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29/12/2021

Is it cod out there? Keep warm with herbal teas and spices.

Add flavour and excitement to your life, try something new. I used to love roiboos tea when I lived in London. Rose hip, lemon balm, catnip, aniseed, rosella? Try mixing cardamoms, ginger and cinnamon, warming and comforting at the same time.

Do you want more novelty and excitement in life? Start small, by discovering the wonders of herbal teas and tisanes. This way you'll add beneficial micronutrients, antioxidants, anti-inflammatory compounds. Every little more helps the body rebalance and keep fit. Tisanes soothes the mind too.

25/12/2021

Merry Christmas! A question I asked myself recently: what is the essence of Christmas in 2021?

I always associated Christmas with presents and with family and communion.

This first aspect is much less relevant to me these days as I tend to invest in experiences and personal development more than stuff. This is exactly why the experience of communion is really important to me and in this new world of enforced social distancing, sharing moments with others, loved ones, friends and family becomes even more precious.

My family is far, in Italy and I have been videoing with them a lot more in the past days, particularly my older parents miss me of course.

I will be spending Christmas with my girlfriend Isabella and 10 friends in our home on the 25th evening.

Tonight and tomorrow, over lunches, dinners and what we call in Koh Phangan "conscious parties", we'll meet, hug, dance and share love with many more friends on the island here.

A third element of Christmas is food and feasting on Christmas is good culturally and spiritually.

Of course, the QUALITY of the food matters, a lot! Wholefood, grass fed and healthy living, local or organic, home-made or well-made is key. No industrial junk, "corporate" food please!

We decided to support local businesses, artisan bakeries and the organic farm here for our dinner party tomorrow.

How has the festive season been so far? I wish you a really awesome Christmas, hoping for more unity, less weird stuff in the news and a lot of communion and love in 2022.
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23/12/2021

Are you ready for the end of year celebrations? Merry Christmas to everyone from beautiful Koh Phangan.

As we were ready to re-open the Smiley Retreat, fresh restrictions mean quarantine is back to fly into Thailand so we are assessing what's best to do now.

This is a disappointment for me obviously, and I can only find some consolation in the beauty of the island, the beach, the breeze, the sunset and the communion with friends and loved ones.

As restrictions are also imposed in Europe, we can only hope this strange virus crisis will end or can be handled differently in 2022. Whatever you think of what's going on, New Normal has been on for nearly 2 years and it seems any variant of the virus is too dangerous, too "unsafe" to be let pass without restrictions as it once was, in 2019 and every year before that.

Consolation in Nature, a spiritual practice and taking a philosophical perspective helps me keep an open heart and enjoying the fleeting moment.

Wishing you here, much love from Koh Phangan.

15/12/2021

I think the energy of sunrise and sunset is magical. Both early morning and late afternoon are considered sattvic in Yoga. It's awesome to be in presence of something or someone that has sattva, which is a Sanskrit word meaning "light," "goodness" and/or "purity." The quality of sattva is said to be life-giving to the body, mind and spirit.

And Nature, particularly at sunset, is a wonder of light and goodness for me.

The current world is, in my opinion, characterised by a myriad of challenges for our nervous system. To keep safe from some of the negativity of media, social media and the stresses of modern life, I practice "Mind Hygiene" more from my blog here: https://www.nutriyogalife.com/mind-hygiene/

Do you expose yourself to beautiful sights, high vibration elements on a daily basis? If you need more ideas on how to relax and charge your vibration with the goodness of Sattva, reach out and ask me - I am here to help :-)

08/12/2021

Do you love raw salads, green leafy vegetables? Even in winter, as part of a nice meal containing earthy, warming foods, there is place for a salad starter or side.

I had to go through the process of starting to include more beneficial plants in my diet, more vitamins, minerals and natural medicinal compounds, and it took me a while to get to where I am now. I had to shift my perception of the so-called superfoods too. So I feel for people who are still not eating the greens, it's a bit of an acquired taste but really worth it, so much!

I now regularly, almost everyday, choose from at least 8 or 10 varieties of spinach and brassica plants, mustard leaves, pak choi, gotu kola and Asian kale and some I do not know the English name of. Can you learn to cook and enjoy watercress, cabbage or Brussels sprouts? Your liver will thank you for that.

If you are eating processed food, you are taking in a lot of calories, inflammatory compounds, pro-oxidants and very little beneficial micronutrients. You are burdening, hurting the body and you gotta know why you are doing it.

Knowing something rationally is worthless if you don't actually act upon it, actually do it, make it part of your routine.

01/12/2021

Nutrition, Yoga & Lifestyle - The YouTube Channel
I started a YouTube channel over a year ago to give teachers, holistic healers and interesting people a platform to introduce themselves and share some of their experience.

Some of the subjects covered in these 10 to 20 minutes interviews:

Healing, wellness, healthy eating, fasting, detox, wholefood, yoga, meditation, philosophy, inspiration, motivation, travelling, lifestyle.

