Today on the stove is simmering a pot of butternut squash, yam and potato soup with loads of onion and garlic, herbed with oregano, rosemary and turmeric. Who says squash soup is only a fall/winter recipe? Nourishing my body and immune system after my week long mediation with the cold bugs that were trying their hardest to get the better of me! Grateful for my herbal and superfood knowledge to support the body's natural ability to heal. With a big pot of chaga, reishi, rosehip and yarrow tea on the burner, I'm feeling on the mend today! #naturalhealing #herbal #soupallyear #superfoods #breathelivebelieve #WUVIP 20170509_153256

Sunday afternoon #raw #medicinal #chocolate making! Blueberry, hibiscus, camu camu ♡ #superfoods #cacao #foodasmedicine #WUVIP #breathelivebelieve 20170430_181727

Our weekend treat. ♡ Raw plant based superfood cheesecake with cashews, coconut oil, fresh ginger, lemon, lemon zest, hibiscus, maca, and vanilla bean, with whole blueberries and blackberries poked in, sweetened with pure maple syrup, atop a walnut date and cacao nib crust. #raw #dessert #treats #superfoods #breathelivebelieve #upgrade #WUVIP 20170423_10350020170423_103541

Our weekend treat. ♡ Raw plant based superfood cheesecake with cashews, coconut oil, fresh ginger, lemon, lemon zest, hibiscus, maca, and vanilla bean, with whole blueberries and blackberries poked in, sweetened with pure maple syrup, atop a walnut date and cacao nib crust. #raw #dessert #treats #superfoods #breathelivebelieve #upgrade #WUVIP 20170423_10350020170423_103541

Spring cleansing is a family ordeal in the Wierzbicki house! Check out our Sunday lunch! Delicious cold pressed celery/carrot/cucumber/ginger/cilantro/ parsely/granny smith juice, an array of fresh veggies with probiotic hummus prepared with leftover pickle brine, raw tahini, lemon, cumin, garlic, sea salt, and cold pressed extra virgin olive oil. All organic, all high vibration food! #springcleanse #cleansing #juicing #wholefoods #WUVIP 20170402_152725

What's for lunch or dinner? Rice bowls for the Wierzbicki tribe! Eat in colour for optimal health! With tomato, avocado, red cabbage, mango, cucumber, and green onion, over coconut basmati rice, drizzled with a ginger lemon garlic and sesame oil dressing. #plantpower #organic #wholefoods #breathelivebelieve #WUVIP 20170308_12435520170308_131031

What's for lunch or dinner? Rice bowls for the Wierzbicki tribe! Eat in colour for optimal health! With tomato, avocado, red cabbage, mango, cucumber, and green onion, over coconut basmati rice, drizzled with a ginger lemon garlic and sesame oil dressing. #plantpower #organic #wholefoods #breathelivebelieve #WUVIP 20170308_12435520170308_131031

HAPPY LOVE DAY! (Self-love, puppy love, romantic love, family love . . .) ♡ Here's a special treat for the chocolate lovers out there. As many of you may know, book editing and recipe testing are underway . . . I created this recipe for my first “meal” of the day and thought I would share it with you, just because I love you. It’s in the book 😉 Super Chocolate Mocha Want the decadence of your old favourite coffeehouse chocolate mocha without the junk? This drink will hit the spot! Swap out the junk for raw living superfoods and superherbs, plus longevity coffee and you’ve got a winning combination that will satisfy your sweet tooth and lift you higher than regular coffee and chocolate ever did. 4 tbsp raw cacao powder 2 tbsp raw cacao butter 1 tbsp raw honey 6 drops Food For the Immortals Butterscotch Toffee liquid stevia (or 1 additional tbsp. raw honey) 2 tbsp mesquite 2 tbsp tocotrienols (stabilized rice bran solubles) 1 tbsp chaga powder ½ tsp mucuna ½ tsp Amla extract powder ½ dropper full (approx. 30 drops) American Ginseng ½ dropper full of Wild Mushroom Melody (reishi, agarikon, red belt, turkey tail, chaga) 2 cups brazil nut cream (or other raw nut milk of choice) warmed 2 cups Food For the Immortals Longevity Coffee Pinch cayenne (optional) Brew the Longevity Coffee in a bodum as per directions. Meanwhile, warm brazil nut cream over low heat. Assemble remaining ingredients in the blender. Add in coffee and brazil nut cream and blend until smooth. *Food For The Immortals Longevity Coffee is organic, low acid, antioxidant-rich superfood coffee beans, and can be sourced online at the Longevity Warehouse. It is the only all natural, no crash superfood coffee. Visit the site for more information on coffee and why this is different! #doitbetter #upgradeyourmocha #capow #chocolate #bookediting #WUVIP #WUWorldChanger20170214_115521

