Kristina Sisu, Certified Nutritionist

Linda — Fri, 04 May 2012 06:57:27 +0000

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Sunday, May 20

Doors open at 5:30 p.m.

Potluck Welcome, Blessing and Food Sharing will start at 6:00 p.m.

Speaker Presentation “ I’m stressed, pass the chips – How Emotional Eating Plays a Role in our Every Day Relationships with Food” at 7:00 p.m.

Location – Pioneer A + B in Esquimalt Recreation Centre, 527 Fraser Street

Cost: $5.00 per adult

(The $5 fee is to cover the cost of the rental of facility, to build the lending library and to cover the administration costs of printing for VIVA-Raw potlucks and events, etc.)

Everyone is welcome to attend. Curious or new to to the Raw Food Lifestyle? Come and experience a wonderful assortment of delicious raw vegan foods! RSVPs are not required. Bring your family and friends

Please bring: A prepared raw vegan food dish to generously serve 6 or more adults, salt free, preferably organic. If there are two of you, bring enough to serve 12 or two different dishes. For additional information on what to bring, please click on link at top of the post. Please also bring an ingredients list, serving utensils plus your own plate and cutlery.

About the Presentation: ”I’m stressed, pass the chips – How Emotional Eating Plays a Role in our Every Day Relationships with Food”

The role of the reptile brain in our food choices
Tangled web we weave
Food and mood
A – Z of cravings
Metabolic type and food choices
Releasing stress using an Emotional Stress Release (accupressure points)

About Kristina Sisu:

Meet Kristina…a Certified Nutritionist and Specialized Kinesiologist and Energy Worker who is extensively trained in health and behavioural sciences. Her personal experience and triumph over a serious, chronic illness prompted her to share her passion for well-being with others.

She is the author of, “Food and the Emotional Connection”, which looks at holistic nutrition and the link between food and the psyche. Kristina has also assembled a de-stress manual entitled, “Living with Ease”, currently utilized in corporate environments acrossCanada. She also contributes to Directions, a health magazine.

Along with numerous personal and corporate consultations, workshops, conferences, and instruction at Loyalist College, she has reached many through guest appearances on BTV Toronto and CKWS wellness shows on local networks. Kristina has also maintained an active private practice, doing intuitive/angel readings and energy work to support individuals in creating optimal well-being and more joy in their lives.

Kristina is now living in BC and has developed a comprehensive training program in Energy Psychology “energy work to connect you to your source”. She is now teaching this level program in addition to offering a private practice in energy psychology, matrix energetics as well as intuitive/angel readings. She has recently created an innovative service called Soulution Spirit Spa.

Visit her web site: www.soulutionspiritspa.vpweb.ca

Dr. Katarine Holewa, ND

Linda — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 08:08:29 +0000

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Sunday, April 15

Doors open at 5:30 p.m.

Potluck Welcome, Blessing and Food Sharing will start at 6:00 p.m.

Speaker Presentation “ A Naturopath’s Perspective of a Raw Food Diet and Raw Foods” by Dr. Katarine Holewa, ND at 7:00 p.m.

Location – Pioneer A + B in Esquimalt Recreation Centre, 527 Fraser Street

Cost: $5.00 per adult

(The $5 fee is to cover the cost of the rental of facility, to build the lending library and to cover the administration costs of printing for VIVA-Raw potlucks and events, etc.)

About the Presentation: ” A Naturopathic Perspective of a Raw Food Diet and Raw Foods”

Overview of the benefits of raw foods
Discussion of certain patient populations &/or conditions where exclusive raw food consumption
Is highly recommended & beneficial
May not be recommended (or may not be recommended exclusively)
- Things a person needs to consider when transitioning to an exclusively/predominantly Raw Foods Diet
- Some observed negative side effects to strict Raw Food eating
Open to “Question & Answer”

About Dr. Katarine Holewa, ND

Dr Katarine Holewa, ND is a Naturopathic Physician practicing in Victoria, BC. Prior to completing her 4-year Naturopathic Medical training at the Boucher Institute of Naturopathic Medicine in Vancouver, BC, she completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Calgary, receiving her Bachelors of Cellular, Molecular and Microbial Sciences and her Bachelor of Registered Nursing. She then practiced as a full time Registered Nurse in Post-Partum, Special Care Nursery and in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, and then continued to practice part-time throughout her Naturopathic education.

Dr Holewa now devotes her time and attention to her Naturopathic medical practice and patients in Victoria, BC. She focuses on preventative medicine, creating and maintaining positive lifestyle changes and finding the underlying causes of illness. She approaches medicine using a more holistic approach to health care and by employing the basic naturopathic principles, treating the whole person rather than separate symptoms or ailments, and creating highly individual treatment plans. Dr Holewa enjoys educating her patients and helping them reach their own unique health and wellness goals.

Dr Holewa enjoys preparing and savoring raw food meals, and includes raw foods as a large portion of her diet.

Web site: www.drkatarineholewa.com

Diana Kucharska, Wild Food Forager, Vegan Culinary Artist and Folk Herbalist

Linda — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 21:17:22 +0000

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Sunday, March 18

Doors open at 5:30 p.m.

Potluck Welcome, Blessing and Food Sharing will start at 6:00 p.m.

Speaker Presentation “Nettle: The Perfect Spring Food to Raise Your Energy and Vitality” by Diana Kucharska at 7:00 p.m.

