Hi to everyone I haven't touched base with for a while.
Life has been busy and I've chosen to let my posting take the back seat to keep up.
Too many best days ever to post in hindsight, but some of the things which come to mind are:
- eating divinely ripe, organic mango, naked, alone under a cloud enshrouded moon
- eating the black raspberries from the tree Jim found in Canberra (absolutely incredible! I ate a mulberry afterwards and spat it out as it couldn't compare.)
- Spartan warrior workouts with Jim
- seeing my garden start to take shape...capsicum, paw paw, tomato, watermelon, rockmelon, an avocado sapling, nightshade berries, and (thanks to Paul and Ryan) I now having comfrey and japanese menthol growing!
- sleeping in a bivy bag on the beach in Byron Bay for 10 days with Harley spending the days with Doug, Rozie, Faychesca and Lennie at the Inspya Yoga Retreat filled with yoga instructors.
- snapping up amazing organic bargains at the Sydney markets with the raw crew. I've been doing this for many months, and it's awesome to see everyone now benefiting from it! Recent $15 trays of mango and dumpster diving for perfect bananas they though were overripe were a delicious feast!

Tomorrow I leave for Costa Rica to spend 3 months with Doug.
I'll have very limited internet use there by personal choice.
I'm interning at the January fast, Walking in Costa Rica through Feb (hiking, lectures, etc) and fasting in March.
I'm taking my video camera and will make a mini documentary of my fasting experience.
...taking my best days ever to a new level.
Our beliefs become our reality...I love my beliefs :-)

...and yes...I will be going to Thailand again with the crew.

Persimmons! Haven't had good persimmons pass my lips for way too long!
My artistic side does need work...it will fully awaken when the time is ripe.
Ochenta-diez-diez vegan crudos!

Raw Aussie Athlete
Have w onderful time in Costa Rica
I am looking forward for your fast experience there

Feliz Año nuevo

Enjoy it

awesome Kanyow.... was emailing Doc D last night,just chatting.....he rocks huh! wow,lucky you running with him..

not so lucky taking a concrete nose dive,ouch! know how that feels,lol....

enjoy Costa,keep us updated k?....

the meal sounds delicious...no memories of Rasayana then...te he

Haven´t seen any Mamey´s yet, but, oh my mother nature, I´m lovin the papaya.
...and I haven´t even had a fully ripened prime one yet!

Pineapple last night in the salad set the front of my tongue off after about 10 pieces, but I stopped before it bled ...though it was tempting to keep eating as it was soooo tasty.
Tonight´s pineapple was perfecto! Delicious.

Most of the fasters and interns have arrived. I´m realising how profound the experience of caring for people with serious illnesses will be. We have a super motivated collection of athletes and courageous folk fully engaged in growing and sharing in the pursuit of excellence.
Tomorrow morning I have a 7am run with Doug, Robbie and Cam. It´s gonna start getting competitive soon...I can taste it

The 4 fasters that arrived early, have now officially all started. One is on day 5 already! The other 8 arrive tomorrow. Gonna be a busy day meeting and getting to know people.

Hey Suay. I was next to Dr D when he was reading your email Nice to hear from you. He asked who you were and of course I gave you a pretty good wrap as a shining example of an 80-10-10er.
Rasayana taught us all a lasting memory that I certainly won´t be revisiting
Memories of Rasayana was the reason I wrote the list of things I don´t ever want in my food.
When I first found out about the 80-10-10 lifestyle coach program, I thought (especially for you) it would be the perfect base for a future career/lifestyle encompassing everything you love.

oh if i had known you would have been in la i would have offered to meet you for lunch.  =)

man you are so fortunate.  Costa Rica is really beautiful this half of year..

just got back from las vegas...  total opposite of costa rica lol.  man it is CRAZY over there.  A real life oasis in the middle of a desert.  so mysterious.  quite the experience... 

Oh how magical! our mulberry tree is bursting at the seams, i am loving stopping there on the way out for a colourful breakfast! wow i love the thought of the purple flowing through my system! My daughter loves the mess and i have lost all care for the car seat stayng the right colour it is just so fun to see her licking her arm and gettng it everywhere!!!!! WOOHOO! GO BERRIES!!!!

Aguacate I just read your post on creativity in relation to activities - I feel exactly the same way!  I love finding the magic in life.  Feeling 'flow' for me is soooo important with activities.  I have had the most amount of joy this year learning expressive body-roll contact juggling   It's something you NEED to get perfectly balanced and with a steady flow of movement, or well, it just doesn't work, because you drop the ball. :D  Beyond that, you can 'feel' the weight and fluid movements and when they are right you can even close your eyes.... then it's like you're painting patterns in the air around you!  Yay!

I experienced another moment of magic in the recent past.  Just haven't up 'til now had the will to try to describe it without coming off as insane, but since we're talking of magic in the world, hey!   Not sure how to put it either, the best I can do is: I managed to sense and share feelings within another persons soul.  I think they arrived to me for 'healing', even though I would never have thought of myself as a healer... There was a time of wordless sharing & I could feel the knot of pain within them, and know also how they were 'coping' with it through layers of grief, humbleness, silliness and other reactions.  And from myself,  I could impart to this person a sense of beauty in the world and also hope, not to remove their pain: but to view it in a light of poignancy and fragileness instead of something that would stay knotted and buried within them.  It seems somewhat new and obscure to me still, I was working off intuition.  This all happened without words, just sitting together for half an hour or so... it was perhaps what I would imagine feeling into someones aura would be like? Never experienced anything like this before, but it sure felt like a moment of beauty and possibility.  That night when I was alone I cried from it, I could still feel the echoes of the other persons pain... took a few days for it to dissipate and I was highly sensitive to & influenced by other peoples moods in that time too.  My acquaintance/friend who instinctively came to me for help has since jumped into life wholeheartedly and with joy, it's been beautiful to see.

I don't know if I'll ever get the chance to experience something like that again, and even now the memory is fading by disbelief into something with shadowy edges.  Perhaps it'll become like the time when I was 6, running really fast, and for a little while I *knew* that I flew,  but then... years later... you doubt that it ever happened in the first place.