Fasting, detox and Yoga in Chiba

7 days of no proper food only fruit juices with some fibers, an hour or so outside Tokyo at 日本アロビクセンタ in Honda (not the car, the location 誉田). 

Outside the porch of our cottage was, well bamboo mainly and lots of different bugs. 

Itoko-chan was taught how to say "Neeej, inte i ansiktet!" (there was a very crafty spider that kept putting up webbage, thank you Karl P, across the path to our cottage). Later I added a few more phrases to complete her basic Swedish training. 

This is a トンボ (tonbo, if your into bingo you can use tombo-la as a help to remember), and there were lots of them. 

Only iPhone camera and from a distance, but still you can see the little lizardness. 

It takes a village to make juice - no it doesn't but there were a lot of peeling and squeezing going on during this week. 

Grapefruit, carrot, a dash of orange and sprinkle some fibers on top... and call it breakfast, lunch and dinner. 

There were other things to drink too, like herbal tea and.... INKA... which apparently is a product of Poland... Enjoyed by the Polish in generations, it said on the back. 

In between, Juice meals, there was yoga lessons (sometimes twice a day), but we still had time to lounge on the grass by the pool and do some swimming too. 

You can look this cool even if it was really hot and my back got kind of red. 

Detox was taken seriously; bowels, nose and here after everyone tried Kunjal. 

Chiba could not keep completely still, there were a few shakes pretty close to where we were. (Lower right corner along the train line Honda)

After 7 days, first meal was fruits. I know not much of a meal but one step up from juice at least. 

Then there was radical improvement. Very nice Japanese vegetarian food. 

Everyone enjoyed the selection. 

There were some left overs that became part of the breakfast. Onigiri with umeboshi, fruits, home made marmalade and more. Unfortunately, I woke up 15 min before breakfast and were not so enthusiastic about eating. 

Itoko-chan enjoying the misoshiro soup. 

And then there were some cleaning up to do. 

Apparently, you are not suppose to eat protein, and especially not animal proteins for a few days. Well, I'm prepared to take the risk - a bit bowl of bean soup, with chili, garlic, feta cheese is currently enjoyed in Tomigaya.