Support Local Markets - Here's a coupon for Mother's Market $5.00 OFF!

Have you ever shopped at Mother's? Or one of their many stores? They are awesome. Not too big and overwhelming, quaint, super fun and helpful staff and a smorgesborg of all kinds of organic.  We are grateful to them because they carry all of our AQUAMANTRA waters: I AM LOVED, I AM LUCKY, I AM HEALTHY and now I AM GRATEFUL.  If you don't see us on the shelf, let us know or just ask them, they'll order it for you.

So here's a coupon for you to go in and contribute to saving on your groceries. You can get 2 of your AQUAMANTRA waters for Free! When you buy $25 or more of anything else in the stores, which is pretty easy to do.  Plus a lot of the brands in Mother's are local manufacturers like AQUAMANTRA.  We live in a time where we are starting to become aware of our consumption habits and in doing so it has allowed us to take a look at the basics, like where do these tomatoes come from? Mexico or Arizona? or even down the street? Which is better for us the one that has to be packed up and preserved just to make the long haul? Or the ones from the local farmer who grows and supports his/her community.  This paradigm shift in economy for all of us is that awareness, that consciousness to make smarter choices. Before we were on autopilot, work, shop, eat. Now we have to choose wiser, we work, and have less to shop with, so we're more cautious on how we spend our money. Choose healthy and choose local. The people in your community need your support - so if you spend money, spend local. We are Grateful!

How you WIN (Free AQUAMANTRA) by being Grateful this Thanksgiving

Thanks-giving is my favorite holiday, a day to remind myself of all the things I'm grateful for and the opportunity to evoke that high vibrational frequency in others as well. Most of us pack up our belongings, hop on transportation and travel to a location to join the other counter-parts of our family during this 4 day weekend. Some people gather to play games, to talk and catch up with the year's stories and other to just be present with their family. Then predictably we cook huge and delicious meals all day just to sit down and gorge for a quick 45 minutes or so. Then the coma settles in, our buts plop down on the couch and either pass out – watch TV or clean up, whichever is most rewarding. Years and years go by and the tradition stays the same. Sure new people stop in, locations may change but the sameness is always there. Many years ago, I insisted that before the grace we hold hands and go around the room saying what we were grateful for that year, and it became so rewarding that now we do it every year and no one can even remember that this hasn't been a tradition forever. This little moment in time, sparks the presence in everyone's soul while they wait in anticipation for their turn to say what their grateful for. Sure some people might not elaborate and share simple comments like they are grateful the food or the company, but the beauty surfaces when those of us dip into the soul and say what we are truly grateful for like surviving this year or for the opportunity to know their parent that just passed away. If done with sincerity, with each spoken token of gratitude a welling of magical energy shows up and with everyone contributing through the vulnerability of their honesty, a close and intimate connection with each of the people at the table magnifies. Usually by the time we wrap up one or everyone is crying, through joy, through gratitude and the space that has generated such honesty and loving gratitude, its amazingly sweet. Then someone chokes up and says, "okay time to eat" and so the chow down begins, but that piece of time will be etched in the memory of that holiday forever, the contribution that everyone at that table made to and for each other. What a beautiful gift to experience and this year AQUAMANTRA wants you to experience it!

Last year, I created I AM GRATEFUL water dedicated to just this experience. In partnership with the CA Southern Pacific Region of Whole Foods Market, we launched AQUAMANTRA's
I AM GRATEFUL water, hoping to inspire such a tradition at Thanks-GIVING. This particular water did excellent in stores and we inspired people to bring it to their host or hostess' dinner as the gift that would keep on giving. Now this year, we are featured this week of Thanks-GIVING in both Whole Foods Market and CA/NV Albertsons Markets with our new 100% Biodegradable and 100% Recyclable new ENSO BOTTLES. If you don't live in the West Coast you can buy AQUAMANTRA online at www.thirstmonger.com and get FREE Shipping anywhere in the United States if you buy 3 cases or more.

I personally invite families everywhere to partake in AQUAMANTRA's GRATEFUL EXPRESSION EXPERIENCE CONTEST this Thanks-GIVING… let me explain. We encourage you to buy a bottle of I AM GRATEFUL for everyone who will be at the table for dinner ( this includes children). You can decorate your bottles with ribbon or go even further by adding a request to the bottle. Last year, my little cousin Mallory and I found quotes about Gratitude and printed them on sheets of paper. Then we used different color construction paper and cut them out to look like leaves. We glued the quote to the leaf and then put orange glitter on everyone. We sliced the top of the leaf and used ribbon to fasten it to the top of the bottle. When it came time to eat, Mallory asked everyone to go around the room and read their quote out-loud and tell us all what they were grateful for. It was fun to watch each person read their quote and tell us the truth of what makes them grateful, even the little kids. This Expression is one way to get a little bit closer the DNA known as your family and experience them in a new light, even for a few moments in time.

The best part is we want to hear your experience and see what your table looks like! Send us your pictures with a paragraph about your experience. Our team at AQUAMANTRA will pick our TOP 25 favorites, who will receive a FREE CASE OF AQUAMANTRA plus an Organic Jute Bag for you and a friend, shipped directly to your front door. How does it get any better than that?

How do you participate?

1. Buy AQUAMANTRA's I AM GRATEFUL water for THANKS-GIVING and put it at everyone's place setting.
   
2. Take a picture for the contest.
   
3. Request that everyone at the table participate and if they do, they get to keep their bottle and take it home with them!
   
