Enjoy Schwartz Living Market Tuesdays through Saturdays from 11AM to 5 PM with The Enchanted Garden Juice Bar and more!!

NEWS FLASH: Schwartz Living Market's New Hours will be

 Eleven AM to Five PM Tuesday through Saturday!!!

Jackie Day, Owner of The Enchanted Garden,  and Carmen!

The Enchanted Garden Juice Bar will be opening in Schwartz Living Market Saturday, October 12, 2013!! We are so excited! The juice bar and retail space will be open Tuesdays through Saturdays from 11 AM to 5 PM. 

Beginning in November, 2013, yup, a month from now, Jonathan's Foods will be open Tuesdays through Saturdays 11 AM to 5 PM, too. Yippee! 

We have space for more food and arts vendors. Inquire by messaging Schwartz Living Market on Facebook, e-mailing schwartzlivingmarket@gmail.com or calling or texting Paul at 724-787-5788 or calling 412-491-0303.

Schwartz Living Market is hosting the 4th River Free Skool on Saturday, October 19, 2013. I plan to offer two short classes at Free Skool on Saturday, October 19, one called 'What is the Living Building Challenge?'  and one called 'What is Optometric Vision Therapy?'. Many, many other classes will be offered. Go to: http://www.fourthriverfreeskool.com and the 4th River Free Skool Facebook page for details.

On Saturday, October 12 and Saturday, October 26, Cynthia HIll of Third Day Organics is offering a 2 Day Bath & Body Boot Camp at the market 1:30 to 3:00 PM. Learn how to create eco-friendly body butters and lotions and herbal sugar scrubs and more! Cost is $25.00/class. Register in person with Cynthia at the market on Saturdays or call Cynthia at 412-290-0611 or at Etsy.com/shop/thirddayluxurysoaps 

Elisa Beck, Developmental Optometrist, is offering two one hour VisionGym Experiences for all ages on Saturday, October 12 and Saturday, October 19, 2013, from 2:00 to 3:00 PM. Cost is $12.00/class for adults and $7.00/class for children under age 12. Register by calling Dr. Beck at 412-491-0303 or pay on site.

Puppet Shows on Saturday October 12 at 11:30 AM and 12:15 PM with Renee Gielewski, Puppeteer
At 11:30 AM Renee and her Roving Puppets presents, for young children: George and the Apple Tree
At 12:15 PM she will present AKIMBA, the Magic Cow! for children and adults of all ages!
Suggested Donation is $1.00/child. Experience the magic of wonderful stories from nature, fairy tales, and cultural tales including nursery rhymes!

Living Building Challenge Update:

Jeff Newman is beginning to document the Deconstruction portion for Living Building Challenge Petal Recognition requirements. Thanks Jeff! Brad continues to help out with behind the scenes logistics. Thanks Brad! Thanks Liz for organizing the Zoo Roof tour! Thanks to everyone for continuing on this journey....Lauren for being there and organizing, and vending. Manager Paul for plugging along and educating the folk, Mark for filming...Pam for continuing to be available and collecting data for the upcoming web site. and most of all Stan, for being the best Dad and sprout farmer husband ever, and for supporting this process and me and my determination more than anyone else does!!!

Elisa Beck :)
Developmental Optometrist
Schwartz Living Market 

Saturdays 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM at Schwartz Living Market! Upcoming Classes with Cynthia Hill of Third Day Organics and experience Elisa Beck's Vision and Movement Gym for all ages!

Join us at Schwartz Living Market on Saturdays between 11:00 AM and 3:00 PM for some fun and food and shopping, for fine Arts and Crafts and for your shot of organic wheatgrass juice and the fresh juice of the day! Go to the Schwartz Living Market Facebook page for up to date details and email schwartzlivingmarket@gmail with any question you can think of!

