@simmerdownandbreathe
Free booklet · From my kitchen to yours
Come home to your body, one slow bowl at a time
Slow broths, gentle bowls and simple breath practices to help your body settle back into itself after a breath journey, a long week, or any time you feel yourself running on high alert and you are ready to come home to rest.
What is inside
Five recipes I have cooked for years, each one slow and forgiving, alongside three breath rhythms that follow the shape of your day, written step by step so you never have to wonder whether you are doing it right.
The recipes
- A flavour filled chicken broth
- Mushroom and ginger broth, inspired by dashi
- Golden turmeric morning tea
- Green lentil dal with soaked French lentils
- A slow braise with osso buco or lamb
The breath
- A morning breath to wake gently
- A mealtime breath to soften into digestion
- An evening breath to let the day go
Rest and digest
When the body feels unsafe it cannot truly digest, not our food and not our feelings, so how we eat matters every bit as much as what we eat. Slowing down to stir a pot, to smell it, to breathe before the first mouthful, is one of the quietest ways I know of telling the nervous system that it is safe to soften now.
Hello, I am Amanda
I learnt to cook beside my nonna, I was making dinner for my family by the time I was fourteen, and I have spent my whole life in kitchens since, from super yachts to the years I ran the Lotus Van here in the Northern Rivers.
I am also a 9D Breathwork facilitator in Mullumbimby, and Simmer Down is where those two loves meet, because I have come to see that the slow pot on the stove and the slow breath in the body are doing the very same work of bringing us back to safety.
Coming soon
The Simmer Down ebook
A fuller collection of slow food and breath for a calmer body, with recipes and rituals gathered gently for mornings, nourishing bowls, slow Sundays and evening wind downs.
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Breathe with me
If something in you is ready for more than a recipe, you are so welcome to join me for a 9D breath journey, in person around the Northern Rivers or online from wherever you are.
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