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Make Way for Kold Press – Dubai’s Juice Revolution

Lifting the lid on traditional juicing methods, the Kold Press Juice Kompany started it’s healthy takeover with a focus on fuelling your body with the right ingredients. With it, they’re revolutionising the way your body is able to absorb these required nutrients. I didn’t know this, but traditional juicers use a process that adds some heat and exposes the ingredients to air, two things that cut down on how many nutrients actually make their way into your bottles!

Kold Press Juice Kompany
So for some science…The Kold press method extracts the juice by pressing the fruits and vegetables without adding heat and in a more stable manor (hence the term “cold-pressed”). The pressing process ensures that a rich source of phytochemicals, including live enzymes, are maintained throughout. With this method, Kold Press is able to liberate the natural enzymes from the fibers of the fruit and vegetables, ensuring you get more nutrients per sip than with any other juice! This way of extracting the juice ensures the maximum amount of liquid from the least amount of produce and because the Kold Press does not force air into the juice during pressing, the juice won’t expire as fast either…

Kold Press Juice Kompany

Eat your fruit and drink your veggies!

Coupled with a team of nutritionists and creative chefs, the Kold Press menu has a variety of sculpted raw and unprocessed juices, that I can assure you, are made with complete integrity and love.

Kold Press Juice Kompany
Not only that, the gorgeous glass bottles they come in help ensure that their juices are also environmentally sustainable and 100% recyclable!

Grab yours at Ripe Market, Milk & Honey, Capital D Studio, Eden beach club, H.E.A.T Cafe or why not give them a call for a juice delivery!

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Lusting After Queen B’s Ivy Park Activewear

There’s a new yoga legging and shower slipper to covet, co-founded by the Queen B herself, expect to see legions of fans queued up for the arrival of Beyonce’s first active wear range Ivy Park. Partnering with Sir Philip Green, Topshop is launching their collab this month!

Ivy Park

Created by the Queen for women to feel empowered during their daily workouts, we’re sure you’re going to start seeing the brand in your local barre class very soon. Bey has always been a big supporter of enforcing a positive body image so it’s quite fitting that she’s gone that one step further with her new line.

Ivy Park x Namshi 7

From leggings with three crop lengths, to crop-tops, bodysuits, T-shirts and sweatshirts, Ivy Park is a brand we’re keen to try out. Launching exclusively with Namshi, make sure you’re online NOW for their drop!

Ivy Park x Namshi 6

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Fashionably Honouring the International Day of Yoga

As a yogi, I LOVE that today is the International day of Yoga and that people across the globe are sharing pics of their favourite poses, stretches, hotspots and meditation sanctuaries, be it local, international or even a memory of a gap – year retreat! I have some very fond memories of a yoga retreat in Sri Lanka and am incredibly jealous of Kim and the yogalates troop out in Bali right now!

With all the yoga love today, I wanted to highlight my 5 favourite local shopping hotspots for all the colourful, practical and oh-so-comfy yoga gear I wear!
1st up, is the work-to-workout wear that my lovely friend Priya Bhatia has brought us with Hautletic! Everything she stocks is stylish, mature, and even elegant enough to wear out! I’ve worn my pieces everywhere from the frozen lakes of Sweden to the sweltering summers here in Dubai.Hautletic
Next up are these colourful prints that the lovely Hannah Swales’s The Hot Box Kit features– glorious patterns, patterns, patterns! Every wild child print you can imagine with their vast array of Teeki’s and other super soft leggings. The Hot Box Kit
The new addition to my wardrobe – Fit Plum! Their seriously sexy designs and micro tops are making waves on instagram, and they fit like a glove!
Fit Plum
I’ve been kitted out in Reebok’s for a while now and their latest studio collection is no disappointment. Check out these lovely pineapple printed pieces! Reebok
And last but definitely not least, I was turned on to yApparel through their VitaCOCO connection and these leggings give me a dose of instant happiness. You can’t not smile when wearing them! 🙂 yApparel & VitaCoco
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The 6 Week FlyBarre Challenge

Yoga has always been my favourite way to keep fit, whilst helping me to maintain normal stress levels in this busy city, it also has little ways of toning your body. I’ve been an avid yogalates fan in particular, from daring balances to core exercises, there’s always something to sweat about.

And then there was FlyBarre

FlyBarre

Opening in the Gold & Diamond Park, it was a stones throw from work, so I popped in to check it out. One class led to another and very soon was buying packages. Hooked on the sweaty muscle exhausting sessions, it quickly became my favourite after-work haunt. Especially due to their instructors – they have to be some of THE nicest, most encouraging fitness professionals i’ve come across.

FlyBarre

FlyBarre provides a revolutionary form of body sculpting. It’s a complete mixture of exercises, taking elements from yoga to dance, pilates and of course ballet. I’ve never been a Zumba fan (i’m particularly un-coordinated when it comes to following choreographed anything), so I was worried at the beginning about the one dynamic arms track in the hour-long loop.

FlyBarre

I was offered the opportunity to join the FlyBarre Challenge at the beginning of May – a 6 week course, where you have to complete 4 classes a week, including 3 workshops. I jumped at the chance and with Reebok kindly offering to keep me cool in their latest studio and crossfit gear, I was all set.

It’s the final week now and i’m HONESTLY signing up again next month. It’s been a great way of ensuring I get regular exercise, (I hate the gym) and also it’s kept me off the couch in the evenings! I’ve even been trying out the protein shakes, and made it to the odd early class or two. I would recommend it to anyone who’s looking for a social and dynamic way of toning, losing a couple of inches and building strength.

FlyBarre