Ode to the Liver and More...

Forgot to share this little recipe yesterday, so am posting it here. Now, before you immediately write it off as, well, disgusting, let me tell you that I've tried this and it is actually pretty tasty -- you just have to try it.

1 beet peeled and grated
1 granny smith apple peeled and grated
2 carrots grated
Fresh squeezed lemon mixed with olive oil to make dressing

Mix the grated apple, beet and carrot together in a bowl. Top with the lemon & olive oil dressing. Mix well and eat immediately.

Beets are excellent liver cleansers, and apples and carrots are great for the digestive system, so this mixture is very cleansing and actually tastes good. Carrots and beets are both very sweet, so using the tart granny smith apple is important to cut the sweetness. Give it a try.

The "and more" of this post relates to the fact that there are twenty-seven beads in our cleanse malas and twenty-seven people in our Fall Cleanse kula. That makes each one of us like a bead on the mala...like a mantra or a prayer. Each one of us linked together in a prayer that is being said by our community for our world. What we are offering to the world is clean bodies, minds and spirits. Bodies and spirits that can breathe. Prayers said with our bodies in each asana practice we have done and will do together. As we cleanse ourselves of not only the accumulated toxins of our diets and environmental exposures (and in my case chemo and radiation), may we simultaneously be offering our clean bodies, minds and spirits to the world...because when we are clean, we see more clearly, and when we see more clearly, we know ourselves and others more fully. Knowing ourselves and others allows us to offer our hearts and our love and our service more freely.