Easy Tasty Chickpea Casserole

Easy Tasty Chickpea Casserole

It sure is Winter and if like me I can at times become very de-motivated to cook, or have a flash of inspiration and cook like mad. 

This quick and easy chickpea dish has become a favourite. Yes it is vegetarian, but it it packs some favours. I have made it for my meat loving husband, added some grilled lamb, and a serving of Israeli Cous Cous (which is the larger variety). Also delicious and hearty with roasted pumpkin, red onion and garlic. If you have any, finish off with grilled haloumi and chopped fresh coriander. Yum! I have also made this with out the chilli and my children have inhaled it. 


Ingredients

Olive oil - splash
Red onion- finely chopped/sliced
Fresh ginger - 2 teaspoon- grated
Green chillies- 2 - chopped- seeded
Salt- 1 teaspoon
Chickpeas- 1 tin- drained ( you can stretch the recipe to two tins)
Cumin- 1 teaspoon
Turmeric- 1/2 teaspoon ( optional)
Freshly grounded pepper
Lemon juice- 1 tablespoon
Tomatoes- Punnet of cherry or a tin of chopped
English spinach
Water- 80ml of water depending how many chickpeas you use. 

Method

1.Splash of olive oil in a non stick pan on a medium-high heat
2.Add in Garlic, ginger,salt, onion and chilli
3.Once onion has soften, add in spices, pepper and chickpeas,plus          water- cover and simmer for 5 mins or until water evaporates.
4.Add tomatoes and cook for another 2 mins
5.Remove from heat and add the lemon juice, check seasoning and fold in spinach.

Delicious! 

Recipe is sourced Lifestylefood- Bill Granger, with some personal changes. Thanks Bill! 

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Listening Meditation

Are you listening? As well as making yourself comfortable for your yoga practice, whatever yoga style you desire, mediation is usually part of the sequence. The breath with your moment and your drishti. The inner anchor that you always come back to. It isn't only about sitting peacefully still. Recently I have used a mudra as a focus point especially in those challenging extended side angle asana((utthita parkonasana), when the legs have to be amazingly aligned and grounded. Please play and share this wonderful listening mediation from Mark Coleman, who is prAna's Mindful Living Ambassador. Yoga Style Australian online Yoga Style- Yoga clothing and accessories for men and women.

Beautiful prAna

PrAna is our supplier of yoga clothing for men and women to our Australian online Yoga Style. From the US, they have been well established for nearly 20 years. They practice sustainable practise of business, making us beautiful high quality yoga, active, Pilate's, casual, you name it gear. Prana also clothe the fast growing rock climbing community.
The clothes are made with 88% Supplex and 12% Lycra. Designed for all types of yoga.


Please enjoy this beautiful video clip of and her bio ( borrowed from the prAna website) 


Shiva Rea- The Power of Yoga


Shiva Rea, M.A. is a yogini firekeeper, sacred activist, and leading innovator in the evolution of vinyasa flow yoga integrating the tantric bhakti roots of yoga, Krishnamacharya's teachings and a universal, quantum approach to the body since she began teaching twenty years ago. She leads retreats and pilgrimages worldwide and has served as a creative catalyst to bring community together including Yoga Trance Dance for Life, Moving Activism for 1,008,000 Trees, Yogini Conferences and the worldwide Global Mala Project.

Source: youtube.com via prAna on Pinterest

New Name, same game

New Name, Same game.... Same same but different.


We have been the Australian online Yoga Gear for a year now, and have worked hard and created a great following, supplying beautiful men and women's yoga clothing online. However, as all good things are, they are often become generic. When I started Yoga Gear I was so excited to have created something out of nothing. I had absolutely no experienced in online, apart from Facebook. A website site was created to sell yoga clothing and off we went. Six months later I discovered another website by the same name. It has just been launched. Beautiful clothes, well designed website but the same name! I had no idea that that would happened. I knew the domain .com.au had been taken, but had also been dormant for 3-4 years. So I went for it.


So after a year. I felt that it was unimaginative to have two websites in the same market, and alas, the same town and even the same acquittance's. Time to move on, dedicate my efforts on my website and my community. So Yoga Style was created. We are same same but now different. 

Both web address work, arriving at the same destination www.yogastyle.com.au / www.yogagear.net.au 


Thank you for your support, and looking forward to really getting into dressing you all in style! 


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Namaste

New Year- Old Friends

I was lucky enough  to spend this New Year 2012 with old friends. Very old friends. We're not old in years but old in time, some of the friendships started when we were babies.

We are on "holiday" in the UK and spent time in the town I grew-up in. I am very lucky that I get to visit every 2 years and we are also greeted enthusiastically and it makes the trip so worth while. On NY's day, we joined our friends down at Milford Beach on the South Coast of England, and "they" went for a NY dip. As my husband sdaid- "oh, we forgot our sun screen". ....there was a howling wind, and it was so grey, and so bleak... I could not help but laugh with my friend Helen, how as children we came to the beach and hurt our feet on the stones and went home with tar on our skin. She laughed back, and said "we still come down here!" They all now have beach huts, the traditional ones, some coloured and fancy, some tired and weather beaten. But the spirit was there.

