Looking To Level Up Your Health?!

Here is a a nourishing smoothie recipe to kickstart your day or take to fuel your boardsports session.

Ingredients:

✨Blend banana
✨Kiwi
✨Spinach
✨Ginger root
✨Pea protein
✨Spirulina
✨Chia
✨Hempseed hearts
✨Coconut cream
✨Water

Note:(you don’t need all these ingredients if not accessible).

​Opt for fresh and organic sources where manageable for optimal nutritional benefits including Vitamin C

Wishing you well! I hope this helps you feel great before your next skate, surf or snow board session!

Recipe by @sarinah_maya x

Give it a go and tag us @wellness_riders or DM through insta or facebook for us to share!

👉Check Out Spicy Pumpkin Soup Recipe

👉Check Out Masala Chai Recipe 

Simple Daily Self Care Rituals

A ritual can help you to feel uplifted, calm and grounded especially if life feels stressful and uncertain.

Here are some ideas

✨ Consuming nutritious food (Green Smoothie Recipe)
✨ Engaging in fun hobbies (Boardsports - SURF SKATE SNOW)
✨ Making time to relax (Belly breathing exercise)

All this can really help to boost nutrients and nurture your nervous system, adrenals, hormones and mind-gut connection.

I love taking time out with a tasty herbal tea & Shakti mat session. You may find them helpful for alleviating stress, anxiety and muscle tension, improving circulation and soothing headaches.

What’s your favourite home wellness chill ritual?

Chill Ritual Activity

Take some time to answer these questions?

✨What food makes me feel good when I eat it?

✨What activities do I love doing?

✨What am I doing when I am my most relaxed?

Reflect on your answers and see where you can incorporate these in your week? Let us know how you get on with consciously prioritising these things.

Tag us @wellness_riders or DM through insta or facebook for us to share!

Wishing you well!

Sarinah @sarinah_maya

Feeding Our Bodies With Nutritious Kai (Food)

As the wise Greek physician Hippocrates famously said

“Let food be thy medicine, and let medicine be thy food”

& that’s why we love spicy pumpkin soup.

This soup will have you thriving on your boardsports journey. Stay happy and healthy skateboarding, surfing, snowboarding and eating spicy pumpkin soup 💛🧡!

Ingredients

1 pumpkin (medium size) cubed
1 kumara cubed 
1 onion chopped
3 cloves garlic crushed
1 tbsp fresh ginger root diced

1 tsp oregano (fresh or dried)
1 tsp thyme (fresh or dried)
1 tsp curry powder
1 tbsp Rapunzel Organic Vegetable Bouillon powder

400 ml coconut milk
1 L purified Water 
1 tbsp coconut oil 

Garnish

Fresh parsley 
Cayenne pepper
Toasted pumpkin seeds 
Coconut milk 

Method

Heat the coconut oil in a large saucepan over medium-high heat. Add onion, garlic, ginger, curry, oregano and thyme. Sautee until the onion becomes translucent.

Add the pumpkin and kumara to 1L of water with the sautéed ingredients and vegetable bouillon powder. Boil until vegetables are soft and allow to cool for 10 minutes. 

Pour the soup into a blender with the coconut milk and blend until smooth. 

Add to saucepan to reheat. 

Serve with a swirl of coconut milk and sprinkle fresh parsley, toasted pumpkin seeds and a pinch of cayenne pepper to garnish.

Recipe by @sarinah_maya x

Give it a go and tag us @wellness_riders or DM through insta or facebook for us to share!

Wishing you well! XX

👉Check Out Green Smoothie Recipe

👉Check Out Masala Chai Recipe 

Nourishing Our Bodies With Healthy Kai ✨

Make this for your boardsports girlfriends after your next skateboarding, surfing or snowboarding session.
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Warm up and chill out with a comforting home chai brew from spices commonly found in the kitchen cupboard. These spices offer powerful antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties and have traditionally been used as a healing remedy for digestion, circulation and the immune system. 

