I’m A Renegade Health Show Superstar!!!

This last weekend our friends Kevin and Annmarie Gianni of the Renegade Health Show came to spend Easter weekend with us, and to present at a Monday Night LIVE! event. They stayed with us for five days, and in those five days we had a lot of fun!

Easter Sunday I threw a potluck, and some of the coolest people I know came out to play.
Sure, Stephen and I knew they all came for Kevin and Annmarie, not us, but whatever!
The day before the potluck I was looking at the guest list and realized over half the people invited were some of the best raw chefs in California! (Pretty brilliant on my part, if I don’t say so myself!) So, yes – the food was slamming – and Kevin was so impressed with the caliber of raw celebrity-dom present that he filmed 2 of his Renegade Health episodes, interviewing John Kohler and then Rick and Karin Dina, in my back yard!

As if THAT wasn’t fun and cool enough – both he and Annmarie LOVED the onion bread that I made as one of my dishes at the potluck, so Annmarie asked ME to join her on this weeks ‘In The Kitchen’ episode of Renegade Health!

Here I am in the kitchen with Annmarie & Kevin Gianni.

And if THAT wasn’t fun and cool enough, again, Kevin asked me to be in ANOTHER Renegade Health episode all about colon hydrotherapy! And better than that, the video includes me giving Kevin a colon therapy session! (Nothing Graphic!) Well… I was nervous, but I did it, and I actually LOVE IT!
So you bet that video is now on my website – but just in case any of you might have missed it, here it is for you now:

Here I am giving Kevin Gianni a colonic!!!

Poor Stephen! It’s all I can talk about… and now I want to make videos for everything!
-Here’s me giving a foot bath,
-Here’s me talking about the liver/gall bladder flush,
-Here’s me recruiting you for booty boot camp… etc.
(I feel like such a rawkstar!)

And wait! There’s more!

Kevin  and Annmarie had such a great time here, and at Monday Night Live, that before they left we made arrangements to have them return in July! So they’ll be back and at Cafe Gratitude on Monday July 27th (the weekend after Santa Rosa’s first ever Raw Expo – brought to us by John Kohler!). ANd that event Kevin’s presentation topic will be “How to be a Leader in the Health Field.” I’ve heard this talk, it is AMAZING!

Love Love Love
SheaShayShā

Changing the Videos of the Presentations – Blip.Tv!!!

I didn’t at all like the way YouTube makes you break your videos into 10 minute segments, so with a little research we decided to play with Blip.Tv.

With Blip.Tv you can watch an hour video in its entirety. YAY!
So, I’ve changed all of the links on the Monday Night LIVE! page of my website, and I’ve gone back though my blog and swapped out where I’ve posted each of the previously presented videos. I’m really excited about it! They look really good. We’ve also left some presence on YouTube, in case anyone forgets, you’ll be able to find the first 10 minute segment of each presentation, with instructions for finding the full length version on my Blip.Tv channel.

This last week’s presentation was really nice. Cecilia did a great job and I know many of the audience members heard exactly what they needed to – and really felt connected to her by the end o the talk. Here is the video of her presentation in case you missed the event.

2/2/09 – Cecilia Benjumea
“Healing Chronic Fatigue Syndrome with Raw Foods: My Journey to Wellness.”

LOVE & GRATITUDE!
SheaShayShā

Cecilia Bunjumea Audio & Elaina Love Videos Are Up!

This week’s Monday Night LIVE! @ Cafe Gratitude was great! Elaina Love came up from the East Bay and spoke about her own personal journey through raw foods and detoxification – The first of the videos is posted below. We made a plan to co-present  at Raw Spirit Festival in Santa Barbara this June! I am SO excited!

I got so relaxed at this event that I completely forgot to take pictures!  I did remember to get my infamous cheesy group shot, so there you have it.

Next week is Cecilia Benjumea – and her Audio Interview can be accessed here.

Laura Fox has appeared out of nowhere to save the day! I had a change in the schedule for February 9th, Lydia Kindheart asked to postpone her presentation, and I was really nervous about who I could get to fill such wonderful shoes… I was literally sitting at the computer pondering the situation, on the verge of hyperventilating, and I received an email from Laura… It just happens that she is going to be in the North Bay during the month of February and she’d LOVE to do a Monday Night LIVE! if there was a spot... I spent a day just shaking my head in amazement. So, THANK YOU Laura!

I’m going to be on Laura’s Internet radio Show, Raw Inspirations, tonight for 5 minutes at the top of the show. It starts at 7 pm Pacific Time.

1/26/09 Monday Night LIVE! @ Cafe Gratitude
Elaina Love: “My Personal Journey Through Raw Foods and Detoxification.”

LOVE & GRATITUDE!
SheaShayShā

Elaina Love Audio & Happy Oasis Videos Are Up!

