Ember Days - Cellular cleanse

5 days Liquid Fast

Experience spiritual reset, cellular rejuvenation, emotional rest.

Sept. 16-20, 2025 with two days prep and three refeeding days

Join Ember Day RESET or LIQUID Fasting Challenge - liquid and/or minimum food fast (plant-based, restricted calories)

Contact me to figure out if this fast is good for your condition.

Physical contraindications to this fast include: neurosis, mental illness, acute infections, debilitated health due to cancer, tuberculosis, overall very poor health. Spiritual contraindications to this fast are: pride, immoderation in eating and drinking, melancholy, world weariness (Weltschmerz), excessive love of the world, instability. You will be asked to observe and ‘listen’ to your body during each day of this fast.

Fall Ember Days: Fast, Pray, Heal

Enter into harvest season with the ancient Catholic tradition of Ember Days! It’s not just fasting, it’s a full-body reset, a soul-deep refresh, and a way to sync with God’s rhythms. With St. Hildegard’s wisdom, nourishing foods, and prayerful reflection, you’ll clear out the old and make space for renewal. Ready to trade heaviness for lightness? Let’s do this - body, soul, and spirit.

You get:

1. Live Sessions with Q and A and prayer for healing: Sat. Sept. 13 and 20, 9 am PST (time might change) - I’m adding a brand-new live teaching and instructions designed to help you deepen your awareness and care during the Ember Fast. Fasting is not just a physical challange, it affects your mind, emotions, and spirit. In this session, we’ll explore:

   • The mind-body connection: Learn how your mental and emotional states influence your physical reactions while fasting, and how to recognize the subtle signals your body is sending aka how to listen to your body

   • Practical recognition skills: Identify signs of fatigue, emotional unrest, cravings, or anxiety, and understand what they truly mean in the context of your fast

   • Discernment tools: Gain concrete, actionable guidance for deciding when to adjust your fasting approach, when to pause, and when to persevere, ensuring your fast remains safe, spiritually fruitful, and rejuvenating

   • Integration of heart, mind, and body: Discover how emotional and mental awareness can enhance your spiritual experience and strengthen your self-discipline, while honoring your body’s needs

   2. Discover St. Hildegard course - 4 videos with 2.5h content

   3. Video with Fasting Instructions

   4. Booklet PDF with Fasting Rules, Recipes, Groceries, Remedies, Prep and Refeeding days - once you read it, you will find ancient spelt, all needed spices and remedies on THIS LIST (few items explained in your booklet) or just get an optimal fasting bundle (scroll down to read about it).

2. Lectio Divina Course - 4 videos with 6h content

3. What’s App - 10 days Private Support Group Sept. 13-23 for daily interactions, support and communication (you have to join group to receive daily prompts and ask questions, interact with other participants)

You might decide to shorten the fast in the middle of it, if you will find indications that your body’s capacity is signaling to move into refeeding days sooner. That’s ok since you will be responding to the intelligence of your body while keeping spiritual focus of the fast intact. We are not aiming at keeping the rules above reason but at connecting with God who heals.

Psalm 144:15-16
"The eyes of all hope in thee, O Lord:
and thou givest them meat in due season.
Thou openest thy hand,
and fillest with blessing every living creature."

michaelmass Embertide

As the golden light of autumn begins to wane, the Church calls us to the ancient rhythm of the Ember Days, three days set apart for fasting, prayer, and thanksgiving for the harvest. In the Benedictine and Hildegard tradition, these days are not a gloomy deprivation, but a joyful pause: a time to cleanse the body, awaken the soul, and attune ourselves once more to the Creator’s order.

Hildegard of Bingen saw fasting not as punishment, but as a way to restore viriditas - the vitality of health, through simple foods, healing herbs, and a heart turned toward God. This autumn, join us as we step into this centuries-old practice, weaving together the wisdom of European monastic medicine and the renewal of metabolic balance.

Embertides are spent fasting and partially abstaining (voluntary since the new Code of Canon Law) in penance and with the intentions of thanking God for the gifts He gives us in nature and asking Him for the discipline to use them in moderation. The fasts, known as "Jejunia quatuor temporum," or "the fast of the four seasons," are rooted in Old Testament practices of fasting four times a year:

Zacharias 8:19:
Thus saith the Lord of hosts: The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth shall be to the house of Juda, joy, and gladness, and great solemnities: only love ye truth and peace.

fastING experience: