WHY JOURNEY?
 

As you move along this constantly unfolding path, there is no destination (even when you think you’re going backwards, you’re not!). What is important is  doing your best whatever that may be at that point in time for you.

Just  Flow.  

Barbara’s Journey….

How did it all begin ? I was born 30th September 1972, but the little wake up call was when a friend of mine gave me the Diamond's book "Fit for Life", about 12 years ago. Then the mega huge, earth quaking, shake up wake up call occurred back in 1999 when I went to an Anthony Robbins seminar in Geneva. It opened a door which led to an awakening period in my life which has not ended. I started reading and reading and realized that every time I bought a book it was on nutrition and spirituality (about a book a week).

That eventually led to me obtaining a degree in Holistic Nutrition MSc, from Clayton College of Natural Health. About five years ago I came across the Essene Gospel of Peace by Edmond Bordeaux Szekely, which was my first introduction to eating raw.

For the past ten years I have been devoted to spreading the knowledge of a healthy vegetarian lifestyle, including simple holistic living and care of the environment.

As a Holistic Nutritionist my vision is to educate our community and to help us all realize that we must all start living our lives consciously and to evaluate our behaviours with regard to how we may enhance or disrupt the natural balance of all things. From the exhaust gases to cars and industrial pollutants, the chlorofluorocarbons destroying the planet’s ozone layer, exposing us to harmful radiation. The unrestricted urban sprawl is wantonly eliminating our green space, natural habitats for animals and the herbicides and pesticides are poisoning our soil and consequently, our food. Greed and waste are the characteristics of a population that has lost touch with itself and its soul…

Eating raw is the most natural way to cultivate qualities of joy, inner peace, health and happiness in ourselves and in turn these are spread to our love for mother earth and all her creatures. It is walking the Divine path of  love.

I invite you to join us on this journey and live life by opening your heart, body, mind and soul to RAWSOMENESS !

Irene’s Journey;

It all happens step by step, so quietly in fact, that you don’t realize it and it’s not until you reflect much later, that you are able to understand where life was guiding you all along.  

I was born  23rd January 1975 and thought that turning vegetarian at age 15 was healthy but a few years later, after reading the Diamond’s ‘Fit For Life’, I realised  that there were good and bad vegetarians.I was bad! By this time I had finished my degree in English Literature from London University and had begun teaching at a private school where a colleague and I set up the school’s Ecology Club. Over the decade that followed, we promoted care for the environment in its many forms and highlighted the essential fact that just as there was outer ecology, there was also inner: the food we eat and its impact on us. This led to many trips including one up in the Machairas mountains around 2003. There, Dr Maria Georgiou and her husband provided some valuable insights into proper eating habits. Impressed, I returned there again, alone, and out of everything Dr Maria said to me over that weekend, one big truth resounded within me.

     ‘Always make sure you eat something living with each meal’

 I had read Ann Wigmore’s ‘Be Your Own Doctor’, but after that day, I saw food very differently. Of course I was still unaware one could have  a 80-100% raw lifestyle, but  I’d look at the grilled vegetables, then at the large salad and wonder, ‘If that salad is living, then what is the cooked stuff?’  Quite dead of course! At this point, I increased my intake of greens, made juices and was probably 50% raw – but the other 50% also comprised of ahem…certain nasties.

And so it was that a few years after that I attended a detox talk where my life was truly about to swivel. I thought it would be like any other such lecture and in some ways it was with the exception that I came out more inspired than usual. At the end of the talk, Siri Shabd Singh recommended a book, ‘Detox  Your World’ which I bought soon after  and within days, the world of the raw lifestyle made its fullest impact upon me.  Life would never be the same.

I had a three month honeymoon period where I was pretty much 80-90% raw and I was overwhelmed at the changes. The weight fell off, my mind grew clear and the world was one gorgeous adventure!   However, I guess you can’t kick 30 years of bad habits in three months and the drastic change did catch up with me. Eating raw is just as much an emotional, mental and spiritual change as it is a physical one. I had to start with basic steps all over again, ones that had to be learned well before moving to the next level.

Now I feel that I have tuned into the rhythm of my raw dance. Although I am not always sure what is around the corner, I know one thing:  raw is always there to catch and pirouette me!  And is it perhaps your time to dance?