The Rainbow Farmer and Pictures form the Past

Pictures from the past!

Heirloom Apples in the Old Land near Hamburg, Germany

Finkenwerder Autumn Prince

Lemon Apple

Schöner von Boskopp

These pictures where part of my pre-graduation exhibition in 2008 called
'Search for the Finkenwerder Autumn Prince'.

Since my raw vegan journey begun in 2010 I've talked about my apple exhibition a lot,  but haven't shared/shown much of it.

So much of my art is only data on my hard drive.
Pictures in folders.

I can't repeat the past!
But I didn't only made art for myself or my professors back in art school;)



My Master Exhibition was about Raw Foods and Healing and i enjoyed the process of setting up The Institute for Health and Happiness.

Old Car workshop where i set up my Exhibition
The Institute for Health and Happiness.

the inside of the institute

Objects i've found or purchased on my travels over the years.
I love being in the wilderness and the happiest when i can call nature my home.
Nature has always been my refuge. 

   

friends looking at pictures: "dull and dead - colorful and alive"

friends watching video work about dr. clement 

catalog

objects from nature and people in nature

picture of a a holy cebo tree and wheatgrass

mother and daughter

" everything you want is probably outside your comfort zone otherwise you would have it already"
Jack Canflied

What am i sharing now?
My life is also my art and i am sharing what i explore and how i am (a) being!
How i am evolving!


While reading my friend Aimee's Blog post on The Rainbow Farmer.
I realized that am still hiding on so many levels!
(THERE IS NO HIDING IN THIS UNIVERSE.)
I might hide less then before, but it's like i am a tide spiral. Ready for the sun light;)
(Aimee's words)

I started studying at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition (IIN) beginning of this year with the goal to built a career as a Health Coach.  To make enough money to travel and to live in a warm climate all year round. I am moving forward to pursue this goal.

When i attended the IIN live Conference in may, exactelly one year after my exhibition 'The Institute for Health and Hapiness'  I ended up wearing a button that said I AM AN AMBASSADOR FOR HEALTH AN HAPPINESS.

I knew, that i am at the right place and that i can trust in the PROCESS.
You can have an idea but you never really know how it all unfolds.

Currently I am in the planing of my first retreat. The beautiful Jenee Hallick aka fruitygypsy and my wonderful mother Karin Domogalla will be part of this Sisterhood adventutre.

My friend Beate Epp, owner of Casa Axis Mundi will open her doors for a WOMEN EPOWER WOMEN retreat in Mexico in December.
Next week I will post more information about the retreat on my website
www.melanielotos.com

From my heart to yours*
Love and delight
Melanie

The destination is just the reason to focus so that you can have the journey.- Abraham-Hicks

fruitful raw in mexico

fruit with faces market 23 cancun

mel on love

more fruit

so lovely but not for eat

ah finally real fruit;)

 love bananas

oh ya bananas

and more 

a pile

of pineapples

sweet sweet

as are they;)

a day on just fruits and greens again....in the big city

hello lovely poeple,

finally and successfully i finished university with an exhibition called "The Institute for Heath and Happiness" (the website is coming soon).
Now I'll work more in the restaurant until heading to the WOODSTOCK FRUIT FESTIVAL in Albany (USA). I am so happy, excited and grateful to be able to go and work there with such amazing beings.

the last couple of month i haven't been fully Raw, while working the lunch shift in the restaurant i need to try my cooked vegan dishes (3 courses) which is fine to me most of the times as i am only working part time. on my days of i am on raw fruits and veggies or steamed veg. sometimes also cooked yams,  brown rice or other whole grains like for example spelt.
anyway, i love my fruits and fully raw days....
today i had such a day and i felt great and full of energy, which was good as i had a lot of appointments all over the place in the city.
after a day of 9 hours traveling around via bicycle and subway i feel exhausted but so aware.

it amazes me, that only after 1 day of only fruits (mostly persimmons and bananas and in the afternoon a big salad of spinach, kale and cucumber with a red bell pepper-persimmons dressing)   my senses were so sharpened again.
especially my sense of smell!!!!!

in berlin it tents to be quite windy most of the time, so the air seems fresh. unfortunately today there was not much wind so the exhaust gases where hanging in the streets.
so on my way home i really could literally feel all the toxins in the air with all my body- it was very unpleasant and exhausting. i had to concentrate and center myself so as not to feel noxious.

