Pulse Yoga Express and Basics Review and Giveaway
Only have 30 minutes? You can pack a lot of Pulse into that short time. This DVD offers a condensed routine of the full versions of Pulse Yoga that addresses major workout needs.
In the home workout program Pulse Yoga Express, certified fitness instructor Argie Tang teaches audiences the fundamentals of ‘pulse yoga,’ an effective amalgam of elements from Pilates workouts, core fusion and traditional yoga. The teaching is through stretching, coordinated movements, and the use of weights, the process strengthens and tones target areas of the body (such as the back, abs, upper arms and buttocks) while putting one’s mind and spirit at ease and thus alleviating stress.
This DVD is not easy, but isn’t too hard to get accustomed to either. It works new muscles, that I am not used to working, and really kicked my butt the first couple times. And a 30 minute workout is perfect for me. I don’t have a long attention spam, and 30 minutes is nearly my limit.
I have one Yoga Pulse Express DVD to giveaway to one lucky reader! AND a Pulse Yoga Basics DVD too!
Pulse Yoga Basics:
A basic yoga routine that introduces the Pulse concept of micro movements within a posture. Key areas such as abdominal, lower back and gluteous muscles are targeted. Alternating right/left pulse movements with free weights define and sculpt the upper body.
- Apply the use of free weights in novel ways to basic yoga postures
- Strengthen and tone key areas such as the abdominals, lower back upper arms and gluteus
- Teach core awareness
- Stretch chronically tight areas such as the hamstrings and hip flexors
To enter to win both DVD’s, visit PulseYoga.com and tell me something you learned, or tell me why you think Pulse Yoga would be a good addition to your current workouts!
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Live Contest OVER!
Well I picked a winner 3 different times, and for some strange reason never heard back from any of them. SO I am offering this up as a live Giveaway today!
Win a $35 gift certificate to Dancing Dingo!
Fridays are notoriously slow on Prissy Green, so I thought this would be a good way to jolt a little energy here.
The rules are simple.
- You must be an email subscriber (make sure the email you use is the one you’re subscribed with)
- No duplicate comments, and someone else needs to post before you comment again.
- leave comments stating whatever you would like, BUT you must leave the name of a natural or organic company with the comment
- Example: “I am going as Octomom for Halloween, what is everyone else going to be? -Ferro Cosmetics”
You may not know if you won until Saturday or after the contest is over.
I will need to add in the moderated comments, and I will need to delete any comments that didn’t follow the rules. I WILL TRY to be here, but I can’t guarantee it.
Comment #310 wins, but make sure you go past that in case there are moderated comments.
Contest will last as long as it takes. US only.
Keep the Family Healthy this Flu Season!
October 19, 2009 by Karissa
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Eberjey Review and Giveaway
Eberjey. Oh how nice to have something green and super feminine and flirtatious! Well, maybe not flirtatious but down right sexy hot!
Founders, Alejandrina Mejia and Mariela Rovito, wanted women to feel comfortable, feminine and sexy in their lingerie so they started with a small collection of beautiful pieces that won women over 
everywhere including celebrities like Anne Hathaway, Natalie Portman and Courtney Cox who have all requested Eberjey on their sets! Eberjey is now available in upscale boutiques across the UK, France, Japan, Canada and the US.
Eberjey was born in 1996. Their signature design was the Boy Short, also know as the French Brief – actually, Eberjey was the first to offer women an alternative to bikini panties or thongs. They designed their boy short panties with delicate details, beautiful colors and most importantly, shaped to fit real women’s bodies and not six foot tall 120 pound models.
Since the Boy Short, Eberjey has expanded their line to include thongs, bras, loungewear and a variety of underpinnings in luxurious stretch mesh nylon, super soft pima cottons and other extremely wearable fabrics including 100% organic cottons. In addition to their posh loungewear Eberjey offers swim collections. This summer my heart sung when they launched their green collection that includes 100% organics.
Eberjey sent me this sweetly sexy set to review. Natural Woman Cami and Tap Pant Set.
