SPONSORS OF THE WEEK!!! -Sun Warrior - Vita Mix - Pure Joy Planet - Solay Wellness - Sacred Chocolate

As we’ve talked about a lot, nutrition is one of the most fundamental cornerstones in Transcendence Theatre philosophy. Much of why we began this great adventure started with a true belief that food so fully effects mental clarity, physical strength, endurance, and overall wellness. When our bodies are in prime shape as a direct result of us having listened to our nutritional needs and consequently satisfied those needs with a powerful blend of incredible, nutrient-rich foods…well there’s no stopping the power of our minds. This includes you…and we encourage people to jump in and explore the many incredible options for food that can keep you running with exceptional focus, clarity and energy!

So in our blog this week are a few of our sponsors that have continued to provide us with unmatchable nutritional energy and the means in which to easily add these ingredients into our diets!

One thing we want to make sure we get enough of as we are working out and adding all these superfoods to our diets is Protein! Well we are lucky enough that another generous sponsor who is all about a healthy vegan raw lifestyle - Sun Warrior - helped out in this! They are a relatively new company who we reached out to because of their raw vegan organic products that we are so interested in. They have sponsored our company with Raw Vegan Chocolate and Vanilla Protien Powder as well as 100% Organic Activated Barley.

This perfect protein is from sprouted whole grain brown rice. It is the ultimate anti-aging protein designed for althletes, body builders, and health enthusiasts. It is ideal for those who want to loose fat, build muscle mass, and be extremely healthy. At 85% protein, Sun Warrior Protein has the highest (non soy) row whole grain sprouted vegan protein on the market. This protein hasa 98% correlation rate to mother’s milk and a 98.2% digestion efficiency making it one o the highest digestibility and efficiency ratings of any other protein sources (compared to whey and soy). We have been using this protein daily in our superfood smoothies after our workouts and have really loved the taste and the results we see!

We have also been adding the barley into our shakes to add one more superfood into our diet. Nutritional research demonstrates that the best energy source for the body is a slow-burning carbohydrate that provides well-balanced sugar and insulin levels. The activated barley that we got donated to us provides slow-burning carbohydrates by delivering energy for more than two hours. Sun Warrior Activated Barley is the ultimate body fuel for hard training athletes and bodybuilders. It is perfect for controlling hunger and supplying energy while dieting. Other benefits include maintaining and lowering cholesterol levels, building the immune system, and controlling energy and glucose.

As you can see Sun Warrior has been a really great addition to our diets and everything we have been experimenting with here in Mexico. We have been a big fan of this company and are so thankful for their contribution of their products. We now understand why naturalnews.com has voted them the Editor’s Choice for best New Protein!!!

How do you combine all of these ingredients to make your diet the best it can be? Many of own personal blenders, but here at Transcendence we’ve found most consumer blenders to fall short. We here are true, dedicated users of the Vita-Mix Blender! Vita-Mix, another of our incredible sponsors provides unlimited possibilities in blending foods. (something very important for those trying to incorporate more raw foods into their diet)

You literally can blend almost anything with the Vita-Mix, not just the kind of super-food smoothies described above. Once a week we have an incredible “family dinner” here at Transcendence in which we collectively cook foods in line with our vision. We would venture to claim that 75% of those “family dinner” foods involve the use of the vita-mix, especially when the foods are part of our raw menu.

Things we’ve made with the Vita-Mix include: raw polenta, pine nut and basil pesto, raw apple sauce, raw-curry sauce for Quinoa, avocado and cilantro salad dressing, raw & vegan coconut ice cream mix, raw fudge, and raw tomato sauce for gluten free pasta. The list could go on for pages and more than justifies the price.

We also use the Vita-Mix to make homemade almond milk. Sounds complicated, but boy is it easy! We simply soak almonds for about 10-15 hours and then blend them in the Vita-Mix and strain using incredible nut-milk bags provided by Elaina Love of Pure Joy Planet!

These nut bags are incredibly durable nylon bags that have many purposes. They are wonderful to for straining the nut pulp from nut milks and they eliminate the need for buying unrecyclable milk cartons. But you can also use these bags for sprouting (as many of us here do!) and for straining other juice pulps. Check out her website to see even more raw and vegan options and other wonderful products to compliment a nutritionally conscious lifestyle!

In our family dinners, we also are big proponents of using Organic Himalayan Table Salt in so many our recipes. In addition to being a great, super-food alternative to regular cheap table salt, this salt, donated to us from Solay Wellness, Inc. adds a fantastic, rich flavor to all our food.

Check this out: it contains 84 minerals!, is 100% natural and unrefined, and is hand excavated, sun-washed, sun-dried from the foothills of the Himilayans! Doesn’t get much better than that…

Another product they donated to us was Original Himalayan Sole Natural Salt Rocks. When water and salt combine, they create a new dimension, Sole (So-lay). One teaspoon taken daily can restore your body's energy deficit and rebalance your organ functions. this very small amount of sole has an incredibly positive effect on your functions. We have been doing this by simply disolving a rock in a jar of water and in the mornings we pour just a teaspoon or more in our water! What a difference it makes!

And for our desserts (yum), we satisfy our nutritionally-conscious sweet tooths with the unparalleled chocolate from Sacred Chocolate , another one of our sponsors. This chocolate is practically unbelievable. Perhaps enough wishing that chocolate could actually be good for you, has lead to this wonderful manifestation. This chocolate is Organic, Vegan, Halal, Kosher, Fair Trade and composed of anywhere from 70 to 100% cacao (including the skins). Many of you may already know, but cacao is a pretty delicious and nutrient-rich superfood. And to have a bar with that high a percentage of cacao is hard to find. The benefits of Sacred Chocolate include high iron content in the skins of the cacao beans, and as they claim, a pretty confident link to healthy stem cell production. Plus they are delicious…we’ve even used them in some of our raw desserts!

So there you have it. We are so fortunate to have had many of these companies back our integrities. But unlike many organizations that simply look for sponsorship without caring about the ethics of those they attach their names to, we at Transcendence Theatre firmly believe that there shouldn’t be a separation between business and ethics. We are working hard to define ourselves here and we are so proud to have these products backing that work. And truly, we believe in them just as much as they believe in us. So check them out!