Ember Days - Cellular cleanse

5 days Liquid Fast

Experience spiritual reset, cellular rejuvenation, emotional rest.

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

Join Ember Day LIQUID or RESET 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.

Winter 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.

• 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

You get:

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

2. Video with Fasting Instructions

3. 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).

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

5. Daily Email Support Dec. 14 - 22 - for fasting prep, fasting days and refeeding days

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.

Matthew 6:16-18
And when you fast, do not look dismal, like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces that their fasting may be seen by men. Truly, I say to you, they have their reward. But when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, that your fasting may not be seen by men but by your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

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 season, 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.

How the Ember Days Hildegard Fast Compares to the Fasting-Mimicking Diet

The Ember Days Hildegard Fast holds a surprising harmony with Dr. Valter Longo’s scientifically validated Fasting-Mimicking Program. Both use short cycles of reduced eating to activate the body’s natural mechanisms for regeneration, metabolic flexibility, and longevity. But Hildegard’s fast offers something more, something whole.

Rooted in centuries of Christian practice and enriched by St. Hildegard’s teachings on nutrition, digestion, herbs, and emotional balance, the Ember Days Fast integrates the entire human person: body, soul, mind, and spirit. It is not merely a metabolic intervention, it is a liturgical rhythm of restoration.

Where They Align:

• Short, structured fasting periods that are gentle yet effective

• Support for cellular repair and detoxification

• Improved metabolic markers and energy regulation

• Periodic cycles that promote sustainable long-term benefits

Both approaches honor the body’s wisdom and work with it rather than imposing strain.

What Sets the Ember Days Hildegard Fast Apart:

• Spiritual depth & meaning - fasting is woven with prayer, reflection, and almsgiving

• Seasonal wisdom - aligned with the Church calendar and creation’s natural rhythms

• Hildegard’s foods & herbs - gentle support of the gut and nervous system

• Emotional clarity - fasting becomes a path toward release, peace, and interior spaciousness

• Community support - carried together rather than attempted alone

• Whole-person renewal - fasting that nourishes not only the cells, but the heart

Longo shows how fasting can extend life. Hildegard shows how fasting can restore life.

The Ember Days Hildegard Fast gathers the best of both: the rigor of modern research and the beauty of ancient wisdom—so you return to daily life lighter, clearer, and more grounded in God.

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