Archives for October 2018

A YOGI Is Born!

It’s finally official, I’ve completed Yoga Teacher Training Certification, along with

Certifications in Restorative Yoga and Meditation!

Please join me in celebrating a long hard year of study, reflection, and spiritual growth.

Anatomy, Yamas, Niyamas and Breath. Grounding, Centering, Chanting, Meditating. 

Chakras, Mudras, Mantras and Asanas. Bandhas and Nadis, Sutras and Ayurveda.

Perspectives, Experiences, Tech Workshops and Immersions.

Reports, Sanskrits, and “Finding Your Voice”.   Sequencing, Labs, Karma and Practicum.

Bonding, Supporting, Community, Tribe, …..

What a transformational year!

There are no words to express how thrilled I am to bring this new knowledge base into what I already offer through PR Brady AdVentures. While much of the “bones” of my business will remain unchanged, in the coming months you will see some exciting new opportunities for individuals, groups and businesses unfold. I’m passionate about helping others to be their best selves, and strongly believe the life changing power of breath, movement and meditation can be beneficial to anyone, at any age, at any time.

“Yoga is the journey of the self, to the self, through the self.”

My path is clear. Can’t wait to lead others to the experience of Yoga. 

Celebrating the achievement, and feeling the immense gratitude

towards everyone who has been on the journey with me, and helped me to get there!

Namaste!

PR (Patty) Brady

763-537-6777

prbradyadventures@msn.com

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Notable Quotable Thought Provoke-able 44

 

“If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.”
Jim Rohn—

Welcome to week 44 of 52 weeks of quotes meant to give you something to think about……..please do share your thoughts in the comments on my website in this post!  The opportunities in 2018 can be endless!

 

Thank you for reading my post. What do you dream about seeing, doing, being?  Got a bucket list? A life plan?  Want to start one?  I’d love to help you get there, check out my services.  The first step to believing ‘opportunities are endless’ is sometimes not as hard if you grab some inspiration under my blog category, “Bucket of Limitless Possibilities”.  If you like what you see, please let me know by “liking” my website. All comments are greatly appreciated.  You can even join my tribe to automatically receive new postings ‘hot off the press’.  There’s a place to do that right on my website homepage.  As always, please feel free to share my information with others who may find interest and value in PR Brady AdVentures!  Thanks again!

Potato Veggie Bake

Wow, when temperatures start getting into the 40’s I sure go on a carb crave—us “Northerners” need to stay warm as the seasons turn, and potatoes are great fuel for freezing forecasts.  OF COURSE one of the things we do best is make those “Minnesota Nice” hot dishes that bake slow in the oven, filling the house with an awesome aroma and providing a little extra warmth to boot!  I chop enough raw ingredients to save some out for other uses, like in egg bakes or for roasted veggies a couple days later. It’s easy to do if you have one of these nifty little choppers!  You could even replace the fresh veggies with canned in a pinch.  Either way, if you’re stocked up on these staple ingredients (like I always am), you can easily whip up this tasty dish, and keep the chill out of your day!

  • 1 lb ground venison
  • 5 -6 medium size potatoes, cubed—about 5 cups
  • 1 large onion, diced
  • 4 cloves Garlic, chopped fine
  • 2 cups carrots, chopped
  • 2 cups fresh green beans, chopped to about ½” length
  • 2 cups shredded cheddar cheese
  • 2 T EVOO
  • 2 cans cream of mushroom soup
  • 1 can water
  • 1 T Oregano
  • 1T Basil
  • ½ t salt
  • ½ t pepper
  • 1 T cornstarch or flour

 

  1. Preheat oven to 350
  2. Cook potatoes, carrots and beans in a pot with water to cover them until the water reaches boiling. Cook for no more than 5 minutes, then turn off the flame and let them sit in the water.
  3. While that’s happening, brown venison, onion and garlic in a frypan.
  4. Lightly coat a 8 x13 baking dish with EVOO or non-stick Canola oil.
  5. Combine soup, water, flour and herbs in a glass measure and stir well
  6. Drain water from the veggie pot*, add the meat mixture and cheese and mix well.
  7. Pour meat and veggie mixture into the baking dish.
  8. Pour liquid mixture over the top, distributing it across the dish equally.
  9. Bake, uncovered for about 1 ½ hours, or until the top is bubbly and the sides are slightly toasted.
  10. Remove from heat and let stand 10 minutes before serving

Makes enough for 4 or more people.

