Ingredients:

10 cups organic broccoli florets
1 tablespoon unsalted organic butter
1 organic shallot, minced
1 organic garlic clove, minced
1/2 cup toasted bread crumbs
2 teaspoons organic lemon peel, grated
1/4 teaspoon organic pepper, divided
1 tablespoon organic olive oil
2 tablespoons organic lemon juice

Instructions:

Fill a saucepan 2/3 full of water. Place on high heat and bring to a rapid boil. Add the organic broccoli and steam for 3 minutes or until broccoli is crisp tender. Cool under cold tap water and drain well. Place the organic butter in a skillet over low heat and allow the butter to completely melt. Add the organic shallot and organic garlic. Cook 2 minutes stirring occasionally. Add the bread crumbs and continue cooking 2 minutes or until the bread crumbs begin to brown. Remove the mixture from the skillet and place in a mixing bowl. Add the organic lemon peel and 1/8 teaspoon of organic pepper. Combine well. Place the organic oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Add the steamed organic broccoli to the organic oil and cook 4 minutes until slightly brown and heated throughout. Sprinkle the other 1/8 teaspoon of organic pepper over the cooked organic broccoli and stir to cover. Pour in the organic lemon juice and sprinkle the top with the bread crumb mixture. Serve hot. Serves 8

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Ingredients:

1 cup organic all purpose flour
3/4 teaspoon organic baking powder
3/4 teaspoon organic baking soda
1/4 teaspoon organic nutmeg
2 organic eggs, separated
1 cup organic buttermilk
2/3 cup whole milk ricotta cheese (organic, if you can find it)
1 tablespoon grated organic lemon peel

Instructions:

Place the organic flour, organic baking powder, organic baking soda and organic nutmeg into a large mixing bowl. Whisk together, blending well. Place the organic egg yolks in a separate bowl. Pour in the organic buttermilk. Add the organic ricotta cheese and organic lemon peel and whisk until completely blended. Place the organic egg whites in a separate bowl. Beat with an electric mixer on medium high speed until soft peaks begin forming. Add the organic ricotta cheese mixture to the organic flour mixture and blend until just combined. Carefully fold in the egg whites. Heat a skillet over medium heat until hot. Coat the skillet with organic oil. Pour 1/4 cup of batter onto the prepared skillet. Cook 2 minutes or until bubbles appear around the edge. Flip and continue cooking 1 minute or until a light brown. Continue until all the batter has been used. Heat oven to 200 degrees and place cooked flapjacks on an oven safe platter in the heated oven to keep them warm until ready to serve. Makes 15 flapjacks

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Ingredients:

1/2 cup organic mango, pitted, peeled and diced
1 organic green onion, sliced thin
1/4 cup organic red bell pepper, diced
2 tablespoons organic cilantro, chopped
1/4 organic jalapeno pepper, seeded and chopped fine
2 tablespoons organic lime juice
1 (8 ounce) container pineapple cream cheese spread
32 slices baguette French bread

Instructions:

Place organic mango, organic green onion, organic pepper, organic cilantro, organic jalapeno and organic lime juice in a tightly sealed container. Turn to coat ingredients with the juice. Refrigerate at least 2 hours so all the flavors can blend together. Spread each slice of baguette bread with the cream cheese. Use a slotted spoon to top each of bread slices with the salsa. Serves 16

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Ingredients:

1/4 cup organic olive oil
1/4 cup organic orange juice
2 tablespoons organic rice wine vinegar
1 tablespoon organic honey or agave
1/4 teaspoon organic pepper
8 cups mixed organic salad greens
1 organic pink grapefruit, in segments
1 organic orange, in segments
1 organic pear, sliced
1 cup organic grapes, seedless
1/2 cup organic dried cranberries

Instructions:

Pour the organic olive oil, organic orange juice and organic vinegar into a small bowl. Whisk slightly. Add organic honey and whisk briskly until the honey is completed blended in. Add the pepper and stir. Place the organic salad greens on a plate. Top the greens with the organic grapefruit segments, organic orange segments, organic pear slices, organic grapes and organic cranberries. Drizzle the dressing over the entire salad. Serves 4

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Started in 2000 by Los Angeles-based trainer Cameron Shayne, the word Budokon is Japanese for “Way of the Spiritual Warrior” and Shayne is its embodiment. Budokon isn’t just a hyped-about new workout that has celebrities praising his name, but is more about accuracy and procedure while being true to the mind and spirit and tending to the body’s health requirements.

Shayne states that Budokon is really a “living art.”  He goes on to say that it includes the complete being, “It is your waking and your sleeping, your walking and your sitting, your living and your dying.” Shayne promises that there are no gimmicks with Budokon, there exists only something he calls “The Way.” Despite the fact that “The Way” sounds like an association to a religion or another structured principle, Shayne highlights that it is just a zen way of getting close to your life and is not meant to be taken as enlightenment.

There is a unique philosophy attached to practicing Budokon as a means of connecting spirituality to the physical and mental levels of the art, but it mostly centers on the individual and letting go of attachments and being true to oneself.

There’s three steps to Budokon. Number one, study the practices and do them regularly, keeping a fluid motion within your body and an open communication with your mind.

Second, learn the ten cultivations of Budokon and study the food recommendations in order to attain the highest level of success and to completely bring balance to your health. The cultivations are basic and consist of going from simple and direct to the more complex. Food guidelines are also straightforward and simple to follow by advising against eating or drinking much before practice and sticking with light foods, maintaining a diet of leafy vegetables during the day, eating meat sparingly, staying away from dense foods, and trying to consume only natural sweeteners like honey, agave and stevia.

The third and last step to acquiring full Budokon is to keep a flow going from the relaxing yoga poses to fast moving cardio kicks to the sitting meditation as the final section of a class. Of course, the steps are aquired over time and inexperienced persons aren’t obliged to be graceful immediately.

Try out a class or two and challenge your body to work outside of its comfort zone. Budokon may end up being another fad exercise trend that celebrities will wear out soon, but it is very much gaining strength for now. As long as it makes you feel good, makes your body attain a higher level of fitness, and brings you in closer connection to your spirit, more power to founder Cameron Shayne and the refreshing style called Budokon.

Budokon: Flow & Flexibility Yoga
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