XOS (Hosh) Community Yoga

Join the Movement


There is a wonderful new yoga studio called XOS (pronounced Hosh) in my neighborhood, right on the border of Williamsburg and Greenpoint. It's a donation based studio, which means that while there is a suggested donation of $10 per class, you are welcome to pay what you can at the time of class. This opens up the opportunity to take a yoga class to so many more members of the community because they don't feel the pressure to have a "perfect experience in yoga class" or decide not to take class because they can't afford a $15 or $20 class.

It also makes newcomers to yoga feel more welcome. They can try out a class and find out if they like it without breaking the bank.

I have been going to XOS regularly now since January and I LOVE IT THERE~!!!!!! I feel safe exploring my practice under the guidance of caring teachers and I feel more connected to both my body and my community.

All of the teachers are volunteers and bring the highest intentions to their classes. I believe that because they are donating their services, they feel inspired to give their very best. It's not just a job for them, you can tell that they genuinely care about their students and the process of opening your heart and mind to being a happier, healthier human through yoga.

They offer all kinds of community based gatherings, chances to meet the teachers and other yogis that frequent the studio, online reading resources through their blog, feature a pose of the month, and in the Summer and Fall they offer classes in McCarren Park as well.

This past weekend XOS hosted a donation drive to support families and communities suffering from the recent tragedy in Japan. You can still donate money through their website here.

XOS is a great example of a pay it forward mentality in business. They offer their students the opportunity to feel the choice they are making when attending a class. It's not a fixed price. You pay what you wish, putting the responsibility on the "consumer" to fully understand the value of what they are experiencing, which in this case is a connection to your body, a chance to relieve stress, a community building effort, and increased energy and flexibility in your body. Pretty awesome.

Check out XOS for a class or email me and join me. I go at least 2ce a week either at 10 am or 6:30 pm depending on my schedule.

See you on the mat!

XOS YOGA
55 Nassau Avenue
(entrance on Guernsey St.)
closest subways
G (Nassau) and L (Bedford)
closest busses B62, B43 and B48
E-mail: info@hoshyoga.org
Phone: 718-599-YOGA(9642)

12 Toxins in health care products...

Sharing is Caring, right?

I am re-posting this article about beauty and health care products that I found on the Green Wala website because it was chock full of info that I didn't know. I was surprised to realize that each of these 12 chemicals or ingredients can be found somewhere in my own home, in one of my health care products, including my shampoo, toothpaste and makeup.

I had read that antibacterial soaps are not actually great for us because they kill off good bacteria too, but only recently have I started to look beyond food sources of toxins, to the other household products that I use to get a full picture of health.

This article offers some insight to the possible toxins in your health care and beauty products. I encourage us all to read the labels, understand what we are putting on our skin, and in our hair, and to choose natural products that don't contain carcinogens and other toxins. A few ideas to look into are using natural powdered minerals or metals such as mica for eye shadows, and essential oils or distilled flower essences instead of fragrance.

Enjoy!

Twelve Of The Most Toxic Ingredients In Personal Care Products

108 Days of Yoga

Tazima Davis (Compassionate Renegade), my holistic health coach from IIN challenged all of her clients to integrate yoga into their day, every single day for 108 days starting on 1/11/11. I read all of her e-mails and thought, "I could never pull that off, I'm way too busy". Then I read further and listened to her basic guidelines for what it meant to bring yoga, mindfulness and balance into a daily practice, and determined that I could definitely find time every day to spend 30 minutes in quiet or meditation, ideally on the mat, stretching and toning my physical body as well, but at very least, in a place of rest and inner calm, breathing deeply and steadily, and quieting the chatter in my mind. In fact, this is exactly what I need heading into this new year, a year of building strength.

Since January 11, I am proud to say I have met this challenge to very best of my ability and have done yoga for 14 days. I try to get over to HOSH yoga in my neighborhood where they have built a beautiful community studio, which is also pay-what-you-wish and run by volunteers, but I have also done some video tapes and downloads from the internet. On the one day that I could not actually get to a class, I made time to meditate on my train rides (believe it or not on the subway!) and at the end of my day when I was getting ready for bed, I still got on the mat for a bit and stretched while breathing deeply.

