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The Winter Foods and Balance

August 29, 2022/0 Comments/in awareness/consciousness, Ayurveda, food, food, Jim Montrose, wellness/by Jim Montrose

In winter everything slows down and plants and many animals become dormant or sluggish. Winter drying and cold affects both Vata and Kapha with aggravations like allergies, colds, and congestion to all. The Vata eating and care routine is used for all doshas with changes to adopt them to the dosha.
The quiet solitude of winter makes it the perfect months for deep thought, deep rest, hibernation and contemplation an antidote to the fast paced mobility of summer and fall. Winter is the ideal time to let go of the past and direct your attention inward. Establish new habits and focus on spiritual growth, physical health, anything you want to create and own.
Learn how to counter winters effects, eat to support your body, and stay healthy with winter in balance routines for your dosha. Eat more foods that are sweet, sour, and salty or slight modifications to meet your dosha; heavy, oily, hot, well cooked, and moist like soups, stews, steamed and baked (drying so add sauces or soup to moisten) vegetables with more fat and protein yet aim for easy digestion. Reduce pungent, bitter, astringent, dry, cold, and light.
Eating more cooked foods and heavier foods like nuts, root vegetables, beets (blood cleansing), bean soups, rich fulfilling dishes (helps you get through winter but needs to be balanced in late winter with the need to let go of accumulated reserves and detoxify).
(Read On) to learn winter balancing, the winter in season foods and how to create meals for the winter and early spring.

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The Art of Creating my Reality and bonus white paper

December 17, 2021/0 Comments/in Announcements, awareness/consciousness, Ayurveda, Jim Montrose/by Jim Montrose

The Art of Creating my Reality.

Saturday, January 15th at Red Roan Ranch – 8:30 am to 3 pm

This year has continued to offer new surprises of change and potential, Some are adopting and thriving, while many have lived fearfully and contracted. Many fundamental beliefs and habits are disrupted and we are wondering when will it end (so we can get back to normal). There may not be a return to what we knew and were comfortable with. Many are re-organizing their lives and priorities to meet the new dimensions of life. Learn to respond in the present moment to create the evolution, harmony and consciousness you live in.

Shift from the mass accepted standards of the current situation to my highest vision of harmonious creation. Step out of the norm to forgive, allow, and move into my power as the creator of my unique personal vision of life. Remain firm as the center of life experience as I choose the life I want to experience and perceive. I dream of letting go of mere survival of the waves of life and I transcend the ordinary to create my exceptional life of freedom, thriving in my creative evolutionary personal inner directed reality.

We are preparing a special guided meditation to fully align with our values and transcend the ordinary to create the exceptional life of freedom, thriving and creative evolution.

Consider the re-creation of your body, life and spirit as you align with your core values and true self to experience transformative growth in the 9 areas of your life. Make it more tangible with a vision board to remind you of what’s important to you every morning and evening throughout the year . Develop a set of habits to keep the lifestyle of continuing expansion – to Create your Own Reality. Enjoy a healthy lunch and snacks and review your creations in a friendly and supportive atmosphere. Cost R400 per person, R700 for couples. Reserve a place now in creating my reality by signing up now or call us now at 083 290 1283. Limited Spaces available.

“Imagine it, Be it, and very importantly take inspired Action now,” Jim Montrose,

If this sounds inspiring – Sign up now and put this on your calendar now!

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The Daily Lifestyle/Eating Plan

June 22, 2021/0 Comments/in Ayurveda, Jim Montrose, wellness/by Jim Montrose

Now that you have body type determined, how do we use it at the Ranch and in your home treatment? We have outlined the program in your Ayurvedic exam and the Doctor’s Lifestyle/Eating Plan.

Our Purpose is to Create a Detoxification/Longevity Lifestyle, maintain Life-force, balance Acid/Alkaline and Hydration. Ensure a cyclical rejuvenation lifestyle. Develop tools for your self-care and maintenance of healthy living and longevity on a physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual level. Creating a lifestyle that focuses on meditation, breath work for release and cleansing, mindfulness, and maintaining your center.

