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You asked for it...and we made it happen - I give you the #EastbyWest Tongue Tingler!! 👅 👅 👅 Hit-up the link in my bio to purchase yours 😝😝😝 Tongue scraping has been one of my go-to morning rituals for the last decade. When we sleep our body is busy clearing ‘Ama’ aka toxins - that’s why when you wake up you need a wee, might need a shower 🚿 (even if you’d had one the night before) and have smelly breath/a furry coating on your tongue 😛 (even tho you brushed your teeth after dinner!) Tongue scraping involves holding a piece of U-shaped copper over the surface of your tongue and gently pulling down first thing when you wake-up to remove that furry/slimy fuzz stuff. That’s first-thing before you eat, drink, kiss (!) or say anything which will only see you re-ingest the toxins your body has spent all that time clearing out. Benefits include tasting your food properly, fresher breath (removes 80% of the bacteria that causes the dreaded halitosis) amongst a whole host of health benefits (the health of your gut bacteria is related to the health of your mouth bacteria). Read more about why this is the practice (which takes all of 4 seconds) you should have been doing all-along via the link in my bio and also pop there for the link to purchase your own tongue tingler which will last you for life. And existing tongue-scraping fans please post your testimonials/reviews below 👇🏼 so we can share more about why we should all be tongue scraping - and show it’s not a new thing but thousands of years old! (Tho I’m not suggesting any of you guys are that old) 😜

A is for....AGNI 🔥 🔥 directly translated as fire and is what Ayurveda refers to as your digestive fire. It is absolutely central to the 5,000 year old philosophy whose key teaching is that a healthy, balanced digestion affects our overall wellbeing above everything else - and it’s something we’re just catching up with in the West (have you noticed??). In Ayurveda, teachings say “It is better to have a bad diet and good digestion than it is to have a good diet and bad digestion” — that’s how important it is! If you strive to get to know your body, listen to what it needs and act on those needs, you’ll 100% notice a difference in how good you feel in every aspect of your life. A healthy digestion means a healthy you 😃 Hands up whose got dodgy digestion? 🤚 #eastbywest #ayurvedaalphabet

Moved in ✅ Cooked Pino food ✅ Managed to rectify the finely tuned plan when mum went AWOL for 90mins ✅ Surprised mum with a birthday party of 50 family and friends ✅ ✅✅ Job done. I’m shattered, these are the last of the stragglers. They can stay. If they stay still. Sleep is calling. So are the leftovers. Will post the fun on stories tomorrow. Thanks and love to everyone that came, all the cooks and the Braai boy @nativecoach 🎉🎊🎉🎊🎉

Training for the next olympics as long as @thenaturallifestylist has got my back 😂 🏋🏻‍♀️ Muscle mass begins to deteriorate in your 30’s which has got me taking less of a laissez faire approach to physical fitness. As well as eating as naturally as possible I’m learning to move as naturally as possible #bionorm The chair (and artificial lighting! 😵) doesn’t bode well for our health and I’m on that chair at my laptop for hours and hours a day...👎The squat is a great way to help reset your posture and keep everything aligned and moving freely. #Eastbywest tip of the day: every 20-30 mins take a squat break - check out Tony Riddle’s healthy hacks for the work place on my blog - link in bio☝️

Good morning from the new house! Looks like the first chore of the day is bobbing for apples. Can’t believe I have a pond and an apple tree 🌳- feels a bit grown up/house on the prairie 😂 When I was little I wasn’t allowed a pet because my dad was in the forces (as in army not Star Wars) and we moved. A lot. So I kept snails, and woodlice, and ants 🐜, and read all of the books in the children’s library about animals, and daydreamed all day about a squirrel or rabbit 🐇 following me home so that I could tell mum and dad that we had to keep it cos it chose us... Finally after becoming obsessed about tadpoles I got 2 goldfish. Over the next few years I kept several tanks and fancy gold fish and bred them. Loved it. Then as a teen it all fell away. Now I’ve inherited 50 goldfish and I’m back in my childhood element. I can’t wait to spend the weekend getting stuck back into pH, oxygen, nitrate levels etc and all the things that I was an absolute expert in and now can’t remember anything about (#vatabrain). Let me know if anyone wants some half-eaten-by-squirrels-pond-soaked-apple-jelly 🍎🍏🤣

London or Cali - it could be either at the mo 👌🌞 I spent the day in Soho yesterday and it was a bit like being on holiday with everyone in colourful clothing, sipping on iced lattes. The only things I can even think about wearing are either my trusty denim shorts or loose dresses - which my mum also loves and refers to as ‘dusters’ (in that they look like the house dresses you dust in 🤣). I’ve had variations of this look on rotation over the last few weeks as shorts and a t-shirt or cotton blouse mean that I’m as cool as I can possibly be, and sticking a kimono over the top means I’m my version of ‘meeting ready’ ...and if the weather grants us with a refreshing breeze it adds a bit of drama see? 😉😉 Link in bio for full details on these eco-conscious brands making this outfit even more 👍👍👍💙 Do you guys have any tricks of the trade for staying cool in this heat?

#Ayurveda pantry essentials 👩🏻‍🍳 A pic from one of my Ayurveda lunch classes. These are the everyday ingredients for great tasting bowl food - basmati rice (which is next to brown rice to show the difference and talk through different prep methods), mung beans and split mung daal (again to demo the differences), gram flour (or chickpea flour), jaggery (unrefined sweetener) ginger, lime and my all-important spice tin with my fav 7. Believe it or not, with these simple ingredients you can make SO many tasty and nourishing dishes from Golden Milk 🥛💛 to Kitchari 🥣 - any other spice kings 🤴 and queens 👸 out there I’d love to hear what you rustle up with the below👇🏼

Waking up in our new home this morning like 😵😵 Still can’t believe we’ve done it @nickhopper_galacticman! In 10 years we couldn’t find anything to tempt us away from the convenience of our flat but it’s been high time for a long time that we’ve been needing to move out of central London and get a garden - and some fresher air!!! A phone call Nick and I had while I was in NY in March got us talking about moving to LA but the universe intervened and the next day this house came up in Kent, the garden of England (though right on the edge and probs more like Greater London!). Not sure how we got it (a million complications as per usual) but it looks like it was meant to be 💫 ⭐ It’s a bit of a project but hands up 🙋🏻‍♀️ if you’d like me to share it along the way? If you’ve been following me for a while you know I love furniture and product design from my uni days and carboots are like going to Wembley for me!! Also, would love any of your recommendations for builders, decorating materials, products, furniture etc.. with eco sustainable credentials - I’m all ears 👂 Meanwhile stay tuned to see what I do with the 10 years of furniture and bits and bobs we’ve been collecting ready for this moment 👊🏼👍🏼

Reliving my trip to #Zanzibar in today’s @telegraphtravel 🌴 which has had me salivating about eating Swahili food since my visit a few weeks back 😋 This ‘Spice Island’ was a beautiful experience of how the Swahili people use nature’s medicine cabinet in their everyday cooking. Next weekend, for my mum’s birthday, I’ll be cooking a Swahili feast from the dishes that I learnt out there 👩🏻‍🍳 - the most deliciously and gently spiced flavours - so take a look at the recipes I’ve already shared on my blog (link in bio) plus a few more coming soon to complete the feast. Thank you to @nickhopper_galacticman (as always!!!) for capturing this sunset moment 🌅 as well as the boardwalk shot on the cover of today’s travel section. How good does this meal look?!?! 👀 🥥🍠🌶🐟

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