I love me some Yerba Mate’. I believe, that I was first introduced to it in 2005, when I was on tour doing sound with a hippy jam band The String Cheese Incident. The entire team, band and crew, were Mate’ fiends all choosing to drink it the traditional way from a gourd with a bombilla straw. Being a health-minded tea drinking individual I jumped right on board and never looked back.
Yerba Mate is native to South America, where they seriously live off of it. It delivers both energy and nutrition and without any sort of crashing like you can get from drinking coffee or other caffeinated beverages. Yerba Mate’ naturally contains 24 vitamins & minerals, 15 amino acids and is abundant in antioxidants.
I seriously feel alive in ways I can not explain from drinking the stuff. It’s a smooth jolt of energy. I feel complete aliveness that brings me focus and just an overall euphoria. I totally get what they mean in this chart below, and I seriously didn’t even realize that they use the word euphoria, too, when I typed it. I was just speaking the truth!
In Argentina it is called “liquid vegetable” and the “Drink of the Gods”.
Guayaki is my brand of choice and not just because it is organic, fair trade, and just damn tasty. No other company compares with their overall commitment to all-encompassing quality, sustainability, and service. Not only do they take great strides to get us the most flavorful, natural, and robust Mate’, they are committed to preserving the forests that their Mate’ grows in and the communities that farm it. They give back. They preserve.
Also, Guayaki’s packaging is as eco conscious as it gets. Their packaging is now 100% biodegradable and compostable. They are completely solar powered and have even created and calculated how you are actually reducing your carbon footprint by buying Guayaki mate.
Guayaki makes it easy for anyone and everyone to fall in love with them, offering flavored bottled and canned Mate’, as well as varieties of loose and bagged Mate’ and even more. I currently choose to get mine loose and use it in my french press. I keep bags on hand in my purse and when I am traveling so that it is with me in case of emergency and often I grab a chilled can or bottle (Pure Empowermint is my fave) when I am out and about.
Yes, you are correct, I am mildly obsessed, but with good reason to be and I want you to obsessed, too. It makes you feel good and is good for you. Win. Win. Winning… (couldn’t resist).
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This giveaway starts Monday, April 4th and ends Saturday, April 9th at midnight PST. Winners will be announced Sunday, April 10th. You each have 3 chances to enter.
There will be 3 winners of a $25.oo Gift Certificate to Guayaki.com, so you can pick whatever you wish to try or get your favorites. So great!
First Entry: Check out the Guayaki site and leave a comment here. Why do you want to win Guayaki Yerba Mate? Why Mate? Why Guayaki?
Second Entry: Follow Guayaki (@Guayaki) and I on twitter (@beingtricia) and tweet about this giveaway, including both of our twitter names and a link to this page. Tweet tip: if you start a tweet with a twitter name it acts as a reply and not all of your followers will see it (so if you do that it doesn’t count). Then, come back here to leave a comment that you have done so, for me to count it.
Third Entry: Like Your Joyologist and Guayaki on Facebook and share on your wall with this link and tagging both of us (use an @ sign and then our names to tag). Then leave a comment back here that you have done so.
Thanks for the info!!! I want to taste everything they offer!!! I have never had it but I trust your word TH!!! I have YET to be dissapointed by your reccomendations. <3 JM
I am interested in Guayaki Yerba Mate’ I read good things about it before, also the fact that I would like to be all around healthier, so I can change my life for the better…mind and body, but havent had the chance to check it out! yet! 🙂 thanks so much!
Chocolate-flavored AND healthy?! Sign me up!!
I LOVE MATE! This is the best giveaway ever. I shared. I commented. And like and follow…. mate has amazing health benefits. And it tastes really good with some almond milk and agave. I have had loose leaf and tea bag form. I drink it all the time. Whoever wins is lucky! I hope I can be one of the three. Because it is that good. Thanks tricia!
I have had it in the bottle(LUV IT). The time is now right to ditch my coffee addiction & switch to Guayaki Yerba Mate. I would love to brew it in the mornings!!
***Completed all the entries except on their website, where do I leave the comment?***
…read the directions again. I got it now! I wasn’t awake in the 1st comment! See, I REALLY need the Guayki Yerba Mate!!
