Health « Yummy Wakame

Oct8

Catharsis

Today’s 5am meditation was EXTREMELY powerful! 15 minutes of intense fast hyperventilation through the nose while I used my whole body and pumped my arms to shove the energy out on the outbreath. It creates a massive build up of energy and emotions and deep seated memories that swirl around. Then the music goes nuts for 15 minutes of going absolutely crazy, screaming, yelling, crying, pounding the walls, jumping around, laughing uncontrollably, whatever I wanted as loudly as I wanted! I went completely nuts. Then 15 minutes of exhausting yourself completely by jumping up and down with arms up in the air shouting “hoo hoo hoo!” from the belly. Then standing frozen in silence with arms up in the air for 15 while the energy tingles up and down the body and everything settles down slowly, and finally gorgeous dancing by which point I was just completely tripping out. Mmmm. Yeah. I let go of a LOT of old unwanted stuff. And celebrated life too!

They’re thinking of doing this for 21 days in a row here at InanItah, which I dont think I will be here for the full length of it to complete. But every day I do it, I heal a little bit more. Its wonderful how great I feel all day afterwards.

For more info about Osho’s Dynamic Meditation you can go here. Its available as an mp3, guided. I’d recommend finding a place somewhere to do it where you don’t feel strange about making a massive noise. Like a padded room, or the wilderness ;)

Woop!

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Aug27

Naked in the jungle

The Internet has gone down but I have to document this for posterity and somehow get it up later. It’s 9pm thursday night. A massive lightning storm has hit. The rain is so hard it’s coming through the roof of the temple and blowing in from the sides. A search party went out to assess the situation. The roads are washing away. There is a river where the road was, so strong you can go rafting on it. We’re on the side of a volcano. You can hear rocks landsliding boom boom boom! The lightning stretches across the entire horizon and is constant. It feels like we’re in the middle of a giant version of those weird electric zappy balls.

We’re all huddled in the centre laughing and hanging out waiting for the storm to clear a little so we can clean up the outdoor kitchen and go to bed. A scraggly joint is being passed around eliciting wild and amazing stories.

As if all this isn’t strange enough, young, natural, strikingly beautiful women have slipped out of their soaked clothes and are running around stark naked in the rain trying to get a tarp up, laughing and squealing. And my belly is full of local dark chocolate and giggles. I LOVE this lightning.

I really am in heaven.

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Update: the roads washed away leaving canyons and boulders from the volcanic landslide. The “municipal” water pipes also got smushed so we have no water. But the Internet is back up! And Kalima made some beautiful art on me today.

“La vida no es esperar a que la tormenta pase… Es aprender a bailar bajo la lluvia”

(Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass. It’s about learning to dance in the rain.”)

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Aug24

Paradise has its price

I just successfully navigated 4 faffing very grumpy, premenstrual women who doubted my sense of direction the entire time through thick and winding jungle in pitch dark, torrential rain, close lightning strikes and screaming, on paths that had become rivers and steep boulders to climb down the volcano for over an hour each way… to civilization and pizza. This was after I’d already walked 4 hours to the beach in rubber boots and rubbed all the skin off my ankles.

(Reminder to self: this is why I usually backpack and adventure with men.)

Though I have to hand it to them. They are all pretty brave for girly girls. Got muddy, sweaty, climbed through barbed wire fences and risked all for pizza. And I love them. I hang out with these people 24 hours a day and never get bored of them. And they’re always up for a hug.

It’s time to crash. I have an eyeball growing between my big and second toe and ankles to lick. I think saliva might help? Good night!

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Aug21

Manifesting a Dream

I found out tonight that I will be doing an Ayahuasca ceremony in a few months when I’m ready. I dont know where I’m going to do it, which country, what its going to cost or any of the details, but I do know I need to do this. My feeling is it would be a good thing to do about a fortnight before returning to the States. It will bring everything I have learned together, bring all my remaining secrets out of their lurky little corners of the mind so I can deal with them, purge me and prepare me for returning to the States.

Ayahuasca is a magical potion from the Amazon basin that produces a very powerful visionary experience. Indigenous people say that during their trance, which lasts approximately four hours, they enter the world of the spirits and communicate with them, while psychologists consider DMT to be one of the hallucinogens, or psychedelics: “substances which make the soul visible.” I have heard this is not a fun experience. You don’t take this brew to party. It is a very difficult journey that can take you to the darkest and lightest places of your mind, and so it requires presence and commitment.

I have felt called to do this for years but have never felt ready. Now I feel very close. Somehow this is going to happen.

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Aug20

YES

YES to letting go of the past. YES to LOVE. YES to happiness. YES to free spirit. YES to LIFE! Smoulder with love. BURN with LIFE! Passion and awe in every loss, gratefulness in every gain. Keeping the heart open always, never surrendering this freedom to grief, loss or pain. YES to LIFE!!!

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Aug8

InanItah – The Kitchen

This is our temporary kitchen setup. Its such a cute little shack but its going to be torn down once the big one is complete so I wanted to capture it for posterity.

More videos from Ometepe Island

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Jul25

Limits

Chad – this one’s for you:

I love RADIOLAB! A subject that has been on my mind a lot the past few years or so is finding out what I am capable of. What we can endure and overcome. I believe that deep down all of us have the potential to be top athletes or thinkers or something beyond the bounds of normal strength when we tap into those reserves, when we push ourselves past what feels like the limit. For the past few years I have been curious to know what I can endure, what I can overcome. I don’t really know why except just to know.

The RadioLab podcast LIMITS revealed some interesting things to me that I will use in future to reach my full potential.

How much can you jam into a human brain? How far can you push yourself past feelings of exhaustion? In this hour of Radiolab, we examine human limits.

Listen to the show

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Jun16

Danny’s Kick-Ass Veggie Burger Patties

These are amazingly tasty and spicy veggie burgers that the top supermarket brands just dont come close to. I just found Danny’s recipe in the RV. here you go: (more…)

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May29

Gone To Pot

Growing, smoking and consuming cannabis is totally legal in Colorado, as long as you have a valid medical reason and a Medical Marijuana License endorsed by a doctor. Dispensaries are everywhere, on just about every block in the city. In the tiny town of Nederland near where I live there are more and more dispensaries cropping up every month. My favourite is by far Grateful Meds. They really care about their patients, they have a great range including rares, edibles, sodas and really hook their regulars up very generously. I chose them to celebrate after having just got my edibles license and will never forget that special day. I love Grateful Meds and will always stick with them.

Mark Rose, owner of the Grateful Meds dispensary in Nederland, weighs out an eighth of an ounce of medical marijuana for a client.