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Watermelon 🍉 Sandia 🔹 Papaya 🌴 🔸 Gol

Watermelon 🍉 Sandia
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Papaya 🌴
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Golden berries Aguaymanto ⚱️
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White Sapote Sapote Blanco ⛰
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Mangosteen Mangostán 👸
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Strawberries Fresas 🍓
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Of all these fruit…what do you want the most right now?
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De todas estas frutas que quieres mas ahora?

#vegan #fruit #ctfu #local #permaculture #rawfood #rawvegan #fruitarian #costarica #puravida #healthy

😎🥥🍍Pics of our lil family growing and evo

😎🥥🍍Pics of our lil family growing and evolving in the jungle mountains figuring this life out moment by present moment. All I know is the more I increase my gratitude for all outcomes in my life the more this strange human experience makes sense🕉🌈🌸🐍
#yoga #selflove #fitfam #fitness #vegan #plantbased #costarica #puravida #tattoo #playa #beherenow

☺️We are drugs, plants are drugs, everything i

☺️We are drugs, plants are drugs, everything is chemicals that make you feel different things.
😍✌️🌱🔮
No matter if you’re sober or you take in drugs💊, drugs are running through your human body. It’s just natural.
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We have evolved as humans to produce endogenous opioids like morphine for pain relief, imagine if we were not on that drug and things physically hurt even worse. We produce serotonin which regulates our mood and happiness reward system. Papaya seeds interface with progesterone and can reduce sperm count in men and reduce chance of pregnancy in woman as a natural form of birth control. We even produce a small amount of dimethyltryptamine DMT which gets released during near death experiences to help us reflect and feel euphoric if you are truly nearing your last moment of existence.
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We are flesh bags of drugs, and our personalities and mood swings on a daily basis are just a steady drug trips that we figure out how to balance. Without the natural chemicals in your body, you would not be motivated, excited, sad, inspired. You'd just be a kinetic machine, like a robot.
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Drugs make us not robots. Pretty cool. You can look at my farm, or any farm, as a food forest, but also a drug forest, drugs for good, drugs for existence. Drugs come from plants. They come from animals too, like us, we produce them, but we eat plants so who knows, maybe it’s all in the plants.
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#plantmedicine #selflove #dmt #plants #permaculture #organic #puravida #costarica

🎨😜🐾Handprinted magical shirt thanks to my

🎨😜🐾Handprinted magical shirt thanks to my brotha @buddy_art_cr 😍🙏 I have such rad friends!
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I manifest on many levels from my relationship with myself, to my external relationships, my connection to nature, my purpose on this planet and beyond.
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What I mean by manifestation btw is simply feeling a connection to something I don’t have or know…keeping it in my mind, focusing on it and learning until it’s a part of my life.
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Since watching The Wild Thornberrys on Nickelodeon when I was six what I wanted more than anything was an animal best friend I could explore the world with who was always free but still wanted to stick round and hangout with me instead of need to keep them in a cage or on a leash.
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In case you forgot, I rescued Maggie at a shelter in East Los Angeles in January of 2018, and since then she’s been my best friend. We have traveled by bicycle through seven countries together, we’ve camped in deserts, rainforest, on the beach, and high in the mountains, all off leash, just having fun and enjoying each other.
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She changed my life so much, set me on the path towards parenthood and increased amounts of responsibility. She helps me non attach to all material things a bit easier by watching how she lives, and that is the greatest gift a guru can give me.
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Be present, don’t take things soo seriously, you are whole at all times. We are alive! Hare Krishna 🤸‍♂️😎🕉🐾
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#adoptdontshop #vegan #art #blueheeler #heelergram #rescuedog #dogsofinstagram #puravida #costarica #traveldog

