Thursday, May 31, 2012

Vegan Challenge

A little while ago I wrote a blog about a documentary called Vegucated, I liked it so much I decided to screen it at the studio. It's a "feature-length documentary that follows three meat- and cheese-loving New Yorkers who agree to adopt a vegan diet for six weeks". To follow up the movie, Frances (one of our lovely Jivamukti teachers) suggested we host a vegan challenge of our own. I thought it was an amazing idea... We invited as many vegan/vegetarian friendly businesses to get involved and created a fun filled Vegan Challenge for the month of June, 2012.

As part of my duties I will be posting vegan recipes daily on my blog throughout the month of June. Most will be tried and tested by myself & family, with a couple recipes submitted by our generous sponsors.

Good luck to all those who are taking the challenge

Vegan Challenge
June 1st-30th, 2012

In honor of the Vegucated screening, we will be holding a vegan challenge throughout the month of June. If you’ve ever considered being vegan, here’s your chance to be part of a group exploring the realities of veganism, and debunking the myths.
The month will include:
- Unlimited yoga for the month of June
at Luna Yoga
- A Screening of Vegucated
- Get it Ripe vegan cookbook
- A guided trip to the grocery store
- Discounts on local vegan restaurants and shops,
- Daily recipes (posted on Jennifer’s blog)
- A vegan cooking course

- Weekly gatherings 

June 1st-30th
Cost: $100
Take the challenge

Vegan Challenge participants will also receive discounts from Crudessence, Green Panther & lole, samples from Tonic, Rise Kombucha & Cocos Pure, 2 week gift membership from My Yoga Online, and 25% off at the Yoga Festival Montreal 

Thanks to all our sponsors for their generosity! 
Please feel free to add your comments, feedback and questions

Thursday, May 10, 2012

108 salutations for charity

I've been a part of the Yoga Mala event for the past couple of years and always enjoy it. It brings together 9 teachers from 9 different styles of yoga. We each teach 12 salutations, adding up to a total of 108! All funds raised go to charity. This year the Yoga Mala has founded its own charity The Yoga Mala Foundation: A Montreal non-profit organization founded by Dawn Mauricio that acts as a fund for yoga teachers who would like to lead long-term yoga programs in areas of need (e.g. shelters, low income areas, etc.)

I will be teaching part of the 108 sun salutations, and hope to become one of their teachers to teach in an area of need (if you know of any shelters, etc. that would like a yoga program, let me know).

Monday, May 7, 2012

Healthy Girl

So excited to have just discovered the Healthy Girl community, and... I've just become one of their newest collaborators! Health, wellness and entrepreneurship... love it! Plus they're just launching their french web site, so I'll be attempting to write a bit more in french (or, I'll be writing in English and then getting Jason to help me translate to french...) Here goes...


Je suis tellement excité d'avoir découvert la communauté Healthy Girl, et je suis récemment devenu un nouveaux collaborateurs! Santé, bien-être et l'esprit d'entreprise, j'adore! En plus, ils viennent tout juste de lancer leur site en français, donc j'essaierais d'écrire un peu plus en français (ou, j'écrirai en anglais et ensuite Jason m'aidera avec la traduction.) Voilà...
 Healthy Girl Mission We promote healthy & wealthy entrepreneurship (wellpreneurship). HealthyGirl’s mandate is to bridge the gap between building wealth as an entrepreneur and maintaining personal health & wellness. We are passionate about health, entrepreneurship and wealth-building. Our reason for being is to share and educate on the ideas, events and tools that we believe to be critical to one’s success as a healthy & wealthy entrepreneur!