Faith, or sraddha, is one of the five “yoga vitamins,” as B.K.S. Iyengar named them in The Tree of Yoga. Faith as a vitamin – I love it! We need faith in the wisdom of our bodies to develop a healthy relationship with food. All too often we ignore the body’s messages, subduing a headache [...]

Tap into a well of inner strength and vibrancy after a one-day Spring Yoga and soul-food retreat in the Northern Gold Coast Hinterlands. Book your place for this beautiful day of self-care and body love that will leave you warm, nourished, on a natural high, and ready to move past or avoid the Winter blues and onto vibrancy and optimal health!

Healthy Mexican DETOX food? Yes, it IS possible! You’re going to love these exotic but simple recipes, which are overflowing with flavour and vitality. We’ve taken a page out of one the tastiest cuisines on Earth and amped up the vitality factor. Goodbye clogging dairy & gluey wheat, hello sexy spicy full-bodied slimming cuisine!

  Click here to take survey and enter the draw to win a free conscious cooking class!   2012 brings a new year of conscious cooking classes! We are cooking up a batch of delicious new classes for the year and you have the chance to attend one for FREE! Here’s why…   I’m setting up [...]

In the world of nutrition, my experience has been that the approaches used by nutrition professionals tend to fall under one of two labels: mainstream science and naturopathic. A new, third option now exists: Integrative Nutrition, the combining of clinical western approaches with alternative modalities.

Who do you call for professional help with nutrition – maybe to lower cholesterol, cope with a food intolerance, or get expert advice to eat better? ‘Nutritionist’ might seem the obvious answer, but it’s not: anyone, with or without qualifications, can call themselves a nutritionist.      Finding a nutrition professional wasn’t always an issue [...]

You wouldn’t think it, but this dish abides by natural laws of nutrition, such as proper food combining and use of simple plant-based wholefoods. This makes it easy to digest and assimilate the nutrients, leaving you free of bloating and with stable blood sugar levels afterwards. Oh, and a huge smile!

Places are strictly limited. For bookings, click here! Gone are the days of cooking and eating for taste at the expense of health. Learn how to lovingly create nourishing, delicious meals from simple, fresh wholefoods and give yourself and your loved ones the gift of natural health and vitality!   Learn a way of cooking [...]

The Five Pillars of Practice The next course, on the five essential elements of a yoga practice, will run from Thursday October 27th to Saturday November 26th. Each of these pillars is based on one of the five elements – Water, Earth, Air, Fire and Space. The five pillars are Asana, Vinyasa, Bandha, Pranayama and Drishti. [...]

Clean, Lean Detox Cuisine I Saturday 15 October @ Essence of Living 12 noon - 2:30pm Check out our Detox Cuisine Flyer To book, contact Essence of Living 3/52 Peerless Ave, Mermaid Beach, QLD 4218 (07) 5526-6600 essence@essenceofliving.com.au Please your palate, nourish and heal your body and skyrocket your energy levels, with this first of two exciting workshops! You’re [...]