Enjoying the After Effects
Just like coming out of a challenging pose and taking a moment to bask in the after effects, I hope you're taking some time this morning to maybe enjoy a little extra time in bed and scissor your legs around in your sheets, rejoice in the healthy feeling in your gut and have a calm sense of accomplishment.
I'd love to know how you're feeling today and what you plan to do in terms of going back to your regular diet and routine.
It might also be a good time to propose our first kula reunion!
I for one, after having fed my dogs that I really missed this week, am going directly back to my bed to scissor my legs around in the sheets and read for a long time, totally ignoring the waist-high mountain of dirty yoga clothes that need to be washed.
Once again, thank you all so very much for sharing yourselves, I believe it's the greatest gift you can ever give another and I truly cherish it.
Namaste,
Gina
posted by Gina Caputo - Yogini On The Loose @ 7:08 AM
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17 Comments:
I am enjoying the after effects, and want to express my appreciation to you Gina, and to Ashley, Jeff, Anita and everyone in the Kula for making this cleanse such a profound and transformative experience. Thank you all so much.
Thank you one and all, I was honored to be a part of the Kula. When we where working on obstacles nothing was coming up. But, I knew better than that and felt it would be a couple of days. Sure enough Saturday and this morning the obstacles have made themselves know, very clearly (crystal!, as Jack would say). It was a wonderful week and again I have made a shift. It was more subtle to me but huge in the spirtual path. This is the correct way for us to feed our being and my intention is to do just that
With gratitude and love,
Namaste Mike
Have a wonderful Mother's Day!
I checked out the blog late last night and was a little surprised not to find any new posts. I thought about taking the first bite, but decided not to because I actually felt too high (from the cleanse!!). I thought anything I might say would be from a false psychological state, not only wearing my emotions on my sleeve, but gushing all over my computer. I was afraid to risk saying something stupid, as I've done in the past. Now I'm wondering if others have this same timidity - thinking they are just psychologically "caught up in the moment", so to speak.
Well this day is almost half over, and I still feel high (even with only green tea)! I am not going to let my mind get in the way of this.
Psychological, or not, (all psychological states are false anyway, according one of the teachers I've read) I think we should go with the flow....and try to build on it. Give out your love, give your mother your love, and drink in the response. I'm sure it will taste sweet!
.....and as if any of us needed another example of our teacher's gracious love and conscious attention to detail, just check out your new T-shirt. Of course, beautiful and 100% natural cotton, but also, made by American Apparel. This company does not outsource to third world sweat shops exploiting child labor. They employ people in LA, and they pay them a very decent wage with good benefits, at the
same time providing good working conditions. About a month ago, my son, who lives in LA, called asking how he could buy stock in this company, because he so liked their products and company philosophy so much.
Hey,lady, YOU ROCK!!!
(....just don't ask me to be your "dancing fool" next time....)
(....felt like Elaine....)
I don't know what people have in mind for kula reunions, but I'd like to suggest that occasionally we pick a KSY East or West class to attend -- and then go somewhere to drink tea or eat a meal together. I teach every Sunday at KSY West from 4 - 5:15. It is a Yin/Yang class, a balance of hard and soft, effort and ease, flow and stillness. I'm sure we could find a downtown or midtown locale that could accommodate us and our fresh, clean dietary habits...Just a thought.
Also, you may recall that when we first got together, Gina made a few comments about how I am almost always on the cleanse diet...It is true. I am a vegan who tries to consume more than 50% of her daily food in the raw form. However, I have a love/hate relationship with a particular drink -- the soy chai tea latte. It is not on the cleanse because of the soy milk and because of the sugar and caffeine in the chai mix. I find it challenging to cut it out during the cleanse, largely because it is what I drink when I unwind and journal...it is part of my experience of relaxation. So, I let myself have a very small soy chai this morning after church -- and it wasn't all that exciting. I didn't find the creaminess all that desirable, and it was really too sweet! I don't feel like I need to add that drink back at all. Hallelujah!
I slept til 7 and it felt like noon. The diet just seems to come easy and I actually crave it. I am enjoying the after effects.
It is a wonderful Mothers Day! Because I choose to see it that way. I had a chance to practice yoga off the mat today. What sweet rewards the practice has taught me. Tools to remain calm, disciplined and in love.
It was a BEAUTIFUL week! Thank you to all!
