This is where I go to practice my yoga postures. Near East Yoga is situated in NE Portland at Broadway and 7th Avenue. The studio teaches Ashtanga yoga, primarily the Mysore practice, and the same one that Shri K Pattabhi Jois teaches in Mysore, India.
The yoga studio can get rather stuffy on a busy day, but in the weekday evenings when it is not so busy it can be very cozy. The two instructors: Charisse and Casey, a couple that owe the place, are very knowledgeable and they spend time with each student to show them the right postures. They are very nice and friendly. I believe they both traveled to India and studied Ashtanga yoga in India at the Shri K Pattabhi Jois ashram. The Mysore practice allows each person to practice the Ashtanga flow postures series at their own pace and at the instructor will guide each student individually.
So, it’s almost election time…
All of us women supporters of Hillary Clinton, should put the hurt aside and think hard… we do not vote color, race, or sex, but the future of this world. If you are a strong believer of Hillary Clinton, you will do what she wants you to do and that is to vote Democrats. You know that old expression: “there is nothing worse than a woman scorned”, but let’s prove that this is not what this election is all about, so vote Democrat. Trust me, I am just as hurt as all the women out there whose voices were ignored when Hillary lost and Obama picked somebody else as his running mate, but as a strong woman I know how to make the right choice and put the hurt aside. So let’s vote Democrats and have a better future!
Remember you are not voting color, sex, or race, but the future of this country and what the democrats can do for you. Please think about the future of the entire world when you vote and vote Democrats in November!
We went to the Beloved Festival near Eugene on the weekend of 15 of August. The festival was located on someone’s property in the Siuslaw National Forest. It was a 3 day music festival and camping. The bands were really good, however the music seemed to be repetitive as most of the new age bands who sing kirtan kind of perform the same songs over and over again. There were lots of hippies, amazing vegetarian food, lots of great music, beautiful people and lots of fun. Unfortunatly, there were not enough portable toilets, so by the end of second day the toilets were in a very aweful condition. In all, the festival was amazing.
This is an amazing 3 day fair. We went to this fair last weekend, July 13, near Eugene in Oregon. The fair was so amazing: full of hippies, lots of originality, many vendors, plenty of unique shows and very talented people. Thousands of people gather every year in this fair to celebrate summer or just living in Oregon. You really have to be there to understand and experience the laid back, hippiesh, free, exciting, very diverse and entertaining atmosphere. The food is amazing: organic, fresh vegetarian and non-vegetarian diverse cuisine. People put on costumes and parade around in the fair which loops around the forest. There are so many vendors that sell art, clothes, shoes, unique items, etc. The fair has something new at every corner: a show or just someone in a costume or even naked singing or parading around. The shows are very entertaining: singing, dancing, plays, etc. It is a very original fair and something you should not miss if you live in or just pass by through Oregon.
It’s over. I’m a quitter. I just couldn’t resist the hunger, diziness and nausea that I felt this afternoon. I have been pretty good for breakfast and lunch with juicing, but my body start shaking at about 4 o’clock pm. So I stopped juicing and had a salad for dinner.
Well, I will still juice as much as I can, but I think I need some solid food too.
If you want more information on the Juice Feast follow those sites:
Angela Stokes is a raw foodist, who used to have diabetes and lost 160 lb on the raw food diet. She followed a 92 days Juice Feast in Costa Rica and she was pretty happy with it. I guess being in a hot climate with lots of fruits and vegetables is a lot easier than to do a juice Feast in the mid 80s temperature.
Juice Feasting website The entire 92 Juice Feast program. I don’t know how these guys do it. I cannot immagine it. After 2 days and a half of Juice feasting, I got the shakes, nausea and felt dizy.
Watch Angela Stokes on youtube breaking her 92 days Juice Feast:
Watch how this girl is going crazy after 14 days of Juice Feasting:
After a whole day yesterday of drinking and eating nothing but fresh fruits and vegetables juice, I woke up this morning feeling really good. The afternoon it has been pretty rough as the cravings kicked in. I had to be really strong not to give in the temptation to go eat something solid really yummy like a veggie burger with fries or a rice bowl, or a vegan pizza. But I didn’t.
