The Mat Movement

Soulful yoga journeys.

Menu

Skip to content
  • Home
  • Journal
  • Yogi Recipes
    • Sample retreat menu
    • Smoothies
      • Balinese purple pitaya smoothie
      • Tarragon Grapefruit Smoothie
      • Papaya Mint Smoothie
      • Vanilla Cacao Thickie
      • Bitter peach and basil smoothie
      • Sunbeam Smoothie
      • Balinese white mango and mangosteen smoothie
      • Cherry Cacao Snoozie Poozie
      • Black tea and rose smoothie
      • Strawberry Pear Smoothie
      • Vitamin C Doctor Smoothie
      • Kiwcumber Smoothie
      • Morning Blush Smoothie
      • Passion fruit smoothie
    • Breakfasts
      • Haverbread
      • Spiced granola
      • Bali fruits breakfast smoothie bowl
      • Bircher muesli
      • Breakfast Poha
      • Smokey paprika shakshuka
    • Salads and soups
      • Artichoke, olive, caper, almond and tomato salad
      • Gui’s coconut soy bowl salad
      • Kale and goji salad
      • Maple walnut, goats cheese and apple salad
      • Blackened cauliflower, celery leaf, mint and preserved lemon salad
      • Striped beet, fig and pomegranate salad
      • French lentil and tempeh protein salad
      • Raw cauliflower tabbouleh
      • Peanut and celery soup
      • Tomato and orange soup
      • Peanut sauce for gado-gado
      • Cold date and beetroot chutney
    • Stews and curries
      • Balinese young jackfruit stew
      • Indonesian yellow curry
      • Mung Dal
      • Sweet cauliflower, kale and papaya curry
      • Tangy chickpeas, date and pistachio rice and mango salsa for dal
      • Himalayan black-eyed bean stew
      • Roast Pumpkin, Cacao and Jalapeno Stew
      • Brown rice and fenugreek pancakes
    • Desserts
      • Barberry, pistachio and rose raw balls
      • Sweet potato chocolate mousse
      • Klepon
      • Ginger raw balls
      • Chocolate mousse bar with peanut spirulina crumb and carob syrup
  • Online Practices
    • Tutorials
      • Beginner Tutorials
      • Intermediate Tutorials
      • Advanced Tutorials
    • Beginner’s yoga classes
    • All level yoga classes
    • Intermediate yoga classes
    • Advanced yoga classes
    • Guided Meditations
  • Yoga Retreats
    • Bali Samavesa 100hr Yoga Immersion
    • Yoga Retreat Health Questionnaire
  • Yoga Scrapbook
    • Philosophy
    • Guidance
    • Wisdom
    • Poetry
    • Diaries
  • Private dining
  • Contact
  • About
  • Testimonials
    • Retreat Feedback Form
  • Writing Retreat Bali 2019
The Mat Movement luxury yoga retreats and inspiring vegetarian and vegan food. Coconut salad bowl and turmeric jamu jamu.

Gui’s coconut soy bowl salad

Gui’s a lovely Brazilian chap. We bumped into him in Laos. He showed us that it’s perfectly acceptable to eat slithers of fresh coconut with soy sauce. In fact, beyond acceptable, it’s mighty fine. Thanks for the tip, Gui.

14115659_1300264223331002_624751953757426847_o

Fast forward five months and we’re back in Asia after an Australasian hiatus. There’s coconuts and soya all over the place. We’d better make a salad in honour of Gui. Fast!

IMG_E5650

Serves 2 (per coconut)

Ingredients:
1 old coconut (shake it to make sure it’s watery)
2 tomatoes – diced
1/4 cucumber – diced
a handful of local greens – chopped
a handful of beansprouts
soy sauce

Tools:
hammer
Phillips screwdriver (or use your own if Phillip
narrow julienne or citrus scraper
Melamine soy serving dish x 2

Method
1. Halve your coconut. What, you ask? It’s really easy. We promise. Knock the screwdriver through the eyes of the coconut to drain and save the water. Then, holding the coconut in your hand, knock the outer shell of the coconut with the hammer around the equator whilst constantly rolling the coconut in your hand. After a while, a small hairline crack will start to appear on the equator and from there it’s plain sailing. Be reasonably firm and patient.
2. Using a narrow julienne or citrus scraper, tease away some of the interior of the coconut flesh into the bowl of the coconut. As much as you want. This is a real treat.
3. Mix the tomato, cucumber and greens together and roll with the scraped coconut inside your coconut.
4. Place some beansprouts on top.
5. Use one Melamine soy dish for serving soy sauce. The other will is for upturning and using to mount your coconut. Voila.