I never thought I would even make it this far, but so far the joy of taking that time for myself to turn inward and find the balance in my body has been such a gift that I am looking forward to it again every day.

The most significant thing that I have noticed is how busy my mind is and how long it takes me each class to find my breath and focus on being in the moment rather than leaping ahead to what I have to do next, or hanging onto an experience from my past.

I hope I can stick with it and that this begins to lessen as I go....

With compassion I invite you all to challenge yourselves to an exercise or activity that would help to balance your day and make you feel great, but may seem just a bit out of reach. Give
yourself the treat of realizing that there is so much that you CAN do... become inspired.

with love,
Deborah

Guided Detox Cleanse and Yoga Week!

Join Us for an amazing Fall Detox Cleanse!

Rid your body of unwanted waste and stressful toxins. Check in with your body's state of natural balance through meditation and yoga. Learn how to cleanse physical, mental and emotional toxins.

GUIDED DETOXIFYING CLEANSE & YOGA WEEK
w/ Juice Truck Owner and Holistic Health Coach, Deborah C. Smith and Yoga with Ashtanga Goddess Lisa Kazmer

September 10th - 17th, 2010
Greenpoint, Brooklyn

"This cleanse experience is amazingly supportive and a true catharsis."

"I feel so much more energy then I did just a week ago"

"The cleanse helped me to understand what foods I need more of and less of in my everyday life. Deborah was a tremendous guide in getting through the week."

Guided Detox Cleanse and Yoga Intensive includes:

- Juicey Kick-off! Cleansing Plenary Session (group)
- Weekly menu plan
- Nutrition and Cleanse Educational Materials
- 2 Basics Detox-focused Yoga classes- 75 minutes (group)
- 30 minute private health coaching session (individual)
- Detox Tea Blends for the week

TOTAL CLEANSE PACKAGE - $100 per person.

** Fresh Squeezed Juice Delivery for the cleanse is a separate option which each individual may inquire about.

** Individual Private yoga sessions are available with Lisa

DISCOUNTS

Sign up before Labor Day and receive a $15 discount!

Register and pay securely with Paypal!

Registration Fees

Full Registration Fee $100.00 Earlybird Discount $85.00 Internship (1 per cleanse) $50.00

REFER A FRIEND
Most of my client base and group workshop attendees arrive in my world via word of mouth. In order to reward those of you who pass along this valuable info, I offer the following referral plan.

Refer 1 client: Receive a FREE 30 minute Health Coaching session
Refer 2 clients: Receive a FREE 45 minute massage OR FREE private yoga lesson
Refer 3 clients: Receive BOTH a 45 minute massage AND private yoga lesson
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ABOUT DEBORAH

For the past 5 years I have been cleansing regularly throughout the seasons and guiding groups and individuals in successful cleansing experiences. As a graduate of the renown Institute for Integrative Nutrition, I am trained to work with individuals from all walks of life in addressing their body's nutritional needs, but I received most of my real knowledge about the process by working with my own body and listening intently to the questions and concerns of my clients. I am highly experienced to offer a Guided Juice Cleanse plan that is unique to each individual that I work with.

As a certified Holistic Health Coach, I have been the nutritional guide for hundreds of busy New Yorkers seeking a healthier lifestyle. Many of my clients have reported that even several years later they are still applying the knowledge and education they received from my program to help them make the healthiest choices and live a more fulfilling and happier life.

What's Sexy About Health?

Let's face it, feeling happy and healthy is sexy!

Being in touch with that part of yourself that is sensual (which by very nature of being human we all have) is crucial to feeling balanced. Many people live in denial of what role their sensuality plays in their lives and it can lead to choices that don't always serve us. Getting to you know your sensual side and to nourish it can be truly revolutionary and healing!

