Offline Adventures

Posted on October 22, 2009 by sushizume

Just so you know, there has been a whole lot of blogging on the inside going on. Time away from the blogosphere has made way for real life, offline transformations, experiences and experiments. Some personal growth, observations and extravaganzas.

I felt entirely ready to sit and write today and at the same time encased in the struggle of recapturing the past events and being able to relay them all succinctly. So much to share, so I am offering up a treat I just threw down ont he HoopLovers blog. Enjoy!

Yeeha Hoop Lovers it truly has been an age since I last gave myself a chance to sit down with you all and share some stories. This could get LONG so grab some refreshments and snuggle up with me for a bit…

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World Hoop Day Tokyo

With a great deal of joy, excitement and community input we put together a very sunny gathering for World Hoop Day on September 6. Kicking off the morning with Laughter Yoga by the gorgeous fountain in Yoyogi Park we were in fresh and high spirits as we made our way to our regular grassy, hoop playground on the Harajuku side of Yoyogi Park. Setting up early for a day of adventure. Out went the mats, the hoops and the very colorful World Hoop Day sign created by Tink.

Our goal was to hoop, play, share, enjoy and invite. I think I speak for the whole hoop community when I say we well exceeded our expectations thanks to the friendly community effort embraced by all. It was a pure gift from the Universe that our celebrations coincided with spectacular weather and the Tokyo Brazilian Fest also in the park. Think…droves of happy hoopers, hot Brazilians, giggling children and wide eyed passers by spinning in colorful hoops under a brilliant blue sky. It was clear that spinning hoops are so very alluring to people of all backgrounds, ages and abilities. People desire happiness and joy, that is what the hoop brings.

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The day continued with games, prizes, face painting, dance, mini lessons and fun filled gathering. Festivities roamed well into the night.

There was another goal on our list and that was to raise funds to purchase 99 hoops to be sent on the Peace Boat. Thanks to the kindness, open hearts and generosity on the day we were able to raise a little over half needed to purchase 99 hoops. Since World Hoop Day Tokyo we have pooled our finds and can happily say that we now have 99 hoops ready to be donated to the Peace Boat. They will be taken on the next voyage and shared with children all around the world.

Immense love and gratitude goes to all of those who supported the World Hoop Day Tokyo adventure. Huge thank you to Hoopin Annie and her inspiration for kicking off the first World Hoop Day and continuing to share the love with so many.

The colorful fun continued on the REAL World Hoop Day 09 – 09/09/09 A spectacular sunset followed by light beings activating playfulness and hoop joy! More than 40 LED and glow hoops spun under the clear Tokyo sky with the moon as our witness and the beats stirring up the energy.

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With Ace behind the camera and a gaggle of spirited hoopers with LEDs in hand and on body an extravaganza of movement and capture catapulted light beings through a magical time and space reality that needed to be captured forever…and so it was…

Spinning right along, Spin Matsuri preparation was interrupted ever so lushly by a night on the stage at Tokyo’s monthly night of nights – Dr Sketchy’s Tokyo. Ya ha dd Hoop LOVE made her presense felt. As I wished and washed in and out of my alter ego vibe I spent valuable time being prepped by Tokyo based, divine master of the dance Kike Yamakawa (soon to be opening the FAB Dance Academy here in Tokyo…more on that soon!) an experience I am intensely grateful for!

For the three act night a costumed and painted image of my self hit the stage first with disco stick in hand as dd hoop love, continuing the bling she transformed later into an intergalactic space babe in silver sparkles and finally oozed onto stage as a hoop goddess for the final 20 minute pose. I played witness to it all…were there two of me up on stage that night? I think yes, perhaps many more it all felt very multidimensional! An interesting experience and experiment in stepping outside of physical form and settling into static poses.

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With merely moments before Spin Matsuri was about to kick off life headed into over drive mode and so much more. That in itself is a whole other story.

to be cont…

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Couple Jam Giveaway on Tokyo Made

Posted on September 1, 2009 by sushizume

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Photographer Hal has released his latest photo book Couple Jam featuring 56 couples jammed in their bath tubs together. Masao went along to the opening gallery exhibition and grabbed a signed copy that we are giving away to one Tokyo Made blog reader.

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To win your signed copy of Couple Jam tell us Who would you most like to be jammed in a bath tub with and why?

