Podcasts / June 19, 2016

PP#87: Ali Washington – Eat Less, Meditate More…?

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GRATITUDE is the answer #costarica #farmlife #yogi

GRATITUDE is the answer #costarica #farmlife #yogi

🚵‍♂️It feels like just last week I was st

🚵‍♂️It feels like just last week I was stealth camping in the desert of Baja with Maggie. My bike tour had 2 missions.
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1) Enjoy the travel experience
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2. Investigate the spot to buy land, build a farm homestead, find my soulmate and start a family.
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3 years ago I stopped in Costa Rica ending my 8 country bike tour… now I’m introducing you all to my daughter Ziva Lakshmi that my divine wife @naturalialove naturally birthed in our home on our tropic fruit and veg farm in the jungle mountains. Wow. We did it.
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Manifestation in not magical. Manifestation is planning + confidence + hard work + consistency + some luck.
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Ziva was born on May 10th! She’s the most beautiful perfect lil being. Having a newborn is quite an adjustment but the journey has been incredible just two weeks in. I went from a 20km daily runner to a 10k guy haha but it’s alllll good.
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And why have you not heard from me on here in a while??? I got freaking covid last Friday!! First time being sick in 2 years. I’m not vaxxed and thankfully covid gave me 3 hard days and today I feel pretty much 100% back!! The body aches were gnarly and it sucks not being able to touch Natalia or Ziva but shit happens and I’ll be back to dad life soon. Soooo grateful that Natalia and I have our parents here to help out during this crazy time!!!
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So there’s the life update…wild. I love being a husband and a Dad and a farmer. It’s difficult and rewarding beyond belief.
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#dad #farmlife #vegan #pregnant #costarica #permaculture

🐒I’m a believer in the precautionary principl

🐒I’m a believer in the precautionary principle especially when it pertains to things of the most importance.
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@naturalialove is growing our baby in her belly and even though we live in the jungle most of the time we still use our computers, phones, bluetooth, drive into the city to sell our food products passing cell towers and occasionally hop on a plane. EMFs and radiation are what I’m talking about and while the science still is not 100% clear on the effects of low EMFs there is a whole lot of discussion about them in the mindfulness and health community.
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We’ve heard enough about the potential risks of EMFs and radiation in technology that we chose to take the precautionary principle and get a @defendershield EMF blocking blanket in order to do what we can to insure our baby is safe in our modern world.
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In full transparency we wanted the blanket, reached out to them and they were kind enough to send us a blanket which Natalia has used daily during her whole pregnancy and it’s brought us peace of mind. ✌️
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6 more weeks!!!

#defendershield #pregnant #travel #emfblanket #emfprotection #biohacking

Yoga is union is seeing feeling knowing that all i

Yoga is union is seeing feeling knowing that all is one🕉 You are made of pretty much everything. It’s all one. Understanding this is probably the single biggest key to a happy meaningful life. This majestic beautiful woman and I are having a baby girl in 7 weeks 🤪🤪 We’re going to be wild parents…in the best way🐒😻♥️♥️♥️
#yoga #costarica #family #om #farmlife

🌸🕉💓My love for you @naturalialove is deep

🌸🕉💓My love for you @naturalialove is deeper than the roots of the fruit trees we have planted together. 🐸Our love is still young, but I’ve already loved you across countries, through a pandemic, building of houses, through plant medicine journeys, difficult life experiences and many long long road trips through the jungles and deserts. My love for you continues to grow.
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Only the strongest authentic true love can inspire a stubborn person like myself to make large scale positive change. You’ve done that for me in more ways than you’ll know.
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Being your husband is the greatest responsibility I’ve ever taken on…only soon to be surpassed by being the father of our baby girl! Life has progressed at a rapid rate with you in my life and I have no intention to slow down because I love what we have been building together. Te amo mi amor🌞🌞

Fruits!! #permaculture #costarica #farmlife #organ

Fruits!!
#permaculture #costarica #farmlife #organic #growyourownfood #vegan #fruit