So, this is what I had today:
Lots of water
20 oz of master cleaner (lemon water with agave and a pinch of cayenne pepper)
20 oz of orange/pineapple/mango/kiwi juice
32 oz of green leaves/parsley/cilantro/carrots/red bell pepper/zucchini/beats/cucumber/celery juice/kiwi
16 oz of blueberry/grapes/ginger tonic juice
32 oz of pineapple/orange/coconut water/apple/kiwi/celery/strawberries/carrot juice
I am off of work for the next 8 days, so I decided to go through an 8 day detox Juice Feast starting today. That means that for the next 8 days I will only be drinking juice from fruits and vegetables and lots of water. Wish me luck!
The Juice Feast has become increasingly popular to detoxify the body, lose weight and just feel great. To do the detox, one has to drink about 1 gallon (4 liters) of juice and about 1 gallon of water every day. I am not sure if I can take that much liquid in my body daily, but I will try. Enemas are also highly recommended during a Juice Feast to clean up the body, as the body will not eat solids and it is harder to go to the bathroom and do #2. I have been doing #1 a lot today, and I feel like my bladder is always full.
Today, I have been feeling kind of cranky, but I do feel thinner already. I slept through the afternoon, because I have been feeling really tired but that might be because I got sunburn yesterday at beach. We spent 4 hours soaking up the sun at Cannon Beach on the Oregon coast, which is about one hour and forty minutes away from Portland.
This is what I had today:
20 oz of carrot/ zucchini/cucumber/ kiwi/apple/celery/green leaves (kale and chard) juice.
1 Quart of carrot/ beats/ green leafs/ apple/ kiwi/ zucchini/ pomegranate/celery juice.
16 oz blueberry/ginger/lemon juice
20 oz lemon water
20 oz carrot/celery/green leaves/kiwi/apple/cucumber/orange
20 oz water
So I got a Champion Juicer off craigslist for only 60$ (Regular price about 200$) and I swear it is one of the best investments I ever made. I make green and healthy juices daily. This juicer is fantastic. It is so much easier to clean than my 30$ cheap juicer from Walmart. It also juices everything and leaves very little pulp behind. My cheap 30$ juicer left about 60% of the pulp, whereas this one juices everything and I only get about 20% left of the fruit or vegetable.
Green juice recipe:
1 apple
1 celery stick
2 swiss chard leaves
About a handful of spinach
2 kale leaves
I used to enjoy eating the Poutine a while back before I became a vegetarian and have moved away from Montreal, Canada. If you do not know what a Poutine is, it is a meal made of French Fries with cheese curds and gravy. After I became a vegetarian, it was hard to have a Poutine as the gravy is made out of chicken or beef stock.
That was before I moved to Portland, Oregon. Now I can have vegan Poutine. To my amazement, there is a food cart not far away from our home that serves vegan and non-vegan Poutines. The vegan Poutine is made with vegetable gravy, vegan cheese and French Fries.
Portland is such a unique place. I simply love it here. I love the diversity, creativity, and hippiesh feeling of the town. I feel so much that I belong here. Portland fits so much into my lifestyle and represents what I believe in.
What are so unique to this town are the food cart vendors that populate the area. You cannot believe the meals you can get out of a food cart. Imagine lots of RV trucks that are parked in a designated area in downtown or other places and are equipped restaurant like style to serve hot and fresh food out of a small window. You can’t imagine how delicious the food actually is. Not to forget to mention cheap too.
Right now I am hooked on the “Whole Bowl” cart. The cart serves a bowl of rice with beans, salsa, avocado, olives and a special sauce. I order the vegan whole bowl as the regular bowl has sour cream and cheese. This bowl is 5$ for small and 5.50$ for a large. It is simply delicious. It is out of this world.