Inspire yourself into a healthy, balanced lifestyle through nutrition, yoga, holistic & smart thinking. Associated Blog NutriYogaLife.com

What are sound healing, shamanic ceremonies and ta**ra? Many inspiring teachers live in Koh Phangan and feature in the channel. Emotional release, myofascial massage? Craniosecral, reiki, energy healing?

Koh Phangan is well known for the variety of healing modalities and holistic classes available. As I am in Pai now, I started interviewing people here too, see in the pic my interview with Tony Tan, CEO of 180 Sanctuary.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5C_BeUkeyOCGTf7W6f2WnA/

24/11/2021

Do you buy organic when you can?

My nutrition approach is based on wholefood and the first step is to go whole. Further steps, alongside refining the balance of macronutrients depending on individual specifications and adding more beneficial superfood, fermented food and preparations, is to go organic as much as possible.

Compared with conventional agriculture, organic farming uses fewer pesticides, reduces soil erosion, decreases nitrate leaching into groundwater and surface water, and recycles animal wastes back into the farm.

Despite yielding less crop than conventional farming, organic is much better for the environment and for ourselves.

Many pesticides and chemicals used in agriculture end up inside our organism and the body deals with them through the liver and detoxifies them out of the organism. Without being dogmatic about organic food, obviously we want to have as much of it as we can while limiting produce from conventional agriculture.

If you are on a budget, I'd say spend a little more on your animal products, also to avoid or reduce heavy metals and antibiotics. Then check out the "Dirty Dozen & Clean Fifteen" to see what produce should be bought organic and which is OK to buy conventional.

17/11/2021

Lonely is what I fear the most. Not being alone, but feeling lonely for sure.
Do you feel lonely sometimes and how do you cope with it?

My life’s choices, or karma, depending on whether you think there’s such a thing as “free will”, made me share a lot of life with myself. I left my family home at age 19 to live in Milan for university, moved to London in my early 20s and relocated to Thailand at 38. I have always been fiercely independent and outward looking in my youth, lusting to see the world, travel and discover the new and the unexplored.

Every time I moved to a new place, I started from scratch, adapting to new social norms, culture and lifestyle and it can take a while to meet new friends, feel grounded, secure, established in a foreign or novel environment. While retaining a zest for life, a strong desire to learn and experience, I also naturally crave to feel part of a community of like minded people, secure in a social identity of sorts, sharing life moments with friends and connection with like hearted and like minded people.

Are fellow human beings, friends, family and a special one the real one a huge source of meaning, support and sweet time?

Read it all here: https://www.nutriyogalife.com/lonely-alone/

10/11/2021

If you think balanced nutrition is important as part of a healthy and happy life, there is no shying away from cooking, the art of transforming raw, natural ingredients into tasty, filling and nourishing meals.

Cooking is culture. Cooking is fun. Cooking is meditation. It can be relaxing, a creative channel for one’s expression. If we want to make amazing dinners and lunches, good energy needs to be created, and love. You’ll be eating it and maybe your family or friends with you, so that’s paramount.

Switch off the TV and love each onion, carrot, drip of olive oil, grain of whole brown rice. Each spice and herb. Love it for 25-30 minutes with some chillout music and eat it slowly.

Are you open minded? Would you like to try something a bit different? Line up 4-5 simple ingredients on the kitchen counter, look at them intensely for 2-3 minutes. Observe the shape, colour, smell them.

Sit in a comfortable position with your back straight, close your eyes and feel you breath, gently inhale and exhale through the nose for 5 more minutes. When you are ready, start peeling, chopping, steaming, boiling or gentle frying, in coconut or olive oil, keeping a sense of connection, a heightened awareness. Serve and season to taste, eat slowly and you have already doubled up: 45 minutes, your dinner AND daily meditation are done… Happy evening!

The only way to make nutrition a long term habit is to learn to love the sourcing and preparing of food. Loving it as a hobby a passion.

01/11/2021

I wrote this blog post in meditation 4 years ago and it started like this:

"The world is beautiful. Much more beautiful today than in the past because we can really see and experience it now. We can catch a plane and for a relatively small amount of money go to the Amazon or the Himalayas. We have the choice to spend an afternoon looking at the sky from a mountain top if we want to. There are no constrictions, no regime or other evil that forces us to be inside a concrete building 10 hours a day." Well..

After 1 full year in Koh Phangan I am in Chiang Mai, a beautiful city, rich in culture in northern Thailand. It feels good to be travelling again, albeit within the country. I am a big traveller and have been to 60 countries and, recently, the only travel I have done has been internal.

What is me? Me is my thoughts, Cogito Ergo Sum, I think therefore I am. My personality, what people see, what I do, where I live, who I go out with. Me is different if I am talking to my uncle, when I am at work or with friends. Me is constantly changing, mutating and assuming different forms and shapes.

Well, according to Yoga, me is the opposite of Cogito Ergo Sum, it’s I don’t think therefore I am. The true me is not the thinking me, the moving, talking, working, living everyday life me. The real me, not relative to anything else, is perceived when the breath stops when the thinking mind stops, when the rush of activity stops and the awareness goes inside. The real me is experienced through meditation.

More here: https://www.nutriyogalife.com/meditation-dream-or-reality/

28/10/2021

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18/10/2021

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