Party All the Time

Our tatami room is gorgeous in the mornings and fills with beautiful winter sunshine. It is a little small for busting out the wild hoop moves but great for warm ups. I got my hips and hoop warmed up in the warmth of the sunlight this morning.
Winter warmth from Tokyo to you!


Hoopers that inspired my practice today
Spiral
Bunny Hoopstar
Hooper Power

Day 1 - Fog

Today is the beginning of the fasting phase of my detox. For the last three days I have been able to nibble on bits and pieces of raw and veg food but today it all became a whole lot more serious.

It has been an interesting day. A day without my regular morning espresso, I only have one a day but it really does make a difference. So I slept and slept and slept until about midday when I was awoken with the mind and body jolt of someone throwing a hard basketball into the middle of my back. Thankfully this was just a dream but a very real one. How amazing that the universe should feel the need to bounce me out of bed, literally. If it wasn't for that I may still be there.

It is not that I don't have any energy it simply feels like there is a fog surrounding me. I can't help but think that this is a detox fog, a life time of sugars and toxins starting to find another home.

My addiction to sugar is a fairly standard one. Like many people living in big cities, sugar has been a good friend. It has picked me up when I was down, got body levels pumping and tickled my taste buds no end. While I don't want to be friends anymore I can't stop thinking about my old pal today. Looking forward to the sugar fog lifting tomorrow and kicking into overdrive with my hooping and big projects for the new year.

To all of your who celebrate this time of year I wish you warmth, love and joy. Make everyday a celebration!

My Holiday Gift to Myself

Christmas in Tokyo is some what of a copied holiday and none of the traditional rules that the Christian world might run by really apply, at least not in our house. This year I am giving my body, spirit and soul a banquet like no other. Yesterday was the first day of my pre cleanse period of an 8 day Colon Cleanse formulated by Blessed Herbs, followed by a full 21 day internal cleanse. So I am looking forward to a festive feast of organic apple juice, pure water, ginger root, aloe vera leaf, fennel seed among a wildly wonderful collection of goodness.

The 8 day colon cleanse requires me to fast. I was mildly anxious the night before last worrying about whether or not I would be hungry, want to break my fast in an unhealthy way or be unable to stomach the toxin absorber five times a day. But I have been pleasantly surprised so far at how tasty and filling the Blessed Herbs have been.

Friends have asked me why I would deprive myself. The thing is I see it as the exact opposite. This is not deprivation. Deprivation to me is what I have been doing in my past, depriving myself of pure and clean insides and thoughts. Living in Tokyo is one big roller coaster ride and while I maintain a vegetarian diet I have still been ingesting toxins through other animal products in foods that I lazily eat, the sugars that I crave and the polluted environment in general. I choose to live in this fulfilling city so I must make an extra effort to leave it's toxins on the outside.

This cleanse marks a time for me to make a stand! We often drift along in life, drifting can be wonderful but it catches up with you when you hit the big seas. I am so ready to sail the monster waves but I have my fearful, drifty past holding me back from paddling out! So it is time to let go of my past. Who wants to wade in the wee pool when they could be on top of the waves with the best of them. Hand in hand we are waxing up and headed for the life giving tsunami, nothing less will do!

I am no longer a product of my past, I refuse to be a victim of my genes, I break all negative cycles that have ever flowed through my life, family and body.

I have carried You Can Heal Your Life by Louise Hay around in my back pocket like some sort of bible for years but truthfully never used it, really used it in the way it was intended. Today I feel compelled to open it and it's magic all makes so much sense to me now, like the feeling you get when a new language clicks, a hoop trick is mastered, you first learn to drive a manual car without skipping down the road like a kangaroo.

I am willing to release the pattern in my consciousness that has created this condition.
I am alive with the joys of living. I deserve the very best in life. I love and accept myself just the way I am. I am happy. I am free. I am loving. I am loved.

As I release the past the new, fresh and vital enter. I allow life to flow through me.

Thank You
I love you
xx


p.s I had booked a place at The Spa Samui to do this detox but other exciting opportunities arose. I am sad not to be on the beach but I am happy to be doing the cleanse in my own way, under my own terms and with my own toilet ;p

Some interesting links

Cold Turkey: Imagine Spending Christmas at the World's toughest detox resort

Dr Bernard Jensen

The Spa Resorts

We're Alive

Funny, isn't it, deanne, how those who don't believe that thought unfailingly creates matter and is the bridge between spirit and physical, desire and manifestation, yin and yang--basing their denials on science, religion, or whatever--nevertheless rush around to share their thoughts with others on the subject. Huh?

Things that make you go, "Hmmmm...."
The Universe

WOW

Must go stretch!

Hoop Jam

Oh the space, the glorious space!

Extreme Hooping Dizzy Hips

Winter Spin

It is hard to believe that it is winter in the city today was one of the most spectacular winter days I have experienced in Tokyo. The golden leaves fell like snow, the Earth put on a gorgeous performance brimming with universal energy the spiral felt never ending.
Channeling all of my hoop muses I became one with the spin.