4. Have everyone say one thing they are grateful for.
   
5. ENJOY YOUR EXPERIENCE  :-)
   
6. Then write us a letter about it or you can blog about it and send us the link. We need both a picture of your table and your paragraph to enter.
   (send to iamgrateful@aquamantra.com)
   
7. Submit all pictures/story to us by December 4^th and we'll pick a winner, post the stories on our website and send you your FREE Water before Xmas!
   

For everyone that submits their story with a picture we will also offer a substantial coupon towards any purchase of any AQUAMANTRA products, which are super cool gifts for the holidays.


May you experience the gratitude that allows everything you desire to manifest with ease, joy and glory! Much love and gratitude, Alexandra

If you want to extend your gratitude far beyond just the dining room table, check out
http://www.theiamgratefulproject.org/ website... gratitude with rewards!

THESE ARE THE PRIZES! Two Organic Jute Bags to Carry your AQUAMANTRA and a FREE CASE of I AM GRATEFUL.

The Truth Behind America’s Bottled Water Industry - Just a big game of Telephone!

Oh Look! Another article about how tap water is no better than bottled water.  I just picked up the feed on The Truth Behind America’s Bottled Water Industry, By Jeannette Brown on Oct. 1, 2007 and right off the bat, I see this is an article from 2007, so its old news... or is it? Why is the NEW UNIVERSITY saying that it news for October 5, 2009? When not only is this not news, its line after line of regurgitated propoganda and to prove it to you, I'm going to regurgitate some FACTS for you... I know, I know its a new concept... truth behind the words... research and homework and not just copied from a line of sources where no one even knows where the truth began, kind of like our childhood game called Telephone... keep repeating it until when you're done, you've got TAP WATER is GOOD FOR YOU, NOT!  

In 2007 Jeannette Brown writes,

1.  A generation of young Americans has been brought up to drink only bottled water when not too long ago their parents relied exclusively on tap water.

Well, that's because when we grew up we could rely on tap water, there wasn't pesticides, chemicals, prescription drugs ( Widespread Trace-Level Contamination Found In U.S. Water Supply, AP Investigation Shows) and worms floating around in our water. These days the ground is a septic tank for what lands in the soil, and the generic filter provided for municipal water isn't small enough to clear out the bacteria and pharmecueticals, that have landed in the water used for your tap. EW! Actually, I take it back, I don't even think I drank tap water when I was younger. That picture makes me want to be sick.  Today people have filters for their tap water, show of hands (comments) how many people drink straight tap water and are exited about it?  

2. Sadly, many people in the world have no access to clean water of any kind but in the United States, Americans can take their pick from water flown in from countries including France, Fiji and Italy. It is also important to remember that bottled water requires big ships, trains and trucks to ship it, which causes more pollution.

She makes a statement that is so vague and yet her point is what? Americans get choices? And that is a bad thing? Has she looked at the soda aisle, the tea aisle, the coffee aisle, the MARKET? This is what we do, we offer the best of everything so why is that a double standard for water?  I started in my career not in bottled water and as a consumer,and even then I always bought bottled water because water is healthy and tap water is gross.  But it seems according to this and almost every article or blog I read About bottled water bags on the same thing… how bottled water drinkers should be stuck drinking the crap tap. As a wine drinker, should I be only allowed to drink Boons Farm too? I never really read blogs about how ridiculous this double standard is, and that’s exactly what it is, FOOLISHNESS.

Now, we get to the good stuff. She says “In fact” – where are these facts? Are they printed or even quoted somewhere? Here’s an article for you, that shows you the FACTS that tap water is NOT safer. And she goes on to say -Simply put, people have been convinced that bottled water is somehow healthier when in reality there are no results to suggest that such a claim is true. Well I don’t know what planet Jeannette is living on, try googling ” tap water that damages” and to make it easy for you, I’ve found a few RESULTS that Jeannette claims weren’t available and to her defense, she did write this two years ago. So maybe New University should hire another writer to re-write the story.




FLORIDA: RED Worms in Tap Water – Florida Water Services Sued, she found fly larvae in her water.

WEST VIRGINIA: Jennifer Hall-Massey knows not to drink the tap water in her home near Charleston, W.Va. her son has scabs from the water.

Virginia: Spotsylvania Family's Tap Water Turns Black

24 STATES: STUDY FINDS TRACES OF DRUGS IN DRINKING WATER IN 24 MAJOR U.S. REGIONS
In the course of a five-month inquiry, the AP discovered that drugs have been detected in the drinking water supplies of 24 major metropolitan areas — from Southern California to Northern New Jersey, from Detroit to Louisville, Ky.


Or click here for a list for the 5 most harmful chemicals found in tap water. 

4. While the bottled water industry is not likely to slow down any time soon, consumers can do their best to ensure that they do not damage the environment with the numerous plastic bottles that are being purchased each year.

While it seems she is attempting to support the environment, she is actually just asking people to change their own preferences based on no other solutions and that just isn’t the case. Don’t let people push you into shame or guilt about your choices, put your green cape on and... 