I've been doing Zumba. I know... funny.... Here's the funniest part, my mother gave me the DVD and basically challenged me. She said "I know that you love to dance and you can do all these moves with your hips, and that's the exact area you need to work on!" Now I know that she meant well when she said that last part, hahaha. But the truth is, I LOVE to dance. I especially love Latin style dances; salsa, samba, merengue and even zouk!

I love it because it makes me feel energized and sexy. The fact that it also helps keep me in shape is a major bonus. I get a good cardiovascular workout and I get to connect to that rhythmic part of me that loves to step in time to the music. It stimulates a flow of energy that makes me feel amazing.


So what's your healthy sexy?

Do sensuality and sexuality have an impact on your overall balanced health? Absolutely! In fact, its just as important as good nutrition, exercise, a career that you love and a connection to your spirituality or creativity.

It's important to know the following things:

- how to care for and nurture your sensual side
- how to support reproductive systems and organs
- how to tap into and fuel your creative passions
- how to learn to love yourself as a sensual being
- what it means to YOU to be a sensual/sexual person (which is different for us all)
- how to communicate to the world about these things

As Cindy and I prepare for our upcoming class on health and sensuality (see details below), we continually ask ourselves and others what is so important about having a healthy relationship to our sexuality and sensuality. The answer is that it is at the core of everything that we do. It is our center of self-identity in so many ways. It fuels our passions and ignites our daily experiences with a spark.

Join us on a journey to better know ourselves, so we may be happier, healthier, and yes, sexier!!

Health & Sensuality, A Whole-body health workshop
the Meta Center

214 West 29th Street New York, NY

New York, NY

Thursday, July 29th, 2010
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM

http://www.facebook.com/pages/New-York-NY/Majestic-Living/126325763734?v=app_4949752878

Dear America.... the beet.

... so this is what a beet looks like.

They are a root vegetable, typically red or purplish in color, with long green stems and a tail like a rat. Not to be confused with a radish, which is much smaller in size.

The beet became highly commercially important in 19th century Europe following the development of the sugar beet in Germany and the discovery that sucrose could be extracted from them, providing an alternative to tropical sugar cane. It remains a widely cultivated commercial crop for producing table sugar.

The leaves and stems of young plants are steamed briefly and eaten as a vegetable. A large proportion of the commercial production is processed into boiled and sterilised beets or into pickles. In Eastern Europe beet soup, such as cold borsch, is a popular dish. Yellow-coloured garden beets are grown on a very small scale for home consumption.

Beetroot can be peeled, steamed, and then eaten warm with butter as a delicacy; cooked, pickled, and then eaten cold as a condiment; or peeled, shredded raw, and then eaten as a salad. Pickled beets are a traditional food of the American South.

One increasingly popular preparation involves tossing peeled and diced beets with a small amount of oil and seasoning, then roasting in the oven until tender.

A traditional Pennsylvania Dutch dish is Red Beet Eggs. Hard-boiled eggs are refrigerated in the liquid left over from pickling beets and allowed to marinate until the eggs turn a deep pink-red color.

Betanins, obtained from the roots, are used industrially as red food colourants, e.g. to intensify the colour of tomato paste, sauces, desserts, jams and jellies, ice cream, sweets and breakfast cereals.

Beetroot can also be used to make wine.^[4]

The consumption of beets causes pink urine in some people.

Why, you ask, am I blogging about a beet?

Well, I'll tell you. I am blogging about beets and the history and use of such a food, because last weekend while I was working on the Juice Truck at the Nike Cup Soccer Tournament at the Met Oval, I had one parent after the next approach me looking for smoothies. When they found out I didn't have smoothies, I had juice, the next questions were along the lines of...

"Well, what kind of juice ya got?".... "What's Kale?" (which I can understand)....

"What's a beet?".... which just makes me sad. "Really?", I thought. "You don't know what beets are? You don't recognize this red bulbous root? Really?"... but it was true. Many of these folks were totally unfamiliar with beets and they certainly weren't about to order our famous Hot Pink Limeade (which features The Beet). Granted I was in old-school Queens, but still...

