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Raïta with yogurt (curd)

Ingredients : 

  • Peeled and grated cucumber 250ml (one cup)
  • Curd (plain yogurt) 250 ml (one cup)
  • Onion 1 (finely cut) 1/4 cup
  • Fresh coriander 1/4 cup
  • Fresh mint 30ml (2 tbsp)
  • Cumin powder 1 ml (1/4 tsp)
  • Salt 1 tsp. tea

Preparation :

  1. In a colander, place the grated cucumber with salt and allow to drain 20 ′. Rinse and drain again.
  2. Cut an onion into very small pieces, finely chop the fresh coriander and fresh mint, mix everything with the yogurt, add a little salt and cumin
  3. Mix the cucumber and the sauce together.

Vegetable sambal (for 2-3 persons)

First part : 

Ingredients :

  • 50 gr of dal
  • 1 onion
  • 1 tomato
  • 1 Chilli
  • 4 to 5 cloves of garlic
  • 1 large glass of water

Put everything into the pressure saucepan, boil, and stop after 3 whistles

Second part :

Ingredients :

  • 1 drumstick
  • 1 Eggplant
  • 1 packet of peas
  • 1 carrot
  • 4/5 beans
  • ½ onion cut into small pieces
  • 2 cloves of garlic
  • Mustard seeds
  • Sunflower oil
  • Curry leaves
  • puli
  • Sambal powder
  • Turmeric
  • Water
  1. Wash and cut vegetables (into pieces slightly larger than for curries).
  2. Heat sunflower oil in a frying pan and add in order:
  • Mustard seeds
  • Curry leaves
  • ½ cut onion
  • 2 cloves of garlic
  • Washed vegetables
  1. Cook for 5 minutes

Third part : 

  1. Remove all that has been cooked in the pressure saucepan, and KEEP the water
  2. Add a piece of puli to the cooking water
  3. Mix the contents of the pressure saucepan (from which the water has been removed) and add the contents of the frying pan.
  4. Add a little of the cooking water preserved ((not the puli)
  5. Add the turmeric
  6. Add sambal mix (sambal powder 1/2 packet)
  7. Add ½ glass of water to the remaining cooking water and knead the puli inside, then throw the puli away.
  8. Add this water to the rest.
  9. Salt to taste

Professional Insurance RC and Personal accidents

To teach Yoga, you will need to be insured.

The insurance covers, worldwide or in the country where you engage in the activities of a Yoga teacher and similar techniques under the auspices of a professional Federation of Yoga that is recognized for it’s members, teachers or students.

A Professional Insurance RC”(civil liability) and personal accidents

Summary of the conditions of insurance.

Contract Ethias no xxxxxx

  1. 1 Subject: activities insured

The Board of ETHIAS, trusting us to define ourselves these activities, decided to place under its aegis:

Yoga and similar activities organized by its teacher members.

Activities recommended by a teacher to his students.

Two categories of risks are covered :

  1. Civil liability (relative to a third party)
  2. Personal accidents

Guarantees civil liability.

The contract guarantees the financial consequences (including the legal costs in the event of civil action) that could be borne by the insured following damage caused to other people. This warranty is granted during the insured activities and group travel.

Are excluded from the insurance :

  • Damage to goods, movable or immovable, e.g.: glasses, clothing and personal effects shall not be reimbursed.
  • Damage caused by the use of a vehicle that legally has to be insured.
  • Covered amounts: limited to xxx euros per claim for personal injuries. 

Personal injury

The contract guarantees the insured payment of the sums provided, in case of bodily injury to themselves. This warranty is granted for accidents occurring during the insured activities and those that occur on the way to the place of meeting. Individual and group travel, even by plane, is therefore guaranteed.

“By accident” means a sudden event whose cause is foreign to the body of the victim and which produces a bodily injury. Shall be assimilated to an accident and therefore covered:

  • The consequences of physical effort, such as dislocations and muscle tears.
  • Diseases which are the direct consequence of an accident covered: insolation, accidental suffocation…

Amounts covered:

  1. Processing fee
  • Transportation, medical, pharmaceutical, prosthesis, orthopaedic and special treatment expenses, (massage, physiotherapy,),
  • Hospitalization, etc.”

Are covered for 75 weeks after the accident.