Recipe for Masala Chai (1 cup)

Ingredients:

1 cup of plant milk
1/4 teaspoon fennel seeds
2 x Cardamom Pods
3 x Pepper corns
2 x whole All Spice
2 x Star Anise
3 x whole cloves
3 x thin slices of fresh ginger 1 stick cinnamon
1 teaspoon of black tea

Method:

Pour milk into a small saucepan. Roughly grind fennel seeds, cardamom pods, pepper corns and all spice in a mortar and pestle then transfer into saucepan with the rest of the whole spices.
On a medium heat bring milk and spice mixture to simmering point then take off the heat. Add 1 teaspoon of black tea and let infuse all together for 2 minutes.

Strain with sieve into your favourite cup and enjoy!

📷Liz Clarkson Photography 

Wishing you well!

Sarinah XX

@sarinah_maya

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Immunity Home Brew Recipe

Provided by the amazing @sarinah_maya our co-founder to keep you well and thriving so you can continue to thrive on your boardsports journey. 

Support your immune system with powerful anti-microbial remedies from your garden and pantry.

Add the following ingredients to 3 cups of water in a saucepan:

✨2 cloves of fresh garlic, finely diced
✨1 Tablespoon fresh ginger root, finely diced
✨1 Tablespoon fresh or dried thyme
✨1 teaspoon cinnamon
✨1 pinch cayenne pepper
✨1 lemon (juice)
✨1 teaspoon Manuka honey (optional)
✨For tummy bugs add:
✨1 teaspoon cloves
✨1 teaspoon aniseed

Method:

Simmer ingredients for 20 minutes and strain into a cup. Drink 3 cups daily (adult dose) for acute infections and 1 cup daily for immune support.

Leave out the garlic, cloves and cayenne if too strong in taste and dilute with more water if needed.

Rest well, drink plenty of pure water, avoid refined sugar and processed foods and consider additional high quality supplements including Vitamin C, Vitamin D, Zinc and a probiotic formula to strengthen your gut flora and immune system.

Wishing you well!

Sarinah 
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@sarinah_maya

 "I have definitely felt like I was too old to skateboard."

I have felt afraid to try something new because I thought I would be the only one older than 18 at the class. I would feel odd and the kids would look at me like "why are you here?!" The example I am thinking about is actually not for a skateboarding class it was for a dance class. Googling hip hop classes near me can lead to a bit of disappointment as an adult as when you realise the class is for 12-17 year olds and your 28. It can be discouraging when you decide you want to do something but then you get blocked by a limiting belief because you can't find any examples of someone like you wanting to do the same activity as you. The limiting belief says this is not for you, see there is no others who are "like you" doing the same. As I write this many examples come to mind when things like this have stopped me from doing what I wanted. 
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However when it came to skateboarding I started when I was 22 so older than a lot of the skateboarders I saw around and now at 28 it is the same. The age thing didn't personally stop me at first as thankfully an awesome friend of mind invited me to go with her and her friends who where also all in their 20's so it gave me the opportunity to give it a go and see if I liked it without even thinking about my age. I am so glad she did because now having made skateboarding a large part of my life Im sad at the thought of that not happening for me. I do however still have thoughts that I don't fit in at the skatepark as there are not many women there and prefer to go to the skatepark with friends as apposed to by myself.

So often in life we are blocked by invisible/visible barriers "negative beliefs" that can stop us from trying new things or doing the things we love. But thats all they are beliefs they are not physical beings holding us down saying we can't do that. We can break through them/ create new positive ones. Because when we think about it you are never really too old to skateboard and what I have learnt from incorporating skateboarding into my life is that if you are having fun doing it then you are doing it right and it is right for you.
It does help when you see examples of others like you doing the thing you want to do as its kind of like evidence that it is possible and a part of what Wellness Riders is about providing those example for wahine of all ages and to see that skateboarding is for all beings regardless of age.
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But I feel like we can all do better than rely on the outside world to show us examples of what we want to see or achieve. I think there is so much power and empowerment through visualising this for ourselves which helps limiting beliefs dissipate.

So I encourage you to (at whatever age you are) close your eyes, put your hand on your heart and stomach, and with a few deep breaths visualise yourself as you want to be.

It could be cruising along on your skateboard or flowing through a dance routine. Repeat this as needed until you feel empowered and ready to take action. We decide what we want to do and be and once we decide things start to more in that direction. 

So yes, be you, enjoy your age and enjoy your life. If you feel the interest in learning to skateboard it is for you. You go sister!

We are here to support you. If you would like us to be a part of your skateboarding journey you can look through our website for more skateboarding information.

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Gina 
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