Balancing Your Body and Mind

Eating as if Life Matters

Eating as if Life Matters

By: Bill Tara www.billtara.net August 27, 2013 at 2:48pm The public fascination with food has slowly grown from an interest to an obsession over the past thirty years.  Every kind of cooking show from ethnic cooking to food porn is featured on TV.  Daily newspaper articles tell us that a new danger has been discovered in what we eat or that a new miracle...

A Water Birth for Our Daughter

A Water Birth for Our Daughter

By Katya This post may give you a bit of an idea why we haven’t been into making videos for almost a year, we’ve been a bit busy! It’s with great pride that we introduce Soleil Ariya Struve. She was born at 7 lbs, 13 oz, and 22 inches. We filmed my birth experience as a memory, but also to support women considering giving...

What Really Matters

What Really Matters

 ~ by Michael Josephson   Ready or not, some day it will all come to an end. There will be no more sunrises, no minutes, hours or days. All the things you collected, whether treasured or forgotten will pass to someone else. Your wealth, fame and temporal power will shrivel to irrelevance. It will not matter what you owned or what you were owed....

How Does Meditation Benefit Fitness Results?

How Does Meditation Benefit Fitness Results?

by Lonnie Lowery, PhD Warning: This is the type of article you’re either going to love or hate. Unfortunately, the aggressive types who laugh at the following “hippie psycho-babble” are probably the ones who could benefit from purposeful relaxation the most. The trick is to browse the available material and pick only what helps you while discarding the rest. Promise to keep an open...

On Becoming More than You Are…

On Becoming More than You Are…

Hey Vitalists! Last night Katya stumbled on a book called “The Black Book Volume II” by Christopher Hyatt.  His tone is quite discordian, but sometimes discord can be the right medicine in cleansing an old stagnative mindset.  I wanted to post this excerpt about finding “Enlightenment”, which to me is less of a single state of being, and more of “the art of becoming...

What are Realizations and Why Do You Want Them?

What are Realizations and Why Do You Want Them?

In the video below, Katya and I were driving through Mississippi on our way to my sister’s place in North Carolina. We were absorbed in a discussion of philosophy, mind over matter and what personal transformations are. During the conversation, a new way of understanding an age old word (everyone uses all the time) occurred to me. That word is, “Realization.” But what is...