Join the Recycle-ution! You can enjoy your plastic bottles, just don’t litter! Make sure you are responsible for your waste. OR Buy Products that are Biodegradable (NOT PLA… see other blog postings) bottles like AQUAMANTRA, so that if you can’t find a recycling container and you do throw it in the trash you’ll know you are part of the solution, not the pollution. There are solutions out there and companies like ENSO and AQUAMANTRA are working towards a brighter future, but we can’t do it alone. People can make a difference. We advocate your free right to enjoy your delicious tasting water and if you choose to be conscious, maybe a suggestion rather than a demand  just stop drinking bottled water would look like this…

1. Buy LOCAL

2. Buy SUSTAINABLE

3. Buy SPRING WATER not purified water (tap water)

4. Buy from a company who looks like they care not just a big corporation

5. MAKE SURE YOU RECYCLE… and tell your friends and your kids


In the end. Bottled water is not the Culprit. We are fully aware of what we consume and what our choices are, at least I thought we still had choices. Let us drink bottled water with dignity, it sure beats being a drunk, a sugar junkie or a coffee fiend. Water is the source of life, and supports us – we are all made up of 70% water – so let’s stop bastardizing water and the people who have dedicated their time to bring it to you. Enjoy and thank your water for being there to support you, with love and with blessings, because water is there to support you.


Here's a letter from a concerned consumer to recent NY Times article:

Dear Mr. Archibold,
I read your article on my blackberry while lying in bed this morning and literally had to get up and hit my PC to thank you for this story.

My name is Sharon Lindsey and I am a resident of Los Angeles, living in Marina Del Rey, I am immune compromised having been hospitalized for it several years ago and am very lucky to be alive today. Over recent months it has become quite "fashionable" for lack of a better term for the media to slam all bottled water companies and even go so far as to say that tap water is as safe as bottled. This is not accurate, in fact, municipal tap water can be dangerous and even life-threatening to someone like me who has to be very careful about the water I put into my body. Your article confirmed my belief stating that the American Society of Civil Water Engineers gave the nation at D-rating when it comes to taking care of drinking water facilities.

As a resident of Los Angeles I am a customer of the Los Angeles Water and Power Company. Each year by Federal law, all city municipalities are required to send their customers a report on the water quality. In August on 2008, I read the LADWP report and was stunned to find a bolded paragraph on page 3 that stated: "Health Related Notices, Precautions for People With Weakened Immune Systems. Some people may be more vulnerable to contaminants in drinking water than the general population. People with weakened immune systems, may have undergone chemotherapy treatment, received organ transplants, suffer from HIV/Aids, or other immune disorders. Some elderly and infants can be particularly at risk from infection. People with these types of health challenges should seek advice about drinking water from their health care providers. The same warning appears in this years report as well. http://www.ladwp.com/ladwp/cms/ladwp001965.jsp (Please note right hand bottom of Page 1 under "Health Related Notices").

There are studies that have been widely publicized and referenced to stating that tap water is as safe as bottled water such as the one put out by the Environmental Working Group based in Washington. EWG's study somehow came to a conclusion that tap water is as safe as bottled water. I personally contacted Rene Sharp the leader of that EWG study last year and asked her if she and her team were aware of the EPA warning to people with immune compromisations and she was not. I have seen this same study quoted throughout the year and used again by Elaine Shannon who now writes for EWG in a Huffington Post article posted this past July without any footnotes or addendums to the warning statements by municipal water companies but once again, it is very good and great press to say tap water is as safe as some bottled waters to get the consumer all in a fury. In her article, she actually gave a bottled water company called Aquamantra (that surpasses EPA requirements and safe for me to drink having gone through several passes of a 1 micron filtration system, ozone and ultra-violet to rid cryptosporidium and other harmful micro-organisms) an F grade because the researchers on the EWG are still quoting their faulty study from last year and not able to find the water purification, lab breakdown and source info on Aquamantra's site. I called EWG last week and again brought this to their attention and was told "they stand by their story"....how can they? it baffles me. There are several bottled water companies along with Aquamantra that actually surpass EPA standards because they spend the additional dollars to make sure their waters are clean, and yes they are more expensive because of their water processing and purification. I happened to choose Aquamantra because it is a local California water, it tasted better and comes in a biodegradable and recyclable bottle.

I bring this to your attention because the immune compromised, the elderly and infants are continually ignored and the general public is continually misinformed in tap vs bottled water saga and our numbers are large. While we don't ask for ramps on sidewalks or special toilet stalls, we deserve to get correct information as do the entire population so we can make informed choices. We cannot and should not drink municipal tap water. While it may not seem that this clarification is important enough to those reporting on this issue, to the immune compromised, it is our lives.

Thanks for your time and consideration. Once again, I really appreciated your article.

In Health,

Sharon Lindsey

Huffington Post - Do you do your homework?

AQUAMANTRA loves being a water to talk about. Write about us, doubt us, call us names, and in the end... you're still talking about us. We're the company moving forward, taking risks and forging new thought into the future. The paradigm is changing and I wish journalists could figure that out, and check their facts- Please! Today I just happen to google us and I found a place our name came up, in an article by Elaine Shannon from the Huffington Post talking about Eco-chic? Or cheap chic? - which would have been a great insertion for the bold move of our stance on creating new biodegradable and recyclable bottles. Instead, I find her calling us the silliest water in a test created by the EWG- Environmental Working Group. They've done a survey on bottled water, Fabulous! Yeah, an F for Fabulous, cuz that's what they gave us! Even though under our Taste the Difference button it clearly stated how our water is filtered, from the spring and it even had our bottled water analysis- and if you actually google us you could find in FineWaters.com our analysis as well. Appears, we need to post the below paragraph on the back of our bottle in order to get a rating that is worthy of the EWG.