♥️Bhakti is the yoga of love and devotion. @na

♥️Bhakti is the yoga of love and devotion. @naturalialove and I’s first date two and a half years ago was at the now retired @bhaktiyogashala in LA run by the magical couple @govind.das.108 and @radha.ma108. We sang and danced in Bhakti Kirtan together which started our relationship on the best footing possible.
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We were beyond blessed to then be married in ceremony by the stewards of the Bhakti shala themselves! Yoga helps me understand love so much deeper. It’s not just about lust, joy and fascination, it’s just as much about being present, honest and focused on freedom and choice rather than restriction and certainty. Just like meditation, it’s a breath by breath experience meant to be felt as a new experience each moment. Always evolving.
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Govindas and Rhada are huge inspirations to Natalia and I as we soon begin the journey of parenthood! Some friends and family have joked to me that I might lose some of my spontaneous, adventurous, risk taking, and spiritual traits as I mature to become a parent. Of course I plan on transforming but I hope I don’t lose my wild traits. Govindas and Rhada remind me that being parents does not mean you have to fall into a stereotypical traditional role. Parenting can be whatever you want it to be based on what you intuitively feel will benefit your child most.
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#bhaktiyoga #yoga #wedding #love #gratitud

I love working and being productive. I have a very

I love working and being productive. I have a very hard time relaxing. All day I’m working on myself, working the land, working for my family I’m building, and for our community. I love it.
#farmlife #organic #costarica #run #vegan #growyourownfood #garden #permaculture

🌞🧘‍♂️🌛Life is a balance of extremes

🌞🧘‍♂️🌛Life is a balance of extremes. I prioritize my rest, recovery and self love as much as I do breaking my body and spirit down, humbling myself, making myself feel small and insufficient.
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I’m a huge believer in doing difficult things. Difficult physically, emotionally, and intellectually. I continue to run harder and faster, I push myself to communicate openly with my loved ones even when it’s uncomfortable or awkward, and graduating college taught me how rewarding it is to read, use the scientific method and educated myself on the reality of things and how systems work. Don’t even get me started on farming and trying to grow all my own food, it’s the most humbling and difficult of them all.
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I pretty much do difficult things all day which makes unexpected difficult life moments much easier because I am use to overcoming challenges. Doing difficult things is especially important for those who grew up privileged like myself. Those who grew up with a hard upbringing already know this lesson. If you grew up easy and want to live life with gratitude instead of being a brat, do hard things and be disciplined in getting better at them.
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#canthurtme #stayhard #workhard #balance #fitness #yoga #healthy #sustainability #costarica #vegan #plantbased #tattoo #handstand #inversion

We witness some wild stuff in our jungle home. 🐸
#toad #costarica #amphibian #farmlife #junglelife #nature

Call me crazy but I think I have some beautiful he

Call me crazy but I think I have some beautiful healthy feet!! Ultra Runner yogi feet baybay!!
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I know they’re healthy because they don’t hurt and they take me on epic fast 10-30 mile running journeys through the mountains consistently and allow me to balance and have wonderful yoga practices on the daily.
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In the last 30 days traveling with my WIFE😻 I’ve run 209 total miles. That’s 52 miles a week! When I got to 30 miles a week my feet started to get gnarly with nails changing color, some falling off etc. It’s a part of the gig. I don’t even bang them on rocks, it just happens. My hands are the same from working the land.
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People who don’t move much and don’t work outdoors have pristine soft skin on their hands and feet. People who push the limits of physical potential like myself have calloused, rough, gnarly looking skin. I love my hands and feet.
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Do you find these beautiful or nasty?? Comment what you think.
#feet #yoga #yogitoes #runner #runnersofinstagram #runnersfeet #yogi #vegan #nature #fitness

🐒🏃‍♂️🌸A year and a half ago I’d p

🐒🏃‍♂️🌸A year and a half ago I’d pat myself on the back for taking a 4 mile run and I’d treat myself to smoking a joint afterwords. Yesterday I ran 18 miles with 3,000 feet of elevation gain after having run every day for the past few days and I’m not even sore or tired. I’m a beast and it feels incredible. I’ve trained so consistently and it has really payed off with huge improvements so I can experience nature and movement better.
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Consistency, healthy living, kicking weed and tobacco, connecting to passion.
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Mood follows action. The better you can get at the actions in your life the more enhanced and vibrant your mood will become. I like to feel amazing, even epic, not just good. I could just run 5 milers and do yoga every other day and feel fine, but I continue to practice yoga daily, increase my fitness, drop my vices and live super disciplined and healthy because it makes me feel incredible. I can’t believe how electric I feel being so fit, healthy, sober, having such enriched relationships and responsibility to my work and farm. It’s all so wonderful and I encourage you to quit what does not serve you and dedicate your life to your passions or the steps that will allow you to pursue your passions.
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#canthurtme #keepgoing #nature #fitness #run #runner #consistency #trailrunning #vegan