🤪✌️🍉 🇨🇷 I’ve been getting a lot

🤪✌️🍉 🇨🇷 I’ve been getting a lot of “WOW YOUR LAND AND LIFE IS SO EPIC GIVE ME ADVICE ON HOW TO LIVE OFF GRID IN COSTA RICA LIKE YOU!”
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The best advice I can give is just to share my story and the main factors that got me here.
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1) Luck and privilege. Sorry, you can’t replicate this, it just is what it is. I was brought up in a family with parents that supported me in spreading my wings and trying new weird things without fear of failure. This helped me relentlessly be myself instead of following other peoples safer more conventional paths. 💰 Money wise…I’ve dumped ALL my earned cash I’ve made and saved into this project of building my food forest and home, but my parents are helping me financially A LOT, and for that I am super privileged. My parents have worked hard and saved up for me and my siblings and this is my biggest life project and they see the vision too🙏🙏😎Next…
2) I am creative and have the ability to dream and not care about what others around me think as long as I’ve thought through my decision. I find a lot of people care to much about keeping the anxious or paranoid people around them happy. I have no interest in that, just doing what I think is best for me, the people I love, and the planet. I don’t waste my time to make people that “don’t get it” more comfortable. Haha if my vibe or how I live stresses you out...cool story, good luck, I’ll keep doing my thing🧘‍♂️😊🕉
3) I like to GRIND and execute the small steps in order to make a big goal happen. I like detail and it’s not hard for me to spend days or weeks on little important grueling projects because I can envision all the puzzle pieces coming together to make the dream happen in the end.
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Hope this helps a bit and leave me a comment with more questions if you have them about how I got here.
#watermelon #fruit #costarica #puravida #rawfood #vegan #health #diet #farmlife #organic #garden #farmer #permaculture #plantbased

🤸‍♂️Getting upside down has never been mo

🤸‍♂️Getting upside down has never been more important than in these times.
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I’ve always loved getting upside-down for these reasons.
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1) Inversions are awesome for flipping the normal effect of gravity on your blood flow, and is an awesome strength builder.
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2) Forces you into alignment because when you are not in alignment during an inversion you have to use more muscle vs your normal anatomical skeletal structure.
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3) MOST IMPORTANT: TURNS YOUR WORLD UPSIDE-DOWN and why is that important??
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I am really convinced that MOST humans are not free enough in themselves to live their BEST lives. I think we grow up in situations that we adopt for ourselves unconsciously, and quickly become afraid to venture out into an alternative life path that is attractive to us but not at all relatable to the lives we were brought up in.
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This causes stress, fear, and regret when we don’t follow our dreams in fear of failure.
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So getting upside down is metaphorical training to unlearn the things that no longer serve us, see the world in a different way than we thought we knew, and go for something different.
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In these times especially you must rethink the path you thought you were on, and move forward with an open mind instead of following a path you didn’t even choose for yourself.
#yoga #hathasadhana #handstand #inversion #upsidedown @naturalialove

I took a few buddhism studies classes in college.

I took a few buddhism studies classes in college. Life changing.
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Let me try to explain
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Nothing we experience is actually real. Everything is just as real as it is an illusion acting real for now. Thus, when we get attached to things as they are, and don’t want them to change (your relationship, car, job, body etc.) we are bound to suffer because everything is constantly changing. The ONLY thing that has no change…is the present moment.
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The table you are using today to eat or work on will one day break and be thrown away
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It will turn into a million pieces, dust, and not resemble anything close to the table you once used.
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This concept pertains to ALL THINGS EVER, even your emotions.
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Sand on the beach was not created as sand.
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Every grain of sand you see and feel on the beach is just eroded rocks, minerals, shells and other pieces of debris in nature that use to be called one thing, and now has changed form so we call it another thing completely different.
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Sooooo think about all that shit…then realize if that pertains to all things, change is the only thing we should expect and be comfortable with.
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If you understand that attaching to things as they currently are is silly and brings suffering because EVERYTHING changes, nothing can bring you down, because you know nothing was real to begin with, we are all just change in physical or mental form. We are nothing really, just all the same change.
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We are like the sand. We are humans now, alive with egos…but one day we will be rendered back to down to almost useless, then we wont even exist.
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So why get upset when things don’t go your way?
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What is your way? What is you? You is just an idea for now, that will change, so who cares about anything?
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Just have fun, do your best, and don’t take anything seriously. Nothing at all🙏🙏🌈😊🏄‍♂️☯️👏👏👏✌️🕉
#vegan #buddhism #yoga #nonattachment #letitgo #hathasadhana