Leave your comments on the Tokyo Made blog Couple Jam Give Away post. One winner will be selected randomly at the end of September. Good luck, look forward to reading your juicy thoughts!

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Masao and I also feature in the recently released book. I blogged about it a while about but here is the final result (although in the book we look a lot glossier and BRIGHT!!)

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World Hoop Day Celebrations Tokyo

Posted on August 31, 2009 by sushizume

All around the planet, hoopers and friends will celebrate World Hoop Day on 9/9/9. This year there are two big celebrations happening in Tokyo for World Hoop Day – a Circus Extravaganza and a sunset CIRCLE. We hope you can make it out to support children around the world and share the joy of hooping with the global community.

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Tokyo World Hoop Day Celebrations

Everyone is welcome to join us for both celebrations. Our goal is to have 99 hoopers to raise funds for 99 hoops to share with children around the world.

Donations

¥1000 buys one hula hoop and sends it on the Peace Boat to share with children in need all around the world. Your generous donations are very much appreciated, thank you. Donations will be accepted at both gatherings on the 6th and 9th.

Tokyo World Hoop Day Location

We will be hooping and partying at Yoyogi Park inside the Harajuku side entrance. Walk straight past the kiosk on your left side and follow the path until you see the hoops and celebration amongst the trees on the right side of the path.

* The morning Laughter Yoga will also be held in Yoyogi park but beside the main fountain.

Sunday, September 6
Circus Extravaganza
Yoyogi Park

Come and hoop with us, learn some fabulous hoop moves, enjoy hoop games, win prizes and donate to bring joy to a child in need.

11am-12 pm Laughter Yoga (near the fountain in Yoyogi Park) Join the Tokyo Laughter Yoga circle led by Akira for a fabulous warm up that will boost your energy for the day. Wear comfortable clothing, bring water and prepare to giggle! Check out Hoop Girl at Laughter Yoga training

12pm-1pm Picnic Lunch (BYO) Mats will be provided, bring your friends, family and yummy lunch. (Lunch will be in the Tokyo World Hoop Day location – Harajuku side entrance, walk straight past the kiosk on your left side and follow the path until you see the hoops and celebration amongst the trees on the right side of the path)

1-4pm Hoop Jam – One-point Hoop Lessons, Face Painting, Hoop Decorating Corner, Hoop Fortune Machine, performances, music, fun and joy!

2-3pm Hoop Games – Human Hoop Toss, Four Corners, Hoop Statues, Balloon and Hoop Chase, Hoop Race + PRIZES

Hoops will be provided for the celebration however if you have hoops at home bring them along to add to a fun day!

Wednesday, September 9
World Hoop Day Sunset CIRCLE Hoop Jam
Yoyogi Park

From 6pm in Yoyogi Park bring your glow sticks, light up toys, LED hoops and let’s light up Tokyo (even more!!) in celebration of World Hoop Day.

World Hoop Day X Hoop Lovers X Spin Matsuri X Tokyo Laughter Yoga X CIRCLE X Peace Boat

WORLD HOOP DAY MISSION

The goal of World Hoop Day is to raise funds to purchase hoops for children around the world. Check out where Tokyo’s hoops went from our 2008 Tokyo World Hoop Day activities: Thanks to the generous donations from the Tokyo hoopers, Jen and the Keitai Goddess

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World Hoop Day Tokyo 2008 hoops donated in Nirobi

Since 2006, World Hoop Day has been dedicated to bringing dance, exercise and toy hoops to under-privileged children living in extreme poverty and underdeveloped neighborhoods of our world. Founded by Annie O’Keeffe, her husband, Kevin, and friend Stefan Pildes, World Hoop Day is a not-for-profit organization that uses a community-based, grass roots approach to provide one-of-a-kind “hula” hoops. The durable, adult-sized hoops can be used their entire life as a simple and effective way to bring joy to an otherwise devastating situation.

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World Hoop Day Tokyo 2008 hoops on the Peace Boat in Antarctica

There are many aid organizations who provide food and medical relief, but what about the mental welfare of a child who grows up too quickly and hardly has a reason to smile or play or just be a child? To date 12,000+ hoops valued at $83,000 have been given away. The World Hoop Day Official Ambassadors have donated hoops to thousands of beautiful children and their families around the world.

