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Valentine’s Day celebrates our ability to love.

This year, plan a romantic fireside picnic at home–whether or not you have a fireplace. Creating a symbolic hearth for your celebration is easy. Define the area using a low table, a shallow drawer placed upside down, a stone slab, a piece of flat wood or a simple scarf. Arrange candles, flowers, photos, poems, notes, crystals, shells, feathers—whatever feels right—with intention. Spread a blanket on the floor, add comfy pillows, light the candles and enjoy your night.

Big Dipper Waxworks
Pure Beeswax Tea Lights
Box of 16, $20; case of 48, $46;
bigdipperwaxworks.com
Hand poured into polycarbonate cups for maximum glow and safety, these tea lights give sweet, honey fragrance for five hours. 10 percent of profits help prevent bee colony collapse disorder.

Eat Your Aphrodisiacs
Some foods just have it in them.

Oysters Aside from their suggestive appearance, oysters deliver a whopping load of zinc, which feeds your sex organs.

Onions and Garlic Both have long histories as love enhancers. In monasteries around the world, people who are abstaining from sex stay away from these two.

Capers Courts of antiquity prized these berries as key ingredients in love potions. Cleopatra is said to have served capers to help win the hearts of Julius Caesar and Mark Antony.

Hot Chiles These contain capsaicin, which produces opiates in the brain and enhances circulation in the body’s fine vessels.

Olives Legend has it that the essential fatty acids in green olives make men more virile and black ones increase libido in women.

This is not the night for diets. Whip up a batch of puttanesca, or “sauce of the whores,” with onions, garlic and hot chiles
— all natural aphrodisiacs.

Schisandra Cocktail
This cocktail may be virgin, but you won’t be after drinking it. Schisandra is a superberry, an adaptogen and an aphrodisiac. Simply mix organic schisandra concentrate, sparkling water and agave to taste. Shake.

Dr. Chang Naturals ChiBerry
Unsweetened Tonic
16 ounces, $24.97; organicchiberry.com
This organic, pure concentrate is sustainably cultivated in the United States.

Wholesome Sweetener
Organic Blue Agave
23.5 ounces, $6.99; wholesomesweeteners.com
This easy-to-mix sweetener is perfect for cocktails. Available at amazon.com.

The Medicine Hunter’s Maca Mojo Smoothie
Maca, a sacred superfood from the Peruvian Andes, is also an aphrodisiac. Down this healthy, libido-boosting smoothie made with maca on Valentine’s Day morning—or every morning for a week if you really want to rock. (For more information, visit medicinehunter.com/maca.)

1 cup almond milk
1 ripe banana
2 dates
Dash of pure vanilla extract
1 tablespoon organic maca powder
1 tablespoon organic cocoa powder

Blend ingredients until smooth. Drink. Enjoy the consequences.

Navitas Naturals Organic
Maca Powder
16 ounces bag, $24.99;
navitasnaturals.com

Organic Fair Trade
Unsweetened Cocoa
10 ounces, $10;
lakechamplainchocolates.com

Wine & Thou
Cedric Bouchard Roses de Jeanne Blanc
de Noirs Les Ursules 2009
$94.99; shop.appellationnyc.com
This sparkling wine has hints of fresh bread, citrus zest and subtle raspberry notes.

Bonterra Cabernet Sauvignon 2006
$32.99; americasbestorganics.com
An affordable premium wine made with organic grapes, with hints of pepper, cedar and vanilla spice.

Crocker & Starr Cabernet Sauvignon
Stone Place 2007
$95; wine.com
A bold red from organic Napa Valley grapes with exotic notes of cocoa, and rose petals.

Chocolate Choices
Cocoa is known as the “food of the gods.” It reproduces some of the same brain chemistry that occurs when we fall in love. It is a superfood, a sacred plant and an aphrodisiac.

Chocolove Organic 73 Percent Dark Chocolate Bar
3.2 ounces, $3.79; chocolove.com
Downright naughty, this bar melts in your mouth—and has love poems inside on its wrapping.

Theo Organic 70 Percent Dark Chocolate
3 ounces, $4; theochocolate.com
This Fair Trade-certified dark chocolate is deep, smooth and seductive.