How is AQUAMANTRA created and filtered?
Our source Spring Water comes from Palomar Mountain Spring, near San Diego, California. Stainless steel tankers transport the water between the mountain and the production facility. The Natural Spring Water is transferred from the tanker through FDA and NSF approved channels, filtered through a one micron absolute filter to remove any single celled protozoan type microorganism, passed through a high intensity Ultra Violet light to destroy any bacteria,and then stored in stainless steel holding tanks. Prior to bottling the water is again treated with high intensity Ultra Violet light, filtered through a one micron absolute filter, Ozonated to sanitize the water, and filtered again with a 0.2 micron absolute filter.

She goes on to report : "Well, guess what. A bunch of humble, big-box-store, mass-market brands like Wal-Mart's Sam's Choice (B), Nestlé's Pure Life (B) and Ozarka (B), and Walgreens (C) scored best for disclosure and advanced treatment."

Seriously? or is that who paid the most money? Seems some things haven't changed. We love that Elaine Shannon called us silly, it is our goal to inspire people to live outside the boundaries of quote unquote reality. Silly is a great adjective for AQUAMANTRA, I'd rather be the company accused of that then affecting people's lives with bad water, which is what an F rating sounds like. However, that is not that case at all. And below is a letter from one of our advisors to the EWG, who did do her homework on our water let alone all kinds of waters. Is that what the internet has come to just empty facts of untruth? C'mon, we should have more value in what we write then just surface fluff. The scary thing is Elaine wrote this article this year, and this survey was done last year, which means that when she wrote her Eco-Shic? article, she had to have looked at our website and known that we launched the 1st EVER 100% Biodegradable and 100% Recyclable Bottle water that is not PLA, and didn't even include that in her article. And to think I really thought that the Huffington Post was a place I wanted to align with, knowing the background of Ms. Huffington herself -surely she would be proud of an entrepenuer who tried to change the bottled water landscape with a green bottle and excellent water. Instead, all we get noticed for is sillyness. Well, I hope the future is filled with more research filled and authentic journalist than slapsticks who take every SURVEY at face value without doing their homework...

Another slap on the forehead! Why do we even try? Because we can. What else is possible?

Here's the letter our Advisor wrote to the EWG:

Sharon Lindsey here and I knew that I recognized your name as I had spoken to you last year about the EWG study that I got on Google Alerts which analyzed bottled waters from different bottled water suppliers around the country. The overall conclusion of the study which you led, stated that tap water was as safe as bottled water. In our conversation I was curious to know if you and your research team were aware prior and during the study that many of the bottled waters you studied came from municipal water systems which carry the EPA warning statements for the immune compromised stating that it is important to consult your physician and health care provider before drinking municipal tap water because it may be harmful and even life-threatening. I clearly remember you were not aware at that time of this warning statement which is posted on 99.9 percent of municipal tap waters annual reports and websites and a large percentage of bottled waters that come from municipal water systems. Many of the bottled waters your reviewed also carry the same warning statement because it is not safe for the immune compromised to drink.

I am very disturbed to see that EWG is still perpetuating this same misinformation which was recently published on the Huffington Post in which Elaine Shannon used your studies to base her article and negatively rate companies such as Aquamantra giving the water an "F" grade. After I contacted you last year and realized that your study was flawed, I did exhaustive personal research on my own and I chose Aquamantra as a water for me to drink for the primary reason, IT IS SAFE TO DRINK FOR THE IMMUNE COMPROMISED, and a water which surpasses EPA standards. What a shame and a dis-service to your readers and the public who trust your work to not correct this error and omission.

Since finding Aquamantra, I have literally volunteered to try and help them clear this mis-information up as I this kind of reporting is disgraceful and in my personal experience, their product is stellar. The CEO of Aquamantra forwarded me the blog article from Ms. Shannon and I did not put all the pieces together until now. If nothing else, I believe Aquamantra is owed a retraction as the comments in the Huffington Post are of defaming nature. Ms. Shannon can have her opinion about the Mantras on the water which is clearly her opinion, but studies conducted by Dr. Emoto showed that the energy of thought can permeate the molecular structure of water and other living organisms...such as the studies Norman Cousins conducted on psychonueroimmunology ( the mind-body connection, what we think can negatively or positively effect our bodies) at the UCLA School of Medicine. I conducted several workshops based on "positive thought" and upon the recommendation of Mr. Cousins for patients hospitalized in UCLA's eating disorder unit in the 80's with great success. The field of Pyschonueroimmunology is now widely accepted in the medical world, especially in the field of cancer recovery. While I am sure that Norman Cousins was doubted by others for his own personal experience of healing his illness through laughter and positive thoughts, he had the ability to scientifically prove it at one of the leading universities in the world and become the pioneer of the science of the mind-body connection.

In closing, I hope that future articles and studies released by EWG, contain information that is more accurate and based on the diligent attempts to uncover and disseminate detail and truth.

In Health,
Sharon Lindsey

What's the Recycle-ution? A revolution of change - caring about our planet

We all must care about the planet we decided to inhabit on right? WRONG. Some of us work extra hard to educate, motivate and share the impact of recycling and then there's lots of us who think that littering is still okay? Are these people for real?

This Monday the 21st there's a world wide event - a live broadcast and docu-film about The Age of Stupid - Will people in the future call our time the age of stupid? Or will humanity find a solution to the world’s most urgent problem? You decide! Check out the website http://www.ncm.com/Fathom/OriginalPrograms/AgeofStupid.aspx and find a theater near you to watch it. This is a fabulous way to educate the masses and I hope it works. One of my other favorite films is Idiocracy, as comical as it is, it seems this is how humanity thinks... straight stupid.

