Feeling A-LIVE with Kundalini Yoga & Raw Chocolate

Yoga & RAW Chocolate for Ultimate Heart & Intuition Opening!

Chocolate is not called “Food of the Gods” for nothing – it truly has the capacity to open our hearts and expand our intuition. The highest known plant source of magnesium, and an impressive source of antioxidants, iron, serotonin, tryptophan and anandamide (the so called “bliss” neurotransmitter), chocolate is a near panacea for today’s nutrient deficient, stress infused lifestyle.

In our home, we all eat – on a DAILY basis – raw chocolate in many different forms. We chew on cacao nibs, we make our own dairy-free raw cacao “hot chocolate,” we enjoy cacao-reishi-buckwheat granola for breakfast, we whip up cacao mega smoothies with superfoods, tonic herbs, and mega vitamins for meals.

We also practice primarily Kundalini Yoga and Meditation but also to a lesser extent hatha, vinyasa, and yin based yoga asana, meditation, mantra and meditation as well.

Why? What’s so important about these two aspects of daily living that make such a difference in our home? It’s simple: We FEEL better, more, deeply, ecstatically, truthfully. Our quality of life is vaulted to a whole new level when we incorporate yoga and chocolate into our lives consistently.

I know,  perhaps it even sounds crazy. But I have a challenge out there to almost everyone I know: try eating dairy-free, sugar-free raw cacao products (there’s so much you can do with these ingredients from the cacao fruit) and doing at least 3 minutes of Kundalini Yoga and Meditation a day for 40 days. See how incredibly different your life is from beginning to end.

This is a link to a youtube video I made a few weeks back regarding an Ayurvedic dreamtime smoothie for sweet dreams and solid sleep. The smoothie includes Raw Vanilla (a product we ALWAYS use when incorporating any raw chocolate anything...) as well as Raw Cacao Butter, which will help with easing Vata and soothing your nerves before sleep. My suggestion: watch the video, create your own smoothie, and sip it gently in a ginger-raw vanilla bath. (2 tbsp powdered dry ginger, 1 tbsp powdered raw vanilla poured directly into hot running bath tap water, 1 tbsp raw gently melted raw cacao butter applied to soles of the feet before entering the bath!)

These past couple of months I’ve been putting together a day-long workshop to exemplify and demonstrate how to incorporate the wisdom of Ayurveda, Yoga and Chocolate into your modern lifestyle. I am hoping to not only host this workshop here in Bar Harbor, Maine, in the coming months but I’m ALSO hoping to have the whole thing audio or video taped to offer out to folks who wish to enjoy this technology from the comfort of their homes world-wide. For now, I want to share what we will be learning during this day-long workshop. Feel free to chime in and comment if you’re excited about this or if you have suggestions for our day of Yoga & Raw Herbal-infused Medicinal Chocolate! Date TBA!

In this superbly delicious, delectable workshop you will learn:

The anatomy of true chocolate and chocolate in its natural habitat, the plant in its entirety including how it is harvested and processed

How, specifically, chocolate can affect your yoga asana, meditation and pranayama practice

Which organs, body and mind functions are affected by chocolate consumption

The yummiest ways to consume chocolate for maximum health benefits

Scientific studies on chocolate, including its ability to out-perform Codeine to suppress coughs, and its ability to quell asthma as effectively as prescription medications

Chocolate and mantra combinations to benefit the thyroid, pineal and pituitary glands

A fascinating look at which vitamins, minerals and neurotransmitters are contained in chocolate (and, amazingly, these happen to be some of the exact things we are most deficient in!)

The ways NOT to consume chocolate – why refined sugar, dairy products and palm oils degrade the integrity and health benefits of this life-giving substance

Why chocolate combined with asana, meditation and breathwork, can help alleviate mental health issues, specifically ADD/ADHD, Depression and Anxiety

How to make dairy-free, sugar-free, raw organic chocolate that looks and tastes incredible

An experiential Kundalini Yoga & Medicinal Chocolate class to invigorate but calm the mind, open the heart, detoxify the lungs, and increase digestive fire

Recipes for medicinal herbal chocolates to balance each dosha

Recipes and taste-testing samples for chocolate superfood mega smoothies to balance each dosha, bring vitality, and open specific chakras

The top superfoods to include in your daily chocolate smoothies and recipes and why

A hands-on demonstration detailing how to make your own incredible tasting dairy-free, sugar-free medicinal, raw organic chocolate at home!

The best, most cost-effective resources: Where to buy raw chocolate, raw cacao, raw carob, raw vanilla powder and all of the superfoods and tonic herbs we use in this workshop!

Want to be informed when we post the date for this workshop? Email me! Post a comment or email me at siri.temple@gmail.com and I will be sure to let you know when registration details are complete!