Cleansing, fasting, detoxification and healing. But what does it mean?

Cleansing, fasting, detoxification and healing. To retreat is to take time out from the world, to cleanse and exercise the body and to quiet the mind and to come to rest in our essential nature.

Your body is your temple. Cleansing, fasting and detox retreats help you awaken your consciousness and transform your relationship with your body, mind and heart. The food we eat plays an important role in loving and respecting ourselves by nourishing us at the cellular level. Firstly we must detoxify the body from environmental, emotional and physical toxins. Then reactivate your energy through the chakras in order for you to shine.  

Fasting to access the deeper self

Fasting is an ancient practice. People fast as a tool to cleanse their bodies and purify their minds.This has a strong effect on us as we open to a deeper connection within and without.

Our entire digestive system processes solid wastes from the foods we ingest. Overall health is largely about having a fully functioning digestive system. A lifetime of improper eating habits, environmental pollution, medicinal drugs and various other lifestyle factors have contributed to an accumulation of poisons in the organs and tissues of the body. In most people the colon has become clogged with impacted dried mucus, undigested food and inorganic chemicals. This inhibits digestion and normal bowel movements but also causes a toxic bloodstream. This toxic nature of the blood is the primary cause of disease and degeneration of every organ in the body.  

Purify and stimulate

Cleansing, fasting, detoxification and healing is our body’s natural way of removing poisons. It purifies the blood, regenerates and rebalances all vital functions in the body. Digestive functions use a lot of energy and enzymes in our daily life and fasting diverts this energy to detoxification and healing. During fasting all the internal organs detoxifies themselves. Digestive enzymes travel throughout the system digesting damaged cells, tumours, deeply compacted mucus, crystallised spurs on the joints and inflammation. Fasting also stimulates growth hormone secretion from the pituitary gland. This is the most powerful healing and regeneration hormone for the specific purpose of repairing damage to the organs and tissues as part of the healing process.  

Periodically one needs to cleanse in order to protect health, promote vitality and prolong life. Fasting is nature’s method to cure disease at the root source which always involves toxicity. Fasting, yogic cleansing practices, breathing, bodywork, massage and exercise all assist the process of deep tissue detoxification. Every drug, preservative and artificial additive we ingest tiggers a secretion of mucus in the body which becomes compacted on the walls of the colon. One has to rehydrate and loosen the solid waste from the colon and bowel lining.

Your own body will naturally do the rest of the detox work through your blood, lymph, hormones and enzymes.  But we do need to allow sufficient time for the natural system to take over. Three to seven days is usually enough to kick start you on your own journey of healing. Five benefits of juice fasting.

Gain clarity, balance and health

Many people come on our retreats thinking that they will lose weight and get some rest and get strong but the effects are far reaching. They do lose weight, they do get strong and fit but mostly they find a clarity that they had not thought was possible.  One can’t really know what real clarity, balance and health is while the body is full of toxins.  Once the body is clean and clear, the mind follows and you will have full knowledge of this.

Check out our 7 Night Organic Juice Cleanse & Yoga Retreat in France and our Deep Cleansing Juice Detox Retreat in South Africa.