It's roll call time for Thunder Bay's weekly Yoga for First Responders classes. Join us at one or more of our 6 weekly YFFR classes! Bring your immediate family members ages 13+ too. All levels and abilities. No prerequisites. MONDAYS 5-6:15pm @ SNEMS HQ, 7:15-8:30pm @ TBPS HQ TUESDAYS 6:30-7:45pm @ TBFR Station 3 WEDNESDAYS 7:30-8:45pm @ TBPS HQ THURSDAYS 10-11:15am @ TBFR Station 3, *6-7:15pm @ Polish Legion on Cumberland *YFFR OPEN Class - open to all law enforcement, emergency services personnel, hospital nurses and doctors, military and veterans We're here for you. #YFFR #ThunderBay #trailblazers #prepared #breathelivebelieve #WUVIP #WUWorldChanger 20170119_105546

A message I teach in every single Yoga class, and with every single client; a practice I embody every single day. Align yourself with what you want. Change your thoughts, change your life! #upgrade #visualize #intention #WUVIP 16142826_1191985154190669_3715394464043471348_n

Created this superfood smoothie this morning for my 9 year old and I 🙂 Fresh, fruity, and floral. For all those yearning for spring (not me - I want to go skiing many more times first 😉 ). FLOWER POWER 3 frozen bananas 1/2 cup frozen raspberries 1/2" chunk fresh turmeric 1 tsp hibiscus powder 1 tsp rosehip powder 2 tsp rose petals 2 tsp fresh bee pollen 1/2 tsp vanilla bean powder 1 tsp blue pigment phycocyanin 4 squirts reishi tincture 1 scoop vegan probiotic powder 2 heaping tsp raw honey Pinch sea salt 1 cup Brazil nut cream (or your favorite raw nut milk) 1 cup chilled chaga/reishi/rosehip tea Blend until smooth. Serves 2 #recipe #raw #smoothie #flowerpower #superfoods #WUVIP #WUWorldChanger20170130_122911

#Recipe testing is under way! One of my big goals this year is to move through each and every recipe in my book-to-be, test, re-test, and edit! I've even got a Recipe Testing Team. <3 One the most interesting things about this process is to witness with my eyes and tastebuds just how much I've learned and evolved since 2010 when I first started creating and saving my recipes. Daunting task . . . good thing I'm up for the challenge. 😀 What were your favourite whole foods creations from my years at the Thunder Bay Country Market? #testingrecipesisfun #growth #food #bookediting #WUVIP Five Star Singapore NoodlesPotato &amp; Onion Hash with Tomato, Pea Shoots and SproutsThai Red Curry Soup

#Recipe testing is under way! One of my big goals this year is to move through each and every recipe in my book-to-be, test, re-test, and edit! I've even got a Recipe Testing Team. <3 One the most interesting things about this process is to witness with my eyes and tastebuds just how much I've learned and evolved since 2010 when I first started creating and saving my recipes. Daunting task . . . good thing I'm up for the challenge. 😀 What were your favourite whole foods creations from my years at the Thunder Bay Country Market? #testingrecipesisfun #growth #food #bookediting #WUVIP Five Star Singapore NoodlesPotato &amp; Onion Hash with Tomato, Pea Shoots and SproutsThai Red Curry Soup