*if you see that you have chopped more veggies than you can place in the baking dish properly with the rest of the ingredients, separate out your extra BEFORE adding the meat, and store in the fridge or freezer for later use.

Thank you for reading my post. Does this recipe sound yummy?  If you try it out let me know what you think! All comments are greatly appreciated.  Check out more great recipes under my Killer Cookin’ blog category, and if you like what you see, please let me know by “liking” my website. You can even join my tribe to automatically receive new postings ‘hot off the press’. There’s a place to do that right on my home page.  As always, please feel free to share my information with others who may find interest and value in PR Brady AdVentures!  Thanks again!

Notable Quotable Thought Provoke-able 43

 

 

“Start where you are. Use what you have.

Do what you can.”

Arthur Ashe–

Welcome to week 43 of 52 weeks of quotes meant to give you something to think about……..please do share your thoughts in the comments on my website in this post!  The opportunities in 2018 can be endless!

 

Thank you for reading my post. What do you dream about seeing, doing, being?  Got a bucket list? A life plan?  Want to start one?  I’d love to help you get there, check out my services.  The first step to believing ‘opportunities are endless’ is sometimes not as hard if you grab some inspiration under my blog category, “Bucket of Limitless Possibilities”.  If you like what you see, please let me know by “liking” my website. All comments are greatly appreciated.  You can even join my tribe to automatically receive new postings ‘hot off the press’.  There’s a place to do that right on my website homepage.  As always, please feel free to share my information with others who may find interest and value in PR Brady AdVentures!  Thanks again!

Notable Quotable Thought Provoke-able 42

“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”

Eleanor Roosevelt–

Welcome to week 42 of 52 weeks of quotes meant to give you something to think about……..please do share your thoughts in the comments on my website in this post!  The opportunities in 2018 can be endless!

 

Thank you for reading my post. What do you dream about seeing, doing, being?  Got a bucket list? A life plan?  Want to start one?  I’d love to help you get there, check out my services.  The first step to believing ‘opportunities are endless’ is sometimes not as hard if you grab some inspiration under my blog category, “Bucket of Limitless Possibilities”.  If you like what you see, please let me know by “liking” my website. All comments are greatly appreciated.  You can even join my tribe to automatically receive new postings ‘hot off the press’.  There’s a place to do that right on my website homepage.  As always, please feel free to share my information with others who may find interest and value in PR Brady AdVentures!  Thanks again!

Dumping Difficult

I remember as a small child back in the day, experiencing a culture that is no longer the norm. My mom and dad were not rich people.  He was a baker, and she was a housewife.  They both worked very hard.

Mom would clean the house throughout the week, one room per day. She made all the meals and washed the dishes in the sink.  She entertained me, played games and flash cards with me that taught me my ABC’s and to read and count. She washed our clothes with a ringer washer and hung them on the clothesline to dry.  She mopped the floors, polished the furniture, the silverware, and our shoes. She cleaned the windows inside and out with vinegar and newspaper.  She walked to the market to do our shopping and canned vegetables in the fall.  She spent time embroidering dish cloths, table cloths and pillow cases, and mending our clothes.  And I was mom’s little helper.

Dad took care of the yard, the garden, the house, the car, and us. He would get up in the wee hours of the morning to go bake breads and cookies and cakes, and come home in the early afternoon and go to sleep.  I would have to be very quiet in the afternoons so he could sleep.  Then he would wake up and we would have dinner together.  We had maybe another hour or two after that to play or watch him take care of household needs.  I was always his little helper, too.  Then he would go off to bed.

