Reinventing Robyn

Juicy!

2009-06-30T19:08:00.000-07:00

Hi!

Today I did my first day of "Juice Feasting" -- and loved it. It was wonderful to share the time and space with my friend and raw buddy - SaRAW. She's awesome and so inspiring....very committed to her raw food path.

So today we spent most of the day at my house.....quipped with our laptops, my children, dog Frankie and bags of fresh veggies! She even brought over her tray of wheat grass and she hand juiced us 2 batches during the day. I actually liked it.

Many people talk about how they hate greens....but I love greens. I guess it's to my benefit. I love greens and I love vegetables. I have no problem whatsoever drinking a glass of vegetable juice. Here's what I made today:

Juice from one large sweet potato and 3/4 head of chinese cabbage (sprinkle of red pepper for spice.) This juice was delicious. I have never juiced potatoes before....it was yummy!

After a dose of wheat grass juice that SaRAW made....I juiced these together: 2 small green apples, 2 small beets with the stems (don't forget to juice the stems....for extra minerals), 1 cucumber with skin on, and a few extra bits of cabbage. This juice was SO delicious!!

The last one of the afternoon was made my SaRAW. She made her favorite - green lemonade. I don't have the exact recipe but I know that today she used 2 lemons (no rind), lots of green leafy vegetables (kale), celery and cucumber. I love this one and it staves off hunger more then the others b/c of the lemon juice and greens (very alkalizing.)

I did get hungry during the day (we both did) and drank some water in between juices which did help some.

Today was a 3/4 day juice feast. I had a Larabar (mostly raw) around 5 pm and then a salad with some protein for dinner (cooked) with my kids. Although they had juice, potato chips, cooked food and ice cream...I have to say I stayed pretty pure in the face of all the food that they ate. :)

I am going to do another day tomorrow (Wednesday) -- at least another 3/4 day and see how I feel. I felt good today actually.

Stay tuned!

In health,
RAWbyn "Juicy" Vogel

Juice Feasting....preparation

2009-06-22T18:20:00.000-07:00

Hi,

It's been a while since I've written in my blog. Started a new business and everything...but everything I do includes raw foods and a journey to creating greater health.

I've continued to add raw foods into my diet and have mastered using a juicer, Vitamix and dehydrator in the last year. I've created 1000s of green smoothies and shared many of them with others. :) My favorite is a simple blend of filtered water, banana and greens (collard or kale.) Often I add bee pollen or some other super food. Try www.radicalhealth.com for David Favor's superb information on "raw super foods." I think they're great.

But lately, I've been juicing almost every day; sometimes more then once per day! I loooovvveee juicing! When I drink the juice, my cells do a happy dance. They feel like they are bursting with energy when I drink the juice. My favorite these days is collard greens and pear. I don't follow recipes, I follow my taste buds. I juice one or two pears and then I add the collard greens, a few at a time. When it taste REALLY green with a bit of sweet, it's done! (some of you may want it more sweet, so use less greens and more fruit....either way....YUM!)

My dream is to do what is called a "juice feast" -- it feels like a reinventing of myself on more then one level (physical, emotional, spiritual.) This is not a fast...it's a FEAST on juice (but only juice.....about a gallon a day.)

I was about to start yesterday but realized that I am off to a week of work and vacation in New York City so it makes more sense to dive into the juiciness when I return on July 6. But I 'will' spend these weeks preparing in some way/shape/form. I will continue juicing as much as possible. I will begin meditating more regularly. I will drink plenty of filtered water every day. I will continue with a diet that is 50% raw or more.

I invite you to join me! And if you choose to join me, please email me and let me know (FlirtingExpert@gmail.com)

For more information on juice feasting, go to www.JuiceFeasting.com. There's plenty of information. And my plan is to blog every day while I am juice feasting and keep you updated on my progress....on my successes and on my challenges.

In the meantime, I wish you good health!

Warmly, Robyn

Raw Dance

2008-05-23T21:47:00.000-07:00

It's really late....or rather, really early on Saturday morning. I just got back from my usual Friday night dance (www.dancefriday.org) and for some reason, I'm not quite ready for sleep.

I haven't written on my blog in a few months. I guess I've been healing....and that takes my full attention. That and my 2 children. :) Seriously though, I did stop writing and now I'm inspired again.

