Mama Earth Cafe' Culinary Institute
E Komo Mai! . . . Welcome!
The demand for gourmet healthy vegan and raw food availability is growing around the world. If you are a professional chef or restaurant owner and want to keep up with the rising tide of healthy delicious food service, are an entrepreneur endeavoring after a path that is more aligned with your heart and soul, are personally interested in upgrading your lifestyle habits, or just want to gain knowledge in the science and practical daily 'how to' of delicious health for your family, then these courses are for you. At Mama Earth Cafe' we combine Excellent Taste with Excellent Health and make Healthy Living Easy, Delicious and Fun!
Mama Earth Cafe’ Culinary Institute offers Basic and advanced Culinary Courses, an Advanced Vegan and Raw Living Food Chef Certification Course, and also an opportunity to immerse yourself in a healthy vegan and raw food lifestyle with our Lifestyle Immersion Opportunity.
Everything Mama Earth Cafe’ does is based on a high standard of excellence and is highly regarded around the globe.
The demand for gourmet healthy vegan and raw food availability is growing around the world. If you are a professional chef or restaurant owner and want to keep up with the rising tide of healthy delicious food service, are an entrepreneur endeavoring after a path that is more aligned with your heart and soul, are personally interested in upgrading your lifestyle habits, or just want to gain knowledge in the science and practical daily 'how to' of delicious health for your family, then these courses are for you. At Mama Earth Cafe' we combine Excellent Taste with Excellent Health and make Healthy Living Easy, Delicious and Fun!
Mama Earth Cafe’ Culinary Institute offers Basic and advanced Culinary Courses, an Advanced Vegan and Raw Living Food Chef Certification Course, and also an opportunity to immerse yourself in a healthy vegan and raw food lifestyle with our Lifestyle Immersion Opportunity.
Everything Mama Earth Cafe’ does is based on a high standard of excellence and is highly regarded around the globe.
Note: Mama Earth Cafe' has just moved to San Diego!
8 Basic Courses:
Advanced Courses and Certifications:
8 Basic Courses:
- 1. Science of Vegan and Raw Food Nutrition -1day; tuition $300, includes lunch, materials and two guest speakers (available on Maui, Hawaii only)
- 2. Vegan and Raw Food Preparation Basics - 4 days (2 weekends); tuition $525, includes ingredients, materials and generous food sampling
- 3. Ethnic Flavors from Around the World - 2 days; tuition $250, includes ingredients,materials and generous food sampling
- 4. Raw Vegan Face and Body Care Essentials -1day; tuition $250, includes elixirs and materials
- 5. Mind Spa - Be in Bliss Everywhere You Go! - turn your home and mind into a health spa - experience everyday bliss! -1day; tuition $250, includes lunch, yoga, elixirs and materials
- 6. Simple, Safe, and Effective Cleanses for Optimum Health -1 day; tuition $250 includes fresh juices, samples, and materials
- 7. Food Grade Essential Oils for Healing and Flavor Enhancement - 3 hours; tuition $150, includes elixirs and an opportunity to buy food grade therapeutic essential oils at wholesale prices
- 8. Wild Edible Herb Hike - 1 day; $55 includes healthy picnic lunch (minimum 4 people - available on Maui, Hawaii only)
Advanced Courses and Certifications:
- Advanced Vegan and Raw Living Food Chef Certification Course -3months (2-3 days a week on site plus at home study); - tuition $4888, includes materials, ingredients at kitchen site, discounts on kitchen equipment and supplies. (prerequisite classes: Vegan & Raw Food Preparation Basics, prerequisite books, not included in tuition, Unveiling Eden: Recipes and Lifestyle of Mama Earth Cafe' )
- Advance in Health with a Lifestyle Immersion -3days to 6months live in experience - prices depend on length of stay ($85-$150/day) includes all meals, discounts on colonic series and other healing modalities. For a single person or one couple at a time while Mama Earth Cafe' is in San Diego. For really busy people, we can also bring the immersion experience directly to your home.
