Day 8 - What we do on the right, we also do on the left

It's one of the things I say

in our Laughter Yoga Circle.

Whatever we do on side,

we must do on the other.

Woke up this morning feeling pretty good.

Not so swollen or miserable.

72 degrees. - GingerMama and I hit the road

We walk in the balmy weather

A little foggy this morning

We sniff the Mango trees

I have the desire to poop

Woo hoo ~@~

A little turd comes out

with almost no effort

My stomach flattens out

- just like that

I'd like to say that this is

the end to my sordid ordeal

However, it is just the beginning

I still feel my lungs bang on

my ribcage when I stretch my right arm

No thing feels normal

from my sternum to my anus

Everything is distended,

grossly exaggerated -

Except I am now empty

What to do with food?

It's like I've been empty

Can I just stay that way?

I've promised Sister Goddess Galant

that I will nourish myself today

Some sustenance

I muscle test as I go through the kitchen

My first reaction is to juice

Some light watery greens

Cucumber, apple, spinach, parsley

Very green and sweet

My organs are palpitating

Anticipating a lot of work

I pour myself 1/4 cup juice

And water it down 3/4 cup water

This seems easier on my body

Pilates class with Donna Madonna -
pulled out the reformer to protect my back.
We slow the pace way down so
I can listen to how my body i feeling -
what it can handle.

I am not sure where my abs are anymore

Ever so slowly, Donna Madonna walks me through

mermaids and leg stretches as we open my sacrum
so I can breathe fully again.

Laying down after my workout
Elly Belly comes to play on my belly
kneading the new space created from stretching
I feel the expansiveness that has been missing.

Thank you for this blessing of slowing down.
I am still a little feverish.
However, I am feeling hungry.
My body leads me to banana.
I take three slices of banana and mush it up
on top of this OMazing German bread
(my soul brought me this manna)
from the GermanHaus

Seven Grain Power
INGREDIENTS: STONE GROUND WHOLE GRAIN WHEAT, RYE,
OATS, BARLEY, SPELT, MILLET & BROWN RICE, WHEAT FLOUR,
FILTERED WATER, FLAX, PUMPKIN, SESAME & SUNFLOWER
SEEDS, BUTTERMILK, SEA SALT, NATURAL RYE SOUR, SPICES,
VINEGAR, YEAST

I am eating very small bits at a time
focusing on the 50 chews
(which is so hard, I tend to lose count
somewhere in the middle of a swallow) -
ouch, that one was too fast -
not possible to type and chew at the same time -

I feel as it goes down my esophagus,
I feel where it cross the liver,
going past the gallbladder and
that is where it slows down
right at the opening of the stomach -
there was a lot of undigested bread and banana.
Need to slow down even more.

Drank some water with lemon.
Lemon seems to help with the burping.
It cleanses and opens as it goes down.

Standing to see if I can burp more.
I burp, I drink a little more water.
I sit down and I take an even smaller bite.
I masticate.
I feel the millet on my tongue,
a little piece of sunflower seed between my teeth.
Itʼs like a sensation explosion in my mouth.
I chew.

Nap, jacuzzi, massage -
that is what I need to restore myself today

Sister Goddess Galant comes at 4:00 p.m.

We talk about how I am feeling

She tests my energy and raises my Chi

She touches, she tugs, she connects me to my core

She helps me find my abdomen muscles again

Woo hoo ~@~

I sink into her fingers

I let go of the world and enter my body

Swirls of sensations - hot, cold, deep, low

I sleep - I allow my body to do what it does best