I did it! At the advice of my friend September of Rawkstar Raw food, I just signed up for the Conscious Eating Level One Intensive at the Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center in Patagonia, Arizona! I'll be there from July 22-29. WOW! It feels quite thrilling to take a leap out into the unknown, claim a wonderful opportunity for myself and have something to really look forward to and prepare for!
Right now, I vascilate between 50-70% raw food each day. I want to increase the percentage of this and be able to maintain it effortlessly. By body feels so much cleaner, lighter and is functioning at a much higher level. Eating is so central to an experience as a human being! I want to really push that boundary as far as I can to alter my consciousness in a healthy way. Exploring conscious eating as a spiritual practice... maximize inner and outer radiance!
It IS a challenge for me to do this living in San Francisco. It is colder here. But in truth, it is almost as if my body gets trained to run at a higher heat level. Plus it gives me more inspiration to visit hot springs, which is always a delightful treat. I also think that eating raw food, or what David Wolfe calls a Sun Food diet, is helping me infuse myself with the spiritual nourishment of the sun that living in a darker city can't always provide. Eating these light filled packets of food may be my way to keep shining brightly when I may not really be feeling so bright...
Gabriel Cousens, who founded the Tree of Life Center, has written many books. In Spiritual Nutrition, he touches on the six foundations for a spiritual life.
1. Nurtrition
2. Building Prana (life force)
3. Service
4. Spiritual Guidance and Inspiration
5. Silence
6 Kundalini Awakening
These are the six foundations of the Learning Center where I will be going and the schedule every day provides time for each. I am looking forward to being in an actual community of people exploring these ideas along with me. Sometimes I feel so alone in this quest.
Among other books I am working on, I really feel the need to write Hooping in the Raw, a raw food recipie and inspiration book for those seeking hoopdance as a path towards full body transformation.
So many people are approaching me with a limited understanding of the word "workout". They are thinking only of burning away calories in the fastest way possible without any consideration of the body's energy system, conscious thinking and languaging and lifestyle change.
Though HoopGirl, I am reclaiming and redefining "workouts" to be bliss filled purification opportunities for the body, emotions, mind and spirit... NOT just an aerobics binge. I consciously use the word "workout" because it has resonance with the popular culture... BUT I want to educate people to look at the bigger picture. (LOTS of website changes coming soon to my site to help with this... stay tuned).
The word "work out" can be replaced easily with "let go" and still convey this precious work of alchemical transmutation (although honestly, how could I advertise, Hoop Let Go Series? We revolutionaries must be much more strategic with words when trying to change the world! )
Putting food, thoughts and experiences in the body with intention, amplifying life force, altering the nervous system and building new belief and cellular structures, and moving forth into the world with a new frequency is what this work is all about! Then pulsing that new whole body vibration out with intention and vision to change the world. New frequency meaning a new way of feeling, moving, talking, relating, and being in every sense of the word. An evolution...
You can learn more about the Tree of Life Center at:
http://www.treeoflife.nu
Thank you Brilliant Inspiration which is ever present in my life! Thank you for the ongoing flow of wonderful people, places, experiences and information which is available to me, always at the perfect moment! I am grateful that gratitude is habituated into my cells at nervous system. I am full of wonder, awe and anticipation and the next level of unfolding! I ask the Universal Connectedness to help me weave together this amazing web of interests -- raw food, transformation, hoopdance, spirituality, radiance, and world service, at a level never before imagined. Thank you for giving me all the time I need to integrate these revelations instantly~ Yahoo for life!!!!