Upcoming Classes:
  
Cynthia Hill of Third Day Organics is offering  a 2 Day Bath & Body Boot Camp at the market on Saturday, October 12 and Saturday, October 26, 2013, from 1:30 to 3:00 PM. Learn how to create eco-friendly body butters and lotions and herbal sugar scrubs and more! Cost is $25.00/class. Register in person with Cynthia at the market on Saturdays or call Cynthia at 412-290-0611 or at Etsy.com/shop/thirddayluxurysoaps 

Elisa Beck, Developmental Optometrist, is offering two one hour Vision and Movement Gym Experiences for all ages on Saturday, October 12 and Saturday, October 19, 2013, from 2:00 to 3:00 PM. Cost is $12.00/class for adults and $7.00/class for children under age 12. Register by calling Dr. Beck at 412-491-0303.

Upcoming Performances:

Puppet Shows on Saturday October 12 at 11:30 AM and 12:15 PM!

with Renee Gielewski, Puppeteer 

At 11:30 AM Renee presents, for young children: George and the Apple Tree  

At 12:15 PM she will present AKIMBA, the Magic Cow! for children and adults of all ages!

Suggested Donation is $1.00/child.

Saturdays 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM with Yoga on Tuesday evenings 6:30 to 7:30 PM

 Laura and Cecily... Thanks for the delicious wheat grass from Juice Heaven!

 Mmmm...Delicious wheat grass juice!

 Cynthia Hill of Third Day Organics is offering  a 2 Day Bath & Body Boot Camp at the market on Saturday, October 12 and Saturday, October 26, 2013, from 1:30 to 3:00 PM. Learn how to create eco-friendly body butters and lotions and herbal sugar scrubs and more! Register in person with Cynthia at the market on Saturdays or at Etsy.com/shop/thirddayluxurysoaps 

 Wonderful healthful living books for sale!

Kale is delicious and nutritious!

Vinyasa Flow Yogafit Yoga on Tuesdays from 6:30 to 7:30 PM at 1317 East Carson Street, the home of Schwartz Living Market with Kim Massie and What is this project at 1317 East Carson Street?

What are we doing, what is the project at 1317 East Carson Street about?

I'd like to ask you that question. What are you doing? How do you see the world? How do you see yourself? How would you like to engage in this cultural transformational process?

What are the phases of the process, how does the founder of the Transition Town process, Rob Hopkins, describe Transition Town,  the movement from Peak Oil to Resilience? What is Permaculture, why bother? What is Somatic Movement Education, and how do we infuse ourselves and others with its glorious essence? What is the Living Building Challenge? All of these processes, and much more, are part of the seeds sprouting at 1317 East Carson Street, the home of Schwartz Living Market.

Yes, all of these things are questions that I think about and act on, on a daily basis. What else do I do on a daily basis? I meditate, exercise and juice greens and sprouts, love my family, and pray! What do you do? What is your passion? When I drive along the road from my suburban home to the South Side of Pittsburgh, I put on XM radio station 68, ethereal calming music, SPA Radio to be exact. But tonight, Tuesday, September 3, was anything but that with Kim Massie's BLACK YOGA class, in South Side among the Tatoo Parlors, the Bars, the cool shops, and on a block that has maintained its non commercial ambience for a very, very long time....

Join some Alternative Action On East Carson Street! Black Yoga at 1317 East Carson Street on Tuesdays from 6:30 PM to 7:30 PM with Kim Massie.

So, it's a Yoga class......This is Black Yoga....When Kimmee called saying she'd like to offer 'Black Yoga', I, like many others asked her, 'What is Black Yoga?!' She told me it is the same yoga she teaches at a few other studios in the Pittsburgh region, Vinyasa Flow Yoga, but with different music. Oh, did I have an attitude about that. I said, o.k., we can try it, and then I looked at her website and cringed. Some of the language, from my perspective was not acceptable. So, was I discriminating against a culture? I opened my mind and gave it a try...

My experience tonight, Tuesday, September 3, 2013, the first Tuesday Black Yoga Class at Schwartz Living Market was an amazing experience. The music is the key. The music, by INNerVation is Drone....

I thought to myself, what the heck am I doing taking a Yoga class tonight? You see, I had cranked my back out of whack a few weeks ago and really thought I needed to see a Chiropractor.