What a week!

First, we hosted the incredible and ever entertaining Happy Oasis at this week’s Monday Night LIVE! and also at our house! It was wonderful! I am so honored that she wanted to participate in my project, and was willing to do so. What a gift! I really feel indebted to her jumping on board so quickly – having her name attached to the line up of speakers so early on really added a sense of credibility to my who process and project!

The event went off beautifully, full house again! I was happy, Cafe Gratitude was happy, the attendees seemed happy and of course, Happy was Happy!

It did, however, take us (read that “Stephen”)  over 5 days to just get the first video uploaded to YouTube. Ahhh… technology!  Isn’t it supposed to meke life simpler? Apparently they were having some issues this week, Stephen saw people complaining all over the forums. It was definitely a drag on our time and energy, and added to my stress level (read that “therefore Stephen’s too”). We are going to start researching other internet video hosting site, maybe one that doesn’t make you chop up your film into 10 minute sections – that would be amazing! but in the meantime, YouTube it is.

Photos from the event are up on Flickr – you can find them here.
Video is at the bottom of this post.

In other Monday Night LIVE! News, and I swear someday soon I’ll have something else to talk about, I got Elaina Love’s audio up. I’m really excited to hear her presentation because besides her own journey through developing a raw foods lifestyle for hersoef, she’s also going to be focussing on detoxification. Obvioulsy an area of interest for me!

Elaina’s 5 minute audio interview can be found here.

I also had my first last minute cancellation for a speaker, and it made me more than a tiny bit nervous… Then, today, less than 24 hours after hearin gthe news out of nowhere LAURA FOX jumped in! She’s just going to happen to be in the area and wanted to see if there was a spot for her. After  was able to scoop my jaw of the floor, i jumped all over that offer. I’m till shaking my head in disbelief! The Universe provided in a Big Amazing way! Laura Fox will DEFINITELY be an event to attend!

1/19/09 – Happy Oasis
“Let’s Get Wild! Transformational Animal Stories & Tribal Tales”

LOVE & GRATITUDE!
SheaShayShā

MNL!@CG Video: Matthew and Terces Engelhart

Hi!
So… I’m still more than a little slow to actually do the ‘Daily Blogging’ thing…
but I’m getting there!

Honestly, right now it feels as if I’ve bitten off just a little more than I can chew with the whole Monday Night LIVE! @ Cafe Gratitude adventure! I thought I was really ahead of the game by getting such an amazing line up so quickly… turns out that was the easy part! I’m feeling slow and sluggish and awkward with every step while I try and develop the infrastructure behind getting the audios made , up and out, and the videos up and out. I feel like I might be annoying people with too many emails between my newsletter and the different MNL@CG groups I’ve trying to keep updated.  Please bare with while I figure this out!

Before I post the Video, please also notice that just in the nick of time I got the 5 minute audio interview with Happy Oasis today – Happy is our speaker at MNL@CG tomorrow, Monday January 19th! Click here for the interview with Happy Oasis.

So here is the 1st video of 4 from the first Monday Night LIVE! @ Cafe Gratitude!
Matthew and Terces Engelhart, January 12th, 2009
Topic: “Creating Sacred Community”

1/12/09 – Matthew  Terces Engelhart
“Creating Sacred Community.”

LOVE & GRATITUDE!
SheaShayShā

AMAZING Monday Night LIVE! Opening Night

Matthew and Terces Engelhart present
“Creating Sacred Community”  at the first
Monday Night LIVE! @ Cafe Gratitude!

Last night the Café Gratitude Healdsburg location was filled to Standing Room Only capacity to hear Matthew and Terces Engelhart, the restaurant’s owners, present at the first Monday Night LIVE!

Even though the event was promoted as starting at 6:30pm, people were pooling up at the door waiting for tables by around 6:00pm! (And to think I was sick-to-my-stomach-stressed for most of the day, unsure of what to expect.)

My favorite memory of last night was when the Monday night meeting of all the Cafe Gratitude location managers (roughly 15 of them), who where having their meeting in Healdsburg last night to support the event, all had to give up their table and start working!  At first they simply gave up their table for the crowd forming at the door, but within 20 minutes all of them where taking orders and serving food! It was Divine orchestration that they where there or I’m not sure what the Healdsburg staff would have done!

They also ran out of almost everything on their menu, and I saw some very creative things coming out of the kitchen to make sure everyone got fed!

Happy Oasis is next week. My advice is to come early enough to secure a spot and to get dinner!
As of yet I have been unable to get the audio of Happy talking about her presentation – she is in a remote location in Hawaii and she has no cell service. She was kind enough to call before she was to be unreachable, but her message dropped every other word. So – just come! It’s Happy! She is an amazing story teller – it’s going to be so much fun!

LOVE & GRATITUDE!
SheaShayShā