Recipe- Berkshire Butternut Soup

Berkshire Butternut Soup

½ medium-sized butternut squash, peeled and cut into 2" pieces
1 white onion, diced
1 carrot, sliced
¼ cup extra virgin olive oil
¼ cup ginger, peeled and grated
1 tablespoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon nutmeg
2 tablespoons sea salt
6 cups vegetable stock

Heat olive oil in stockpot. Add onion, carrot, and ginger. Sauté until onion is translucent. Add butternut squash and remaining spices; add enough stock to cover squash. Bring to simmer. Simmer gently until squash is soft. Puree with a hand held blender. You can use a counter top blender, but let soup cool slightly first. If soup is too thick, you can use remaining stock and thin to desired consistency. Bring to temperature and season with sea salt. Yields about 12 cups.

From: Kripalu website

Book Review- Nourishing the Teacher by Danny Arguetty

Nourishing the Teacher (inquiries, contemplations, & insights on the path of yoga)

By: Danny Arguetty with Anjali Budreski and Kelli Adams

Who: “The text is geared toward yoga practitioners with at least one year of consistent practice experience and teachers of yoga.” It is a must read for yoga instructors. Even if you are a seasoned yogi or yogini, Arguetty reminds the reader to approach life with beginner’s mind, we develop a spacious capacity for receiving and learning from the various facets of life.”

How and What: The author, Sanny Arguetty, organized the book into short sections. Each section has a theme, text to contemplate, inquiries for on and off matt, and insights on practice. The language within each section kindles the reader to expand and broaden their expression as a practitioner of yoga.

Extra: Pure potential, a separate section, creates a diving board for the yoga instructor to create personal inquiries and contemplations. “The details” section gives tidbits on the authors. It is a little window into their lives located on page 271.

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Namaste, Amy