Nourish Your Mind & Body with These 5 Mantras Before Your Meal
How often do you pause before you take a bite of food?
In the everyday rush of life, it is too easy to become disconnected from food. Since food ultimately becomes our bodies, we grow disconnected from ourselves. Taking time to appreciate the food on our plates is an important step in cultivating mindfulness...
Workplace Wellness Hacks: 6 Tips to Alleviate the Tedium of a Day Job
We spend about one-third of our lives working, which equates to approximately 90,000 hours over a 50-year span. Even more unsettling, 70% of us are not fully engaged with our careers.
Perhaps it's time for a professional foundation shake, or maybe it's a matter of integrating more well-being into your workflow.
If...
We’ve been craving citrus and have been blending combinations of them every which way. We'd say a citrus mint smoothie is in order.
This way is insanely delicious, we promise.
Make sure you put the peeled oranges in, not just the juice. The pulp is where it’s at - all the nutrients...
5 Simple Ways to Make the Most of Your First Aerial Yoga Class
We are all impressed by the acrobatics in Cirque du Soleil. But most of us belong to the category “the rest of us.” We may struggle through yoga postures or have trouble touching our toes. We're hardly trapeze artists.
Or are we?
Aerial yoga (literally) turns the word never on its head. Using a...
The smell and taste of coconut conjure up images of the tropics, including the warmth, sunshine, beaches, and the tan-lines that often come along with it.
At this time of year, most of us are counting down the days until we can bask in the summer glory, so a classic, dairy-filled...
Even those inclined to winter sports have to admit: it’s been a long and hard winter. First, we chuckled at the idea of a “polar vortex.” Then it got serious. Perhaps this meditation for winter's end will help.
As the winter weather begins to thaw and you’re reminded of what honest-to-goodness sunshine and...
The last fifteen years have become more about cutting out one type of food and increasing another. While this may not be balanced, it certainly is an improvement from the days of yore when people would diet by only eating one or two foods (shakes, cookies, cabbage).
However, most diets have...
Rosemary Parsnip Fries with Horseradish Yogurt Dipping
You may not carrot all, but parsnips are a cousin to the orange tuber—not the potato, as is commonly thought.
Corny humour aside, parsnips and potatoes might, at first glance appear to be of similar ilk, but don’t be deceived. Though similar in colour to potatoes, parsnips are lower in calories...
Move Over Boogeyman, Technology is Now Keeping Us Awake
You probably have a lot of things to blame your sleepless nights on. Could be the snoring companion who is resistant to elbow jabs or a work schedule that won't quit (kind of like your body).
We know a night of tossing and turning is the worst. But using technology right...
This divine smoothie is a take on the Lemon Tart smoothie from Bolt Fresh Bar on Queen Street in Toronto.
It was simply to die for – with the few tweaks I made to it.
Lemon is so uplifting that that’s reason enough to consume it. It’s also alkalizing for the body,...
