The Reno Raw Food and Yoga Challenge Wrap Up!
The Raw food and Yoga Challenge Wrap Up: click for larger pic
Reno:
A city who is booming with all kinds of magical talent. both in music, performance, and healthy awareness.
Challenge:
A personal realistic goal/challenge that enables you to make some room in your lifestyle to create change. Honoring yourself and your path, loving, exploring, and providing for change.
Raw Food:
raw food and iphones make great friends
Magical earthly elements that provide bliss, shiny healthy skin, and insane levels of energy.
Yoga:
a lifestyle minded approach to adding new routines, movements, and food choices to ones body. Assisted with movements and body awareness that helps understand that life is all about the journey
What a Month We had: A magical collaboration between @1rawgirl, the yogic lounge, vod deli, and boho crush. We are so grateful for the awareness, adventures, and love our community all shared during March. The effects are still spreading and continuing to connect and share awareness.
Some things we learned:
1. raw food tastes amazing, it’s not like the vegetables and such your mother and or grandmother use to make you eat as a child, before you could leave the table. fruits and veggies have really evolved.
anastasia and mikey j eat raw!
2. there is so much variety and seasonings, flavors, textures, involved with raw food preparations and consumption.
3. raw food creates a lot of intrigue and interest in a lot of people, families, rock stars, yogis, girlfriends, boyfriends, artists, business owners, etc.
4. yoga makes you feel amazing. it develops a deeper connection with ones body, how it works, why it works, and why it is so important to take care of your body.
5. enjoying raw food is best when you understand that you can still be a person who enjoys eating raw food. you don’t have to only eat raw food, it’s just really fun to add it to your lifestyle.
6. when getting naked in front of your friends, it can be overwhelming at first, and then once the shock wears off, the feeling is quite liberating, and the self love floods in.
mikey and his hot pants! had to share! 
7. community is essential to life
8. vegetables make great props for a group nude shoot
9. the vod deli makes amazing raw food. every week it is growing and providing more and more
10. no matter who you are, a handstand is possible
11. raw food transitions can create a lot of gas, surround yourself with great resources
12. it’s fun to do yoga with your friends
13. sometimes we don’t breathe enough, a nice focused hour a day of breath does wonders
14. wether it’s once a week or once a day, yoga is always necessary and beneficial
Margo nurtured our community for an entire month
15. you can call in an order to pick up at the vod deli. there is always time and a way to eat healthy
16. twitter is a great reminder and a great way to stay connected with a community.
17. it’s best to have more than one recipe for smoothies
18. there is always going to be down time, “trying” to stay busy to keep the mind distracted from thoughts doesn’t work. address the issue, make peace, activate self love and keep moving forward.
19. avocados are amazing for the skin as well as eating. a simple avocado mask for 15 minutes does wonders! firming, shining, amazing!
20. raw foods can help clean the body, as a result mens and women ejaculation can taste and smell good enough to eat or should I say SWALLOW
21. it’s fun to be in pictures!
22. raw food dinner parties rule! we will continue them with our community!
23. surrounding yourself with useful resources and visual inspirations help a lot!
24. real life always keeps you active and full of activity, the internet is more timeless and makes it easy to stay connected and inspired.
we heart the yogic lounge!
25. fruits and veggies are medicine
26. dry skin brushing creates the softest skin ever, it’s easy, and the best brush is necessary!
kate and kendra shared love and inspiration
27. reno has a lot of LOVE to offer
28. a lot of people want to learn how to give great blow jobs: great topic for conversation
29. everybody has magic!
30. always follow your dreams
georgette and baldo talk about inspiration and need for community
I am so grateful for the magical community we thrive with here in Reno! We are forever in love with you all. Your love, help, kindness, and willing to participate and try new and exciting foods warms my heart more than you will ever know. I hope we can continue the healthy and nourishing dinner parties. It sure is a great time to all get together! I enjoyed it so much!
My dearest Margo,
I cannot thank you enough for stepping up out of the twitter universe and jumping in! Your love and determination made all of this possible! I hope you are aware of how much power and ability you have inside of you! I imagine that you can pretty much do anything and everything you desire. I enjoyed watching you blossom! I know that the road was not always so smoothe, and that those times really helped you learn a lot more about the person you are. You delivered with grace and compassion, and always an open mind and soul. I hope you are giving yourself so much love everyday for the rest of your life! I also hope you give that boyfriend of yours lots of blow jobs and love! We appreciate him sharing you with us for an entire month!!!
