Tree of Life Seeking Vegan/Raw Vegan Employees!

Aloha!

I just heard from Philip at The Tree of LIfe that there are some fabulous positions open at The Tree of Life in Patagonia, Arizona! The Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center is of course one of the very few leading edge raw vegan retreat centers with medical offerings, social experiences, permaculture and gardening to grow their own food, and spiritual practices in a community setting. Check it out!

OPENINGS :: treeoflife.nu/employnews

APPLY :: treeoflife.nu/employ
GUIDELINES :: treeoflife.nu/employapply

IMMEDIATE POSITIONS :: Accounting Manager, Store Clerk, Shipping Clerk
APPLICANTS should be 100% Vegan, 80% Live and In Deep Alignment with Tree of Life and the teachings of Gabriel Cousens.

Totally Stoked for Raw Games!

Wow, this is a rawsome week here in Los Angeles as I’m finally grounding out for the month of October to work on the Raw Games! If you haven’t gone to the website yet, please do so :: www.rawgames.org :: it’s going to be gobs of fun. We raw foodies sometimes need a bit of help getting the exercise and fitness piece of life into place, and I imagine there are a bunch of athletes who could use the nutritional upgrade, so this event is an awesome blending of needs and communities to activate us all higher into our superhero powers!! Hope to see you there!

~Laura

Best of Raw is going great!

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

Los Angeles :: Thanksgiving + Holiday Feast Raw Vegan Prep Class!

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

Blackberry Sun Shake

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!)

Sound Nourishment Experience Continues in Sherman Oaks, CA

Thursday, November 3
6:30 PM
Sherman Oaks
$10 for kitchen angels
$25 standard
$50 sponsor angels
Includes Food Prep Instruction, Meal + Workshop

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.

Facilitated 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.

Read More!
www.SoundNourishment.com

Register Here!

I AM Walking

Christopher Howe is walking to Brazil from LA carrying hundreds o prayers for us all

Interview:
Wed Nov 4
7 PM pst
www.VisionaryCultureRadio.com

by Christopher Howe
i AM walking.

I am walking, running, meditating, praying, transforming my life and yours 6583 miles from Los Angeles to Brazil.

I AM Walking because I AM possible. I AM walking to illuminate OUR infinite potential. I AM walking, each day for 8, 10, 12 hours per day, 2.7 miles per hour, meditating, meeting, speaking and sharing the potential in you and your cause as I walk for me and mine.

As I walk I AM acknowledging and giving thanks for the potential for ordinary people to achieve extraordinary things.

From city to city and town to town, I am walking, right NOW. I AM entering into conversations with, relationships with, connections with you and everyone as I deliver your message and mine to others, for others.
Join US.

As I, You, We, Yes WE, walk, run, wheelchair, roller-skate, or radio-fly down this road we go beyond ourselves and our notions of what is possible.
I CAN. I AM. We CAN. We ARE.

HERE & NOW we go beyond our ‘reason’, beyond our thinking, seeing what possible in and above our complaints, above and outside our ‘limitations’. outside and through our ‘boundaries’. As I walk, I let go of the pains in my body, exceed physical limits in my life, in our lives, I AM seeing and transmuting what is painful and divisive into what is possible and uniting.

HERE, NOW, we need YOU, writers, musicians, cooks, architects, scientists, doctors, photographers, yoga-practitioners, spiritual practitioners, translators, professors, volunteers, and non-profiteers with the desire to make an extraordinary difference in OUR lives by taking simple steps.

Whether you are on the bus, on the walk, or in your home, stretch and go beyond! See what is Infinite around you, in others, in you and in US. See what could be! See what needs to be solved in a creative way, and let’s stand for that change by raising the awareness and the funds required to be Creators of creative solutions!
Please call us. 360 – 894 – 4412
info@iamwalking.org

photo by Isabelle Oliver

Christopher Howe
Founder, President
iAMwalking.org

Rainwater Harvesting with Brad Lancaster

Brad holds the torch for our rethinking our relationship with rain water. Using this valuable resource can solve a lot of problems.