If you wanted to wangle some peanuts or toasted green bean seeds on top of this salad no one would begrudge you. Go for it. We’ve served ours here using the coconut water with some juiced turmeric root. Enjoy.

IMG_E5727


We’ll be serving half-coconut salads at our Art De Vivre yoga retreat in Bali in May. It would be lovely to have you with us.

NS_Pool 2

Share this:

  • Twitter
  • Facebook

Like this:

Like Loading...
Widgets
"When you realize that all true knowing is non-verbal, you look past the chattering mind and naturally feel in to the raw immediacy of what is, opening you up to an expansive sense of wonder." Words from @hareeshwallis 🙏 opening up into the day with the stillness, the jungle, the camatkara, @rikkebrodin and Mount Agung 🧡✨🔥 #sisters #meditation #ubud #bali #samavesayoga #silence #stillness #tantrika #wonder #camatkarasana
✨Curation training. March 17-31✨ Curating powerful yoga classes and opening portals into the sacred is our intention for the @samavesayoga Teacher Training. We are offering a way into your teaching practice that not only nourishes and supports your awakening process but unlocks a world of infinite inspiration though your own embodied and authentic experience. ⁠ ⁠ This is for students who have completed the @samavesayoga 100hr Embodiment module or teachers who want to refine their teaching craft through language, theme, embodiment, philosophy, voice, transmission, ritual, alignment and anatomy. ⁠ ⁠ You will be safely and strongly held by myself, @rikkebrodin and @cheskahawksford, supported by @hareeshwallis and @theanatomyschool <3 ⁠ ⁠ > learn how to curate transformational yoga classes⁠ > refine your philosophical grounding to invigorate your theming ⁠ > learn how to weave philosophy and theme into the body through language, embodiment, sequencing, voice, music, space and transmission ⁠ > awaken through the body⁠ > learn how to prepare for class through your own embodied research⁠ > get clear on alignment and anatomy⁠ > teach most days to integrate your studies⁠ > 121 mentoring and guidance⁠ > voice coaching ⁠ > structured class planning models and techniques ⁠ > advanced philosophy⁠ > reinvigorate your own movement, āsana and meditation practice⁠ > deepen your understanding of yogic philosophy with one of the world's leading Tantrik scholars and sanskritists ⁠ > learn how to set clear boundaries and hold safe space ⁠ > become more embodied⁠ > learn mantras, kriyas, meditation techniques and ancient subtle body practices⁠ > journaling and contemplation practices for your own inquiry and awakening⁠ ⁠ link in profile⁠ apply at www.samavesa.yoga ⁠email immerse@samavesa.yoga #yogateachertraining #ytt #baliteachertraining #200hrteachertraining #yogateacher #teachyoga #yogastudent #tantrika #radiantlyaliveyoga #baliyoga #ubudyoga #yoga #bali 📸 the beautiful and talented @elizabethcurtis__
Learning how to hold space for myself and others was the greatest gift I received on my first 200hr yoga training. It blew my mind. I'd never heard of such a thing. If someone was hurting, I was there to hug them and make it better. It never occurred to me that they could sit inside their own experience and that simply offering presence would be enough. No words. No fixing. No advising, unless asked for. To be seen with a non-judgemental gaze and to be heard without being directed. To be held in the quiet power of silence and stillness to allow for whatever wants to come through. It has helped me transform my relationship to my inner world and informs, on some level, pretty much every conversation I have and every class I teach. It has shown me how to listen to as much of the moment as I can possibly hold, in that moment. It is the yoga of relationship, it has wildly transformed how I communicate and it will play a key role in both the @samavesayoga immersion and training in March 2020. 4 rooms remain for the 100hr immersion and the 100hr non-residential training will be held at the beautiful @radiantlyaliveyoga 🌴 both modules can be taken as a 200hr ytt if you feel called to teach ✨🤩🙏 #teachyoga #yogateachertraining #yogateacher #yogaretreat #yogastudent #presence #holdingspace #safespace #baliyoga #bali #relationships #listen #nonviolentcommunication