And now you my dearest and most amazing community:
Please help me spread the word. If Margo has not already been in touch with you, then I am hoping you will take a moment to write down a short story about your experiences with Margo. As you know Margo is building up her reputation in the raw food community, and I know that our love and information about our experiences with her will really be helpful and provide her not only with memories of love and gratitude, but with amazing work experiences. Together we are community and sharing our love with Missouri is exactly where it is needed now most!
what a magical month it was! love and gratitude to all of you beautiful earthlings!
georgette and shone
to continue following raw and earthly adventures:
I M on a Journey
1 Raw Girl
We Like It Raw
Loving Raw
Raw Food Right Now
The Reno Raw Food and Yoga Challenge invited you to a Raw Taste event at the Vod Deli
Join us at the Vod Deli Thursday March 26: ongoing 4pm-8pm
Another delicious adventure is upon us! The Vod Deli is hosting a Raw Taste Event Thursday March 26: ongoing from 4pm-8pm. There will be all kinds of yummy samples of treats, knowledge, and community.
Why Raw?
This challenge has brought up a lot of communication in our community recently. I love it! One of the biggest questions or thoughts was because we used the word challenge, that many thought that they had to be involved and be raw for the entire month. I am here to tell you that we don’t live in a world such as this. Honestly unless you are truly prepared and take it on as a personal challenge to be 100% Raw the entire month, that is up to you. We will not enforce anything, and are so thankful for your time, wether it be one day, one week, one event, or just one look through. For the rest of us, we all feel that we wanted to challenge ourselves personally to incorporate more raw foods into our diets on a daily or weekly basis.
Eating Raw personally makes me feel light and happy. It makes my stomach and digestion feel better and operate more smoothly. My skin shines and gets it’s healthy glow, and my eyes are bright and I can see better. I sleep better, I have more energy, and I am even happier than I ever thought I could be. Actually the list goes on and on and on. But honestly to really notice these changes it takes one, especially new to raw foods, a transition period. Sometimes the path get’s a little bumpier before it gets better. And yes this becomes a challenge sometimes. Nevertheless a challenge that can be a success.
Our goal through the challenge was to help introduce our community both online and in reno to Raw Foods. No pressure, we will never tell you what you have to do. On this website we frolick with all parties 18 and over, and therefore are all adults who can truly make their own decisions. We are just simply here to show you some amazing ideas, and are here to support you should you jump in.
The results have been amazing. Our challenge has already brought so many people in our community together! Such a melting pot of individuals. We are all so grateful for this opportunity! 1rawgirl the yogic lounge and the Vod Deli have made the experience the best ever!!
If you are just now joining in, it’s never too late! Here are some ways for you to find out what’s going on and stay involved:
1. email 1rawgirl at margojakobi@gmail.com
2. follow us on twitter:
@1rawgirl @yogiclounge @bohobites @voddeli
3. blogs to read:
1rawgirl(this blog will link you to so many resources)
I Heart Veggies
keep checking in with this blog
4. there are event calendars on the first two blogs, find out what is going on in reno, and if you are online, find out when we will be live streaming. we still have pamper night, asian night, mexican night, peace dance, adult party , and more. If you are in the reno area and want to spend some time with Margo aka 1rawgirl, just email her and set up a time to get together. We are all about spontaneous organic community involvement. We understand that each of us have lots of things to tend to in our lives, so we have tried to set this up the most convenient with flexibilities as possible.
by the way this Saturday there is a raw food potluck at Bens House. He is one of the raw food chefs at the Vod deli. Jump right in, a great way to meet other raw foodies. I am going to try and be there, but we have a floating photoshoot that needs to land, and it looks like it’s going to be during the same time.
Many ways to get involved. And we will continue our raw food community even after the month is over. Keep in touch! We would love to hear from you!
eat well feel well
just when you thought you might miss a bohemian burlesque show!!!
bohemian burlesque returns for 4 shows at the studio on 4th, at the end of February and beg of March
mark your calendars!!!
The Divine Luscious Nipples has been working working working away, commanding the troupe, making rehearsals, and making magic!
Get you tickets now! The show always sells out!
you can purchase tickets at: $12
The Melting Pot
Prism Magic
Dicology
I am so excited to see the acro yoga performance choreographed by Kareli Kairos!
Get Raw in Reno
join gcrush as she goes on a magically delicious adventure
what do you think? besides the recent awareness of the anti-banana group on facebook who’s members include @galadarling and @jakemoney, I have to admit, I like the appeal of bananas. Sorry guys! I’m twisted okay! I’m twisted!!!!
this will be a place where I am going to communicate about our challenge, and my thoughts and pictures during my challenge. @1rawgirl and I are going to provide you all with so many online resources. Even if you don’t live in reno, we are going to do our best to bring a little rawness and thanks to the @yogiclounge, some daily poses and inspiration for you via the internet! (that tumblr blog is still being finished, don’t worry the acro yoga picture on there if you are seeing it while it is up, is not what the poses will look like! haha it’s just a picture that I uploaded while I was building their tumblr for them) plus so much more! march is the perfect month of the year to do some spring cleaning, inside and outside of the body!!!