The dance is raw when I am present in my body and connected to my heart. Then the energy flows around me in an authentic and lovely way. My naked heart leading the dance.

My body happily achy and weary from the jumping, twirling, twisting, sliding, shoulder shrugging, hand holding, hugging, shifting, opening, jiggling, wiggling, flying......and now, I will drop off to sleep.

In the rawness of the after the dance, Robyn

Raw in The Early Morning!

2008-02-29T02:47:00.000-08:00

Hi there! Outside my window, the awakening of a new day. A New Day. What a miracle to be alive to witness it from here. The backdrop of orange, yellow and blue behind the darkness of the trees and their baby branches. It's gorgeous out there....and from in here, I've been waiting for the sun.

The sun; that amazing star that provides us with Life. I am imagining the earth right now receiving what it needs for growth. The earth needn't 'do' anything....but simply receive what it is given. By the hands of those that planted (or by the wind that lay the seeds), the earth receives. The earth receives nurturance - water, oxygen, carbon dioxide, love, food. All that it needs to support new growth of beautiful plants and trees.

And we, the abundant receivers of the earth's bounty, rejoice in what is given.

One of the beautiful things about eating raw foods is that every moment, I get to thank the earth for what I am about to receive. It's so much more obvious to me that someone planted, someone picked, etc...what I am about to eat, when I am looking down at a raw avocado, or grapefruit or delicious mixed salad that my friend, Eva, made for me!

When food is so packaged and processed, I tend to forget to be thankful....even if the taste is good.

As I move through the layers upon layers of grief, I am reminded this morning to be thankful.

Raw Love, Robyn

Rawness

2008-02-12T19:20:00.000-08:00

Hi,

I haven't written in about a month as life in the raw lane has taken many twists and turns. It seems extraordinary even to write in this moment of incredible raw-ness. But alas, that is why I am writing.

My Beloved died last week of Leukemia. Yes. He died on February 5. On a Tuesday....at 3:38 am. At least that is the time I believe that I heard him take his last quiet breath.

It was an amazing experience and despite the depth of grief that I feel, I also feel the awe of witnessing Death. It is very raw.

As Death moved in, it awoken me. I thought my Beloved woke me up at 3:15 am and perhaps he did...but I believe also that Death moving in my energy field, woke me up. I felt Fear....the Fear of a young child perhaps.

I was so thankful for being woken up because those next 20 minutes were Dale's last breaths. I listened in a dreamy-sleep-like-awake state to his breathing....that had moved from a heavy, deep breath, to a soft one. And then the breaths became less frequent and then suddenly, they stopped. And the Quiet was so loud.

I put my hands on him and felt only stillness. I felt his warm body slowly get cold. I 'saw' a bubble above and inside it an ecstatic, alive, vital, full ENERGY. My Beloved's energy that I had so missed these last months of illness. All at once, I had compassion for what he himself probably had also been missing. It was a beautiful thing to remember that aliveness...that after being dampened for so long, was hard to connect with. It was his Essence; and it stayed around for a while before departing.

Rawness....the raw feelings I feel are so good. So earthy, so real, so what life is all about.

And I know that eating raw foods daily offers me the vital, alive, essence of Life that I strive to express every day.

With Love, Robyn

First Post on Raw 4 Holistic Health

2008-01-12T19:33:00.000-08:00

Hi there! So I decided to start a blog. The purpose is multi-fold - one is because I want to write and I think this is good format to begin with. The other reason is to begin to explore the concept of "Raw 4 Holistic Health."

Today, when I was supposed to be listening to a lecture, my creative brain kicked in (this happens quite often actually) and I began brainstorming what "raw" means to me. Here's some of what I came up with:

Raw Truth
Vulnerable
Naked
Raw foods
Depth of feelings (raw feelings)
Health and well-being
Stillness
Breath
Free Spirit
and more...............

Thus begins my journey into raw foods (which begun last August 2007) with the keen awareness that eating raw foods is not just about Eating Raw Foods. It's about so much more that extends into all the fibers of my being; into the deep layers of body, mind, soul and spirit (hence, the number 4.)

And this is some of what I will write about.

Raw Love,
Robyn