But, as one of the owners of the building at 1317 East Carson Street, I knew I needed to be at that first class to see and experience just what Black Yoga is.

It was incredible. I asked Kim before the class if it was o.k. for me to not necessarily do what everyone else in the class was doing. She said, "Sure." That's part of the point. The point being not to worry about what you look like, how you are doing. Just be there, and be.... Hey that is what Yoga is all about anyway. Being, at all times in your life walk, not just when you take the class.... is Yoga.

As I am professionally trained in Ballet, the idea of not following the teacher the whole time and the teacher really, truly being o.k. with that was close to a first. Well, for me not really, as I am also a certified Somatic Movement Educator from the School for Body Mind Movement, www.bodymindmovement.org and I have been now in loads and loads of classes that do not require exact following of the class, but I know this is not a mainstream concept. Or...maybe it is, just not in the circles I've been part of!

So for the first half of the class I just laid there and wished someone would turn off the music. Then I suddenly started doing the poses. With the WARRIOR pose, I started ROCKing. I am the woman warrior I've been waiting for. And that drone music really got me GOING!

The pain in my back is much less. Like I said...amazing. The best part is that I did just what I was able to do. I worked within my elastic barrier, a term I learned from local Pittsburgh Yogi Sheila Caffrey many moons ago. I'm not sure if she coined the term, but I've sure used it for many years in my profession when I describe and recommend to folks how to do their work, in this case exercise, in the case of my profession, vision therapy.

I will facilitate a Vision Gym the second and third Saturdays in October, from 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM. Come learn about what a developmental optometrist is, what vision therapy is all about, and experience some expansion of your vision! Go to the Schwartz Living Market Facebook page for details and this blog as we get closer to October.

Today is Monday, September 9, and I was practicing some Yoga poses outside in the magnificent sunshine at our home.  The pain in my back is long gone. And I noticed the sound of the drone of the crickets. The sounds of nature are varied and often 'white' noise. Or is that drone a 'black' noise? What is Black Yoga? Tomorrow is September 10, the second Tuesday in September. Join the class tomorrow evening between 6:30 and 7:30 PM and every Tuesday evening! You will surely be surprised. We are excited about the idea of folks experiencing Yoga that might not otherwise. Join the class, invite a friend or two, too! Black Yoga classes Tuesday evenings between 6:30 and 7:30 PM, 1317 East Carson Street, Free parking behind the market across Bingham. Bring a mat if you have one...

Let us know your thoughts and let's try something new...together!

And back to the original question...what is this project about? And what does this all literally have to do with the word Deconstruction? Hey, that will be the subject of a future blog, and in the meantime, it is food for thought! Come join us when we are open, every Saturday between 11:00 AM and 3:00 PM at 1317 East Carson Street, eat some wonderful food and drink some amazing juices, meet some wonderfully diverse people, and we will learn and plan it all out together!

Free parking behind the market across Bingham Street!

Elisa Beck :)
Developmental Optometrist
Renaissance Womyn :)
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Summer Saturdays at Schwartz Living Market in Pittsburgh's Historic South Side! Eleven AM to Three PM. Invite some friends. Park for free!

Join us every Saturday this summer from 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM at Schwartz Living Market! Drink a shot of wheat grass juice and another fresh juice of the day...Support the local economy and small businesses. Learn from us, and let's teach one another!

Shots of wheatgrass juice are good for you! If you are a beginner, start with a one ounce shot twice a day. After a day or so, two ounces twice a day!

 Saturday, July 27, 2013 from 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM. Soulful Jonathan of Jonathan's Foods will be serving his delicious vegan food made with lots of love and pure ingredients, and the Green Mango Thai Cafe will be there with Summer Rolls, Summer Thai Salads, and fresh fruit drinks.

Ling, Jeff Schwartz and Mark of Green Mango Thai Cafe.

 Photographers  Laura Beck and Richard Snyder will be selling their photos....

Photos by Laura Beck

Magnificent Art by Native American Artist Harry Nez. 

