Global Juice Feast Day 43!

I Love Carrots!
Juice Feast Day 43

The Daily Juice Journal:

This morning we made 5 quarts of GVJ with cucumber, celery, romaine, spinach, kale, cilantro, parsley, carrot, yam, and ginger. We also made four quarts of orange, lime and pineapple and two quarts of grapefruit garlic, and two quarts of watermelon lemon. Could you say “creatures of habit” again?

DAVID:

2 QUARTS GVJ, 4 QUARTS FRUIT.

TOTAL JUICE: 6 QUARTS

KATRINA:

3 QUARTS GVJ, 4 QUARTS FRUIT

TOTAL JUICE: 7 QUARTS JUICE

Added to juices: Spirulina, hemp oil, kelp granules, Pure Synergy, bee pollen, and maca

Also taken: Vitalzym, Break Stone Tea, coconut oil (oh wow, this stuff is GOOD. I got some new coconut oil in Tucson for my skin, that has been quite dry in the AZ sunshine, but I tasted it and it is deadly good, creamy and sweet. I am going to oil up my skin from the inside out I think ☺ The make is Nutiva. 1 TBS a day if you are taking coconut oil) and water.

Personal Journal:

We went right from meditation this morning into a Juice Feasting presentation in…. Michigan!! Oh the joys of technology. David set up his presentation on a wall of our bedroom, got on to Skype, and was transported across the airwaves to a Juice Feasting retreat at Ronora where he was then projected onto a wall where he gave his Juice Feasting presentation to 25 people! Amazing. It was a lot of fun for us to visit Michigan, and here are some wonderful comments we got back after the presentation:

Dear David and Katrina,

Thank you so much for joining us on our 2008 Women's Juice Feasting Retreat at Ronora. Here are some comments from the participants:

"Phonomenal"
"Outstanding"
"Fantastic"
"Easy to follow, easy to take notes..."
"Lots of great info"
"...really appreciate the info for my daughter Hanna"
"...the highlight of our retreat!"
"Thrilled with the info for my daughter with shingles!"
"...so happy to hear the info that David has to share...."
"Thanks Katrina for your suggestions on emotional healing"
"Inspiring"
" For me it was such a beautiful compilation of research to highlight the issues that impact our health" (Mozell Lang Science consultant, Detroit, MI)
"...The studies on diabetes are powerful"
"empowering..."
"he presented options for us to take control of our lives"
"I love his energy... and that David and Katrina are coming together to combine their knowledge..."

PS: The place was buzzing after your presentation...Our juice feasting retreat has been so enriched ...thank you for sharing with us. We are more than inspired by your example... our journey is made easier by your work.

David setting up for presenting.
Talking to a group of people in Michigan! Right from the bedroom!

Thanks you guys! We are going to see what we can do to film this presentation and get it up on line soon, it really is an awesome presentation for getting excited about life transformation, health, Juice Feasting and live foods.

In other exciting news, David and I were interviewed for a feature in this month Pear Magazine! Our friend Melissa was the interviewer and she lovingly got some good tidbits out of us. Follow this link for more information. I just checked this issue out, and it was a “finally!” for me as I have been meaning to check out Pear Magazine ever since it first came out…I was not disappointed. The Talifero family was a huge source of inspiration to me when I was first moving to transform my life and eat raw foods, and I continue to be re-inspired by them. We are all so amazingly blessed and lucky to have so many resources at our fingertips at this moment in time, and to have such an amazing on-line community of support with blogs and forums!! I love you all!! It is very, very exciting to me to see the spread of this knowledge, and to know it is just sitting there radiating like a flower ready to be appreciated by all those who are ready to find it and see it!!

Enjoy your day, may it be bright and shining!

With love,

Katrina and David

Global Juice Feasty Day 42!

I Love Cozy Corners!
Juice Feast Day 42

The Daily Juice Journal:

This morning we made 5 quarts of GVJ with the usual stuff (and with celery!! Yum yum) Cucumber, celery, romaine, spinach, kale, cilantro, parsley, carrot, yam, and ginger. We also made four quarts of orange, and pineapple and two quarts of grapefruit garlic. Could you say “creatures of habit?”

