Hanuman Festival: Raising the Vibration

Hanuman Festival: Raising the Vibration

In just a few weeks I'll be heading out to Boulder, Colorado for the Hanuman Festival.   I wrote in detail here on YOGANONYMOUS about why I'm going, and one of the reasons I wrote is this:   ...

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Are You Living In Quiet Desperation?

Are You Living In Quiet Desperation?

“Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.”-Henry David Thoreau The other day in yoga class, one of my teachers brought up the concept of "quiet ...

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Benefits of Fermented Veggies (+ How To Make Saurkraut!)

Benefits of Fermented Veggies (+ How To Make Saurkraut!)

Guest post by Raya Ioffe of Raya Wellness Sauerkraut is sexy! I bet you haven’t seen those two words together in the same sentence before. What comes up for you when you think about kraut? Is it ...

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5 Food Blogs You Need To Know About Immediately

5 Food Blogs You Need To Know About Immediately

When I first started Healthy Crush, I had this vision that it was going to be the next big healthy recipe site. All I wanted was to do was come up with awesome healthy recipes, ...

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You’re Living Your Dream, Don’t Miss It

You're Living Your Dream, Don't Miss It

Last summer, I left my apartment and life in New York with a heavy heart and ventured out to live in Los Angeles for a few months. Every time I sat in a meditation and asked ...

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Hanuman Festival: Raising the Vibration

by jenny sansouci May 21, 2013
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In just a few weeks I’ll be heading out to Boulder, Colorado for the Hanuman Festival.   I wrote in detail here on YOGANONYMOUS about why I’m going, and one of the reasons I wrote is this:   I go where the high vibe is. The Hanuman Festival’s tagline is “Raise the Vibration,” and that [...]

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Are You Living In Quiet Desperation?

by jenny sansouci May 10, 2013
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“Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.”-Henry David Thoreau The other day in yoga class, one of my teachers brought up the concept of “quiet desperation.” I’ve been thinking about it ever since. He described quiet desperation as something that happens when you “lose [...]

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Benefits of Fermented Veggies (+ How To Make Saurkraut!)

by jenny sansouci May 10, 2013
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Guest post by Raya Ioffe of Raya Wellness Sauerkraut is sexy! I bet you haven’t seen those two words together in the same sentence before. What comes up for you when you think about kraut? Is it that cabbage stuff you put on a hot dog at a baseball game? Is it a strong smelling [...]

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5 Food Blogs You Need To Know About Immediately

by jenny sansouci May 4, 2013
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When I first started Healthy Crush, I had this vision that it was going to be the next big healthy recipe site. All I wanted was to do was come up with awesome healthy recipes, cook, take photos of food, and blog about it. To fuel this dream, I quit my 9-5, bought a fancy-pants [...]

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You’re Living Your Dream, Don’t Miss It

by jenny sansouci April 5, 2013
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Last summer, I left my apartment and life in New York with a heavy heart and ventured out to live in Los Angeles for a few months. Every time I sat in a meditation and asked for guidance on what to do next, I kept getting the message “focus on your healing and everything else [...]

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Celebrate Spring with Raw Chocolate

by jenny sansouci March 26, 2013
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Springtime is approaching us (yay!) and that means it’s time to celebrate. Every day should be a reason to celebrate, of course, but there’s just something a bit magical that happens when spring comes along…a little more sunshine on our faces, a sparkle in the air.   There is no better way to celebrate, in [...]

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The Best Way To Attract Love

by jenny sansouci March 8, 2013
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My friend Gabby says this all the time, and I think it’s definitely true. I don’t know if I’m using the correct wording, but the basic idea is this: “Your task isn’t to seek a lover, but to become a lover of life.” Don’t you think it’s super attractive when you meet someone who just [...]

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Is Food Affecting Your Creativity?

by jenny sansouci March 7, 2013
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Last year, I did a 10-day juice cleanse. It was a crazy awesome yet mildly insane experience. At the end of the cleanse, I had firmly decided that food and creativity were deeply linked. In fact, at the time, I thought for sure I was going to write a book on eating for creativity. Maybe [...]

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A Recipe For Success?

by jenny sansouci March 6, 2013
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The other day I reluctantly got on a phone call with an accountant that manages one of my investments, an account I barely ever touch. He scheduled a call with me just to “get my updated facts into their system.” I put off actually getting on the call because I just didn’t think it was [...]

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The Random Reason I Went To Nutrition School

by jenny sansouci February 26, 2013
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I talk to people pretty much daily about my nutrition school, the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. It comes up in conversation all the time because it’s shaped my life in so many ways. It’s directly contributed to some of my greatest successes, most enriching personal and business relationships, and, well, this blog itself. The Institute [...]

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10 Minutes of Yoga: The Magic 10

by jenny sansouci February 1, 2013
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A couple of months ago, my life felt very different. Specifically, when I was living in LA, I had a lot of unstructured time, and unstructured time, for me, meant lots of yoga. As long as I got a yoga class in, I really didn’t care what else got accomplished that day. Yoga became my [...]

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Fresh: Reinventing Our Food System

by jenny sansouci January 20, 2013
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“What does unsustainable actually mean? It means it can’t go on this way.” -Michael Pollan There are a number of documentaries out there about the industrialized food system. At this point you’ve probably heard that industrialized agriculture and factory farming are tragically destroying our environment and our health — and are completely unsustainable practices. In [...]

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How Meditation Changed My Life

by jenny sansouci January 18, 2013
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Guest Post by Ritu Ashrafi I’m fairly new to meditation and have been practicing for less than a year but I can honestly say that meditation changed my life. I see my life as pre-meditation and post-meditation because the difference between the two is staggering. Let me tell you why. I am Ritu Ashrafi and [...]

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A Perspective on Soul Mates

by jenny sansouci January 12, 2013
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Missing someone you can’t contact can be a pretty dead-end feeling. Maybe the person is an ex love, or someone who has passed away, or someone you were once close with who is no longer in your life. It can be really difficult to let go at times, especially when your heart and soul were [...]

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Deepak Chopra’s 10 Keys to Happiness

by jenny sansouci January 11, 2013
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Happiness is one of those things that we tend to think is based on each person’s individual life situation. How much money do we have? Are we in a fulfilling romantic relationship? Do we have the career of our dreams? A great body? Most of us spend a large amount of our lives striving for [...]

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Basic Supplements For Health

by jenny sansouci January 11, 2013
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I’ve been working for Dr. Frank Lipman for a week now. The experience has been, to say the least – awesome. I am learning so much! Dr. Lipman focuses a lot on nutrition and lifestyle as it relates to all kinds of health conditions, and learning from him is truly an incredible experience. One thing [...]

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Superfoods To Strengthen The Brain & Blood

by jenny sansouci January 6, 2013
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Do you usually start your new year off by cutting things out, restricting your diet, and making drastic changes to what you’re eating? While I totally support big changes, don’t you think it might be more fun to focus on adding things IN instead? There are lots of powerful, nourishing plant-based superfoods out there just [...]

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An Open Letter To 2013

by jenny sansouci January 1, 2013
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Dear 2013, Here are my intentions for you. I intend… To practice gratitude and appreciation. To believe that everything is unfolding for my greatest good. To welcome new characters and experiences into my life. To open myself to love, curiosity, meaningful work, pure enjoyment. To allow the path to unfold before me – and to [...]

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