So here it is. The beet. In all its Glory. I highly reccomend reading Tom Robbins' book Jitterbug Perfume for a more intellectual take on the historical role of the beet in time travel, chaos, and tantalizing smells...

Oh, and while I'm at it, here America.... is KALE!!!

and this is what a smoothie looks like.....

and here is a picture of just plain old, extracted JUICE. also smooth, but not made by blending with milk or ice cream or yogurt, just extracted from the fresh fruits and veggies, using a juice extractor. simple. delicious.

I have nothing more to say about it except that I am concerned for us all and I am grateful for Jamie Oliver.

Healing from Grief & Loss- Workshop Thursday 7 - 9

Healing From Grief & Loss by Deborah Smith

When we feel stressed out, we tend to fall back into some of our more comforting habits or patterns (such as reaching for that bowl of ice cream or grabbing fast foods) , and we might slack off a bit on the healthier behaviors that we have been trying to keep on track with (such as regular daily exercise and cooking at home). Those things that feel difficult to us (which may require a bit extra will-power) get pushed to the side and we justify the easier options based on the fact that we had a hard day, or we have no time.

I often wonder, why do we "reward" ourselves with things that are not good for us? Often those things we consider a reward, or that we "earned", are things that will leave us feeling worse after we have had them.

Everybody is busy, and we have our daily struggles just to keep our bodies, minds and spirits in balance. But what happens when you add a major life trauma to that experience? What happens to your life's balance when your spouse becomes ill? What happens when the woman or man that you have lived with for 10 years has an affair and you decide to split? What happens when suddenly your job downsizes and you get laid off?

This is a time when your body can go into shock and begin to function quite differently. Your priorities shift and typically healthy habits are the last thing on the list. Getting proper nutrition during times of grief, or extreme stress, is one of the most important things you can do.


On, November 15th, 2010, my father Bill Smith passed away. He had been struggling with lung cancer for almost 2 years and it was a very difficult and sad time for my family. He was only 68 and it felt like he was taken from us too soon. Before then, I had never known the grief of loss at this level. I had never experienced this depth of sadness or confusion and I can remember clearly that there were weeks that I felt simply lost, and did not want to get out of bed.

My family made all kinds of adjustments to incorporate this experience into our lives. We put our jobs on hold, we canceled all plans for months at a time, my sister and I traveled back and forth from Boston and New York to be at home, and my mother completely dedicated all of her time to helping him with whatever he might need. She spent a year with doctors and treatments and hospitals and therapies, trying to breathe hope back into everyone's life. In the meantime, she put her own needs completely on hold and selflessly cared for him.

When I look back now, there are so many things that we could have done differently. I would have made absolutely sure that my mother, my sister and I were getting solid nutrition. I could not see it at the time, but we were exhausted, drained and totally empty from stress and crying. Our adrenal glands were zapped. Instead of eating fresh greens and getting minerals and nutrients into our systems, we were drinking coffee in the morning and gin and tonics at night. We were seeking relief but we were further depleting ourselves.

I would have demanded that the entire family get out once a day and take a walk to calm our minds and move our bodies. We were full of pent up anxiety and our minds were bent trying to figure out how long my father would be with us and what else we could still do to make him feel better. We needed to relax a bit and work out some of our frustrations.

I would have made more time for laughter. While lung cancer is one of the uncurable cancers and even the thought of somebody having it feels like a death sentance, the fact remains that my father was still with us until the end. I think that the fear we all felt made it difficult in times to just enjoy each other's company and smile and laugh.

Yet, you cannot change the past and all I can do now is incorporate this information into my future. I can learn to support my body in times of extreme stress with healthy foods. I can maintain an exercise regimen that will always help me to keep a feeling of balance in my body and I can focus on the bright side of the day, seeking moments of lightness and laughter to replace the heaviness of the changes that are inevitable in life.