DAVID:

2 QUARTS GVJ, 3 QUARTS FRUIT.

TOTAL JUICE: 5 QUARTS

KATRINA:

3 QUARTS GVJ, 3 QUARTS FRUIT

TOTAL JUICE: 6 QUARTS JUICE

Added to juices: Spirulina, hemp oil, Flax/DHA oil, kelp granules, Pure Synergy, bee pollen, and maca

Also taken: Vitalzym, Break Stone Tea, coconut oil and water.

Personal Journal:

A day of house cleaning today. While we were in Tucson yesterday we picked up some beautiful pillows for our cozy corner making project. We decided that a futon on the floor with an abundance of pillows suited our little bedroom much better than a couch, as well as being cheaper, not filling our bedroom with a big toxic hunk of foam that will off-gas for years to come, and feeling much more lounge-y and groovy. We also got some more bookshelves for our bedroom because we outgrew what shelf space we had a while ago and there were books EVERYWHERE!! So we spent a good part of yesterday setting up our new house, re-organizing the library, cleaning, dusting, vacuuming, and making wonderful living space improvements. Our home now feels EVEN BETTER!! A good spring cleaning and a little love go a long way for the home cleanse part of a Juice Feast.

We also had a wonderful afternoon visit from Mike Adams and his lovely wife Shea. Mike did an interview with David for his new radio show, which I will post the link for as soon as it is up, and David was able to get an interview from Mike about his experience with juicing. We will be adding that to one of our daily videos soon. FYI we have been filming almost everyday, but have fallen behind on the editing of the daily videos so keep your eyes open for the next installments on Global Juice Feast!! Hopefully by tomorrow we should have a new one up.

C’est tout mon cheri!!

See you on Day 43!

Hug hug, kiss kiss,

Katrina and David

Global Juice Feast Day 41!

I Love Orange Juice!! Cheers!!
Juice Feast Day 41

The Daily Juice Journal:

This morning we made 5 quarts of GVJ with the usual stuff (still no celery ☹) Then, we packed it all on ice in a cooler and headed out along the country road through the grassy, rolling hills and into the city of Tucson! While we were there we got 5 quarts of orange juice, what a treat to have juice made for us!

The girl who made our freshly squeezed orange juice. We brought our own jars!! She was very confused as to why someone would drink juice for 41 Days and longer, but she thought it was totally cool when we explained, and she lit up and wished us luck!!

DAVID:

2.5 QUARTS GVJ, 2.5 QUARTS FRUIT.

TOTAL JUICE: 5 QUARTS

KATRINA:

2.5 QUARTS GVJ, 2.5 QUARTS FRUIT

TOTAL JUICE: 5 QUARTS

Added to juices: Nothing today!

Also taken: Vitalzym, Break Stone Tea, and water.

Personal Journal:

We went into Tucson almost on a whim today. Around 6:30, after meditation, we decided it might be a good idea, and that we had enough to do to merit going in, so by 8:30 we had our GVJ made and we were on the road!

We started out the day in a café on 4th street, where David talked to all of his students over Skype and we had tea and I read. It was so lovely to be out and about, among the tribe of people, all colorful, eclectic, vibrant, and energetic. I am always struck by the energy of people when I have been hermited away for even a week. The city is full of people energy! It is strong!! It is bright, it is dark, it is reaching all kinds of different levels of all kinds of different developments. Fun fun fun. I have to admit, I really do love cafés. I have been known to work in a café or two (understatement) and I loved working in that people rich environment. Such a dense cross section of people from all different walks! From my sister Finnerty’s favorite song “Because it takes a world of differences to make a difference in our world!!” That’s it baby!

Morning Skype calls and tea at the Epic Cafe.
Tea with David, how could I not smile!!

From the hip little café, where the smells of muffins, cake, sandwiches, and coffee did naught to tempt these Feasters, we went off to do errands for the rest of the day. A truly peaceful day in the city, complete with bumping into old friends and a long visit to the second hand book store where I found several excellent books on medicinal herbs and David scored some Ken Wilber. We also stopped by our favorite Tucson grocery store and got more oranges, pineapple and CELERY!

We go home at 9:30, and went right to bed! So, I am writing this on Day 42.

Love to you all, now I am going to write about Day 42!

Katrina and David

Global Juice Feast Day 40!