Wed Nov 2
7 PM pst / 10 PM est
www.VisionaryCultureRadio.com

Brad Lancaster is a nationally renown speaker and author of the acclaimed Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands, Volume 1: Guiding Principles to Welcome Rain Into Your Life and Landscape has sold over 8,000 books (3 printings) and has won multiple awards. Since 1993 Brad has run a successful permaculture consulting, design, and education business focused on integrated and sustainable approaches to landscape design, planning, and living. Living on an eighth of an acre in downtown Tucson, Arizona, where rainfall is less than 12 inches annually, Brad practices what he preaches by harvesting over 100,000 gallons of rainwater per year. Brad and his brother Rodd have created an oasis in the desert by directing this harvested rainwater, not off their property and into storm drains, but instead they incorporate it into living air conditioners of food-bearing shade trees, abundant gardens, and a thriving landscape and habitat for wildlife. Brad Lancaster is a permaculture teacher, designer, consultant and co-founder of Desert Harvesters (DesertHarvesters.org). Brad has taught programs for the ECOSA Institute, Columbia University, University of Arizona, Prescott College, Audubon Expeditions, and many others. He has helped design integrated water harvesting and permaculture systems for homeowners and gardeners, including the Tucson Audubon Simpson Farm restoration site, the Milagro and Stone Curves co-housing projects.

See Brad’s short film Sustainable Route here.

Creating Positive Holiday Intentions

Aloha!

What is your intention for this holiday season?

Once again the season of holidays is here, bringing us into a rememberance of ‘that which continues’ in cycles. The cyclical ways of nature and of special events on the human calendar help us to ground out and reflect upon our lives in a deeper way especially during this time of year. The holiday season is not always easy for all of us, as lots of old feelings, family memories, unsatisfied desires and things not quite aligned seem to churn up from the subconscious, and family events, social events, and the deep collective energies of the holidays can get some of us feeling depressed, crazed with shopping and caring for others, or worried about family arguments. For those of us blessed with an absence of this stressful energy I salute you! For those of us who are still subject to the ebb and flow of the intense energies and emotions of this time, I am holding a space of love for us to SHIFT IT this year.

What are holiday patterns from the past? It may be useful to do this week’s challenge in a quiet space at home where you can relax and reflect, to set the stage for your upcoming holiday season, and dial in intentions that are truly aligned with what you really would love to experience. As one of my teachers Howard Wills says, the discomfort, illness and pain in life has roots in the family lineage. When we are able to sort through the myriad feelings that may seem unrelated to our childhood and our family patterns, we start to make the connections, forgive everyone and begin to heal. We can forgive even those who have passed on for holding or carrying forward energies that have had us steeped in any kind of holiday suffering. We also have the collective consciousness of humanity, the massive amount of advertising about how the holidays are supposed to look and feel, what we’re supposed to have, do, give and be during this time. The combination of these things can put an enormous amount of pressure on us, and this stress and pressure can dampen the immune system.

This is probably a great time to make some fresh, healthy organic juices, take baths with aromatherapy, trade massages with a friend, relax deeply, do some introspective work and do what we can to slow the pace of the holiday rush.

It may be a good time to reprioritize based on your current values how you want to spend your holiday time, money and energy. What is really most important to you? What can you do and manage and still stay balanced? Are their family patterns which typically reenact themselves at this time of year? Are you involved or more of a witness? How does this situation usually make you feel? Are you nervous about it happening again?

A little pre-paving of how we want our holiday season to be can be a great boon. While we recognize the energies of the past and work to clear and forgive them through any sort of healing modality, meditation or prayer, we can also launch forth bold new intentions for the delightful holiday season we wish to enjoy.

This week’s challenge :: Does the holiday season make me feel happy, sad or mixed? Do I tend to overtax myself, overreact or over spend during this time? What emotions surface for me when I get stressed during the holidays? Are there feelings of overwhelm, of needing to be more, do more, give more? Is there a sense of not being enough, having enough or fears of disappointing people?