I'm going to share the story of how I started a campaign to educate about recycling and its evolution into a movement, that hopefully will have an impact on our planet in a positive capacity. I happen to live in a gorgeous neighborhood, near Dana Hills High School. Every year a new crop of students park in front of my home, where they smoke and hide from the school narcs and jet off to school. And every year I get upset because they just litter on the ground, plastic bottles. This a giant pet peeve of mine, seeing as I moved mountains to be the first company to have biodegradable bottles - not wanting to be part of the mounds of plastic bottles litter in the landfills. These teenagers, unconsciously or anti-consciously as I like to call them just drop their trash on the ground, as if someone else is going to pick it up for them. What they don't realize is that it ends up in the ocean and kills far more than just creatures. Last year I had an idea to make a video with the local high school about recycling, I felt if they actually made the film then they might actually care about their school and the grounds around it when their done. I spoke to friend of mine, Gina Rene and asked her to share her gift of amazing vocals by writing a song about Recycling. How lucky was I? She said yes, and I shared my vision of a world where people become the movement of change, picking up bottles and recycling them not just throwing them in the trash. Gina wrote this song alright, she kicked ass on it! The coolest hippest song I've ever heard about recycling ( you can download it free at www.aquamantra.net/iamthesolution.html ) and hence the journey began. I reached out for people to help make the video, as the high school didn't have room in the curriculum to produce it. Time moved on and much happened within our company and we never made the video. Recently though, Gina and I have teamed up to bring the message out to the youth. She's performing at the Abbot Kinney Festival Sept. 27th in Venice, California at the little kids stage at 1:00pm and we're going to shoot a preliminary video there to start the motion. Now where does that leave us?

As I walked my dogs tonight around the neighborhood, I saw not one or two plastic bottles on the ground, I saw at least 15! Really people? Are you so lazy that you can't even put your beverage empty in the trash? Are we really a nation of such stupidity that we think a "Trash-Fairy" is going to come and pick it up for us? This is the kind of observation of humanity that takes me BEYOND- Beyond my own comprehension in 2009, where people are so oblivious that they actually believe throwing it on the ground is a solution. All I can hope for is that through movements like our Recycle-ution campaign ( check out http://www.aquamantra.com/ for updates) and movies like The Age of Stupid and people talking to teenagers, that we clean up our act, for the planet's sake. She's done so much for us and asked so little in return. For crying out loud, even my dog picks up plastic bottles!

If you have any ideas for our Recycle-ution campaing, just make comments here and we'll try and incorporate them into our program! Blessings! Alexandra

TIME TO FIND YOUR JOY!

When do you actually stop and take inventory of your happiness? Have you ever? Is it something that you have ever even thought about? I'm going to share my most recent experience that created an amazing shift for me and hopefully, it will help you question where's your bliss?

My company AQUAMANTRA is all about creating your reality. We are the creators by what we think, what we say and how we react. Whether we can go with the flow or we fight it all the way? I've always been an optimist, and will gladly admit that sometimes the glass is overflowing for me... I like it that way. Recently, some things have been happening however, that have given me grave reason to question what is it I'm creating for myself? I've never actually had any issues with money as in receiving it, but recently I noticed a pattern of people not paying me back, people not performing as promised, people lying about what is happening. It started about 3 months ago, and since then it has made my job/life that much more challenging. Keep my little company moving forward has been a lifetime of challenges, a choice you make an entrepreneur forging the way.. not really knowing the right way, just the way moving forward. So when you introduce new people who are supposed to support you into your mix, and they don't do what they promised, then you have to watch over them and support them and train them and educate them, on top of an already challenging job. I didn't actually take into account my happiness in all of this. I was beginning to get very frustrated with everyone, including my husband even though he had nothing to do with any of this. Last week, I had to take a closer look at what I was creating, why was I creating this? And most importantly, how can I shift this so I'm not attracting these people or experiences to me.

