West Coastin: part 2.5

So, after day one of the Mega-Conference, I was feeling a little tired. This lasted for about 5 minutes...and then Lee and Ilayda asked if I was ready to go to Planet Raw. Of course I was! I am ready to live on Planet Raw! We were walking up to the restaurant and of course we see David Wolfe and his posse stepping back down to earth from the Raw Planet. He says, "hey Wolfeman, you guys want to meet us at a raw food party downtown later?' Uhhhhh...yeah!!! These synchronicities happen ALL the time! They happen more and more as I go further down the stream...going with the flow :)

If you are ever at Planet Raw, I urge you to get the Alien Blood Elixer...field greens, cucumber, sea weed, zucchini, salsa, and spirulina. It was sooo good! One of the best drinks I've ever had in my life! Tasted like a healthy bloody mary. For dinner I had a cheesy pasta dish...super tasty!

Dinner rawcked and now it was time to dance! We rolled up to the raw foodist colony, aka Peace Yoga Gallery, and stepped into another dimension. We were greeted by smiling tribe members adorned with blue face paint. The blue marks were anointed onto our hands and were accepted into the 36th chamber of rawness. It was unlike anything I've seen in my life! At ground level, there were 2 matriarchs creating and serving raw cabbage quesadillas and some other raw food that looked AMAZING!

Then we descended, shoeless, downstairs into the Los Angeles Raw Food Underground. It was 100% THE BEST PARTY EVER!!! There was a crunchy drum/jam band reminiscent of Hare Krishna's mixed with Ravi Shankar and smiling souls everywhere dancing and twirling around like dervishes.

I saw David and his friend Rachel on the dance floor and boogied out to them. I was grooving out to the hypnotic drum and sitar beat talking fruit with the Wolfeman, and realized L.A. is where I need to be. I shared this thought with David and he said, "dude Cali is where it's at, this is the epicenter of cool! But San Francisco is even cooler". Then all of a sudden the music stopped. The crunchy front man asked everyone to sit down and be quiet...that it was time to meditate. All 100 people in the underground yoga lair obeyed and sat still. The music continued and the chanting began. I was situated in front of a club-style laser light and it kept shining across my eyes, adding to the trance that I was falling into. As I got deeper and deeper, I was overcome with gratitude and love for life and my path. It was as if this was my 5 year reward for living a good life and everything had fallen into place exactly as it should. A tear came and went as the music slowly picked up. I grooved out of my meditation and back to my feet. The party was reborn through the sound!

Lee and Ilayda asked me if I wanted to cruise out to the next party...the 'Burner' Party. At first, I was thinking that I would stay at the Crunch Fest and meet up with my crew later. Then I decided to go with the flow and the flow was going to the dark side. In defense of the dark side...it has amazing music and more BASS!!! Being a South Florida bass head I was right at home. 'Burners' are the people who go to the Burning Man Festival. It appears to be a subculture of strange style and designer drugs. The Burner party was on the out skirts of Downtown L.A. in a Warehouse/Apartment Quadplex...basically a Burner Vampire Lair.

It was one of the strangest and coolest party spots I've ever seen. This party was the POLAR opposite of the Rawker's Ball. We payed a $20 'donation'. It was a 'donation' because this party was after hours and well...in warehouse full of the dancing vampires. I had a good feeling this donation didn't go to the March of Dimes. The first room was an electro bass room with a hot female DJ ripping electro breaks....my ideal wild monkey dance music. I grew up on electro breaks and tofu in Central Florida. The other main room had a sick Dubstep/Glitch-Hop DJ, spinning distorted bass and trippy highs. It was AWESOME!!! The people at this party were not smiling. In fact, this one Vampiress hissed at me as I walked by her. Thankfully we made it out with our blood.

36 hours in L.A., 9 hours sleep in 4 days, powered strictly by raw foods and cacao, still energized, having the BEST WEEKEND EVER!!!

West Coastin: part 2

This music playing is my latest mix. I spun it live at an outdoor Halloween party in a park while it was raining...just sayin (= feel free to download it by clicking the little down arrow on the player

Day two in Cali was a Saturday and was, in the words of David Wolfe, one of the BEST DAYS EVER!!! Speaking of David Wolfe...this guy radically changed the course of my life and didn't even know it. He caused a cataclysmic cosmic shift in my conscious!!! Crazy that our last names are the same too...spelled with an E. David was featured on an a.m. radio show called Coast2Coast with George Noory. My Dad is a C2C fan and makes copies of the shows for me to listen to. He passed this show along to me in 2006. I listened to it and was immediately 'juiced' up by the cosmic energy that spews from this guys soul! He is the most energizing speaker that I had ever heard in my life and all of a sudden I was INTERESTED!!!