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Details of Courses:
1) Science of Vegan and Raw Food Nutrition
1day (10am-4pm) tuition $300 includes lunch, materials, and two guest speakers. Available on Maui, Hawaii only.
In this one day class you will begin to understand the importance of your food choices and how food affects your body, mind, emotions and the environment. You will feel empowered to make healthier choices and be handed the information you need to support your transition into a healthier lifestyle. Healthy delicious lunch and nutrient rich elixir provided.
What You Will Learn
This one day class is available on Maui Hawaii and is a prerequisite for the Advanced Vegan and Raw Living Food Chef Certification Course
Prerequisite: None.
Tuition: $300
Additional Information:
You will receive a discount for this class if you register for the Advanced Vegan and Raw Living Food Certification Course.
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In this one day class you will begin to understand the importance of your food choices and how food affects your body, mind, emotions and the environment. You will feel empowered to make healthier choices and be handed the information you need to support your transition into a healthier lifestyle. Healthy delicious lunch and nutrient rich elixir provided.
What You Will Learn
- Science of Health and How the Body Digests and Assimilates Food
- Guest speaker, Dr. Steve Blake, author, will present Prevention and Reversal of Disease and Fats and Oils - the good & bad
- Guest speaker Dr. Paul Willems will present the structure of the human frame, internal organs, and what food humans are specifically built to eat for optimum health
- Guest speaker Home Kalani Le'amohala will present The Why and How of Sustainability
This one day class is available on Maui Hawaii and is a prerequisite for the Advanced Vegan and Raw Living Food Chef Certification Course
Prerequisite: None.
Tuition: $300
Additional Information:
You will receive a discount for this class if you register for the Advanced Vegan and Raw Living Food Certification Course.
Register Now!
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2) Vegan and Raw Food Preparation Basics
4 days (10am-4pm) tuition $525 includes ingredients, materials and generous food tasting
In this four day introductory course, you will discover the magic of creating delicious organic vegan and raw food cuisine for optimum health. Vegan and Raw Food Preparation Basics offers the unique opportunity to work with one of the world's most outstanding vegan and raw food chefs. Superb culinary presentations will show you everything you need to know to create delicious, easy-to-prepare, vegan and raw food. You will sample fabulous freshly made taste sensations, including soups, sauces, salads and salad dressings, raw tacos, wraps and spring rolls, some Holiday favorites, nut milks, nondairy cheeses, crispy crackers, probiotic rich foods, green smoothies, and amazing desserts. You will learn how to balance textures and flavors and create vegan and raw versions of your favorite traditional recipes. Even if you are 5 star professional chef, you will encounter a whole new world of food preparation skills that are specific to vegan and raw cuisine. Vegan and Raw Food Preparation Basics is your first step toward a new healthy lifestyle!
What You Will Learn
This course is available in San Diego, CA and is a prerequisite for the Advanced Vegan and Raw Living Food Chef Certification Course.
Prerequisite: None.
Tuition: $525 Four Day Course (two weekends)
Required Text: Unveiling Eden: Recipes and Lifestyle of Mama Earth Cafe' (not included in tuition)
Additional Information: This class is observation only—not a hands-on course. Generous samples of organic vegan and raw foods will be provided. Tuition includes materials and ingredients.
You will receive a discount for this class if you register for the Advanced Vegan and Raw Living Food Chef Certification Course.
Register Now!
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In this four day introductory course, you will discover the magic of creating delicious organic vegan and raw food cuisine for optimum health. Vegan and Raw Food Preparation Basics offers the unique opportunity to work with one of the world's most outstanding vegan and raw food chefs. Superb culinary presentations will show you everything you need to know to create delicious, easy-to-prepare, vegan and raw food. You will sample fabulous freshly made taste sensations, including soups, sauces, salads and salad dressings, raw tacos, wraps and spring rolls, some Holiday favorites, nut milks, nondairy cheeses, crispy crackers, probiotic rich foods, green smoothies, and amazing desserts. You will learn how to balance textures and flavors and create vegan and raw versions of your favorite traditional recipes. Even if you are 5 star professional chef, you will encounter a whole new world of food preparation skills that are specific to vegan and raw cuisine. Vegan and Raw Food Preparation Basics is your first step toward a new healthy lifestyle!
