by natalia | Nov 22, 2021 | Health & Wellness, Personal Development
As someone who trains hard athletically on nothing but Prana (Qi, Primal Fire, as you like) and who has clients who sit down and immediately tell me they need to eat flesh or nuts or some kind of concentrated protein to perform (or even to function), know this: if you think you need chicken, you will need chicken; if you think you need oats, you will need oats; if you think you need green juice, you will need green juice. If you think you channel Qi, Prana, Life Force, etc., likewise, you will.
As the great James Allen wrote, “As a man thinketh, so is he.” That’s not to say that the mechanics of tissue cleansing do not call for some heavier, less ideal foods. Let us not confuse the tools needed to clean the accumulated matter out of our cells and tissues with the elevated thinking necessary to free our minds of our limitations.
in loving service,
Natalia
by natalia | Nov 21, 2021 | Eating, Health & Wellness, Health Foods
Every night can be an olive tasting party: A few of my favorites here: Castelvetrano, Cerignolas & good old fashioned Kalamata. Plus, the greatly underrated OKRA which will cook for 6-7 minutes in a pure vegetable stock and eaten as the best finger food on the planet. What a feast of rarified flavors & textures. Simple? Yup. Easy? You betcha! Basic/boring? Not a chance!
in loving service,
Natalia
by natalia | Nov 19, 2021 | Beauty, Health & Wellness
“A healthy woman is much like a wolf: robust, chock-full, strong life force, life-giving, territorially aware, inventive, loving, loyal. Yet, separation from the wildish nature causes a woman’s personality to become meager, thin, ghostly, spectral. We are not meant to be puny, with frail hair and inability to leap up, inability to chase, to birth, to create a life. When woman’s lives are in stasis, or filled with ennui, it is always time for the wildish woman to emerge; it is time for the creating function of the psyche to flood the delta.”
-Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Women Who Run With The Wolves
by natalia | Nov 6, 2021 | Recipes
The freshness is off the charts!
Ingredients:
tender mixed salad leaves
fresh basil
fresh chopped garlic fresh chopped spring onion
fragrant ripe tomatoes
fresh lemon juice
top with crumbled goat feta and touch of stevia (dressed oil free as always).
Tell you what…there’s something primal about this Mediterranean Insalata Pomodoro-Basilica! It’s simple but spectacular. Could eat this every sultry, warm night on the beach!
In loving service,
Natalia
by natalia | Nov 5, 2021 | Essential Oils
Is it almost Summertime for you? It is for me!
Hot tips to cool a sweltering, summer heatwave with one special substance!
On a hot hot day, we could all use a cool companion. Essential oil of peppermint is just that. Peppermint is cooling in the extreme.
I place a drop on my tongue and apply tiny dabs just inside my nasal passages – this will cool you down & kill pathogens in the throat & sinuses. So definitely use it that way if you are in moldy places or feel you may have been exposed to air-born germs.
And for further cooling I’ve got 3 more tips for using essential oil of peppermint:
- Place a few drops on the soles of your feet which will cool you quickly and last a good hour or so.
- Put a few drops in your water. Mint is intensely Yin which is why She is so cooling.
- Place a drop on the top of the head at the crown and in the case of migraines, also on the temples.
Reduce Fevers with Peppermint Oil
N.B. I have used this method successfully many times to reduce fevers naturally when parents were nervous about the fevers their children were running but did not want to medicate them. The oils work synergistically with the body so they will never interfere with a necessary process like burning off the ‘bad stuff’ but the body will use them to the degree it needs them if/when it does. It’s always a compliment, never a detriment.
May you feel much more at ease this summer with your cool companion, Madame Peppermint!
In loving service,
Natalia
