Category: Spring Cleanse


Cleansing is more than green smoothies…

When you think about “Spring Cleansing” what typically comes to mind is a harsh dietary regimen of green smoothies, fiber drinks, sour vinegar, and some kind of strange concoction with cayenne pepper and lemon juice. But here at the Homestead,…

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Clean Livin’ for your Spring Cleanse

Spring is here! Are you cleansing? Our bodies naturally accumulate toxins and waste by-products during the slow, and sedentary winter months. Now is the time to give your body a fresh start on the year by cleaning out the nooks…

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Last chance to register for Spring Cleanse 2016: Body, Speech & Mind

Our cleanse begins tomorrow! Hooray! Are you dancing for joy with me? No…? “Cleansing is such a drag.” – Not with the Homestead! Here at the Homestead, you will not go hungry, you will not be starving yourself, you will…

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Deepak Chopra wants to know, “What are you hungry for?”

I wish I had 100 copies of this book. After giving a copy to each of my family members, friends and clients, and then donating a copy to my local library, I would save the last three copies for myself:…

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Spring Cleanse starts TOMORROW! Here are some tools to get ready

Spring Cleanse 2016: Body, Speech & Mind is shaping up to be the most holistic cleanse we’ve had here at the Homestead ever. Ironic, I know. But the emphasis is usually on cleansing just the body – eschewing certain foods,…

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Ready, set, CLEANSE!

It’s springtime again at the Homestead, which at this elevation means a mix of snow, ice and mud with the occasional hail storm. But already we can see tiny green sprouts poking up through the thinning frost and birdsongs echoing…

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Food is medicine and the other way ’round

Let thy food be thy medicine and thy medicine be thy food. – Hippocrates (460-377 BC) Younger, stronger bodies seem to utilize every last calorie to the fullest – only now that I’m in my 30’s am I appreciating the…

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5 more cleansing recipes by popular demand!

Hopefully your spring cleanse has inspired you to eat lighter and cleaner so you can enjoy radiant health and vitality year-round. After a cleanse, I like to keep my diet light in saturated fats, free from dairy and refined carbohydrates….

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Ending your cleanse the Holistic Way

The Holistic Way is about more than just health and wellness, it is about living from the source of your overall well-being, your in-dwelling spiritual nature (call it spirit, soul, enlightened nature, Buddha, or whatever…). A three-day cleanse is your…

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5 light and delicious recipes to end your cleanse

How you end a cleanse is far more important than how you started it. If you’ve managed to cut out coffee, sugar, alcohol and saturated fats for a few days, the LAST thing you should do is dive right back…

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