What You Will Learn
- Essential techniques and short cuts for healthy, delicious, vegan and raw food meal preparation
- Basic knife technique (mincing, dicing, chopping, julienning, etc.)
- First hand knowledge in making green smoothies, soups, sauces, salad dressings, salads, simple entrees, wraps and rolls, vegan milks, creams, puddings, yogurt and seed cheeses, crackers, delicious desserts and more
- Soaking, sprouting and basic counter top gardening
- How to make rejuvelac, kim chee and other probiotic rich foods
- How to convert your favorite conventional recipes into healthy, delicious vegan and raw food delights
- Introduction to the basic equipment and ingredients used in a vegan and raw food kitchen - food processor, vitamix, juicers, dehydrator, mandoline, spiralizer, slap chop and more
This course is available in San Diego, CA and is a prerequisite for the Advanced Vegan and Raw Living Food Chef Certification Course.
Prerequisite: None.
Tuition: $525 Four Day Course (two weekends)
Required Text: Unveiling Eden: Recipes and Lifestyle of Mama Earth Cafe' (not included in tuition)
Additional Information: This class is observation only—not a hands-on course. Generous samples of organic vegan and raw foods will be provided. Tuition includes materials and ingredients.
You will receive a discount for this class if you register for the Advanced Vegan and Raw Living Food Chef Certification Course.
Register Now!
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3) Ethnic Flavors from Around the World
2 day (10am-4pm) $350 includes ingredients, materials and generous samples of organic vegan and raw foods
Ever want to be able to have an exotic night out in your own home? This class focusses on flavors from around the world and just how simple it is to create ethnic flavors in your own kitchen. In this class we will explore Thai, Chinese, Mediterranean, Italian, Greek, Spanish, Mexican, Indian food and more. You will learn how to create fabulous healthy ethnic flavored feasts. When you go home, you will be ready to entertain friends and family.
What You Will Learn
This course is available in San Diego,CA
Prerequisite: None.
Tuition: $350, 2 Day Course (10am-4pm)
Required Text: Unveiling Eden: Recipes and Lifestyle of Mama Earth Cafe' (not included in tuition)
Register Now!
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Ever want to be able to have an exotic night out in your own home? This class focusses on flavors from around the world and just how simple it is to create ethnic flavors in your own kitchen. In this class we will explore Thai, Chinese, Mediterranean, Italian, Greek, Spanish, Mexican, Indian food and more. You will learn how to create fabulous healthy ethnic flavored feasts. When you go home, you will be ready to entertain friends and family.
What You Will Learn
- Essential techniques for delicious ethnic meal preparation
- The importance of textures on the plate and basic knife techniques
- First hand experience in making ethnic soups, sauces, salad dressings, salads, entrees, vegan cheeses and yogurts, breads, desserts and more
- How to combine fresh herbs, spices, textures and flavors to create ethnic flavors without using recipes
- How to upgrade your favorite ethnic dish ... Bring in your favorite traditional ethnic recipes and we will transform them into delicious vegan or raw food dishes - without loosing the authentic ethnic flavor
This course is available in San Diego,CA
Prerequisite: None.
Tuition: $350, 2 Day Course (10am-4pm)
Required Text: Unveiling Eden: Recipes and Lifestyle of Mama Earth Cafe' (not included in tuition)
Register Now!
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4) Raw Vegan Face and Body Care Essentials
1day (10am-4pm) tuition $250 includes elixirs, ingredients and materials.
This one day class will delight and enrapture your senses with hands on experience in making your own, homemade, raw vegan face and body care products!
What You Will Learn
Prerequisite: None.
Tuition: $250
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This one day class will delight and enrapture your senses with hands on experience in making your own, homemade, raw vegan face and body care products!
