Cellular Intelligence

Posted on Feb 28, 2011 in Blog, Cellular Intelligence, Cultivating Well-being, Events, Featured, Health, Reflections, Secrets of Your Cells | 1 comment Looking at cells for decades I continue to learn their secrets and what they can teach us. One of the most important features of our cells is its fabric or underlying matrix. Within the transparent gel-like substance called the cytoplasm, cells are  managed by thousands of strings, strands and tubes which connect all parts of the cell inside and out. These strings help choose and maneuver what...
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Wine and Intention

Posted on Feb 11, 2011 in Art and Science, Blog, Come to your senses, Shaping Taste, Wine Shaman, Wine Tasting | 12 comments Can we, with our thoughts or other unmeasurable manipulation, change the taste of a wine? Well, I won’t tell you how but      it has been done Perhaps it was magic 3 glasses of the same 2008 cabernet sauvignon were treated ‘mysteriously’ with crystals and thoughts Voila! The simple wine became fruitier with one experimental variation, and softer with another. Here are what...
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Body Prayers & the Qi Walk

Posted on Feb 6, 2011 in Biodynamics/Organics, Blog, Cellular Intelligence, Cultivating Well-being, Health, Reflections, Secrets of Your Cells | 0 comments I first heard the term ‘body prayer’ when Shirley Dockstader offered one at my 13th moon celebration. Shirley is an amazing teacher.  find her, she’s a champ. A body prayer is sacred movement, movement in which the soul expresses ITSELf. Or a body prayer can be kneeling in supplication to a higher power for help A  BODY PRAYER can be taking time to BE, walk and reflect in...
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Grape Sex

Posted on Feb 2, 2011 in Blog, Cultivating Well-being, Featured, Shaping Taste, Sustainable, Vineyards | 4 comments The recent New York Times article telling us that the lack of sex is hurting the health of wine grapes, got me thinking. How do grapes have sex? First of all, grapes are ‘bisexual. It all ideally starts with the flower having both male and female sex organs, how convenient is that? The male pollen lands on the female equivalent, the stigma. The fertilization process results in a crossing...
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