Hello healthy readers!
Well it’s been 2 weeks since I returned
home from assisting to run the inspiring and fabulous juice fast in Bali, with
the amazing Don and Tyler Tolman.
There were 28 ‘fasters’ in Bali that
successfully completed a 7 day juice fast.
Well done to them! It was amazing
to see them ride the highs and lows of cleansing their temple. Each
day we were all involved in morning rituals that allowed us to begin the day in
the best way possible.
Our morning rituals consisted of waking
between 5am and 6am (on alternate days) joining together at the main room to do
a coconut oil pull (to assist in drawing toxins out), hydrate with 1L of water and
then make our way to the beach which was about a 10 minute walk where we would
ideally be greeted by a perfect sunrise (shown to the right). In the pavilion by the beach we would either
do a yoga session with a visiting teacher or the 5 Tibetian Rites followed by
various resistance exercises with Tyler.
On non-yoga days we would follow our exercises with a walk/run on the
sand and a swim in the ocean. I had such
a thrill one morning body surfing some waves all the way in to shore. It’s been too long!
Following our morning beach session
participants were given around 1 hour to do an enema if they wished, gwasha
their bodies (a fabulous mixture to cleanse the body and prepare it to absorb
sun rays) and get in to the sun before our morning knowledge sessions focusing
on one of the 7 principles of health.
We would start our morning knowledge
sessions with an uplifting 5 minute dance session which would wake everyone up
and inspire them to switch their brains on & get ready to learn! This was definitely one of my favourite parts
of the day!
If we were lucky enough we would get a
‘question and answer’ session with both Don and Tyler where we were allowed to
leave any questions we liked in the question box & they would spend
15minutes answering as many as they could.
This really allowed the topics to expand!
In the afternoon we would head off on
adventures ranging from white water rafting and massages in Ubud to whole food
workshops with Chef Cynthia Louise! This
allowed us to observe ourselves putting the mornings session in to practice, in
the real world.
I loved hearing both Tyler and Don share
their passion, giving us all a greater understanding about ancient practices and
what choices we can make to better our health in this life time.
I am so excited to be able to hopefully run
some of my own juice fasts in Cairns in 2014.
It would be so wonderful to bring a community together to fast and learn
in order to raise our consciousness and better our health so each and every day
gets better and better!
Finally, I LOVE that when fasting it gives
the body a chance to cleanse and recharge while re-programing things at a
cellular level. I often visualize these little guys (our
cells) hard at work. It’s simply amazing
what they can achieve and how this positively impacts our mind!
Please leave a comment below or contact me
via my email (janellecarolyn@gmail.com), my Facebook page (Seeds Of Health) or
phone (0438 733 103) to let me know if you are one of those KEEN juice fasters
for 2014?! If you have a group that
would like to fast together, outside of Cairns, I would be happy to travel.
Signing off with a very MERRY CHRISTMAS and
an excited feeling inside of what possibilities lay ahead for 2014!
Janelle J