Phil Osophical, David Smith and Harry Nez

Coffee by non profit Building New Hope

Purchase the book Bioshelter Market Garden: A Permaculture Farm by Darrell Frey. Displays by the non- profits Three Sisters Farm, and Yellow Corn Native American Recovery. 

Added bonuses this Saturday include an amazingly wonderful jewelry vendor, fairly traded shade grown organic coffee by non profit Building New Hope, Designs by Lauren DeCleva,
Rosaflora Botanicals, 

Third Day Organics and more!

Lauren DeKleva, Interior Designer

Sunflower sprout in wheatgrass

Cynthia Hill of Third Day Organics

Jonathan of Jonathan's Foods with customer

Free parking for customers behind the market across Bingham Street!

Join us 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM Saturdays and bring along a friend or two or three! Elisa Beck :)

July 20, 2013 at Schwartz Living Market!

Join Us and Come explore Schwartz Living Market on Saturdays between 11:00 AM and 3:00 PM! Tell all of your friends, neighbors and family to join us too!

Today come see and buy artwork by Richard Snyder, Laura Beck, and others, come experience Reiki with Paul Dalton;  Eat delicious hummus wraps, cheese less cheesecake and more by Jonathan. Enjoy lemongrass salad, summer rolls, and fresh fruit drinks by Green Mango Thai Cafe. Come drink healthy wheatgrass juice by Schwartz Living Market. Learn from Lauren DeCleva of Interior Images. Buy wonderful soaps and salves from Cynthia Hill of Third Day Organics, and Tenache Golden of Rosaflora Botanicals!

Thanks so much to Kyle Winkler and the Zero Waste Program of the Pennsylvania Resources Council for Composting, Recycling and more!

Saturday, July 13, 2013, from 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM and photo highlights of Brian Clement's visit to Schwartz Living Market!

Join us this coming Saturday, July 13, 2013, from 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM. Fresh shots of wheatgrass juice to cleanse your amazing body will be available this Saturday and every Saturday. Other wonderful healthy food and juices available for purchase too. Please follow and share our blog address: http://1317eastcarson.blogspot.com far and wide, and LIKE Schwartz Living Market on Facebook!

Learning about sprouting sunflower sprouts and wheat grass!

This coming Saturday, July13, 2013, our featured vendors will be Building New Hope, fairly traded shade grown organic coffee,  Cynthia Hill of Third Day Organics, Tenache Golden of Rosaflora Botanicals, David Smith of Yellow Corn Native American Recovery, Elisa Beck of the South Side Vision Gym educational space, Jonathan DiSalle of Jonathan's Foods, Ling and Mark of Green Mango Thai Cafe, Laura Beck photography,  Richard Snyder photography, and more!

David, and soon to be Kathy Smith, of Yellow Corn Native American Recovery &

 Harry Nez, Native American Fine Artist

Brain Clement talking about the RAW Foods lifestyle at Schwartz Living Market. Stay tuned for announcements about upcoming speakers!

Q&A following Brian Clement's talk

About 50 of us had a wonderful time listening to a lecture by Brian Clement, Ph.D., N.M.D. , L.N. Co-Director of the Hippocrates Health Institute located in West Palm Beach, Florida, this past Wednesday, July 3, 2013. Following his amazing talk, he signed books he wrote! We have books available on site for purchase, including LIFEFORCE, Anna Marie Clement's cook book on Healthful Living which is a completely RAW cookbook, and more! Surprise visitors included Brian Clement's wife, Anna Marie Clement, co-director of the Hippocrates Health Institute, and the Clement's son, Blake! 

Drumming~!

Living Foods For Optimal Health, Healthful Cuisine and other books for sale on site at 1317 East Carson Street, the new home for Schwartz Living Market!

Direct inquiries for vendor opportunities to market manager Paul at 724-787-5788. Current hours of operation are 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM Saturdays.

Elisa Beck :)
Schwartz Living Market: An Urban Oasis for Healthful Living

Join Us with some friends and family! Schwartz Living Market open Saturdays 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM this summer!

Happy 4th of July weekend! Join us today and every Saturdays between 11:00 AM and 3:00 PM!