90% of Americans have parasites

Forever Strong: A New, Science-Based Strategy for Aging Well

Some symptoms of parasitic infestation

Dr. Gabrielle Lyon D.O. (drgabriellelyon.com) has 4.4 out of 5 stars with 1,752 ratings for her New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestseller.

Learn how to reboot metabolism, build strength, and extend life with this accessible new guidebook that demonstrates the importance of muscle for health and longevity from the founder of the Institute for Muscle-Centric Medicine®.

Gut parasites handout: functional (Made Whole Nutrition)

I'm a real doctor...who loves to use makeup

After years of watching patients cycle through her practice, Dr. Gabrielle Lyon noticed a pattern. While her patients struggled with a wide range of conditions, they all suffered from the same core problem: they had too little muscle rather than too much fat.

When we think about muscle, we tend to think about strength or aesthetics, but in reality, muscle accounts for so much more than that. As the body’s largest endocrine organ, muscle actually determines everything about the trajectory of health and aging.

Forever Strong (Dr. Lyon)

Many of the conditions Dr. Lyon’s patients were experiencing were actually symptoms of underdeveloped or unhealthy muscle.

Now, Dr. Lyon offers an easy-to-follow food, fitness, and self-care program anchored in evidence and pioneering research that teaches how to optimize muscle—no matter one's age or health background.

Discover how to overcome everything from obesity to autoimmune disorders and avoid diseases like Alzheimer’s, hypertension, and diabetes by following Dr. Lyon’s powerful new approach to becoming forever strong. More

• Shawn Ryan Clips, Dr. G. Lyon, board-certified physician (House of Macadamias); Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Crystal Q., CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Vegan Pool Party Book Release, LA

This is a pool, not the beach, so please consider donning a sarong when not in the water (IV).

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WHAT HAPPENED?

Plant-based hemp swimwear, (Natasha Tonic)

Guests gathered surrounded by greenery in the hills of Los Angeles near Mulholland Drive, ordering dinner plates for Chef Rawsheed's vegan creations. The DJs arrived to set up, but first Vanessa led us in a yoga class as most people looked on and socialized, eating fresh fruits spread all around and sipping cold drinks.

Hemp bikinis (Natasha Tonic)

The shocking announcement was made after introductions by Paige for Samantha about the goals and aims of Plant Based Treaty. Justine covered the Campaign for Banning the Retail Sale of Animals in L.A. The shock was that Vanessa is moving to the south of France to start a vegan commune (intentional community) around a chateau, where she will then run for mayor and create a vegan city. First she writes a book on fairies, loses her health clinic (ElloraWellness.com) in the Eaton Fire, and decides to uproot and resettle in Europe. But she will travel between here and there and is still leading a tour to the ancient Mayan archeological sites in Mexico in 2025 (after a successful trip to Egypt). Post party we made plans to eat Thai vegan food at THE VEGAN JOINT, 980 S. San Pedro St., DTLA

Invitation design by illustrator and vegan chef Annie Vitality (A. Vandenheuvel)

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Vanessa Marsot (Ellora Wellness)

Vanessa Marsot and Annie Vitality launch their new book, Dreams of a Dragonfly, and sign copies of this vegan fantasy story on Saturday, July 12th, poolside in Bel Air, Los Angeles, California. Enjoy mindfulness meditation, Native American land acknowledgement, yoga, vegan food, swimming and splashing, socializing, fun and games, a literary launch, and a summer night under the full moon.

Chef Rawsheed is preparing a special vegan meal, including fresh juice, appetizers, salad, raw and cooked pizzas and desserts (menu subject to change).

🎟️ TICKETS include:

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  Chef Rawsheed’s enchanted vegan meal (magical dinner) 🦜
• Exotic beverages 🐠
• FREE yoga class 🧘‍♀️
• Donation to Campaign for Banning the Retail Sale of Animals in LA
• 🎟️ $20 Venmo or @lalawkitty with questions or to get the address. Email: lalawkitty@gmail.com
• RSVP: Book Launch Pool Party, Sat, July 12, 2025, 3:00 PM

Free to attend

Sign: "Do not be deceived. You are headed for Hell! [for wearing skimpy swimwear, heathens]"

What is there to eat on this green planet?

No ticket purchase is necessary to attend! However, for magical dinner, individual tickets are only $20. Please note in your RSVP "No Ticket" if planning to opt out of dinner. That way we have an accurate count for supplies.

Time to play in the pool under the Cali sun

FOOD ABUNDANCE: Guests are welcome to bring fruit and vegan snacks and drinks to share. Guests are encouraged to bring a swimsuit, towel, lawn chairs, and outdoor or pool games. Prepare to dance, sing karaoke, swim and play.