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World Hoop Day Tokyo 2008 hoops donated in PNG

The simple hoop has positive physical and mental health benefits, stimulates imaginations, and enables feelings of pure joy and bliss. We give to honor gratitude, appreciation, healing and to promote world peace and harmony.

Every one is welcome whether they are a hooper or not, this is sure to be a fun afternoon! Invite your friends, family and work mates, the more the merrier! Look forward to seeing you on the 6th and/or the 9th.

Hoop love,
Deanne and the Tokyo hoopers

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Day 30 – Celebrate Good Times

Posted on August 30, 2009 by sushizume

We did it! You did it! Yipee! Hooray! Hoorah! Rock on! Woohoo! Woot! Hugs, kisses and so much more! 30 days of Hoop Boot Camp, over, done, finished, complete. How do you feel? Take a stroll back to your goals and take note, make some comparisons and assess what you feel really good about having achieved. Take note especially of the good feelings, the accomplishments, the adventures, the over coming of hurdles, the meeting of minds, the rockets of desire, the inspiring thoughts, the rush of good vibes, the community you have built, the strength you have gained, the 30 days that you have grown. And the rest? Well you can probably scrunch that bit up and throw it in the bin. Focus on the negative and lack of will truly only attract more and we don’t want that now do we? So, scoop up the goodness, congratulate yourself in as many ways as you can find to celebrate your ongoing success and send gratitude out into your spiraling life practice and for sure what will return to you is an extended path of positivity and success to skip along.

In celebration I would love us to add to today’s discussion by sharing our good vibes that have been created during this Hoop Boot Camp 30 day self-transformation. A celebration with words!

Thank you to each and everyone of you who have participated, tried to participate, thought about participating or sent good vibes our way. Hoop Boot Camp began as a way for me to make more hoop videos and maintain a daily hoop practice, what it evolved into was so much more. Hoop Boot Camp became a community of like minded, conscious hoopers who shared, supported and HOOPED! I am truly greatly for that element alone, however I can say that I have maintained a daily hoop practice as a result.

Hoop Boot Camp, with the guidance of all the hoopers involved, encouraged me to heighten my awareness of the gratitude I was feeling each day. I looked forward to sharing my grats and especially reading others. In moments when I wasn’t feeling on top of the world I would click over to our Gratitude Journals and feel better within moments of reading everyone’s attitudes of gratitude.

Hoop Boot Camp helped me connect more strongly with the Tokyo hooping community and become (online) friends with many other hoopers around the world.

I may or may not have released 3kg or 2cm but I gained hundreds of ideas, tons of inspiration and end the 30 days feeling far more in tune with who I am, my intentions and how love filled my life is. For that I am grateful and truly believe I have most certainly transformed. Thank you!

How about you super hooper?

Video of the day:
Hoop Celebration at Burning Man

Action of the day: Celebrate. Give thanks to yourself and those around you.

Affirmation: I am at peace with all that is in this moment.

Inspiration: Look famous. Be Legendary. Appear complex. Act easy. Radiate presence. Seem a dream. Prove real.

Desiderata

Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant, they too have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit.

If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.

Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. But let not this blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism. Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass. Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.

Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Therefore, be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be. And whatever your labors and aspirations in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams; it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful.

Strive to be happy.

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Day 29 – Just Feel

Posted on August 29, 2009 by sushizume

With just one more day left of the 30 Day Self-transformation challenge we are going to switch off one of our senses.

Hooping is about responding to the touch of the hoop, timing and connection. A powerful practice that will have you in flow whether you are a beginning or working on advanced tricks is blindfolded hooping.

Here is what the pioneers of the practice have to say…

Thoughts on Hooping Blindfolded by The Hoop Path


How to Create a Blindfolded Hooping Practice By Christabel Zamor, MA

Going Blind by Surprise Hoops

“I also high five the process of blindfolded hooping. WOW! This was one area that I was fully able to access and go beyond the beyond. Like meditation, it frees the mind to just be, intuit, flow, know. The inspiration, and really specific details, for my New York show came from this practice.” Bunny Hoop Star on Harbin Hoop Jam October 08

Action of the day: Start off slow if it is your first time. Grab a scarf, clear a space and FEEL!

Affirmation: I see with love and joy.

