About Feel Good Guru
“You must be the change that you wish to see in the world.” Gandhi
Feel Good Guru is your online destination for celebrating people, ideas and things that make the world a better place. We’re an aspirational new tribe of eco-consumers looking for the best places to vote with our forks and our green - we call ourselves CHUPPIES - Conscious, Healthy Urbanites with Passion & Power to Inspire Evolution.
Feel Good Guru is all about healthy plant-powered food, cool eco-stuff, green travel and inspirational people, peppered with a little irreverence and lots of laughter. It’s a community of readers and contributors who want nothing less than to change the world.
Our healthy, hip and fresh-picked portal is full of organic ingredients, innovative design, sustainable cuisine, electric vehicles, feel good films and free spirits.
We’re taking “One Meatless Meal” on the road to cleaner, greener, leaner living and bringing “Feel Good Fast” right into your home seasonally. We have other services that’ll rock your planet too!
Feel Good Guru is your online destination for body, mind and planet.
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FGG’s contributors:
Moira Nordholt, founder
I am Feel Good Guru and so can you!
I’ve been on the planet 41 years and here’s what I’ve learned so far:
the greatest journey is the journey within;
the most nourishing food is food prepared with love;
the best exercise for the abs is laughter;
the highest accomplishment is to be someone’s friend in the worst of times; and the most magnificent sunsets are in the Yukon at midnight in summer.
I’m merely an accumulation of molecules and memories, but it’s a unique miscellany that started assembling before I was born the second of six children to Catholic parents in a Mennonite town not far from Toronto, the fabulous multi-cultural city I now call home when I’m not traveling across Canada in search of solitude and inspiration or groovin’ with the woowoo in Venice, California.
I’ve had many incarnations - in this order, in this lifetime - as a free-spirited child, an au pair in Paris, a waitress, a flight attendant, a wife, a restaurant owner, a chef, a burned-out, chronically-fatigued divorcee soul-searching in India, a yoga hospital patient, a yoga student, a yoga teacher, a spa therapist, a qigong and meditation student, a cat lover, a solo motorcycle adventurer, a blogger, a wellness coach, a travel writer, a screenwriter, a filmmaker, a vegetarian lifestyle writer, a caterer, an eco-menu consultant, a tastemaker, a website creator and finally, an author.
I founded Fossil Face Cafe, Banff, Canada’s first vegetarian restaurant, and spent six years in the kitchen developing recipes and serving up delicious and nutritious meatless cuisine to a loyal local and international clientele.
Since then, I’ve had the privilege of cooking for some of North America’s most noted vegetarians, as well as consulting with some of Canada’s top wellness centers, retreats and spas on menu planning and wellness programs. I’ve taught yoga across Canada, and held a private clientele that included Toronto luminaries and rock stars.
I’ve written newspaper and magazine articles on health and wellness, green travel, vegetarian food and lifestyle for such publications as the Toronto Star, VegNews, the Vancouver Sun, Utne Reade
r and the Venice Beachhead. Recently, I’ve launched “Feel Good Fast ~ 21 Days the Feel Good Guru Way”, your seasonal plant-powered guide to a cleaner, greener, leaner lifestyle and now run the full program online with personal and group coaching.
I believe we’re moving toward a healthier, more sustainable, more compassionate way of dealing with our food chain and our humanity. “Feel Good Fast” will help you get there in a straight-forward, easy-to-follow and delicious format of menus and recipes, shopping lists, overviews and plant-powered wisdom.
Every summer, rain, hail or snow, I love to take to the Alaska Highway on my motorbike, solo.
I created Feel Good Guru as a playground, a filter for optimism, a forum where I can put my passions and skills together with other experts in a venue that inspires myself and the rest of the world to get healthy and hip, to stay fresh-picked and to keep on groovin’ with the woowoo!
Please feel free to contact me: moira@feelgoodguru.com and if you’re ever in Venice or Toronto, join us for our monthly L.O.V.E. cafe underground!
Helen Duggan, resident Yoga Guru
Helen is an International Yoga Instructor. Involved with the Fitness Profession since 1979, she teaches Yoga, Pilates, Aqua Fit, Interval Training, Personal Training and her own 7 week comprehensive fitness program. She began studying yoga in 1970 and has taught Yoga for over 18 years.
Helen teaches Yoga in her private studio, at gated communities, gyms and community centers. She has taught through Recreation and Parks, on university and college campuses and at public schools for teachers and students.
Internationally, Helen teaches Yoga on Crystal Cruises and she takes her Yoga teaching and teacher training programs to Mexico. She has trained successful Yoga instructors since 1998.
Helen has written four fitness training manuals, several fitness booklets, and has been a health and fitness columnist. She leads self-esteem workshops and gives business seminars to professional groups on Health in the Workplace and Exemplary Customer Service Techniques.
Helen acknowledges her yoga instructors with deep appreciation: Kareen Zebroff, Sandra Sammartino, Swami Shyam Acharya, Richard Hittleman, Indra Devi, Rammurti Mishra, Desikachar, BKS Iyengar and Swamis Sivananda Radha, Vishnudevananda, and Sivananda. Her training is Sivananda based and her classes are gentle and heart-centered.
