Hey there Midtowners, Downtowners, and Other Gridsters,

It's been a long, high-powered few weeks, a big events push through Green 2nd Saturday to ECOS' Earth Day Festival,  Fleet Fee's Diva Night to International Earth Day at Launderland on 16th Street, and the Taste of Midtown fundraiser for the Sheriff's Toy Project to the Sacramento Ballet's 20th Anniversary of their art director, Ron Cunningham.

Amidst all of the stress created from juggling so many events, The Guru was asked to do a little "Spring Cleaning" as a friend put it last week.   This was a spring cleaning of body and mind, a series of colonics over the past 2 1/2 weeks.   Our client, Fountain of Health between 29th and 30th on T Street across from Capitol Aquarium invited The Guru to experience what we would soon be promoting, which seemed more than valid.

Of course, my friend Dave and I experienced a bit of trepidation at the idea. There are a few moments of awkwardness at the culmination of the first event.  With the realization that this exercise in health requires a facilitator and that it feels a little more personal than the cough and turn embarrassment that every male grows up with for checking for testicular cancer, The Guru turned to chatty humor.  Of course, you go way beyond a normal first date with your facilitator, in my case, Jessie, but there's something transformative in the relationship.

A colonic cleans out the bowels of the mind and the body.   You're releasing all of the stored up toxins poisoning your thoughts and potentially leaking into your blood stream.  By strengthening the colon and pealing away a few layers of crap, literally and figuratively, your body returns to a better working order in short order.  

Over the past few weeks, I experienced noticeable calm, almost a zen-like meditative state, starting out on some very stressful rather sleepless days.  Of course, the cat didn't get my tongue but I had less need to speak, which prompted my Dad to say it's a wonder that you can speak at all now that you're not so full of shit.  Thanks with a wide smile and a big moon.

I lost a decent amount of weight, which The Guru really needed to do in a healthy way.   My series of colonics acted as a catalyst which seemed to jumpstart my natural metabolism while additionally making me more conscious of what I was eating, even when choosing not to eat the perfect foods.   

The Guru's epiphany remains: society's discomfort with the human body stifles our creativity and enjoyment of life.   We are constipated and this state slows our reach to be extraordinary.   It's time to release ourselves.

In future blogs, The Guru will describe the process, but suffice it to say that my sessions with Jessie have been therapeutic on many levels and I am certainly more focused, contemplative, and appreciative of each day.   While my stomach is flatter, my world is rounder.

Thanks to Jessie, Dawn, and Tyrone at the Fountain of Health for clearing up a few lessons in life.

Hope you stuck around for the bare ending of this slightly less than private movement, ahem...moment.

The Guru