I'm co-teaching a class at the Meta Center on Thursday night with Cindy Neder-Highfield as part of our Women's Holistic Nourishment Series. The subject is Healing From Grief & Loss, and how nutrition can support us through the incomparable weight of depression. We will take a look at how stress works chemically in the body and what small everyday things we can do to keep our lives on track when dealing with the loss of a loved one, or a job, or perhaps just going through a rough break-up that is life-changing.

I hope you will join us for this 2 hour workshop, which will be fun and full of great content
and tools for you to take home to incorporate into your own life. This class can also be helpful for women who are dealing with highly stressful job scenarios or who have children and are not yet back on track with taking care of their own bodies and minds.

If you have any questions or want to learn more about the workshop, visit us at Majestic Living.

Until then, I wish you healthy and happy blessings. Remember there is a choice in every moment.

Deborah

Parked! Celebrate NYC's best food trucks!

Memorial Day weekend at its Best!
The Green Pirate Community Juice Truck will be rockin' and juicin' all day
tomorrow at the Brooklyn Yard, courtesy of MeanRed productions.

Come visit Deborah, Cindee, Emma and LPFunk as we make your life just that much Juicier!!!

Details of event at Brooklyn Yards website

Cooking Healthy for One

Some days I just want to swing by the health food store and pick a package of that India space food that you just plop in boiling water and its ready to eat in 3 minutes, like some gushy curry lentils or creamy spinach. Yeah.... but today I realized it was time for me to practice the art of cooking for one. I am horrible at this. I love to cook gigantic spreads that can feed 20 people or a plated gourmet 3 course sit down orgasmic organic delicious meal for 4! But when it's just me eating.... I tend to drop the ball, reach for those already cooked easy to prepare foods or just snack on fruit throughout the day. Today I wanted a meal that would be fantastic and delicious and healthy just for me! So with Indian space food in mind I foraged through my own kitchen for all the ingredients it would take to reach nirvana and 20 minutes later I was smiling widely.










Let's call it Spinach Curry Quinoa with Chickpeas (not so fancy). Ok how about Vegetarian Bliss! I have to admit I impressed even myself. The recipe was simple:

16 oz can chickpeas
3/4 cup quinoa
1/2 golden delicious apple
handful organic spinach
1 small onion (peeled and chopped)
3 cloves of garlic (peeled & chopped)
2 Tbs Yellow Curry
1 tsp organic olive oil
1 tsp turmeric
1 tsp sea salt
dash cayenne pepper

Directions:

Saute the onion and garlic in the olive oil over a low heat to caramelize the onion. After 2 or 3 minutes add entire can of chickpeas (including the liquid). Stir in the curry, turmeric, sea salt and cayenne pepper and allow all ingredients to simmer and soften the chickpeas.

Combine quinoa with 1 1/2 cups of filtered water and bring to a boil. Then reduce to low heat and cover with tight lid. Let it cook 12 minutes or until all the water has evaporated and grains are fully cooked.

Wash and dry handful of spinach and shred it into smaller bite size pieces. Slice half the apple into small cubes. Combine apple and spinach and then cover with two heaping tablespoons of the quinoa and fill the bowl with the curry chickpeas. Stir it all up together and let it cool a bit before savoring every bite!

Enjoy! I sat quietly and read a chapter from my favorite book, Jitterbug Perfume, by Tom Robbins. If you have never read it, its a juicy cosmic adventure to eternity and beyond, try it.

Feel Safe to Be Wild! by Kiana Love

The following is a re-post of a blog written by my friend Kiana Love. I first met her as the mother of a dancer I taught at the National Dance Institute and I recognized her power at that time. Since then we reconnected through union of powerful healers here in New York City and I learned about her organization, Be Wild Woman. I love it! Very juicy and powerful stuff here. Read her post and join her blog and learn to reclaim your wild side!!

