On Sunday, August 14 Andrea Slaby and chef Anthony Carroccio were at Junction Center Yoga Studio to present an unusual workshop designed to reset your body into the mode of life-long detox.
“W’ ll discuss and then practice how to incorporate a series of asanas coupled with a life-altering live food diet to attain rejuvenation, detoxification and the elimination of impurities,” says Andrea Slaby. “These movements and the food introduced into your daily life are the tools you need. You don’t have eliminate anything, no stressing over a set of dieting rules and regulations. You just add these tools to your daily routine. Eventually, the items you want to eliminate will simply fade away without trying to stop them cold-turkey.”
According to yogic philosophy, kundalini is a spiritual energy or life force located at the base of the spine. It is conceptualized as a coiled up serpent. Literally, kundalini or kundala is that which is coiled (Sanskrit kund, to burn; kunda, to coil or to spiral). It is believed that Kundalini yoga is that which arouses the sleeping Kundalini Shakti from its coiled base through the 6 chakras, and penetrate the 7th chakra, or crown.
Eighty percent of the asanas Andrea suggests are to support and stimulate the organs most responsible for detoxification, elimination and circulation. You will learn to stimulate these key organs to eliminate toxins from within the body and learn how to keep them at optimal health on a daily basis with a minimal investment of time. You will also learn how to stimulate your hormones to maintain balance, radiating vitality through the elimination of toxins and better choices in the foods you put into your body.
“I bring my chef Anthony Carroccio along and we prepare food together,” says Andrea. “Anthony will then discuss the key foods that stimulate healthy cells and a healthier lifestyle through a system of Sustainable Detoxification.”
After class, refreshments were served to alkalize the system and awaken the senses for a conversation about restoration, rejuvenation and a lifestyle that supports detoxification on a daily basis without “fasting and binging” cycles. During the talk Anthony will introduce the group to some raw and sprouted delights. He will provide handouts and recipes for the attendees. This workshop was all about developing life-long habits.
Andrea Slaby teaches Yoga Workshops that combine food and kundalini in Santa Barbara, CA and in the Midwest. Originally from Milwaukee, she brings her skills to the Midwest so people can grasp and learn what necessary changes they need to make in order to heal their mind, body and spirit. People come to enjoy themselves, build community and learn about the food and recipes. It’s fun and the food is delicious.
Andrea recently produced a kundalini yoga workshop that focused on the parts of the body that go along with spring; the liver and gallbladder and then made a raw food dinner of foods that heal those areas of the body. She teaches people certain yoga and meditation techniques that help them on a personal level as well as a social level.