The cost of treatment is reimbursed by reference to the rates of the NIHDI (so only for treatments that are listed there and without exceeding the fixed maximum amount), for the part exceeding the mutual repayments.

– Dentures are reimbursed to maximum xxx euros per tooth and not exceeding xxx euros per victim.

  1. b) In the case of death, there is payment of a capital of xxx euros per victim.
  2. c) In the case of permanent disability, there is payment of a capital sum determined in proportion to the degree of invalidity on the basis of a capital of xxx euros for 100% disability.

Are excluded from the warranty: accidents intentionally caused or occurring under the influence of drink or drugs.

In any event, ETHIAS intervenes after reimbursement by the mutual and by any other insurance covering the same risk. No cumulating is therefore possible.

  1. Declaration :

The accident must be declared as soon as possible

  1. Of effect :

You’re covered when you pay your fee as an effective member, teacher or practitioner. Your students are covered when you have sent their names and addresses to the secretariat and that you have paid for them the contribution of associate membership.

Student insurance is personal. One cannot transfer the assurance of one student to another one, even if the first one has given up coming.

Some jurisdictions require that teachers who offer courses of yoga in their building be covered by a RC-fire insurance.

The form required for this insurance is generally provided by the administration itself; otherwise, it can be obtained for Belgium from:

EHIAS, rue des Croisiers, 24 – 4000 Liège.

Tel : 04 220 36 07 (M. Dessouroux) or 04 220 36 15 (Mme Materne)

Your membership to the association covers accidents and liability,

The cost of this coverage is generally low.   You can continue to register new students throughout the year but all entries (and insurances that are attached) expire on 31 August regardless of the date of registration.

For Belgium :

 

For France :

  • x

For Greece :

  • x

In what professional setting exercise a Yoga teacher activity ?

There are several legal possibilities for exercising a professional activity as Yoga Teacher

  1. Associative
  2. Liberal

Becoming an independent worker

As from the age of 18, a self-employed person must become affiliated to a social insurance fund and pay a subscription.

Am I self-employed or a salaried employee in the eyes of to social security ?

In order to establish himself or herself, as self-employed, workers in certain professions, need to have obtained a bachelor’s degree or a graduate diploma.

Non-nationals must have a business card.

If a person exercises a self-employed professional activity for which he does not hold the required diplomas, he however belongs to the social status of self-employed people.

Self-employed complementary contributions

Obligation to contribute

As a self-employed person, you are required to pay contributions to your social insurance fund. Each trimester, you pay a lump sum, which will be divided according to their needs between different sectors

  • Family benefits
  • Pension
  • Sickness and invalidity
  • Insurance against bankruptcy

 

Attention : there is no contribution for unemployment for an independent.

Contributions must be paid no later than the last day of the trimester for which they are due.

Note :

A contribution is considered as having been paid the day the amount is credited on the account of your social insurance.

Your insurance coverage passes through the payment of contributions. If you neglect to pay, you can expect sanctions (fines, etc.) so do not pay late..

– Social contribution Calculation

– Exemption from payment of contributions *

Exemption of contributions

if you are not able to pay your social contributions, for special reasons, you can apply for a contribution exemption :

Basic conditions

You are primarily self-employed independent

You must establish that you are in need or in a state close to need

Note :

As an assisting spouse, you can get an exemption of dues so long as your independent partner has also been granted an exemption for the same trimesters.

Applications:

You must fill in an application form that you deposit on the spot or send by registered letter to your social insurance fund.

The exemption of contributions can be partial or total

Your social insurance fund will forward your file to the Commission of exemptions of contributions :

Which can particularly take into account 

  • Your income
  • Your potential debts
  • Extraordinary expenses
  • The composition of your household

Attention

The periods during which you have obtained an exemption of contributions, will not be included for the calculation of your pension

« Social contributions »

 

Depending on the status under which you exercise your activity, you will have to pay social contributions. The conditions are different depending on the country, even in Europe…

Calculation of social security contributions

Contributions based on income

  • NET Professional income of the reference year

The contributions, to which you are indebted, primarily represent a percentage of your earned income. This percentage varies according to the category of assessment and of income of the contributor. Indeed, you may exercise your profession either full time or as a complementary activity; you may also be retired or not.

For assisting spouses, there is a special regulation.