My New Years resolution is to be and live as real

😍🌸Did it…married my best friend and inspir

😍🌸Did it…married my best friend and inspiration🦋 I’ve been dreaming up this manifestation pretty much my entire conscious life.
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I’ve always wanted a life companion who gets me excited to work hard and who I can have an enjoyable love filled adventurous life with.
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Ay ay ay it’s hilarious yet profound to think that three years ago I was on my bike tour in Guatemala, tired, lonely, sleeping in a tent camped a kilometer off the road in the forest somewhere getting eaten by mosquitoes while messaging @naturalialove on the gram asking her to join me!!🤯🤗😂 I wanted her to be my traveler girlfriend companion so bad. It seemed impossible but I was persistent.
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Fast forward a few years and look at us! Jungle fruit farmer chocolate makers married while hosting yoga and farm retreats at our Costa Rica paradise we have built together.
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PRAISE JAH and pachmama and all the earth for allowing me to enjoy these powerful life experiences. It’s all love. Can’t wait to keep growing together mi amor. We had a magical wedding thanks to the support of our parents, friends, @govind.das.108 and @radha.ma108. Natalia and I’s first date in September 2019 was at @bhaktiyogashala Kirtan with Govindas...then he married us. Queeee bonita nuestro historia💫 Many more pics to come soon, it was very special🌻
🌈we all cried of happiness during the ceremony.
Te ammmoooo I love you the most Natalia you make me happier, better, stronger, more complete and grateful. I will be at your service for life🙏
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#onelove #wedding #married #yogis

Traveling in Mexico has been a trip now that I liv

Traveling in Mexico has been a trip now that I live on our jungle farm. City livin has been rough but it’s a great reminder that family and loved ones are the most important even in times of discomfort.
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I grew up in Hollywood, a city full of people pretending to be something else. Society more and more is in fear of reality and turning towards alternative reality to get through life. I’m not so sure about it.
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Here are some things I think are real and bring real happiness. Human connection and touch, physical struggle in movement and exercise, mindfulness and meditation, hard work towards an ambitious goal, nature and wilderness, farming, eating whole foods.
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Think about the pandemic and where society is headed. It’s away from all this real shit and towards weirdness.
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Society and culture is moving towards substance addiction, technology for connection and dopamine, virtual reality, processed food, fear of strangers, don’t hug your family during the pandemic, isolation, ignorance to how systems of nature work. Yuck.
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Honestly we are doomed if more people don’t join the environmental revolution. The only solution I see for humans to be sustainably happy is to leave the cities, join a sustainable nature and farming based community, get really fit, and slowly bring back elements of technology and modern civilization that serve you once you’ve reprogrammed yourself to thrive on nature, movement, working on the land and community.
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Who’s with me? Our retreat will help you get back to the land and real happiness. Feb 7-12. DM me for details.
#nature #growyourownfood #fitness #yoga #freedom #health #costarica #vegan #plantbased #sustainability

In 2017 I flew to Alaska alone with my bicycle wit

In 2017 I flew to Alaska alone with my bicycle with a plan to ride to South America looking for my place of paradise to build a farm life, grow my own food and start a family. It was a dream.
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Fast forward 4 years and I successfully rode my bike from Alaska to southern Costa Rica where I was called to stop my travels and start my farm project, found my life partner, built a home with the help of many, planted hundreds of trees and plants, and now we’re flying home to get married this weekend and eating amazing date bananas from our land on the flight over. Life is goooood.
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Getting married, having a home and farm to take care of, and building businesses to support my growing family is all a lot more responsibility I’ve taken on compared to my solo traveling days.
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After college is craved freedom and lack of responsibility…so I lived that life for a few years and if felt great. It’s what I needed. After a few years of that it started to get old and I craved responsibility, work, relationships, and that’s why I’ve created the life I live today.
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The older I get the more I desire a disciplined healthy life, hard work, sobriety, family, consistency, routine, that stuff.
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#weddingweek #costarica #vegan #relationship #travel #farmlife