What You Will Learn
- How to incorporate healing herbs and essential oils into your beauty routine. Learn about the warnings of using regular cosmetics, lotions, and sunscreens
- You will understand the healing and rejuvenative qualities of aloe, coconut oil, shea butter, green papaya, rich mud from the earth and other essential ingredients in raw vegan face and body care
- The value and importance of circulation and detoxification through walking, Peak Eights and what just a little bit of yoga before bed can do for you
- Simple face and body lift - giving your body the rejuvenation time it needs - the healing power of enough sleep and going to bed on a fairly empty stomach, enjoying a healing elixir upon rising.
- How to make raw vegan anti-wrinkle over night creams, after shower lotions and your own healing salves
- The importance of the food we put inside our body and a few food and elixir demonstrations
- The properties and therapeutic qualities of some key essential oils
- The health benefits of nibbling on wild edibles and using gentle helio (sun) and hydro (water) therapy
Prerequisite: None.
Tuition: $250
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5) Mind Spa - Be in Bliss Everywhere You Go!
Turn your home and mind into a health spa - experience everyday bliss! -1day (10am-4pm) $250 includes lunch, yoga, elixirs and materials.
This one day class will refresh and renew your spirit and hand you real everyday techniques for keeping balance in your mind and bliss in your everyday living. You can turn your home and mind into a health spa every day.
What You Will Learn
Prerequisite: None.
Tuition: $250
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This one day class will refresh and renew your spirit and hand you real everyday techniques for keeping balance in your mind and bliss in your everyday living. You can turn your home and mind into a health spa every day.
What You Will Learn
- Alchemy; The Hormones of Happiness... Each thought we have sends a message to our hormones (our internal pharmacy) which in turn release natural chemicals in our bodies that make us feel good or bad... let go of negative thoughts, feelings, emotions and rise into abundance, gratitude and bliss. You will learn concrete ways to lift yourself from depression and apathy and how to stay in a balanced blissful state of mind - attitude of gratitude
- How to prepare internal and external elixirs for balancing emotions and the importance of connecting with Mama Nature (sunsets, waterfalls, hikes, ocean etc)
- The value and importance of circulation and detoxification through walking, Peak Eights and yoga. Simple ways to detoxify as you sleep (NASA studies on live plants and sprouts)
- The vital importance of living in integrity... what that means and how to do it
- Simple face and body lift - giving your body the rejuvenation time it needs - the healing power of enough sleep and going to bed on a fairly empty stomach. Starting your day with a delicious healing elixir
- Simple meditations, mantras, and mind focus. Alchemy... turning negativity into positivity
- The importance of play and how to create joy in your life; recreation, service, passion
- How to sculpt a supportive environment for the experiences that you desire
- Community love and connection. Giving to others what you want in your life... magic
Prerequisite: None.
Tuition: $250
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6) Simple, Safe, and Effective Cleanses for Optimum Health
1day (10am-4pm) $250 includes fresh juices, samples, and materials
Cleansing the body is truly important for optimum health, especially in this day and age where there are so many hidden toxins and chemicals in the foods we eat and air we breathe. Even if we choose organic foods as much as possible and live an organic vegan lifestyle it really helps the body to give it a rest and let nature take over to do some healing. There are many types of cleanses. In this workshop we focus on the cleanses that you can do while living your normal busy lifestyle; we will also learn about a couple deeper cleanses and the herbs associated with deep cleansing each organ of the body. You will learn how each organ of the body works; what it’s functions are, and the herbs associated with revitalizing each individual organ. Healthy delicious nutrient rich elixir provided.
What You Will Learn
This 1 day class is available in San Diego, CA
Prerequisite: None.
Tuition: $250
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Cleansing the body is truly important for optimum health, especially in this day and age where there are so many hidden toxins and chemicals in the foods we eat and air we breathe. Even if we choose organic foods as much as possible and live an organic vegan lifestyle it really helps the body to give it a rest and let nature take over to do some healing. There are many types of cleanses. In this workshop we focus on the cleanses that you can do while living your normal busy lifestyle; we will also learn about a couple deeper cleanses and the herbs associated with deep cleansing each organ of the body. You will learn how each organ of the body works; what it’s functions are, and the herbs associated with revitalizing each individual organ. Healthy delicious nutrient rich elixir provided.