#Recipe testing is under way! One of my big goals this year is to move through each and every recipe in my book-to-be, test, re-test, and edit! I've even got a Recipe Testing Team. <3 One the most interesting things about this process is to witness with my eyes and tastebuds just how much I've learned and evolved since 2010 when I first started creating and saving my recipes. Daunting task . . . good thing I'm up for the challenge. 😀 What were your favourite whole foods creations from my years at the Thunder Bay Country Market? #testingrecipesisfun #growth #food #bookediting #WUVIP Five Star Singapore NoodlesPotato &amp; Onion Hash with Tomato, Pea Shoots and SproutsThai Red Curry Soup

Brewing up a big pot of Forest tea, most of which was foraged with my own hands (and my sons and husbands), and some of which was grown by me 🙂 Reishi slices Chaga Rosehips (wild foraged) Horsetail (wild foraged) Spruce tips (wild foraged) White sage (grown and harvested by me) BBQ Rosemary twigs (grown and harvested by me) spring water (wild harvested) #wild #foodfromtheforest #earthmedicine #WUVIP 15369049_10153906542010706_5429164789636390291_o

It's weekly roll call time! If you're a first responder in Thunder Bay, you have multiple weekly options to attend a program and receive a service designed specifically for you. Yoga for First Responders classes are available to city of Thunder Bay fire, police and paramedics, two nights per week per service. *Effective TODAY, classes held at police headquarters are open to Superior North EMS, and vice versa. Mondays 5-6:15pm @ SNEMS on Junot, Superior North Association Of Professional Paramedics - SNAPP 7:15-8:30pm @ TBPS on Balmoral Thunder Bay Police Service Tuesdays 6:30-7:45pm @ TBFR Station 3 on Water St. Thunder Bay Fire Rescue Wednesdays 5:30-6:45pm @ SNEMS 7:30-8:45pm @ TBPS Thursdays 10-11:15am @ TBFR Station 3 Learn why this practice is not your average Yoga class, and how you can benefit from the tools we teach to first responders like yourself across the continent. Flexibility is NOT a pre-requisite. #YFFR #YFFRProtocol #firstresponders #ThunderBay #releasestress #buildresiliency #BreatheLiveBelieve #WUVIP mg_5768

All this lovely warm weather means perfect time to forage all the rose hips after they experienced frost a while ago! Dry them and either use in tea or grind into a powder and add to your smoothie superfood immune support arsenal, or to your favourite raw chocolates or desserts! Get out there and collect those vitamin C superheroes! #rosehip #borealsuperfood #wild #WUVIP 14938262_10153847914490706_577450740523849301_n15032046_10153847914665706_8067970933733533258_n

All this lovely warm weather means perfect time to forage all the rose hips after they experienced frost a while ago! Dry them and either use in tea or grind into a powder and add to your smoothie superfood immune support arsenal, or to your favourite raw chocolates or desserts! Get out there and collect those vitamin C superheroes! #rosehip #borealsuperfood #wild #WUVIP 14938262_10153847914490706_577450740523849301_n15032046_10153847914665706_8067970933733533258_n

Let your little light shine shine shine, Let your little light shine right through the night. There could be someone down in the valley, trying to get home, trying to get home. It could be me, it could be you. It could be a brother or a sister too. There could be someone down in the valley, trying to get home, trying to get home. #light #Bethelight #Shinebright #lighttheway #WUVIP p3cwub4

Calling all Thunder Bay first responders! Have you tried one of the weekly specialized Yoga for First Responders (YFFR) classes available to you at your local headquarters? Learn how to reset your nervous system with tactical breathing, how to eradicate stress from the body, and build both mental and physical resiliency. Family members are also welcome. Thunder Bay's weekly YFFR offerings: MONDAYS 5-6:15pm @ SNEMS Headquarters Superior North Association Of Professional Paramedics - SNAPP 7:15-8:30pm @ TBPS Headquarters Thunder Bay Police Service TUESDAYS 6:30-7:45pm @ TBFR Station 3 Thunder Bay Fire Rescue WEDNESDAYS 5:30-6:45pm @ SNEMS 7:30-8:45pm @ TBPS THURSDAYS 10-11:15am @ TBFR Station 3 See you on the mat. #YFFR #firstresponders #support #strength #resiliency #ThunderBayleadingtheway #BreatheLiveBelieve #WUVIP #yesthatsmetakingaYFFRclass #deepsquat #Iamstrong day-1-level-1-yffr-yoga-class-3