At Living Light Culinary Arts Institute, founded by my friends Cherie Soria and Dan Laderman, thousands annually discover the magic of creating fabulous organic raw vegan cuisine for optimum health and rejuvenation.

Living Light is giving some amazing prizes for Best of Raw! Check it out!

FUNdamentals Class!
Our Knife Skills 101 and 102 Classes!
A Vibrant Living Expo Ticket!

I highly recommend their classes and a visit to their center on the beautiful northern california coast. Dozens of superb culinary presentations of a variety of delicious, easy to prepare recipes, and samples galore: appetizers, smoothies, soups, sauces, salads and dressings, entrees, pates, wraps, nut milks, nondairy cheeses, crunchy crackers, dehydrates, and desserts! You can learn all about sprouting techniques and the use of raw kitchen equipment and supplies from the master chefs at Living Light! This is a great class for both novices and experienced raw chefs–you’ll learn new techniques no matter what your level of expertise.

Sharpen Up Your Knife Skills!™
Basic Knife Skills 101 and Knife Skills 102 Value: $235 for both classes
Sharpen Up Your Knife Skills!™ is designed for all levels of expertise, from novice through professional instructor – taking a progressive approach to the development of knife skills through demonstration, hands-on practice (in Basic Knife Skills 101) and important reference materials. “The hands on work with personal attention from the “cutting edge experts” at Living Light really allowed me to solve a problem I’d been having with my knife technique. The time spent was truly worthwhile.”–B. McC. from California

The Sixth Annual Vibrant Living Expo and Culinary Showcase™ August 27-29 2010 3-Day Admission Value: $225
Every fourth weekend in August, Living Light International and the Institute for Vibrant Living co-host a premier raw food educational event, featuring many of the world’s leading chefs, educators, and health experts, and featuring more than 80 top level professional presentations in 3 days, culinary demos by extraordinary raw chefs, including a Rising Star Chef Showcase, a Rawsome Pie Contest, Pre- and Post-Expo seminars, great exhibitors, fantastic gourmet raw food, music, parties, a raffle and silent auction—lots of education, lots of action, and lots of fun!

www.RawFoodChef.com

Aloha! Many new prizes are coming in! These will be given to people who vote at Best of Raw this year in a drawing!

Prizes will be announced at BestofRaw.net!

After only 24 hours, already more than 450 people have voted in this year’s Best of Raw Awards! Check it out! You can VOTE for your fav raw super heros and super products in 30 categories.

Award recipients will be announced December 30 at 7 pm pst on Visionary Culture Radio.

The event is designed to CELEBRATE the raw foods movement, in particular, those who are teaching raw veganism and how to add more raw plant foods, bee products and/or superfoods to the diet in truly health promoting ways for people and planet!

The prizes this year are off the hook. Special thanks to all of our sponsors! See logos below and please SHOP SUSTAINABLE this holiday season and in 2010 at these outstanding super awesome stores and websites!

Laura Fox offers three classes during her December homecoming to Richmond, VA.

Details are also listed at the Richmond Raw Vegan Meetup Rawfood.Meetup.com/231

CLICK HERE FOR EVENTS IN VENICE, CA + BOONE, NC

Sponsored by Ellwood Thompson’s Natural Market, the three Richmond, VA events are ::

Sunday, Dec. 6 2 PM // FREE

DIVINE RAW VEGAN ELIXIRS, CHAI LATTE’S, SUPERFOOD SHAKES + OTHER BEVERAGES Free samples of delicious beverages will be prepared before your eyes. Ellwood Thompson’s Natural Market

4 N. Thompson St., Richmond VA 23221 • (804) 359-7525 • www.ellwoodthompsons.com

Sunday, Dec. 13 9:30 am to 7 pm // $100 + $30 Food Cost

FULL DAY RAW CHEF TRAINING / CERTIFICATION COURSE

In this Raw Inspirations Chef’s Certification Course, you will learn to make the basics of raw vegan cuisine, including dehydrator basics, fermented food basics, how to make delicious soups, sauces, dressings and pate’s, entree and dessert ideas and more. Laura Fox’s raw cheffery style allows you to unfold your creative capacity for designing raw foods that are both delicious and nutritious. REGISTER HERE! SPACE IS LIMITED! RSVP ASAP TO HOLD YOUR SPOT~You will be given directions to the location upon registration.

