Advanced! Booklet. by Cate Stillman

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1 Advanced! Yogidetox Booklet by Cate Stillman

2 Disclaimer and Copyright The responsibility for the consequences of your use of any suggestion or procedure described hereafter lies not with the authors, publisher or distributor of this booklet. This booklet is not intended as medical or health advice. We recommend consulting with a licensed health professional before changing your diet. Except for personal use, no part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, or otherwise without prior written permission from the publisher. If you enjoy the information with this program, Yogahealer would like to encourage you to show your support by sharing your testimonial with us, sharing our website with your friends and family, signing up for our free newsletter, or supporting our continued work by considering our other programs and products. Copyright 2012 by Yogahealer, L.L.C. The Yogidetox is a trademark of Yogahealer, L.L.C. All rights reserved. Published by Yogahealer, L.L.C N. Highway 33 Tetonia, ID

3 welcome back, seasoned cleanser Evolving health is our potential. I know you have some experience with evolving your health potential. I m inviting each of us to take the next step into this path. Not just for ourselves, but for humanity. As a seasoned cleanser I m asking you to uplevel your maturity around the detox process. I m inviting you to take the higher ground at all times. I m asking you to be on stage at all times, for others. I m asking you to be an example of humanities highest potential. Print the Beginner s packets. This packet is an addendum to the info in the Beginner s packets. You need both. What is in the advanced packets The advanced packets will include more specific information regarding: Ayurveda philosophy and terminology Supporting others in detox (including family members) Growing & sourcing food Wildcrafting By making the Yogidetox 2 levels, I m enabling the Yogidetox to be easier for people with less experience. I m also raising the bar for those with more experience. Please inform me with any suggestions that would help me help you. - Cate Stillman are from my spiritual teacher, Craig Hamilton Eat thy Weeds. lambʼs quarter: a common plant in our gardens that we weed out is similar to spinach and chard. utilization, but the calcium levels are so high it is still a good source. They have 4.2 grams of protein per 100 grams again, one of the highest. Lamb s quarters is also rich in potassium, B-vitamin complex, vitamin C and fiber. It is one of the plants richest in folic acid, especially important for pregnant women. The seeds also contain calcium, protein and potassium as well as niacin and phosphorous. Shaun Hoog, The leaves are a great source of beta carotene, a precursor to vitamin A. Like other green plants, lamb s quarters aids the liver in the production of bile and contains an oil which helps emulsify hardened animal fat in the heart and arteries. The plant is high in calcium about 309 mg per 100 grams one of the highest amounts in green leafy vegetables. The leaves do contain oxalic acid, which inhibits calcium Online Resources Sergei Boutenko Susan Weed

4 1.) CLOVER 4.) MIner's Lettuce 2.) PlAntAIN 5.) Salsify 8.) Strawberry 7.) Pineapple Weed 3.) Dandelion 6.) SHeep Sorrel 9.) Fir

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6 family cleanse conversation more on Agni! Have a Conversation with any family members interested on doing a detox. Grab these handouts from the Beginner s Packet: Why We Detox A Family Affair Often, we eat out of habit or routine. Our culture creates abundance by over providing food and often we encourage overeating. I once heard Dr. Lad say to never push seconds. He said a person will tell you if they need more food. I don t offer my child snacks, but wait until she says she is hungry, or clearly it s time for a meal. It s challenging enough to change your own habits let alone changing family habits. Start with a conversation. If anyone has allergies, asthma, poor immunity (colds, flus), mood issues, make sure to bring into the conversation of experimenting with foods to see what is helping and what is a contributing factor. Let thy food by thy medicine and thy medicine be thy food. Hippocrates Here are a few starter questions: 1. How do you want to feel in a week? Heavier? Lighter? More rested? Less allergic? Happier mood? 2. What foods will help you feel that way? 3. Any dishes in particular that you re attracted to in this season, given the above? 4. What time should we eat dinner to have a relaxing evening routine? 5. What fruits and vegetables are in the fridge? 6. What do we need from the store? Agni names the principle of digestion of the life force from universal to individual. When you consume something - it s life force (energy, or Shakti in Sanskrit) has the potential to become your bodily energy. Your organism communicates the need for more energy through the sensation of deep (not superficial) hunger and attraction to nutrients. In Ayurveda, we say You are what you digest. As you become more aware and alive through the process of Yoga you need less food. You desire to have more energy for dharma, or your purpose. You waste less energy on the process of digestion. You actually lighten your load on the Earth, as you need less food to do more good. This efficiency and conversion will evolve your health. Studying Agni is paramount. Studying Agni is a daily practice, if you desire this efficiency of your energy... efficiency of your dharma into action. Agni is alive. If you don t allow the space to become hungry daily, your Agni is weak. We strengthen Agni first and foremost by cultivating a relationship with the cycle of hunger and satiation. At my house, we don t eat if we re not hungry. My mucus-free 4 year old has raised the bar on this. Last night for dinner we had a few tangerines. We d eaten a big lunch, so we weren t particularly hunger. We don t eat out of habit, or because it s time for dinner. I m less concerned about the specifics of what we eat. I m more concerned with feeling alive, awake and useful to humanity and useful to our sacred planet.