Dreams of a Dragonfly

O, Buddha, do dragonflies dream and, if they do, what about?

Dreams of a Dragonfly

SYNOPSIS: What happens when a girl dreams of becoming a fairy so hard that she gets her wish and enters the magical world of animals and learns some of their secrets?

Join her on this fantastical adventure and you, too, could learn their secrets and how to advocate for them. More

CO-HOSTS

Vanessa Marsot, Annie Vitality, Justine Block, Kim Delgado, Paige Parsons Roache in coordination with:

• Ellora Wellness
• Vegan Spirituality
• Plant Based Treaty
• Celebration of Fruit
• Wisdom Quarterly: American Buddhist Journal
• Dharma Buddhist Meditation (LA-wide Meetups*)

Native Tongva/Kizh land acknowledgement and mindfulness practice with Seven

What should I wear? Seven hot sexy but unnatural vegan bikini pics (collegepill.com)

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  Illustrator vegan chef Annie Vitality

  VEGAN POOL PARTY BOOK RELEASE
• Saturday, July 12, 2025, 3:00-11:00 pm
• Dinner served 5:00-8:00 pm
• (For guests arriving after 8:00 pm, we are unable to guarantee dinner availability)

• RSVP FREE: Book Launch Pool Party, Saturday, July 12, 2025, 3:00 PM | Meetup 🐢

10 Spots for Vegan and Gluten-Free Food in Los Angeles 2025 (Veggies Abroad)

What is the "California" lifestyle? - Well, The Graduate comes close.

What time will the monks arrive for the ceremony?

• *(Disclosure Project) Vegan Pool Party and Book Release in Bel Air (FREE or with dinner included), Sat, Jul 12, 2025, 3:00 PM | Meetup
• (Nature Center) Vegan Pool Party and Book Release in Bel Air (FREE or w/ dinner included), Sat, Jul 12, 2025, 3:00 PM
• (PasaDharma) Vegan Pool Party and Book Release in Bel Air (FREE or w/ dinner included), Sat, Jul 12, 2025, 3:00 PM
• Dhr. Seven, Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Jen B. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Happy (vegan) Pie Day! 3.14 (March 14)

Jamie Oliver (jamieoliver.com), Jan. 15, 2023; Imogen, Seven, Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Bela (eds.), Vegan Test Kitchen, Wisdom Quarterly

Pi is important for math. Memorize it (3.14...) or use a Base 9 system and there's no need for it.

This recipe covers two days, Pi and Nat'l Pie

It's amazing what can be made into a vegan pie. Anything the American palette is used to is covered and already being done. There's no need to reinvent the compassion wheel. Just follow along on YouTube or on the websites of many vegan chefs and test kitchens. It's fun. And it's delicious. The animals thank you, and always remember EAT BEANS, NOT BEINGS.

• There are plenty of alternatives to soy or wheat gluten, now more digestible, easier to assimilate, and gas and bloating are eliminated. Take with vegan digestive enzymes (and products like Beano and activated charcoal). Eat them sprouted, or soaked, drained, and prepared in a pressure cooker the way Dr. Steven Gundry recommends.

Vegan Shepherd's Pie | Chef Jamie Oliver

(Jamie Oliver) This vegan shepherd's pie is part of Chef Jamie's new, free, budget-friendly meal plan. It's a delicious meal designed to be good on the wallet without sacrificing any flavor. With sundried tomatoes, mushrooms, chickpeas, and lentils it's bound to be a favorite vegan hearty meal; perfect to warm up in the colder months.

Check out the full free meal plan in this link: jamieoliver.com/budget-friendly... Thanks for subscribing: youtube.com/user/jamieoliver... For more nutrition info, click here: jamieol.com/Nutrition

• Money and millennial women (try.dowjanes.co)
• What to do with food scraps? Garden (lomi.com)

FREE: Native Vegan Thanksgiving (11/24)

Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Dhr. Seven, Jen B., Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

VIDEO: Wisdom Quarterly: American Buddhist Journal: Thanksgiving: Native American truth

2022 Rancho Park Vegan Potluck Picnic on Thanksgiving Day | Facebook

Stacey P. takes a selfie with vegan potluck picnickers in Santa Monica (Meetup)