I Love Honey! Yes, times are sweet!

Juice Feast Day 40

The Daily Juice Journal:

This morning I made 6 quarts GVJ with cucumber, spinach, romaine, parsley, carrot, yam, apple and ginger. I also made four quarts orange, pineapple and grapefruit, and three quarts grapefruit garlic.

DAVID:

3 QUARTS GVJ, 3.5 QUARTS FRUIT.

TOTAL JUICE: 6.5 QUARTS

KATRINA:

3 QUARTS GVJ, 3.5 QUARTS FRUIT and 1 QUART MC

TOTAL JUICE: 6.5 QUARTS JUICE

Added to juices: bee pollen, maca, spirulina, chlorella, flax/DHA oil, hemp oil, kelp granules, cayenne, and Vitamineral Green

Also taken: Vitalzym, Break Stone Tea, Antioxidant Extreme, and water.

Your Questions

Hi Katrina and David,

I went to my local health food store to get Chanca Piedra today. The only one that was available was the extract (STONE BREAKER (Chanca Piedra) compound, by HERB PHARM) . Should I be concerned about the small amount of alcohol while Juice Feasting or do you think it would be better if I add a dropper full to warm water to evaporate the alcohol?

~Tuliza

We Say:

You could certainly evaporate the alcohol by using this method. When I worked in the Dispensary at the Tree of Life, this is what we suggested for all of our alcohol based liquid supplements!! You will notice that the alcohol taste of the tincture is even stronger to you now while Juice Feasting than it would be otherwise. I would go ahead and evaporate it using warm water as you mentioned.

Herb Pharm does make a good one, so you will soon be breaking up all your stones!!

Personal Journal:

I made all the juice on my own this morning. I quite enjoyed it! It took me two hours to make 11 quarts (2.75 gallons!) of juice and do all the clean up. You should see our compost pile at this point! It has spread into two rather large piles of baby dirt. We really need to do something about it soon though, we are running out of room!

We go up early again this morning, and then after meditation went back to bed! We didn’t really mean to, we were just laying down for a cuddle, but we both fell into the most beautiful, deep, peaceful sleep EVER! I would get up in the middle of the night to meditate just to get sleep like that! I have felt like I am in a sweet daze all day as a result.

So, the reason I made all the juice this morning is because we got up at the same time as David had to make his first call! Oh well, sleeping in so sweetly was worth it.

I have been trying to remember to add cayenne to my GVJ juices, at least once a day. And today I also had MC with lots of cayenne. I have had spider veins on my legs since I was 19 and do not have a superbly strong vascular system, so I am wanting to up the cayenne a bit to help support all my precious little veins. What I love about my spider veins is that because they are all on my right leg I believe they are there as a trophy for all the many children I have carried around on my right hip for so many years. I have been caring for children since I was five and started changing my baby brother David’s diapers! Children have always been a great love of mine, and if I have spider veins as a result of carting around their extra weight on my hips, I am proud to have them!!

CONGRATULATIONS ON DAY 40!!

It feels like a rather important day, 40 days on juice! Who woulda thunk it?

Day 40 and still pooing! Yes, I didn’t do an enema this morning, and had nice, natural, all by myself big poo!! David has been enema-less for days now, and continues to go poo too!! Amazing!

Many juicy blessings,

Katrina and David

Global Juice Feast Day 39!

I Love Goji Berries!

Juice Feast Day 39

The Daily Juice Journal:

Back to our regular juice line up today! I hope that we aren't too boring as Juice Feasters, always making the same juices! The produce we picked up yesterday is BEAUTIFUL and lush and it couldn’t have been better unless from our own garden. Yes, it must be growing season again. The only thing that is sadly missing is celery, I don’t know why but there was not a head of celery available on the market for the week. We will have to drive in to Nogales if we want it for the week, and we most likely will once we run out of citrus, which will be SOON at the rate we drink it up.

This morning we made 3 quarts GVJ with cucumber, spinach, romaine, parsley, carrot, yam, apple and ginger. We also made two quarts orange, pineapple and grapefruit, two quarts orange, pineapple and goji berry, (just add the dried berries to your juice in the blender, blend, and strain out the berry pulp) and two quarts grapefruit garlic, and one quart watermelon lemon.