Sweet Riot Pure 70 Percent Dark Chocolate
3.5 ounces, $3.99; sweetriot.com
These organic and Fair Trade-certified bars have artful packaging.

Green & Blacks Dark 70 Percent Chocolate
3.5-ounce bar, $3.99; greenandblacks.com
Exquisitely delicious, intensely flavorful Fair Trade-certified dark chocolate.

A Bubble Bath For Two

Portico Organic Towels
$16.99; porticohome.com
Wrap your lover and yourself in a lush, plush organic cotton towel. Available at bedbathandbeyond.com.

EO French Lavender Bubble Bath
12 fluid ounces, $11.99; eoproducts.com
Super abundant, aromatic bubbles with organic extracts soften and soothe skin.

Pangea Organics Pyrenees Lavender with
Cardamom Bar Soap
3.75-ounce bar, $8; pangeaorganics.com
This certified organic skin-smoothing soap has two aphrodisiac scents: lavender, the “herb of love,” and invigorating cardamom.

• Clear away bathroom clutter. Toilet brushes spoil the mood.
• Clean the room top to bottom and the tub so it sparkles.
• Pay attention to air quality, temperature and lighting.
• Fill a pretty basket with essentials for a luxurious bath.
• Set pillar candles around the room.
• Toss rose petals and essential oils into the water.
• Mood music makes all the difference.

Rub It In
Pamper your lover with a sensational massage. Pour premium body oil into cupped hands and rub hands together to warm up the oil before you start massaging.

Soapwalla Luxurious Moisturizing
Body Oil
4 ounces, $25; etsy.com/shop/soapwallakitchen
This ginger-, citrus- and lemongrass-scented oil made with mowrah butter feels like liquid velvet.

Eminence Mimosa
Champagne
Massage Oil
8.2 ounces, $29;
eminenceorganics.com
Impart decadent hydration and relaxation with biodynamic jojoba, grapeseed and mimosa orange oils.

Weleda Pomegranate
Regenerating Body Oil
3.4 ounces, $28; weleda.com
This rich, sensual biodynamic oil is made from pomegranate, Aphrodite’s fruit.

Visit organicspamagazine.com/vday-home for more information and direct links to online purchasing.

ZOE HELENE, is developing Cosmic Sister (cosmicsister. com), a multi-generational network of trailblazing women. She works and travels with her husband, ethnobotanist Chris Kilham.

Fashion designer Anna Cohen created this green wool cardigan, “Dreaming in Motion,” using Imperial Stock Ranch yarn. The Imperial Stock Ranch has been working with Oregon’s fiber artists and designers for 10 years.

We’d rather not think about it—especially when the fit is just right. Industrial clothing is made from pesticide-ridden and genetically modified cotton and treated with carcinogenic formaldehyde and flame retardants, then flown to the United States from China. Their production byproducts aren’t pretty.

Rebecca Burgess, a textile artist and indigo farmer in Marin County, California, couldn’t stop thinking about it. She believed people might be less tempted by mass-market fashion if they had more opportunities to buy clothing made in their communities from sustainably sourced materials. Would they build relationships with local alpaca ranchers and artisans, just as foodies bond with the farmers whose heirloom vegetables they adore? She had to find out. In 2010, Burgess announced that for one year she would clothe herself solely in garments made from materials sourced within 150 miles of her front door.

In Marin County, when Burgess began her project, locally produced clothing consisted of a scarf here, a sweater there. She couldn’t find anything to wear.

After wearing the same outfit for three weeks, Burgess got serious about changing her clothes. She raised $10,000 on Kickstarter.com and built the Fibershed Project (fibershedproject.com), a network uniting local organic cotton, sheep and alpaca farmers with mills, spinners, weavers and designers. The project has inspired similar co-ops throughout the country and now includes a national directory of small farmers and ranchers who provide wool, hemp, flax and nettles for “ranch to runway” fashions. Burgess’s definition of “local” has expanded to include sustainable producers across the United States. “For this to be successful, it can’t just be a marketplace of ideas,” she says. “It has to be a functioning marketplace.”