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Healthy Real Food Recipes

Happy Foods 2021

February 25, 2021/0 Comments/in Ayurveda, food, Jim Montrose, wellness/by Jim Montrose
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Happy Foods Winter 2021 – Bring satisfying pleasure and joy back to your food, while balancing your constitution, making it fun, and systematic for quicker results.

by Jim Montrose, Ayurvedic Specialist, June 2021

Ayurvedic Cooking

Happy Foods  2021 Winter –  Foods that reduce anxiety, increase happiness, and fulfillment. You’ve found what your body constitution is, now what. Choose foods and recipes that meet your body’s constitution for natural Balance and Vitality

“I would like to thank you for Saturday, for the first time I feel like eating according to my Dosha is achievable and easy to understand. I loved the way you explained how we have to perceive a meal and then go about flavoring and preparing it – meal time is fun that way.”  – E. Apr, 2020

In a revamped version of last year’s successful Happy Foods we are introducing expanded practical steps to learn how to make and create dishes that meet your Eating Plan in a fun and quick way.  Open the way to easily and quickly make the foods that balance your dosha with fun and satisfy your taste for joy and pleasure. With expanded sections on the Chinese medicine approach that supports and augments the Ayurvedic taste and health practices including why the Chinese don’t count calories. The latest tips and discoveries from scientific research demystified and put into a holistic framework to reduce the confusion and produce the food to support the detoxification and re-generation of your body in support of your core treatments in the office.

The new Happy Foods 2021 gives the first timer a great overview of the basics as well as advanced topics not previously covered in last year’s Happy Foods, making recipes from scratch, improving taste and correcting,  and more assistance in learning to effectively implement these approaches quickly, easily, and with fun in your own kitchen. Come for a wonderful deepening of your Real Food – Happy Food skills and understanding.

For the experienced and new Happy Food participant it provides a great review and expansion with new concepts, increased attention to how to set up your kitchen and learn the skills to do it more automatically (making it a habit). The advanced balancing techniques will help everyone. In addition, both groups will benefit with a special session to specifically answer your most perplexing, puzzling, confusing question about preparing food to meet your specific food plan. Bring your pressing and urgent questions in any and all areas of concern about your eating plan and cooking.

HAPPY FOODS 2021 MORE JOY, FUN, RESILIENCY, AND IMMUNITY

Many common foods enhance our joy, our resiliency in times of challenge and our immunity. We  couple these foods with a system for proper cooking techniques, real foods, and matching the foods we eat with our body’s constitutional requirements we not only satisfy our hungers but truly provide the nutrients and life force that keeps us active, healthy and alive. And a big plus with the Happy food program of real foods is that the whole food offers the individual vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients in a balanced whole food way. Remember that eating the actual fruit or veggie is better than popping single-vitamin and multi-vitamin extract supplements since all the components in the food interact in unique ways that insure uptake and digestibility in the body.

Choosing foods and recipes with a system to make it easier to  meet your body’s constitution for natural Balance and Vitality.

“Let food be your medicine, let medicine be your food.”

Some of the topics covered include:

  • Systems that bring fun back and easily create healthy tasty meals.
  • Choosing and finding the most nutrient food available.
  • Cooking processes that preserve nutrients and even increase nutrient density. Ayurvedic and Chinese secrets (learn why Chinese don’t count calories and Ayurveda stresses comfort and satisfaction).
  • Setting up your kitchen and learning to cook easily in this new approach. Bring your questions and kitchen challenges.
  • Learn the foods that balance your constitution (dosha).
  • Discover how to use spices for flavor, variety and balance.
  • Proper food combinations and when to eat your biggest meals.
  • Cook with the seasons and the climate for balance.
  • Modify your favorite recipes for your individual constitution.
  • Digestive tips, and eating rules that assist your balance.
  • Make an elegant lunch with your newfound skills.
  • Food the first step to creating balance and harmony with your dosha.
  • Recipes and lectures materials provided for referral at home.

Join us at 9AM on Saturday morning to review your dosha, enjoy a happy snack, learn  what Happy cooking is all about, get recipes and lecture notes to nurture you own experiments and recipe development, help prepare a Happy lunch for your dosha. We will finish around 2PM. The cost for food, notes and 5 hours of instruction is R400, register and help us by registering early and pay only R350 before July 1st; couples attend for R550 beforeJuly 1st or R600 after (1 set of notes). Call Lana now to register 083 290 1283.

Ayurvedic Cooking

Stop the dissatisfaction and hunger that modern foods and cooking produce. Learn preparation, nutrient preservation and concentration techniques and cooking procedures that provide the basic nutrients we need, in balance with our constitutions, increase pleasure, elevate mood and immune response, and satisfy our taste buds longer term. Join us July 3rd 9am-2pm. Sign-up with Lana today, 083 290 1283,  to insure your place.

Happy Foods 2021 – bringing true pleasure and balance back into our foods.

In Loving Service,

Jim Montrose, Ayurvedic Counselor

www.drzaidarivene.co.za/jimmontrose

071 959 0786

P.S. Join us for Happy Foods 2021 July 3rd, pay before July 1 and get R50 off and make food that is satisfying. Sign up for our newsletter and view our blogs at the website www.drzaidarivene.co.za.

P. P.S. Check out the website for other articles and resources on cooking, words, inspired living, health, chakra meditation, Ayurveda and other topics. Some of the programs we have planned include:

Balance your Body Type  offering in the Fall, email for information.

Awareness and Awakening Meditation, new online class offering in April/May, watch for the announcement and a free trial experience, email for information.

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Summer Abundance

February 25, 2021/0 Comments/in Ayurveda, food, Jim Montrose, wellness/by Jim Montrose

Are you swimming in tomatoes? Or something else like pears, spinach, kale, figs, etc. Let’s look at some summer recipes. I have been making many dishes from the garden including: Raw Tomato Basil Ginger Soup, Polenta with Tomato Brinjal Mushroom Sauce, Apple Pear Sauce, Oatmeal with Fresh Fruit, and Aloo Gobi Palak. Don’t forget my Tabouleh Salad with fresh tomatoes and garden fresh parsley from last month’s blog. Click below to get these wonderful recipes and join us on March 13th for Happy Foods 2021 to learn to make great dishes that match your dosha providing balance, taste and Foods 2021 to learn to make great dishes that match your dosha providing balance, taste and nourishment that is missing from our modern diets. Check out the announcement and sign-up now!

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Happy Foods I and II

January 22, 2021/0 Comments/in Ayurveda, food, Jim Montrose, wellness/by Jim Montrose

Happy Foods I and II –
Bringing true pleasure and balance back into our foods
by Jim Montrose, Ayurvedic Specialist, January 2021

For most of us we no longer just eat to survive, but instead eat for pleasure.  Yet today with the changes in our food, preparation and diet we often miss the pleasure we are expecting. An apple I used to eat in the past that was hard, crunchy, aromatic and bounding with flavor as the juice exploded from its flesh; is now mushy, mealy, less flavorful, less sweet, and sometimes less juicy.

As a compensation for this lack of nutrient flavor, wellness and health in our food supply we have now created extravagantly flavored sauces, added sugar, salt, and flavor enhancers to our foods. Fast foods and junk foods with these artificial enhancers and empty calories abound but only give a semblance of pleasure that is short lasting.

And the trouble is…

Those foods aren’t satisfying us at a deep level and often leave us unsatisfied and in the famine state which encourages us to eat more empty calories and junk that doesn’t provide the basic nutrients we need and doesn’t satisfy our taste buds long term. They’re just activating the dopamine reward centers in our brains fooling us into a false satiety.

In the long term, poor eating habits exasperate the situation which most of us feel at a deep level of knowing.

Degrading health, obesity, loss of energy, dopamine crashes, physical limitations, depleted nutrient reserves, constant snacking … don’t make us happy. They may even create a level of depression that we learn to survive with in modern life.

There are solutions that can help us reclaim our pleasure in eating and increase our health and wellness at the same time. Replacing them with whole, natural, and healthy foods that naturally give true satiety is a first step.

We can choose foods that enhance our well-being, elevate our moods, increase our immune system, have broader nutrient values (replacing processed and nutrient –sterile foods) and add foods that replace some of the depleted nutrients that lead to poor health and depression while increasing joy. Coupling this with preparing our foods in ways that conserve the nutrients, concentrate the nutrients, and provide them in tasty, exciting ways that meet our unique body’s constitutional needs we can create Happy foods that do us well, satisfy hunger, and increase pleasure in eating. Read on.

