The Healthy Hooper Goes Global

Aloha! I am so excited and nervous as I pack and prep for my first big journey across the world...Australia! I'm goin' Down Unda', Mates! What a wild ride it has been simply allowing myself to accept that I will be in another country, on another continent for three months (or more)! I feel incredibly blessed. I have been 'practicing' backpacking for the last three years, so that I could be ready for this exact moment. I have been learning how to eat healthy on the road, stay rested, hydrate, honed my people skills, learned how to talk to ANYONE about a hoola hoop, given away or stored almost all of my belongings, and here I am today. Nothin' but a backpack, hoola hoops, fire props, and MANA/PRANA/LIFE FORCE pumping through my veins. I am going to Australia and beginning my Walkabout in Cairns, where I am teaching/performing at a once in a lifetime festival called ECLIPSE 2012, which begins on my birthday and a total solar eclipse occurs four days later on Nov. 14th. I am turning 28. Saturn returning. I am returning, to my roots, to my tribe I have never known, to my self, to my deepest truths. I am here to dance the world awake! I will do just that from whatever stage or setting the Great Spirit provides me. I feel honored to be called to this place during such a dramatic and drastic Shift in Humanity. Thank you for being supportive of my journey and my process, as it has been very out-loud and frankly, never-ending :) I am so happy to be doing THIS work for THIS world NOW! Aloha Ke Akua! Mahalo Nui Loa! God is Love, All of my Gratitude. -Shellie White Light wwww.thehealthyhooper.com

Chocolate & Chia As Fuel For Hot Yogi(ni)'s

Last February I participated in a 200 hour Hot Yoga Teacher training with Maui Hot Yoga. My teachers, Mary Grace and James Onnikan, are so wonderful. They lovingly kicked my ass on many levels and I became a much more refined version of myself. Omni Love (my best friend and soul seastear) stopped by the other day to get our certificates from the training and visited with our teachers for a while. The August teacher training was only days away and they offered us an opportunity to fill the fridge in the studio with healthy treats such as raw chocolates and chia seed protein bowls. We were delighted! Immediately we gathered ingredients to create two amazing raw food, yummy delights for the upcoming hot yoga students. Here is what we created: Pure InJoyMint Chocolates *2 cups raw organic coconut oil *2 cups raw organic cacao *7 drops doTerra peppermint oil (or to taste) *half cup raw organic coconut sugar *1 tablespoon organic vanilla *teaspoon of sea salt (or to taste) *2 tablespoons Lucuma; a Peruvian super-food sweetener and beta-carotene source! Liquify coco oil through double boiling. Stir in slowly the cacao, sugar, lucuma, vanilla, sea salt and oil. Re-flavor to your taste. Pour into molds. Pop into fridge for half hour. Put the chocolate into your mouth and experience pure inJoyMint :) Makes large serving of chocolates! Total Chia Yum Sauce *1 Cup soaked Chia Seeds *1 Can Thai Organic Coconut Milk *Frozen Organic Raspberries *1/2 cup Hemp Seeds *Fresh Strawberries *Fresh Blueberries *Fresh Mango ***Special NOTE: Soak chia seeds overnight. Stir chia seeds into water until you reach a slightly thick gelatinous consistency. 1.Create Coconut/Hemp Milk: Blend hemp seeds into the coconut milk. 2. Blend frozen raspberries into soaked chia. 3. Pour chia raspberry blend into bowl. Top with the coconut hemp milk. 4. Cut up berries and mango and put on top of the chia/raspberry/coconut/hemp yumminess! Makes 2-4 servings, depending on how much you can eat :) ***Special NOTE: The Chia ingredients can all be blended together with a little water, ice and vegan protein powder for an awesome SMOOTHIE :)!!! The yogi(nis) all loved our creations. We were so happy to share! Thank you all, Mahalo, for following this blog and creating a wealth of health in your world. You a bright light and deserve to shine super bright! Keep your body temple healthy with delicious super foods that keep your body running on light and love. www.thehealthyhooper.com