iZO Cleanze 5-Day Juice Feast
Posted on Jun 16th, 2008
by 
Julian
Julian
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The Meeting
Back in December I came across a remarkable company at the Eco Gift Expo called iZoCleanze.
The CEO, Tim Martin was making delicious veggie juices all weekend long and giving them out for free to everyone at the Expo, along with informational materials about his amazing service.
In exchange for his kind juice gifts, I invited Tim to lie down on the massage table I had set up as part of my booth. Every few hours I would intuitively choose someone who I knew would be ripe for a powerful energetic mind-body experience and work on them for 20 minutes or so to bring them into balance, relieve stress and see where their system was ready to go - and of course to give any passersby a sense of what my work was about. (See more about my work here.)
Tim confirmed something I have known for over a decade in powerful style: no sooner did I and my assistant Sarah begin sharing our energetic touch techniques with him (which vary from circulatory and deep tissue massage strokes, to craniosacral holds, to powerful energy-activating techniques) than he started to really open up.
It was so beautiful to see this complete stranger having a profoundly spiritual experience of his own energy flow, to see him opening up emotionally, trembling, sweating, laughing and exclaiming in wonder at what was happening as his body let go, his state of mind shifted and his heart expanded.
He looked up at us with a grin after a minute or two and let us know he was part way through a "juice feast" - which means he had been fasting on his own remarkable blends of veggie juices, herbal teas, rice protein and hemp milk, mineral supplements and more..
Integrative Practice - It's All Connected!
Those of you who know about my Big Sky Healing Arts system understand that cleansing is a key component in terms of unpacking the amazing energetic gifts of practices like yoga and bodywork - the more detoxified your tissues are, the more effectively your organs are doing their jobs, the less acidic your internal environment is, the easier it is to heal injuries and become flexible and strong, the more likely you are to maintain optimum health and most importantly (because it underlies alll the previous statements) the more vital life force you have available pumping through your body.
That last statement about life force energy is not just fluffy new age talk. Its a physiological, experiential, psychospiritual reality that, without fail, anyone I have guided toward cleansing as part of their mind-body process has been blown away by!
It's the difference between me touching your neck and it feeling good, and me touching your neck and you getting goosebumps down to your toes - because the access to energy and aliveness in your nervous system is that open! It's the difference between your yoga practice being a sluggish struggle that you work through because it does you good - and your yoga practice being infused with a sense of luminosity, grace and ecstatic fluidity in the body!
So, Tim's extraordinary availability to an energetic process on the table that day made me want to know more about his system, and tell him more about mine - and it made me want to share him with all of you..
But of course that has to begin at home.... I have done a lot of cleansing over the years - and it was one of the things that helped me cure my Lyme Disease a few years back - but never anything like the izocleanze approach.
My Journey Begins
Today I am on Day One of five-day izocleanze - and it's amazing! (I did it for three days last month and loved it!)
Each morning before 6 a.m. a compact cooler arrives silently outside your door. It contains 11 pints of incredible mixed veggie juices and herbal teas, vials of mineral liquid, and a pack of cleansing supplements. Oh and the hemp milk, bean and rice protein shake that is the treat of the day and the blood sugar stabilizer par exellance!
This time around I am feeling even more stable on the juices and teas and the delicious protein shake that i had for lunch about 2 hours ago.. Light, focused, and energized without my usual dose of Yerba Mate green tea!
See the comments section below for more reports as the fast/feast continues...
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August 2008 
alright - end of day two - feeling like i am definitely in a process. last night i had some interesting mood swings, but today felt pretty steady.
feeling very positive about doing another layer of detoxification. did some stretching today after taking it easy yesterday because of the exertion of playing soccer and dancing hardcore on sunday - tomorrow i will do a good stronng yoga practice and see how that feels!
not eating is fine until dinner time and then i start to really want something tasty…
but all day the delicious drinks are pretty satisfying and filling. interesting to take a brealk from my green tea/terba mate fuel and notice that i still have plenty of energy and focus.
i had the interesting experience today of a dental visit while on the juice feast. i actually used the time and the discomfort to practice buddhist lovingkindness meditation toward myself, the hygenist, a friend and a difficult person…
i know, i know - its like a parody of life on l.a.'s westside! :O)
(the dental hygenist even put some homeopathic “rescue remedy” under my tongue before we started…)
day 4 is plain sailing - i have felt effortlessly surrendered to the process and in the zone with the juices & no food… a little extra protein powder before i have to teach a class or see a client definitely helps kep me grounded though!
the fascinating body function thing is that i have been pleased to observe is that while i am only taking in fluids but am having serious solid bowel movements.
deep cleansing!
just hit a n interesting wave.
there's something about the practice of shifting relationship to food that seems to have both a biochemical, neurophysiological effect, as well as psychological meaning.
its like i am cleansing both physical toxins and getting in touch with deep emotions that may perhaps be held in the organs or connective tissue, or that perhaps habitual patterns with food and green tea effectively shield….
powerful! i feel very creative, weepy, loving, in touch with areas of deep sadness in my life in a really good way. there's an openness and a realness that i am riding through an interesting cycle today…
tomorrow is day 5.
i had a hard time sleeping and was a little wacky all day today - i think 5-days may be my limit for now…
coulod be a deep layer of detox/die off - i am not sure…. but i had to eat tonight around 9 pm - and it felt needed and good!
it's been an amazing week - i think the highlights were teaching my class monday and wednesday nights and doing bodywork wednesday and thursday - i had a lot of energy and focus and felt very light, confident and playful…though of course the deeper uncomfortable places were clearly valuable and important too.
Julian, it is always such a pleasure to cleanze you. Your words are always so engaging and elucidating. Thank you for sharing your experience with the world.
Tim
thank you for your masterful program my friend!