Finally back in the gym this morning after a week of queasiness. I've gone on a cleanse to scrub out my system and am grateful I could face going back. I have been sleeping so much! Wow, sleep is amazing.
Just took a nice long bath and whipped up a green smoothie. Yum!
Saturday Morning Spinach-Strawberry Smoothie
1/2 a bin of organic strawberries
bunch of organic spearamint
2 banannas
1 bag of organic spinach
2 cups of water
I am completely inspired by a book I am reading called, Green for Life. In it, raw food authority Victoria Boutenko reveals the vast healing potential of raw green plant fiber and demonstrates how it packs as much if not more protein than other sources, and is more easily assimilable. She suggests that for optimum, radiant health, the average adult should be consuming at least two bunches of greens per day! To help with this otherwise unpalpable endeavor, she suggests making green smoothies mixed with fruits. This makes cosuming large amounts of plants daily a delicious and easy joy. The blending of the greens also helps to make all their nutrients more assimilable as well. She conducted her own experiment with a group, having them drink a gallon of green smoothie per day and after a month discovered miraculous health improvements... I haven't gotten there yet in the book, but I will include an update. Frankly, she already had me convinced from the back cover. It feels so intuitively right! When I was on the 21 day detox and drinking so much green energy soup, I felt the cellular transformation happening. She makes a good point in this book, however... that to avoid getting completly sick of it, you have to keep changing up your ingredients. Obvious, I suppose. It was elusive to me when I finished my last detox and couldn't face energy soup again for a while!
What does all this have to do with hoopdancing? I feel as a dancer devoted to transformation through movement that nutrition is of vital concern! Hoops whirl around my body and massage my organs, tone my muscles, engage my bones... but what is happening inside on a cellular level? The question of efficient and nutritious hoop fuel is important to me. The more raw food I eat, especially green, the better I feel, look and perform. I love experiementing with my body and noticing what dietary changes effect my moods and energy level. Also, my endometriosis requires that I overcompensate in the more immune boosting direction of everything I do so that I can stay healthy. Sometimes I feel like endo has visited me simply to teach me how to take better care of myself -- eat better, think in more positive ways, sleep more and stress less... these are all challenge areas for me which it takes a lot of conscious effort to support.
Well it is gorgeous outside!!! I am excited to go out and stroll in Golden Gate Park. Tonight I'll be hooping at Ruby Skye and I am actually really looking forward to it. Tomarrow will be amazing for hooping as wel! The Bay to Breakers Marathon! Any hoopers who want to go with the Deep End crew are welcome to meet us at Shine Lounge on Mission Street at 8am. We will join the parade from there.
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!