Inspiration: “There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.” Leonardo da Vinci

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Day 28 – Hoop Spaces

Posted on August 28, 2009 by sushizume

We create space within our hoop but the space outside our hoop has a big impact on the way we bust it, contain it or let loose with our hoop extravaganzas. What and who we are surrounded by we naturally soak up and perform accordingly.

Where is your hoop space? Do you mix it up and hoop in lots of different spaces? Do you have a favorite? Have you felt more alive in some spaces than others? Are there spaces that you would like to hoop?

Thanks to the magic of You Tube lets take a peek into other’s hoop spaces

Action of the day: Find a new space. Create a sacred space. A hoop space.

Question of the day: Check out the ones above ;)

Affirmation: I travel to new spaces with ease. I find comfort in the new.

Inspiration: “Space is the breath of art.” Frank Lloyd Wright

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Day 27 – Using Positive Affirmations

Posted on August 27, 2009 by sushizume

It doesn’t take much thought or practice to realize that filtering life through a positive view finder is a powerful way to manifest dreams, work through troubling times and live a well balanced and happy existence. In fact, nurturing a positive attitude is one of the most success inducing, happiness creating life skills. Remaining in a positive mindset can enhance your health, professional and personal life, leading to an overall sense of satisfaction. Who wouldn’t want that?

Affirmations are positive statements that describe a desired situation, and which are repeated many times, in order to impress the subconscious mind and trigger it into positive action. In order to ensure the effectiveness of the affirmations, they have to be repeated with attention, conviction, interest and desire.
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I was introduced to the power of positive affirmations in the late 90’s when a wise woman Louise L. Hay released a book called You Can Heal Your Life (yes I am a self help book junkie, always have been, used to be ashamed now I am proud as punch – they rock!). The colorful cover with love hearts all over it attracted me. Around about the same time I was working at a resort on the very beautiful Hamilton Island in the Australian Whitsunday Islands. I would clean rooms with my partner in crime by day and party by night. One day we swaggered into one of the luxurious rooms to give it a quick once over while the holiday maker was twisting by the pool and I couldn’t help but notice the pages and pages of what looked like school lines written in repetition and left on the bedside table. I was intrigued by the repetitively written “I love my body” “I trust the flow of life” “I am a creative being”. I have to honesty admit at that time the young and egotistical part inside me thought, “Wow this chick must really have some issues”. Little did I know how powerful positive affirmations would become in my own life.

Well before The Secret and other such books or movies Louise opened with ” Life is very simple. What we give out we get back.” and continued with “The Universe totally supports us in every thought we choose to think and believe” Something about the power in these words grabbed me. As I explored Louise L Hay’s thoughts on holistic philosophy, not accepting limitations, recognizing prosperity and deserving our good I popped her many books and practices into my bag of tricks. I have personally seen the power of positive affirmations in a professional and personal sense, healing health issues, emotional imbalances and helping with focus and achievements.

Over the course of the Hoop Boot Camp, each day you were gifted with a positive affirmation to use as you pleased. Today I am going to share with you some of the most effective ways to use positive affirmations to make changes in your life.

Here are my top 7 tips for positive power…

1. Live in the NOW baby!

Affirmations are used to trigger your subconscious into believing and therefore creating a desire. If you tell yourself “I will be happy and content” you are suggesting that perhaps you are not ready for that state of mind just yet, that there are still obstacles. A present affirmation would be “I am happy and content”

2. K.I.S.S

Keep It Simple Stupid! Don’t overload yourself, keep a few affirmations in mind that are inline with what you are working to achieve. You will find that as you become well practiced at using affirmations you may start to rotate them, using a few lines at a time.

3. It’s All About ME!

Using “I” statements is a powerful technique for creating new thought patterns “I am alive with the joys of living. I deserve the very best in life” For some super charged power you can use your own name, granted this may seem a little strange at first – don’t worry everyone knows you are totally crazy, that’s the way they love you, so embrace it!!! Live the crazy life…it works!

If you want to really kick yourself in the butt you can use affirmations as Louise does on her CDs using I & You. “I am free to be me. You are free to be you.

4. The good, the bad and the …

Use your affirmations all the time. When you feel good sing them, chirp them, skip around with them in your head. When life feels like it sucks and the negatives are dragging you down use them as fire power against the frowns. Use them, use, them, use them at all times! You are always using thoughts regardless, so choose the good ones.