This is the first year Dave, one of the founders of the FREE Vegan Thanksgiving in Los Angeles tradition is not formally leading the event. Others have stepped up to continue the tradition (and word has it Dave wouldn't miss it for the world). It's a potluck of all plant-based VEGAN (no animals products of any kind, no dairy, no honey, no synthetics and artificial things, nothing that harmed an animal in the making), largely organic, and utterly compassionate (Sanskrit ahimsa or harmless) foods. We do not let perfection be the enemy of good. Foods not fitting this description, if brought by accident, are given a separate table for those still eating SAD (the Standard American Diet). Please bring a full LIST of INGREDIENTS for all homemade items or keep the label on any store-bought dish. Hundreds will be in attendance. There is art, games, performance, and a big feast for all (including animal companions). RSVP FREE:

• Dharma Buddhist Meditation (Disclosure Project)
• Dharma Buddhist Meditation (Nature Center)
• Dharma Buddhist Meditation (PasaDharma)
• 2022 Rancho Park Vegan Potluck Picnic on Thanksgiving Day | Facebook

Love Bomb Meditation, Yoga, Massage (free)

Ananda M. (Dharma Meditation Initiative), Dhr. Seven, Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly

The marriage of wisdom and compassion

What will it take to for Buddhist meditation (the development of calm and insight) to be possible?

FREE $100 massages? At our "Read, Practice, Hugs" session, everyone agreed love is often the missing ingredient.

There were so many endogenous chemicals (third eye/pineal gland secretions of DMT) flowing around the room that we agreed to make a hugging option a regular feature of our sessions.

This week we'll relax with Yoga Massage for self and others, open hearts with powerful Ecstatic Breathwork and Reiki to reach profound states of serenity. Followed by mindfulness exercises and a group reading of the Heart Sutra.

What to bring: Loose comfortable top to expose back, towel, water, crystal (optional), vegan snacks and RAW juices for sharing and socializing.

• Love Bomb Meditation, Yoga, Massage (free/by donation)
  
• 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM, Thursday, April 26, 2018
  
• The Sequoyah School @ Neighborhood Church 
• 301 N. Orange Grove Bl., Rm. 23, Pasadena, CA

Dharma Meditation Initiative - UCLA - Disclosure - Dharma Punx - PasaDharma

Healthy Hormones with Healing Herbs (video)

Wisdom Quarterly; David Wolfe (Longevity Now, Bioidentical Hormone Doctors)

Can flowers, herbs, trees, roots, greens, and mushrooms heal? (Nam Keng/flickr.com)

Cacao (chocolate plant) tree bark is the traditional treatment for male pattern baldness. Aged citrus peel helps dissolve cellulite (orange peel), whereas as whole (non-orange) citrus blended whole also works. Healing mushrooms and all kinds of berries draw out bad forms of estrogen (estrone, estrodiol, etc.) and remove them from the system. For more information, visit bioidenticaldoctors.com.
 

Even earthbound devas can learn a thing or two about the healing power of plants

• Support for California death penalty slipping
• Heat hacks: How to stay cool without air conditioning
• Using cooling foods (cucumbers, greens, alkalinizing items)
• 10 cooling foods to undo bloatedness 



Natural hormone builders: cholesterol, herbs...

• Feeling irritable? Short tempered, feverish, sore throat? You might be suffering from what Chinese medicine calls an excess of yang energy in the body, also known as being "heaty." Having too much 'hot' energy in the body typically leads to symptoms such as: Feeling irritable and short tempered, Feverish, Constipated, Flushed face, Sore throat, Nose bleeds, Bad skin, rashes, and acne; Mouth ulcers, Indigestion, and so on.
• What are Heaty and Cooling Foods? The notion of heaty (yang), as opposed to cooling (yin), is a Chinese form of expressing certain set of symptoms or sensations.
• Ayurvedic Cooling Foods - Whole Living 
• Warming and cooling characteristics of common foods
  Cooling foods have the effect of clearing heat and toxins, cooling and calming the blood, and nourishing yin. These types of food are suitable for...

Raw Living Expo (video)

Amber Larson, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly; RawLivingExpo.com

The Raw Living Expo comes to Thousand Oaks, California, Jan. 31-Feb. 2, 2014

  

"Vegetarian" does not derive from the word vegetable but from the word vegetus (Latin "lively"). When we enjoys fresh life-giving foods, our health, clarity, and longevity increase. It is not enough to be be alive when we could be living instead. What does it mean to "live" with verve and sparkling effervescence? It's like the rap song says, "Everybody dies, but not everybody lives." So long as we live and strive for the ultimate, for the highest, for the summit o four dreams, Max De Pree reminds us, "We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are."

• 2014 PRESENTERS
• RAW LIVING RADIO
• MOVEMENT AND YOGA
• VIDEO: 101 REASONS TO GO VEGAN 

(VRC) When Oprah (and 378 staffers) went vegan and to a slaughterhouse

Peace Yoga Party (gallery)