Repost from @naturalialove • Day 1 #HathaSadhana

Repost from @naturalialove
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Day 1 #HathaSadhana Challenge focusing on #HipMobilityw/ @danielrama_ & @shaktibird_ 🕉 Beautiful morning practicing yoga with my love @plantriotic 🥰 we really liked this #pigeonpose variation and had fun trying #titibhasana ! 😜 what a joy to share a practice and to feel alive 🙏🏼 Namaste to all the beings of the Universe #Love #Light and #Happiness 💫 #Yogis #Yoga #OnlyLoveIsReal

Imagine how much you’d accomplish if you were mo

Imagine how much you’d accomplish if you were more focused.
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Setting a goal, I mean a really tough and admirable life goal you can’t stop thinking about, for me, is not overwhelming or scary, it’s quite nice and liberating actually! Here’s why.
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When you set a massive goal and are laser focused, all the other fluff and distractions in your life fade away because they no longer matter, your goal is too important.
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When I set my mind on biking from Alaska to South America, pretty damn intense goal, it was actually the most relaxing time of my life. Living on a bicycle was physically exhausting sure, but I did not have anything else to do or be accountable to.
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A big enough challenging goal takes up all your most valuable time. You can’t be bothered accepting plans or hangouts or work that does not serve you and your goal. It becomes easy to say no to things when you know what you need to do to get further along in your goal.
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I’ll be the first to tell you I won the privilege olympics which makes everything I try to do a bit easier to accomplish…BUT that doesn’t mean everything’s been easy.
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A year ago I was a solo, lonely, bicycle traveler with a wild goal to build a family, farm some land in the tropics, and host yogi events. It has not been all rainbows and ponies. I had to make sacrifices not seeing my friends and family in the USA anymore, spending countless hours in lawyer meetings, hardware stores, and banks, when all I really want to do is eat mangos on the beach and make YouTube videos which was working for me for a number of years.
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My goal is so firm and I know what I want so clearly, that all I have to do is follow the path that keeps unfolding and getting more complex, and keep grinding, as I watch it pay off incredibly.
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Day by day this goal I have catapulted myself towards is becoming more of a reality.
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#grateful #permaculture #farm #puravida #costarica #focus #goal #vegan #puravida #keepgoing

🍫Cacao and chocolate exemplifies what we are do

🍫Cacao and chocolate exemplifies what we are doing here in Costa Rica.
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This is cacao fruit. This is where all chocolate comes from, where the story of your candy begins.
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Long story short, a farmer grows this fruit with love, wisdom and care, then the sweet fruit and seeds are naturally fermented together for a week or so in a box, then the seed (bean) is dried, roasted, ground down, heated, and mixed with other ingredients like sugar, or maybe milk and flavorings to create a final product that humans eat and LOVE.
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But here is the catch, for the FDA 🇺🇸 to approve that a product can be sold and labeled “chocolate” it only has to contain 10% or more actual cacao bean👎👎! A Hershey's kiss, for instance, contains 30% cacao, meaning 70% of a Hershey’s is milk from a cow, processed sugar, unnatural flavorings and other weird ingredients, not this fruit. The integrity of chocolate is lost when you think you are eating chocolate…but there is not even that much real chocolate there!
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I moved here to Costa Rica to work with nature to produce my own food, and create the highest quality sustainable food products. A craft chocolate bar, like the ones I will make someday, contain 70%-100% cacao!! Now THAT’S CHOCOLATE!
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When you make a proper chocolate bar, the whole cacao bean is the center of the story, the main character, mixed with a little cacao butter, some natural sugar and a dash of a fresh grown flavor like ginger, turmeric, rose, sea salt etc. You can even find craft chocolate bars that are 100% cacao…meaning no sugar, no added butters, no flavoring, just well grown, well fermented cacao beans formed into a bar you can eat and appreciate this agricultural product.
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This is why farming is so meaningful to me. I’m bringing the integrity back to my food instead of subsisting off products that are pretending to be something they are not.
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#chocolate #cacao #permaculture #costarica #organic #craftchocolate #beantobar #naturalfood

