Chocolate Church Juice

The past week has been really enlightening. I took an extra breath course, which was much more therapeutic than I ever imagined it could be. Beware because I’m going to be encouraging all of you to practice some very simple, yet very effective breathing tips when I get home!

Last Sunday I went to the infamous ‘chocolate shaman’ in town. The way it works is that you go, drink a cup of ‘chocolate church juice’ (raw cacao), then meditate and listen to Keith (the Shaman) as he intuitively talks to the people who are healers and the people who are empaths (take on the energy of others). The cacao is a drug that helps us to be more open and, quite frankly, who wouldn’t benefit from a cup of really good chocolate!

This week has been kind of grey and cooler (probably between 15 and 20 degrees). We had a couple of nights of rain which was very welcome as the town was running out of water! There were numerous days when I tried to shower and turned on the tap to find that there was NO water. Since the rain I find myself smiling every time I flush the toilet with success!

Yesterday Roxanne and I spent a couple of hours sitting on the dock watching the world go by. We noticed there were a couple of small dead fish floating in the lake. Then a pack of young boys spotted them, stripped down to their undies, and dove in to collect them! They would pass the fish around, each smelling it, and if it was decided to be ‘too stinky’ they would throw it back. Upon questioning they told me that the fish die because they’re too cold and that they gather them to eat them (except for the stinky ones)! From what we observed they were pretty excited about their ‘catch’.