Planting vegetables on the long weekend

by Dr Melissa West on May 20, 2013

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Happy Victoria Day to all my fellow Canadians! This is how I spend my Victoria Day weekend – planting my vegetable garden! As many of you know I have a fairly strong green smoothie and green juice habit that is a bit challenging to maintain. The solution is to plant my own greens. Gardening is [...]

SuperFood Smoothie Saturday: Chlorella

May 18, 2013 Melissa's Daily Blog Posts
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Welcome to Superfood Smoothie Saturdays! Today I will start with a question that came to me via email: Hello dear Melissa! I would like to ask you about being vegetarian. Do I have to worry about lack of vitamins or right kind of protein in my body if I decide to not eat meat? Thank [...]

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Namaste Yoga 178: Money Can’t Buy Everything

May 17, 2013 Earlier Namaste Yoga Episodes
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Namaste Yoga 178 Cultural Conditioning Series: Money Can’t Buy Everything an Intermediate Yoga Class : Cultural Conditioning is the social process in which authority figures such as parents, professors, politicians, religious leaders, peers, and the media define our cultural values, beliefs, ethical systems, and ultimately the way we perceive ourselves in the world. Today we [...]

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Juicing beets

May 16, 2013 Juicing Recipe
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Today we are going to create a special treat on Thirsty Thursdays. : Last time we had a meet up for the members of our Namaste Yoga Membership Site at Fresh on Bloor downtown Toronto I ordered a beet root frappe which had apples, beets, carrot, ginger and nutmeg. I had juiced apples, beets, carrots [...]

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Blogger Interviews Melissa

May 15, 2013 Melissa's Daily Blog Posts
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For today’s blog post I would like to share with you an interview done by one of my most beloved Namaste Yogi’s Maria from Spain. : This interview is available in both English and Spanish and in it I answer some interesting questions about how I started yoga and share some personal details about my [...]

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Balancing Poses to help Avoid Falling

May 14, 2013 Melissa's Daily Blog Posts
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Balancing Poses to Avoid Falling when You have Arthritis in Your Hips, Knees and Low Back : Today’s question comes from Gerry in a blog post I suffer from osteoarthritis in my lower back, hips and knees. I am 63, drove truck for 20+ years and have had several falls that have me worried about [...]

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Yoga Classes for the Colon

May 13, 2013 Melissa's Daily Blog Posts
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Yoga Classes for the Large Intestine : Today’s question comes from Daniel for his aunt, she has colon problems, and she asked me if there are exercises that can help her. So I ask you Dr., do you have a class about this? or maybe yoga is not the right thing for her. What do [...]

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Super Food Smoothie Saturday: Maca

May 11, 2013 Melissa's Daily Blog Posts
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Maca one of the Super Foods Over the next few weeks we will be reviewing some of the superfoods that you can add to your smoothies to give them a nutritional boost. Let’s begin with Maca. This root plant was originally traded by the Incan warrior’s as currency it was so highly valued! It is [...]

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Namaste Yoga 177: The Less is More Episode

May 10, 2013 Intermediate Yoga Class
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Cultural Conditioning: Less is More A Free Intermediate Yoga Class Cultural Conditioning is the social process in which authority figures such as parents, professors, politicians, religious leaders, peers, and the media define our cultural values, beliefs, ethical systems, and ultimately the way we perceive ourselves in the world. Today’s theme comes from Viola Vazio from [...]

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Joint Pain Juice Relief

May 9, 2013 Juicing Recipe
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Thirsty Thursday’s Answering Your Questions! I have been getting a lot of questions about juicing since starting Thirsty Thursdays and so I thought I would answer a few of them this week! The first one comes from Lisa from Facebook: Why do you choose to juice instead of high speed blend? So, I actually high [...]

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