now at home i felt the need to express these experience and feelings, first to my boyfriend when just entering the door of the house and now here in my blog, which has been asleep for quite a while now.
it just feels so good to have written it down.

sending love and beets from berlin to all the truth seekers out there
saludos melotos*

Ps: on the train i was reading 'Creating Healthy Children' by Karen Ranzi and it was just amazing to soak up all this information. I am so happy to meet her in person soon;)!!!!

more fruit

pear, apple, orange, physalis with apple juice, cinnamon, cyenne pepper, spirulina and chia

physalis power

fruit of today

physalis

pre-lunch: half a grapefruit and 100g of physalis. yumyum!

20.02.2012

I am excited to say that today marks my 29th birthday :)

 I feel so very grateful to have made it this far into the game and today wanted to  honour and send gratitude to three of my most constant companions on this journey so far: my body, my mind and my spirit...
*Dear Body - I am humbled by your resilience, your forgiving nature, your desire to live and thrive despite whatever comes your way, your strength. When I consider the traumas and challenges you have experienced over these years together, I feel both a sense of sadness at all that you have endured and also such a huge sense of gratitude for your perserverance through this all. I love and honour you with deepest respect and appreciation - you are the vehicle through which I currently get to participate here on Earth and I desire to do my very best to help you stay strong, present and healthy for the rest of the game here.
*Dear Mind - now where would we be without your incessant commentary, chatter and observations? ;) Thank you for your insights, your humour, your creativity, your kindness  and all the funny little games and tricks that you share... While I am saddened that for so many years you were immersed in a mostly other-than-uplifting stream of input/feedback loops on which to reflect and co-create, I am sincerely delighted to now note how rich, gentle, generous and playful your presence tends to feel. Thank you for your flexibility, your willingness to let go, your attention-to-detail and your clarity. May I do my best to help you stay clear, positively-orientated and supple in the coming years...
*Dear Spirit - thank you for your profound gifts of intuition, honesty, care, resilience and upliftment. Thank you for reminding me so gently through all the challenges that you are here, that I have support and that all, ultimately, is well. I breathe deeply with gratitude into the space that you hold here and honour your desire to connect, share and help inspire others. Thank you for your sincerity, directness and gentle reminders that it's all just a game...may I do my best to bring us all along safely, happily and healthily as this game continues to unfold...

It is fascinating to me, to reflect on the various elements that apparently go to make up "me" - we seem to be so multi-layered, multi-faceted, complex in some way...each part with its own role(s) to play and contribute, intermingling to create the impression of one unit from the outside... Personally I am very grateful for all the parts that go to make up "me" and currently contribute to the flow I am experiencing here, which I enjoy very much and feel blessed to be co-creating... 

So, as I set off around the sun again this Wednesday on the anniversary of my "Birth-On-Earth", I breathe a deep breath of appreciation for every part of my being and radiate brightest blessings throughout my whole energy field and beyond, to all of YOU - may you all feel and acknowledge the blessings of your life flow here and truly appreciate the wonder of these embodied experiences - enjoy... :)
thank you angela for this text- i made it my own and use it as loving affirmations to myself, my body mind and spirit!

delayed...

raw chefing

and an interview a friend did quite a while ago! have fun;)

leftovers

i am passionate about food and nature
i am a globetrotter
i am a journey walker
and right now i am in the middle of finishing art school.
can't get enough self-loving affirmations.
i need to stay focused and stop questioning.
am starting to read the sun food diet success again-
finally bought a diary/calendar;)
i am sitting in front of this mass of data, pictures i never ordered or showed.
on monday is the 2nd meeting with my professor.

Are we what we are?

 

For my  final art school project, I will present a mixed media project consisting of three elements: a documentary video, a series of photographs and a booklet. The topic of the project relates to my encounter and response to my own illness, a healing trip I undertook subsequently and the response I have developed.

The short documentary video will include a narrative of my journey through South America, as will interviews with raw food advocates. 

The Photographic material will also feature images from the ‘extended’ healing trip but will serve as a counterweight to the narrative of the video. It is intended to provide an insight into the somewhat metaphysical process of self discovery, evaluation and possible healing.

The booklet will put in a straight forward manner the actual ‘results’ of this reflective journey. It will serve as a road map for persons wishing to follow my steps and will include text, drawings and diagrams.

