Liquid Breakfast
I am a prodigious eater. I'm hungry when I wake up and snack all throughout the day. To be on a raw diet I would probably have to eat nearly every waking hour. For breakfast today, however, I decided to go for the liquid diet.
My parents had given me some lemon grass stalks from my mother's garden. I boiled the cut stalks with ginger root for a half hour, mixed it with some local honey, and had a lovely tea. In warmer climates than Ithaca, New York, tea is consumed on hot days to help sweat out the heat. Today, here, it is supposed to be an unseasonable warm day, so I was getting a head start. I could also see this being a wonderful tea if you are feeling under the weather.
For substance, I made two green smoothies (yes, two... otherwise I'd be looking for a burrito in an hour or so). The first was kale, banana, peaches, soy milk, flax seed; the second I subbed apples for peaches. Maybe I put a bit more soy milk (mixed with water) in the second, but I found it to be more watered down. Both, however, were really lovely. Currently, I feel like the energizer bunny. Literally buzzing with energy. For example, you wouldn't know it, but I am typing really really quickly right now.
My parents had given me some lemon grass stalks from my mother's garden. I boiled the cut stalks with ginger root for a half hour, mixed it with some local honey, and had a lovely tea. In warmer climates than Ithaca, New York, tea is consumed on hot days to help sweat out the heat. Today, here, it is supposed to be an unseasonable warm day, so I was getting a head start. I could also see this being a wonderful tea if you are feeling under the weather.
For substance, I made two green smoothies (yes, two... otherwise I'd be looking for a burrito in an hour or so). The first was kale, banana, peaches, soy milk, flax seed; the second I subbed apples for peaches. Maybe I put a bit more soy milk (mixed with water) in the second, but I found it to be more watered down. Both, however, were really lovely. Currently, I feel like the energizer bunny. Literally buzzing with energy. For example, you wouldn't know it, but I am typing really really quickly right now.
Liquid Breakfast
We'll see if I need that burrito, anyway, in an hour or so.
- Start class on back, legs bent towards ceiling
- Inhale raise spine slowly into Setu Bandhasana (Bridge Pose)
- Exhale lower spine to floor
- Move with breath between steps 2 and 3
- Hold Setu Bandhasana
- Release spine to ground, curl into ball, forehead to knees
- Take hands under legs, rolling along spine
- Roll up to seated
- Ardha Ustrasana (Half Camel), taking hand to opposite ankle, alternating between sides until warm
- Ustrasana (Camel Pose)
- Cat/cow in table pose
- Adho Mukha Svanasana (Downward Facing Dog Pose). Hold for approximately 3 minutes
- Urdhva Mukha Svanasana (Upward Facing Dog Pose). Hold for 5-10 breaths, moving hips and shifting with breath
- Garbasana (Child's Pose)
- Adho Mukha Svanasana
- Plank Pose
- Lower to stomach
- Ardha Navasana (Half Boat Pose, version of boat on stomach)
- Alternate between sides of Half Boat until very warm
- Garbasana
- Navasana (Boat Pose)
- Garbasana
- Adho Mukha Svanasana
- Tadasana (Mountain Pose)
- Garundasana (Eagle Pose)
- Natarajasana (Dancer's Pose)
- Virabhadrasana III (Warrior III)
- Step back into Warrior I
- Virabhadrasana II (Warrior II)
- Trikonasana (Triangle Pose)
- Virabhadrasana II
- Vinyasa to low lunge
- Step up into Virabhadrasana III
- Repeat steps 24-33
- Vinyasa to ground
- Halasana (Plow Pose)
- Karpindasana (Ear Pressure Pose)
- Halasana
- Sarvangasana (Shoulder Stand Pose)
- Setu Bandhasana
- Supta Matsyendrasana (Reclined Twist Pose). Repeat other side
- Savasana
