Why go Raw? 
The benefits of going raw-vegan are boundless. Raw foods are easy to digest, and they provide the maximum amount of energy with minimal bodily effort. Studies have shown that living foods have healing powers that can alleviate many illnesses from low energy, allergies, digestive disorders, weak immune system, high cholesterol, candida, to obesity & weight problems (weight normalization), etc.. Research and real life experiences have also shown that a person can prevent a body's healthy cells from turning into malignant cancerous cells by consuming mostly a raw food diet & whole organic foods!

When we choose to eat, WHO is getting fed? As science expands our understanding of how the body works, eaters everywhere are benefiting—for we are beginning to see more and more clearly exactly WHO is bellying-up to the table when we choose to eat and exactly WHAT foods are healers that support our optimal function versus what foods are pathogenic that hasten the breakdown of all our systems’ parts and leads to early disease and death.

“There are two ways to clean a dirty water glass,” my teacher observed, with the studied deliberation that told me he was going to say something simple but with vast implications. “The first is to turn it upside down and wash it out.” He paused for me to digest what he’d said. “The second is to let fresh water run into it, fill it, and overflow—continuously running in and out over a long period of time.” Then he asked, “Which do you think works best?” I hesitated, suspecting it was a setup. Before I could venture a reply, he volunteered, “You think it’s the first, the emptying and the washing, but it’s not. The gradual approach is more thorough in the long run.” 

— From Radical Healing by Rudolph Ballentine, M.D.

Nala introduces aspects of BODYVERSITY Many of Nala's teachings and somatic arts-based explorations are loosely based around the "Reconnecting Work" of Joanna Macy and other groundbreaking whole-systems theorists.

Jenny Pell introduces permaculture at the Port Townsend workshop called THE BODYVERSITY.May 2,3,4 2008 This workshop merged ecology and permaculture with the expressive arts and yoga to create a springboard for sustainable community-building and discussion of how we'd like to shape our collective future.

The goal of proper food combining, and of eating for that matter, is to make energy available. We need to limit the spoiling or fermentation of the foods we eat so that our organs won’t be impeded in their operations by un-eliminated, toxic metabolic waste, which is the major cause of overweight, illness and aging. To digest efficiently, we must pay attention to which foods are combined at a meal, especially breakfast, and to how much time elapses between meals.

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