Hey Kids,
Here is a NY times article, I was misquoted and used as a source for her article . What i actually said:
" I am sometimes out with friends and others and at the begining or end of the meal they break out their enzymes, not even knowing that I actually created 9 out of 10 times a superior product!"
Please pass it along, tweet it, Face Book .
I appreciate it!!!
I thank you!
Dagger
Donate to charity, dance your booty off, & party it up Raw Vegan style with the fabulous Gnosis crew this Friday night September 10th! (Pre-register to help them plan!!)
PLUS, as an added bonus, bring your ticket in to High Vibe and receive 10% off of your next purchase and 20% off any Gnosis purchase!
Feel like you have a little less than a 'spring' in your step this spring?
Wouldn't you love to feel juicier and more energetic than ever instead?!
Try a Simple Cleanse!
Learn how for free during this hour long class Tuesday April 20th at 7 p.m.
High Vibe owner and nutritional and detox expert Robert Dagger will discuss several easy cleanses that you can perform periodically to help maintain a strong and healthy body.
Essential habits for any New Yorker!
Super Simple Cleanses Class
FREE - But please call ahead to R.S.V.P. (212) 777-6645
Tuesday April 20th, 7 p.m.
High Vibe
138 E. 3rd Street (btwn 1st Ave & Ave A)
East Village, NYC
Start your Spring off on the right foot with a FREE lecture on Gallbladder and Liver Cleansing!
Tuesday March 23rd & 30th 7 p.m.
138 E. 3rd Street East Village NYC
Call to reserve your spot!
212-777-6645
Join us at the store on March 23rd & 30th at 7pm for our free classes on Gallbladder & Liver Cleansing. On both dates, Dagger will go over how to do a gallbladder and liver flush and discuss the importance of this cleanse for clearing out old fat deposits and keeping these important filtering organs working efficiently. The staff at High Vibe, and anyone else that chooses to participate, will start the 3-day cleanse on March 30th.
Another great class here at High Vibe last night focused on optimal diet during the winter months. We arranged our chairs in a circle and had a really pleasant evening of lecture and question-and-answer.
Dagger emphasized the importance of getting more green into our lives, especially during the winter months when there's less sunshine available. One great way to do this is to drink lots of green juices, which he described as "liquid sunshine." This is literally true, because the element that makes green juices green is chlorophyll, which is what plants create from the sun they receive! Here at High Vibe we always emphasize keeping things simple, and one of the most powerful and simplest steps towards getting more green into your life is drinking green juice, which is more widely available now than ever! Not only can you get them at juice bars, there is a wide range of juicers like the Breville Elite, recommended by Natalia Rose, the Breville Juice Fountain Plus, and the Breville compact. Juicing is a great way to get those leafy greens like kale and spinach into your diet, as well as the high water content vegetables like cucumber and celery, which are a fantastic source of pure water. Toss an apple in for flavor and you've got the tastiest greens around!
Beyond juicing ideas, Dagger also brought up a few ways to bring the greens into the holiday season. So often we go to parties where we're invited to bring dishes - so we have a few tips on what to bring. You can get really creative with salads and dressings. It's a great way to make sure there's something at the party you can eat, as well as providing others with exposure to the joys of greener living! One great way to treat a leafy green like kale for a salad is to mix it with lemon juice and olive oil - the dressing will make the leaf more tender and palatable. A really simple and wonderful dressing is olive oil, nutritional yeast and spirulina flakes, all tossed together. It tastes quite like Caesar dressing! Another possibility is to thin down your favorite nut butter (we particularly like sunflower seed butter and, of course, almond butter - another fantastic option is tahini!) , add some apple cider vinegar and toss with soy lecithin. Also - did you know that thinning down nut and seed butters are the easiest way to make nut milk? There's nothing quite like freshly made nut or seed milk made via blender and nut milk bag, but it's a great trick to keep in mind!