What You Will Learn
- The importance of cleansing, what each organ’s task is and what herbs are associated with revitalizing it
- Guest speaker, Lenny Watson, cleansing specialist, will present the importance of cleansing and why it is important to cleanse certain organs before others, as well as what alkalinity and acidity mean in the body... He will take the mystery out and give you a foundation of understanding
- You will be able to see and taste some of the different herbs associated with cleansing the different organs
- How to soothe those dreaded detox symptoms as they arise
- We will take a look at what some of the most revered healing sanctuaries do with their patients; Optimum Health Institute, Tree of Life, Lenny Watson-The Bush Doctor, Ann Wigmore, Dr Bernard Jensen and others
- Colonics... good or bad? Water fasting... good or bad?
This 1 day class is available in San Diego, CA
Prerequisite: None.
Tuition: $250
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7) Food Grade Essential Oils for Vitality and Culinary Excellence
3 hours $150 includes elixirs and an opportunity to buy food grade therapeutic essential oils at wholesale prices
Learn the basics of using pure essential oils to enhance health and add that extra dimension of divinity to your culinary expression.
What you will Learn
Prerequisite: None required.
Tuition: $150
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Learn the basics of using pure essential oils to enhance health and add that extra dimension of divinity to your culinary expression.
What you will Learn
- Culinary food grade essential oils: How to use them, where, when, why, and what they are good for. Healing properties and precautions of essential oils
- Amazing sentsations... We will enjoy a banquet without food... a feast for the senses. We will also enjoy food and elixir sampling
- Is this a pie or a face mask or both?... Body bliss - internal and external
Prerequisite: None required.
Tuition: $150
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8) Wild Edible Herb Hike
1 day (noon-4pm) $55 includes healthy picnic lunch (4 person minimum) available on Maui, Hawaii only
Enjoy the beauty and abundance of Mother Nature. Nibble on healing wild edible herbs while on an amazing nature hike. Share a picnic lunch at an incredible scenic location.
What you will Learn
This hike is available on Maui Hawaii
Prerequisite: None required.
Tuition: $55
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Enjoy the beauty and abundance of Mother Nature. Nibble on healing wild edible herbs while on an amazing nature hike. Share a picnic lunch at an incredible scenic location.
What you will Learn
- First hand experience using healing herbs from the land
- Sustainable gathering protocol and ho’okupu (giving a gift of gratitude)... nature as spa
- Healing properties and precautions of local wild herbs. What to use for bites, stings, burns, colds, and more
- Optional full body Awapuhi mud wrap
This hike is available on Maui Hawaii
Prerequisite: None required.
Tuition: $55
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Advanced Courses and Certifications:
Advanced Vegan and Raw Living Food Chef Certification Course
3month course (2-3 days a week on site plus at home study) $4888 includes materials, ingredients at Mama Earth Cafe’ kitchen site and discounts on kitchen equipment and supplies.
(prerequisite classes: Vegan & Raw Food Preparation Basics, prerequisite books, not included in tuition, Unveiling Eden: Recipes and Lifestyle of Mama Earth Cafe')
Mama Earth Cafe’ Chef Certification is based on a high standard of excellence and is highly regarded around the globe. Whether you are a professional 5 star chef looking to expand your skills and keep up with the changing tide of health conscious consumers or just want to get to the next level in your own, or your families, personal health, this course is designed to assist you in achieving a high level of kitchen competence. We provide a supportive hands-on environment for students to learn about vegan and raw food preparation from basic to gourmet. This three month course develops confidence in chef skills and trust in your own personal pallet. Upgrading your favorite recipes into healthier ones will be a snap after this course. This advanced certification also teaches students how to give effective culinary presentations and organize food preparation classes. Under the guidance of Mama Earth Cafe’ anyone with the desire can become a confident vegan and raw food chef as well as an awesome food preparation instructor! After immersing in this course you can create a new career for yourself as a Private Chef, Restaurant Chef or Owner, Vegan and Raw Food Instructor, Spa or Retreat Chef, Event Caterer, and more!
