Healthy Living Food Program A Comprehensive Wellness Retreat For Healing, Cleansing and Education Larches Inn and Wellness Center - Carver MA

An Opportunity of a Lifetime Be Empowered - Take Charge of your Health!! The Larches Inn is not only a beautiful Bed and Breakfast located on Sampson Pond, Carver MA, it is also a wellness center and has a wonderful vision for expanding its healing programs.   Join our team Rosana Gijsen, Joe Lucier, Dorothy Torrey and Rain Philips (Owner and operator of The Larches) for many programs including a Tong Ren 3 hour intensive and hands on training, an incredible 2 or 5-Day healing, rejuvenation and education program and more. Open house is April 11 1-5 where we will introduce ourselves and introduce the upcoming programs. Healthy raw vegan snacks and drinks will be served. Be empowered through knowledge and awareness, and take charge of your life through positive choices and a healthy lifestyle with nourishing food, a healthy body and mind, nourishing exercise and sensible health choices.

Goals

 
Our program offers more than recipes.  We care about your health and healing. Learn skills easily used at home when the training and cleanse is done.  Follow-up support after the program is available and recommended for all participants. 

Goals of the Multi-Day Programs:

• Healing - Through this opportunity, you learn abundant delicious healthy food choices - Additional Healing Techniques and Sessions are also given
• Cleansing - Detox gently and replenish the body with vibrant foods - out with the old, in with the new
• Education - Know the reasons and the science behind this food and lifestyle choice - be an educated eater
• Immersion - Total immersion is extremely helpful to get positive healing momentum in this team supported environment - program includes lodging
• Support and Community - Our team, as well as other participants, offer great support and a community experience to help everyone adopt these simple and effective techniques
• Live Energy and Live Food - Vegan Nutrition and Foods together with Tong Ren energy healing, breathwork, informative talks, meditation, relaxation, sunshine, exercise and community offer an excellent environment for healing

5 Day Multi-Day Program and Retreat - Lodging Included

Education, Exercise, Meditation and Healing To Support The Program Over 30 hours Class work including PowerPoint Presentations as well as Food Demos and Healing Techniques

• Daily Meditation
• Quick and Easy Kitchen Sprouting
• Easy to learn daily exercises including Master Gao simple warm-up and stretching, Dao Yin Qi Gong, yoga, The 5 Tibetan Rites & Meditation
• Tong Ren Group Healing Treatments and Education
• Tui Na Asian Body Work Tam System Acupressure Treatment Included
• Instructional Raw Food Movies and Audio Interviews
• Herb walk and plant identification - Nature is our Guide - Guest Speaker - Tommy Priester
• Many more group activities - we are located right on a pond (check out the seminar location http://www.thelarchesinn.com)
• Boat rides with our own wellness center boat - Cruise to health
• Over 30 hours of classes including power point presentations, food demonstrations and healing techniques on:

  • Healthy Living and Raw Food Nutrition and the abundance of vitamins and minerals
  • Importance of colon care and health - digestion, absorption and elimination - we are what we absorb
  • Benefits of vibrant, organic and vital whole foods
  • Techniques for weight Loss, diabetes and cancer
  • Importance of enzymes
  • Benefits and recipes for green smoothies - Nutritious Smoothie of the Day
  • Easy Kitchen sprouting for mung beans, lentils and others
  • Micro-green growing for wheatgrass and buckwheat
  • Benefits and recipes for juicing
  • Benefits and recipes for live food and fermentation and making sauerkraut and vegan cheese
  • Food preparation tips, demos and techniques for making delicious and healing living foods
  • Basic kitchen knife skills
  • Pasta tools and other kitchen utensils
  • Healthy alternatives to processed sugars
  • Benefits and recipes for nourishing sea vegetables
  • Tong Ren Energy Healing and The Tam Healing System
  • Go Green - Sustainability for you and the planet

   

The Food To Support the Program and Your Goals All Food is Gluten Free, Dairy Free, Organic, Immune Building and Healing Organic Whole foods, Lots of Greens, Sprouts, Fermented Foods, Phyto-nutrients, Loads of Enzymes, Alkalizing Sea Vegetables, Green Juices and Smoothies and importantly, no processed foods. With our recipes, you learn easy, abundant, nourishing alternatives to SAD (Standard American Diet) food.

