Rainbow Cloud Kombucha Promo by Just 2 Guys Creative!

I am happy to release the Rainbow Cloud Kombucha promo video, shot on location in the Skokomish valley by Just 2 Guys Creative!  The video was an awesome co creation of ideas with great filmwork!  big thanks to Will and Gabriel for helping this all come together!  Enjoy!

The Rainbow Cloud Summer 2012, Updates, News, and Other Good Stuff

Hey guys!  Matthew here from Rainbow Cloud Kombucha, just getting a breath of air admist the rapid, energetic summer!  This summer has been amazing at the Downtown Tacoma Farmer's Market, and it has been a blast getting to know all the frequent visitors to the Rainbow Cloud Booth!

Tommorow I am getting ready to fill 3 more barrels up with tea for a near doubling in production, from 100 gallons a month to roughly 180 a month!  So hopefully we won't be "sold out" anymore at any of the farmer's markets or at the Tacoma Food Co op!  I have plans to expand to the Olympia co ops both East and West in the middle of September, as well as setting up a booth at the Proctor market on Saturdays, 10-2pm, until I leave for Mexico en route to the Mayan ruins of Palenque, returning Christmas eve.

It has been fun and inspiring watching this whole adventure unfold from the driver's seat.  I've lugged hundreds of pounds of cane juice sacks, washed bottles for hours, put on hundreds of label stickers, caps and shrink wraps, and mixed hundred of gallons of tea as late into the night as 5am.  (or morning!).  I've carried boxes and boxes of kombucha, set up tables and tents, and a big rainbow barrel.  In addition to the kombucha project, I've managed to photograph a total 3 weddings this summer for favors for close friends and family.  Talk about busy!  I don't know if it's this whole 2012 thing but this summer is flying light speed into fall and it has been stimulating to say the least!

Through the madness I've managed to hang on to the last threads of my meditation and yoga practice, and many times falling back into the practice as a means to stay grounded and centered with so many tasks and happenings!  It is definitely easier to meditate in the winter!  But what do I know?  I am a newbie into the realms of sitting in the stillness.  I have heard that as long as we are trying we are succeeding, even if the "monkey mind" is running laps and writing things to do lists in your head while you try to focus on the breath.  Still, over the last 8 months since I have began meditating, I have noticed subtle differences in my day to day attitude, and especially a new ability to not react to upsetting situations or when things don't exactly go as planned.  Acceptance of what is.  For this I give thanks, and I can say potently that yoga has changed my life!

Yesterday I had the awesome opportunity to co-create a promo film with Just 2 Guys Creative.  Will and Gabe are awesome filmakers/photographers who graduated from the Tacoma School of the Arts some time ago, and now travel the world making awesome films and photographs.  They just recently arrived in Washington from a 9-week trip to Thailand.  We set up a shrine of sacred objects, crystals, buddhas, candles and incense, pictures of gurus and a couple Rainbow Cloud bottles amidst the Japanese Maples on site at Olympic Mountain Ice Cream/Rainbow Cloud Kombucha Headquarters.  It was an amazing experience to watch Will and Gabe do their thing, they are true perfectionists!  These photos were all taken during yesterdays event!

I have pretty much been going with the wind on producing flavors.  Last week I made a passionfruit flavor, which I love and many at the market did as well!  I have made the blackberry jasmine, guava, rhubarb, pomegranate and the always delicious ginger!  I may try a Peach flavor out next!  The Blacks have been buying huge flats of organic Peaches for their ice cream!  I think it would delicious! 

Thank you to everyone who has supported me in my endeavors, I am at your service and wish to serve you the best, so you may strengthen yourself from the inside out and shine like the sun and the moon!  Namaste!