What You Will Learn:
“The chef is more important than the doctor” - Franc Ribochaud. Taking the time now in life to learn the importance and daily how-to of healthy food preparation will save heart ache in the future from disease and loss of health. Support your families future and feel 100% great about the food you are serving others, knowing that with every bite they are being nourished not with just their taste buds, but with nutrient rich antioxidants, vitamins, minerals and phytonutrients. Excellent Health married to Excellent Taste - you don’t have to choose one or the other, you can have both!
Prerequisite courses: Vegan and Raw Food Preparation Basics
Tuition: $4888
Additional Information:
You will get a discount on the prerequisite course when you register for this Advanced Vegan and Raw Living Food Chef Certification Course.
Register Now!
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(prerequisite classes: Vegan & Raw Food Preparation Basics, prerequisite books, not included in tuition, Unveiling Eden: Recipes and Lifestyle of Mama Earth Cafe')
Mama Earth Cafe’ Chef Certification is based on a high standard of excellence and is highly regarded around the globe. Whether you are a professional 5 star chef looking to expand your skills and keep up with the changing tide of health conscious consumers or just want to get to the next level in your own, or your families, personal health, this course is designed to assist you in achieving a high level of kitchen competence. We provide a supportive hands-on environment for students to learn about vegan and raw food preparation from basic to gourmet. This three month course develops confidence in chef skills and trust in your own personal pallet. Upgrading your favorite recipes into healthier ones will be a snap after this course. This advanced certification also teaches students how to give effective culinary presentations and organize food preparation classes. Under the guidance of Mama Earth Cafe’ anyone with the desire can become a confident vegan and raw food chef as well as an awesome food preparation instructor! After immersing in this course you can create a new career for yourself as a Private Chef, Restaurant Chef or Owner, Vegan and Raw Food Instructor, Spa or Retreat Chef, Event Caterer, and more!
What You Will Learn:
- Healthy vegan and raw food preparation from basic to gourmet, with ample hands on experience
- After completion of this course you will feel confident in catering yoga retreats, parties, events and mouth watering healthy dishes for your family and friends
- The importance of food textures... chop, dice, mince, julienne, etc. and knife techniques
- How to use vegan and raw food kitchen equipment: dehydrator, spiralizer, vitamix, mandoline, juicers, food processor and other time saving devices
- Consistent portioning for small groups as well as large groups
- Creative final presentation and garnishing with wild edibles for an extra health boost
- How to shop and choose the most delicious, health promoting fruits and vegetables
- How to prepare delicious vegan and raw soups, sauces, salad dressings, Essene breads and crackers, gluten free biscuits and pancakes, pate's, dips, spreads, and herb butters, vegan milks, creams, and savory cheeses. A variety of classic dishes, including pasta, lasagna, burritos, sushi and a variety of desserts including cheesecakes, pies, cakes, puddings, chocolate confections, frostings, raw cookies & truffles, fruit sorbet, ice cream pies and more
- Learn what ways to cook are healthiest and what ways, like frying in oil and dry baking, actually create disease and carcinogens (cancer causing compounds) within the body
- You will gain confidence in public speaking and have an opportunity to present your own food preparation class to the group
- Hands on experience in catering a professional event
- How to plan and organize vegan and raw food classes
- Become part of the Mama Earth Cafe’ Certified Chef Referral Service and have professional catering jobs be referred directly to you
“The chef is more important than the doctor” - Franc Ribochaud. Taking the time now in life to learn the importance and daily how-to of healthy food preparation will save heart ache in the future from disease and loss of health. Support your families future and feel 100% great about the food you are serving others, knowing that with every bite they are being nourished not with just their taste buds, but with nutrient rich antioxidants, vitamins, minerals and phytonutrients. Excellent Health married to Excellent Taste - you don’t have to choose one or the other, you can have both!
