Ember Days - Cellular cleanse

Liquid Fast

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Experience spiritual reset, cellular rejuvenation, emotional rest.

9 DAYS with one live prep session and one live session with prayer for healing, Q and A

  • June 8 (Pentecost) - June 9 Prep Days

  • June 10-14: Five Days Plant-Based Liquid Fast (Vegetables and Spelt broths, herbal teas plus remedies)

  • June 15-16 Refeeding Days and Detox Herbal Remedy

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Summer Ember Days: Fast, Pray, Flourish

Step into summer 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.

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

You get:

  • Discover St. Hildegard - 4 videos

  • Video with Fasting Instructions

  • 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 (you will need just few items explained in your booklet)

  • Lectio Divina Course - 4 videos

  • Liturgy of the Hours - 1 video

  • How God Heals - 1 video

  • LIVE Prep session on Sat., June 7, 9am PST and Q and A - LIVE session on Sat., June 14, 5 pm PST

Proverbs 6:6-8
"Go to the ant, O sluggard,
and consider her ways, and learn wisdom:
Which, although she hath no guide, nor master, nor captain,
provideth her meat for herself in the summer,
and gathereth her food in the harvest."

WHIT Embertide

Summer is the season of growth, labor, and preparation - a time when the earth is heavy with promise, anticipating the harvest to come before the stillness of winter. For Catholics, this mirrors a deeper spiritual reality: a call to interior cultivation during the liturgical season of the time after Pentecost.

It is no coincidence that June is dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, a time when we are invited to unite our daily work and hidden sacrifices to His burning love through the Morning Offering. Nor is it by chance that the Church celebrates so many great saints during this season, especially St. Martha, patron of diligent service. Her witness reminds us that holy work flows from a rightly ordered heart, one that seeks first the kingdom, even amid the busyness of life.

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.

Contraindications: If you are in doubt, contact iwona@stonetoflesh.org for more info

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.

If you still wants to fast but can not do plant-based liquid fast, consider The Apostles Fast, June 16 - 28 which is vegan in its formula.

Spiritual Benefits:

  • Greater Clarity: Fasting sharpens spiritual perception, allowing deeper prayer and connection with God.

  • Strengthening of Virtues: She believed fasting empowers the will, cultivating humility, patience, and moderation.

  • Detachment from Worldly Temptations: By denying excess, fasting frees the soul from material attachments.

 

Emotional & Mental Benefits:

  • Calmness & Mental Clarity: A fasting body is less burdened, allowing for a more peaceful mind.

  • Healing of Negative Emotions: St. Hildegard believed that excessive food (especially harmful foods) could lead to sadness, sluggishness, and negative emotions, whereas fasting restores joy and lightness.

 

Physical Benefits:

Detoxification & Purification, Improved Digestion, Increased Vitality (Viriditas)

1. Cellular & Longevity Benefits

  • Autophagy & Cellular Repair: Triggers autophagy, where the body clears out damaged cells and regenerates new, healthier ones.

  • Stem Cell Activation: After around 3-5 days, the body stimulates stem cell production, enhancing tissue repair and renewal.

  • Anti-Aging Effects: Increases lifespan and a reduces in markers of aging - monks and nuns lived very long in comparison to general population due also to seasonal fasting

2. Metabolic & Weight Benefits

  • Lower Blood Sugar & Insulin Resistance: Helps regulate glucose metabolism and improves insulin sensitivity, reducing the risk of Type 2 diabetes.

  • Reduction in Inflammation: Lowers markers of chronic inflammation, which are linked to many diseases.

3. Brain & Cognitive Benefits

  • Neuroprotection & Mental Clarity: Fasting increases brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), which supports learning, memory, and resilience to neurodegenerative diseases.

  • Reduced Risk of Neurodegenerative Disorders: Help protect against Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and cognitive decline.

4. Gut & Immune System Benefits

  • Gut Microbiome Reset: Can improve gut health by promoting a diverse and balanced microbiome, especially if followed up with proper refeeding days and remedies.

  • Immune System Rejuvenation: By breaking down old immune cells and generating new ones, it can help reset the immune system, making it more efficient.

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  • You will drink min. 12 cups of liquids and more, depending on your weight, work, lifestyle.

    You will drink distilled or/and mineral still water and herbal teas available to get in most grocery stores, such as fennel, yarrow, nettle. You can also drink ancient spelt coffee.

  • During 5 days of plant-based liquid fast you will consume:

    • broth made from ancient spelt berries (links to US farmers and stores providing are included) and organic vegetables such as carrots, onions, parsnips, celery and spices, twice a day

    • in case you need more solid foods, you will eat the same broth as above with vegetables pureed from broth, up to twice a day

  • You receive instructions for prep days and refeeding days after you register. The best way to prep is to remove all highly processed foods, meat and dairy two days before fast starts. You will get simple recipes for those and refeeding days in your booklet.

  • Suggested: enema kit for the first 1-2 days of fast, foot soaking herbs or salts, dry brush for skin brushing, bath herbs such as lavender.

    After liquid fast it is advisable to go on 4 weeks long digestive cleanse according to St. Hildegard. You will receive instructions on where to purchase herbs mix and how to proceed.

Value: $197

Price: $50 to make it available to all who seek healing - 15% off for Hildegard Workshops, SOTH, FLOW alumni; 50% off for previous paid Fasting Courses online