Soulstice Retreat

March 20, 2015

My good friends over at Albion Fit are teaming up with Stein Erikson Lodge at Deer Valley to bring you one amazing Retreat! Here’s a little more information about it!

RELAX. RECHARGE. REFOCUS. RETREAT. For 4 days, and 3 nights, immerse yourself in one of the world’s most pristine mountain settings at the exclusive, Forbes 5 star, Stein Eriksen Resort and Spa in Deer Valley, Utah. Begin your retreat with a welcome basket, brimming with fabulous fitness and beauty gadgets and accessories. Enjoy an Albion Apparel gift card for a weekend’s worth of premium fitness, swims, and loungewear. Exercise your body under the watchful care of Awaken Retreat instructors, industry-leading professionals available around the clock to help you set fitness goals and create a plan to achieve them. Create your own schedule from a broad selection of fitness activities: Start your day with a sunrise Vinyasa atop a mountain overlook at 9,000 feet. Sign up for daily pilates reformer classes with hands on instruction. Experience weightlessness for the first time in aerial yoga, gracefulness in a barre class, or hit the mountainside in an adrenaline-boosting trail run. Alongside elite fitness classes, Soulstice also offers a wide variety of intellectual and soulful workshops, providing experiences and memories to take with you beyond the retreat. Have fun with new friends learning healthy eating tips from a New York Time’s best selling author, taken an oil-painting workshop and create a landscape portrait to hang on a wall at home, or learn how to use natural light from a professional photographer. In your free time, take hot air balloon ride over the Wasatch mountains, go horse-back riding on aspen-laden trails, or pamper yourself at the 5 star spa and get a 90 minute, hot stone massage. Enjoy exquisite cuisine with fresh, local ingredients hand crafted by America’s finest artisanal chefs and shop on Park City’s historical Main Street. At Soulstice, your time is yours, to spend as you please.

How amazing does that sound! For early bird pricing and more information, head over to www.soulsticeretreat.com

And, for a chance to win a HUGE GIVEAWAY! We are giving away one lucky winner and her BFF a trip to this amazing retreat at the 5 star at Stein Lodge each valued at $3500. Awaken Retreats will be teaching reformer Pilates anti-gravity, barre classes, SUP yoga in a crater, and special guests teaching oil painting, photography, and lectures by Melissa Hartwig of Whole 30 and Stephanie Nielsen and much more.

To enter, head over to my post on INSTAGRAM, follow @albionfit @steinlodge and @awakenretreats and @armelle_blog and tag your BFF. That’s it.

For a bonus entry, repost the above photo on Instagram, and post and tag @soulsticeretreat.

Relax, recharge, refocus, retreat. Giveaway ends Sunday, March 29, so be sure to head over to Instagram to enter soon!! GOOD LUCK!

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Holiday’s // St Patricks Day Dinner Ideas

March 16, 2015

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

St. Patrick’s Day is a fun holiday for my little family. It’s the anniversary of the first day my husband and I met, so it’s kind of like the anniversary of our family in a way. I thought I would share some fun St. Patrick’s Day Ideas, and some fun green food ideas for the holiday!

I always like to pull of a festive feast for my family on holidays if I can. I try to make sure that it is something that I want to do for them, instead of looking at it as a chore. But, really I truly do like to see their faces of excitement when they see the festive table! I think maybe because my parents grew up in France and Vietnam, so many holidays are a little foreign to them. While we celebrated many, things weren’t over the top, so maybe that’s why I tend to go a little that way. It’s fun for me to live and experience the holidays right along with my children!

My daughter Norah especially loves to help me set up for holidays. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, huh?. She loves to help me set the table, and often plans parties as part of her pretend play. So cute!

I set up as many green items to go with the St. Patrick’s Day theme as much as possible.

Green rolls, green grapes, gold coins, green mint and chocolate chip cookies.

For the rest of the food, we had my favorite Kale caesar salad (all ingredients can be found at Harmons Grocery) with crostini’s, green tortellini with pesto sauce, and steamed broccoli. The beauty is you can homemake, or store buy many items depending on how much time you have, and you can pull of this festive spread without too much work involved! I always turn to my party supply box, and as always being a hoarder pays off for me, wink!

Kale Caesar Salad with Crostini Croutons

For the Salad

Combine:

Kale

Crumbled Crostini’s from Harmons Grocery

Grated Parmesean Cheese

For the Lemon Caesar Dressing:

Juice of 1 Lemon

1/2 tsp lemon zest

2 tablespoons Garlic olive oil from Harmons Grocery (sciabica’s brand)

1 teaspoon minced garlic

3 tablespoons grated parmesan cheese

2 shakes cayenne pepper (more or less depending if you like a kick)

1 cup olive oil

Whisk all together well, and toss over Kale, crostini’s and parmesan cheese.

Enjoy! And, Hope you have an amazing St. Patrick’s Day!

{all photos by me}

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March 11, 2015

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