S2 Ep7: REST (escape the chaos)

Ease yourself through the holiday preparations with this gentle episode all about rest, including a host of ideas for taking care of yourself as winter moves in. With inspiration from Liza Dalby (@lizadalby), Jilly Shipway, Shiva Rea (@shivarea108), Lucy Brazier (@brazier.lucy), Claudia Hammond (@claudie_hammond_), Gareth Owen, Katherine May (@katherinemay_) and Sonoko Sakai (@sonokosakai). Featured in this episode: East Wind Melts the Ice by Liza Dalby (Chatto & Windus) Tending the Heart Fire by Shiva Rea (Sounds True) Yoga Through the Year by Jilly Shipway (Llewelyn) River Cottage Christmas by Lucy Brazier (Bloomsbury) The Art of Rest by Claudia Hammond (Canongate) Wabi Sabi: Japanese wisdom for a perfectly imperfect lif e by Beth Kempton (Piatkus) Winter Days by Gareth Owen in The Oxford Book of Christmas Poems edited by Michael Harrison (Oxford University Press) Wintering by Katherine May Japanese Home Cooking by Sonoko Sakai (Shambala) Calm Christmas and a Happy New Year: A Little Book of Festive Joy by Beth Kempton (Piatkus) Jennifer Piercy’s Melatonin Magic yoga nidra meditation is here on Insight Timer. You can download a FREE copy of The Perfectly Imperfect 2022 Digital Planner here , to help you reflect on the year and look ahead to 2022. Ingredients for the featured recipe (makes 4 servings) • 3.5 cups or 830ml dashi stock - there are wonderful recipes for making your own dashi in the book, but you can also buy it as stock from places like the Japan Centre. • 3 tablespoons of white or red miso • 2 oz (57g) mushrooms of your choice, stems removed and sliced 1/4 inch or 6mm thick • 4oz (113g) soft or medium-firm tofu, cut into 1/4 inch (6mm) dice • 1 teaspoon yuzu or lemon peel, pith removed You can buy dashi stock from Japanese supermarkets and stores such as japancentre.com .

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S2 Ep7: REST (escape the chaos) is an episode from The Calm Christmas Podcast with Beth Kempton by Beth Kempton.

This episode is 34:17 long.

This episode was published on Dec 14, 2021.

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