SUPERFOODS by David Wolfe

Maybe it's because i got this book right as "Julie & Julia" was hitting the streets but it occurred to me that David Wolfe is our generation's Juia Childs. He is transforming - through an enlarged sense of the world -  how we see our food, kitchen. And like Julia his joie d'vivre and total enthusiasm for food are contagious. An odd sidenote, his picture was taken by a lovely photographer who took my author photo for "Did I Wake You?" as well.

Superfoods isn’t a cook book as much as a food book. Lots of onformation about the foods as well as some information about what to do with them. Some recipes. In fact one question I always have asked about diets is what's for breakfast? For the past couple of years I have been eating Trader Joe's high fiber cereal with homemade almond milk. But the cereal was starting to taste dead to me.

Now I'm eating soaked apricots and orange blended with a topping of raw cacoa and almonds. With some maca and camu camu while drinking lemon water with goji berries. It is soooo delicious. And alive. And energized.

I really am feeling different, in a good way. During these challenging times, we really need food to help us, and we really need to eat food that's going to help the planet. David is one of the Superheroes of the Superfood movement. And this book is an amazing tool for transforming your life.

David Wolfe's Superfoods: The Food and Medicine of the Future

THE ZEN ALARM CLOCK

Because waking up is hard to do!

Despite all my years of practicing yoga when I hear the word dawn I break out in a cold sweat. When I had my daily radio show it was up early every day for me. And the radio alarm clock was starting to freak me out. Before i could even remember my dreams I was thinking about conflict here and strife there.

"There's got to be a better way," I thought. A little research turned up the zen alarm clock. Or Zenny, as Greg and I have affectionately nick named it.

It's not just an alarm clock, it's a musical instrument, an actual little hammer hits an actual pieve of metal and makes a beautiful (adjustable by you) gentle DING. A few minutes later, another DING. The dings continue in a pythagorean progression, getting more and more frequent until you're totally awake. The idea is you fall asleep gradually, and you should wake up gradually as well.

On the radio show I did a give away, a Zenny to the person wh had the worst job that they had to get up earliest for. And whenever I feel my life is tough I think of that day, those jobs. The winner was cleaning bed pans in an insane asylum at the crack of dawn.

Eventually the network my show was on went kaput, but the Zenny stayed with me. And helps me wake up on the right side of the bed every day.

MAGIC THERAPY BALLS

I love saying balls. I know I'm so immature!

But i really love saying it's time to roll on my balls. And then rolling! These balls, which were developed by an amazing yoga teacher named

Jill Miller, have saved me bucketloads in chiropractic and massage. I use them at night after a long day at the desk. Or I bring them with me on the road and use them in the car or on the airplane.

They come in a sack, a ball sack (tee hee), and with a CD and chart for hitting particular pressure points. It's great to do the balls with Jill, because she knows every muscle and tendon and what they connect to and why they get sore, but it's also great to just roll around on them and see what feels good.

I like to roll my feet around on them. Get creative. Greg and I actually taught Jil's students how to teach in their own voices during one of Jill's Yoga Tune Up teacher trainings, and it was really a priviledge because they all had very creative ways to use the balls. Between your fingers, on your side.

It's important to take care of yourself right now, to let your body know it is safe to evolve into a place where transformation can trake place. And it's so easy for the shift hitting the fan to make us tense and untransformable. I really recommend these balls! Or at least saying Balls! a lot:) Magic Therapy Balls for Neck, Back and Shoulder Pain

NATUROATCH HOMEOPATHIC PATCHES

I was given my first batch of Naturopatch Homeopathic Patches in a gift bag I received for participating in City Yoga's Yoga Marathon. I did some sunrise comedy - and if you don't think that was a stretch for me, see my comments above on the Zen Alarm Clock!

I was excited to try the pone for sore muscles because despite my yoga therapy balls, and some great massages by Dennis Daniels and Jenifer at spa name, I couldn’t get this kink out of my left neck. It was one of those kinks I could trace back to a particularly annoying long phone call. So I gave the arnica sore muscle patch a shot and OMG!!! My neck is kinkless for the first time in over a year! They make others too that I assume are just as effective but I haven’t had cause to try.

Arnica is great for sore muscles but this patch has other ingredients as well and unlike pure oil the patch stays in place and working for up to 24 hours without rubbing off on sheets and clothes. Being free of a pain in the neck is really liberating!

MEDIVIBE HARMONIC TUNING FORKS

Maybe because I love Zenny, my Zen Alarm Clock so much, I started noticing a lot of activity in the area of sound healing. I've always loved it when my yoga teachers played the crystal bowls, and I have my own bells and bowls at home too. Greg and I go to the Integratrron for sound healings whenever we can. And chant. So when I started seeing tuning forks popping up everywhere i was curious.

We got a set of forks in the Solfeggio scale, which is puportedly a scale that was outlawed by the Vatican. I canlt find that set on line any more. But I can tell you that whenever guests come over I will give them a ding of a fork, picked often at random and the deep breath and sigh are always forth coming.

We find them so uplifting, a kind of tangibly sweet coherency, that we've actually started throwing on ein suitcases when we travel. Listen to a bunch and pick one that you resonate with. To slightly misquote the song: Raise your vibe and the rest will follow.

Sound from tuning fork is said to:

Medivibe Harmonic Tuning Forks

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