• 15 Vibrant Meals, green juices 3 times daily, green smoothies, wheatgrass and demonstrations with easy to reproduce techniques you can do at home - Recipes include:

  • Daily Nourishing Green Juices - Efficient power packed nutrition for maximum benefit, healing and absorption - 3 times a day
  • Daily Immune-building wheatgrass juice - every morning
  • Nutritious and Delicious Green Smoothies - everyday - Vitamins, minerals and your favorite fruits and greens in a glass
  • Quick & Easy Sandwiches & Wraps - Purple & green cabbage wraps, nori rolls, collard rolls, romaine sandwiches, stuffed bell peppers
  • Vibrant Pates - For Sandwiches, dips and side dishes - Sunflower seed cheese, guacamole, spinach dip and more
  • Non-dairy milk - Using ingredients like almonds or sunflower seeds, learn a better alternative to dairy milk for better nutrition and more calcium
  • Super Soups - Learn easy techniques for making miso soup, chowder as well as creamy or regular veggie soup with all your favorite vegetables
  • Delicious Healthy Desserts
  • Amazing Coconuts - Opening coconut techniques and using coconut meat and water in recipes like smoothies, drinks and soups
  • Fantastical Avocados - These bundles of healthy fats are versatile and delicious - good for Smoothies, Salads, Spooners
  • Fermented Foods - Sauerkraut, Rejuvelac and Seed Cheez - Natural pro-biotics
  • Quick and Easy breakfasts - Chia porridge, avocado coconut spooners - easy nourishing beginning to your day
  • Salads and Dressings - Enjoy making and tasting a variety of salads and dressings
  • Dehydration Techniques - Fruit leathers, falafel, dried fruit snacks, crackers, banana chips and kale chips

You will receive a comprehensive book with class reference materials and recipes.
You will also aquire lots of skills that you can immediately use at home for maintaining great health!

• Organic Healing Food:

• Daily Nourishing Green Juices - Efficient power packed nutrition for maximum benefit, healing and absorption - 3 times a day
• Daily Immune-building wheatgrass juice - every morning
• Nutritious and Delicious Green Smoothies - everyday - Vitamins, minerals and your favorite fruits and greens in a glass
• Easy Kitchen sprouting for mung beans, lentils and others
• Quick & Easy Sandwiches & Wraps - Purple & green cabbage wraps, nori rolls, collard rolls, romaine sandwiches, stuffed bell peppers
• Salads and Dressings - Enjoy making and tasting a variety of salads and dressings
• Non-dairy milk - Using ingredients like almonds or sunflower seeds, learn a better alternative to dairy milk for better nutrition and more calcium
• Pasta techniques including Pasta Marinara meal

• Daily Activities and Training

• Easy to learn daily exercises including Master Gao simple warm-up and stretching, Dao Yin Qi Gong, yoga, The 5 Tibetan Rites & Daily Meditation
• Basic kitchen knife skills
• Pasta tools and other kitchen utensils
• Tong Ren Group Healing Treatments and Education
• Vegan Nutrition Lectures; Healing, detox, food combining, ph balance, colon health, digestion and absorption
• Healthy alternatives to processed sugars

 

Joseph Lucier LMT, AOBTA, After living in Asia over 15 years as a student, translator, software engineer, he returned to the US and from 2001 to 2009 he acquired Raw and Living Food Chef and nutrition training

• Alissa Cohen Chef Programs in Florida and California
• Brenda Cobb Living Foods Ann Wigmore Program at the Living Foods Institute, Georgia
• Living Light Culinary Arts Institute Chef and Raw Doctors Vegan Nutrition Programs in Fort Bragg, California
• Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center Nutrition and Chef Apprenticeship Program, Arizona
• Boston School of Herbal Studies, Massachusetts
• Plant Based Nutrition Certification Cornell University, New York

To further his interest in healing, he studied Asian Bodywork, Shiatsu and Acupressure as well his primary healing approach, the highly effective Tom Tam Healing System Tuina and became licensed. 

While still maintaining a strong interest in Asia and Asian culture, he has transitioned from Chinese Translation and Software Engineering to healing. He does this with his passion for Tong Ren Healing, Raw Foods Nutrition Education and Chef Work, Herbalism, The Raw Foods Community (Raw New England Community Founder and Webmaster) and Asian Bodywork. He is also a taiji (tai chi) and qigong enthusiast. 

 
Rosana Gijsen, is an international trainer and educator as well as raw vegan chef. She is originally from Brazil and is a renowned Breathworker. She was trained by Leonard Orr, the founder of Breathwork. She has assisted him internationally for the past eleven years. She has transformed the lives of hundreds of people in her own practice, in the past eight years by helping people break through personal challenges and above all, experience the presence and power of full body breathing.

Rosana is a Yoga enthusiast and instructor. She is a graduate of the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta center in India, and went on to become an internationally known yoga teacher.

Rosana (also known as Rawsana in the Raw Community) is also a Raw Foodist.  She not only lives the Live Foods Lifestyle, she has recently graduated as a Raw Food Chef Instructor at the Living Light Culinary Arts Institute in California where she found herself accessing a deeper level of consciousness and felt a strong desire to share that experience with others through teaching about the Raw Food Diet and lifestyle. She has received additional high level training and experiences while cheffing in the Boston Massachusetts area for the Grezzo Raw Food Restaurant and Prana Raw Food Cafe.

Her spiritual approach to life and her compassion for others with her healing, are pervasive in all her work.