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Making a better story

Be the Dreamer Second Chance

January 22, 2021/0 Comments/in Announcements, awareness/consciousness, Ayurveda, Jim Montrose/by Jim Montrose

Awaken – Be the Dreamer: Harmonious Earth Intention Workshop 2021 Second Chance February 13th
This year has brought immense change and potential, I feel it is asking us to Awaken to Dream a New Reality. Some have adopted and thrived, while many have lived fearfully and contracted. All of us have had fundamental beliefs and habits we trusted shattered. It is a wake-up call and many have re-organized their lives and priorities to meet the new dimensions of life. For those who are still waiting for a return to the old way it has been a long and frustrating wait that apparently is still not just around the corner.
2021 is still an open book. Awaken to your dream to get out ahead of this and make your life thrive. Hicks-Abraham says the observer, one who lets the conditions dictate their vibration, will feel good when it’s good and bad when it’s bad. The visionary dreamer holds her vision of what she wants no matter the conditions around her. In holding your dream with passionate fervor the dreamer can thrive in good times and in bad times (as mavericks who created new products, industries, and countries do).
Join us on February 16th for a unique intention setting workshop and lunch among fellow travelers on this journey to conscious creation to develop your harmonious earth regardless of what is going on around you. Explore how you respond in the present moment gives meaning to your life and creates the evolution, harmony and consciousness you live in. Jim is preparing a special guided meditation to evoke conscious evolution and visionary dreaming in 2021.

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Recipes from the Ranch

Recipes from the Ranch

December 22, 2020/0 Comments/in awareness/consciousness, Ayurveda, Jim Montrose, Meditation, wellness/by Jim Montrose

Select Recipes from a week at the Ranch, Jim Montrose Ayurvedic Specialist December 2020
When you come to the Ranch for a weeklong retreat we offer healthy detoxifying food that is intended to help you lose some of the acid of the modern lifestyle and nourish. While most people once they get use to the reduced salt and oil find the food satisfying it is a departure from the over-spiced, salted and high fat content of most people’s standard diet and restaurant or prepared foods. For the many who learn to enjoy the lighter more nutritionally satisfying fare of the ranch here are some ideas for healthier foods and a little festival at the end. Most of these recipes will work for 2-4 people depending on their appetites and whatever else is available. At the ranch we always have Hippocrates soup, potatoes or rice and salad. Enjoy these recipes as my gift to you for the holidays. Join us in February and March for Happy Foods and Ayurvedic Balance and Food to learn more great approaches and recipes.

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Making a better story

Be the Dreamer

December 20, 2020/0 Comments/in Announcements, awareness/consciousness, Ayurveda, Jim Montrose/by Jim Montrose

Awaken – Be the Dreamer: Harmonious Earth Intention Workshop 2021
This year has brought immense change and potential, I feel it is asking us to Awaken to Dream a New Reality. Some have adopted and thrived, while many have lived fearfully and contracted. All of us have had fundamental beliefs and habits we trusted shattered. It is a wake-up call and many have re-organized their lives and priorities to meet the new dimensions of life. For those who are still waiting for a return to the old way it has been a long and frustrating wait that apparently is still not just around the corner.
2021 is still an open book. Awaken to your dream to get out ahead of this and make your life thrive. Hicks-Abraham says the observer, one who lets the conditions dictate their vibration, will feel good when it’s good and bad when it’s bad. The visionary dreamer holds her vision of what she wants no matter the conditions around her. In holding your dream with passionate fervor the dreamer can thrive in good times and in bad times (as mavericks who created new products, industries, and countries do).
Join us on January 16th for a unique intention setting workshop and lunch among fellow travelers on this journey to conscious creation to develop your harmonious earth regardless of what is going on around you. Explore how you respond in the present moment gives meaning to your life and creates the evolution, harmony and consciousness you live in. Jim is preparing a special guided meditation to evoke conscious evolution and visionary dreaming in 2021.

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Alignment Recapped

November 25, 2020/0 Comments/in awareness/consciousness, Ayurveda, Jim Montrose, Meditation, wellness/by Jim Montrose

Alignment – Your most important relationship by Jim Montrose, Ayurvedic Specialist, November 2020

In the past we have written many articles on alignment and we still find it is the most important vantage point that anyone can take to heal, to reach their health desires, and live a happier life filled with wonder, joy and bliss. We also find it is one of the most critical components of a retreat that requires constant practice to grasp and start to adopt as a new habit.

Read more about the most valuable thing you can do every day. Remember Zaida is seeing patients from December 7th on and we are having the annual goal setting seminar on January 2nd. Stay tuned for more details on our seminars and Happy Foods in January and February. Happy Holidays and Best Wishes! May you live Aligned – happy, joyful, in wonder and awe of the life you are creating.

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