Revenues that serve as base for the calculation of contributions are collected net from the revenues in the third calendar year preceding the year for which contributions are due (the reference year). Example: Your contributions 2014 are calculated on your income in 2011. There is a minimum and a maximum amount.

  • Indexing

Moreover, your professional income of 3 years ago is indexed. They are multiplied by a coefficient, which is determined by a royal decree at the beginning of each calendar year.

Your social insurance fund calculates the social contribution on your indexed. reference earnings

  • Cost of management

In addition to legal amounts, you will pay an amount to cover the costs of management. It is a claim that every social insurance fund may wear into account to manage its members. Management fees are a percentage of the contributions. Often, it comes to 4.20% of the amount of the contribution.

In January 2015, this reglementation is due to change

 

If you are in « Company »     

You will pay your dues is :

  • As an independent, liberal profession
  • As an employee of the company

Professional associations for Yoga teachers

There are many professional associations:

  • The National Federation of Yoga teachers
  • The National Union of Yoga teachers (UNY)
  • National unions of Yoga teachers (SNEY)

And many Yoga Federations:

  • French Federation of Hatha Yoga
  • National Federation of Yoga teachers
  • French Association of Iyengar Yoga (AFYI)

«The yoga teacher will remain the privileged “instrument” of transmission of this ancient technique.» From there, the importance of the quality of “being “of the yoga teacher, and his personal training; as well as the immense responsibility that lies with those who have the load of training these teachers who bring what they have learned and more importantly, convey what they are”

André Van LYSEBETH

Quinoa & eggplant roast

Ingredients :

  • 4 tablespoons sesame or olive oil
  • 1 teaspoon grated fresh ginger
  • 350 gr aubergine, cut in 8 thick slices
  • 200 gr quinoa
  • 2 tablespoons tamari
  • 1 large red pepper sliced
  • 50 ml lemon juice
  • 2 courgettes cut in cubes
  • Parsley springs to garnish

Directions :

Preheat the oven to 180 C. Heat half of the oil in a frying pan and cook the aubergine slices until browned. Place them in a baking dish. Combine the tamari, lemon juice, water and ginger and pour over the aubergine slices. Bake in the oven for 10 minutes. Turn the slices over and bake for another 10 minutes until most of the liquid has been absorbed.

Place the quinoa in a pan with double its volume of water, bring to the boil and simmer for 15 minutes until tender. Put the remaining oil in a frying pan and sauté the red pepper and courgettes until soft. Add the quinoa, mix well and spoon over the aubergines. Bake in the oven for 10 minutes. Garnish with the parsley springs and serve hot.

Baked stuffed tomatoes and peppers

Ingredients

  • 4 large tomatoes, 4 large green peppers, 4 large red peppers
  • For the filling
  • 1 onion finely chopped
  • 50 grams of pine kernels
  • 2 carrots grated
  • 4 table spoons raisins
  • 2 courgettes grated
  • ¼ cup fresh basil finely chopped
  • 2 red peppers cut in small cubes
  • ¼ cup fresh parsley finely chopped
  • 150 grams mixed parboiled & wild rice
  • ¼ cup fresh mint finely chopped
  • 150 grams basmati rice
  • 2 teaspoons brown sugar
  • Olive oil, salt, pepper and freshly ground coriander

Directions

Preheat the oven to 180 C

Cut a thin slice off the top of each tomato to make a lid and reserve. Scoop out the pulp of the tomato using a spoon chop the tomato pulp in small pieces and set aside. Leave a 1/2-inch shell of the empty tomatoes. Place the tomato shells in a baking dish and sprinkle the insides of the tomatoes with some brown sugar and salt.

Cut a thin slice of the top of each green and red pepper to make a lid. Reserve the lids, discard the seeds and place the empty peppers in the baking dish.

Heat 4 tablespoons of olive oil in a large deep frying pan or casserole add the chopped onion and sauté for a few minutes. Add the pine kernels and sauté until lightly browned. Add the grated carrots, courgettes and chopped red peppers and raisings and sauté for a few minutes. Add the tomato pulp rice and 2 cups of water. Add 2 teaspoons of brown sugar, salt, pepper and ground coriander to taste and cook for 10 to 15 minutes. Remove the casserole from the heat and add all the fresh herbs (parsley, basil and mint) and stir well.

