Juice Fast?

Hi Jessika.

Your question in asking how a juice fast will affect your practice and energy level is difficult to answer without knowing anything about your current diet, habits, background. One thing is for sure, when you do something, you GO FULL THROTTLE!! Practicing for 6 weeks, 6 days a week, some doubles! :ahhh: And now starting a juice fast..:bug: As you know, yoga is much more than the postures. Yoga is about AWARENESS. The more experienced we are in our practices, the more awareness we have in our postures. We become aware of each postures’ traction lines, how to set those traction lines up safely, knowing which muscles to contract and which to relax. We are aware every moment of our breath, doing our best to never let it get away from us which is how we work our edge. My motto, breath not brahn. This being said, as a yogini yourself, approach your juice fast with mindful awareness to check into how your physical energy is affected by it, how your practice is affected by it etc. You have nothing to prove and everything to DISCOVER! If you’re detoxing too quickly, slow the fast down. Dilute the juice with purified water. Or stop practicing so much. And if you need something warm, make a delicious warm, savory soup in your blender. Gabrielle has a great book out right now GREEN SMOOTHIE MAGIC available on Amazon that could assist you in your fast for those days that you’re feeling it’s ok to have a smoothie if you need more BODY in the diet because energy level is low. I’m excited for your discovery during your juice fast. Here’s something I know FOR SURE about Juice Fasting. It will certainly CLEAR any lingering negative energies that your practice hasn’t accessed yet and facilitate the dropping of these energies from your being.

What kind of sticky mat does your name refer if you are new to yoga sticky mat?
What are the benefits of juice fasting? Just to name a few….:-) Copied from juicefeasting website.

be free of fear of developing one or many of the chronic illnesses that affect many of today’s population?
create a deeper, more joyful experience of life for yourself, free of physical discomfort and pain?
experience mental clarity and freedom from “brain fog?”
enjoy your body more, as it becomes the correct weight for your height?
feel proud of your radiant, glowing, healthy skin and bright, clear eyes?
enjoy eating free from guilt, and in a way that is ecologically and environmentally beneficial?
gain more self confidence?
be blown away by how GOOD it is possible for you to feel?
kiss common colds, flus, headaches, mucus, and more goodbye?
eliminate the need for chemical pharmaceuticals and prescription drugs?
effortlessly move away from the foods that create illness because you now get FAR MORE pleasure from feeling healthy than you ever did from eating sugary, processed foods.
be a powerful example of HUMAN POTENTIAL, sharing your health secrets with the millions of people who so badly need to see and hear about vibrant, healthy people like yourself?
have consistant energy and emotional stability throughout the day?

Thanks for the sticky mat clarification. I like it. 🙂

The minimum amount of time for a safe, effective fast is 7 days. Why? It takes about 2-3 days for the body to get the message that it needs to start breaking down the old cells (Technical term for this, Autolysis) that aren’t any good and start rebuilding. During this time you may not feel so good detoxing the old. Then as body starts rebuilding, you start to feel better. If you stop when you’re in the middle of breaking down the old and healing crisis is taking place then it misses the point of the fast cause that’s why you’re doing it in the first place.

It’s not that a one, two or three day fast isn’t safe, it just depends on why you’re doing the fast. I fast more for spiritual cleansing, emotional detoxing etc. rather than weight loss. Don’t get me wrong the weight loss is a HUGH bonus but not the motivation.

Hi Sharon

did you ever get an answer to your juice-fast question? Wendy was helping out there for a mo! Are you goals to still lose weight with juice-fasting? How’s the shape change with hot yoga? A lot may have changed in 3 months

Namaste
Gabrielle 🙂

I’m trying to sort through the mis-information between juicing and smoothing. Gabrielle has a “smoothie” book (for which I presume that you need a blender) but I’ve heard that “juicing” (for which you would need a juicer machine- cold press or other) is the healthier (?) alternative. Any thoughts about the two processes ? Hopefully the “good HOT” doctor will join in the thread but I’m wanting to hear from other yoginis & yogis as well.