I spent the evening in a deeply insightful, detox flow workshop with Seane Corn, and here's a brief recap of the message I feel lucky to have taken home:
Detox begins with the question: not “What are you eating?”, but “What’s eating you?” What are you eating, and WHY. In the start of the detox workshop this weekend, I really felt connected to a few key points, and a larger message, all that came up in the topic of detox of the body.
When ‘detox’ is mentioned, most people tend to skim the surface of deeper issues, looking at what to eat and how to get healthy. Rather that asking, how to ‘get’ heathy, a better question would be: How to embody an optimal-health fullness of life, lifestyle. This optimal goal, once attained, will serve us in body, mind and spirit. Ideally, we’ll someday be able to find ourselves content, and gracefully accepting of our true self, at its rawest, barest form. We will trust and embrace all that we know, and from that centeredness and presence, shine from the inside out, holding nothing back in question, and just releasing the energy contained within, the confidence and surety we have in who we are.
Savasana
Detox begins with the question: not “What are you eating?”, but “What’s eating you?” What are you eating, and WHY. In the start of the detox workshop this weekend, I really felt connected to a few key points, and a larger message, all that came up in the topic of detox of the body.
When ‘detox’ is mentioned, most people tend to skim the surface of deeper issues, looking at what to eat and how to get healthy. Rather that asking, how to ‘get’ heathy, a better question would be: How to embody an optimal-health fullness of life, lifestyle. This optimal goal, once attained, will serve us in body, mind and spirit. Ideally, we’ll someday be able to find ourselves content, and gracefully accepting of our true self, at its rawest, barest form. We will trust and embrace all that we know, and from that centeredness and presence, shine from the inside out, holding nothing back in question, and just releasing the energy contained within, the confidence and surety we have in who we are.
With a strong sense of self, we’ll find comfort and health in the 3rd chakra (chakras being 7 subtle energy centers found throughout our body, that channel vibrance of life when released and work from a healthy state). In our 3rd chakra, Manipura chakra, is where we identify with self, the ego. Insecurity, unsettling, and deeper emotions are stored here, and with lack of self acceptance, trust and acknowledgement, we tend to act out towards often harmful answers to solve these unresolved feelings inside of us, the feelings that live on in most of us under shadows. Harmful answers we come by may involve food, alcohol, drug abuse, sexual abuse, and tensions such as stress, all of which are toxins to the body. By our emotions, and all that we think and feel, our body holds on and remembers. Without the proper handling of, and surrender to emotions and inner voice, we’ll continue to act in resistance, by burying our fears, wounds and distress with harmful outside sources.
Until we can let go of that resistance, and surrender to what is, our body will be effected both in spirit and physically. Our nervous system, immune system, digestive system, hormonal system and the list goes on, are all directly effected by these toxins that exist due to our inability and unwillingness to release, accept and surrender to.
In every person, be ready to purify the shadow that lives within you, and surrender to all that comes up in a yoga practice. The practice of vinyasa, the dynamic movement of asana, is a practice to release toxins and reach lymphatic flow, the release of water retention of toxins in the body. Through this detoxifying movement, as waste leaves the body through sweat and breath, let go of resistance, and embrace the path that your intuition is directing you towards.
The only thing we are guaranteed to be undoubtedly capable of changing in the world individually, is our own perception. All that physically exists may or may not be altered by our efforts and karma, but our perception is the key and ticket above all other external events and influences. Perception is everything, and with that, we’ll find brighter paths.
A Vinyasa Flow Detox Sequence:
Begin lying on back, eyes closed, exploring with the hands, the lower pelvic area, stomach area, liver and kidney area. Increasing awareness of the location and existence of the essential, vital organs.
In each asana, spend at least a few minutes. In the vinyasa flow sequence between asanas and in the first sun salutations, move with the breath. In a detox flow, it is important to be aware of space in the pelvis area, very limited compression. Don't let yourself drop to what is regularly your deepest edge of the asana. Explore proper alignment, slow conscious movement into the pose, to keep the pelvis neutrally aligned with the rest of the skeleton, in order to maintain open space for the intestine to work to detox.
Begin in easy twist, from back, legs together, knees bent. first twist to the right, then left.
(Do this twice, the 1st time more dynamic than the 2nd. The 2nd time giving in to the stretch).
Cat-Cow
Down Dog
Sun Salutations A and B, 5 times through each, moving with breath.
Plank, draw in one knee at a time toward forehead, drawing up and stabilizing through the core. Hold on each side for a few minutes.
Plank. Drop to forearms, walk feet in to dolphin.
Walk feet out to forearm plank. Hold for minute or two, then lift one foot at a time, holding each for a minute.
Warrior 1
Warrior 2
Side warrior
Triangle
Parsvottanasana: Intense forward (knee to forehead stretch)
Revolved Triangle
Revolved Cresent
Revolved Utkatasana
Bridge
Urdhva Danurasana (Upward Bow)
Happy baby
Easy twist
Until we can let go of that resistance, and surrender to what is, our body will be effected both in spirit and physically. Our nervous system, immune system, digestive system, hormonal system and the list goes on, are all directly effected by these toxins that exist due to our inability and unwillingness to release, accept and surrender to.
In every person, be ready to purify the shadow that lives within you, and surrender to all that comes up in a yoga practice. The practice of vinyasa, the dynamic movement of asana, is a practice to release toxins and reach lymphatic flow, the release of water retention of toxins in the body. Through this detoxifying movement, as waste leaves the body through sweat and breath, let go of resistance, and embrace the path that your intuition is directing you towards.
The only thing we are guaranteed to be undoubtedly capable of changing in the world individually, is our own perception. All that physically exists may or may not be altered by our efforts and karma, but our perception is the key and ticket above all other external events and influences. Perception is everything, and with that, we’ll find brighter paths.
A Vinyasa Flow Detox Sequence:
Begin lying on back, eyes closed, exploring with the hands, the lower pelvic area, stomach area, liver and kidney area. Increasing awareness of the location and existence of the essential, vital organs.
In each asana, spend at least a few minutes. In the vinyasa flow sequence between asanas and in the first sun salutations, move with the breath. In a detox flow, it is important to be aware of space in the pelvis area, very limited compression. Don't let yourself drop to what is regularly your deepest edge of the asana. Explore proper alignment, slow conscious movement into the pose, to keep the pelvis neutrally aligned with the rest of the skeleton, in order to maintain open space for the intestine to work to detox.
Begin in easy twist, from back, legs together, knees bent. first twist to the right, then left.
(Do this twice, the 1st time more dynamic than the 2nd. The 2nd time giving in to the stretch).
Cat-Cow
Down Dog
Sun Salutations A and B, 5 times through each, moving with breath.
Plank, draw in one knee at a time toward forehead, drawing up and stabilizing through the core. Hold on each side for a few minutes.
Plank. Drop to forearms, walk feet in to dolphin.
Walk feet out to forearm plank. Hold for minute or two, then lift one foot at a time, holding each for a minute.
Warrior 1
Warrior 2
Side warrior
Triangle
Parsvottanasana: Intense forward (knee to forehead stretch)
Revolved Triangle
Revolved Cresent
Revolved Utkatasana
Bridge
Urdhva Danurasana (Upward Bow)
Happy baby
Easy twist
pigeon lying on the back
baddha konasana (Bound Angle Pose)
Savasana
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