I've had the privilege of listening to Wendy Kennedy who channels a collective of light being called the Pleadians. They usually have good information to listen to so I took some time to download the 2 hour free radio program on the radio show Journey's with Rebecca : http://www.journeyswithrebecca.com/archives_09.html - and what I learned on there, was not entirely new information for me, yet the delivery was profound because I was ready to receive it. She talked about how life is layed out like a harp and each chord represents a different 'frequency' or vibration that we are vibrating to. When we are on the lower chord, that is what people, places and experiences we're willing to receive. When we're on the higher chords or frequency's that is what we'll receive and we are the only ones who can generate that shift. I know its just that easy... I guess I just needed to receive the awareness that I HAD to make the shift or my life was going to keep attracting drama. The drama actually started for me in February when an awnry person in my organization tried to create a coo and kick me out of my own company I generated. She attacked me, my skills and my efforts and created a sense of unrest and mistrust within my organization. I spent the last 4 months, trying to make everyone happy by bringing other people in to help and in the process, lost any joy in my creating because I was deferring my potency to others. Its no fun when people blame you for their own insecurities, I see now my mistake was allowing that energy to permeate into my organization and my experiences. So now... I am listening to the download and it talks about manifestation. Imagine a sky scraper and we're on the the rooftop. When we want to manifest something we hold in our hands a boomerang that is our vision, mine is to align with people who want to take our company to the next level and who want to make this world a better place than when they arrived. So I toss out my boomerang and wait for universe to bring it back. But what happens? People throw accusations at you, you start to question what your own dream is, you might work harder and do everything you can to please everyone ( which by the way never works!) and then... you look up and you're on the 32 floor. The boomerang comes back as promised and your stuck on the 32 floor, saying where is it Universe? Where's my dream? And then you have to get back up there and throw the boomerang again. So what the Pleadians recommend is to raise your frequency, how do we do that? Find our joy, find what makes us happy and do that. For reals? That's all we have to do? That can't be that hard... so I stopped and took a moment to do an inventory of what brings me joy and what I discovered was that I didn't even know what brings me joy anymore. I have been working my whole life, dedicated to making a difference but hadn't stopped to find out what it was for me? Get your pads out and start writing you'll be surprised. Then its no wonder we're not getting everything we want, our frequency is on that lower chord dishing us crap cuz that's what we're creating! If its not rewarding, why the f@! are we doing it? So the next day after I discovered this, I was dedicated to my Joy. I woke up and let my puppies jump in bed and hug and kiss me for 15 minutes. I soaked in the pure unconditional love and allowed it to permeate through all of me. Then I thought of 5 things I'm grateful for and really got into the space of that, so grateful. I was committed to finding my joy. If I have joy, then whatever happens outside of me can't drag me down because I am spreading love and happiness around me, how does it get any better than that? The next day I worked, and there was some stress but I focused on being happy and just bringing joy to even that accomplishing, cleaning up the mess that had been created by the people who attempted to work for us. Then comes labor day weekend. We had no plans and not a lot of money, but by Thursday I had plans for Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Saturday, I told my friends my job that day was to find my joy! It started out on my friends patio sipping mimosas and eggs Benedict with Salmon. We meandered over to a little boat to cruise the harbor, the sun was deliciously soaking us up while we scooted around the harbor. We saw Sea Lions right next to us, jumping fish and jelly fish swimming all around us. Later we jumped in the ocean and swam around I was definitely finding my joy, as you can see the big smile on my face in the picture. I had a moment where it looked a bit challenging to get hoist myself back in the boat with no landing on the back. I sat in the water and held on the edge, pondering what it would take to get me in the boat easily. Just then a speed boat scooted by us and created a few waves, my captains, cursed the guy and got upset, while I stayed present in my awareness and thought, I'm going to use the gravity of the wave to hoist my big ole booty in the boot. Everyone was focused on that boat and launched myself with the help of the amazing water, right into the boat. They said he was rude I was grateful. My joy frequency was working for me! We cruised around, we picked up dinner and had the most amazing feast! The next day I watched a movie I had wanted to see for a long time, then cruised down to the Del Mar race track for some races and a free Ziggy Marley concert - which was a full house of love and peace energy. I'm going to be riding this wave a lot longer and promise to remind myself daily, is this rewarding? or bringing me joy? Or is this dragging my frequency down? I highly suggest you listen to the download and make an inventory of what brings you happiness. Its really quite simple and funny if you think about it. Hmmmm. Do things that make me happy and bring joy to the things that you don't necessarily love to do. How we approach it, is how we will receive it! Man, I must've said it 50 times this weekend. I Love my life... It's been a while since I said that. THANK YOU Mrs. P

Follow your bliss and the boomerang will come back.

Love and Blessings, M-Alexandra

Wanna rock your world? Completely? Run some Bars!

Recently I was introduced to ACCESS Consciousness which you can read about in my blogs. Then I was introduced to BARS- oh holy cow! There are 32 bars or activation points in your head that by allowing the energy to flow through these bars releases the electrical charge that holds all the considerations, thougths, ideas and beliefs, decisions, emotions and or attitudes you have ever stored or decided were important in any and all lifetimes. Running Bars allows us the potentional we have always known we had and yet had not been able to attain. You're whole life can change from one bars session, which will release 5 - 10,000 years of thoughts, feelings, ideas, beliefs, etc...

I learned how to and am a facilitator of running bars. If anyone in the Orange County Area is looking to have this done, I'm available for $150 a session. It is my pleasure and my desire to help as many people as I can to have more ease and space and consciousness in and with your body. I will also run some clearing statements after, where you will then be able to "feel" the spaciousness around you. Its super cool! Stay tuned for testimonials.

Just email me at: mantramamma@aquamantra.com -

Bars can be used to facilitate change in all areas of your life. The worst thing that can happen is your whole life can change!

Are you wondering what AM I Talking about? Check out the video below.... its all about what ACCESS is.

ACCESS CONSCIOUSNESS is the way to be~

I hope your thirsty my dear friends of AQUAMANTRA. I have so many goodies to share with you in this newsletter, that you are going to want to keep this one for a while! I am grateful for your patience with me, as this newsletter is a few months behind... as with anything, as our time speeds up so does the ability to accomplish everything we used to be able to do. Now we have to be more selective about what our choices are. I choose to only write to you with impactful information that can help you, not just to get our name out there with another email for your in-box, believe me when I say I appreciate a good newsletter, worth reading.

This newsletter is divinely paramount because recently I attended what I am calling my break through in the ability to access consciousness and for those of you that know my story, I've done a lot of exploring... and now, I'm going to share with you how it will get better for all of us. First, I want to share with all of our authentic supporters, fans and lifestyle members that we have answered the call and if you haven't heard already we are going to be releasing the first ever in the world, 100% biodegradable and recyclable bottles coming sometime in May. Last year I made a statement to myself that I wanted AQUAMANTRA to be the first company to release these bottles. I sent the thought out, went on my quest and then lost sight of it a bit to focus on theimagratefulproject.org which raises money for malnourished children in the U.S. Around January I was told to contact a company called ENSO Bottles through someone in our company. Simultaneously, ENSO found AQUAMANTRA in Arizona and bought a bottle, wanting to align with us excited by the mission and direction of our company and voila (wink, wink)... we are the first company to release to the public and in Whole Foods, the bottle.