Wolfemen @ Dr. Etti's Penthouse-Miami

A year later I revisited the talk show while living in Delray Beach and got INTERESTED in these freakin GOJI berries and CACAO BEANS. I jumped on my bike and rode to Boca Raton Whole Foods to source these superfoods. I walked in and was like, "wow! I need to work here". The rest is history. Down the line David came into the South Beach store and we developed a friendship. He told me about the relationship between avocados and cacao and how they used to counterfeit cacao beans out of avocado pits. Cacao was used as currency in ancient Mexico. CHECK THIS OUT!

So, back to last weekend. I woke up after a 3 hour post-Drum & Moshpit snooze and drove Lee's car to the IIN conference. By the way, Lee is one of my two best friends in the world. I have known him since we were in 3rd grade. I stayed with Lee and he let me use his car to drive to Long Beach for my conference!!! I love you LEE!!!

Boss Hawg Lee 

The whole reason I was in Cali was for an Institute of Integrative Nutrition Mega-Conference. This is the school that my store has paid for me to attend to become a certified holistic health coach! I am grateful beyond words for this opportunity! The conference was a two day information slam with some of the best nutritional and motivational speakers in the world!

Founder of IIN-Joshua Rosenthal & the Prius Raffle Prize

The conference was in the Long Beach Arena which is painted with blue whales and other cetaceans. Super cool! In the morning we heard from the guy who wrote the Primal Blueprint. Basically this diet goes against my primal instinct for what I should eat...PLANTS NOT ANIMALS!!!

Laser Whales

After lunch Lee and his gf Ilayda came to join me for the rest of the day as my guests. It was awesome! We heard a lecture on the toxic and addictive properties of sugar and why we should avoid refined sugar like cocaine! Sugar is BAD....MMMMKAY!!!

Ilayda & Lee peeling cacao beans for raw avocado chocolate ice cream

Then the healthy eating rockstar David Wolfe spoke and everybody listened. I was laughing the whole time because he is sooooo funny!!! He is funny because he loves what he does. He loves food. He presents his subject like he just discovered food yesterday and wants to share his discovery with the world! He knows his stuff...he knows FDA basic dinosaur nutrition and he rides the cutting edge of superfoods, superherbs, and supercosmic future foods! After David spoke he made a superfood smoothie and then got rushed by 500 screaming adoring female fans! LOL What a LIFE!!! He is the Beatles of health! By the way there were about 25 guys at the conference and 4975 health conscious females :)

Wolfe-Dismembering a Coconut for the Super Smoothie

part 2 is long, so 2.5 coming soon...

West Coastin: part 1

So, as it turns out, Cali is pretty F*****G sweet!!! I went to L.A. this past weekend and my eyes were opened to the endless possibilities of life. I met some AMAZING women and fell in love with Los Angeles.

Friday: Flew into L.A. at 3pm after 3 hours sleep the night before. I stepped outside the airport and was met with the refreshing California sunshine...a softer sunshine in Cali…maybe why the people are cooler J

My homey Lee Davis picked me up from LAX and brought me to his apt in West L.A. He went back to work, so I jumped on his bike and cruised West! I have a very very well calibrated internal compass and internal clock. Both of which are completely thrown off by the West Coast. My compass is set according to the Atlantic Ocean and my clock is set on eastern standard time. So when I say that I went west to the beach, it’s still confusing.

I cruised up to Santa Monica Beach on Lee’s brushed aluminum Electra beach cruiser and began my weekend love affair with Los Angeles. It was such an amazing site! I was on a cliff looking down on the mighty Pacific Ocean and was immediately surrounded with Cali <3. I was sitting there, sun gazing; taking in the beauty of the air and the flowers, watching the hummingbirds imitating the bees. I was at peace.

Then out of somewhere this beautiful soul sits down near me with her little dog Penny and smiles at me. We started talking and instantly had a connection. She’s a vegetarian with raw food tendencies, yoga, spirit…we are from the same tribe. We spoke, smiled, laughed, and connected. The sun set, she went her way, I went my way and at that point I felt the California connection. The connection is a consciousness for connection & oneness.

I then cruised over to Whole Foods and discovered the amazing West Coast food scene! My first taste was of a Sumo Mandarin...amazing! Seedless, sweet, easy to peel, perfect! I ate 40 of these citrus gems during my 3 days in Cali.

Next stop the other Whole Foods up the street. Here I ate a bag of kale chips, a raw chocolate bar, and a bottle of Mountain Valley Spring Water. Funny that these first four things I ate became my staples throughout my stay. I ate 6 bags of kale chips, 5 lbs of raw chocolate, and I drank 10 bottles of MVS water.

I decided that I would eat all raw on this trip.

Later that night Lee, Ilayda(Lee’s gf), and I hit the local drum & bass scene. AK-1200, DJ Dara, and a whole lot of rowdy bass youths at the DragonFly bar. This was exactly what I needed! LALA Land BASS…you feel no pain! I must say…reluctantly…that the D&B scene is more grimey in L.A. then MIA L These cats were str8 moshing the whole time! LOL I was under the false assumption that legalizing marijuana would chill people out. I’m guessing that this was a sativa, rather than indica crowd J