DAVID:

1 QUARTS GVJ, 3.5 QUARTS FRUIT.

TOTAL JUICE: 4.5 QUARTS

KATRINA:

2 QUARTS GVJ, 3.5 QUARTS.

TOTAL JUICE: 5.5 QUARTS JUICE

We both meant to drink one more quart of GVJ, but then we stayed over at Courtney and Thim's later than we had thought, so we filled up on good company rather than more juice!

Added to juices: bee pollen, maca, spirulina, flax/DHA oil, hemp oil, kelp granules, and Vitamineral Green

Also taken: Vitalzym, Break Stone Tea, and water.

Rainoshek’s (sometimes) Daily Tips;

Cleaning the Bathroom

How wonderful it is to scrub and clean.
Day by day, the heart and mind grow clearer.

Most of us do not like cleaning the bathroom. But when we work in full awareness of the present moment, we can find purity in each act. To purify means to become clear and calm. Cleaning the bathroom, we clear and purify our environment and ourselves.
In centers for meditation practice, often there is a vase of flowers in every bathroom. Flowers arranged with skill and care remind us that we can live in such a way to clarify and calm our hearts and minds. I hope you will put a vase of flowers in your bathroom at home.

~Thich Naht Hanh, Present Moment, Wonderful Moment.

Personal Journal.

Have I mentioned yet that I cut all of David’s hair off the other day? You have most likely seen it on the daily videos. So crisp and clean. After I did it, he was so ecstatic, loving every breath of wind, the falling shower water, my touch, the sunshine, all on his scalp. I wanted to shave my head too! I could feel my head asking to be naked, it cried out, “I want to feel the water drops, the wind, let me out of this eternal blanket of hair!!” (I have had long hair my whole life, the shortest being just below my shoulders) I felt emotionally it was the next step to letting go of my ego, my attachment to the way this body looks and how people react to it.

A good experiment in thinking.

I decided in the end to keep my hair. Perhaps at another time. I am still working on the release of ego and attachment though.

Michelle made an interesting point that I have been thinking a lot about, even before I read it. (I love this about the blogging community, that we can all discover aspects of our development and thoughts there in our friend’s words!) She wrote that weight loss, despite what it looks like, is a deeply spiritual practice. I whole heartedly agree, when weight loss is healthy, it most certainly is spiritual. When weight loss happens as a positive side affect of health, it is most certainly spiritual. It is respecting with great love the sacred body that we have been given to care for. It is enjoying the gift of physical strength, pleasure, enjoyments, and fitness. It is honoring the mother and father who brought us to life, including the Eternal Mother and Father. It is loving the planet and being gracious for all of its gifts. It is wanting to give back by creating beauty wherever we are simply by being a happy, healthy person. It is deep self love, and this always goes hand and hand for deep love of every being and thing.

Ken Wilber would agree too, as he says that weight lifting can be spiritual as well. I agree, as I believe to feel healthy and strong is a manifestation of our respect for the Divine Blueprint.

In One Taste, Ken mentions a book called the Body Project by Joan Brumberg, which tracks girls and their bodies over the last two centuries. A typical entry in the late eighteen hundreds ran: “To work seriously. To be dignified. Interest myself in others.” A typical entry today reads: “I will loose weight. Get new lenses, good makeup, new clothes, and accessories.” Brumberg comments “Before the twentieth century, girls simply did not organize their thinking around their bodies. Today they believe that the body is the ultimate expression of the self.”

I found this very interesting. What I see happening though, is that when women move beyond the body as an ultimate expression of self, their self knowledge and wisdom runs very deep. It has been, un-doubt-ably, a movement towards releasing ego and moving into a deeper awareness of Self. After all, we create and maintain a healthy body so that we can best create the loving work we are here to do!

I realize once again, the work on self begins anew with every moment!

We just ordered a bunch of books, and I am looking forward to reading A Woman’s Worth, and When Food is Love: Exploring the Relationship Between Eating and Intimacy, recommended by my friend Courtney, among many others. Although I am generally very happy with the way I eat, I am still wanting to focus on getting in touch with what happens when I eat for emotional reasons, which I still do quite often. I believe that yes, eating can be a deeply emotional and satisfying event, but it need not be a band-aid for something painful, troublesome, or irritating.

