90 Day Detox Day 14 + Recipes!

February 14th, 2012
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We are on week three and doing great! I have gained 2% muscle, dropped 3% body fat and have lost 6 pounds, which I did not mean to lose, I’m FREAKIN hungry all the time, though. Rich is losing weight and getting totally cut. Nice! I talked to my partner in this program, Doctor of Chiropractic, Bethany Barnes about this and she suggested getting more good fats. So, today I began adding organic coconut oil to my smoothies. It is really good.

Our daily regime looks something like this:
Wake
Take the two indoor dogs outside
Look at the sunrise
Go back to bed and
Meditate
Read my affirmations
Cook breakfast
Get kids to school with Rich’s major help
Go to teach Hot Yoga (Rich will come to practice because he doesn’t teach as many yoga classes as I do)
Eat a snack usually a GF protein bar and detox tea
Work at my studio, Dynamic Yoga 4 Love
Eat a GF snack
Go home and hang with the kids
Eat another snack, like Hummus and GF crackers or nuts or a shake or green smoothie
Teach another Hot Yoga class
Eat dinner, some days it’s really well rounded on the nights I don’t teach.
Snuggle with kids in their bed
Time to blog or work online
Then its hanging with the hubby
Bedtime in our super comfy ahhh TempraPedic adjustable bed
Read
Update calendar in my iPhone for tomorrow planning
Read affirmations most nights
Sleep
(Today I had a lovely super long hot stone massage by Kristi, Dragonfly Spa therapist at the studio! I’m SORE and totally detoxed!)

Ok here’s two of the latest recipes:

Butternut Squash Soup~ in a high horsepowered blender, it actually cooks! After 8 minutes it’s steaming hot and delicious.

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(we double this)
2C vegetable broth or stock
Or hot water with 3 Veggie bouillon cubes
1C baked, peeled Butternut Squash
1/8 small onion, peeled
1/2 medium apple
1/2t onion powder
1/4t nutmeg
1/4t Thyme, dried
1/4t Rosemary, dried
1/4t Marjoram, dried
1/8t White Pepper
1/2t Sea Salt

Place on Speed 1 for 1 min., move to speed 8 to 10 for 6-7 min until steam rises when cracked lid. Add 1/4C heavy cream (leave out if vegan and dairy free). Blend 20 seconds. Serve with GF bread, toasted.

To bake squash:
Preheat oven to 350
Cut in half lengthwise and remove seeds
Cost in coconut oil
Place faced down on pan
Check in 30 min, cut off cooked portions, perk, set aside
Return hard parts of squash to oven may add more coconut oil
Repeat until done (adapted from VitaMix Whole Foods Recipes Cookbook

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Otherwise it’s a huge loaded green smoothie and a snack like tonight:

Here’s the latest from my kitchen to you:
Greener Than Green Smoothie

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(All ingredients are always organic when possible)
2C Coconut Milk
2-3T Agave Nectar
2-3t Lecethin Granules
3 med Kale leaves
1 cored Granny Smith apple
2 Kiwi- peel if conventional
2 Scoops Juice Plus Complete Protein Powder
1-2T Coconut Oil
12oz glass of filtered ice water

Goddess Ceremony and Reiki Attunement February 2012

February 8th, 2012
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We had such a transformational weekend, so totally in the flow and the vibration was out into the astral plane for sure. I cant explain it. It was amazing.

We started Friday with a Goddess Cermonial Circle led by Lydia, and campout at the lovely creek at my home with the intention of bringing peace and answers. Rich joined us for the first half of the evening. We built a fire, sang, we danced, we played, prayed and connected until late into the night. I also shared a lovely time with him. By the river and around the fire Lydia led us with some prayer songs which we sang and sang in rounds, and they are still in my head and heart. Later, I was able to meditate and dance with my friend, Adri K as her Spirit Animal, which was the snake with a split tongue. Fun, free, beautiful and powerful. I just knew it was her.

Some of us stayed up into the early morning connecting, even did some inspired hair cutting. We ate raw food and enjoyed the moon and the fire together in circle.

Saturday two more of the women from the Ceremony decided to join our Reiki Level One Training Saturday. Adira Heartsong, a lovely talented musical artist, and one other Reiki Master, Beki, from the Goddess Ceremony, who came in to my life at the perfect time. She is gifted with seeing the Reiki Symbols and painting them as well.

The first time Reiki recepients were Sarah, Dawndy and her daughter, Laura, and her daughter and Beki’s daughter. Then Gretchen, who already received Reiki Level 1 last summer was present with her lovely gift of healing and vision.

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The day began with a Chakra Vinyasa Master Class that I led. I was so intuitive, totally connected. I simply brought Prana Vinyasa from the heart and shared affrimations on each of the Chakras through the flow, it was so tranqiul almost as if I was just facilitating, but not thinking. After the Master Class, we went throught the manual I created from combining my manual with another Reiki Master’s favorite pages, Sandy, our Lifecoach; I also added in several pages from my Chakra Training which we covered on Sunday. We practiced self Reiki then teamed up and did partner reiki a full session for both partners.

Saturday night several ladies still had their tents up at our home, so came by to change and get ready to go to Ecstatic Moondance. I decided to go as well, and Aspen wanted to go too and bring her hula hoop. 5 us were there, and it was a huge family hoop, about 65 people. The ecstatic dance comunity is so loving and fun and free. Monica Blossom led the dance and Lydia had led an elemental journey dance, which we missed, but she created the DJ work for the moondance. Adira was invited to play acoustic guitar and sing with her angelic and funky raw style, then Aspen told Monica that she wanted to share her hoop routine with the ‘family’. While everyone was in a huge circle holding hands Monica invited Aspen to come in the center and hoop for us. She nailed all her tricks and looked so happy. She got cut a bit short by some applause for a trick, but did very well. Then we DANCED and DANCED! I was super blissed out and we decided to go before the end, so I could rest up. I grounded myself on the way home by talking to my sister.

We had such a divine experience Saturday. So we decided to bring our daughters Sunday. Aspen came to participate in the Reiki Share and 3 daughters wanted to get attunned to the energy with their moms on Sunday so we ended up with a group of 14! 4 Reiki Masters: Kristi, Our massage therapist, Sandy and Beki, with me facilitating. Beki helped me set Sacred space for each initiate and was working with attunning the kids, while I attunned the other 6. Then she helped me finish the ceremony, the other two assisted. We did group Reiki on eachother Sunday during the day and broke into groups of 7. All working on one at a time, and experienced some totally trancendental chakra work and energy healing. Lots of emotional healing, even connection between a mom and a pre teen daughter. It was amazing. Working as a Reiki Lightworker has been a journey into the Flow with the Divine. We had a few times where the practitioner was able to whisper or speak the Language of Spirit, and flow through vocally with total LOVE.
I am in awe.
We totally opened up a higher vibration and am still in complete bliss. The interconnectedness of the Reiki practitioners and Goddesses present was a lifetime connection.

Some of the women will definately join us for our Inner Goddess Retreat October 19- 21.
If this intetests you, I have created an event for it, so check it out on the events page and please save the date. Email me for more info.
Namaste.