😎🍍🍓My life is a rollercoaster of emotions

😎🍍🍓My life is a rollercoaster of emotions and experience week to week oscillating between
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- FREEEDOM & BLISS
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- anxiety and overwhelming amount of responsibility
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- personal emotional struggles unpacking past traumas and resentments
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and balancing my ego vs self conscious empty feelings too
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addiction gets thrown in there once a while as well.
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All over the place🌪…and I’m NOT AT ALL ashamed or embraced to admit this…
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because I know we all deal with this crazziinneesss, you too right!?!?
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WE ARE CHANGE, the only constant in life is change haha how cool and crazy is that!
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I think some people probably maintain a more stable equanimity of personality and emotional state…but I bet they are not artist or crazy mo-fo risk takers, or maybe those individuals are not highly opinionated YouTubers.
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I would take my lifestyle of being an emotional rollercoaster and things changing all the time over having to act normal and plain and blend into society and follow the rules.
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I like this wild ride. I live life HARD AND INTENSE and it helps to write this stuff out so when my next slump comes, and it always does👎, I know it’s all apart of the game I signed up for. I’m wild and shit.
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Much Love DREAM EXTREME
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#vegan #costarica #cacao #fruit #rawfood #fruitarian #rawvegan #hclf #nutrition #fitfam #healthy #plantbased #permaculture #farmlife

🥰Enjoy the new vlog on my YouTube channel with

🥰Enjoy the new vlog on my YouTube channel with this goddess @naturalialove 🤩 🍫 🌱
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My life blossoms the more I surrender but also keep goingggg and gooooinggg
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It’s a balance.
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Surrender to the things that no longer serve me
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Surrender to the results of even my toughest work I truly believe in…
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Live in the moment only
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Have a goal
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Be non attached
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& keep going.
😎😜 🏃🏃🏃🏃🕉🚵‍♂️✌️
Might sound confusing to some
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But makes s sense to me.
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It’s gotten me here
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and I love HERE…now

Thank you universe and us all.

We are all one.
😻😻😻☯️🕉🙏✌️😎
#onelove #surrender #dreamextreme #yoga #puravida #costarica #vlog

🙏🕉🌴Dinner of all local plant based foods

🙏🕉🌴Dinner of all local plant based foods on point😛👌🍠🥒…some of the ingredients hyper local meaning my own garden or my friends farms around me. Give me three years and I bet I can eat 100% from my farm for a year and hopefully more😻🤯I’ll do it…just have faith and keep watching the process and see if I’m full of shit or not...I’m not btw😜😁
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Flax coming in nicely, @naturalialoves yucca flour tortillas fireeee🔥🔥, covid kisses selling at the far mar very cute, and bike rides and watermelons are the best combo.
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I’ve posted a few vlogs recently so go check them out on my YouTube channel.
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Building building building growing shanti ommmmmmm fullll of lluuuvvvvv in my heart😍
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#vegan #farmlife #costarica #plantbased #puravida #permaculture #growyourownfood #covidkiss #namaste

