Raw Food Detox 17 — 24 Aug and 24 — 31 Aug

Paula Wilson €425

A Raw Plant-based Diet

Come and experience the delicious, nutritious, energizing, revitalizing physical and emotional healing effects of a raw plant-based diet. After a gradual transition from a reluctant meat-eating childhood via a vegetarian adolescence to a vegan adulthood, it was only on changing to a raw diet eight years ago that I have come closer to nutrition as nature intended it—life enhancing.

Eating a raw plant-based diet can be as simple or as complicated as you want to make it. If you love following recipes, there are websites and books galore on raw food diets. Or if you like grabbing food out of the fridge, or better still, straight out of your garden, then you can keep it very simple. It is easy to acquire an intuitive feel of what goes with what so you can make something appetizing out of whatever you have lying around.

The food we eat often has more to do with tradition, habit, cravings, addictions, comfort, and so forth than actual nutrition and energy. We are unable to digest food and process emotions at the same time. Eating a lighter diet can be emotionally as well as physically healing. Therefore the workshop is about the mental, physical and spiritual, as we are all complete beings. Every aspect influences the other.

This electrical hand blender makes small servings and is very robust and inexpensive (around €70). It's portable (you can take it on holiday with you), easy to clean and to use, unlike splashy hand-held blenders. I will be bringing mine to use here so you’ll get to see this useful gadget in operation.

Our affordable (€250 per week, inclusive) Living-in-Community programme invites you to stay on a week before or after your workshop to relax and enjoy this special, unspoiled region of Greece. Book now!

Please note that there is a 10% discount for booking both of these Raw Food weeks.

Some Benefits of Eating Raw

My aim is to inspire you to try a short period raw so that you can feel how life could (and should?) be: so that having experienced the increase in energy, clarity and general health, you will have an incentive to kick the cooked food habit.

The body will heal itself from a lifetime of less than ideal dietary choices remarkably quickly and what seem like ingrained habits and addictions can be changed within days or weeks. My own transition to a raw diet was so immediate and dramatic that I wanted to tell everyone I met. However, over the years I found that quietly doing my own thing generates far more interest.

Eating a raw plant-based diet thins the blood, allowing years of built up waste material resulting from ingesting acidic foods to pass from the lymph fluid surrounding every cell into the blood stream to be excreted. This detoxification can only occur in the absence of continuing toxification.

Man is the only living creature to cook his food (and that of the animals he has domesticated). The results of this aberration in the form of minor to major illness and behavioural abnormalities (e.g. obesity, aggression, hyperactivity) are everywhere to be seen, making it appear normal when it is so far from what nature intended.
raw food liquidizer

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Paula Wilson writes:

Brought up by my father, my diet oscillated between tinned/packeted food in the winter and an abundance of home-grown veg and local fruit in the summer. Raw Food detox workshop in Greece

As a teenager at boarding school, the vegetarian option was lifeless, over-cooked veg so I insisted on salads. Had I known where I was going with my diet, I might have got there a lot quicker but I effortlessly ditched eggs and all dairy products one by one. On turning vegan, I had a brief six month fling with a high raw food diet in 1983 after reading Raw Energy by Leslie Kenton but was still including bread, margarine and nut butters.

About 12 years ago, I would go raw on our 2-3 week summer camping holidays. On about the third year, my first ‘normal’ (i.e. cooked) meal on returning home knocked me sideways with exhaustion. From that moment on I just completely stopped cooking!

For the past 12 years, I have worked as a builder/carpenter. I enjoy doing practical stuff and love working outside all year round. In my long friendship with Dr Helen Ford, I have unofficially catered at many of her workshops, providing a banquet of delicious salads which have inspired many people to increase their raw food consumption.