One of the friendships I have is with Nicki. Nicki lived across the field from me as kids. She turned up with her tribe, she has 4 children ranging from 3-11, and a very hands on husband- he has to be-the middle two have a generic degenerative disease and they will not see much of their teenage years. It was amazing to see everyone pitch-in and assist with getting the children down the stairs ( I'd say 60, wooden wet ones), two large strollers. On the way back -up I helped take Tom, he is 6 I think, with the strength of a 9 year old. he is determined to pick-up anything, and jam it in his mouth. Luckily, over wine two nights before Nicki had given me a bit of an up-date and I knew what to expect. I was terrified I was going to go flying and take all of us back down the cliff! There is not much to Nicki in stature, 50 kg and 5"ft2 ish, but her determination and patience is incredible, and it makes me humble.

I always marvel at how we all grew up together and left, but so many have now moved back and
their children seek the haunts that we did, and are now students at the same schools.

How removed we are from our life in Sydney, so different, things here seem so much simpler, less competitive and slower. I often wonder how things would be if I lived here now?  Would I do as much yoga? ( I haven't done any since I've been here), would I have Yoga Gear website? Would I have a healthy lifestyle? Are we looking at it through rose coloured glasses??

Let's be happy! Satisfied and happy to be here, where ever that maybe!

Happy 2012!

New Beginnings 2012

The year of 2012 is fast approaching, and as its tradition, its time to start a New Years Resolution, usually getting fit, eating less, drinking less, spend more time with the kids, love better etc.

Well I have no idea what I am going to do, at the moment I am in the UK, on a fairly remote farm. It’s hard to find a “single”, I have no mobile phone, I’m not driving, I don’t take a bag out with me, and I take no money. Freedom, peace from the rat-race. I have thought that 2012 I should try and time manage better. Maybe then my house will be tidier, the clothes will get folded and put away with in 24 hrs of being dried and washed instead of a week later! My plants will get watered, and my car will not get filled up with kids toys, shoes kicked off and buckets and spades.

Dinner will be prepped and prepared and the dishwasher emptied…….. God it sounds so stressful! But there must be a way to make the day less manic and not so exhausting.

My days are going to get shorter as my eldest is off to school and the other in pre-school two days a week. Less time, but will have more $$$$$ as only one kindy fee.

Less time to do my work, and my yoga and my ‘home duties”. My husband gives me house keeping at the beginning of each month, he calls it my “pay”- cheeky bugger as “I” get very little out of it.

So time management is in order, with out making it all very dull and restrictive, may have to read up on it first to make sure I don't turn into a Stepford Wife

Cheers Jo @ Yoga Gear

Its competition time!!

We are running a competition for you to WIN $100 gift voucher to spend on whatever you want at Yoga Gear.

As you may have already noticed we supply yoga clothing for yoga, yoga lifestyle, pilates wear, or just something comfortable!

Our clothing is all made with purpose. Yogalicious is designed and made in Sydney by Evangeline Yeun who is a yoga teacher, and the owner of The House of Yoga Redfern. What better experience do you need to design yoga clothing? Evangeline's focus is on funky yoga clothing, with comfort in mind to wear in or out of the yoga studio. Her range covers capris/leggings, that have funky bright coloured waist bands, light weight fabric with the all important wickering, halter neck yoga tops, flattering yoga bra tops and for the not so modest, hot yoga shorts for both men and women.  

Complementing this funky yoga clothing brand, we have prAna from the US. PrAna was born 18 years ago, that’s a long time, so they know their stuff. Most of their staff are from the original team, and they are all still very "hands-on". The focus is high standards of quality, use-able, sustainable yoga clothing. Again, this style of yoga clothing offers comfort and movement for any yoga, if it be hot yoga, or hatha, or the vast range of yoga styles, mediation, pilates, or a Sunday morning walk.

PrAna fabrics for their yoga clothing pants are 88% Supplex, 12% Lycra, now that is some serious sculpting going on! It’s going to make you look good! It’s also made to last, keep its shape, wash it again, and again.

PrAna is the Sanskrit word for "breath", so it breathes....

Yoga Gear sell a variety of prAna yoga capris/ leggings, yoga shorts for men and women. Faltering yoga bra tops, and beautiful henna printed yoga tops.

New supplier on the page is Witjuti. (pronounced “wicheddy”) and is the Aboriginal spelling of the Australian Larvae – Witchetty Grub or Witchety Grub, which is a common larvae found in the trees in the Outback.  Banika Smee is the owner and designer of the beautiful bamboo range. She has designed something that can be worn in in the yoga studio and then afterwards........ it's made out of bamboo which is super soft, hypo- allergic, sustainable and natural! At the moment we are stocking the black or taupe singlet which will match any of our other yoga pants/leggings/shorts. 

As well as yoga clothing, we sell yoga mats. We supply Jade Harmony mats, and basic sticky mats , so something there for either end of the budget. With this we recommend the Yogitoes® SKIDLESS® towels which are a fantastic addition to your yoga practice. 

A great combo that we offer is a sticky mat and a Yogitoes® SKIDLESS® towel for under $100. Great gift for someone, like yourself.

So, to enjoy the opportunity to explore what we have to offer, you need to sign up to the newsletter, click webpage, and you will see the area on the right to add your email details . Your email details are strictly for newsletter purpose only from Yoga Gear. And I promise that I will not bombard you will garbage emails that will go straight to your junk mail..........and I will know if they do! ( hahahha) 

Competition entries close November 27 2011, and winner announced in the first newsletter. 

Many thanks

Jo @ Yoga Gear