Thursday, Dec. 17

SOUND NOURISHMENT EXPERIENCE 6:30 pm- 9:30 pm

$25 in advance, $30 at the door, includes delectable raw vegan dinner + workshop + food prep instruction

The new and creative Sound Nourishment Experience designed by Laura Fox and her LA-based friend Joey DeRusha incorporates raw vegan food prep, sonic activations + spontaneous music. The magic of this experience leads us into an awareness of the consciousness behind all living food, which nourishes us on the emotional-mental-spiritual levels in addition to the physical benefits of a living foods meal. This super fun high vibe evening is instructional and experiential. Bring instruments if desired and an expansive attitude for a new adventure in food and consciousness!

REGISTER HERE! SPACE IS LIMITED! RSVP ASAP TO HOLD YOUR SPOT~

The Sound Nourishment Experience

Sound Nourishment Heads East!

This event is such a super success! It’s ridiculously fun, energizing, educational and high vibrational. I want to share it everywhere!

I’m heading back to the east coast for the month of December! We have scheduled two rawsome Sound Nourishment Experiences. Check it out!

Friday, December 11
6:30 PM
Boone, NC
$25 pre-paid
$30 at the door
Includes Food Prep Instruction, Meal + Workshop
Holiday Raw Party Treats Prep Class
REGISTER

Thursday, December 17
6:30 PM Richmond, VA
+ Sound Nourishment Experience!
$25 pre-paid
$30 at the door
Includes Food Prep Instruction, Meal + Workshop
Holiday Raw Party Treats Prep Class
REGISTER

The Sound Nourishment Experience combines teachings on how to prepare vegan raw and living foods with a playful, free-form musical and movement experience which creates beautiful community bonds while helping us to access the portions of ourselves which will truly allow sustainable nourishment to feed us body, mind, emotions and spirit.

Sound is the seed of creation, birthing all life into form. Music and movement stimulate the energy flows which cause life to be robust, playful and joyful. Our bodies are the instruments of the Divine, Whose eternal dance dances us. When we nourish ourselves deeply with loving and playful interactions, divine sounds, dance and living foods, we can experience riding the wave of an accelerated spiral toward our goals of enlightenment, joy in co-creation and harmony in our earth walk.

Co-created by Laura Fox + Joey DeRusha, this event will take us to an entirely new relationship with our food while building community and having total fun. Laura Fox facilitates SOUND NOURISHMENT EAST.

Read More!
www.SoundNourishment.com

Wow this is going to be such a fun show. Check it out!

VisionaryCultureRadio.com

Wed Nov 25, 7 PM pst, 10 PM est

Markus Rothkranz, raw superhero and health advocate is an artistic genius with his hands in everything from filmmaking to clothing design and more.

www.gorawnow.com

www.markusrothkranz.com

Dave The Raw Food Trucker lost 200 pounds by going raw and doing juice fasting and juice feasting. He has two juicers in his rig. To celebra

te and honor the Tree of Life and Gabriel Cousens, MD for saving his life, Dave initiated the Global Juice Fasting Day on November 29.

www.rawexistence.com

Hondo Solomon fruitarian allstar has been fruitarian for a long time and has downloads for those choosing this raw vegan path.

www.giveittomeraw.com

Tomorrow night! Archives post after live show.

Aloha!

I had an amazing, exceptional experience at the Tom Bird Write Your Book in 8 Days retreat in Sedona in October! My book actually morphed into two books. I am in the editing process now, enjoying the process of preparing these for publication.

I highly recommend this retreat—if you’ve got a book in you, Tom will definitely help you get it out! I had been meaning to ‘get around to’ writing my book for five years! With such a busy schedule producing festivals and events and radio shows, I hadn’t had a chance to sit still long enough to do it.

Click HERE to check out Tom’s 2010 retreats!

Laura and her manuscript overlooking the red rocks of Sedona

I often dined at the restaurant owned by my friends Kelly Johnson and Jenn Warr, called The Chocolatree.

Laura at the Chocolatree, an awesome Sedona spot with lots of raw foods

Super Yum Salad at Chocolatree

After the retreat, I visited with my friends Morgan and Puma at their home and retreat center, Grace Grove.

Laura, Morgan and Puma at Grace Grove in Sedona

The working titles are Collaborative Visioning :: Co-creation Through The Resonant Field, and Visioning Together :: New Paradigm Tools for Co-Creation. Not sure what the names will end up as! However, the process continues to be fun, and Tom even taught us about the insider’s scoop on the publishing world, looking at all the choices of how to publish, and getting query letters out to publishers before we even left the retreat.

