wild green ayurveda and prana
Wild Green Ayurveda and Prana, part 1
For the March Yogidetox I ate fruits and vegetables. Exclusively. I didn’t add salt. Or spice. My palette became simple. For the May Yogidetox I ate wild greens 3 times a day (with other foods). My palette became wild (uncultivated). From these 2 experiences, I’ve noticed I can taste wild nutrients. Food from the store makes me feel one way… food from the woods and I’m a whole other animal. Literally. Read on to find out how this could make a huge difference in optimizing your energy.
From this experience, I can tell you that wild greens, like sweet cicely have exponentially more prana and nutrients than the greens you can purchase in the store. At this point your palette is probably too cultivated to appreciate the prana and the nutrients in wild greens.
Eating Green and Prana
How do you source your prana? Prana is the cosmic energy of consciousness that comes through the leaves of the trees into your body. You breathe in prana. You also eat prana in your foods. As your foods have more prana… you become more alive. You need less food.
Wild greens have more absorbable prana than any other food group category. Our red blood cells pick up and carry oxygen. In Sanskrit this action is called jivana, or carrying life. The hemoglobin molecule and chlorophyll molecule from eating leafy greens is essential the same, except the central element. Hemoglobin is built around iron (red). Chlorophyll is built around magnesium (green). The energetic exchange is where red becomes green and green becomes red.
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The eat green challenge has been life-changing for me. After 2 weeks on Mega Shift and 1 week on Gentle Shift, I feel fantastic, learned a lot and became more aware of my body's energies!!! I would sign up for Eat green 2 in a moment. My deep gratitude to Desiree Rumbaugh and Cate Stillman for their guidance, generosity and enthusiasm. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I am not saying goodbye, I hope the Facebook group will continue to be active. There are more good changes to come, more discoveries to be made.
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I also want to thank Cate and Desiree immensely. Just back from my Vermont Vacation here where I made green smoothies everyday for myself AND my hosts. Even grandma was drinkin up the green! I felt excellent and full of energy every day of my trip. Connecting with the glorious green nature of VERMONT made the whole experience even more magical. What a fantastic jump start to the rest of my life.
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I feel like I am making a long term shift to making vaggies and fruit the mainstay of my diet. I've never been able to do that with cleansing because I've felt deprived, This month, I have focused more on adding rather than deleting. Feels like it will stick.
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I've got my 3 year old taking the simple herbs like you recommended. Her runny nose cleared up - and the bumps on her skin which have been there forever are going away. Thanks for showing me why this is happening and what I can do about it. How empowering to know this as a mom and be able to teach it to my older kids.
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Sara Gilbert, GIS profession, mother of 2
Cate, in every contact I have with you, you make my life better. Thanks for the call — and the inspiration.
Marial Shea (Canada)
I feel like this shift is really big and exciting. I am so glad I signed up for the 1-1 work in the Business Course.
Suzanne Lynch
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"Great call today. Really helped me to get unblocked in some areas regarding money. And not that I'm inclined to believe in "signs" but right after we hung up I checked the mail and my provisional counseling license was there. I might actually be getting hooked up to the right pipeline after all!"
Sara McKeown
“I got enough support with the avatar/niche work early on, and pushed myself to incorporate more online technology such that I was able to support 45 students in my spring training course - I figure that this course enabled me to recruit more students than I would have otherwise and thus paid for the course.”
Charlotte Clews
"The Business Club plays the woven edge of consciousness and business; a place of self discovery and exploring your dharma. Like yoga, business skills are a practice, for which we need a teacher. Cate guided me to a new level of self awareness and practicality. I clarified my intentions and learned business skills to enhance my classes and workshops; synching up with the new economy. Sarah Hutchinson, www.sarahhutchinsonyoga.com
Sarah Hutchinson
"I was really able to clearly articulate my vision and the various steps that I can take in that direction. Now. Today. It doesn't have to be something that I put off until...after the kids are grown, after I go to school, after...I can take steps now.By wanting to wait until I know more I was being selfish, and only prolonging the hold society and employment have on me - working too much, not enough time for me or my studies or my business...not making the money I am worth, not helping others by sharing my knowledge." Suzanne Lynch: owner http://www.saratogaspringsyoga.com
Liz Heyliger
Hey Cate - I just wanted to let you know that I got your Good Morning Yogis book and it’s great! Stella and I read it together and then she read the whole thing to Brian. She got pretty sick earlier this winter after refusing to take heed of my recommendations (they do that at 8!), so now she’s a bit more interested in taking care of her health. Thanks again for all you are doing. You rock! xoxo Alex
Alexandra Strickland
The link I see to your work, Cate, is that people need new ways of nourishing and care for themselves to prepare for and build the capacities and navigate the new world and what it is calling on them to do – to be ready and prepare to live in such a shifting world. I sense that in order for people to learn the new ways and capacities of seeing, letting go, creating space, choosing the new, etc. there is a great need for supporting “health” work. That’s where you come in.
Rhonda La Croix
Cate- Just want you to know how brilliant you are and what a DEEP contribution you are making to our world. Your esoteric and applied knowledge are a powerful current I love to ride. Love,
Sarah H - Certified Anusara Yoga Teacher
Now, plants that are healthier and happier (yes, plants do have emotions) have better quality and more quantity of prana. Your experience of energy and life force can be greatly enhanced by better quality and more quantity of prana. Which means plants. Spend more time in the woods (or just outside when your air quality is good). Bring plants into your home. Be conscious of the plants your spending time with… and you’ll notice they are sentient.
The best I can understand it is that the plant is transferring it’s own bhavana to you. It’s life experience becomes your life experience. Where I live in Teton Basin, right below the Grand Teton, plants have an intense, hardy, and exquisite life. When I breath and eat them, this is the quality of the prana that they transfer into my blood… into my tissue.. into my thoughts and emotions.
When I eat hydroponic greens from the store.. they taste bland, cultivated, and don’t have anywhere near the intensity of energy. The
same goes for organic kale from Mexico. Everyday, I become more convinced, from the inside out, that the key to optimizing health has everything to do with literally becoming one with our ecosystem. And, as that happens we awaken to our authentic nature.
If you want to get this inside out… join us Saturday for the Raw Food & Yoga Workshop in Driggs, Idaho. I’ll be teaching with chef Tanya Alexander. Save your seat and your investment will pay you back as your grocery bill shrinks! If you’re not local, you can take the Eat Green Challenge with me and Desiree.
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Uncle Aidan
Posted at 23:43h, 05 AugustWow amazing article!! So awesome there’s other people out there who know this rare wisdom. Wild food is the most high energy vibration for sure. I try to eat as much wild as possible which is often 100% for months straight. Puts me on a whole new level of consciousness and makes my dreams more vivid. I’m addicted to the energy and dislike farmed food energy. Not sure exactly why the difference is so intense but plants definitely have emotions