🥰Organic craft chocolate making will be day 2 o

🥰Organic craft chocolate making will be day 2 of our next retreat!! DM me for price and to reserve your spot! Feb 7-12. Farm life, yoga, waterfalls, chocolate making, best quality local topical fruit ever, wildlife, beaches.
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@naturalialove will teach ya’ll the many step process of how to turn a raw cacao seed into a chocolate bar, peanut butter cup and truffle. We’ll cover seed fermentation, roasting, grinding, pouring and flavoring. Hands on!! We’ll make chocolates together.
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DM ME to join!
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#retreat #chocolatemaking #craftchocolate #cacao #farmlife #vegan #costarica

💪💪Woohoo we grow yucca! It’s calorie rich

💪💪Woohoo we grow yucca! It’s calorie rich and delicious. Growin our dinners baybay!! Read on and comment to discuss the origin of existence!!!
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Biblical religions believe in creationism. God created earth and the universe.
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Basically all legit evolutionary biologists, physicists, and astronomers believe in the Big Bang theory. Scientist don’t know or claim to have any idea what caused the Big Bang…but what we know is that we can still measure the energy waves reverberating throughout the universe from the bang which is the origin of the universe.
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Scientists will say the Big Bang happened 14 billion years ago, that planet earth is 4.5 billion years old right now, and that humans evolved from homo erectus 200,000 years ago.
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Biblical religious folk will tell you god created the universe 7,000 years ago and that god decided to impregnate a virgin woman with his son, Jesus.
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I wonder who’s right. The scientists or the religious people. They can’t both be right, very very different stories.
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No one should be offended by this post. All I’ve done is type out the stances of two opposing groups who are trying to understand reality.

Looking forward to the comments ✌️

#evolution #science #yucca #farmlife #permaculture #religion #creation #god

🌈🌸On day 1 of our February retreat we will w

🌈🌸On day 1 of our February retreat we will wake up early, hike down to the magical river and have our first nature mediation and a cold plunge.
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We’ll then make our way to the yoga deck for some nice vinyasa flow followed by fresh sweet coconut water🥥💦, ice cream bananas🍌🍌, pineapple🍍and papaya.
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After some resting by the pool we’ll begin our farm tour, introducing you to all our trees and plants we’ve been carefully cultivating for two years now as the toucans and butterfly’s fly over our heads.
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We’ll close the day with a sharing circle as we get to know each other better followed by an all organic hoke cooked dinner of baked plantains, delicious beans, steamed veggies, guacamole and fermented coconut crackers.
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It will be a blissful day and you can be a part of it.
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DM me to join us and for details.
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#retreat #vegan #costarica #river #waterislife #health #yoga #mindfulness

🌞🐒Some high vibe folks have been DMing us ab

🌞🐒Some high vibe folks have been DMing us about our feb 7-12 retreat!! Can’t wait to lock down the attendee list! DM me for price and details! Btw second pic waterfall is on our land!! Crazy right!?!?
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One of the common questions has been if we will require vax proof and mask wearing….nahhh
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Does the vax work to lower the spread and hospitalizations of covid YES! Do masks help lower the spread PROBABLY YES! Are those things good YAAA SURE! Is the vax dangerous PROBABLY NOT (but we don’t know any long term possible issues). Should we stop living in fear of getting a virus that doesn’t hospitalize most people who get it YEPPPP!
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Is it time to start living life normal and honor that this world is dangerous and nature is a biatch in terms of control and safety and it is what it is YAAAAAS. We’ve done enough as a society to lower the spread.
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Who has my nuanced options on this stuff??
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If you’re vaxxed you are welcome to come to our retreat.
Unvaxxed?? Also welcome.
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Masked or unmasked…doesn’t matter to us. All are welcome.
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Lockdowns and mandates are so 2020. Over it. Life is a risk.
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#veganretreat #costarica