Keeping myself super busy this week…😳🤓👩

Keeping myself super busy this week…😳🤓👩‍🌾
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Natalia went on a lil 5 day meditation retreat an hour away.
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I can’t believe how much I miss her😢
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I use to feel my full authentic self on my lonesome because Maggie and I traveled together for so long without other human companions.
🚵‍♀️ 🎒 🛣 🐕
But Natalia has changed my life, and I’m so grateful for that...but it’s scary too☺️🙃🥰
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I’m legit bummed with her not around. I don’t like it...come back babe 😂😂
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That’s crazy man, I use to think my favorite time was alone time. That’s before I knew her.
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I kinda feel like Maggie🐶, home alone staring at the door waiting for me to come home from selling at the far mar on Thursday’s. She's ok cuz she knows I’m coming back…but it’s still torture that we are apart.
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That how I feel. @naturalialove namaste, happy meditating, and I can’t fukin wait for you to come home and next time you want to go on a retreat...I’m coming even if I have to hire a maggie babysitter ok?!?!💫❤️🕉

wow I’ve been so busy with my land and community

wow I’ve been so busy with my land and community and growing food etc that I forget to post now! That’s crazy...crazy awesome, the land has taken me over! Here are some snapshots of my late June and I’ll do my best to post more...at least my stories are always 🔥 ya know✌️😎🕉🐒🍄
#puravida #costarica #organic #farm #vegan #yoga #plantbased #fruit #garden

🐒🌶Lil photo dump of my rural life this week

🐒🌶Lil photo dump of my rural life this week in tropical paradise🍄🕉🌴 with my doggie children and divine girlfriend @naturalialove🌹growing plants, learning, and building our home and retreat center together. We love you and appreciate the support🙏😘I hope the border opens in 2 weeks so my august retreat can happen. It’s already sold out…if you’re interested think about coming to my next retreat in december. I wonder what the world will be like by then. 🤪😻☯️
#vegan #costarica #puravida #tattoo #permaculture #plantbased #garden #art #fruit

bike life throw back march 28 2018 Ensenada Mexico

bike life throw back march 28 2018 Ensenada Mexico 🇲🇽 D E F U N D THE P O L I C E

When a person with mental illness needs help in a dangerous situation to protect their life or others, do you think an armed policeman/military soldier or a mental health social worker is a best equipped to help? In the system we have now…cops go in not mental health workers
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D E F U N D THE P O L I C E

When time and time again police use unnecessary, sometimes lethal force on non-violent people especially people of color…
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D E F U N D THE P O L I C E

When cops defend their coworkers who violently break the law and harm citizens like when cops pushed peaceful 75 year old progressive protester Martin Gugino in Buffalo a few days ago as his head hit the cement and started to bleed…
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D E F U N D THE P O L I C E

When cops buy a Burger King burger for white supremacist Dylan Roof hours after he shot up a Charleston church in 2015…
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D E F U N D THE P O L I C E

There are good cops out there, most of them, but the training and culture around police enforcement is so wrong we don’t need one more example.
I don’t think we should abolish the police. We should significantly reimagine, rewrite, and defund the current idea, role, and practices of American policing. They are too violent, too much power, and simply need a modern uplift to do their job better. They work for us.
It’s so clearly broken right now.
#defundthepolice

🙃what’s the point of posting anymore. system

🙃what’s the point of posting anymore.
systems in our world are dramatically changing, some for better some worse.
talking about being healthy, sustainable, calm and grounded is still just as worthy and important to teach and inspire, maybe even more so in these times, but people are fighting for their lives, jobs, freedom and justice right now...who has the time or energy to get into fruit eating and yoga ya know?? haha

well I guess all I can do is keep shining, living my life on the land, and hope that my posts inspire you to come here to a future retreat in Costa Rica, experience what it’s like to leave the city systems and grow your own food in nature, and maybe it will change some lives for the better.
Keep fighting. Keep going. Pura vida.
#vegan #plantbased # puravida #permaculture #farmlife #fruit #health #nature #yoga

dreams come true when you dream extreme and never

dreams come true when you dream extreme and never let fear hold you back🙏🐒 my girls🤗🌸😻 #puravida #family #nature #adoptdontshop #dogsofinstagram #pachamama #blueheeler

