Living Light International - Raw Food Chef

Classes in Raw Vegan Cuisine
for Individuals, Chefs & Instructors

Additional Programs

Living Lightly Health & Weight Loss Series

Feast, lose weight, gain energy, feel younger! We designed this educational and experiential Living Lightly Series specifically to help you look better and feel younger in three short weeks! Join us for one, two or all three week-long segments. Week one, Gentle Transition Week, begins your journey with raw food, simple food preparation classes, physical activity, and a variety of individual and group processes. Most people begin losing weight and feeling better right away. Week two, Detox Week, focuses on the importance of cleansing, juicing, and detoxifying the body. Week three, Taking It Home Week, combines our FUNdamentals and Essentials culinary courses, providing you a solid foundation for preparing healthful organic raw vegan meals at home. Together, these three weeks offer a transformational experience and the promise of a new, joy-filled life.

 

Feast, Lose Weight, Gain Energy, Feel Younger!
Living Light International and the Raw Food Doctors, Rick and Karin Dina, of Vitality Wellness Center, have created an exciting new transformational spa series for January! Start out your new year right—Join us for a life-enhancing, transformational program specifically designed to help you look better and feel younger in three short weeks! Attend one, two or all three week-long segments. Each segment is designed for a specific purpose (see below), so participants can customize their program to suit their specific needs!

Living Lightly Spa Week 1
A gentle weight loss program and transition to a “high raw” diet, this week includes bountiful organic breakfasts, gourmet lunch feasts, and daily afternoon snacks—all designed to help you lighten up your body, mind, and spirit without feeling deprived. You’ll learn easy meal preparation and participate in simple hands-on classes.

• Re-organize and manage your kitchen
• Learn to create simple meals that satisfy you and your family
• Nutrition, weight loss/gain, and healing education with the Drs. Dina
• Group discussion and connection programs
• Yoga and movement classes for all levels
• Time for body work, spa services, and relaxation.
• Investment: $950. Includes breakfast, lunch, and snacks

There will be time for relaxation, setting intention, and enjoying optional healing arts like massage, saunas, facials, pedicures, and other spa services.  Enjoy educational films, supportive conversation, and group connection. This is the perfect way to begin your 3-day juice fast and detox week with less side effects.

Living Lightly Juice Fasting and Detox Week 2
This gentle detoxification program begins with a three-day juice fast. We’ll guide you in what to expect during the 5-day detox, weight loss experience and beyond! We’ll help you stay raw with familiar foods and offer strategies for living well and incorporating more raw food into your everyday life.

• Nutrition education with the Raw Food Doctors, Rick and Karin Dina
• Hands-on classes: learn to make delicious green smoothies, juices and sprouts at home!
• Learn how to stay on a health promoting raw food diet once you return home.
• Group discussion (optional private sessions available with the Drs. Dina)
• Yoga and movement classes for all levels
• Optional spa and beauty treatments
• Investment: $950. Includes meals and juices

You’ll learn about healing your life with positive thoughts and words, and we’ll help you discover delicious foods that nourish your body and nurture your spirit. We’ll also help you empower yourself for your new life, and teach you how to maintain and sustain the lifestyle as you go back “into the world.”

Living Lightly Week 3
2-day Fundamentals of Raw Living Foods certification course
January 19–20
5-day Essentials of Raw Culinary Arts certification course
January 21–25
Finally, after you have completed week one and/or two, you will be inspired to continue your education with our two most popular classes, the life empowering Fundamentals of Raw Living Foods and Essentials of Raw Culinary Arts. Learn how to nourish your body and nurture your spirit with delicious foods that you can make yourself.

Watch professional, well organized, culinary demonstrations of appetizers through desserts and learn to make:

• Rich and satisfying nut milk, cream, and cheese
• Kitchen gardening & sprouting
• Life enhancing cultured foods
• Dehydrated goodies and snacks
• Delicious, people-pleasing foods using flavor balancing techniques known to all great chefs
• Basic knife cuts using simple-to-learn knife skills
• Textures that mimic cooked foods using kitchen gadgets and equipment; marinating and massage.
• A myriad of raw gourmet recipes
• Complete Recipe Binder and Resource Guide
  

Fundamentals of Raw Living Foods: $475
Essentials of Raw Culinary Arts: $1375
Includesbreakfast (green smoothie and green juice), bountiful lunch, snacks, certification and fulfills the prerequisite requirements for continuing with Associate Chef and Instructor Training or Gourmet Raw Food Chef Certification

 

 

 

Living Light Culinary Vacations

These mini culinary adventures are open to the general public and include morning classes with hands-on food preparation followed by a delicious lunch, and afternoons spent exploring the many delights of the Mendocino coast.

 

Internship and Apprenticeship Programs

We offer valuable opportunities to come and experience hands-on what it is like to work in the Living Light raw vegan kitchen—at a reduced cost.  These are wonderful chances to learn by doing!

 

Vibrant Living Expo

Living Light International cohosts the raw food event of the summer, featuring many of the world’s leading chefs, educators, authors, and fitness experts,as well as outstanding food demonstrations, panel discussions, lectures, exercise classes, holistic health services, information booths, a vendor pavilion, and delicious raw food.

 

Raw World International

Experience heaven on earth! These tropical adventure vacations for raw food enthusiasts feature exploration, education, entertainment, exotic creatures, breathtaking scenery, and unforgettable RawFusion Gourmet Spa Cuisine.  Nourish body, mind, and spirit when and where you need it most—in the winter months on the beach, in tropical locations like Costa Rica.