Write out the answers to these questions in a meditative state. Reflect on them, and tune in with Source to do any forgiveness work that is indicated. “Thank you Light for helping me to forgive _______________ for _________________. Thank you for helping ________________ to forgive me. Thank you for helping us forgive ourselves, love ourselves and love each other.” Repeat this with each person as appropriate until you start feeling clearer.

Next, do a little meditation to bring forth your Holiday Season Vision. Drop into your heart, take a deep breath, and sink deeply into your heart space. Ask your Source to help you receive a vision of the good things to come. When you emerge, write these things down. This can become the start of your personal holiday planning guide. What are your motivations? How do you want to feel? How do you want to make others feel? What is your budget? How many parties can you attend and still feel balanced in your daily life? Are you planning a party or gathering? How will it fit into the larger schedule gracefully? Will you be encountering family members who typically ‘go off’ or have a charge at this time? How will you handle this, this year? Will you allow yourself to step out of the pattern in some way? What is the gift you wish to give yourself at this special time, and what gifts do you truly want to give others?

Consider new ideas for gifts in alignment with your pocketbook and your intentions :: maybe it is not about how much money we spend, or how fancy the gift is, but instead, about how meaningful it is, how much it may promote your loved ones in moving forward in their personal growth and positive relationships.

Aloha!

Here’s to the start of a beautiful holiday season!

Many Blessings!
Laura Fox

Orange Silk Shake

Wow this one is a real palette pleaser.

4 very very ripe Hachiya persimmons, peeled

1 orange, peeled

2 frozen bananas

1 handful fresh  mint

1 fresh basil leaf

1 stalk fresh dill

1 tsp. raw honey

1 tsp. fresh lemon juice

1 cup water (or more if you want it thinner)

Blend in your VitaMix or other blender  until smooth.

Serve in a beautiful glass with fresh mint sprigs and a dash of vitamineral green or other green powder.

The herbs really make this awesome orange silk shake pop.

3 slices fresh ginger

The persimmons were grown in Joey’s back yard. Joey and I started the Sound Nourishment Experience last night in Sherman Oaks which was a big hit. Check it out at wwwSoundNourishment.com. We will post upcoming Sound Nourishment dates on the site. In the meantime the website has a lot of cool information about the Experience.

New Year’s Party At Grace Grove

Puma, Morgan and Kelly from Chocolatree have got an awesome New Year’s event in store

After my writing retreat in Sedona, I came to Grace Grove, retreat center and home of Puma St. Angel and Morgan Langan. They have added more accommodations since the last time I visited after the Raw Spirit Festival in 2008. The place is looking as beautiful as ever. This awesome space is of quite a unique design. Lots of exposed wood, high ceilings, artistic architectural detail, stone floors and beautiful mediterranean colors in a wooded area just north of the town of Sedona plus the high vibe and intention for wellness and growth all add up to make it feel great to be here! Puma does colonics for people locally or on retreat; they have a sauna and other amenities. It’s a great place to hold a retreat, attend a retreat or just to come out for a nurturing getaway.

They will be having a New Year’s Eve Party with Kelly Johnson from Chocolatree including music, dancing, Kelly’s awesome raw chocolates and a Cacao Ceremony. Check it out! Info about the New Year’s Party will be on their site soon. In the meantime, you can call or email Puma for more info.

www.GraceGrove.com
Grace Grove Retreat
1280 E. Willow Point Rd.
Cornville, AZ 86325-6014 – (928) 649-0456
puma@gracegrove.com

Creamy Fall Spice Shake

Wow this is good.

Yum, yum, yum.

Inspiration was soaring high this afternoon at Grace Grove Retreat Center near Sedona where I created this concoction.

Serves 1-2

Water from one young coconut

2 ripe organic bananas

1 organic lemon, peeled

1 tbs. raw honey

1 healthy dash Allspice

1 healthy dash Cinnamon

(any of the pumpkin pie spices would be great!)

 

Blend it in your VitaMix or other blender. Oh my! Yum heaven.