I LOOOVE Yerba Mate! and have just tweeted about this giveaway and am extremely excited. I got Guayaki Yerba Mate tea for christmas last year and absolutely love it. I believe that tea is definately one of the greater things i life, smoothing out all your days problems and enriching your experience. It would be an honor to win some of this fine tea and well the best part is being able to share! 🙂
just facebooked that shizznaat! 🙂
I just tweeted about it Tricia! This stuff sounds incredible!I would love to give up this coffee “addiction” of mine:)Love to you!
Genial! I was just drinking mate with bombilla when I saw this…In Argentina it is also a traditional way of share a conversation, a symbol of love and friendship…
I bought Yerba Mate a few months ago because I keep hearing good things about it…I purchased the tea bag form but haven’t been very successful in getting used to the flavor. Any tips on what I can add to the regular flavor to make it taste better?
Hey Marissa. I happen to love the regular flavor. Perhaps try another flavor next time! But in the mean time try making a mate’ latte. Adding nutmilk and sweetener of your choice (raw honey or agave).
Yes! Juli, Thanks for bringing that up! When I was in Argentina I made sure to be a part of a mate’ gathering/ceremony! Passing the shared gourd around as we sat and chatted.
I love me some Yerba Mate too! It gives me the energy to get through a hard day and it tastes great! I love it cold or hot. Any flavor, it doesn’t matter, they’re all delicious! I’m in love with the Chai Spice flavor. Add a little honey and yum yum yum!
I have done the second and third entries! tweeted & facebooked. go guayaki and joyologist!
I am a Yerba Mate Virgin! I guess that makes me a “Guayaki Mate” Virgin too! I sure could use some Energy … 5 daughters later! … and Wow there is Chai Spice Flavour? Yum Yum … Can’t wait to find what I have been missing?
I have heard of Yerba Mate but have never even seen it anywhere. Now after your rave reviews, I’m itching to try it! And if you say Guayaki is the bomb, I’ll take your word for it. Following you both on Twitter and FB….off to chat it up now. Thanks for sharing!
Would love the opportunity to try Guayaki!!! I am in the process of transitioning from just eating to filling my body with the nutrients needed to have the light within expressed in my physical form. Soooo excited and although there are times of rough waves there is also times of surfing on the water!! Enjoy life all!
What an awesome way to enjoy the shift with a new nutrient!!!
I did all of the things to enter 😀 On the Guayaki website, it said the closest retailer to me is in Houston, TX and I live in Central Arkansas so I’d love to win this giveaway so I can try these and hopefully start ordering it on the regular! I am addicted to Red Bull in a bad way and I need to get off of it. So unhealthy! And since I always crash later, it causes me to get another. I generally have 3 Red Bulls a day. I need something healthy to give me energy before I really do some serious damage to my body and I think Yerba Mate’ would be a perfect alternative!
i love me some yerba mate. im trying to slowly get off coffee and using this to do so. it is working wonders, never thought it would happen. I tweeted about this =)
I’ve never tried Mate!!! I’ve been looking for a new healthier drink to try! 🙂
been a guayaki mate drinker for years, but have never tried it out of a gourd – maybe this is my chance…
as a mom of active year and a half old twin boys,my energy easily gets depleted. i hate relying on the caffeine of coffee to keep me going. after reading all of this i am ready to make the leap to try yerba mate. i would love to win and try it for free!
I love Guayaki! My favorite is still the original but maybe I’ll start branching out 🙂 After a heart problem, Maté is the only stimulant that doesn’t mess me up and I love it.
This is the first time I’ve posted on your site but have been reading and being inspired by you for a few months now. Thanks!
Not sure I did the facebook tag correctly, but I have posted to my page and joined twitter! Thanks – I LOVE Guayaki Mate and have just found a Mate loving co-worker! In the land of latte and sbux – Mate needs to be known!!!
id like to win cause it looks delicious and has health benefits like boosting energy, increasing cardiac efficiency and delaying the build-up of lactic acid.
I’d love to win yerba mate because it’s what i switched to after i decided to live a happier, more energetic, and healthier life! organic is the way to go.
