| Body Time
A walk in the wet sand gives an invigorating foot massage! Around this
time of year, it seems like a body would greatly appreciate one. Unfortunately,
living in the desert in the middle of the winter does not lend itself well
to such a request. Create your own sandy path to soft feet with the following
recipe.
1 Tablespoon sea salt
1 Tablespoon calendula oil
5 drops orange or spearmint
essential oil
In a small bowl, combine all ingredients until they cover
the salt. Soak your feet to soften the callused skin. Massage
the mixture into each foot
for at least 3 minutes. Rinse with warm water, pat dry and put on nice,
warm, wooly socks. The calunda oil residue will continue to soften your
feet for hours.
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Esperanza
Did You Know....
With a name like Santa Fe which means “Holy
Faith” in Spanish, you would expect this place in the mountains
to have something special going for it. Holistic Healing is in
the air here. According to a recent article in the Los Angeles
Times, Santa Fe has the nation’s most active community of
complementary health care professionals: it boasts one such practitioner
for every 27 residents —compared to only one conventional
doctor per 200. The city has more acupuncturists per capita than
Bejing.
“What I like most about having a practice here is people’s willingness
to explore healing not only on the body, but on the mind and the spirit, also,” says
Michael Herbert, a massage therapist in Santa Fe. “When I’m working
on someone in Santa Fe, I get the distinct feeling that they are working on themselves
at the same time.”
The confluence of Native American religion, traditional world faiths, and
New Age metaphysical philosophies makes Santa Fe a virtual cradle of healing
and spirituality in the high desert. Banked up against the majestic peaks
of the Sangre de Cristos—“the blood of Christ” in
Spanish, another spiritual allusion—Santa Fe is home to dozens
of spiritual groups from Tibetan Buddhists, Quakers and Zen followers,
to Baha’is, Sikhs and Sufis. All these spiritual practices rest on
the foundation of the dominant religion, Roman Catholicism, established
here by itinerant priests who accompanied colonists from Spain in the 16th
century (the town’s full name is La Villa Real de Santa Fe de San
Francisco de Assisi—the Royal Town of the Holy Faith of St.
Francis of Assisi).
But even before Franciscan missionaries arrived here in 1610, carrying
the holy faith of their founder and the name Santa Fe with them, the settlement
called “Place of the Dancing Sun” by medicine men of the native
Pueblo peoples, was considered hallowed ground.
A few years ago the travel media discovered Santa Fe as a vacation destination,
and placed the emphasis on cowboy-and-cactus art, boots-and-concha-belt
costumes and Santa Fe style home furnishings, missing what many believe
is the real story of the place: Santa Fe is a dazzling spiritual center,
a place for soul expansion, personal
transformation and healing
-Joseph Dispenza
Massage magazine
January 2000 |
| Recipe |
SOY PUMPKIN PIE
serves 8
CRUST:
1 cup gingersnap crumbs (about 14 2-inch gingersnaps)
1 tablespoon Organic sugar
1 tablespoon unsalted butter, melted and cooled
FILLING:
3 large eggs, slightly beaten
1 cup Organic sugar
1 3/4 cups cooked pumpkin puree
8 ounces firm tofu drained and well pureed
3/4 cup creamy unsweetened soymilk
1 tablespoon cornstarch
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
1/4 teaspoon salt
Preheat oven to 350o F.
For crust: combine gingersnap crumbs, sugar and butter. Press
mixture onto bottom and sides of a 9-inch (1-quart) pie plate.
Bake crust in middle of oven for 15 minutes, or until crisp
and golden around edge. Let cool on a rack.
For filling:. whisk together eggs and sugar in a large mixing
bowl. And pumpkin puree, pureed tofu and soymilk and whisk
until smooth. Add cornstarch, cinnamon, ginger and salt and
mix until incorporated. Pour mixture into pie crest. Bake the
pie in the middle of the oven for about 1 hour, or until the
filling is set.
Cool at room temperature and serve. |
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