Release NYC

Colon Hydro Therapy aka Colonic. A colonic is the infusion of water into the rectum by a colon therapist to cleanse and flush out the colon. I believe it is helpful with detoxing the body and eliminate the waste/toxins that your body cannot do on its own. My goal to doing colonic is not to loose weight, though it is one of the common after effect. I wanted to detox and cleanse my body. I am always bloated, feeling heavy and fat, and I don't go to the bathroom regularly. All of these have made me feel emotionally and physically drained, tired and flat out miserable.


We made an appt at 6:15pm Tuesday and I dragged H with me. R u kidding? getting a garden hose shoved up in your butt hole is the coolest thing, how I can leave him out of it all! Release is located on 40th and Lexington, right by Grand Central. Once you walk in the door, you are welcomed by the burning incense and a receptionist. The place is pretty nice I gotta say, very relaxing. It's like u r visiting a friend's apt. There are these healthy vegan diet, body detox and yoga class panphlets everywhere.

This, my friend, is a gravity colonic machine. You are looking at the magnificent creation of Tom, the owner of Release NYC. He was a partner at Chakra 17 before he started his own studio. You can find more information for Release NYC here. Anyways, we made an appt with Tom. He was recommanded by the coworker who got me into all of these. We had a colonic and infrared sauna session. Before we started, Tom showed us the instrument of insertion (not shown here) and the theory behind this gravity colonic machine and how it works.

The water tank, obviously, holds water. You may add lemon juice or apple cider vinegar to it but most people just leave it bland. The small tube and the big tube is connected to the insertion instrument and then they plug the other side to your a-hole. The idea is to let water flow in through the small tube go into your colon and naturally comes out of the big tube. The reason that this is better than the many machine operated ones you see is because, all the movement in your bowel is created on your own by your colon. It is a colon awakening process. The machine will fill your colon with water and sucks your shit out for you. Therefore, it could create dependency and frankly, fucks up your colon in general.

H's insertion instrument is about the size of my ring finger (hence, very small, i have a size 4 ring finger). Mine on the other hand is the size of my thumb (size 6/7 i believe?) You ask why the bigger hose? Not b/c I told him about my pearl necklace fetish, but b/c I told him I was feeling gassy and bloated. He said this would help me to eliminate the gas better. hmm.. ok, i'll pretend I believe u.

First you need to empty your bladder, aka, go pee. Take off your panties and leave your shirt on. Lay on your left side on the bed, so your butt is facing the water tank, and drape your lower body with a sheet. Once you are settled, he will being in the instrument and lube it very generously. Take a deep breath, and it will slide in. Then he connects the tubes and release the water from the tank. All I felt was warm water coming in my butt and that's it. I didn't feel any pain or discomfortable. You wouldn't even know there is water going through your body.

The treatment is to have your shit loosen up from the walls and eventurally get flushed out. Tom will control or "help" the shit get loosen up by pinching the big tube or stopping the little tube. Most of the time he will fold the big tube (the going out tube) with his fingers quickly. This will create a "stop and go" motion in your colon. The force will loosen up the shit on the colon or intestine walls. Sometimes, he will hold on to the tube, so your stomache will literally blow up. It will hurt a bit, b/c it feels full and bloated, but he will release it once it reaches a certain point.

Now, let's talk about my feelings. I felt the thing going in my a** and felt a little bit of ripping, but it's nothing more than squeezing out a big log of hard shit. Once the water goes in, it actually feels really good! Then he will do the pinching thing and it's ok, not too bad. But the entire time, the entire 1 hour, you feel like you are taking a shit. It's like you are taking a never ending crap laying down. When the water fills up your stomache, it feels like your stomache is so bloated, you are about to rip a nice one in the room. but he says, let it go. If you feel like u gotta shit, shit, u gotta fart, fart. it all goes in the tube. He will tell you if u fart too, b/c u can see the gas in the tube.

He massaged/pressed my stomache in order to loosen up the intestines. and at one point, I felt like something POPed in my stomache. turns out to be a big fart or piece of shit. No joke, my stomache deflated 2 inches in that one instant. I was carrying that bloat with me all day and finally just pooooof.. pppssssshhhhhhh... all out.

Tom talked me about healthy diet all throughout the treatment. Can you believe this man was drinking some veggie juice that looked like shit while he was doing the treatment? How can you eat or drink when you do colonic for someone? Ain't it gross? ewww.... he was very down to earth and real about everything. Never once did he say shit about what I ate, he just encouraged me to have a good cleansing diet, so that my bowel movement can catch up to my mouth movement, with all that food coming in my mouth.

I think talking about healthy diet should be another post, b/c there is just too much info. Anyways. after you are done. He asks u to take a deep breathe and pulls out the instrument. THEN THE SHIT WATER CAME FLYING OUT OF MY ASS! jk. Your butt muscle holds in the water. But You need to go to the toilet. He will put out a small bench for your feet, so you are almost in a squating position (which by the way is better position to take a dump, than sitting down). THEN... you can release yourself. Shit, water, pee, whatever you name it, it just flys out into the toilet. Seriously, it's like your shooting water out of your ass. But it feel sooo good. like take a real good shit. Then after you are done shooting water out of your ass. You are done.

The treatment was 1 hour and damn, that was a long 1 hour. I felt really clean afterwards. but I wouldn't say LIGHT. I didn't feel any skinnier. Nor did I look any skinnier. But clean, yes. We went across the street and had a 16 oz veggie juice. I wasn't hungry at all and felt... ok.. normal.

Now it is the second day. I had a veggie juice for breakfast and ate some veggie and rice for lunch. So far, I feel pretty good. R u going to see difference in 1 treatment, maybe not. But with continuous treatment, you can acheive a healthy digestive system and improve your colon health.

Tom was 200 lbs at one point, after he became a colon therpist, he gave himself colonic on a daily basis (don't ask how), and he weighted in at 120lbs at some point, which made him realize it was way too thin. But it was all done without excerise, just veggie and fruit diet and colonic.

He gave us a chart of food pairing. Veggie with meat, or veggie with rice. No Rice and Meat. Different fruit, what they are, how to pair them, how to eat veggie and not having to throw it all up afterwards. All good info, which I will elaborate later on.

All in all, it was a great experience and I'd do it again, even if it's $95. Well worth the money. =)