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Dr. Tallis Barker (Shivantar), Ph.D., holistic consultant

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Next fasting sessions (2019): Jan. 11-13, Feb. 8-10, Mar. 8-10 Nothing compares to fasting while on retreat. Unfortunately, though, actually attending one can be expensive and difficult logistically. This...

November 15, 2018
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7-day water fasting retreat, water fasting programs and coaching

7-day water fast: spring retreat 2019

10 day – 9 night retreat centred around a 7-day water fast: DATE: 26 April – 5 May 2019 (Friday afternoon – Sunday afternoon). LOCATION: Vászoly, close to Lake Balaton...

November 14, 2018
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fitness and health

Diets, fasts and healing injuries for runners

When most people think of diets or fasting, they usually have weight loss in mind.  Even at the best of times this is a dubious practice. Changing the way...

September 2, 2018
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benefits of fasting

The deepest detox

Published by Tallis Shivantar

There are countless diets, techniques and fads designed to help you detox.  Many of these can certainly help, but if you’re really serious about cleansing, the most powerful method...

July 28, 2018
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benefits of fasting

Overcoming addictions

Published by Tallis Shivantar

Water fasting is an extremely powerful tool to overcome addictions caused by smoking, drinking and drugs in general, as well as any addictions relating to food, such as sugar,...

July 28, 2018
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benefits of fasting

A stronger immune system

Published by Tallis Shivantar

If you suffer from a weak immune system, water fasting is one of the best things you can do to strengthen it. Likewise, water fasting is one of the...

July 28, 2018
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benefits of fasting

Self-healing: more powerful than any pill

Published by Tallis Shivantar

Water fasting is well known for its ability to heal minor ailments.  I myself have recovered from chronic sinusitis, physical injuries including tendonitis and muscle strains, as well as...

July 28, 2018
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diet and recipes

diet and recipes

Summer smoothie to break a fast

A week ago I used this smoothie to break my 5 day dry fast with 2 day water fast introduction. Normally I prefer to break my fasts with a...

August 2, 2018
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diet and recipes

Pure and perfect tomato soup to break a fast

This recipe is always a favourite at the end of a fast: warming, comforting and nutritionally perfect, packed with a wide variety of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants (such as...

July 31, 2018
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diet and recipes

Go-to green smoothie to break a fast

After any fast of more than a day or so, it’s important how you re-introduce food back into your diet. Oranges are a great way to break any fast,...

May 25, 2018
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fitness and health

September 2, 2018

Diets, fasts and healing injuries for runners

When most people think of diets or fasting, they usually have weight loss in mind.  Even at the best...

by Tallis Shivantar
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December 3, 2017

Pills, powders and potions: the reality of taking supplements while fasting

One question which persistently recurs on waterfasting.org is whether or not you should take supplements while water fasting. The...

by Tallis Shivantar
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November 18, 2017

Fasting as a healing modality to treat cancer

This video features an interview with Dr. Valter Longo, who is one of the world’s leading researchers in the...

by Tallis Shivantar
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February 12, 2016

Fasting as a means to improve athletic performance in endurance sports

I’m sitting down to write this having had breakfast for the first time in a week… Lately, I’ve been...

by Tallis Shivantar
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spirit and soul

Physical and spiritual cleansing: from fear to love

Published by Tallis Shivantar

Does the thought of water fasting frighten you? It’s completely natural to feel fear before and even during your first few water fasts.  After all, unlike our ancestors, you’ve...

July 28, 2018
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spirit and soul

Facing your ego

Published by Tallis Shivantar

As important as any physical cleansing, water fasting also challenges you with emotional and spiritual blocks, bringing you face to face with your ego and fears.  In a way,...

July 28, 2018
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spirit and soul

Deeper states of consciousness

Published by Tallis Shivantar

One of my favourite things to ‘do’ while water fasting is to find a spot in nature and simply sit, doing nothing, just being, staring out into the environment,...

July 28, 2018
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spirit and soul

Who am I?

Published by Tallis Shivantar

Many spiritual traditions encourage you to ask the question: ‘Who am I?’  Perhaps most famously, Ramana Maharshi taught that this is all you need to do in order to...

July 28, 2018
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spirit and soul

dry fasting and alternative methods

July 30, 2018

Dry fasting

July 30, 2018

Juice fasting

July 30, 2018

Intestinal wash as preparation

July 30, 2018

Intermittent fasting

July 30, 2018

5 day dry fast with 2 day introductory water fast

December 10, 2017

3.5 / 4 day dry fast with introductory water fast

February 12, 2015

2.5 day dry fast: dehydration as detox

February 12, 2015

36-hour dry fast

miscellaneous

miscellaneous

Dry fasting and the Marathon Monks of Mount Hiei

One of the most extreme forms of dry fasting concerns the practice of the so-called Marathon Monks (gyoja) of Mt. Hiei, Japan. According to tradition, aspiring Zen Buddhist monks...

July 30, 2018
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miscellaneous

Enjoy the gift of food!

I’ll keep this short and sweet :-). If you want to enjoy the gift of food, if you really want to appreciate the taste of every bite you eat,...

July 18, 2018
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Telling friends and family about your fast (or not)

Whether or not to tell friends and family you’re fasting can often be a huge dilemma. Just this last week, several visitors to waterfasting.org have brought up the subject...

November 12, 2017
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7-day water fasting retreat: Spring 2019

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Spring Retreat 2019

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