Soupasana

If you had the following: brown rice milk, apple peach snack, and a ripe banana, what would you make?

THAT’S RIGHT – oatmeal!

• 1/2 cup of Quaker rolled oats
• 1 cup of brown rice milk
• a dash of vanilla extract
• 1 tbsp of peanut butter, walnuts and peanut butter granola on top! (no, I have never heard of peanut butter overdose)

Meanwhile, in the meat eater’s land…

Final product – perfect pre-yoga marathon fuel!

Yoga in Motion is a yoga and Zumba fitness marathon in support of breast cancer research at Mount Sinai Hospital. Last year was the first time this event took place, and it had 180 participants. This year it had over 400!

The venue was gorgeous, no doubt – Renaissance-style complex that was built in 1926, standing on the lakeshore.

The practicality of the venue was, of course a different topic altogether… The room we were in was long and narrow, and was definitely NOT meant for over 400 yoga mats. The mats had to be placed within inches of each other, with some people having to wait outside until the next session. The resulting atmosphere, as people were trying to squeeze in, was hardly yogic. Ironically, there was a huge hall right next to this room, which housed a couple of lonely vendors, and not much else.

We did not let little things like that bring us down though. No, sir!

There were four separate time slots during the day with four yoga classes and four Zumba classes running in each time slot. So you could choose whether you would do yoga or Zumba for each time slot. We ended up doing a yoga session in the morning, a heart pumping session of Zumba right before lunch, and two more yoga sessions after lunch. The teacher line-up was excellent this year – I actually knew all the teachers, as they were all very well known and respected in the yoga community.

The spirit of the event was simply fantastic, and our team raised over $4,000 for breast cancer research!!!

Yoga Tree team

Snacks galore – apples, bananas, and oranges (really? not even tangerines? oranges? how many people were actually motivated enough to peel?). Muffin tops (the edible ones), and cookies – I even found some vegan cookies!

Jason and Debbie are sampling gourmet teas…

Snacks in between yoga sessions:

When a bunch of yogis have a break and way too many cameras on their hands, the following happens:

You know you really mastered Sirsasana if you can smile when you are upside down…

No, I did not find motivation to peel oranges… Ended up taking these home – remember, eyes bigger than the stomach…

It was sooo cold. Not very conducive to a peaceful Savasana. Note the little pocket for the feet.

After grazing on fruit all day, I could not WAIT to have some normal food. And in my books that means millet, canned pumpkin, salsa, alfa alfa sprouts, sliced tomato and, of course, rye bread with hummus.

Dessert included cookies for babies. But it did say ages 1 to 101 on the box, so I am okay.

Two of these were in the loot bag we have received at Yoga in Motion! I scored the other two flavours as we were exiting. Don’t you love the names on these?

Later in the evening… dessert #2?

This is kind of like L’Oreal… because I’m worth it.

• apple
• brown sugar
• peanut butter
• walnuts