🌿 The 10-Day Cleanse Preparation Journey
MEDICAL DISCLAIMER
This cleanse is an educational wellness program and is not medical treatment. It is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. It is intended for generally healthy adults. If you are pregnant, nursing, diabetic, have a history of eating disorders, chronic illness, are taking medications, or have any medical or psychiatric condition, consult your physician or a licensed healthcare provider before participating. Participation is entirely voluntary. If you experience severe or concerning symptoms, discontinue the cleanse and seek medical care. By choosing to participate, you acknowledge that you are responsible for your own health decisions and outcomes.
A Five-Week Approach to Preparing Body, Mind & Energy for the cleanse process
ACTION FOR THIS WEEK
Read this post fully so you understand what the cleanse is.
Mark the cleanse dates in your calendar, at least five weeks out
Commit to the five-week preparation period leading up to the ten-day cleanse.
Decide to show up for yourself.
More information is coming each week. For now, the work is simple: make the commitment. We will guide the steps.
Making a Decision
If you’re reading this page, you probably had some calling to check out the Polarity Cleanse (or what Dr. Stone, the founder of Polarity Therapy, calls the “Purifying Diet”). Maybe you’re enrolled in one of our trainings where we do the cleanse together, or maybe you’ve been interested in checking it out on your own.
It’s not unusual to approach the process, especially the first time, with some trepidation or resistance.
It’s ok to feel your resistance, and important to clarify and honor your limits. But something significant happens when a person moves from a mindset of “I am thinking about doing this cleanse,” or “I guess I have to do this cleanse for class,” to: “I am going to do this cleanse” maybe even— “I want to do this cleanse.” “I want to take action to improve my health and change my relationship with food.”
Some energy is liberated once you make a decision to move in the direction of health. Dr. Stone, the founder of Polarity Therapy, emphasized that a person needs to activate their own agency — to actively choose a positive path — in order to get lasting results. Building health doesn’t come passively. You can get relief from a prescription or a treatment some healthcare provider gives you, but if you want to have sustained vibrant health it means you are the one who has to want it and go after it
It’s recommended that sometime in the next day, you take some time, and make an active decision to go on this journey. Don’t let yourself get dragged through it with resistance. Awaken your agency to actively choose to go through it. Notice what shift happens immediately with that change in attitude.
Preparing Yourself to Cleanse is Important
If you’re planning to do the Polarity Cleanse, it’s best not to just jump in abruptly. We recommend preparing yourself gradually — improving elimination, calming your nervous system, and creating greater balance in your eating in the weeks before deeper detoxification begins.
To help with this process we have set up this five week pre-cleanse guide. We hope it will help you make lasting changes to your eating, and help make the cleanse process go smoother. There is a different entry for each week. We will guide you step-by-step so your body feels supported rather than shocked when detoxification begins. We will educate about practices, foods and concepts that can make cleansing easier once you arrive at it.
We offer text messages —reminders and reflections — to reinforce key ideas in small, practical snippets. Of course you can unsubscribe at any time, but we hope you’ll find the texts helpful.
This is a gentle approach to the cleanse: more like gently waking up your vitality week by week, rather than abruptly turning all the lights on with a blaring alarm. The preparation process is intended to be above all, doable. For example the first week, pretty much all you’re being asked to do is increase your water, and pay a little more attention to how you eat. The second week, you’re asked to add a little more fiber into your eating, and try a couple supplements that can aid your colon. Even if you take these suggestions partially, they are something of a move in the right direction. You’re invited to go through this preparation process very imperfectly.
What is the cleanse?
First let’s talk about what the cleanse is. The Polarity cleanse is a ten-day reset designed to:
Reset eating habits
Improve digestion, metabolism, and elimination
Increase high-alkaline whole foods
Support hydration and waste elimination
Calm the nervous system for deeper rest
Remove preservatives, chemicals, and heavy foods
Pause addictive or habit-forming substances
Rekindle digestive fire and vitality
Shorter versions can help, but ten days allows you to experience the full cycle—especially the first time.
This is not a diet that is intended to be sustained for long periods of time. We need more salt, more protein, and more carbs, than the diet offers, to be able to operate normally for long periods. This is a specific short-term intense process intended to reset our eating, rebalance our energy, to clear waste and awaken new vitality. It is usually done once or twice a year.
What to Expect
Each person is different and each cleanse process is different, but common patterns include:
Days 1–3
Mild fatigue, nausea, or sluggishness as the body shifts — stronger the first time; usually milder in future cleanses
Hydration and elimination are essential
Gentle yoga, walking, Swedish massage, or Polarity sessions can help
Prepare protein sources in advance (sprouted legumes, etc.)
Days 4–7
Greater calm, clarity, and steadier energy
Deeper sleep; cravings begin to fade
Emotional shifts can occur. Some people experience a psychological “purge”—old feelings surfacing and clearing. Dreams may become vivid.
