Feel Good Guru

In many ways, springtime is really the beginning of the new year. It’s when everything in nature wakes up. The earth begins to warm, animals emerge from their winter dens and we get the urge to open the windows and doors to let the fresh air flow through. Spring is a time for activity, for planting seeds, both in the garden for nourishment throughout the year and in our life plan to sustain our happiness and well being.

More powerful than any other time of year for setting intentions, the expansive, almost explosive yang energy of spring supports our desires and actions with nearly effortless forward momentum. Perhaps even more fitting than January 1st for setting resolutions is the Easter weekend - a time for renewal, rebirth, and reconnection. (more…)

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Spring has turned up at the markets in the form of fresh, fleshy asparagus, crisp kale, dainty greens and baby broccoli. The spirit in nature right now calls for simplicity in cooking.

Savor spring market foods at their naked best, unadorned with heavy winter sauces. Spring veggies are particularly rich in nutrients and cleansing properties to help us shed our winter layer, tone our internal organs and ready our bodies for the active summer ahead.

This Spring Macro Special is more an assembly than a “recipe” and it couldn’t be simpler. (more…)

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We’re flyin’ the Feel Good Fast flag here at Feel Good Guru cause it’s fall and we’re on day 3 of the autumn edition of “Feel Good Fast” and yes, we’re feelin’ good!

Unfortunately it’s too late to join us this time around, but we’ll be going again on the 2nd of November, just after the indulgences of Canadian Thanksgiving, ending just in time for American feasting.

In between, we’ll have some amazing plant-powered feasting with friends at the LOVE Cafe Underground in Toronto and Venice Beach and we might even be shootin’ an episode or two of “One Meatless Meal”. Stay tuned!

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Who wants to feel good fast?

Everyone, whether you’re male or female, young or old, vegetarian or carnivore, can benefit from a break in the toxic overload that has become the Standard American Diet (SAD). There’s no better time than now, the beginning of a new year, to turn a new leaf.

If you’re like most people, you’re fighting a losing battle against stress, insomnia, fatigue, depression, time constraints, responsibilities, obligations and that ever-present, ever-expanding bulge around your waist. (more…)

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There’s a great article today in the Toronto Star discussing the results of a recent study that highlights the correlation between corn and fast food and how the whole ugly union is ruining our health and the environment.

As people feel the squeeze on their budgets, the first industry to benefit is the fast food industry with its $1.59 double cheeseburgers.

What people don’t realize is that the money they save by going “fast” will eventually be lost to drugs for diabetes, drugs for obesity, drugs for heart disease, and programs for environmental rehabilitation. (more…)

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OMG! The world is about to make a quantum leap in consciousness. Oprah, having read Kathy Freston’s book, “Quantum Wellness: a Practical and Spiritual Guide to Health and Happiness” has decided to commit to 21 days as a vegan!

The Mega-O, in her pursuit of spiritual enlightenment, has just been “baptized in Vegan Land” and is bringing her billions of devotees along on the adventure. (more…)

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Three weeks goes by in the blink of an eye and before you know it you’re Feeling so Good you don’t want the program to end! That’s been our experience here at Feel Good Guru in Venice Beach.

About 2 weeks into the program, we realized this had quickly become a lifestyle rather than a “diet” to jump start into the new year, a new body and a new life.

We were not hungry, we were not suffering cravings of any sort, we were not having (more…)

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A CNN piece about veganism and the environment, including interviews with Chef Mateo and hip hop mogul, philanthropist, yogi and vegan, Russel Simmons.

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