Why I Choose To Be A Gratitarian

  In response to the many reflections that I am observing lately around diet and food choices, I thought it would be an appropriate topic to pull out of my “to write” list. Before I begin I want to share that you will not find any external sources or appeals to authority in this blog – only that from my own personal experience – which may or may not be […]

A New Story of Sickness

A New Story of Sickness For several years now I have been witnessing a regular pattern within myself. With incredible consistency, I am experiencing a common cold run through my system, on average, every two months. Sometimes it would be three, rarely four, and on occasion within a single month I would be sick with a cold again. Each time this cycle repeated I would do everything I was supposed […]

Canopy Contemplations

      Canopy Contemplations     As I learn to trust and follow my excitement along this journey through space and time, I find myself opening to the eternal “yes” of the present moment. Opportunity abounds, all around us, existing within the potential choices we select each day. Which locks do we open with our universal key of curiosity and which do we pass by? The realization that the […]

Chaga Your Spring Water!

Chaga Your Spring Water!       Where does the idea that we human beings are able to “improve” the Earth’s processes come from? Year after year we exert new systems of manipulation and control over the Natural world with greater effort to cushion ourselves from the wildness of Mother Nature. What is the end goal? Is there one?   *****   For a little over one year now I […]

Western Guilt Culture

  Western Guilt Culture   It was a hot, humid evening in the Amazonian jungle of Peru. The date marked the shortest of the year in the Southern Hemisphere: the Winter Solstice of 2011. I was sitting on a pillow at the edge of my mattress, which was one of twenty-three in a circle covering the floor of the Maloka. The Shipibo Maestras and Maestros (female and male “Shamans”)were still […]

Opening the Heart Center Through Release

Opening the Heart Center Through Release   It is through direct experience that we are able to discover our truth. We are experiential beings. How can we know what brings us our highest fulfillment unless we cast off from the safe shore and dip into the unbounded potential that life has to offer?   I have spent the last four days at a magical place called Dinosaur Provincial Park in […]

Embarking on a New Chapter

  Embarking on a New Chapter   Deep into the future, tangled in the past, Gaia has it’s only wish of balance unsurpassed. Colours showing strength, and odour has its place, one giant living organism, balancing in space. Connected are its children, striving for the best, its lungs are drawing breaths of air, and filling out its chest. No need to think or focus, or manifest what’s not, the line […]

Lunar Chakra Cleanse Lessons

Lunar Chakra Cleanse Lessons   A couple weeks ago I completed a cleanse that I created and named the Lunar Chakra Cleanse. It involved eating foods matching the colours of each of the seven chakras (ROYGBIV) during one moon cycle, four days for each colour for a total of 28 days. My main intention was to ‘mono’ eat (only one or two foods at a time) in order to isolate […]

The Lunar Chakra Cleanse

The Lunar Chakra Cleanse A few of my roommates and I have decided to create and follow a 28 day food challenge which will sync us up to the lunar cycle and integrate the seven chakras. The whole arc begins this Friday, January 11th during the new moon phase and ends 28 days later during the next new moon. This full harmonic cycle is divided into seven smaller cycles of four days […]

Give Yourself Permission Part One

Give Yourself Permission Part One Last June I found myself being drawn to experience what it was like to fast for an extended period of time. Over the course of the two days of juicing and the seven days of only water, I remembered some incredible insights about my relationship with my body. I say ‘remembered’ because I believe that all we are really doing in this life is remembering, […]