Dagger also spent some time on a few supplements that are easy to add to your daily foods, as needed. He reviewed the different kinds of blue-green algae. The spirulina mentioned above is harvested from the ocean, and the flakes blend well with smoothies, salads, juices.... however is easiest for you! Other options include chlorella tablets, which are harvested from lakes, or E3 AFA, harvested from the famous Lake Klamath. The purest way to get your algae is as E3 Live, a frozen supplement. Blue green algae is an astonishing source of sea minerals and B vitamins - a great way to balance the earth's nutrition of vegetables with the sea's nutrition. Another tasty and nutrient-rich food is bee pollen, which is a complete amino acid and a sweet treat to put in your food! He also brought up hemp seeds and powder, which are a great plant source of protein.
Just as important as what we eat, though, is how much we eat, how it's proportioned, and the way we eat it. Dagger really brought home the point that one of the essential keys to longevity and health is, quite simply, to eat less. Eat lightly, throughout the day, and give your body a chance to digest what you've given it. Furthermore, an ideal proportion in a meal is 70-80% water-rich foods, by weight. (This is part of why juices are so helpful!) Finally, remember that foods that are prepared with love and eaten with care and gratitude will always nourish us more!
Our next monthly class will be on detox and acid-alkaline balance, on Wednesday, January 2nd.
We at High Vibe are looking forward to a healthy and green holiday season, and wish you all the best for you, your loved ones, and this lovely and abundant planet we share!
Vanessa Barg of Gnosis Chocolate taught a chocolate-making class last night here at High Vibe. Again the house was full! Vanessa brought plenty of samples, which we passed around as she started with a short history of how she got into raw chocolate and the beginnings of Gnosis. Vanessa has been interested in health and healing for several years, and trained to be a holistic health counselor at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. She used to make chocolate for friends, many of whom encouraged her to go into business. Last November, Vanessa started offering her chocolates for sale, and just a year later Gnosis is available in 12 stores in New York City as well as online!
Vanessa then demonstrated the creation of her Simplicity bar, explaining the ingredients, equipment and techniques used (recipe below). We talked about the amazing cacao bean, its history of use dating back to 1100 B.C. and the properties that make it a superfood, including its antioxidant properties and benefits as a source of magnesium. Vanessa explained how to moderate the proportions of low-temperature melted cacao butter to cacao powder to create a darker, richer bar (more powder) or a smoother, more melting bar (more butter). She then added the vanilla, demonstrating how to scrape out vanilla beans (keeping the pods for tea) and sharing the exciting, glittery effect of crystal manna, an amazing superfood in its own right! Then she added some agave nectar and asked a few students sample the mixture to help decide how sweet to make it. Then it was time to pour the chocolates into the molds and chill while we had a question and answer session, and more chocolate samples.
There was a lot of discussion about the effects and benefits of cacao; we also talked about the use of carob, which can be used with or instead of cacao, and is rich in calcium (which interacts synergistically with magnesium). Vanessa talked about the pros and cons and different effects of different sweeteners, explaining that her choice of agave was a combination of flavor and texture preference over yacon syrup, although yacon is another good option, as well as a healthier and more sustainable choice than corn syrup (which is rarely raw and organic anyway). Vanessa also chooses to use honey but is always conscious of her choice of honey supplier, ensuring that the bees are treated well - which goes for all her ingredients. She emphasized the importance of ascertaining the purity and ethics of all her sources, a philosophy that we follow at High Vibe as well. Finally, and also in accordance with High Vibe's mission, she talked about the importance of the love that goes into the chocolate and how the desire to bring something beautiful, delightful and healthful into the world using wildcrafted ingredients is fundamental to the creation of Gnosis Chocolate.
It was a fun, fascinating, helpful, inspiring, and empowering evening! Thanks so much to Vanessa for sharing her love and expertise with us!
We are also excited to announce our plan for another chocolate-based evening the second Wednesday in December! This one will focus on smoothies, puddings and treats, and will be based on the idea of bringing more raw love into our lives throughout the holidays. Call now to reserve a space!
Vanessa's Basic Gnosis Chocolate Recipe:
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