| Yoga is becoming more and more recognized as an | | | | tank" is not kept clean, the body begins to lose more |
| accompaniment to cancer treatment. Mostly viewed | | | | energy than it gains because it is forced to clean up |
| and experienced as a way to relax the mind and to | | | | a dirty internal environment. In a dirty fish tank, |
| tone and shape the body, Yoga is a very ancient | | | | bacteria grow. |
| science that is misunderstood in today's society. | | | | The bacteria morph into yeast. The yeast morph into |
| While the benefits of Yoga surely can include a calm | | | | fungus. The fungus morph into mold. These toxins |
| mind and fit body, Yoga is a way of building and | | | | deprive the body of oxygen. The internal pH of the |
| maintaining healing energy while removing the more | | | | blood begins to drop, and the body goes into survival |
| damaging patterns and behaviors that otherwise drain | | | | mode. The pH of the blood will only drop when the |
| this precious, healing resource. To be a Yogi, one | | | | tissues in the body have become so toxic that they |
| must master one's mind. | | | | have entered a state of latent tissue acidosis. The |
| Mental, emotional, and physical stress stem from a | | | | degree of latent tissue acidosis is most commonly |
| mind that has become destructive rather than | | | | measured by urinary pH. A urinary pH of 5 or below |
| constructive. While most people live their lives in | | | | signals severe latent tissue acidosis and a body that |
| search of creativity, success, abundance, and a sense | | | | is severely deprived of oxygen. The state of the |
| of accomplishment, they often do so at the expense | | | | blood can clearly be seen in a Live Blood Cell Analysis. |
| of their own well-being. Most of the time, this is | | | | How does a body end up in a state of latent tissue |
| unconscious. Some people live very successful and | | | | acidosis, and how can Yoga return a body to health? |
| creative lives, and then there are people who intend | | | | The world of Yoga practices spans every bodily |
| to live very successful and creative lives yet do not | | | | system. A Yogic diet is an alkaline diet centered |
| know how to. At the end of the day these individuals | | | | around pure, fresh, organic fruits, vegetables, seeds, |
| feel mentally, emotionally, and physically drained and | | | | nuts, and low-acid grains. Making the body more |
| exhausted. | | | | alkaline is the key to eliminating latent tissue acidosis. |
| Exhaustion, stress, and lack of energy all stem from | | | | Cleansing the body and bringing fresh oxygen into |
| behaviors and patterns of living that are in | | | | the system also makes the body more alkaline. |
| disharmony with the first two laws of Yoga: Yamas | | | | Pranayama (building healing energy in the body |
| and Niyamas. The Sanksrit word Yama means | | | | through breath) brings fresh oxygen into the lungs, |
| "death". The Sanskrit word Niyama means "death | | | | the blood, and the cells. Both Pranayama and Yoga |
| inside". We must ask ourselves, what is it that needs | | | | Asanas (postures) cleanse the body's internal organs, |
| to die in our external environments and in our internal | | | | remove acidic toxins from the body, and cleanse and |
| environments? Of what can we let go? What is no | | | | heal energy pathways in the body (refered to as |
| longer needed? In which ways are we damaging | | | | Nadis in the Sanskrit language). The practices of Yoga |
| ourselves, allowing our minds to drain our energy, and | | | | are designed to clean the blood. |
| leading destructive rather than constructive lives? | | | | Aligning oneself with the Yamas and Niyamas |
| Patanjali, a great Master of Yoga, has shone his light | | | | destroys the damaging patterns and behaviors that |
| on a path we all must follow. In his legendary Yoga | | | | make an individual more extrovert, stressed, and |
| Sutras, he tells us that the reason our minds, bodies, | | | | capable of draining the healing energy built through |
| and spirits are not at rest is because our minds are | | | | the Yogic practices of Pranayama and Asana. In fact, |
| violent. It is the mind that seeks to hurt its own | | | | there is a Yama in Pranayama. It is therefore |
| system and the systems of others. We are not | | | | necessary to be mindful of one's attitude towards |
| truthful with ourselves. It is the mind that deceives | | | | oneself and others before the practices of Yoga can |
| its own self and attempts to be deceptive with | | | | begin to heal the body. This is the reason Yamas and |
| others. The mind is a thief. It steals, covets, hoards, | | | | Niyamas are the first two steps in the eightfold path |
| and eventually drains our energy in patterns of which | | | | of Yoga. |
| most of us are unaware. Yet, for the Master of | | | | It is exciting that Yoga has been recognized as a |
| Yoga who has reclaimed his or her own energy | | | | useful and helpful addition to cancer treatment. Yoga |
| through Yamas and Niyamas and the practices of | | | | is currently being taught in conjunction to cancer |
| Yoga, the mind is no longer an enemy, but it is a | | | | treatment in Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Memorial |
| great friend. | | | | Sloan-Kettering, MC Anderson, and many other major |
| The question that then forms in the mind is, what | | | | cancer treatment centers. As a patient learns the |
| does Yoga have to do with cancer? Cancer appears | | | | ways his or her mind has become destructive rather |
| in a body that is destructive rather than constructive. | | | | than constructive, the practices of Yoga will naturally |
| The internal cells are in a state of attack, and the | | | | heal the body. The human body is remarkable by |
| body is a battlefield. | | | | design. It contains everything it needs to heal itself, |
| Science has been able to prove that cancer cannot | | | | and the body is constantly amazing practitioners in |
| exist in an oxygenated environment. Dr. Robert O. | | | | the medical field. Unexplained miracles happen every |
| Young, head of the pH Miracle Center in Valley | | | | day. |
| Center, CA, has demonstrated that when the pH of | | | | The practices of Yoga can bring a person who is out |
| urine drops below 5, on the scale of 1-14, the | | | | of balance into a state of balance. It can help an |
| chances of an individual developing cancer increase | | | | individual live a very long, happy, creative, and |
| dramatically. A low internal body pH deprives the | | | | abundant life. It can assist a person to live free of |
| body of oxygen, and the blood becomes dirty. Our | | | | sickness and disease, to move from a dark place into |
| internal cells are like fish in a fish tank. If the cells are | | | | a place of love and healing light. This is my prayer for |
| not bathed in pH balanced water, and if our "fish | | | | all of those who suffer with cancer or any dis-ease. |