The sciatica that was keeping me up all night is now gone. Turns out I was pre-menstrual. Usually on the first day of my cycle, I would feel drained and exhausted. But this morning I'm feeling a really nice core of vitality and clean energy. The kind of energy that is going to motivate me to keep this cleanse up for the whole three weeks. I'll break a little today for lunch with a friend. But the cleanse is about "avoiding" those things. So I'm sure I'll find things on the menu with some healthy greens. Maybe I'll eat something first so that I'm not over ordering.
I had a very pleasant stand. Twenty minutes of second position. Then some exercises to open the channels. Then I just stood in first position, felt the energy in my belly and allowed it to create its own direction. It started moving first in the right side of my body, lifting my arm, filling my leg and eventually moving up to my head. The left side of my body seemed to become completely empty. I "leaned"in a way on the right side energy. Allowing it to simply take me over and hold me up. Then eventually the left side started to fill up too. As my palms became parallel, I could sense the energy moving back and forth between them, like a ping pong ball.
I'm going to keep to that practice this week. Just let the energy do its thing. And watch what happens.
