Moonfasting

Give it a try, what have you got to lose when you have everything to gain?  

Sources:  

• Google Books
• India Divine
• Moon Diet

• Calms the brain
• Helps relieve stress and mild depression
• Relaxes the body
• Reduces headache, fatigue, and insomnia
• Helps to lower blood pressure

• Lay on the floor with the body in neutral position. (if back is uncomfortable see Variations below)
• Wiggle the chin down to the chest allowing the neck muscles to open & release as you relax.
• Turn the inner elbows & palms up to the sky, allowing the chest & shoulders to

• Back injury – keep knees bent.
• Pregnancy – lay on side in Fetal Pose

Getting Grounded

• Sitting on the ground
• Gardening
• Walking barefoot
• Swimming
• Yoga
• Meditation

This is just a small example of ways to bring that sense of grounding into your life, but it is really up to you to find what works for you! During our lives we have different points of experience in our life story, therefore what works now may not necessarily work later.  The point is to keep trying, always evolving and always learning about yourself.

I will conclude this article with one of my favorite grounding meditations.

• Begin by sitting in a quiet place that allows your back to be straight & both your feet on the ground.  Back of the hands resting on your thighs (which helps one to be open) .
• Eyes are closed, separate the teeth to relax the jaw & rest tongue to the roof of the mouth.
• Take 3 slow deep breaths letting the body know that you are going into meditation.
• Breathe in through the nose and out through the mouth.  Open yourself to receive Mother
  Earth’s energy. Feel this energy surround you like loving arms, sending you nurturing and unconditional love and acceptance.
• Feel an imaginary cord opening up underneath your body and visualize it rolling out to the core centre of the earth.
• A red colored grounding energy enters your body through this cord to the base of your spine.  Let it flow into your pelvis and the lower parts of your body.
• Direct it up the back of your spine and let it
  shine through the top of your head.
• Now feel the grounding energy go down the front of your spine and then into the lower body.
• Continue to breathe in through the nose and out through the mouth as you feel it creating an energetic loop throughout your entire body grounding you to Mother Earth’s energy.

Have a wonderful August.

Peace & Love,

Robin

• engages every part of the body
• strengthens core, lower back & legs
• opens the hips and shoulders
• stretches the legs, ankles & calves
• tones spinal nerves
• concentration & balance

• Start from a standing star pose.
• Turn one foot to the front and other slightly inwards. Inhale and lean the back hip out as you reach over the front leg as far as you can.
• Bring front hand to the thigh as you bring the other arm straight up overhead.
• Ensure that the shoulders are stacked.
• Slowly slide the front hand down the leg keeping the shoulders stacked at all times.
• Avoid putting any pressure on the knee joint.
• If you choose to look up tuck your chin into the shoulder.

• Heart Condition: Practice against a wall. Keep the top arm on the hip.
• Neck: Don’t turn your head to look upward; continue looking straight ahead and keep both sides of the neck evenly long.
• High blood pressure: Turn the head to gaze downward in the final pose.
• Low blood pressure
• Diarrhea
• Headache