The “Starburst Shirt Dress” is from the Imperial Yarn 2011 Knit
Collection. Imperial Stock Ranch in Oregon has been sustainably raising
cattle and Columbia sheep for 140 years. Visit imperialstockranch.com
and imperialyarn.com.

Fibershed founder Rebecca Burgess challenged herself to live
for one year in clothes made from fibers sourced within a 150-mile
radius of her home. The sweater pattern shown here, and other
patterns from her one-year wardrobe, are available in the Fibershed
Marketplace at fibershed.com.

Knitters and spinners, are an important part of that marketplace, and they’re hungry for authentic materials. “In just the last three years, more than a quarter of our knitters have taken up spinning, and more and more they’re spinning fleece from locally grown sheep,” says Linda Ligon, who founded Interweave, the nation’s leading publisher of how-to crafts books and magazines, in 1975. “It’s really springing from the zeitgeist—local, handmade, back to the basics. I love that this is happening.”

Los Angeles-based writer LAUREL DELP is trying to convince her friends who just moved to the country that they need goats.

“The essence of Macrobiotic cuisine is eating whole, natural, unrefined, unprocessed foods with predominant emphasis on consuming grains and vegetables,” says Lee Gross, consulting chef for the Macrobiotic-based M Café in Beverly Hills and Gwyneth Paltrow’s former personal chef.

Macrobiotics is pretty simple—and logical. Gross advises choosing leafy greens, seasonal fruit, whole grains and beans over anything that comes in a bag, box or can. Eating a variety of “roots” (carrots and parsnips), “rounds” (onions and squash) and “greens” (kale and collards) is ideal, but Macrobiotic guidelines are not based strictly on ingredients or calories. They take into account what’s in season where you live and specific circumstances, such as pregnancy.

To start, fill 90 percent of your grocery cart with whole foods and eat a variety of vegetables every day. The diet you’re aiming for looks like this:
• 25 to 30 percent whole grains and brown rice
• 30 to 40 percent raw or lightly steamed vegetables
• 5 to 10 percent beans and other legumes
• 5 to 10 percent miso soup, a daily item typically eaten pre-meal
• 5 to 10 percent ocean fish and seafood, seeds and nuts, fruits and unsweetened beverages

Kale Lemonade
A great way to drink your veggies!
Makes about 1 gallon, 6-8 glasses
31/2 cups lemon juice
6 cups brown rice syrup or light
organic maple syrup
61/2 cups hot water
1 cup kale juice (freshly juiced)
Cold spring water to taste
Combine ingredients.
Serve chilled.

Tofu-Bean Burrito
Use leftover rice and beans to make this portable, healthy lunch or snack.
Makes 2-3 burritos
2 large tortillas (preferably gluten-free)
1 cup scrambled tofu
1/2 cup cooked brown rice
2 tablespoons cooked beans (black, pinto or other)
1/2 cup kale, leaves only (stems removed),
sliced very thin
2 tablespoons shredded soy cheese (optional)
1 tablespoon cilantro, chopped
2 tablespoons prepared salsa

Warm tortilla in a hot, dry skillet. Spread scrambled tofu evenly onto center of tortilla. Top with brown rice, beans and kale. Sprinkle with soy cheese and cilantro. Top with salsa. Roll tortilla burrito-style in foil and warm through in a hot oven for a few minutes to melt cheese.

Scrambled Tofu
Makes 2 cups
1/4 cup soy margarine
1 cup onion, minced
1/2 cup carrot, shredded
1 pound super-firm tofu, crumbled
1 teaspoon turmeric
1/4 cup water
2 tablespoons green onions, sliced thin

Heat soy margarine in skillet over medium heat until melted. Add onion and sauté 1 minute. Add carrot and sauté for another minute. Add crumbled tofu, turmeric, salt and pepper, and sauté for another minute. Raise heat to high, add water, bring to boil and cook until liquid is absorbed. Add green onion and stir to incorporate. Salt and pepper to taste.

A small gym bag full of products gets me from the gym to the office without anyone knowing that I was a sweaty mess at 7 a.m., and stepping into a hot shower with products that refresh and replenish my body is one of the best rewards after a tough work out.