I just read a wonderful bit from Loving What Is by Byron Katie about these uncomfortable feelings that often lead us to eating when not hungry:

It is easy to be swept away by some overwhelming feeling, so it’s helpful to remember that any stressful feeling is like a compassionate alarm clock that says, “You’re caught in the dream.”
Depression, pain, and fear are gifts that say, “Sweet heart, take a look at what you’re thinking right now. You’re living in a story that isn’t true for you.”

She also points out “I have never experienced a stressful feeling that wasn’t caused by attaching to an untrue thought. Behind every uncomfortable feeling, there is a thought that isn’t true for us. “The wind shouldn’t be blowing” “My husband should agree with me” “I am too fat” We have a thought that argues with reality, then we have a stressful feeling.”

I know whenever I inquire into my unpleasant feelings, this is always true! And often the thought contains the word “want” or “should” One of the most common, stressful thoughts to enter my head and often goes unnoticed until I am feeling really sad is “I want to go home.” I seem to fall into thinking this, like a mantra, whenever I am frustrated, confused, overwhelmed, or sad. I have begun to pay very close attention to whenever this phrase pops into my head, and instead I feel “I am home.”

We have faithfully been getting up at 4:45 am to meditate! This means that meditation, morning cuddles, and juice making are all done by around 7:30 or 8, leaving lots of time for some exercise before David’s first consultation. This morning we did the full Bikram’s yoga session, yesterday we went on a long, early morning walk. I LOVE this schedule! This really was one of my main goals of Juice Feasting, to get into a regular meditation and exercise routine. Happy, happy, happy Katrina.

We spent the evening visiting with the lovely Courtney and Thim. We went over to look at a couch that they have for sale, and ended up staying until bedtime, we all had so much to talk about! I love those two, kiss kiss, hug hug.

That's all for today folks! See you on Day 40!!

Love, kiss kiss, hug hug,

Katrina and David

Global Juice Feast Day 38!

I Love Greens!

Juice Feast Day 38

The Daily Juice Journal:

Today was a weird juice making day because it was pick up bulk produce day and we used most of our produce up yesterday. So, this morning we made two quarts GVJ with mostly carrot and cucumber, and romaine, red leaf lettuce, and green leaf lettuce. We also made three quarts grapefruit garlic juice, two quarts watermelon lemon juice, and one quart tomato, cucumber, and lettuce juice. Once we came home with produce we made two quarts orange, pineapple, apple, and raspberry juice, and two quarts parsley, spinach, apple, ginger, and lemon juice.

DAVID:

2 QUARTS GVJ, 3.5 QUARTS FRUIT.

TOTAL JUICE: 5.5 QUARTS

KATRINA:

2 QUARTS GVJ, 3.5 QUARTS FRUIT, 1 QUART TOMATO JUICE.

TOTAL JUICE: 6.5 QUARTS JUICE

Added to juices: bee pollen and Vitamineral Green

Also taken: Vitalzym, Break Stone Tea, and water.

Personal Journal.

We ran out of MSM yesterday!! It will be ok though because we have 10 POUNDS coming in the mail!! That should last us a while, no sulfur deficiencies in this house!!

I was superbly out of sorts today, with a fit of the most intense anger I can remember having in a long time. I felt like it was going to burn through my chest!! It made my skin prickle, my body sweat, and my back ache! I have been watching myself since beginning the Break Stone tea though, and have noticed many different memories flooding through as I go into deeper liver cleansing, and I am celebrating that. I had a very sad memory flood across my emotional vision yesterday that made me feel I was back in my 8 year old body!! It was crazy how vivid the moment was! Similarly today, my anger made me feel like I had time warped to the past, as I remembered just how much anger I stuffed down over the years. I no longer experience anger like that, and today’s had nothing to do with the present moment, and I had forgotten just what it felt like physically to be that angry! What a nice thing to forget, and then to remember in the context of detox…….I was feeling so tough that I turned tearful eyes to Dr. Richard Anderson, of Cleanse and Purify Thyself, and found my holy emotional cleansing grail within:

“Unresolved emotions have a profound effect upon us. They influence every system and metabolic activity in our bodies- the mind, heart, immunity, glands, muscles, etc.