Perhaps none of this sounds particularly strange compared to today. But what stood out about our life back then was how we approached our daily life.

Mom and Dad didn’t ever throw anything out. They repurposed. They re-used. They didn’t purchase anything without long hard consideration to the absolute need of that thing.  An electric mixer?  How extravagant.  Hand mixing works just fine.  Mom used the flour sacks from Dads work to make our dish cloths.  Glass food jars became containers for washers, nails and screws.  Dad made his own cement to touch up our steps and sidewalk by hand.  He drove our old blue car long before I came along, and until I was almost 18. Their clothes were done in that Maytag ringer washer until I was 30-something.

The key is, nothing was thrown out for being old, or used, or not as nice as something else, or even broken, unless it was the absolute last resort. Everything mattered.  Much of those decisions were founded on necessity due to limited finances.  And we always had limited finances.

Sometimes my parents fought loud and long—usually about whether something was needed or not. But they always worked it out and stuck it out, through thick and thin, because they said for better or worse.

Mom and the neighbor ladies would all get together during the day and drink coffee, and swap things that could be useful to each other. Dad and the neighborhood men often gathered after the dinner hour in someone’s garage and would talk through their fix-it lists and offer each other help and parts.  Us kids all played together, running through the yards and the ally, playing cops and robbers, cowboys and Indians, and no one was ever offended or terrified about words, or playing bang-bang shoot um up with toy guns. There were no fences carving out property lines. The dogs all roamed free and visited each-others homes for treats.  Everyone helped everyone.  We were a city block community.  A day of long hard work was normal and to be expected.  The reward was the kinship of the neighborhood and the love of family.

Those were the days.

Today it’s a little different. There are more borders, and boundaries.  Less kinship or kindness.  We seem to be so much more disposable.  There doesn’t seem to be a value in “stuff management”.  We want new.  We want perfect.  We want convenience. There doesn’t seem to be a value in “people management”.  Jobs are temporary. Relationships are temporary.  We can dismiss family and friends with the wave of a hand over an opinion.  Even our pets are so. tragically. disposable.

You have an issue? Get rid of the problem.  Walk away.  Disposable.

We buy, we break, we buy. We want, we get, we don’t want, we dump.  Nothing holds meaning. Nothing lasts.  Nothing.  Not material things, not living things, nothing.  And when things get difficult—we dump them.

What do we value?

Dumping difficult is not in my nature.   Yet, I admit I’ve been just as caught up in the needs versus wants craze as many of us are over the years.  I’ve never been one to walk the path of least resistance.  I’ve always been the one to find myself crawling up the jagged rocks.  Reaching, striving, enduring.   Trying to find balance in recognizing the difference between wisely letting go of that which you do not need, and not just turning away when situations become hard. Lately, feeling like I’m trapped in a crazy disposable world, trying not to be a part of it, I’ve turned inward to remind myself about all of the good, all of the reasons to stay, to try, to help, and to persevere.   I’ve turned inward to reflect and remind myself  how little “I” truly matters.

Thank the Gods I’ve been focused, present, aware, and determined.

Thank the Gods that I can see value and find comfort in taking the hard road, bringing it all back a few notches, finding space, peace and calm in the midst of rocky chaos.

Thank the Gods for those who also share that spirit of grace, kinship and humility. Those that choose to ride the storms out together, not apart. Those that have open doors, open minds, open hearts.

At the end of the day, that’s what I value. Society can continue to spin off the charts in “disposable-ness”. But dumping difficult simply has no place in my world.

 

Thank you for reading my post. Did it strike a chord for you or did it seem far and away from your own perspective?  I’d love to hear your thoughts!  All comments are greatly appreciated.  You can read about all sorts of ideas, opinions and feelings from the heart and soul of an outdoorswoman… there are lots of topics covered in my blog category, “Girl Outdoors”.  If you like what you see, please let me know by “liking” my website.  You can even join my tribe to automatically receive new postings ‘hot off the press’.  There’s a place to do that right on my website homepage.  As always, please feel free to share my information with others who may find interest and value in PR Brady AdVentures!  Thanks again!