SHAMPOO
Giovanni Tea Tree Triple Treat Shampoo
giovannicosmetics.net 8.5 ounces; $7.95
This shampoo keeps me feeling invigorated even when I’m in recovery mode. Refreshing certified organic tea tree, peppermint, eucalyptus and rosemary oils leave my head feeling tingly clean. Chamomile, clary, lavender and thyme oils combine with nourishing vitamin E for added moisture and silkiness. This shampoo makes conditioner optional.

FACE WASH AND SCRUB
Jason Brightening Apricot Scrubble
jason-natural.com 4 ounces; $7.49
Soothing apricot oil and triplerefined walnut powder soften yet wake up skin. This gentle, dual-purpose cleanser and scrub sloughs off dead skin cells and preps my facial skin for my weekly shave.

BODY WASH
SheaMoisture African Black Soap
walgreens.com 13 ounces; $9.99
This African black soap, made from palm ash, tamarind extract and plantain peels, has been used to treat problem skin in Africa for centuries. Moisture-rich oats, aloe vera, shea butter and vitamin E combine with exfoliating Dead Sea salt and jojoba beads to deliver mega moisture.

DEODORANT
Burt’s Bees Deodorant
burtsbees.com 2.6 ounces; $7
I refuse to roll on aluminum and hormone-disrupting neurotoxins. I harness the power of essential oils, beeswax and cornstarch–—the kitchen essential my mother uses to
thicken soup.

SHAVE CREAM
Every Man Jack Fragrance-Free Shave Cream
everymanjack.com 6.7 ounces; $6
With this no-nonsense, highly conditioning, hypoallergenic cream, I never worry about drying, chafing or razor burn. Squalene, derived from wheat germ, moisturizes, while olive and sunflower seed oil hydrate.

FACE LOTION
EvolutionMan Moisture Protect SPF 20
evolution-man.com 2.75 ounces; $20
My go-to face moisturizer, Evolution Man Moisture Protect SPF 20, delivers oil-free hydration and skin-calming antioxidants from green tea leaf extract, allantoin and vitamins A and C to keep my face touchable and irritation-free. Bonus: SPF 20 from natural sun barrier titanium dioxide keeps UVB rays at bay.

HAIR TEXTURIZER
John Masters Organics Bourbon
Vanilla & Tangerine Hair Texturizer
johnmasters.com 2 ounces; $21
Fine bourbon makes every party a little more fun. A dime-size dollop delivers organic shea butter, bourbon vanilla fruit oil, orange flower oil, tangerine oil and grapefruit oil.

PARKER HUDSON, who shares his grooming adventures in every issue and on his blog, organicspamagazine.com/blogs/greenguy, regularly gets buff in the gym before buffing his skin.

A CUP OF HOT TEA IS GOOD FOR THE SOUL—
and for the skin. New teas from Tea Forté, De La Terre Skincare and Yogi Tea are full of therapeutic herbs that nourish skin from the inside out. Tea Forté’s skin-smart teas are packed with polyphenols and catechins, which aid in skin recovery. De La Terre offers herbal tea blends for damaged, wounded, blemished and healthy skin. Yogi Skin DeTox tea includes rose petal and hibiscus, used in Ayurveda to cool and soothe; traditional liver-cleansers burdock and yellow dock; and blood cleansing red clover.

delaterreskincare.com
teaforte.com
yogiproducts.com

Yoga
BEST FOR BEGINNERS
Rodney Yee’s Daily Yoga 103 minutes; $14.98
This tranquil yogi offers five 15- to 25-minute routines that incorporate wildly
different styles and postures. Yee is not afraid of longer silences, which makes
him brilliant on the mat. Gaiam.com

BEST FOR INTERMEDIATE
Seane Corne Detox Flow Yoga 110 minutes; $14.98
A visionary and philanthropist, Seane Corne offers three routines with purifying
poses and tension-relieving pranayama, or breath work. Twist and Flow
Practice (35 minutes) focuses on basic standing and seated postures. Purify
(65 minutes) is a strong, flowing practice to tone up and move. Core Energy
(10 minutes) is the final soothing segment. Gaiam.com