Prerequisite courses: Vegan and Raw Food Preparation Basics
Tuition: $4888
Additional Information:
You will get a discount on the prerequisite course when you register for this Advanced Vegan and Raw Living Food Chef Certification Course.
Register Now!
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Advance in Health with a Lifestyle Immersion
- 3days to 6months live in experience - prices depend on length of stay ($85-$150/day) includes all meals, presentations by doctors and health experts, discounts on colonic series and other healing modalities. Set yourself up for success with a Healthy Hawaiian Holiday. Luxury Camping on 20 beautiful acres with it’s own waterfall and natural pool. You’ll have access to the on site library and beautiful hammock spots to relax in, opportunities to participate in yoga classes (included in price), and amazing ocean view pathways to jog or walk as well as many near by waterfalls to hike to. We are family friendly with complimentary child care available between 10am-3pm five days a week at no additional cost so parents can take the relaxing time they need to detox and heal. You will have hands on experience in a vegan and raw food kitchen and will learn about countertop gardening, how to make probiotic rich foods as well as many other health promoting, disease prevention techniques in the kitchen. Learn hands on organic gardening and spend some time with mother nature. Gently ease into a cleanse starting with delicious vegan meals, move into amazing raw food meals, then on to liquids and healing herbs, break the cleanse with raw foods and learn how to sustain a healthy high raw vegan diet. 100% of proceeds and donations go to the Optimum Living Alliance 501c3 non-profit organization; dedicated to creating personal and planetary vitality. Your stay here is tax deductible.
- Science of Health and How the Body Works, Disease Prevention, and other important presentations by Dr. Steve Blake, author
- Essential techniques for healthy, delicious, vegan and raw food meal preparation
- First hand knowledge in making green smoothies, soups, sauces, salad dressings, salads, simple entrees, wraps and rolls, vegan nut milks, creams, puddings, yogurt and delicious raw cheeses, crackers, divine desserts and more
- Soaking, sprouting and basic countertop gardening
- How to make rejuvelac, kim chee and other probiotic rich foods
- How to convert your favorite conventional recipes to delicious vegan and raw food recipes
- Introduction to the basic equipment and staple ingredients used in a vegan and raw food kitchen - food processors, vitamix, juicers, dehydrators and other time saving culinary devices
- First hand experience in personal cleansing. You are encouraged to work with your doctor weekly or more often if you are on medication of any kind. When people cleanse, their medication dose needs to be lessened as they detox and eventually many people stop taking medication all together.
- How to soothe those dreaded detox symptoms as they arise
- The importance of cleansing, what each organ’s task is and what herbs are associated with revitalizing it
- How to achieve pH balance and homeostasis, of the body; alkalinity and acidity
- Community love and connection. The magic of a sustainable lifestyle and the importance of connecting with Mama Nature (sunsets, sunshine, waterfalls, hikes, ocean etc)
- The value and importance of circulation and detoxification through walking, Peak Eights, yoga and recreation
- The vital importance of living in integrity and harmony with the earth... what that means and how to do it
- Simple face and body lift - giving your body the rejuvenation time it needs - the healing power of enough sleep and going to bed on a fairly empty stomach
- Simple meditations, mantras, and mind focus. Alchemy... turning negativity into positivity; the power of our words and thoughts
- The importance of play and how to create joy in your life; recreation, service, passion
- Kids programs - From Farm to Table classes, art, wilderness survival and more are offered at no additional cost for attending parents
The value of this offering is immeasurable. We at Optimum Living Alliance want to make health information and opportunities available to the world. We believe that a live in immersion experience is the easiest and most effective way to create lasting change in peoples lives. Learning to live sustainably with the earth is synonymous with living in optimum personal health and vitality... it is amazing that when we truly take care of ourselves, we are actually taking care of the earth and all it’s inhabitants as well as promising our children a beautiful future; what a beautiful symbiosis.
Hawaii immersions are on hold. San Diego immersion can be for a single person or a couple. Also we can bring the healthy lifestyle immersion to your home if you are in close enough proximity for commute. For more information on this Healthy Lifestyle Immersion Opportunity, please call Brook (808)250-6578.
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