I am madly in love with yoga trainings, immersions and retreats. There is something so profoundly transformative about swimming inside the collective field of a group of humans who are all compelled to explore the subtle realms of experience and get intimate with every layer of the Self. In these spaces, I wake up to the never before. Portals into previously unchartered paradigms open and I am forever changed. I step back out into the world with clearer sight and more sensitive skin. I am able to hold myself and others with soft, open hands that welcome whatever arises and I am fortified by an unshakeable trust in life as I learn the language of flow. In these spaces, the greatest shifts take place and I am honored to hold the space for others this March @samavesayoga, alongside my dear friend @rikkebrodin, supported by @cheskhawksford @hareeshwallis and @theanatomyschool. There are two 100hr modules [Embodiment and Curation], which can be taken separately, or together as a 200hr YTT. The Embodiment immersion is for yogis who want to saturate in daily practice, yoga philosophy, embodiment, relating, self-care, meditation and rest. ⁠ > establish a daily meditation and movement practice⁠ > advance your understanding of yogic philosophy ⁠ > learn how to set clear boundaries and hold space for yourself and others⁠ > refine your listening and communication skills⁠ > evolve and invigorate your āsana practice ⁠ > become more whole through embodiment⁠ > learn mantras, kriyas, prānāyāma, meditation techniques and ancient subtle body practices to super charge your sādhana⁠ > journal and contemplate for your own inquiry and awakening⁠ > be held in a safe space with a supportive faculty ⁠ > take time to rest and create space for yourself⁠ > reset and detox in a healthy, nourishing and comfortable environment⁠ > can be taken as a retreat, a deepening or as part of a 200hr YTT⁠ ⁠ More to come on the what and why of the Curation module 🙏 Email immerse@samavesa.yoga to book a consultation or apply at samavesa.yoga #yogateachertraining #baliyogaretreat #baliyoga #ubudyoga #yogaretreat #yogateacher #yogastudent #bali #teachyoga #wakeup #awakening #tantrika
Embodiment. To be more of ourselves. More online, more awake, more whole. Less fragmented, less separate, less constricted. To know more of ourselves through the intelligence of the body is to become increasingly fluent in a lost vocabulary, long forgotten by continually preferencing the brain. How can we hear our intuition and make healthy decisions if we can't decode the voices of our gut and our heart? How can we fully breathe if we've never fully inhabited our lungs? Where do we live, if not in the seamless sensitivity of our skin? I am only half alive if I am not at least curious about tuning into the spectrum of intelligence that built me. There is nothing more fascinating to me than this life. The way it expresses infinitely around me, how it moves through me. The more I listen, the more alive I become and what could be more important than reaching into this fullness? Is it not a terrible waste to not inquire into and inhabit my miraculous body? The more I taste, the more I love. The more I love, the more I give. The more I give, the more I receive. The more I receive, the more I evolve. And I have only just begun 📸 from the incredible @amy.j.gardner #sacred #embodiment #embodiedflow #yogastudent #tantrika #yogateacher #yogateachertraining #baliyoga #ubudyoga #awakening #meditation #wakeup #evolve
100hr Embodiment Immersion + 100hr Curation Training Bali. March 1-13 + 17-31. immerse@samavesa.yoga For yogis who want to saturate and steep in daily practice, philosophy, embodiment, relating, self-care, meditation and rest, we will spend 12 nights on the north coast of Bali at a luxury eco retreat. For those that want to teach, or want to refine their teaching craft, the second 100hrs will be held @radiantlyaliveyoga in Ubud. Here you will learn the art of teaching through language, theme, voice, embodiment, transmission, ritual, alignment and anatomy. Led by Collette Davis and @rikkebrodin , supported by @cheskahawksford, @hareeshwallis and @theanatomyschool Link in profile or email immerse@samavesa.yoga 🙏✨🦋 #yogaretreat #yogateachertraining #yogateacher #yogastudent #tantrika #ubudyoga #bali #baliyoga #baliyogaretreat #awakening #dailypractice #divedeeper #wakeup #meditation #magickingdom

Stay in touch

Follow The Mat Movement on Facebook and Instagram for the latest updates, blogs and posts.

Follow The Mat Movement on WordPress.com
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
Blog at WordPress.com.
Cancel
%d bloggers like this: