Eatin

Last night I broke the fast. I finally found a scale and it said 151 - when I started I think I was between 165-167lbs. Whoa! With that said, I didn't do this for the weight loss, but I always lose weight when I fast. After 36 hours of orange juice and more yummy cane juice (following 15 days of detox elixir), I had a small (but totally decadent) salad. small leaf lettuces, olives, orange tomatoes, red onion, sunflower sprouts...and the dressing...I created this one after trying others.

Fantastic Voyage Raw Vegan Caesar Dressing

1/2 lb raw cashews

3-4 lemons (juiced)

1/4-1/2 tsp sea salt

1 medium clove garlic
2 tbls dulse

12 oz water

Add cashews, lemon, dulse, and garlic to food processor. Blend until stuck to side walls, scrape, then slowly add water. Continue adding water, salt and blend until sufficiently delicious.

I felt a little timid about eating because I didn't want to lose the total euphoria I was feeling in the end...you knew Jesus could handle 40 days... Capturing that feeling in words is tough, I think language can't adequately capture all the transforming neural stuff that was going on. What it was, I don't know. I! will! fast! again!

My asana practice has been compromised, because I've been pretty overextended. When I did practice, I was totally down for being humbled. I got served this past weekend with more inversions and asana practice that showed me I am as graceful as a pig with lipstick on. I fell a few times.

Last Friday, we discussed the first six yoga sutras of Patajali. What was particularly resonant was the philosophy discussion, where James noted, quite simply, that every sutra, i.e. everything in yoga philosophy, is contained within the first: atha yoga nusasanam, roughly translated as "now is the time for the practice of yoga". Like most other Angelenos, wish I had the time.