Sanoviv: The Grounds & The Fitness Center

This will be a quick post (HA HA HA).

I have received a few questions about the grounds, and the fitness center.

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Well, as I mentioned, I hadn’t been able to get into the fitness center until this morning – when we had a Stretch class there. So I took a few photos for you. The first photo is from the door, towards the back wall (the “long” side of the room). The next photo is taken with my back against the “short” wall, looking out the window. A couple of shots from each corner – and then what I referred to in a previous post as the “I Love Lucy waist wiggler” machine. Finally, a photo of the entirety of the dumbbells in the place – I am so glad that I brought my TRX and bands! Hubby actually worked out with me yesterday, and though he had “trepidation” doing the ring rows from the wooden wall ladder in our room, everything was fine. So there you go – if you (like me!) had been looking for something to show you what’s in the fitness center – here it is!

I also took a few photos of the grounds:

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You can see that the grounds are mainly grass. Dr. Wentz dug up all the old (chemical-fed) grass (and dirt) from the original property, and replaced it with grass that doesn’t get anything but tender loving care (okay, and a lot of water . . . and dandelion picking . . . and mowing . . . and organic fertilizer :-) ) The first photo is the fountain out front. The next is the view outside the tea room sliders. Next is the grassy knoll from the patio outside the tea room, and one of the patio, then from in front of the fitness center from two angles. The big high rise that you see next door was built for “old surfers” who want to have a place down in Mexico and to just “step outside” and ride the waves at KM 48!

The grass is used for Grounding walks – which hubby has been doing every morning when the grass is still wet, before going up for his first IV. By the way, hubby does NOT know I’m keeping this blog, so let’s keep that a secret between all of us, shall we?

I took a photo of the snack today, because it was just so doggone cute. They were wee sesame bars. Not sure if you had the Helva sesame honey candy when you were a kid – it came in like 3 “sheets” that all stuck together? I loved it and these tasted just like it. I’ll also include a photo of breakfast, which was “nut-ola” – because there are no “grains” in it. They had ground flax seeds, whey protein, and hemp to add to it (in the photo, that’s what’s on top), fresh-made coconut or almond milk, plus pears, papaya, and blueberries. My friend who has been to Sanoviv sent me the cookbooks that she had received after her trip (via .PDF). They have the nutola recipe, the sesame/honey “candy,” the paleo bread, and the rest. Let me know if you’d like a copy. She has smoothies on her website too – they are HERE. The last photo is from our “Quick Prep” workshop class. We learned how to make concentrated electrolyte drink ice cubes.

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I’ve been very bad today. The “ski couple” I mentioned left me with a David Baldacci book called “Long Road to Mercy.” And I’ve been unabashedly (well, a little “bashedly”) reading it all day. They said the protagonist “reminds them of me.” She is a six foot tall bad ass FBI agent in her 30s. She is an Olympic weightlifter – missed the U.S. Team by one kilogram in her snatch – “I’m more a clean and jerk girl,” she says at one point and I laughed out loud. Me, too! I’m more than a little chuffed that they think of me that way! They left this morning. Boo hoo :-(

So, a story about Meditation. Remember yesterday, when I said we were to think of a word to bring “in” with the inhale, and “out” with the exhale? And mine were “Soothe” and “Release”? I asked hubby what his were, or if he did the exercise at all. He said he had, and that it had left him feeling very relaxed and satisfied.

I asked whether he was willing to share his words with me. He said he would:

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(Breathe in) Negroniiiiiiii……

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(Breathe out) Escaaaape…….