If you click here or the big green icons on our homepage, you'll learn about the bottles and see videos with me talking about it. We are so unbelievably excited to finally be the best bottle of consciousness we can be! Tell your friends and share the news, support our direction by buying AQUAMANTRA in a local store near you. What else is possible I ask you?

Well... at the conscious life expo this March, we had the extreme pleasure of interacting with a couple of amazing ladies by the name of Summer and Rikka. They were doing what is called "bars" on people for donation, which required me to lie down on a massage table while they put their hands on my head for about 15-30 minutes, a highly pleasurable experience. When I got up, I was higher than a kite in a most enjoyable way, I almost couldn't even complete a sentence... the space I was in was amazing and I really didn't want to come back down to this 'reality' if you will... but when I did, one of the guys working the booth said, "Did you like it?" my mouth opened, I'm not quite sure if anything came out, it was open like you do when you're in a positive outrageous shock, "uh...yeah!" I finally said with super duper enthusiasm... "More, more!" I was thinking and he said, okay say this then... "How does it get better than this?" and I knew he meant ask that question, but didn't really grasp what it meant. Later that week, I got a message from Rikka and Summer (from http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102538777336&s=564&e=001a1COK96FoWq6j4alWfgd0jfFUUeDkJWIxUbATdyyWAXQKBGsJgF9E7qJQWcCkmJFZbXXfxqGe3pAcsZkKm-WBO-9HHBQ638K5IIya6Sebr-EMB95Cild8Q_OSt4apQbH) that in Santa Barbara they were having a one night workshop called Right Body. Now I live about 4 hours away, and yet somehow I made a good enough reason for me to get up to that class and what I learned to start there inched me closer to opening up my portal of greatness, which I will share with you. I learned about how our bodies have their own consciousness, like my new puppy Layla

and I would never think ill or wrong of her if she wasn't thin enough or too fat, or ate a plastic bottle, so why do I think that of my own body? And when I judge my body I am actually solidifying that information! When we judge we actually collapse the energetic flow to us. So when I say I don't like that pudgey spot, I'm actually telling my body that the pudgey spot exists, keep it and don't let go! Holy cow... are you kidding! I also learned the Mantra of ACCESS which is to say as often as you can, "ALL OF LIFE COMES TO ME WITH EASE AND JOY AND GLORY" and by God, the universe and source energy - ain't that the truth! So I tested it out along with the phrase "How does it get better than this?" and I am uber excited to share with you my results. I took my new tools to the Natural Products Expo West Show in Anaheim, where all the who's who of natural and organic products show up, and every where I went I shared my new found tools... If you ask a question of the universe, it has to answer! If I ask it "what else is possible?" it has to answer and it opens the flow of energy up. If we answer our own questions, we are actually shutting down the flow of energy. To show this point do this, right now... say " I have always had more money than I know what to do with" which has been a mantra I've been saying for some time now. Feel the energy of that statement, we want it to exist and yet, it doesn't feel as solid or real because we are knowing it doesn't exist. Now: Say, "what would it look like if I had more money than I know what to do with?" how does that feel? Do you see how that opens up the flow of energy? And "what would it look like if all my bills were paid in full?" How awesome would that be? And "what would it look like if I had enough money to take all my friends on vacation?" etc, etc... I got a little carried away and that is the point, you start to get excited about the possibility of what is coming, the universe can answer... although you don't have to answer those questions... answering closes the flow, you're job is to keep asking "What else is possible?" Are we having fun yet? I went to the show and whether I was at my booth or walking the floor, I was asking "how does it get better than this?" and when I thought to myself, I need to find someone who makes organic paper hang tags for my new ENSO bottles I remembered and said, " ALL OF LIFE COMES TO ME WITH EASE AND JOY AND GLORY" and I'm not kidding when I say the next day, as I'm running out of time to go find such a company, I was told a woman was waiting to speak to me. She says I have organic paper supplies and would like to talk with you, I almost dismissed her saying I didn't need her supplies at this time and she opened her display case to the next page and said, what about organic paper hang tags? I seriously, turned my head and started giggling. I apologized for my outburst of joy and then told her my story of wanting to find someone like her, and then I said " How does it get any better than this?" - Now most people when you say this, will say "It doesn't!" and like the losing sound of a game show - merr, merr... your energy flow stops! You don't need to answer, just keep asking the question what else is possible! This is how I relate to it, you know how every time you have sex its super great or at least just as or better than the last time , every time though? You remember that last time was awesome, but this time... well, it was pretty awesome too! When you keep asking "how does it get better than this?" it's like that better sex, when you consistently get the experiences that make you orgasmic! I have got my friends hooked, even my Roman Catholic Husband says, how does it get better than this? (in Polish!) Because we're all seeing the results... the FLOW is open and we can feel it. Instead of judging my situation whether good or bad, I just ask "what else is possible." AND it totally takes me out of the mind rat race of what happens after you judge a situation, right? "I didn't call that person back, shoot, now what is she going to think? Or now I have to make an excuse why I didn't call and I don't have time, blah, blah, blah..." instead say, "What else is possible?" and watch, that person most likely wasn't in the office and will call you at the perfect space in time, and might even offer you something you didn't expect. It's so fabulous! Now that's all I'm going to share for this newsletter from my toolbox. I will tell you that I was so intrigued after the Right Body Class that I really wanted to go to the Intro Class, more, more, more please... but it was the same weekend as the one my husband was planning our 9 year anniversary on. At the show, he came up to me and said "don't be upset, we can't do our anniversary this weekend, its not available until the following weekend" waiting for my disappointment, I giggled out loud asking " What else is possible?" and told him I really wanted to attend the access weekend. Which I did and let me tell you... I will NEVER go back to working so hard at existing. My life is better spent being and receiving ALL of LIFE, Easily and with Joy and Glory! The next weekend for my anniversary arrived and because we got bumped from the originally planned weekend, me and my husband ended up in a SUITE with butler service at a luxury resort and spa, with a whirlpool bath, an ocean view, an on and on... and you know what I said every time I was in supreme joy... as I giggled, "How does it get any better than this?" Because if it's this good and it could get better, you know I wanted to know!