🤪Yesterday’s coffee harvest on our land! So a

🤪Yesterday’s coffee harvest on our land! So awesome! DM ME to join our February retreat!!!
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Apologizing when you’re wrong or mean is one of the most important decent qualities to have. I’ve responded to most of the comments from 2 posts ago which in summary said I think people who believe in god and unscientific miracles are silly…but I also called them dumb and mentally ill which was unnecessary of me. I’ll do my best to not let my emotions get to me next time. I’ll still express my opinion but without using insults at people who don’t view life through a scientific lens of reality like I do. It’s petty and I say my bad for that.
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Moving on let’s talk about meaning and purpose or lack there of. My perspective is that there is absolutely no inherent meaning in the entire universe, but individual sentient beings create purpose in their short lives just to get through it enjoyably rather than miserably.
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For example, I personally care about environmental sustainability and reducing my carbon footprint so much that I made it my “purpose” to move to Costa Rica, build a farm and grow my own food locally. But I also know that our sun is expanding and will set earth on fire in a couple billion years. That’s a fact look it up.
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I understand there is no purpose of earth or a state that is supposed to be achieved, but I still care about it in the short term just to make something fun and interesting if my life and children’s lives.
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I guess some people think there is a bigger purpose and meaning to life beyond what I explained.
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What do you think??
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#purpose #meaning #astronomy #sustainability #coffee #permaculture #farmlife

🐒🌈🌸Escape the cold and join us for our ve

🐒🌈🌸Escape the cold and join us for our vegan jungle farm paradise retreat on our land in Costa Rica!
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February 7th-12th (5nights)
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4 spots available for indoor accommodation in our retreat house & 4 spots for camping bring your own tent. 8 attendees in total + Natalia, Maggie and I! @naturalialove
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DM IF YOU’RE INTERESTED!
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Our farm is nestled in the jungle mountains of south west Costa Rica 25 minutes from Playa Dominical. During the retreat we will come together as a community for yoga on our platform with gorgeous mountain view’s, garden and fruit tree workshops, hiking the famous Nauyaca waterfall, tour the largest farmers market in Costa Rica, hang at our favorite pristine beach, make organic craft chocolate bars together and of course eat the freshest farm grow organic fruits, veggies and vegan treats.
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Once you arrive on the farm all things are included in the price. Food, accommodation & day trips all included. DM FOR PRICE $$
MUCH LOVE PURA VIDA
#retreat #costarica #yoga #farmlife #organic #vegan #plantbased #health #permaculture

I’m seeking some community feedback here, so com

I’m seeking some community feedback here, so comment your opinions. I want to see where the majority stands on this.
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My belief is people who strongly believe in ghosts, spirits, god, religion, reiki, energy healing, cranial sacral work, flat earth, astrology and things like this are one or multiple of the following: dumb, easily manipulated, mentally ill, haven’t read scientific literature, or just really lost in their own self that they need to believe in miracles to keep going.
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This might offend people, but honestly I’m pretty amazed and offended when people post about their god worship and astrological bullshit so how about let’s all agree to not be offended and just use these platforms to share our opinions and have fun conversation. We’ll never know what side is objectively the truth on these big topics, we are just sharing opinions and these are mine.
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I’m a yogi, organic farmer, vegan, and psychedelic voyager but also an atheist and environmentalist. The things I’m interested in tend to attract a lot of people who believe in god and ghosts etc even though I don’t at all, so I’m surrounded by these people, many of whom I love as people just think they’re a bit lost.
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I think we are products of evolution, there is no real meaning in life, no predetermined fate, we’re just here for a blink of universal time until the next asteroid hits and I think that’s great. It is what it is.
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Let me know what you think.
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#astronomy #atheist #vegan #logic #science #spirituality #yoga #farmer #nogod

🍄🐒Wonderful family trip to Monteverde. I wen

🍄🐒Wonderful family trip to Monteverde. I went bungee jumping, zip lining, saw a couple huge red tailed boas, had delicious vegan pizza, ran 10 miles on my bday, climbed old trees, and best of all was reunited with my love @naturalialove after her trip visiting home.
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Taking a trip now that we have a farm has a whole different feeling because we get to return home and see all the growth and changes that happened while we were gone. Can’t wait to see! Almost home!
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#monteverde #familia #farmlife #boa

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