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Baisakhi 2017 Attracts Thousands 

The Sikh community of California came together to celebrate Baisakhi, April 9 at the Los Angeles Convention Center, with over 15,000 people attending the grand festivities.

In Sikh tradition, it’s a time of renewal and rekindling of spirit. The celebration commemorates the day in Punjab in 1699 when the unique form and discipline associated with the Sikh way of life was codified by its leader, Guru Gobind Singh. It also syncs with the festival of spring gathering, birth of Khalsa and the Sikh New Year.

The event, which was open to the public, began before sunrise at 4 a.m. at Guru Ram Das Ashram with Asa di Var (devotional morning music, chants, prayers) leading to 7 a.m. as the sunrise morning unfolds with a motorcade procession which ushered the Sri Guru Granth Sahib to the Los Angeles Convention Center. Gatka martial arts performers danced with their swords while the sounds of tablas and conches echoed throughout the halls of the Concention Center as the Sri Guru Granth Sahib was carried overhead and set in the elegantly decorated Gurdwara Hall that anchored the celebration festivities. 

Gatka martial arts performers danced and flashed their swords while the sounds of conches and drums echoed through the halls of the convention center as the Sri Guru Granth Sahib was carried overhead and set in the beautifully decorated serene Gurdwara Hall that anchored the festivities.

Kirtan (spiritual music) program continued till the afternoon featuring performances from some of the most inspiring Ragi Kirtan Jathas (musical groups) from around the world. Ragi Jathas and children’s Jathas from Southern California Sikh gurdwaras were also represented, and lectures and speeches were heard from renowned guests. 

The busy  Baisakhi Bazaar had goods for sale. Clothing was the most popular item, decorative clothing boutiques. Other booths featured decorative items, healing modalities such as Sat Nam Rasayan, essential oils, ramalas, and paintings for the home, devotional items, jewelry, books, CDs, as well as insurance and dental service products. 

The langar hall served a hot vegetarian meal. With several serving lines, the large crowd moved efficiently and last minute food preparations outside made it look easy to keep up with the huge demand.

The celebration concluded with a colorful Nagar Kirtan mile and a quarter parade through the heart of downtown Los Angeles from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Floats created by local gurdwaras highlighted Sikh themes, values, lifestyles. 

Thousands of visitors have been attending the festival for decades as part of an annual Los Angeles tradition shared with friends and family.  

We were happy to be a part of it. love, #krishna 

California Cow – California Farm 


Three Reasons Not To Eat A Cow. 

1 Cows Have Complex Feelings. 
Cows are gentle social animals. They have the ability to recognize more than 100 other cows, and they form close friendships with members of their herd and also with humans. 

2  Your Body Will Thank You

To make cows grow at an unnaturally fast rate, the cattle industry implants them with pellets full of hormones. While low levels of naturally occurring hormones are found in various foods, many scientists are concerned that the artificial hormones injected into cows cause health problems in humans who eat them. Many of these hormones are illegal in many countries. 

3 Plant-Based Meat Is Better Than Ever

Leaving cows and other animals off your plate is easier than ever. You can now get tasty veggie burgers at numerous restaurants, and every food store is beginning to carry vegetarian beef replacements, all of which are delicious and cholesterol- and cruelty-free.

#krishna #californiafarms 

Green Smoothie Bowls

Healthy green smoothie breakfast bowls with strawberries, granola, fruit, chia, dried fruit, nuts, seeds, edible flowers healthy breakfast. #intuitiveeating 

Our mission for healing and a life purpose has been related to food most of our whole life being a former professional ballerina you can imagine the restriction on food. Now a days we love Intuitive healing designed to bring closure to the healing cycle. Every healing path mirrors your soul’s desire for wholeness, to release pain so you can know joy and peace. We are beginning to know joy and peace step by step. One day at a time. 
 

Intuitive Affirmation of the Day 


I am grateful for the present moment. @intuitiveaffirmations @intuitivemagazine 

Plant-based Protein Smoothies Nutrition for Intuition

 

How To Follow Your Intuition – Trust 

Your intuition is like your inner navigation system, always working to move you along your life journey path. 
The push or pull felt from your intuition not only alerts of impending danger, but can be used to guide which step to take next along your path. Relying on your intuition in daily moments makes life much easier to navigate and ultimately helps you create and live your best life! 

Movie Star 

You are the screen writer star in your own movie. Think of emotions as your own personal movie, they provide you with your life context, your perspective, and lead you to the next important segment of your story. Those are  helpful on your life path. Like a movie, you are meant to experience your emotions through imagination, share discussion, healthy release, and other such healing methods. On screen you are not meant to live your emotions as if you are the movie itself.

Plant-Based Food 

Discover your relationship with energy and how it relates to food and everything else. Experience the powerful energy of the mind in motion. 
#krishna #plantbased #ayurveda #intuitive #eatingdisorder #recovery

Peace with Food

Intuitive eating is an approach that teaches you how to create a healthy relationship with your  mind, body, and food, where you ultimately become the expert of your own body.

You learn how to identify between physical and emotional feelings, and gain a sense of self-confidence through body wisdom.

It’s also a process of making peace with the relationship towards food—so that you no longer have constant “food-related anxiety” thoughts.  It’s knowing that your health and your worth as a person do not change, because you ate a food that you had labeled as “bad” or “fattening”.

The underlying premise of Intuitive Eating is learning to respond to your inner body signal cues, because you were born with all the wisdom you need for eating intuitively. On the surface, this may sound simplistic, but can be rather complex.

This inner wisdom is often clouded by years of dieting and food illusions that abound in the culture. Give yourself unconditional love and permission to eat.

When you tell yourself that you can’t or shouldn’t have a selective food, it can lead to intense feelings of detriment that build into unmanageable cravings and, often, bingeing When you finally cave – in to your forbidden food, eating will be experienced with such intensity, resulting in overeating, and overwhelming guilt.

Honor where you are at. Find ways to comfort, nurture, and resolve your issues without using food. Anxiety, boredom, anger are emotions we all experience throughout life. Each has its own trigger, and each has its own moderation. Food does not fix any of these feelings either does alcohol and other alter substances.

Intuitive eating is a philosophy of eating that makes you the ace of your body and its signals. It teaches that you are the best person – the only person – to make new loving and healthy choices.

#krishna