You can prove for yourself this theory that emotions are related to the cause of dis-ease. While cleansing, observe carefully the old memories, thoughts, feelings, desires, tastes, and smells as they arise from the depths of your subconscious. Memories and pictures may come back with vivid clarity even though you thought that you had totally forgotten them. (Do they ever!) If you begin feeling unexpected fears, angers, resentment, etc., you will be experiencing some of your causes of dis-ease. Whether it’s a dis-ease that exists now or one that will be in the future matters not, it needs to be transformed (yes, I agree!)

When old experiences arise while cleansing, trace them to the source. Many of them may be the actual feelings that have been the primal cause of a specific dis-ease that has concerned you. Should this happen, rejoice! (Oh, I am rejoicing!)

And visualize yourself in perfect health and happiness, and most important, see yourself as a loving and forgiving person. During these times you may find it difficult to maintain a positive balance, but if your intent is strong enough, it will carry you through. Fortunately, while cleansing, these emotions and memories are temporary.

Imagine my joy when a colleague told me about a book that supported, from the highest levels of science, what I had been teaching for the past 12 years! I purchased the book, entitled Molecules of Emotions, by Candice Pert, Ph.D.

In her book she explains that emotions link mind and body and that emotions run every system in our bodies. She clearly expresses that repressed emotions are stored in the body at the cellular level and that “virtually all illness, if not psychosomatic in foundation, has a definite psychosomatic component.” She explains how the “molecules of emotion run every system in our body.” She points out that the body and mind are not separate, and we cannot treat one with out the other, and that the body can and must be healed through the mind, and that the mind can and must be healed by the body.”

So, after reading this, breathing deeply for a time, speaking with David, crying, and laughing, and drinking some crazy orange, pineapple raspberry juice, I feel 100% different, and happy!!

Thank YOU Dr. Anderson!!

I just wanted to note that our nut mylk bags from The Raw Food World are still going strong. Not a single rip, tear, or squirt of pulp, fantastic! And they have been working steady for 38 Days! I have tried going the paint straining bag route in the past, but find that they rip SO quickly, and although they are much cheaper, you have to buy many more which also means more waste that goes to the landfill of broken bags. Every little bag adds up!! You can get one at a time, or more practically four at a time!

Remember that YOU are your greatest gift to yourself and the dear, beautiful planet!

Katrina and David

Global Juice Feast Day 37!

We Love Raspberries!

Juice Feast Day 37

The Daily Juice Journal:

This morning we got up and made five quarts of GVJ with cucumber, celery, romaine, spinach, red leaf lettuce, green leaf lettuce, carrot, and yam. We also made four quarts of orange, blood orange, and pineapple, and two of grapefruit garlic.

DAVID:

2 QUART GVJ, 3 QUARTS FRUIT.

TOTAL JUICE: 5 QUARTS

KATRINA:

3 QUARTS GVJ, 3 QUARTS FRUIT.

TOTAL JUICE: 6 QUARTS JUICE and 1 QUART Master Cleanser and water from 1 young coconut.

Added to juices: MSM, bee pollen, Vitamineral Green, maca, Flax/DHA oil, hemp oil, spirulina, and Kelp Granules.

Also taken: Vitalzym, MSM, Break Stone Tea, and water.

Personal Journal:

I was a juice monster again today! 6 quarts was not quite enough, and I fully enjoyed the spicy lemonade AKA Master Cleanser.

Another busy work day, but we did make time to sit in the sun and read. Such a treat. One of the books I am reading right now is Grace and Grit by Ken Wilber, a truly heart opening book about the story of the life and death of his soul mate Treya. David suggested that perhaps I wait until AFTER the intensity of the Juice Feast to read this book, but I was magnetized to it and find Treya in my dreams now. If you know someone with cancer, please read this book. If you know someone who is dying, please read this book. If you want to embrace the fact that you too will someday die, please read this book.

We began our commitment to get up at five in the mornings to meditate this morning, and that felt really good. I love being up for the sunrise, watching the movement of the day. Circadian rhythms are best joined in on for this girl, I really do feel out of sync when I don’t follow along with the sunshine by staying up late and sleeping in.

Have a beautiful Sunday!

LOVE!! YOUR JUICE!!!

Katrina and David