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From Kiana Love
Here is a blog post I wrote on my Be Wild Woman blog that explains why I'm dedicated to supporting women in reclaiming their body & their wildness & excited about our new Wild Wombing Group Program. I'm excited about sharing what I've learned from my own journey to reclaim my body & my joy to help women give birth to themselves. Imagine what women could create if they felt safe, nurtured, sexy & confident. Please spread the world & help women feel safe to be wild. Invite women to join my Be Wild Woman group here on fb http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=52982335884
Kiana Love

Women Need to Feel Safe to Be Wild

I use “womb” as a verb: to create and cultivate safety and healing in your body & in your life; to empower women to nurture, protect themselves and each other.

I realized that women need to womb to be wild. In order for us to let go and express with wild abandon we have to first feel safe. We have not felt safe or protected. Every day in our communities and around the world women are raped beaten, enslaved, & mutilated. Without safety wildness becomes distorted; wildly out of control, disconnected, ungrounded.

The wild I’m talking about is the wildness you see in a lush plant that’s been nurtured & protected, that sinks down deep roots, and has room, feels safe to grow tall and take up room. A garden grows because it is nurtured, rooted, & protected. In the same way we need to feel nurtured, protected, rooted, and safe. We need to feel safe to unfold to our true potential and be wild.

Here at Be Wild Woman, finding love starts with loving and nurturing yourself. Be Wild Woman provides the tools & support for you to reclaim your body & love feeling sexy! Learning how to reclaim my body helped me move from feeling anxious, depressed, ashamed & uncomfortable with my body to feeling innocent, self confident, empowered, sexy & free to express myself. I know it can help you too!”

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go here for more be wild posts & to learn more about Wild Wombing
http://bewildwoman.wordpress.com/2010/04/07/reclaim-your-body-give-birth-to-you-with-our-new-wild-wombing-group-program/

Health & Sensuality

Greetings! I'm so excited to be hosting my first teleclass this evening with Cindy Neder-Highfield of Majestic Living. If you haven't already checked out the info on my "classes" page, please do so and join us tonight for the FREE teleclass.

Our topic is going to be health and sensuality. When we reached out to female friends and peers to find out what kind of information they were really craving, it was true across the board that women want to have a conversation about how sexuality and sensuality play a role in their health. In addition, they felt starved of a safe and authentic conversation about the health of their reproductive organs and how thier sensuality plays a role in their daily happiness.

As a holistic health practitioner and life coach, I have many conversations about this with my clients, but when I think back to times in my life where I have felt a safe platform for this conversation, I realized they were few and far between. I would like to change that, both for myself and for all women. Let's talk about sex? YES!, and the grounded and healthy way to treat yourself, your body, mind and soul in relation to this topic.

What are some foods that support the health of your reproductive organs?

What are some ways that you can let go of negative self image that is holding you back from feeling your best in your body where it's at right now??

Call in tonight and find out! Visit Majestic Living's website to register for tonight's event and get the call in number!

I hope to hear you all there!

Letting Go- Mind, Body & Soul

Lighten up! Balanced holistic health has everything to do with being in the present moment and knowing what your body is communicating to you right now.

So often we get caught up in the emotional energy of the past and we aren't available to support ourselves in getting our current needs met. We know what it is that we wish to gain or create in our lives; but do we know what we need to let go of in order to make room for all the new?

Here are some ideas for letting go of the old and clearing space for manifesting your heart's desires. Have fun with it, it's Spring after all! Cleaning is practically mandatory.






Mind
- tackle your clutter for a few hours a week
(old books, DVD's, paperwork, unused or too-tight clothes all go!)
- take 5 minutes each morning to breath and meditate
- create some space from heavy or negative relationships









Body
- clean out the fridge of old and funky foods
- check exp. dates on spices and dry goods and toss oldies
- walk/run 15 minutes a day to shed layers of winter padding
- cleanse your digestive system by adding fresh squeezed juices









Soul
- donate old things to a local charity or organization
- get rid of behavior patterns that cause guilt
(guilt holds you to the past and never allows you to be in the present)
- laugh for 15 minutes each day (letting go of everything!)

Make a list of all the things you can think of that you want to let go of and then get to it. I promise you will feel lighter and much more ready to invite abundance into your life! Then let me know how it goes....I'm working on it too!

