Let’s go back to the basics. What is the good old NHS website saying? Adults should do strengthening activities that work all the major muscles on at least 2 days a week.   I only ventured onto this website while studying towards my Personal Trainer Diploma. (Crazy, huh?) I was physically active all...

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yaṁ hi na vyathayantyete puruṣhaṁ puruṣharṣhabha sama-duḥkha-sukhaṁ dhīraṁ so ’mṛitatvāya kalpate यं हि न व्यथयन्त्येते पुरुषं पुरुषर्षभ | समदु:खसुखं धीरं सोऽमृतत्वाय कल्पते || 15|| The person who is not disturbed by happiness or distress and is steady in both becomes eligible for liberation. – Bhagavad Gita 2.15 yam—whom; hi—verily; na—not; vyathayanti—distressed; ete—these; puruṣham—person; puruṣha-ṛiṣhabha—the noblest amongst men, Arjun; sama—equipoised; duḥkha—distress; sukham—happiness; dhīram—steady; saḥ—that person; amṛitatvāya—for liberation; kalpate—becomes eligible   Our mind is...

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To celebrate Tazzie's 1st Birthday, I'm sharing the article I wrote for the Success Stories section for The Underdog International. My name is: Tazzie I came from: Greece Now I live in: South West London My favourite things are: peanut butter, squeaky pigs, squirrels, catching flies, sniffing my brother’s bum, showing off my jewels like ‘balls...

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वस्तुसाम्ये चित्तभेदात्तयोर्विभक्तः पन्थाः ॥१५॥ Each individual person perceives the same object in a different way, according to their own state of mind and projections. Everything is empty from its own side and appears according to how you see it. PYS IV.15   vastu - thing, object, or any existing or abiding substance or essence sāmye -...

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My only regret about becoming vegan is not doing it sooner. - Ignatz Ziller II   And here we go, the dreaded ‘V’ word! But, no, I’m not going to hide behind the ‘plant-based’ diet term because veganism for me it’s not a diet: it’s a lifestyle. A lifestyle of eating colourful delicious...

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If you love your food and are serious about cooking, but you don’t know where to start (like me three years ago) here are a few tips I’ve learnt along the way.  Keep your cupboards tidy Start by finding out what products you really have in your cupboards. This might sound daft...

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My Grandmother was French. This means that when visiting her we were fed a lot of weird food. And I’m only saying that because I grew up in Poland (still very much behind the iron curtain at the time) where anything foreign was treated with the utmost suspicion. As a...

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I’ve been listening to a wonderful talk on TED Talks by Carl Honore 'In praise of slowness' and he said that farmers markets are currently having their renaissance. Why? A couple of reasons: there are more and more “slow” movements (Slow Food for example) and people start to realise that...

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