Australian_Yoga_Journal_October_2017

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Eating for spring

Nutritionist and author of Eating

for the Seasons (Allen & Unwin, 2011),

Janella Purcell, says spring is ideal for

cleansing the body, when your liver is

at its most sensitive. Detoxifying

diets don’t mean living off lemons,

but a variety of liver-cleansing seasonal

foods.

Favour:

• Light, nourishing meals, like morning
  smoothies (try adding baby spinach
  and turmeric) and quickly sautéed
  vegetables


• Cruciferous vegetables: broccoli,
  cauliflower, cabbage, brussels sprouts,
  kale, kohlrabi


• Bitter foods: rocket, endive, radicchio,
  watercress, turnip, celery, asparagus,
  alfalfa


• Herbal liqueurs and digestives: Swedish
  Bitters,Campari, Averna


• Spirulina and chlorophyll


• Herbs: dandelion root, gentian root,
  52 StMary’s thistle, schisandra, burdock

october 2017

yogajournal.com.au

Refine &

SHINE

Follow these spring-time cues

and nourish yourself inside out

by recharging your diet, reconnecting

with nature, decluttering your home

and cherishing your sacred space.

For some, winter offers an adventurous

wonderland of tobogganing, boarding and skiing

through snowfields. For others, winter can become

an unproductive time of overindulgence, underactivity

and burrowing with heavy hearts beneath doonas ...

the promising renewal of seasons, however, presents

the perfect opportunity to let go, lighten the load

and return a healthy spring to your stride.

Ancient yogic texts broadly discuss saucha; cleanliness

of mind, body and spirit. The first of five niyamas

(positive duties) comprising yoga’s second limb,

saucha prepares our entire being to progress through

our practice — and life in general — with positive

energy. If ancient purification techniques like

flushing your sinuses with a neti pot or swallowing a

strip of wet cloth doesn’t appeal, don’t stress!

There are plenty of practical ways to make spring

your time to refine and shine.

By Diana Timmins