Tom Bird

Tom was able to hold us in a solid space of movement forward through his techniques which help us get into the “author within connected state.” With a group of mentors who had taken the course before, Tom helped us track our word counts and stay in the ‘fast writing pace’ which allows us to stay a clear channel for our book. The lucidity of the writing is surprising, especially for new writers. Words just start flying out… and they’re good, even on retrospect!

Here’s what happened with all the students at this retreat ::

·         Forty-one students completed a total of forty-three books;

·         Collectively, the group received over 1200 offers from literary agents to potentially represent their books to the top publishing houses in the country;

·         Eleven students were offered contracts from literary agents within three weeks of the retreat;

·         17 agents actually took the time out of their busy schedules to call my students;

·         And one student set a record by actually having over 100 agents interested in potentially representing his first book.

As you can see it was a great retreat.

As a result, Tom has scheduled three retreats in 2010 – March 6-14; June 11-20 and September 18-26.

Check it out. If you have had a feeling there’s a book in you, after this experience, I’m sure there is! And you should go for it.

Tom Bird Retreat Info

Blessings!

Laura Fox

VisionaryCulture.com

119 people have already nominated hundreds of raw foods leaders, products and companies in this year’s Best of Raw! Sponsors are coming in, such as Nutiva, The Raw Food World, Nomi Shannon, Natural Zing, Angelina Elliott, Elements for Life and Sacred Chocolate. Thanks everyone!~

I have received a bunch of requests for new categories! They are super fun ones. The only problem is, the Wufoo form I’m using only allows 100 fields and I already used them giving everyone the chance to nominate more than one person per category! So additional categories will have to wait til next year. We now have 30 Categories! That’s good for 2009.

Blessings!

~ Laura

Aloha! Check it out!

I am stoked to begin teaching divinely delicious Raw Vegan Cheffery here in the Los Angeles area! I have been teaching this for about 8 years now and I just love helping people learn how to expand their diet with these awesome health promoting foods.

Here’s your chance to practice making delicious organic raw vegan recipes for a healthy holiday season!

You will learn to make the recipes in this e-zine plus more!

REGISTER HERE!

Only 20 spots available.

RAW VEGAN RECIPES WE WILL LEARN TO MAKE AND ENJOY!

~ Brazil Nut “not-turkey”

~ Olive-Pine Nut Gravy

~ Sweet Potato Casserole

~ Fresh Cranberry Relish

~ Smashed Notatoes

~ Raw Stuffing Balls

~ Raw Apple Pie with Whipped Kream

TIME :: Noon to 3:30 pm

DATE :: Saturday, November 14

TEACHER :: Laura Fox has been teaching gourmet raw vegan prep classes for the last 8 years! She loves helping people learn ways to add more delightful, yummy, nourishing raw vegan foods to the diet.

LOCATION :: 14013 Old Harbor Lane #304 Marina Del Rey CA 90292

RSVP NO LATER THAN NOV. 11 TO HOLD YOUR SPOT!

QUESTIONS :: laura@visionaryculture.com

PRICE :: $40 includes instruction and the delectable food we prepare!

You MUST RSVP as I need to purchase food ahead of time.

REGISTER HERE!

LIMITED TO 20 PEOPLE.

You may pay $40 online, or make a deposit of any amount to hold your spot.

Thanks, see you there!

Blessings~

Laura

I love my life.

I am having a beautiful time creating, organizing the radio show, compiling my new book on raw beverages and another one popped in!

I’m calling it the Blackberry Sun Shake.

Very simple.

Blackberry Sun Shake

Blend together in your VitaMix or other blender ::

5 ounces fresh or frozen blackberries

3 cups sprouted sunflower seed mylk, unstrained

2 bananas

Sunflower Seed Mylk

1 cups soaked and strained sunflower seeds

3 cups spring water or purified water

1 tsp. raw honey

Blend together and do not strain. Very thick, creamy and delicious! The VitaMix or BlendTec will make the shake and the nut mylk very smooth. You can use any blender, but if you don’t strain, there may be a bit of texture in it.

If you want the drink to be less thick, you can strain it with a nut mylk bag. Try Elaina Loves at www.purejoyplanet.com and tell her I sent you!

Of course all ingredients should be ORGANIC! (Check out this awesome new way to get your organic produce for way less than retail delivered to your door!)