Ask yourself! How does it get better than this?

How does it get better? AQUAMANTRA just joined a site called http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102538777336&s=564&e=001a1COK96FoWodmjN54Cfr70QX4sHEDnMHit4RHSluKk04QhOFURZXgLAr55JSBrZ-KezXu3ntbNKIdUD54ACV5S1tOgDNteFyTimrHm3axTypJfQ4Stxu4A==which is a pretty sweet little site for everything cool in our world, organic shops, juice shops, yoga, spirituality.... Well, everything in the good life in Los Angeles. Check it out and if you love us login and write a review for AQUAMANTRA ... every little bit helps, we are grateful!

Don't let this time in our shift shake you! We are all observing some pretty life altering experiences around us with friends, family, neighbors, companies and communities. Use this amazing space in time to thrive! To excel in abundance and joy, by asking the questions and accessing consciousness, which will open up the flow of pure source energy. When we look back we'll know we were part of the change, we didn't give up, we didn't let go and we fought for our lives with our joy, with our happiness and our consciousness- how does it get any better than this? Peace and Blessings to you all, may all of life come to you with ease and joy and glory! Love X infinity, Master Alexandra

Want to listen to our phone call??? This is me and Rikka talking about ACCESS - Click on this link! http://www.box.net/shared/q5pekprf7b

You'll love it! And start to understand the power of ACCESS.

Alexandra tells you about the new ENSO Bottles.

Interested in seeing more videos with the Founder of Enso Bottles and how these bottles are Biodegradable? Check out : http://aquamantra.com/site.php/spgs/read/enso_bottles_

AQUAMANTRA Goes Green! We're so excited!

AQUAMANTRA® PREMIUM BOTTLED WATER ADDRESSES ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS AND INTRODUCES WORLD’S FIRST 100% BIODEGRADABLE-REYCLABLE BOTTLE AT NATURAL PRODUCTS EXPO WEST SHOW 2009

AQUAMANTRA Award Winning Premium Bottled Water launches the world’s first 100% biodegradable-recyclable bottle at the Natural Products Expo West in Anaheim, CA in booth 4561.The AQUAMANTRA ENSO™ bottle will be available for shipment to store shelves in May 2009 and that is welcomed news to both retailers and consumers who have felt the pressure from environmental groups and consumers who are concerned about exploding landfills bulging with non-recyclable-compostable plastics. Research done by analysts at Morgan Stanley found that “23 percent [of consumers] say they are cutting back on bottled beverages in favor of tap water or beverages in containers that create less waste.”

AQUAMANTRA Founder and President, Alexandra Teklak has been on a comprehensive search since her company’s inception to find a bottle that compliments her Gold Award winning LOHAS brand and meets the needs of conscious consumers and retail partners who want creative solutions for the environmental crisis. “AQUAMANTRA strongly believes that consumers are entitled to choices as to what water they want to drink, which should include easy opportunities to be earth-friendly. I didn’t want to find just any solution, I wanted to find a solution that worked for everyone,” said Teklak.AQUAMANTRA consultants and advisors investigated many alternatives including a PLA (cornstarch) bottles and found that it wasn’t a viable solution for the public; not easy to dispose of and not necessarily the best solution to erasing carbon footprints. The reality is that water has to be packaged in a bottle that will not disintegrate on the store shelf in 1-2 years, and that is an issue with the PLA bottle. We investigated the “Oxy- degradables”, but there were “big ifs” surrounding it such as an adequate amount of exposure to sunlight for degradation which is not likely in a landfill. Finally, after searching for the right company we found ENSO™, who was developing a form of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) which could be recycled and biodegrades within 1-5 years, essentially a form of plastic that enables microbes to eat the bottle as dinner,” stated Teklak.

The AQUAMANTRA ENSO™ bottles do not leach plastic, are not PLA, are not oxo-degradable, and is a FDA approved “food grade” PET 1 bottle. These bottles maintain the same properties as traditional PET and can be intermingled with standard PET in recycling streams and programs. When the bottles end up in a microbial landfill, (80% of them are) the bottle will break down within 1-5 years into inert biomass and biogas through either an anaerobic (no oxygen, no light) or aerobic decomposition. ENSO™ bottles used by AQUAMANTRA are validated through third party ASTM (Associated Standards and Testing Materials) standard tests, an international standards organization. “At ENSO™ Bottles, we are excited to work with AQUAMANTRA. Their awareness and concern for the environment aligns very well with ENSO’s environmental mission and provides their customers with not only water with a purpose, but also earth friendly packaging.” said Danny Clark, founder of ENSO Bottles. “This is the product that consumers have been waiting for. Now everyone can feel good about drinking refreshingly convenient bottled water again,” said Teklak.