STOKED👊🤪🐒🕉 @veganheeler 😻 #adoptdon

STOKED👊🤪🐒🕉
@veganheeler 😻
#adoptdontshop #rescuedogsofinstagram #rescuedog #blueheeler #heelernation #heelergram #acdofinstagram #acd_feature #dogsofinstagram #cattledog

🍍most dudes will sit down to @ufc fight night t

🍍most dudes will sit down to @ufc fight night tonight with a beer🍻and burger in hand🍔 Here’s what I’ll be munchin on and I my din is more manly. Beef burger in 2020 is such a bitch move. Bad for the planet, innocent animals...plus refined carbs and meat...COME ON party foul to the max wat u dooiinn✌️
#vegan #ufc #fruit #fruitarian #ctfu #plantbased #sandia #rawfood

😻a few messages from ya boy here even tho I’m

😻a few messages from ya boy here even tho I’m a hyper privileged straight white man🤷‍♂️(gotta say it to keep myself in check and so you know that I KNOWWWW I came out of a golden vagina of privilege hahaha💎)
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1) i clearly have the dopest elbow in the bizz
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2) black lives matter 👊
3) tump is a racist. i’m not saying that ignorantly. based on his history of actions for decades, his words, tone, and policies, dude’s a racist meaning he looks after his kind…whites, more than he authentically cares about improving the lives of people of color. if you don’t see it, you’re not looking.
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4) biden is an old school racist that probs doesn't think he’s racist but the things he says come out pretty racist…but trump knowwwss he’s racist so biden over trump but DAMN IT what a terrible choice we have. corruption sucks. bernie would have been our non racist man if the corruption wasn't so strong. 🥴🤮
5) cities are so dangerous and shitty these days. grow your own food if you want to have freedom in your life. just make it happen. 🐒🥭🍅
peace
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#blacklivesmatter #vegan #bernie #progressive #plantbased #fruit #ispeakmymind

🌸🥭holy sweet mango mama pacha pachamamasita

🌸🥭holy sweet mango mama pacha pachamamasita ram ram shanti shanti oommmm pura vida cabrones🤗🕉🦋🐒 if you know...you know. Mango is my face mask 😂keeps me safe and happy😁 I can’t believe mangos are real🥰🤯
#mango #fruit #fruitarian #organic #puravida #costarica #rawfood #vegan #plantbased #wfpb

🌱🌻🌶Today’s wednesday, far mar prep day!

🌱🌻🌶Today’s wednesday, far mar prep day! Making tons of healthy vegan snacks for my local community. Look at me. I’m crazy beautiful! YAAAAS!
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🕉🌺Main factors that have aided in my transformation from a self conscious, fear based, not too motivated kid from the city to me NOWWWW😁🐒😍CONFIDENT, INSPIRED, PASSIONATE, GRATEFUL.
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-consistent yoga practice .
🧘‍♂️ -traveling super out of my comfort zone to places I couldn't imagine going to or living in. 🛤⛩🏕🗿
-physical exertion. humbling myself with training harder🚴‍♂️🧗‍♂️🏄‍♂️🤸‍♂️I’ve ridden my bicycle border to border across 15 countries if you didn’t know. I’ve run a few road half marathons, best time 91 mins, and 1 full trail marathon in the mountains. I’m currently training to run 100 miles. 🏋️‍♂️
-plant based diet vs my SAD diet I grew up with.
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-plant medicines psychedelics. 🦋🕉🍄
I could keep going on things that have changed me, but this is the top 5 list. 🌿
I am so grateful for these aspects of my life. I wouldn't be here without them.
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#vegan #mushrooms #psychedelics #plantmedicine #plantbased #farmar #farmersmarket #costarica #puravida #organic #perezzeledon

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