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“To return to the root is to find peace. / To find peace is to fulfill one’s destiny.” — Tao Te Ching This week we explore emotional capacity and psycho-spiritual transformation. By cultivating a disciplined practice and a honest relationship with your emotional capacity, you will become a conduit too assisting yourself in moving beyond the way we have all been conditioned and programed to relate...

Summer Seasonal Focus: Cooling Mango Lassi. Super Easy Nutrient Rich Snack. Listening to you. Cultivating an agricultural relationship with planet earth and all of you. Learn how to listen to you. Seasonal food conversations with a deep passion to serve your well being and the well being of others. “Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.” Lao Tzu Mango Lassi Ingr...

Join Cristi Christensen and Suzanne Toro as they explore her wisdom. We dive into her book Chakra Ritual , the Chakra System, Healing, Ritual, Sisterhood, Inner Transformation, Generational Healing and the Divine. About Cristi   IG @cristi_christensen Cristi has been the face for yoga & lifestyles brands such as Exhale Spa, Loewes Hotel Hollywood, Satya Yoga Wear, and Ananda Soul Creations, an...

"Take a breath of the new dawn and make it a part of you." (Native American Hopi Proverb) Every lunar cycle the "moon" reflects light and shadow. We have reached the NEW moon in a month currently identified as July the 6th Lunar Cycle (in coordination with Tibetan count). At time that the New Moon reflects a shadow and invites you into be with your inner landscape to return to...

As a bee gathering nectar does not harm or disturb the color and fragrance of the flower; so do the wise move through the world.– Buddha Mother Nature. Returning to Balance. This week we break the code of imbalance. During this dharma talk, I welcome you to self identify the imbalance from within. Then, you will decide where and how to bring yourself into harmony with self. May all beings everywhe...

Summer Seasonal Focus: Summer Salads. Mocktails. Reading Labels. Learn how to listen to you. Seasonal food conversations with a deep passion to serve your well being and the well being of others. "One must keep a store of common sense," said Tchitchikov, "and consult one's common sense at every minute, have a friendly conversation with it. — Nikolai Gogol Marinade for Steak, Ca...

Join Suzanne Toro and Leonidas Ruaro as he shares their great work in Joca, Costa Rica with the local kids in Judo, Jiujitsu, Chess, Yoga, Break Dancing, and Language. “Discipline is the mother to all freedoms.” Leonidas Ruaro The Foundation Pura Vida Fighting for kids foundation is based on the need to reach out children at social risk in Jacó, Costa Rica. The accelerated growth of this tourist a...

“The way to eliminate ignorance is through steady, focused discrimination between the observer and the world.” ~ Patanjali This week we dive in to one of the necessary foundational pillars to a spiritual and faith based practice...'awareness'. By cultivating a disciplined practice and relationship with awareness in all states of being you will heal deeply from the inside out. May all bei...

Summer Seasonal Focus: Summer Seasonal Focus: Zero. PreBiotic and ProBiotic. Listening to you. Seasonal food conversations in a plight to serve your well being and the well being of others. “Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.” ― R. Buckminster Fuller Recipe: Island Tacos Yield: 1-2 Servings Prep T...

“The Earth would die If the sun stopped kissing her.” Hafez Every lunar cycle the "moon" reflects light and shadow. We have reached the FULL moon in a month currently identified as July middle of the 5th Lunar Cycle. A time the the Full Moon shines bright and invites you into your inner landscape and outer landscape simultaneously. Nature all around you welcomes you to retain harmony, tr...

This week we explore the power of honesty. We will check in with your emotional, mental, physical and soul body. The inner honesty ripples from the internal to the external world. “Here is, in truth, the whole secret of Yoga, the science of the soul. The active turnings, the strident vibrations, of selfishness, lust and hate are to be stilled by meditation, by letting heart and mind dwell in spiri...

Summer Seasonal Food Focus: Artichokes. You will not get all choked UP. Coupled with Asparagus. Italian Ice. Seasonal food conversations in a plight to serve your well being and the well being of others. “The artichoke above all is the vegetable expression of civilized living, of the long view, of increasing delight by anticipation and crescendo. No wonder it was once regarded as an aphrodisiac......

