RAW JOURNEYS is run by Erini Loucaides with passion. She offers raw food recipes and advice on the raw food lifestyle. Erini also organises raw food exhibitions, potlucks and workshops.  Below is the story of their raw journey so far.

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.  

 Erini’s Journey;

Although Erini Loucaides holds a degree in English Literature and adores the literary world, nothing catapults her to other stratospheres as much as raw food does.

A few years ago, she thought she couldn’t be both English teacher and raw food workshop leader, believing that she was serving two masters, but she soon awakened to the fact she was actually honouring one Great Mistress!

Born  23rd January 1975 with an Australian-Cypriot background, Erini felt that turning vegetarian at age 15 was healthy but a few years later, after reading the Diamond’s ‘Fit For Life’, she realised  that there were good and bad vegetarians. She was bad! Then, one weekend in 2003, she took a trip to an organic farm snuggled up in the pine-scented mountains in Cyprus and there, out of everything Dr Maria Georgiou said to her over that weekend, one big truth resounded:

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

And so Erini did but still, she had no idea about eating high raw, until sometime after that she was recommended Shazzie’s ‘Detox Your World’ and her world shot out of orbit and fully spun into the rawbit. Life was one voluptuous dance after that, albeit with some tripping and traipsing!

For over a decade she has also been co-running The Ecology Club at the private school where she teaches (American Academy Larnaca), focussing on both inner and outer ecology. This has involved visits to health and environmental centres, and many organic farms, including the Alternative Technology Centre in Wales as well as  attending many ecological conferences, even as far as Nepal. Erini has also attended seminars and lectures by noted raw foodists like David Wolfe and has been advised by raw food authors, Karen Knowler and Gina Panayi

Whilst Erini would love to undertake further raw food courses to join the Ann Wigmore and Karen Knowler ones she has done, recent pregnancies, breastfeeding and raising children as naturally as possible, have been her most profound teachers; she has learned a great deal more about raw foodism and green living and, in many ways, softened her outlook - she feels you don’t have to be 100% raw to feel its wondrous effects.

Concocting recipes (‘spirit food!’), hosting workshops and running her site, www.rawjourneys.com, is one of her greatest passions but above all, Erini has learned that living a joyous life is the ultimate raw recipe - and the one that tastes the most delicious!

Details:

Website: www.rawjourneys.com /www.rawfoodcyprus.com

Emails: info@rawjourneys.com

kissearth@hotmail.com

Facebook: Irene Loucaides