Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on Mar 30, 2009
Want to make your own delicious ghee? Follow this very simple recipe:
1. Cut up organic unsalted butter into smaller chunks and place in a heavy bottom pan to melt. Over medium heat bring the butter to a boil. Continue to boil it gently on low heat until white foam begins to rise to the top. Carefully scoop off the foam and discard.
2. Once the butter begins to quite down and the bubbles floating up from the bottom become minimized watch it carefully. Small milk solids will begin to fall and stick to the bottom of the pan and can easily burn at this point. Turn the butter down and wait until there is almost no more bubbles rising. The colour will be golden yellow and it will begin to smell like caramel.
3. Take the ghee off the heat and carefully pour into a clean, dry glass jar. Allow to solidify at room temperature and store covered on your counter. Because you have removed the milk solids you do not need to refrigerate ghee. Use it in place of butter or as a great way to add healthy oil to your food.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on Mar 17, 2009
I think we can all connect with times in life when things have felt hard, confusing, stuck and that the entire universe is out to get us. To a dear friend not too long ago, i actually called the Universe a “demented little twirp”. However, after a spontaneous weekend where I found myself on my mat in a workshop in Vancouver with a dear friend and an incredibly gifted teacher, I feel as though I am formulating a new conspiracy theory all together. Perhaps, at each moment the universe is conspiring for us and for our best interest in developing towards love and light.
Click here for More
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on Mar 08, 2009
Download the MP3
Subscribe to the Gaiatri Om Office Podcast
Anna Colin leads practitioners through a short exercise and meditation to rejuvenate the physical body, deepen the breath, increase prana into the eyes and brain. Share this podcast with co-workers and bring presence into your work day and environment.
Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on Mar 01, 2009
What better timing to write on the topic of the evocation of light, than with the smell of spring in the air and longer, brighter days. At a time when the world around us needs it most, the evocation of light both within our external surroundings, and most importantly within our own selves, is more important than ever.
Consciously creating a bigger and brighter light will mean many different things to all of us. For some, they will find themselves in visual meditations or using mantra to evoke divine light, for others playing, laughing, dancing and singing with family and friends will do the trick, or perhaps turning inward to regroup and rest is what will let the brilliance shine - the most important part, however, is to make the creation and sustenance of light within each of us a daily practice.
The practice of yoga at its essence is a realization of the true Self, a remembering of the joyful essence of which all things manifest. Attaining a state of enlightenment perhaps could be seen as an ongoing evolution, an uncovering in that we see all things as coming from a source of luminescence. The metaphors are infinite. When we choose to bring light into a dark space, there is nowhere for the dark to hide. Regardless of what your current life situations and lessons are, how can light be shed on the situation to offer peace, and how can you be a beacon of light for others?
One of my favourite quotes states that “A candle loses nothing by lighting another”. As we move into spring, may we all find moments, relationships, and ways of being in service that make our hearts so bright, that the light filters out into the world around us.
~ Ally