The panties, are not quite a boy short and not quite a bikini. They fall in the middle. It has good booty coverage too! The cami top has fantastic coverage, and had a small tie on the front, just under the bra line, that looks like decor at first, but is actually a piece to tighten and help the fit. A nice addition.
This is one set I can wear under anything, and feel super sexy. I mean jeans, sweatpants and a tee, add this underneath and you feel like a rockstar. Or a Video Vixen at least! Made from 100% Organic Cotton Jersey.
Eberjey was recently featured in InStyle Magazine for a “What’s Hot on the Green Scene” feature. See more here. Eberjey has also been seen in numerous TV shows. How I Met Your Mother, and Cougar Town!
I have the same set I had for review, up for a giveaway! One reader will walk away with their own Natural Woman Cami and Tap Pant set.
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Take a Hot Chocolate Milk Bath to Warm Up! Make It Monday!
October 19, 2009 by Karissa
Filed under Recipes: Home, Skin, Food
This recipe, is easy peasy! Just don’t drink the bath water, make a cup to enjoy for yourself!
Do you remember hearing the Cleopatra took milk baths? Milk is great for your skin, as it contains Lactic Acid. Lactic Acid is a moisturizing acid, that helps to very gently exfoliate, and moisturize at the same time. Milk also contains proteins and vitamins that our skin just drinks in!
If you are vegan, try substituting Rice Milk. I haven’t tried that route, as Craig drinks regular milk, so I just steal his for this treat! Rice Milk also has some great compounds, so I would think it would provide some benefit!
Hot Chocolate Milk Bath
Ingredients:
2 Cups of Chocolate Milk (OR 2 cups of Milk and 2 packets of hot chocolate)
2 tablespoons of Vanilla Castile Soap, or plain (love Dr. Bronners for bubbles!)
2 tablespoons of honey
Add to a jar, and mix together. Makes one bath treatment. Start bath, add ingredients, and indulge! and don’t forget to take your mug of hot cocoa with you!
20% Off At Sephora! Friends and Family
October 19, 2009 by Karissa
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The Sephora Friends & Family 2009 promotion starts on October 19 and runs through November 2.
Use code FF2009 for 20% off at Sephora.com
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And, as always, you’ll get three free samples with your order. Plus all orders of $50 or more ship for free.
This is a great chance to stock up, and get some holiday shopping done early! Find the Perfect Gifts!
Canadian Beauties, Sephora Canada.
Revolution Organics Review and Giveaway
Revolution Organics, a 1 year old USDA Certified Organic skin/body line fresh out of Canada is a new favorite of mine. Especially their “Glow”.
“We really wanted to make our products look chic while still maintaining the highest level of organic integrity” says Co-Founder, Melissa Shabinsky. All plastic containers are recyclable and the packaging is made from post consumer recycled content. The other founder is Alexandra Zanella. Since their launch, Revolution has been featured in countless magazines and labeled as a new fave by many celebrities!
All Revolution Organics products are created without chemicals, sulfates, artificial ingredients, synthetics, parabens and animal testing.
The two founders describe how and why Revolution Organics was started:
We created Revolution Organics out of our own personal desire to simplify our lives and to make healthy, responsible lifestyle choices, beauty products included. We wanted luxurious, beautifully formulated, healthy multi-purpose beauty products that could do more so we could use less.
As beauty industry veterans and consumers ourselves, we were concerned and confused by product labels making natural & organic claims. After much research it became obvious that the certified organic USDA seal best represented the authenticity of organics and our Brand. Our vision translated into a collection of healthy, pure, certified organic products that filled our beauty void … we hope it fills yours.
I was sent the entire line of Revolution Organics to review. Now I could have reviewed every last piece, but I stopped myself from being stingy. Even though it was hard, this line is pretty spectacular.
My first love affair is with the Freedom GLOW Beauty Balm
Just check the gorgeous colors out.
I have been using the Bronze constantly, but I really want to try the Blushed too! I think that is a great and fashionable color for this fall.