Using a spoon fill in the tomato shells and peppers with the rice and vegetable mixture and put the lids on top. Place any extra filling in the baking dish. Add some water in the baking dish and sprinkle the stuffed tomatoes and peppers with some olive oil, salt and pepper. Cover the baking dish with an aluminum foil and bake in the oven for about 1 hour then remove the aluminum foil and bake uncovered for about half an hour until the tomatoes turn golden brown.

Serve hot.

Replacement YogaTeacher Simon De Wrangel

After many years of Sivananda Yoga, Simon de Wrangel practice Ashtanga Yoga since 1992 with passion. He is an architect and he also has a passion for the instinctive archery.

  • Shivananda Yoga from 1985 and Ashtanga Yoga with Jean-Claude since 1992
  • Instinctive Archery since 1998 – Belgium Archery Team 2009 – 2013
  • Architecture since 1982 – Ashtanga Institute in Brussels in 2002

www.simondewrangel.org

The origins of the Ashtanga Yoga Institute in de Brussels

Jean Claude, dig the foundations of the Matrimandir, Auroville, India

After coming back from India where Jean Claude taught Yoga to Vinobha Bhave and to Indira Gandhi at Paunar Ashram, dig with a Peruvian friend the beginning of the foundations of the Matrimondir in Auroville

the adventure of transmitting yoga starts in September 1973 at “La Maison de la Culture de Rouen” (France).

Success is immediate, there are several classes everyday in different places, at Mt St Aignan University, at St Claire’s church etc. …. Jean Claude transmits either Iyengar’s technique or Pattabhi Jois’s technique. The workshops take place at the “Château d’Ernement sur Buchy”, where he was living.

Still in Rouen, in 1974, he founds the C.R.Y. (Centre Rouennais de Yoga) with   Dr. Louis Creyx, 264 students follow the morning or evening classes.

 

He then founds the “Centre Padma” in Elbeuf in 1979 to host residential training workshops. Many workshops are held in France, Italy, Switzerland, Holland etc. …. Since then, Jean Claude exclusively teaches “Yoga Korunta” (Ashtanga Yoga as transmitted by Sri K. Pattabhi Jois) .

Many seminar take place, in the South of France, in the Community of the Ark, founded by Lanza Del Vasto.

Life changes ……. Jean Claude meets Anne and goes to live in Brussels in 1987. He teaches at the “Maison Américaine”, chaussée de Charleroi, then rue des Glaïeuls, Uccle, in 1988. More space becoming necessary, the Ashtanga Yoga Institute moves to rue Jules Lejeune, Ixelles from 1989 until 2003. Finally, with the help of his friend an architect Simon de Wrangel, the Ashtanga Yoga Institute moves into it’s own premises 610 Chaussée d’Alsemberg in Uccle, with a yoga room that follows the explanations given by Sri K. Pattabhi Jois.

“The ideal Yoga room must be well ventilated. Do not open all the windows, only those on a same side that are situated high up. The floor must be perfectly flat, the room very clean, on the ground floor (not above nor below because it is not good for the breathing), in a quiet place, far from the surrounding noise and far from people involved in an activity other than yoga.”

The Ashtanga Yoga Institute’s reputation spreads; daily lessons, workshops and seminars are given in Belgium, Greece on the Island of Andros and in Athens,and in India in Mahabalipuram.

 

The Ashtanga Yoga Institute’s aim is to transmit “Yoga Korunta” (better known as Ashtanga Yoga) as it was taught by Shri K. Pattabhi Jois during his life-time, at the « Ashtanga Yoga Resarch Institute » in Mysore (South India).

Today, a lovely team participates in the evolution of the Institute. Below is what is offered :

  • Daily classes (except during the Christmas holidays which is the only time the Institute closes)
  • Introduction class to Yoga
  • Beginners class
  • First series class
  • Second series class
  • Third series class
  • Intensive mornings (3 hours class)
  • Teacher training in Ashtanga Yoga in Brussels, Greece and India
  • Ashtanga Yoga sessions in beautiful places:
    • In Greece:
      • Athens
      • Andros Island
    • In India
      • Mahabalipuram, Tamil Nadu, South India
  • Events :
    • Concerts of traditional Indian music
    • Indian and Ayurveda cooking lessons

Om Shanti