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Quote of the Week
“You enter the forest at the darkest point, where there is no path. Where there is a way or path, it is someone else’s path.”
—Joseph Campbell
105degrees Raw Food Academy
Greetings, lovelies! Exactly one month from today, I will be giving a presentation at the new 105degrees Academy, the first center of it’s kind, in Oklahoma City. “The 105degrees Academy is the first classically structured raw and living foods educational center in the world.” The Director of Culinary Arts is Matthew Kenney, author of several cookbooks, including Raw Food Real World, Everyday Raw, Entertaining in the Raw.
Renee Voltaire, Swedish Chef Extraordinaire
I desire to introduce you to a friend of mine, Renee Voltaire. I first met Renee about 2 years ago, when she came to do a Fasting Retreat with Gabriel at the Tree. Since then, she’s returned each year to do one, and she’s really a wonderful woman and I always enjoy visiting with her.
Renee a Swedish chef and the author of ‘Peace, Love and Food,’ a Swedish book with information on nutrition, personal stories, and recipes. A large portion of the book focuses on raw food and raw recipes and has a little blip on the Tree of Life as well.
P90X Home Fitness Program – Week 4 Update and Rest
Hello everyone,
So I finished week 4 last Thursday, one month down! Definitely feeling stronger and more fit, and looking that way too!
This week, there’s been kind of a bug going around so I have felt some weakness in my body and haven’t felt the whole getting-up-at-6am-to-burn-half-a-million-calories thing. No worries though, I’ll begin week 5 again soon, strong and full-on! I truly do love this program and have really missed my workouts this week.
Interrupting our Patterns
I have been receiving an insight about my compulsive/emotional eating tendencies. It has occurred to me that at this time in my healing, perhaps the power to heal and change them is not as much in whether I can not eat when I have the urge to and am not hungry, but rather, whether I can interrupt the pattern in the middle of it?
P90x Home Fitness Program – Week 3 Update
Greetings! This week, I actually did week 4’s protocol. I missed week 2 due to being in Utah. So, this week the order of the workouts changed, and a new workout was introduced called ‘Core Synergics,’ which is quickly becoming one of my favorites. It includes big movements that require the whole core area to do: abs, hip muscles, upper thighs, mid and lower back, obliques, etc.
Baskin’ Among the Aspens
Hello everyone! Thank you for your patience with my infrequent posts this week! On Thursday, I returned home to Park City, Utah (no, I’m not Mormon). Not where I grew up, but I went to high school there, and my family still lives there.
It’s been quite a profound vacation, for sure.
P90x Home Fitness Program – Week 1 Update
The shifting of my getting up/going to bed times, due to the P90X has felt awesome. I’m now going to bed around 9:30 – 10:00 and getting up a bit prior to 6am. Having had a few hours of being awake, including a fantastic sweaty workout prior to going to the Tree for the day’s (awesome) tasks, makes such a big difference in my energy, attitude, and focus during the day. I feel more centered, and empowered from having already achieved something powerful by 8am.
I was super sore for the first 5 days. There were points I was so sore I could barely walk, or barely sit down, or sit up, or bend over.. depending on which muscles I had so fantastically worked recently. This morning’s workout was the 6th in a row, marking the end of week 1, and the soreness is very minimal.
Interdependence Celebration Notes
Ok, so the main topic of the Interdependence Day Celebration was on calcification; whose healing is the basis of David Wolfe’s Longevity Now program.
These notes may be a little scattered and leave information to wonder about – I highly recommend getting David Wolfe’s program. Gabriel was all about it, and keep tuned because the Tree of Life is actually going to be offering a “David Wolfe’s Longevity Now” add – on to several of their programs. I am now decked out with both the Barefoot Solutions’ floor pad and bedsheet, and it’s feeling GREAT! After the program, there are all these people opting for walking barefoot around the TOL property, despite the rather harsh and rocky terrain.
Upliftment in the Desert
Bonjour my darlings,
Monsoon season is in full throttle right now, and the green is sprouting!
The Interdependence Day Celebration was EPIC. I received such inspiration from accumulating more information and just from the energy of David Wolfe and Gabriel Cousens together. I entered the workshop intending to take notes that would make any Harvard valedictorian proud, but alas, became too enthralled in listening and watching to write. I did take SOME notes, however, and will post a few of them tomorrow.
A Comparison of Cleansing – Part 2
OK! So, what is below is my personal opinions on each of the methods of cleansing I have covered, and what situations I recommend them for. The bottom line I’m making in this ‘comparison’ is this:
Different cleanses are appropriate for different people, at different times. Some cleanses may be appropriate for a fairly toxic person but not for a clean one, and some may be fantastic for a clean person but too big of a step for a person whose lifestyle is still quite toxic. It’s all within the context of the person and situation.
TOL Masters Students Farewell Party – Pictures
TOL Masters Students Farewell Party – Pictures
The Fiery Ball in the Sky
Hello everyone,
I’m feeling SUMMER, if you know what I mean, and I just want to play in the pool (non chlorinated!) in the sun instead of write on the computer!
Thank you for all your positive feedback on the videos I’ve posted! My friend Puki did a really great job on the documentary, and then compiled the other short videos just for fun because she had extra footage, but people seem to really enjoy them as well! It’s odd being on camera – it was my first time!