 

Apple Squash Soup

It’s harvest time! A girl can only make so many apple pies…. so what could be better on crisp fall day then a crisp apple soup? Combine your favorite sweet apples with some nice Butternut squash from the garden or Farmers Market and you’ve got the best of autumn in a bowl.   A little heat, a lot of flavor, OH let’s get those leaves raked! An apple a day keeps the doctor away….and a bowl of this soup will keep you healthy and happy, indeed!

  • 1 T EVOO
  • 1T butter
  • 5 C chopped onions
  • 7 C peeled, cubed Butternut Squash
  • 4 ½ C peeled, cubed apples
  • 1 ½ C fresh apple juice
  • 1 ½ C chicken stock
  • 2 t chili powder
  • 2 t cinnamon
  • 1 t salt
  • 1 t pepper
  • 1 box of your favorite crackers
  • 1 apple cut into thin slices for garnish—optional

 

  1. Sauté onions in butter and oil in a large pot until they soften—about 10 minutes.
  2. Add remaining ingredients (except the crackers and sliced apple) and bring to boil.
  3. Cover and cook on low heat until apples and squash become soft – about 40 minutes.
  4. Remove and cool for 30 minutes.
  5. Place mixture into a food processor or blender and puree until completely smooth. You may need to add some broth or juice if the mixture is too thick.
  6. Return the mixture to the pot, and cook on low for about 5 – 10 minutes.
  7. Ladle soup into bowls and garnish with crackers, cinnamon dust, and/or apple slices.

Yum!        Serves 4 or more

 

Thank you for reading my post.  Does this recipe sound yummy?  If you try it out let me know what you think! All comments are greatly appreciated.  Check out more great recipes under my Killer Cookin’ blog category, and if you like what you see, please let me know by “liking” my website. You can even join my tribe to automatically receive new postings ‘hot off the press’. There’s a place to do that right on my home page.  As always, please feel free to share my information with others who may find interest and value in PR Brady AdVentures!  Thanks again!

Notable Quotable Thought Provoke-able 41

 

 

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched — they must be felt with the heart.”

Helen Keller—

Welcome to week 41 of 52 weeks of quotes meant to give you something to think about……..please do share your thoughts in the comments on my website in this post!  The opportunities in 2018 can be endless!

 

Thank you for reading my post. What do you dream about seeing, doing, being?  Got a bucket list? A life plan?  Want to start one?  I’d love to help you get there, check out my services.  The first step to believing ‘opportunities are endless’ is sometimes not as hard if you grab some inspiration under my blog category, “Bucket of Limitless Possibilities”.  If you like what you see, please let me know by “liking” my website. All comments are greatly appreciated.  You can even join my tribe to automatically receive new postings ‘hot off the press’.  There’s a place to do that right on my website homepage.  As always, please feel free to share my information with others who may find interest and value in PR Brady AdVentures!  Thanks again!

Notable Quotable Thought Provoke-able 40

 

 

“Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.”

Coco Chanel —

Welcome to week 40 of 52 weeks of quotes meant to give you something to think about……..please do share your thoughts in the comments on my website in this post!  The opportunities in 2018 can be endless!

 

Thank you for reading my post. What do you dream about seeing, doing, being?  Got a bucket list? A life plan?  Want to start one?  I’d love to help you get there, check out my services.  The first step to believing ‘opportunities are endless’ is sometimes not as hard if you grab some inspiration under my blog category, “Bucket of Limitless Possibilities”.  If you like what you see, please let me know by “liking” my website. All comments are greatly appreciated.  You can even join my tribe to automatically receive new postings ‘hot off the press’.  There’s a place to do that right on my website homepage.  As always, please feel free to share my information with others who may find interest and value in PR Brady AdVentures!  Thanks again!