I look forward to sharing my adventures with you!
photography: bohocrush photoshoot release: Acro Yoga 16 pics
acro yoga love
Here are 16 reasons why you should check out acro yoga! If you want to learn acro yoga! Then follow the @yogiclounge. We are so grateful to have the 2 certified acro yoga instructors in Reno!!!!
Yoga is a magical movement and a great companion for anything in your life. we love the yogic lounge here in reno! magical energy, and if you check out their website you will discover that there is an entire world of magical movement going on!
yogic lounge in reno
we are artists that support our community and other passionate artists. we live for magically delicious adventures!
we welcome you to become a part of our world! Here is how:
1. collaborate with us. shoot with us, we’ll give you a membership to our website and welcome you will open arms into our community. you’ll receive pictures, love and many more treats coming for collaborators in 2009.
2. only like to be a voyeur. That is okay, we like to look too. You can join our website and support the adventure. If you feel like creating a profile on Planet Crush: ( the new bohocrush private community) we welcome you to do so. Or again, you can just watch.
so there it is! we welcome you to become a part of our magically delicious adventures, on whatever level makes you all warm and fuzzy!!!!
kisses
georgette
photography: bohocrush photoshoot release: Acro Yoga in the desert 17 pics
acro yoga
acro yoga is such an inspiring form of movement. each shoot we have ever done, has shown so much light on us. the grace of the movements, the connection between the two people involved! the communication, the trust. it’s equisite!
when laura and jenna wanted to shoot, we were exstatic! they are simply amazing and beautiful and bright! big smiles, the kindest energy, and sitting on the sidelines like I did, I watched in amazement as these two goddesses flew away!
have you ever watched people perform acro yoga? well, it goes something like this. lots of communication, trust, and focused intention. two people not really even aware that the camera is on them. why? because they are so in tune with each other’s bodies, to support, hold, and manuever, that there is less time to get caught up with the camera. It’s so awesome to watch.
the term is “flying”. you can be the base, which should explain itself, and fly your partner, and then vice versa. constant communication, and movement, support of muscles, and skeletal integrity. oh I could go on for days!
the girls rocked their first photo shoot. They knew they wanted to be be out in the desert! and we knew just the spot to take them! oh incredible! we hope you enjoy this series of 17 pics. You can view them as a member of bohocrush.
did you know you can learn acro yoga at the yogic lounge here in reno? well if you didn’t, you do now! I look forward to the 10am friday classes, as well as the first friday of every month at 7pm flying times! and guess what if you have a google calendar like me, you can add the classes with an easy click to your own calendar!
Health: The laughter yoga class was the best ever!
Wow! I really enjoyed the laughter yoga class today at the yogic lounge. It was such a breathe of fresh air!
The yoga space at the yogic lounge is not like your typical yoga space. You’ll find all kinds of fun and magically inspiring events.
*roller disco birthday parties
*laughter classes
*dj’s and dance parties
*acro yoga
*massage
*hula hooping
*strip classes
just to name a few. an organic combustion of all energies that unite, and come together, to share, love, inspiration, health, and good times.
immediately upon walking into the studio, I sat down and was loosening up while I was waiting for the class to begin, talking with friends I have not seen in a while. Immediately Mikey J moved to me and inquired about the tension in my back. (this place is heaven!!) I really enjoyed the love and nourishment I received from his touch today. Mikey J is a fantastic massage therapist, acro yogi, and all around fantastic man!
Lynn the instructor for today, is no stranger to me. I have known her and her daughter ana for some time. Ana has brought so much joy and peace and whimsey to my life. I am so blessed by the people around me.
~Laughter~
The activities were simple, short, silly, happy, and I have not laughed like that in a long time. The breathe work alone filled me up and made my entire body feel light! The connection and love in that room is so welcoming, so inviting, and let me tell you quite addicting!
I was able to get a little streaming at the end of our class. The video is a little shaky, the internet connection was troubled, however, you still get a chance to see the beautiful smiling faces, feel the laughter, and connect.
If you are new, curious, or a seasoned yogi, the doors are wide open with welcoming arms. Any person, at any level of their path is welcome to come on in, and share the love.
I am looking forward to a couple of yoga classes a week. They have noon classes that fit in my schedule! I hope to see some of you there!
there will be another laughter class next month. I hope to see many of your beautiful and smiling faces there.
kisses
georgette
aka @gcrush
