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Alex & SonjaHi! We’re Alex & Sonja Overhiser, authors of the acclaimed cookbooks A Couple Cooks and Pretty Simple Cooking—and a real life couple who cooks together. We founded the A Couple Cooks website in 2010 to share seasonal recipes and the joy of home cooking. Now, we’ve got over 3,000 well-tested recipes, including Mediterranean diet, vegan, vegetarian, pescatarian, smoothies, cocktails, and more!

Are you looking to perfect your Adhomukha Swanasana ( downward facing dog) ? Follow this visual guide to make sure that you are doing this yoga pose just right. Our collaboration with Seattle Yoga News.

This hearty salad has the soul of a stir-fry with flavours of garlic, soy, miso, ginger, and chilies. And it makes use of every part of the broccoli by including the flavourful stem. Edamame gives this fibre-rich salad a punch of protein. The best thing is that this slaw keeps well and gets richer in flavour as it’s stored in the fridge.This recipe was originally published in the April 2025 issue of alive magazine.

Alex & SonjaHi! We’re Alex & Sonja Overhiser, authors of the acclaimed cookbooks A Couple Cooks and Pretty Simple Cooking—and a real life couple who cooks together. We founded the A Couple Cooks website in 2010 to share seasonal recipes and the joy of home cooking. Now, we’ve got over 3,000 well-tested recipes, including Mediterranean diet, vegan, vegetarian, pescatarian, smoothies, cocktails, and more!

5 Common Yoga Myths—Busted: What Yoga Really Is and Who It’s For Yoga has exploded in popularity over the past few decades, becoming a mainstay in gyms, studios, and living rooms around the world. Yet despite its widespread presence, there are still plenty of misconceptions that prevent people from stepping onto the mat or considering a career as a yoga instructor. Let’s set the record straight. Whether you’re wondering “Do you have to be flexible to do yoga?” or “Is yoga just stretching?”—this one is for you. We’ll bust five of the most common yoga myths, explain what yoga actually is, and show…

Alex & SonjaHi! We’re Alex & Sonja Overhiser, authors of the acclaimed cookbooks A Couple Cooks and Pretty Simple Cooking—and a real life couple who cooks together. We founded the A Couple Cooks website in 2010 to share seasonal recipes and the joy of home cooking. Now, we’ve got over 3,000 well-tested recipes, including Mediterranean diet, vegan, vegetarian, pescatarian, smoothies, cocktails, and more!

Melanie de Villiers Melanie de Villiers is a yoga teacher based in Madeira, Portugal. She is originally from Cape Town, South Africa. She’s been teaching since 2009 and practicing since 1995, when her psychology studies led her to explore Eastern philosophy. She is certified in Iyengar Yoga (RIMYI) and Vinyasa Yoga (Yoga Alliance), so her teaching blends precision with intuition. After a personal health crisis, Melanie found healing through Yin Yoga and trained with Bernie Clark. Her classes now reflect a non-dogmatic, somatically aware approach that values self-discovery over performance. With experience across India, Thailand, South America, and beyond, she…

To clean, dry bowl of stand mixer, add chilled, reduced aquafaba, cream of tartar, and xanthan gum and beat on high until foamy. Continue to whisk, adding sugar, 1 spoonful at a time, waiting until each spoonful of sugar is fully incorporated before adding the next. Whisk until mixture is glossy and stiff peaks form. Turn off mixer, scrape meringue from beater into bowl. Add blue matcha, if using, and gently swirl into meringue batter. Don’t worry about mixing it in fully—you are looking for a subtle, marbled effect.

If I had a restaurant, this sprout salad would be on the menu. Especially this time of year. The farmer’s markets are absolutely booming with all kinds of greens, asparagus, favas, green garlic, lilacs, and strawberries. It’s glorious. I brought a good amount of mung bean sprouts home on Saturday and threw this together for lunch. If you can’t find mung sprouts, no problem, you can easily swap in cooked mung beans, or cannellini beans, or any lentils that will hold their shape when cooked – French lentils (lentils du Puy), black Beluga lentils, etc. Another option is to grow…

You won’t believe how easy and delicious it is to make air fryer asparagus! This is now my favorite way to cook this green vegetable. The nutritional yeast adds a subtle cheesy flavor and tarragon brings a delicate herbal note.  This might sound weird, but I’ve never been that into asparagus—until this recipe came along! I was one of those people who were a little put off by its bitter flavor. But let me tell you: air fryer asparagus is a whole different ball game. It comes out tender, juicy, and almost sweet, with browned and crispy tips. Every time…