Cordyceps Chaga Elixir for training.

Here is an elixir that incorporates the herbal extracts I sell at radiantlifeyoga.com

2 cups Almond Milk
2 cups tea of He Shou Wu, Reishi and Chaga
1 tablespoons Maca
2 tablespoons Cordyceps Extract
1 tablespoon Bee pollen
1 teaspoon Shilajit (use a wooden or plastic spoon)
1 tablespoon Chlorella

Had an interesting experience training.  I haven't been able to train much in Capoeira lately,  due to having three kids, but was invited to participate in Mestre Toca's workshop.  Though I practice Asana everyday it is a very different energy and I feared that the vigorous Capoeira training would exhaust me.  My body had been stiff upon waking and I had received blows in a roda on Friday night which from past experience I assumed would bruise.  I practiced Yoga at 4:30 am Saturday morning and felt energetic, but a little beat up.


By 8:00 though when the days workshops began I felt completely recovered and filled with energy and concentration.  Gone were any traces of fatigue from the previous day.  That surprised me.  I had anticipated being at less than my full potential.  As the day of training went on, rather than feeling my energy levels going down, my energy levels progressively increased.  I felt calm and balanced.  We finished the 5 hour workshop with a roda up at the triangle park in downtown AVL.  I noticed that almost everyone else who was training seemed to be experiencing some degree of fatigue.  I atrribute my endurance to the cordyceps.  After downtown roda I biked to teach a 5:30 yoga class at Asheville Yoga Center.  Biking home I reflected on how I hadn't been this active since our daughters had been born 3 years ago.

I have been taking cordyceps extract on and off for about 2 years, with a break during our time in Costa Rica.  Since we'd gotten to AVL though I have been pretty steady with it.  At first I couldn't tell if the cordyceps were doing anything.  Tonic herbs are non-stimulant and their effects can be subtle.  As time has passed though the effects have become clear to me.  Subtle effects add up over time, and I am keenly aware that cordyceps have made me bette able to adapt to to environmental toxins and stress.

Cordyceps extract is not stimulant, but transforms the body, immune system, opening the respiratory system, and balancing the endocrine system over time.  I have been using cordyceps extract daily since September.  I have had other powerful experiences which I attribute to the cordyceps, but this one stood out, because I was expending energy over a sustained period on such a light meal.

Cordyceps has been used for thousands of years in preventative, or Tonic Medicine, and was reserved by penalty of death for the Emperor and his court.  Tonics are different from stimulants, in that there is no immediate effect.  The effect of tonic agents is cumulative over time as they help the body to adapt to what ever stresses, pressure or tapas it is experiencing.

Cordyceps was introduced to the Western world in 1193 when 3 Chinese runners broke world records at the National games in Bejing.  Suspicion that they were taking performance enhancing drugs led to testing, which came up negative for illegal substances.  Their coach revealed they were taking cordyceps.

Cordyceps have long been known as an Athletes Tonic.  They are said to increase the bodies ability to uptake oxygen, repair joints and increase muscle capacity.

Cordyceps has long been used as a sexual tonic and fertility agent, and cultivates vitality and recovery from exertion.

Cordyceps has long been used as an anti cancer agent and has both anti-bacterial, and anti-viral properties.

Cordyceps Extract is available from Radiant Life Yoga.

Water

This is a topic of incredible importance.  We have so lost our connection to the source, that our very survival is at stake.  We can no longer afford to take for granted water.  The health ad purity of your body is in no way separate from the vitality and purity of the water you drink.  Very few things illustrate so clearly our connected to each other, this earth and all living things.  I hope that the videos below will educate and inspire, they are not meant to create fear, all though what is happening is very scary.  If there ever was a time to wake up and Rise, this is it.  NAMASTE

More on the crucial topic of water.

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Samskara- Self reproductive quality

I went to Shala's Monday Evening class at AYC and as so often seems to be the case there found my self in new (to me) postures, that in 16 years of yoga practice I have never encountered.  At one point she mentioned that a certain posture was good for breaking up scar tissue, and at that moment I was wondering what the subtle counterpart is for the tightness deep in my inner groin. head of the femur area.  And it became clear that "scar tissue", being the physical expression of something that we hold on to, by choice or not, are the expression of samskaras, or habitual ways of experiencing, holding, expressing, believing thinking ect.

Samskara is a quality, it is a guna.  It is the tendency to think, say, do, because we've doe it before.  Samskara is self reproducing, and can take on a life of its own.   Sometimes called thought forms samskaras's are subtle matter that  arises out of nothingness because we create it.  As we create it again and again it becomes