I’d love to win some Guayaki yerba mate because it is simply DELICIOUS. 😀 I especially love their mint flavor! If it was a little less pricy in our local grocery store, I’d buy it all the time, but for now it’s a special treat now and then. It’s so good.
(also tweeted this on Twitter via @versusthesiren. yay!)
I just left a facebook status about the contest. I’d appreciate winning so I can have more mate empower me to continue growing as a rock climber and to introduce more of my friends to the simple pleasure of it all.
I just posted the link to this page on twitter…Guayaki Yerba Mate powered me through a summer job I had as a temp. bleeding 200 horseshoe crabs a day for the whole summer in a big open door warehouse. Everyone made jokes about my teabags in water bottles with stevia, but I was running circles around the lazy guys. That and a my book of ‘Striking Thoughts’ by Bruce Lee in between racks of crabs kept me centered and able to cope with the stress and ill-moods of coworkers. I even converted a few of them. That’s why I want to win Guayaki Mate
Oh man do I ever love Guayaki! There is nothing out there quite like it that keeps me awake, energized and feeling good. I would use the prize to try out different flavors of Mate or buy myself a gourd (I’ve always had a secret desire to be a gaucho and roam the land and drink from my gourd….)
I LOVE Guayaki! I have been a fan for the last 6 years at least. I drink it all the time and have tried nearly all of their products through the years. My favorite right now are the canned Mate drinks, mild but packed with energy! Great company, I recommend it to all my friends!
I want to win a $25 Guayaki yerba mate certificate because i drink two french presses of the stuff a day.
Have heard about Yerba Mate for s along time and need to drink something that is better for me than sugar loaded juices or sodas.Plus, it’s hard to find where I live.
I love me some guayaki yerba mate Pure Endurance. It gets me going in the morning and it’s perfect mid afternoon when the kiddos are still going but I start slowing down. Love it!
I’ve been drinking yerba mate for a couple of years now and love it iced and hot – would love to try it out of gourd… definitely would try that!
I’m following both Guayaki and you on twitter! woo woo!
like you on fb was already a fan of Guayaki – posted about the giveaway, but it wouldn’t let me tag you in it. I tried!
Hey Your Joyness! Thank you so much for the giveaway! Love Guayaki! They sponsored us last summer for our treeplanting season up in northern Quebec, even though we can’t find their products in Montreal anymore… 🙁
We were all full of that good energy and I can say without lying that it was our best season ever!
Thank you! 🙂
i love guakyaki yerba mate. when i drink g. mate, i know i’m drinking mate that is as natural as it gets (short of harvesting it myself!). it has a rich, complex, earthy flavor and gives me just enough of a kick to get me going in the morning (or afternoon, or night!) without the crash and jitteriness that accompanies coffee. yum!
also tweeted (www.twitter.com/_stefuhnee) and facebooked (http://www.facebook.com/stefuhn33) about the giveaway.
Mandatory Entry: i want to try the mocha mate!!
Thanks for the opportunity!
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I would love to try guakyaki yerba mate, as a healthy alternative to coffee, and I’ve heard such rave reviews!
And just posted on Facebook!
My favorite ways to enjoy Guayaki are straight from the gourd on a beautiful morning or from the bottle on a warm afternoon (I’ve been diggin’ the peach one lately.) I tweeted so, count me in!! 🙂
I want to win this because I’m obsessed with yerba mate! I spent 9 months in Latin America but in Ecuador where not many people drink mate. The next year, back in the states, my roommate was a girl who had spent a year abroad in Argentina, where everyone drinks mate! She drank it almost every morning and got me hooked. When I first tried it, I thought it tasted awful – so don’t let that discourage you, whoever wins, if they are trying it for the first time. 🙂 It is definitely an acquired taste but so worth it. I consider it medicine, and can feel the effects of it’s natural antidepressant properties. Guayaki is definitely my favorite brand because of the way they give back to the environment. It can get expensive though so I would love to win this. 🙂
I already followed @Guayaki and now I am following you as well! I tweeted about the giveaway (Twitter ID @sweepsweetie):
http://twitter.com/#!/sweepsweetie/status/56952914186485761