Stronger sense of peace is developing.
Avoiding relationships and situations that drain your energy.
A natural urge to simplify, clean up, or step back from draining dynamics
Important to stay on track — if there’s a break in the cleanse it’s almost impossible to get back on track
Days 8–10
Carry it through to the end
Many feel a growing sense of renewal and motivation
Important to break the cleanse consciously- we help with that
Transition into a sustainable “Health Building” diet — longer term nutrition that includes more protein, grains and salt
Many people repeat the cleanse once or twice a year, often in spring or fall
Preview: What to Eliminate During the Cleanse
The Polarity cleanse is a chance to reset of your eating, clear the waste from your system, and reignite your digestive fire.
For ten days, you remove:
Salt
Heated oils (no cooking with oil; no roasted nuts)
Sugar
Meat
Dairy
Grains and starches (wheat, corn, potatoes)
Alcohol, nicotine, recreational drugs
Fermented foods
Soy products
Carbonated beverages
Processed foods (including snack foods and meat substitutes)
Canned and frozen foods
Preservatives and chemicals
What You Eat
Your diet for ten days consists of:
Fresh fruits
Fresh vegetables
Sprouted Legumes (beans, lentils)
Fruits and vegetables may be eaten whole or juiced. Food may be raw, which will give you maximum nutrients. For a gentler digestive process it also can be baked, steamed, boiled, or broiled. But you’ll use no heated oils. (Cold oil may be added after cooking).
Morning Drinks
Vitality Drink (morning)
A citrus-based drink with warming ingredients. It’s taken on an empty stomach to wake up digestion and get things moving.
Polarity Tea (morning & throughout the day)
A gentle herbal tea that supports elimination and keeps digestion steady as your diet shifts.
We’ll go over exact ingredients and preparation later. For now, just know these help the process move smoothly.
Protein
You’ll include some plant-based protein, mainly sprouted lentils or beans. This helps stabilize energy and focus during the 10 days.
We’ll teach you how to sprout in the weeks leading up to the cleanse. It’s easy.
Salt
For ten days, there is no salt.
This is often the most challenging part. Removing salt helps reset taste patterns and reduces fluid retention. After a few days, most people notice their palate becomes more sensitive and cravings decrease.
How to Approach the Ten Days
Treat the cleanse like a retreat whenever possible. It is a retreat from your normal eating habits, and can be a nice time for a retreat from your normal stressful life - it works best when you reduce unnecessary stress and give yourself a lot of space for self-care.
You can work during the cleanse, but try to simplify your schedule. Support yourself with:
Gentle movement
Massage or bodywork
Journaling or reflection
Therapy or talking with a close friend
Extra rest
The beginning can feel intense — it often depends on if you’re prepared, and following recommendations for self-care, whether you have a pleasant experience or jarring experience.
Community helps. Consider joining a cleanse group - not just belonging in name but actually participating and sharing. Be a part of our online forum where various people shared their insights and experiences. The more you share, the more you tend to get out of it.
Why Preparation Matters
Without preparation, detoxification can feel abrupt.
Gradual preparation helps, and that’s what the coming five weeks is all about:
Improve digestion and elimination
Stabilize blood sugar
Reduce reliance on stimulants
Calm the nervous system
Increase clarity and vitality
Raise awareness around your relationship to food
The guiding principle is: do what you can. Partial preparation is better than nothing. Don’t let perfectionism get in the way of progress — just take some action if you can’t take all the suggestions.
This process is about more than just food. It’s about renewing a relationship with yourself — your commitment to health of body and mind. It’s a chance to re-align your self-care practices and natural health.
Often to improve health, we don’t need to do more — we need to do less. We need to eliminate the foods, substances, prejudices and habits that get in the way of our vitality, and once they are eliminated, health tends to naturally follow.
This sounds like a lot, and in some ways it is. But in other ways it’s a joy — to have a period of time dedicated to being kind to yourself and your digestion. As my first teacher Marjori once said to me, “ten days will change your life.” She was not wrong
🌎 Week-by-Week Preparation
🌿 Week 1 — Building the Foundation
Hydration, conscious eating, and nervous system awareness.
👉 Read Week 1 Guide
🌊 Week 2 — Creating Flow
Fiber, digestion, and colon preparation to improve elimination.
👉 Read Week 2 Guide
🔥 Week 3 — Resetting Stimulation
Reducing caffeine and substances to restore natural energy regulation.
👉 Read Week 3 Guide
🌬 Week 4 — Lightening the System
Simplifying food choices frees energy for repair and renewal.
👉 Read Week 4 Guide
✨ Week 5 — Integration & Readiness
Stabilizing rhythm prepares body and mind for the cleanse experience.
👉 Read Week 5 Guide