5. Press the repeat button

Luckily for us the Universe does not respond instantly. I would be in big trouble if that were the case. So with that in mind it is essential that we use repetition with our affirmations.

- Pick some of your current power affirmations, ones that sit right with you for now and put them together with a tune that you like. Not only does this help you to remember a few at once it is also a fun way to hum along to your own beat. I sing mine as I am walking to an from any train station so by the time my day is over I have easily repeated my current affirmations up to 50 times. The tune has become quite Pavlovian for me, as soon as I activate it in my head I instantly feel good. Yes, we can reprogram our brains, our fellings, our bodies, our cells, at any time.

- Write your affirmations out every morning and night, keep them next to your bed for easy access. Flash back to school detention? Ha ha maybe, except now you are writing the rules, fun!

- Mirror, mirror on the wall. Saying your affirmations in the mirror adds a power punch; saying and visualizing all at once.

- Shut up inner voice. Use your affirmations like a light switch to turn of negative self talk throughout the day, every time you hear it give it a slap in the face with a juicy affirmation – ha ha take that!

- Become a recording star, put your affirmations on tape/voice recorder and play them back in your car, on your ipod or out loud.

- Use your affirmations as a meditation, use them with your in and out breath flow and relax into them, let them soak into your every cell.

5. Visions

Create vision boards of colorful pictures, drawings and reminders of your affirmations. The power of visualizations coupled with affirmations will be strong, watch out! See, feel and tell yourself that you are living the life with the things that you desire NOW! I dare ya!

6. Keep Well Stocked

Have inspirational books of affirmations that you can open up to any page when you need a pick me up or to combat a negative thought. Create affirmation cards that you can pick out like a lucky dip (my mum always has these at her house, I love them, they are cute little purple cards with stars and sweet words all over them). Create a collage of affirmations as your computer desk top. Share affirmations with friends via a mailing list or forum. Search for creative affirmations online. What we surround ourselves with and what we focus on is what we create more of. That goes for things, people and vibrations…choose the good ones!!

7. Stay on the Pleasure Train

Have fun, dream big and believe yourself. Associate your affirmations with pleasure and good feelings and your subconscious mind will accept their effectiveness. See the process as a wacky chore that may or may not work and the later will most certainly be true. No tough choices there!

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 forgiving, I am strong, I love my life.

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Action of the Day: Create your own gorgeous sparkling affirmation cards, decorate them, add sparkles of love and then pass them onto a friend.

Affirmation: I am totally, completely and absolutely awesome! I am a rad hooper!

Inspiration: “In my life there is an infinite supply of love, it is in exhaustible, I can never use it all in this lifetime so I don’t have to be sparing with it!” Louise L. Hay

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Day 26 – Circle Art

Posted on August 26, 2009 by sushizume

Today I had an inspiring and lengthy discussion with a Japanese friend about the meanings and feeling of the words evolution, revolution, universe and universal. The whole time in relation to the art we create while inside the hoop and how we share that with those around us.

Growth, change, circling, spinning, moving, everything and everyone.

I came home a little hooped out but pulsing with circle energy so today’s post is all about other forms of circle art.

This first video is a must watch…circle art using a hula hoop and child spirit.

More gorgeous circles, I hope they inspire you as much as they inspire me!!

Circle poetry

Mindblowing Mandala Art

Action of the day: Create your own playful circle art in a journal, build a hoop structure, put dots all over your shoes or wear bangles all the way up your arm. Create your own circles to day and always.

Affirmation: I communicate with my heart all is well.

Inspiration: “Our task must be to free ourselves…by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.” Albert Einstein

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Day 25 – An Insight to The Master Cleanse

Posted on August 25, 2009 by sushizume

Today a look into a cleansing technique that, as the article describes, has brought clarity, freedom and life to a Tokyo Yogini’s path. 10 days on the magic potion – An Insight to The Master Cleanse by Em

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Why did I choose to spend 10 days drinking salt water, squeezing lemons and talking about poop? I’m healthy, am a raw vegan yogini. Why should I want to cleanse? It’s nothing to do with the fact that Beyonce had tried and tested this cleanse (although I heard she had cheated and eaten salads throughout. Tut-tut)! I’d been through a tough few months, was feeling drained and had ventured into the place with the green mermaid for a soy latte on a couple of occasions in hope to reboot my battery.
The mermaid let me down. I was letting myself down.

