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What’s a Box of Bliss?
It’s a special gift that our members receive once a month to help them relax, decompress and find some bliss. Kind of like a wine of the month club(and maybe the same effect!) but with a carefully selected package of products that are healthy and known to provide effective relaxation support.
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Find Bliss Los Angeles 8-27-2009
Writing stories about any topic is always a genuine learning experience. This week, I took a walk into Lavender Natural Beauty, a store which sells all organic products for the body. Let’s just say that I walked out, hands full of brochures and a mind full of confusion. How can most companies promote their products as “organic” or healthy, when they were are in fact the opposite? I learned a lot, including the fact that my makeup is packed with metals (and that was just the tip of the iceberg). When touring Lavender, a smile grew when I learned that a man saved his wife from skin cancer by developing sunscreen for her! Suddenly, it became my mission to spread the news. I hope that you, our readers, also become blessed with this knowledge by reading this newsletter… time and time again.
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Find Bliss Los Angeles 8-13-09
Thanks for joining us again in this week’s edition of Find Bliss LA. So many of us are spending more time at home, especially those who have gone freelance with all the recent layoffs. More the reason to make your home a sanctuary. A pleasant space to work and live, yet feel calm and creative as well. Noting this importance, we created a new section, “Home as Sanctuary.” Here we will show you how to bring out the best in your living space by discussing topics including feng shui, clearing and cleansing, soothing architecture and interior design and going green with eco-friendly products and furniture.
In this week’s newsletter, we also take you day tripping in Culver City; cruising Highway 1 splendor and dining on LA’s finest organics. We also visit with Eve Baldwin, healer extraordinaire, who offers us personal tips on attaining bliss at home and in the city.
Enjoy and see you out there!
Lori Denman - Editor
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This Week In LA
Tonight Ben Stiller is introducing the powerful documentary The Cove at the Landmark Theater. This is a must see film about mass dolphin slaughter that is very well done and gaining high praise from film makers and environmentalist alike. I look forward to meeting Ben and getting answers to some pressing questions.
The folks from Meaningful Media will be there as well as a slew of other activists and actors. We need more films like this to shine the light on the shadow activities happening around the globe. The good stories need to be told too so those of you budding and successful film makers reading this take note, we will support the good news films as well.
Be well.
Find Bliss Los Angeles 7-30-09
All of us can agree on one thing. We love to call Los Angeles our home. With so much to do, how do we narrow down the options to find places that not only give us bliss, but make us feel good about what we are doing? Well, this is our job. So sit back, relax, and read up on our favorites. Join us as we cruise Larchmont, indulge in imported Belgian chocolates, learn the benefits of organic coffee, lounge our eyes upon eco-friendly furniture, and take a weekend getaway to Ventura, where we paddle kayaks through sea caves. Read more
This Week In LA
Looking forward to a great summer music line up this week with Joan Baez at the Santa Monica Pier tonight, Donna de Lory and others tomorrow at Lululemon and Krishnas Das the grand master of kirtan Saturday night at the Ebell.
You can find me finding my bliss at these events. Be sure and check out the Find Bliss Los Angeles newsletter for more amazing events every week in LA…
Be well.
Find Bliss Los Angeles 6-9-09
What is your deepest desire? To nourish the body with healthy delicious
food, indulge in spa treatments, dance under the stars on the beach, or hit
the road for the trip of lifetime? Test your boundaries, try something new
but by all means get out there and find your bliss today. This week Los
Angeles is blessed to have an amazing line up of musical talent in Joan
Baez, Krishna Das, Donna de Lory and many others. There are also wonderful
weekend getaways, including San Diego’s Torrey Pines and Wild Animal Park.
Make sure to study up on our bliss tips offered by doctors and yoga studio
owners, a gift from us to you in each newsletter.
Hope to see you out in the city!
Lori Denman - Editor
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Swimming Downstream
Living the life of your dreams is like being in the flow…literally. Have you ever been swimming in a river? Take a minute and picture heading out into the river of your choice. If you head out and swim upstream you will get an excellent workout and depending on how fast the water is moving you downstream the scenery will never change. You paddle like crazy but go absolutely nowhere. Kind of like life, paddle like crazy but the scene on shore never changes…plus, every now and then a log comes along or other debris and bonks you on the head. Kind of like life.