Tantra meets Holistic Nutrition Tonight!

Greetings All and Happy Spring Day!

I'm thrilled about this day for so many reasons, not
the least of which is that I am co-teaching a Holistic
Nourishment Workshop for Women this evening with my
dear friend and magnificent tantra life coach, Cindy
Neder-Highfield. Cindy and I have been meeting several
times a week for a few months now to wrap our heads
around the best possible content that we could provide
for women surrounding nourishment, holistic approaches
to health, mind-body-spirit balance and juicy living.

Tonight we present the second event in our Holistic
Nourishment Series entitled: Health Sexy Powerful YOU!

Our goal is to support women in living their lives to
fullest and relishing in every delicious juicy moment.

We've discovered that the holistic nutrition approach to
creating a well balanced and healthy lifestyle goes hand
in hand with a tantric philosophy on life and we're ready to
show you how and why!

Below is a note from Cindy and links to her Majestic Living
website. Join us tonight for a wonderful evening of holistic
healing and nurturing or get on the mailing list for future
events!

Live Juicy!
Deborah

A Juicy Living Note from Tantra Life Coach
Cindy Neder-Highfield

Are you living your life to the fullest?
Are you doing your part, each and every day,
to take big juicy bites out of this delicious
cherry-pie life?

I want to know: if you're not- what is keeping
you from reveling in your magnificence?

Tantra reminds us that we have the opportunity
to turn over a new leaf each day. To become different people-
people we're proud of. :)

Adopting this new philosophy on life isn't hard, though it does take some persistence. By clearing your mental decks, you will change how you think, thereby changing how you feel. When you feel differently, a new world of possibilities suddenly open up to you! It is my hope that every day you are living in your joy and pleasure, and that when you lay your head down on your pillow at night you know, beyond a doubt, that you've lived your day to it's maximum potential.

Until next time, Cindy

Cindy Neder Highfield
Life Coach, Tantra Counselor
Majestic Living, LLC.
www.majesticlivingnow.com
cindy@majesticlivingnow.com
(646) 202-1782

Let the journey begin...

SPRING CLEANSING

Spring is in the air!
As we approach the Vernal Equinox, we can feel our bodies’ subtle (or not-so- subtle) cries for balance. The time has come to shed winter layers and come out of the darkness into the light!

We feel an energy building inside us to connect with that sensation of potential energy surrounding us: the snow melting, the days getting longer and the first signs of new green peeking up at us from the earth.

Buds on trees are preparing to burst into new life and flowers are pushing themselves up through the soil. In no time we will be basking in the warmth of the sun again!

What does your body need at this exciting time of transition?

Are you anxious to get moving and feel your muscles toning and trimming again?

Have you noticed any particular cravings at this time of year?

Have you ever considered a Spring cleaning for your body that mirrors the one you will most likely do for your closet?

Spring is the perfect time to cleanse away toxins and impurities that have been taking up valuable real estate in your body throughout the winter months. There are wonderful health benefits to cleansing including: relieving stress on many of your vital organs, increased energy, clearing out toxins that can lead to discomfort and disease in the body, and more time to accomplish your goals.

A cleanse can range from a gentle pulling back from your normal diet to remove chemicals and processed foods, to a full-on fruit and vegetable juice (liquid only) diet.

As a part of your cleanse you may choose to include a trip to the bath house for sauna or massage, a colonic, or a specific yoga regimen. Cleanses can be done solo or in a group for support and can be altered to suit your personal schedule or dietary needs. A cleanse doesn't have to be something that you suffer through either! It can be fun and full of activities and education that set you on a path for maximum overall health leading into the warm weather seasons.

What are you letting go of at this time of year?

During any transition, it is a valuable process to check in with the needs of the physical self and find systems of support to help us maximize our energy and make the most of every day. If you are considering a Spring cleanse for the first time, make sure to do so with the support of a health professional or nutritionist who can guide you in making the strongest choices for your body.

For information about a Guided Spring Detox & Cleanse Program, please visit Deborah’s Holistic Nutrition website.