Year: 2017

Frozen water

Published by Cecilia Götherström

Winter. That is what frozen water often represents to us. We see the crystal-covered, uneven surface of the ice taking shape as the temperatures drop and the mix of cold air and sparkling sunshine are working its magic. While the surface might be frozen, underneath it the water still flows, the fish are still swimming, the rocks on the bottom are still being shaped by the underwater currents. There is a stillness. A stillness which, when we sit down to listen to it, tells us to slow down, to embrace the darkness which comes in a little earlier every day, to light our candles and allow our attention to turn inwards. There is a yearning for warming, nurturing and nourishing foods. Foods which represents the holidays and festivities  already present in our calendars this very season; pumpkin, squash, (sweet) potatoes, leafy greens such as kale and green cabbage, mushrooms, apples, pears… While I lived in The Netherlands I fell in love with one of the staple national foods available there at this time of the …

Stress Relief, Restorative Yoga

Release, rest, reset

Published by Cecilia Götherström

The trees are almost completely bare this time of the year in the south of Swedish Lapland where I am living at the moment. More or less totally naked. I can´t decide if they look dead or just totally cleansed, getting ready for hibernation or cocooning. Either way, something changed and there is no way denying it. “Change is the only constant in life” – wise words spoken by dear Heraclitus more than 2500 years ago. Words so evident once we open our eyes to take in the changes in nature – even if we live in the city there are trees and flowerbeds somewhere to be seen and birds to be heard – breathing in the air which changes it’s temperature and humidity as the seasons travel onwards, looking up at the sun to see where it sits today during our lunch break (if you ain´t taking a lunch break, how about giving that as a gift to yourself starting right now 😉 ?), just sharing space with what is moving around, above and …

Food and Mood seminar

Food & Mood

Published by Cecilia Götherström

Sunday we held our 3rd seminar / Health Food Brunch in the Yummy, Fun And Healthy Living seminar series at MICA´s Coffee bar in Haarlem –  us being Stephanie from Appetit Voyage and me. We would like to thank all of you who attended as well as Annemarie and Sophie for another morning of amazing food, drinks and atmosphere at their beautiful coffee bar. The main idea behind these Health Food Brunches and Seminars is that people get together , bringing any questions they could possibly have when it comes to food, nutrition and health and we are there to answer them all. We start the morning off with a theme to get the conversations and questions going, while staying open to being flexible to what the need is of the participants. This time the kick off topic was ”Food & Mood”. Up until recently most research in the field of ”Food & Mood” has been focused on the brain – the hormones and chemicals there which are supporting or even creating the way we …

Food and Mood – Health Food Brunch & Nutritional Seminar

Published by Cecilia Götherström

Sunday Jan 29th, 11.00 – 13.00 MICA Coffeebar, Haarlem January. Cold. Grey. What happened to the sparkling, candle lit, anticipating coziness of December 😉 ? Why do some people glow the whole year around , while others feel grey inside close all months of the year in the Northern Hemisphere aside from July  and August? What is actually true with regards to how we nurture ourselves, with what we put on our plates, in our cups and our glasses throughout the days, weeks, months and years in relation to how we feel, our moods? Come join us at MICA´s Coffeebar in Haarlem for a Yummy Fun And Healthy Living staple morning of great nurturing food, gorgeous drinks, yummy coffee, heavenly tea, good company and a nutritional seminar on the theme ”Food and Mood” on Sunday January 29th. Feel free to bring any questions you would like to ask and/or ask anything with relation to nutrition/food, health and mood popping up during this seminar. We looooove questions. Welcome! Your hosts and facilitators;  Stephanie Mazier of Appetit …

Happy Foods – Cooking & Nutritional Workshop

Published by Cecilia Götherström

Welcome to the first of 2017 ´s cooking and nutritional adventures by Yummy Fun And Healthy Living. What better way would there be to kick off the new year with then a fun workshop on the theme Happy Foods 😉 ? In this workshop we will get our hands dirty in the kitchen, we will fill our tummies with Happy Food, we will fill our minds with scientific knowledge on how our brain works and what foods trigger what plus maybe most importantly  how come  the way to happiness goes through both the gut and the brain simultaneously. Like the chicken and the egg, which ones comes first 😉 and why ? Plus, we will have fun – the most important ingredient of them all! The afternoon consists of a cooking part, a nutritional seminar part and finishes off with us all enjoying the food we cooked together around the table. Every workshop always creates a great fun Q & A atmosphere as well, so feel free to ask any questions regarding nutrition and health, …