7 Principles of Evolutionary Culture by Craig Hamilton How you can create a microcosm of "Heaven on Earth" These principles of engagement can also be used as guidelines for any group wishing to create an evolutionary culture between participants. A Wholehearted Intention to Transform Bring all of yourself to this group. Recognize that this is a forum where your own deepest longing for a greater life, a holy life, can be fully engaged and expressed. Have the love, trust, and courage to give your heart and soul to the exercises you ll be doing in the group and outside of the group. Do this in the knowledge that the single most transformative power in the world is the power of our intention. If you want your life to change in a profound way, it will. With that kind of intention behind you, this group can be a powerful catalyst. A Commitment to Engage One thing group practice reveals is how profoundly we all impact each other, both through our participation and our non-participation. Your full-hearted participation is critical, both because it is the only way for you to really reap the benefits of the group practices, but even more importantly, because it is needed by the group. We are all counting on you to push your own edge, to speak up when things are unclear, to share when something inspiring or meaningful happens for you. We are going to get a tangible sense here of how everything we do either lifts us all up or pulls us all down. Seeing our impact on the world is not something we ll use to create a story about ourselves ( I m good or I m bad ), but something for us to observe and understand so that it will guide our individual and collective efforts to help humanity evolve. A Beginner s Mind When entering into serious collective spiritual engagement, it is important to suspend everything you already know about spirituality, psychology, transformation, and the meaning of life. This is not about dumbing down or pretending or permanently abandoning hard-won wisdom. It s about suspension of what you already know in order to make room for new ideas and perspectives to emerge. A large part of what makes it possible to live on the edge of evolution is to be in a state of perpetual and profound receptivity. If we want to be available to the movements of the Spirit, if we want to be able to change and discover new things, we have to be willing to constantly let go of all of our fixed ideas and look again. Speaking from the Deepest, Most Authentic Parts of the Self Each time you contribute to the group, seek to bring forward the deepest part of yourself. Take the risk to express the deepest truths you know, to be a representative of humanity s highest potential. One of the most transformative activities we can engage in is speaking from the deeper parts of ourselves, because in doing so, we are coaxing them out of the depths and allowing them to infuse our personalities with their wisdom and Presence. And when we do this, that authentic wisdom and Presence infuses the group as well.

8 Deeper Listening One of the foundations of authentic evolutionary collective engagement is the practice of deep listening listening from the deepest part of yourself. This means that when someone else is speaking, you strive to listen for the deeper chords in what they re saying and respond only to those chords that ring with the greatest spiritual presence and power. When something profound touches us in what someone else has shared, we re going to take the risk to reflect it back to them, or to share it with the group. By building a field of deeper listening, we are creating a powerful supportive container for each of us to step into when we speak. Risk Taking Nothing takes us to the edge of evolution faster than taking big risks. This means speaking on an intuition when you re not sure you have the words to give voice to it. Or, responding to a gut feeling that something isn t right, but doing so vulnerably, realizing that it might be you that s not right. It also means being willing to step into new ways of being, even if they feel scary and unfamiliar. Indeed, the greatest risk of all is to express something so profound that we will never be able to go back to pretending we don t know. The risk to embrace our godlike nature, once and for all. Once we ve stood in and as that divinity in the presence of others, we can t go back without a price. Not only have we admitted it to ourselves. Everyone else has also seen who we can be, how wise we can be, how free of neurosis we can be, and they now have a right to expect us to live up to what we ve expressed. The more risk we are each willing to take in every meeting, the more profound will be our experience of and impact on the group. We All Have Evolving Edges We re all imperfect beings on an endless evolutionary journey. So, it doesn t matter where we are on that journey. What matters is where we are in relation to our edge. If we re pushing our edge, we re always in the right place, and immense transformative capacities become available to us. In this context, there is no value in trying to be somewhere we re not, or to appear to have it all together. There is immense value in revealing our confusion, our uncertainty, our vulnerability. Saying I don t know or I don t understand is a beautiful thing because it opens us to understanding and insight. If We re Not Uncomfortable, We re Probably Not Evolving Because evolution means moving into new territory in the self, a certain degree of discomfort always accompanies it. Unfortunately, we are deeply conditioned to see discomfort as a negative thing, so we tend to avoid it. Living on the edge of evolution means being willing to embrace these growing pains so that we can live a life of perpetual growth and development. In this group, begin a practice of actively pushing into those uncomfortable edges in yourself, and shifting your perspective so that you no longer see them as the enemy, but as your friends on the path of deeper and higher evolution.

9 A Life of Constant Resolution One aspect of living on the edge of evolution is what spiritual teacher Andrew Cohen calls living a life of constant resolution. This means always striving to clear up any interpersonal tension as soon as possible, so that we can build a field of deep harmony and trust in all of our relationships. It is about leaving each interaction without a trace. For groups interested in authentic co-evolution, this practice is essential. If something bothers you about the way someone is addressed or the way something is handled, look for an appropriate moment to bring it up for discussion. Based on where the group is at that point in the evening, it may or may not be the right moment to discuss it. The group can decide whether or not to engage it at that time, later in the meeting, or perhaps to take time to resolve it after the meeting. The important thing is to always keep clearing away any residue from past interactions, so that the collective field of the group can continue to strengthen. Always on Stage: Being an Example for Everyone We Meet Another aspect of living on the edge of evolution is always being on the spot, realizing that it s our job as evolutionaries to be an inspiration in every moment to everyone we encounter. In the mythic religions of the past, the belief that God was watching over us used to create a larger moral context to spur us to act in accord with our deepest knowing. Now, in Integral and Evolutionary Spirituality, it s the knowledge that everything we do is setting a template for the rest of humanity to follow. We all take cues from each other all the time, consciously and unconsciously, so if we want to create a better world, we need to always show up with the greatest wisdom, integrity, care, and authenticity that we can muster. The New World will be created by billions of small acts of spiritual courage. Create a culture based on this kind of evolutionary conscience in your group. Craig Hamilton 2009