I have also been using the heck out of my new Freedom Lip Gloss
I have been using Freedom and Golden Rose. Freedom is definitely the color for nights out, and feeling really girly and chic, and Golden Rose is a beautiful every day color. These glosses have no plastic taste, they are not sticky at all, and last a lot longer, with more color pigment then the typical gloss. Plus it adds a great moisturizing barrier to protect against the new cold winds swirling about outside.
When Revolution Organics first launched, they only offered 3 products. The All Over Body Balm
This portable all-over certified organic solid moisturizing balm instantly softens and smoothes skin. Enriched with organic butters and nourishing organic oils rich in vitamins A, B,C and E.
So am I going to share? Of course! I have a giveaway planned for you readers. One of you will walk away with this huge pot of Revolution gold!
3 Freedom Lip Glosses-Innocent, Truth and Vibe. ($26 each)
2 Freedom Glow Balms- Blushed and Sunkissed. ($34 each)
1 Lip Balm- ($24)
1 All Over Body Balm- ($28)
1 All Over Body Creme- ($34)
Package values at $231!
Yep one you gets the whole shebang. So to enter visit Revolution Organics and tell me these TWO things. What one product would you use the most, and what would you use the All Over Body Balm for?
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Once in a Blue Moon Review and Giveaway
Lindsay and Kerrie Ann are sisters who have known hardship from an early age. Without guidance from their neglectful mother, their only aid came from an unlikely source, a retired exotic dancer by the name of Miss Honi Love. When the girls’ mother was sent to prison, Miss Honi tried unsuccessfully to save them from being separated and sent into foster care.
Thirty years later, Lindsay is still trying to reconnect with her sister. The owner of a bookstore in the sleepy California seaside town of Blue Moon Bay, she was lucky enough to have been adopted by a loving couple. Unbeknownst to her, Kerrie Ann has suffered a very different life. Bounced from one foster home to the next, she ran away as a teenager before becoming a drug-addicted single mother. Now, newly sober, Kerrie Ann is fighting to regain custody of the little girl who was taken from her.
Neither sister’s expectations are met when they’re finally reunited. But as the two sisters engage in the fiercest battles of their lives, they are at last drawn together despite their differences, restoring belief in the unshakable bond of family.
Eileen Goudge is the New York Times bestselling author whose novels include The Diary, Domestic Affairs, Woman in Red, One Last Dance, Garden of Lies, and Thorns of Truth. There are more than five million copies of her books in print worldwide. She lives with her husband, entertainment reporter Sandy Kenyon, in New York City.
Eileen’s website: http://www.eileengoudge.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Eileen-Goudge/132678273034?ref=search&
Twitter: http://twitter.com/eileengoudge
My typical book of choice is not to first reach for chick lit. I like mysteries, and thrillers. Dean Koontz is probably my favorite author. So I was really surprised when I read Once in a Blue Moon
There were moments in the book that I felt a kinship with each sister. It really teaches a valuable lesson in the bond of family, and sisterhood. I have always wanted a sister, not to say I am disappointed with my brothers. My mom grew up with 4 sisters. And they are very much like Kerrie Ann and Lindsay in the fact that they would stop at nothing to support each other, even if they don’t agree with something in that sisters life.
I liked this book because it was realistic. Nothing so farfetched happens that makes you roll your eyes. Realistic love, family bonds, and old friendships.
I do have one hardcover copy of Once in a Blue Moon
This contest will end Monday October 19, 2009 at 11:59pm EST. picked by random.org and winners email will be verified for subscription.
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One 2 One Network provided me with this review as well as book to giveaway.
Cooking with All Things Trader Joe’s Giveaway
Love Trader Joe’s? This new independent cookbook, Cooking with All Things Trader Joe’s
Many of the recipes are vegetarian or can easily be made vegetarian. Ethnic dishes like Saag Paneer Lasagna are scattered throughout, as well as classic comfort foods like Comfy Chicken Pot Pie. Crowd-pleasing recipes include Peanutty Sesame Noodles, Black Bean Soup, Macho Nacho, Seafood Paella, Curried Chicken Pitas, Wilted Spinach with Attitude, Honey I Ate the Chocolate Bread Pudding, and All Mixed Up Margaritas.