But when you clarify your dreams and live them out loud it is like floating downstream. It still helps to paddle but you move with ease and the river provides you rocks and branches and other amazing things but you are relaxed and focused so you can inspect the objects/opportunities as they approach. If the objects are not part of your dream or plan you can easily push them out of the way and continue on your journey or you can climb on and check it out for awhile to get a different view of your surroundings. If it is not what you thought and it is not part of your clarified life plan you can easily slip right back into the water and float along to the next opportunity.
Celebrating Love In Los Angeles
Celebrating Love in Los Angeles
Looking for some fresh ideas to treat yourself and your lover to this month?
February is the perfect month to celebrate love and add some spark to your relationship. These are some of our favorite blissfully romantic destinations within Los Angeles.
Find Bliss Suggests
Take a Yoga class together at Golden Bridge, then stroll up to Zen Zoo tea on Vine (near Sunset) for a Dragon Tea, then hit the Arclight for a showing of He’s Just Not That Into You. Take a Yoga class together at Golden Bridge, then stroll up to Zen Zoo tea on Vine (near Sunset) for a Dragon Tea, then hit Arclight for a showing of Slum Dog Millionaire. End the night with a drive up to Mulholland to gaze upon the LA skyline in all it’s glittering glory.
Restaurants
The Inn at the 7th Ray, Topanga Canyon Can it get more romantic?
Nestled in the forest next to a river next to Topanga Canyon, this outdoor restaurant offers a creative organic menu. This place is so otherworldly you may even catch a glimpse of a fairy as you dine.
innoftheseventhray.com
The Little Door, Hollywood This secret garden in the center of Hollywood is a lovers paradise. The romantic courtyard, organic Mediterranean Cuisine, and solid wine selection make this little restaurant a perfect place to feed your soul.
thelittledoor.com
Cafe Stella, Silverlake Tucked away on Sunset Junction, this warm and unpretentious French Bistro is a romantic oasis. The candle lit setting, inviting menu, and sophisticated wine list make this one of LA’s most comfortable and romantic restaurants. (323) 666-0265.
Couples Spas
El Leon Spa, Hollywood Upon entering this spa you feel like you traveled to Morocco for a spiritual retreat. Floor mats, burning sage, and the sounds of chanting monks; make this best Thai massage in Los Angeles. Partitioned curtains can be opened so you and your lover can enjoy a side-by-side experience. elleonspa.com
Le Merigot, Santa Monica Treat yourself and your lover to your choice of massages while lying side-by-side in the spacious couples suite. It is no accident that the spa’s motto is “Escape to Blissful Oblivion”! emerigothotel.com
Le Petite Retreat, Larchmont This island-like spa retreat encourages couples to spa together in the same room where you can enjoy private couples bathing and therapeutic massages. Both their indoor and outdoor environments make this indeed a piece of paradise. lprdayspa.com
Outdoor Bliss
Grab a picnic lunch and head out to bask in the glorious desert sunshine and plant life: Huntington Garden’s, Pasadena huntington.org, Kenneth Hahn State Park, Culver City parks.ca.gov and Descanso Gardens, La Cañada Flintridge descansogardens.org
Blissful Sweets
Who doesn’t love a treat from their sweetheart on Valentine’s Day? These chocolates will melt even the toughest heart: Boulela, Hollywood boulela.com, Leondinas, Santa Monica myleonidas.com, Chocolate Art, Los Angeles chocolateart.com
This Months Special
Willow Spa
Be transported to a tropical village setting complete with exotic, fragrant flowers, the sound of running waterfalls and streams and lantern lit stone walkways leading to cabanas and day bedsaround a lush relaxing garden. Right in Santa Monica.
• 90 minute Couples Massage
• Complimentary Treatment Enhance
Choose from:
Herbal Thai Poultice
Hydrating Eye Treatment
Aromatherapy
$284.00 per couple
Do You Have a Dream Today?
Is Dr. King’s dream complete now that Barack H. Obama is sitting in the White House? Not even close but it is becoming a walking, talking reality ready to bring the next part of the dream to life. So, do you have a dream? Is it walking and talking? or at least crawling? One of my favorite but sometimes overused quotes is “A rising tide lifts all boats” and I try to use that to my advantage whenever possible.
My dream is to help other people find their true selves and alter their lives so that they are in alignment with this “true self” daily. Now that Find Bliss is out of my head and a living, breathing enterprise is my dream over? Not even close but I am living in joy and feeling challenged, inspired, rewarded and connected every day. This change coming to America and eventually to other parts of the world is a powerful opportunity to make personal changes using the momentum and the global discussion to help realize your personal dreams and make subtle or even dramatic changes to your daily life.
My question to you is …. Do you have a dream today?
