raw milk and dairy update

About the treatment of milk:

Thermised milk is raw milk that has been heated for at least 15 seconds at a temperature between 57 °C and 68 °C.  Pasteurisation is a process by which milk is  is heated to 71.7 °C  for 15–20 seconds.

So pasteurisation involves higher temperatures than thermisation but both processes heat the milk to above biological temperature and damage important nutrients and biological factors.  Many cheeses described as 'unpasteurised' are in fact thermised and therefore not truly raw - it's worth checking with the supplier if you want genuinely raw cheese.


click here for a comprehensive list of suppliers of raw milk and dairy products

take possession of your own mind

"take possession of your own mind and direct it to ends of your own choice" Napoleon Hill

the wonders of the yoga swing

The yoga swing can be hung up on a beam or from a frame in your house to jump on when you please or is fun to be used like this in a local park doing yoga like a monkey! Children love it as well as adults.

Hanging upside down reverses the effects of gravity and allows more blood to flow to the head. It reduces acid accumulation, moves lymph fluid and detoxes the body. It is a traction treatment for the back. Lots more information here!

rawgeous cafe

Is it possible to have gorgeous raw food on tap at a festival? Yes it is, folks!

interview with Kate Magic !

http://www.katesmagicbubble.com/interviews/interview-with-holly-paige

Holly Paige is difficult to put into words! A fiercely independent thinker, she joins the dots between raw foods, consciousness and transformation in a way that is at once profound and accessible. Holly is mother to four children, and has been raw over ten years. She spends a lot of her time researching information and developing ideas, as well as teaching classes and sharing information on her blogs. You may not have heard of her, because she isn’t particularly interested in pursuing fame, more trying to reach for the truth, but I feel she has an extremely valuable level of information to share, and is a true pioneer of the raw foods movement. She really understands the biochemistry of how the raw food diet works, particularly how it affects brain chemistry. She then draws on that understanding, to extrapolate how humanity and our world might alter if we all were operating on that purer frequency. She believes the three key areas we need to address to move into a more positive future state are: changing our diets to include more raw foods and superfoods; becoming more directly connected to the earth and tuned into the natural world; and de-programming our consciousness, so that our thoughts and feelings create joyful and abundant scenarios, rather than the fear and scarcity based paradigm that we are currently living in. Join us for this fascinating interview!

Chocolate Love Temple Glastonbury!!!!

Chuen / B'atz' — The Trecena of Creativity

Master of all the Arts, Chuen, or B’atz’ in K’iche’ Maya, is the weaver of the thread of life and the cords of time.  It symbolizes movement, motion, and development; initiation, affirmation, and favorable divination readings; as well as marriage and pregnancy.  Chuen is the nagual of the arts, artists, and the art of weaving, and as such, represents all concepts and elements of life related to art and weaving, from time itself—called by the Maya “the thread of life”—to the life-connecting umbilical cord.  Not surprisingly, Chuen is often referred to as “Monkey,” for monkeys were the mythic patrons of the arts in ancient Mayan lore.  The monkey is, in fact, Chuen’s animal totem.

On Chuen days, the Maya express their intention to freely receive all that they have requested from the universe, and to be able to unravel or resolve any matter or issue.  Chuen days are extremely auspicious for all artistic works and endeavors; in fact, it is a powerful day to begin any project.  And it is the best day in the Tzolk’in to ask for a partner or to be married.

The upcoming thirteen days embody a magical period of creativity, art, music, dance and play. This is the time to slip out of your rigid corporate persona, leave that business suit and tie in the closet, and let the real, creative you thrive.

This trecena can help you transform your life from fulfilling the mundane daily tasks of modern existence to one of endlessly vibrant, exuberant experience. We know of many such transformations.  But as with any creative or magical power, you need to respect and honor it, and lend it your deepest talents and skill, and guide it as you would any wild untamed force of nature. Lose sense of what you’re doing and it will snap into chaos.

Do you have the courage to be who you are?

http://www.maya-portal.net/newsletters/quetzal/chuen_trecena