This week we explore the power of forgiveness. Create some space in your emotional, mental, physical and soul body. Forgiveness ultimately is a practice of making things right with self. Then, it ripples from there. The opportunity to reconcile karma.  “You yourself are your own obstacle, rise above yourself.” – Hafez May all beings everywhere remember the true causes of happiness. LOVE. Weekly ta...

Mind You + Food with Suzanne Toro Summer Seasonal Focus: Tomatoes, Cucumbers & Almonds ‘Oh MY’, Listening to you. Seasonal food conversations in a plight to serve your well being and the well being of others. Philosophy of Crete food :  “Everything we get from nature in Crete is the diet. Everything is local and seasonal “ ~unknown Recipe: Bruschetta 1 lb. Roma tomatoes (about 6-8, seeded and...

“I once asked a bird, how is it that you fly in this gravity of darkness? She responded, ‘love lifts me.’ Hafez Every lunar cycle the "moon" reflects light and shadow. We have reached the new moon in a month currently identified as June the 5th Lunar Cycle. A time that the New Moon reflects a shadow and invites you into be with your inner landscape to return to harmony, transform, listen...

Join Suzanne Toro and Chris Kidawski as they explore pain, the human body, the fascia, human consciousness, attitude and the oscillating force within you (aka your soul). About Christopher J. Kidawski http://influentialhealthsolutions.com/ Coach. Author. World Traveler. I have been many other things in this lifetime as well. Perhaps my best ability has been to motivate people through uncovering ce...

This week we explore the we explore the value of emotional intelligence and the opportunity to assisting in generational healing. You will be invited to open up some of those toward away events in your life with the opportunity to assist in your own liberation through self examination. "Yogic action has three components: discipline, self-study and orientation toward awareness itself (sutra 2....

Mind You + Food with Suzanne Toro Summer Seasonal Focus: Loving Lemons, Critical Thinking, Listening and Soul’s Reflection. Seasonal food conversations in a plight to serve your well being and the well being of others. “In America, one must be something, but in Italy one can simply be.” — PIETROS MANEOS - AMERICAN-ITALIAN POET AND MODEL Recipe: Lemon Chicken or Cauliflower 4 boneless skinless chic...

Join Random Rab and Ilya Goldberg (aka Lapa) with Suzanne Toro as they share some of the creative seeds that are feeding their new music and upcoming album. Their new collaboration is an exciting compilation of both their talents and past history merging into the present moment. About Random Rab Emerging from his own distinct corner of the West Coast electronic music scene, Random Rab offers a pow...

“For a day, just for one day, Talk about that which disturbs no one And bring some peace into your Beautiful eyes.” Hafiz Every lunar cycle the "moon" reflects light and shadow. We have reached the full moon in a month currently identified as June. A time that the full moon shines invites you into be with your inner landscape to return to harmony, transform, water the seeds you are ready...

“The Beloved sometimes wants to do us a great favor: Hold us upside down and shake all the nonsense out.”-Hafiz. This week we explore the we explore the value of your inner wisdom, divine love and your inner expression. You will have the opportunity to sit in the energy of love beyond oppression, have to's and external "teachings". As inspired, dive in and see what reflects to you f...

Mind You + Food with Suzanne Toro Summer Seasonal Focus: Heart Nourishment Love, Mind Forecast and Soul’s Reflection. Seasonal food conversations in a plight to serve your well being and the well being of others. “Where is the door to God? In the sound of a barking dog, in the ring of a hammer, in a drop of rain, in the face of everyone I see.”-Hafiz. Seasonal Focus: Notes...Mind, Body, Heart and...

Shining a light on Mason Tyler, Founder of Superfeast. We explore herbalism, nature, harmony and SuperFeast. "We really love tonic herbs and medicinal mushrooms. We take them every day. We think they’re awesome. We fell in love with them, they transformed us and we decided we needed to share them with the world. We are a family-owned business (zero investors) We are huge health nerds! Based i...

“Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages... In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts: they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty....

Mind You + Food with Suzanne Toro Summer Seasonal Focus: Stone Fruit, Expressing Love, Mind Forecast and Soul’s Reflection. Seasonal food conversations in a plight to serve your well being and the well being of others. “Where is the door to God? In the sound of a barking dog, in the ring of a hammer, in a drop of rain, in the face of everyone I see.”-Hafiz. Seasonal Focus: Food Stone Fruit Recipe:...