Pilates and Core
BEST FOR ALL LEVELS
Element: Total Body Pilates (with mini sculpting ball) 50 minutes; $21.98
Master Pilates instructor Lisa Hubbard offers an invigorating 30-minute
workout and a mellower 20-minute mat session for when you’re tight on time.
Blow up the mini ball in four breaths, and get ready to feel firmer and more
confident. Amazon.com

BEST FOR ALL LEVELS
Exhale Core Fusion Power Sculpt 50 minutes; $14.99
Fred DeVito and Elizabeth Halfpapp teach five 10-minute workouts that combine
Pilates and yoga-type sculpting exercises with light hand weights for maximum
definition. Opt for the full 50-minute class or choose one of five punchy
segments to complement any schedule and energy level. Acacialifestyle.com

Muscle Sculpting
BEST FOR BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE
Ageless with Kathy Smith, Total Body Turnaround 60 minutes; $16.99
Smith uses light dumbbells and calisthenics to sculpt legs, buttocks, arms and
core in three separate, 20-minute workouts. AcaciaLifestyle.com

BEST FOR INTERMEDIATE
Bob Harper’s Beginner’s Weight Loss Transformation 45 minutes; $9.99
Grab a pair of 5- to 12-pound dumbbells for this challenging circuit-training
routine with The Biggest Loser’s top coach. Move from a weight lifting to
slow-motion jumping jacks and standing balance exercises. Amazon.com

Dr. Frank’s Yoga Mix
As my friends and patients know, I’m a world music freak. I continually play mixed world music CDs at home and in my office. After several people asked me to put together a mix of world beats with relaxing rhythms, I created this list. I call it my yoga mix because I often do yoga at home to these tracks.

Om Numah Shivaya
Apache Indian

Elhem-1
Original by Diaspora featuring
Amina Annabi

Maya
Susheela Raman

Kala Infinite
Bill Laswell

Guramayle
Gigi

The Long Road
Eddie Vedder with Nusrat Fateh
Ali Khan

The Way You Dream
Michael Stipe

Falling
Nitin Sawhney

Weyu Lárigi Weyu (Day by Day)
Andy Palacio

Sabu Yerkoy
Ali Farka Touré & Toumani Diabaté

Bamako
Toumani Diabaté

Boubacar
Bill Frisell

Savane
Ali Farka Touré

Haayo
Bill Laswell

Tara Mantra
Gabrielle Roth & The Mirrors

DR. FRANK LIPMAN is the founder and director of Eleven Eleven Wellness Center in New York City.
drfranklipman.com

for winter sports fanatics
SKY LODGE
Park City, Utah
Sky Lodge’s “Train Like an Olympian” package offers a wide range of adventurous winter sports: cross-country skiing, luge, downhill skiing, bobsledding and more. The ultra-fit package includes carbo-rich breakfasts, a 60-minute sports massage and a soak in the Japanese baths. At Amatsu Spa, splurge on a purifying Oolong Tea Body Buffer and Wash, which replenishes skin with ylang ylang and lavender oils.
theskylodge.com

for golfers and tennis players
LA QUINTA RESORT & SPA
Palm Springs, California
Tucked against sunburned views of the Santa Rosa Mountains, this 85-year-old 900-room hotel offers access to five of Palm Springs’ best golf courses and a premier on-site tennis club. Greta Garbo and Kate Hepburn, regulars back in the day, would have approved of the updated 23,000-square-foot spa and new adobe casitas. The spa offers eucalyptus-infused pedicures, ginger masques to jumpstart circulation, massages for young athletes and even a dual rubdown alongside your dog.
LaQuintaResort.com

for bikers
BLACKBERRY FARM
Knoxville, Tennessee
During a three-day bike trip in the Smoky Mountains, you’ll improve your climbing, sprinting, passing tactics and road etiquette while riding nearly 150 miles. A portable bike shop handles repairs, and energetic guides follow in support vehicles. Thirty-minute express massages and farm-to-table meals follow each intermediate-to-advanced ride. Afternoon activities include treatments in the newly renovated spa, shopping, wildflower hikes, and wine and cheese tastings.
blackberryfarm.com