It feels good to bottle health for family and friends. Today, I bottled one green juice and two green smoothies for a friend who was recently hospitalized for stomach-related issues. Since being released, she hasn’t had much of an appetite, so I figured fresh green juice and/or the green smoothie would be the perfect food for her to sip on to assist her healing journey.
The top bottle in the picture shown here is of the juice: kale, 3 apples, 1 pear (because I ran out of apples), 1/2 lemon.
The bottom two bottles are of the smoothie, which turned out silky smooth. The ingredients used to make that were:
- ~ a couple handfuls of Kale
- ~ a handful of Parsley
- ~ two Pears
- ~ a few slices of Pineapple
- ~ half an Avocado
- ~ about 1 teaspoon Cold Pressed Olive Oil
- ~ about 1 teaspoon Bragg’s Apple Cider Vinegar
- ~ Water (didn’t measure — maybe a cup or so)
- ~ dash of Cayenne Pepper
- ~ about 1 1/2 teaspoons Agave Nectar*
*note from the editor:
we strongly recommend whole dates and fresh fruit over agave nectar.
Now, I’m about to send my friend this blog entry suggesting she also “Thread the Needle” as a way to massage her abdominal organs and rejuvenate her entire system. What a nice complement to her green drinks!
“Thread The Needle?” she’ll ask.
~ On all fours in Table position (hands about shoulder width apart), begin lowering the right temple to the floor while “threading” the right arm under the left arm. (The left hand is planted on the floor.) Feel a nice stretch behind the shoulder. Hold for a few seconds while inhaling and exhaling through the nose.
~ Return to all fours and repeat on the opposite side.
To increase the stretch, raise the non-threaded arm toward the ceiling and hold for a few breaths.
Feel renewed now, Michele? 😉
Green drinks and stretching! Does healing “medicine” get any purer than that? Why get a needle when we can just “Thread the Needle”? 🙂
Green Hugs & Blessings,
Penny
from the Raw Mom blog.