soil science, while also depending on traditional methods of crop rotations to ensure fertility and weed and pest control.
2. Good for the environment – Organic systems aim to reduce dependence on non-renewable resources. Organic production aims at all times towards sustainability whilst having best management of the environment and wildlife as a priority.
3. Good for people – Organic based ingredients have been shown in a number of studies to contain more vitamins, nutrients and cancer-fighting antioxidants than non-organic ingredients.
4. No synthetic chemicals – Organic systems prohibit the use of artificial chemicals, pesticides and fertilisers.
5. No GMOs – Certified Organic products are produced without GMOs, which are prohibited in the standards for organic food and farming.
Information obtained from austorganic.com and miessence.com.au
I encourage you to get on board and if you’re not already using organic products then please explore and use this month as an incentive to clean up your diet, skincare program, household cleaning products or gardening products and see if you can make some changes that will become new habits for the rest of your life.