I am also considering an optional component of a performance action of self-imposed four weeklong Juice fast will be document on a daily basis and run in parallel with the presentation of the project.

 

STOP S.O.P.A

a message worth spreading!!!!!

la mano verde

check out la mano verde, a vegan/raw restaurant when you are in berlin!!!!
the last 2, 5 month have been a challenge but a good one and i am enjoing it to work with food and fun and happy people again.
come by and enjoy a green smoothie and some nice vegan/raw food raw creations...
besides the work in the restaurant i am oficially singed in for the final diploma exhibition in may 2012
;) heaps of inspiration and power needed to pull that one off, not much time left and a lot to do!

BERLIN

i am in a city again and it's...
exciting, scary, noisy, smelly and so much more.
i haven't been writing much here in the last 6 month. it's like i hit europe in april and that was it??
no more bloging?
but travelling, art making, travelling, flea market making, decluttering, rawfood making, learning, laughing, crying, travelling, moving...

we, my loved one and i moved to berlin with like 20€ yesterday. i have no idea if i will get student support money for my last semster, we have no jobs but we moved anyway
why??? maybe because we like change and new things keep you young but despite the new challenges this is my call to the universe!

 let us find a way to overcome the obstacles on our way. send us more wisdom and truth. send true people our way, who are following their heart.
all our senses are activated. help us to use them well.

peaceloveandseasonalfruit*

back in alemania

content?

friends, happiness, excitement, visions, impressions, love, air, tranquility, nature, beatuy
CHANGE!!!!(no more bidet;(

beets love

beets love carots and apple
my lunch today
and some
bananas;)

oh happy day

brithday dinner at demetria, buenos aires

breakfast juice: carrot, apple, organge, parsley, melissa. cassis

after a really delicious salad

yesterday i thought i wanna go hide in a dark club, get drunk and dance all night long so i need to sleep all day long today...but now i can say GOOD I DIDN'T.
i send love and gratitude to all the people out there who thought of me today!
had a wonderful relaxing day with my loved one...starting with a succulent juice breakfast then some full body massage and a walk in a huge rose garden. after that we went to demetria for some organic dinner, the salad buffet is just to die for! this birthday was quite a pleasant occasion;)
celebrating love, juice, raw food...but i have to admit that i went back enjoying some cooked stuff too. i want to actually feel how it feels, when i eat it (eggs, bread, i-cream)
and i can tell you it's quite a difference. and i found a website where a beautiful human being, called britannica lightfood discribes beautifully what i mean! have a read, gaze at her pictures and feel blissed.love to all mel*
her pictures blow me away. myth, excitement, lust, innocence, power.....all you want!

check this!!!

here you can see and listen to chris and me about preparing raw food at finca de vida in costa rica*

time time time...the clocks are running fast

the new crew (left to right)
joseph from germany, nahuel from argentina/spain, reinhilde from begium, thomas and claudia from the paradise, turia from germany and mariano and me from argentina;)

the proud bananahunters

first dinner 2011 @ el paraiso

hola my friends
well, haven't been here for a while. needed some off time. the job in costa rica was amazing but also quite exhausting. maybe also the travelling back to the south....ecuador-lima-la paz...
i had problems again with my knee..was not pretty! the doctors in la paz thought i had an thrombosis...luckily i hadn't. but to find that out it took some weeks of medication again doctors and all that. i was frustrated. i thought all was for nothing...but that's not true.
i was only 3 month into my healing journey, and the change of my diet and i took on a long trip to volunteer and that was just to much. after working at the farm of life i didn't give my self enough time to relax and went hiking for some days...all together i overstrained my leg. it is better now and i am back at el paraiso, this time with my love mariano. we are happy and will enjoy his holidays here... i am learning more about raw food and preparing dishes everyday for the people here. it is great fun;)

one week and 2 days @ finca de vida check out the videos

sacred cebo tree

ohhhhh, i am dancing the dance...  the mind, emotions, health issues, work and so much more...
ka's workshop is on @ finca de vida in costa rica and i am enjoying working with chris. we are all on a learning and creating yourney...aren't we. i am definitly learning a lot...being focused on loving service for 9 people and 3 children is challenging but a lot of fun too ;)
yesterday we visited amy schrift, she was such an inspiration too me...and she will be to many more...

gotta love fun

2nd night buffet at the finca

sunsetsushi