Raw and Living Spirit Retreat

The 2008 Raw and Living Spirit Retreat happens Tuesday August 26 - Friday August 29 in Molalla, OR. Register while there’s still room! The retreat price includes all meals; all workshops and talks during the event; and lodging.

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Returning to Camp Adams in Mollala, Oregon will be many of your favorite speakers along with new voices: The Raw Family featuring Victoria and Valya Boutenko; Abeba Wright; John Kohler; Dr. John Switzer; Dr. Doug Graham; and others. Also featured are energizing presentations of food and wisdom from our featured chefs, Eddie and Lillian of Raw Soul Restaurant in Harlem NY, Lizz Bommarito of Live at the Loft in Portland OR, and others we are announcing soon! Friday morning, Gabrielle Chavez will lead a raw communion and meditation.

Lunches will feature bountiful spreads from urban organic micro-farmer Peter Tuomelo, who is planting to order for our retreat. Food for thought on many aspects of healthy living will be offered in a smorgasbord of workshops–as well as yoga, dance, stargazing, swimming, and hiking. All this in a healing community setting where you will be able to connect with other participants and offer your own wisdom to the retreat in an “open space” workshop if you wish.

Abeba will be presiding over the second annual Krazy Kracker Contest!

Questions about the retreat? Call 503-650-4447 or visit www.rawandlivingspirit.org

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Help! FAQ with Abeba Wright

People always ask raw fooders, “What do you eat?” “Where do you get your protein?” “Where do you get calcium?” “How do you keep your strength on just lettuce?” In this class you’ll learn what a raw kitchen looks like and the tools you must have, along with simple nutritious breakfast, lunch and dinner meals. This will be a hands-on interacive class, full of fun for the beginner or seasoned raw foodist.

Krazy Krackers with Abeba Wright
Come experience Abeba’s newest Krazy Kracker demo. Her latest creation is a Not Fried Wonton Noodle… it will blow you away! You thought her onion ring last year was a winner, wait until you taste the Thai Onion Rings… simply unbelievable! There’ll be several other surprise recipes along with her famous kale mixed green salad, which has received a rave review on the internet as one of the best green salads ever!

Abeba Wright will be hosting the 2nd annual Krazy Kracker contest with last year’s winner Nena Dunn. She will delight you with her winning Kracker, which will also be featured in Abeba’s latest book. You could be this year’s winner and also win a spot in this sure-to-be best-seller coming out this year. Bring your creation to the retreat or arrange with us to prepare it on site. The winner will be announced at the Thursday evening banquet August 28. You must be present to win!

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Electricity-Free Food Preparation with Lizz Bommarito

As Live Foodists we take huge joy in creating alternatives to unsustainable industries. This workshop supports the idea that electricity is not only destructive but also unnecessary for food production. In this workshop Lizz Bommarito will show you two recipes that do not require any electricity, as well as share models for sun dehydrators and other manual machines.

Lizz Bommarito is a vegan live food chef from Portland, OR. Her transition to raw and living foods began in 2003 when coming across Renée Loux Underkoffler’s book “Living Cuisine” in her hometown of New York City. After many emails to the head chef, she became a line cook at New York’s Pure Food and Wine. Currently, she does freelance chef work as well as a vast array of workshops in the Portland area. As a passionate animal, earth and human rights advocate, raw food offered Lizz a freedom from the industries she fought to change. Lizz has a strong belief that the raw food movement has the ability to be part of a larger shift toward sustainable, self-sufficient, community-based living.

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Taste and See - Intuitive Eating with Gabrielle and Thomas Chavez
Learn how to access and trust your body’s own knowingness to choose the food that is best for you. Create a positive and interactive relationship with the plants you eat. We’ll spread a table with summer’s bounty of fruits, vegs, and flowers for you to touch, taste, smell, and see in ways you have perhaps not heretofore imagined. While you discern what foods you are drawn to, Thomas and other clairvoyants will give you feedback on the response of your energy field to the food you choose. Fun and potentially life changing! We’ll offer this workshop just before lunch so you can practice your new skills.

Growing and Wildcrafting Your Green Smoothie Garden with Gabrielle Chavez
Now that the Raw Family has convinced you to drink green smoothies, why not get the best RAW materials for free? Gabrielle will show you how to grow a variety of tasty greens year round in your garden and kitchen. Then go for a wild food walk on the Camp Adams grounds with Gabrielle and learn what else you can blend in with fruits besides kale, lettuce, parsley, chard, and spinach.

Gabrielle Chavez, author of the Raw Food Gourmet and pastor of Christ the Healer UCC and your retreat sponsor, will repeat her popular workshop from last year on “Intuitive Eating” as well as offer a workshop called “Growing and Wildcrafting Your Green Smoothie Garden”.

Gabrielle has been gardening intuitively and enthusiastically since childhood and has also studied with Machaelle Small Wright at Perelandra in Virginia at the Findhorn Garden in Scotland. She has made friends with thousands of edible plants and flowers, both wild and cultivated. Since becoming raw 8 years ago, Gabrielle has incorporated her knowledge of plants into unique and beautiful raw gourmet dishes.

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Talking Raw –How We Explain Ourselves to Everyone Else with Thomas Chavez
Not everyone appreciates the raw lifestyle, especially when members of their friends and family go raw. Have you suffered from the resistance of your loved ones to your chosen path? Has anyone tried to tell you you were crazy? Is your mother worried about you? Come to this workshop so that we can discover together how best to respond. Empower yourself with group support and winning, inspired answers.

Leveraging Your Raw Lifestyle for Greater Healing with Thomas Chavez
Harvest the full benefits of your raw food transformation. Learn how to harness physical, emotional, mental, spiritual and social elements of your life into a single self-healing whole. Discover Body Electronics, a practice that builds on the foundation raw foods to recover flexibility, vitality, and joy in a fully embodied life.

Thomas Chavez, author of Body Electronics - Vital Steps for Physical Regeneration and co-host with Gabrielle of the Raw and Living Spirit Retreat, is a teacher, learner, and practitioner of a full spectrum healing life style from food, body work, relationships, and politics, to energy work that leaps beyond the current bounds of your imagination. He sees all these things as an integrated wholeness he calls prayer. Working with Thomas, whether you tap his knowledge-stuffed brain, compassionate heart, or shamanic magic, brings immediate shifts and most often, instant relief of what is troubling you. Thomas will be among the healing practitioners available at the retreat for private sessions.

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