I think I have talked my husband to join us next time because he is liking what he is seeing.
talk about sleeping in-i never would have thought that sleeping until 6am was sleeping in! it was good to "sleep in" but i missed not meeting with everyone this morning.
i cooked the bulk of the meal for the moms in my family today, they loved it-grilled tilapia and asparagus. the slaw and the corn was alittle cleanse ify... the other thing is that at all my family gatherings, there's always beer and wine...i'm not a wine drinker, but beer did not appeal to me at all. so that's a good thing! i like your idea, ashley, of meeting after your class on sunday sometime! julie and i are also thinking of having a potluck at our house too. we just need to figure out a date. we will work in it.
Steve, don't stop, don't stop, don't stop...you are SO onto something great! This is what's called a major heart opening. The honesty is scary but exactly where we need to go - you're teaching by example, just like everyone who's writing here is. Please continue to be our bodhisattva and don't even consider giving up your dancing career!
O, keep squeezing drops of the Sun
From your prayers and work and music
And from your companions' beautiful laughter
And from the most insignificant movements
Of your own holy body.
Now, sweet one,
Be wise.
Cast all your votes for Dancing!
~Hafiz
Steve, I happen to like Elaine's dancing. I try to model mine after hers except I use less thumbs and more kicking.
It was great to check the blog and see all of these comments! I missed the kula today, too, and sleeping in? Rip Van Winkle here, rising at 7:40. It felt like half the day was gone!
Today felt like a day to try out the new, improved self without the kula. I know what Steve means about feeling high, and what all of you mean about feeling totally cleansed and determined to stay that way (except for me there was an emergency half cup of coffee to keep me awake on the road. I know I should have pulled over to the shoulder and taken a nap..., I'll probably be wide awake for three days).
Everlasting thanks to Gina, Ashley, Anita, Jeff, for bringing us together and into this new state of goodness. Your many words and deeds of wisdom give a sweet light to the path, and I feel so blessed to be your student. Thanks again to all of the kula. Saturday was quite an extraordinary celebration! The reunion sounds great!!!
See you all in the studio!
Namaste,
Dorothy
I am still on a Kula high. Today is Monday Morning for me and I am still only drinking my green tea and enjoying my veggies more than ever. Special Thanks to Ashely and Gina and everyone in the Kula for such a joyful experience. I am all for Ashley's suggestion of meeting after the Yin/Yang class sometime. It would be great to spend some time together again.
Much Love and Joy to everyone.
I am definately enjoying my take aways from the cleanse and cleanse kula, and feel as though they will stick around because they are integrating into my life, rather than standing as separate ocassions or commitments that might die. I will say I'm struggling with giving up the caffiene, but I still am doing it! Why does a type a need caffeiene? Hummm?
During Saturday's yoked asanas and continous OM I definately tapped into some states beyond ordinary body mind. During tree pose, when I closed my eyes, I could feel us as a huge circle of energy and pulsating breath. Then later, during the OM, I closed my eyes and felt into infinity for just a moment.
Did anyone else feel anything non-ordinary?
Now that we are off the cleanse, I can figure out where I need to practice non-attachment. It was easy on the cleanse since there was a time frame involved. Some of the things that I thought were easy to give up for the cleanse, I thought I would work on now we are off - and I found out I am more attached to them then I originally thought. At least now I will do these things with much more awareness!
Roberta, I know exactly the feeling you're talking about during the united tree pose and the sea of OMs, I felt it too. It's hard for some of us to put our group energy "antennae" out there, simply because we're not used to doing it and haven't had a lot of practice at it. So if any of you didn't feel anything like that, no worries. Tapping into our universal consciousness, even for a split second, takes practice and time. Keep your heart open, stay connected and it will happen!
And Jennifer L, you're so right! The cleanse is hard, but actually easy because it's a contained amount of time. The hard work begins the morning after when we look out to the horizon and see that the path never ends. And truly, that's a good thing. But, can be overwhelming if it's your first glance. Staying connected has been the key for me - constant reminders of my intention. This is where a 15 minute daily meditation REALLY helps. I encourage all of you to embrace a 15 minute meditation before the morning gets underway. Get up 15 minutes earlier and sit before your day begins. It will change your life!!!
Right On Gina! But you know, I think that community practice facilitates those glimpses, so thanks (and Ashley) for bringing us all there together, cause it's all good!
Reunion,
Ashley, I like the Sunday night idea.
Roberta
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