People who don’t know how to cook or don’t want to cook will appreciate the Bachelor Quickies section, featuring frozen and ready-to-heat selections that are matched to create complete and impressive menus.
With full-color photographs for every recipe, wine suggestions, humorous personal stories, and cooking tips sprinkled throughout, this collection is a must for any Trader Joe’s fan.
Just check out these healthy made over recipes! Chicken nuggets, pizza and more! All made healthy, and kid friendly!
I have a copy of Cooking with All Things Trader Joe’s
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Relish! Review and Giveaway
It’s Worth The Fight.
No matter what we do, sometimes the battle over our children’s eating habits seems more trouble than it’s worth. It doesn’t take a PhD to know that too much junk food is bad and more fruits and vegetables are good but sometimes the struggle is so tough that we slowly give up. Next thing you know the entire family has a weekly menu consisting of chicken nuggets, hot dogs and mac and cheese.
We could drone on and on about the benefits of trying to get your kids to eat healthy and we could serve up a nice helping of guilt and anxiety. But we’re not going to do that. Some kids just don’t like the texture or taste of vegetables and many kids just need to be prodded a little more than others.
Here is a list of strategies and tips that we’ve found work for a lot people. If you have picky eaters, peruse this list and perhaps you’ll find one or two strategies that actually work. Don’t get discouraged and don’t give up.
- The number one rule is to be patient. Studies show that it takes 10-20 “encounters” with a particular vegetable to get your child to tolerate it.
- It’s just as much about texture with vegetables as the taste. Soggy, dingy vegetables are a big turn-off with kids. Steam your vegetables just until cooked but make sure they are still crunchy and colorful. Putting vegetables in an ice bath after cooking keeps the color bright.
- Kids like raw vegetables! Cut up some carrot sticks, cucumber rounds, cherry tomatoes, and sliced bell peppers and serve with ranch dressing or even hummus. You can even make a face using the cucumber rounds for the eyes, carrot sticks for eyebrows, cherry tomatoes for nose and mouth and arrange the pepper strips to form the face. You can even drizzle ranch dressing as the hair. I know it’s a lot of work but might be worth it.
- Using your blender or food processor, puree vegetables (like broccoli, carrots, beans) and include them in spaghetti sauce, hamburgers and soups. Begin introducing muffins and breads with carrots and zucchini and other vegetables.
- Start with sweeter veggies like corn, beans and peas. Slowly introduce bitter vegetables like asparagus, Brussels sprouts and kale later.
- Make the “no thank-you bite” a strict rule at the table. Tell your kids they have to have one small bite of the vegetables every night.
- Set a good example. If kids see you eating healthy vegetables, it’s much easier to teach them.
- Kids love stir-fry. As long as you keep the vegetables crisp, kids tend to really gravitate towards stir-fried meals. Add crunchy water chestnuts and/or nuts to it. Same goes with pasta and soups. Remember to keep the veggies crisp and colorful!
- Introduce good healthy foods and vegetables at a very early age, it will pay off in the end. And never make a separate meal for your kids, it makes more work for you and might backfire when your kids get older.
Log on to Relish! and get ready to treat yourself to weekly dinner menus that are customized to your own tastes. Choose the Express Menu and download our picks for the week or choose what you would prefer from our Custom Menu. We offer a selection of vegetarian, kid-friendly, quick, low calorie and simple-gourmet menus. Just click the five you’d like to prepare during the week and your recipes/side dishes and grocery list will be assembled for you! Every day food just got easier.
I used Relish! this week, and what a difference it made! The grocery store shopping was done in no time, and each night we simply choose which meal we want.
Relish! Has offered up one FREE YEAR of this service to one Prissy Green reader!
To enter tell me the single hardest thing about planning dinners.
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