So, I took the plunge and embarked on something that I said I would never do. Never say never eh?

What is the Master Cleanse?
A detoxification program devised my Stanley Burroughs where for 10 -40 days you drink a specially prepared potion (as I liked to call it), of freshly squeezed lemon juice, grade B maple Syrup, water and Cayenne pepper. Doesn’t sound too appetizing, but surprisingly it is. So much that two weeks after the cleanse I miss it.

There is plenty of information online and I highly recommend you do you research prior to embarking on program, therefore I will not discuss what needs to be done, just what I experienced.

Me, Myself and My Potion.
My typical day kind of panned out like this. Salt water flush (SWF), make potion for the day, bathroom, bathroom, bathroom, bathroom, drink potion, drink water, drink water, drink potion………laxative, bed.

I did keep to my regular yoga teaching schedule throughout.

The SWF was interesting and took a while to get used to. I’m used to the yogic kriya technique where you take in the salt water and then purge (do not try this unless guidance has been given). I’ve been doing this for a while now once or twice a week, but now the salt water was sitting in my tummy. I had a Buddha belly full of swishing water and I did not like. The first day it didn’t work at first and it was most uncomfortable, but days 2-10 I made friends with the toilet on many occasion. The SWF was doing its job. Oh, not only will you talk about poop, you will look and analyze.

The potion itself is very easy to make. I drank about 6-8 glasses a day, although day seven I started to drink less as my body wasn’t asking for it. Drank copious amounts of water, was constantly urinating. God knows how I made it through Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince. Sat cross-legged for the last 30 minutes as I couldn’t miss the Dumbledore bit!!

Evenings you are asked to drink a laxative tea prior to sleep. I chose to use psyllium as I think it’s less harsh on your system. However, I don’t think it works as well as the tea from research I did.

No side effects except for the first evening when I had headaches and was tired. Slept for a whopping 14 hours. Not bad for someone who goes through bouts of insomnia. Bounced out of bed the next day like Tigger.

My body adjusted well to what was happening. I felt fabulous throughout. People commented on my clear skin. I toned a little bit more. In total I lost 5kg. I didn’t do it for the weight loss, so that was a bonus.

After months in a flunk, did the cleanse work its magic?
ABSOLUTELY.
The old Em is back. She feels alive. Her muscles have found new freedom, her yoga poses have gone deeper, she is thinking clearer and with more clarity and she looks damn sexy!!
No more visits to the green mermaid place for me…..
I’ll be doing the cleanse again from January 1st -10th before heading to Thailand to continue my yoga studies and devour durian. If you are at all interested in getting your New Year off to a great start please join me in the cleanse.

Em Bettinger teaches yoga at Sun and Moon in Meguro.
She also teaches kids yoga at various international schools around Tokyo. She has been a raw vegan for over two years and you can follow her journey at Raw Girl in Japan

She is currently training to be a Health Counsellor and will be offering consultations in the New Year. Raw food workshops are currently being organized and will be held in Meguro.
Her website is under construction http://www.em-yoga.com/

Please email her at rawgirljapan.gmail.com

A big, warm thank you hug to Em for sharing her cleansing journey, an inspiration.

Action of the Day: Take stock, have a look around at your life habits, possessions, environment. What could do with a good cleansing? Well? Get cracking! Clean up that desk, ditch that afternoon snack or redesign your wardrobe. You will feel a huge weight lifted.

Affirmation: I am free from heaviness.

Inspiration: “Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.” Stephen R. Covey

I can’t help but sing that song “Everybody’s FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE to feel good”

Hope you are feeling good today!

xx

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Day 24 – Mini Hoops, Mega Arms

Posted on August 24, 2009 by sushizume

One of Mikori’s Hoop Boot Camp goals was to master twins. As we sat in a restaurant on Saturday night after the kid’s show we performed we admired our twin hooping arm muscles. Want sleek, toned arms? Grab the twins and away you go!

Want strength and flow beyond the beyond? Down size!

Minis or zoom hoops as they are sometimes referred to take some time and patience but there are a speedy little challenge that with take your hooping to new levels.


(So very excited to connect with Rainbow Michael at Spin Matsuri)



Action of the day: Start off with some isolations. Challenge yourself by practicing in both directions.

Affirmation: I have the strength, power and skill to digest whatever comes my way.

Inspiration: “Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.” Mahatma Gandhi

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