Location – Pioneer A + B in Esquimalt Recreation Centre, 527 Fraser Street

Cost: $5.00 per adult

(The $5 fee is to cover the cost of the rental of facility, to build the lending library and to cover the administration costs of printing for VIVA-Raw potlucks and events, etc.)

About the Presentation: Nettle: The Perfect Spring Food to Raise Your Energy and Vitality

Join Diana Kucharska, Wild Food Forager, Vegan Culinary Artist and Folk Herbalist as she entertains you with facts, recipes, and folklore that will make you wild with nettlemania. Nettle boasts a rich supply of protein building blocks, minerals and vitamins. Nettles also possess many beauty-enhancing capabilities for all genders. Come out for an inspiring evening that will put spring in your step and bring out the sparkle in your eye.

About Diana Kucharska:

Diana has been a food resource maniac for several decades and likes to help people organize creative cooking groups. She was crowned Queen Chick Pea for rounding up the Chick Pea Pot Luck group and keeping it going for five years. She is also known as Her Noble Nibbllingness and shows hikers and poky folk on the trails how to nibble in the forest to keep up their strength.

Diana also inspires people to cure their nature deficit disorders by making wild food fun. As a vegan culinary artist for over fifteen years, she has developed many secret mouth watering recipes that she will not share even if tortured with prickly thistles and stinging nettles.

Shelagh Franklin, Raw Food Chef at Apple Cafe

Linda — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:59:36 +0000

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Sunday, February 19th

Doors open at 5:30 p.m.

Potluck Welcome, Blessing and Food Sharing will start at 6:00 p.m.

Raw Food Demo “Get the Glow – Drink Green Smoothies” with Shelagh Franklin, Raw Food Chef at Apple Cafe in Ingredients Health Foods at 7:00 p.m.

Location – Pioneer A + B in Esquimalt Recreation Centre, 527 Fraser Street

Cost: $5.00 per adult

(The $5 fee is to cover the cost of the rental of facility)

About the Raw Food Demo – “Get the Glow – Drink Green Smoothies”

In this raw food demo, Shelagh will share the following:

A fantastic means to eating more greens
How to make a delicious easy peasy green smoothie
Who doesn’t like green smoothies – YOU don’t – what to do?
Step up yo green smoothies with incredible superfoods
Astonishing benefits of Green Smoothies
Samples and Recipes

About Shelagh Franklin:

Shelagh Franklin is a self taught Raw Food Chef who has been playing in the kitchen since she was seven. She has been vegetarian for more than twenty years.

She first learned about living foods, sprouting and wheatgrass 18 years ago from a friend in Vancouver who studied under Ann Wigmore. Shelagh bought her first uncook book nine years ago and began to explore the world of raw food…when she was living in London, Ontario.. She has read voraciously on the subject, experimented like a mad scientist in the kitchen, swapped ideas, shared food and hung out with raw foodies, run potlucks and taught raw food workshops. She moved back to the west coast 2 years ago, you may have met her last spring or summer at the Moss street Market or the Sidney market where she sold raw food under the business name Raise Your Vibe. Shelagh is the Raw Food Chef at the new and amazing Organic Apple Cafe at Ingredients Health Food Store. She will be conducting raw food workshops and gatherings in the very near future

About Ingredients Health Food + Apple Cafe :

Ingredients Health Food & Apple Cafe is an alternative health food store and cafe located at 2031 Store Street (just north of Capital Iron)

Apple Cafe serves up some of the best, most wholesome, unrefined, healthy, organic and yummy food in Victoria.
You will find raw and cooked food, good vegetarian food that you won’t feel deprived on and that is easy to digest because it’s been prepared with care.

At Ingredients Health Foods, fresh produce is piled in cardboard boxes and customers are encouraged to bring their own containers and weigh them at the till. There are over 400 quality bulk food items. Products are organic and locally sourced as much as possible, with many gluten-free raw options available.

Ingredients Health Food Store & Apple Cafe

Grand Opening

Feb 14th 9:30 – 7 p.m.

It’s All about Love

All Day Special Sales and Live Music!!

Bijoux Du Bayou-Cajun Band

Gift Basket Draws! 12 – 6:30

5 baskets up for Grabs! Enter to win at the store

Special Lunch and Dinner Menu

Food that makes you happy…..

2031 Store Street (At Discovery!)

phone: 250-590-6177

web site: http://ingredientshealthfood.com/

Ingredients Health Food Store + Apple Cafe Grand Opening Poster

Forks Over Knives

Linda — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 07:16:58 +0000

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Sunday, January 15

Doors open at 5:30 p.m.

Potluck Welcome, Blessing and Food Sharing will start at 6:00 p.m.

Private Film Screening “Forks Over Knives” at 7:00 p.m.

Location – Pioneer A + B in Esquimalt Recreation Centre, 527 Fraser Street

Cost: $5.00 per adult

(The $5 fee is to cover the cost of the rental of facility)

About Forks Over Knives:

About Forks Over Knives: Forks Over Knives is a 2011 American documentary film directed by Lee Fulkerson, an independent filmmaker. The film examines the “profound claim that most, if not all, of the degenerative diseases that afflict us can be controlled, or even reversed, by rejecting our present menu of animal-based and processed foods.” The major storyline in the film traces the personal journeys of a pair of pioneering researchers, Dr. T. Colin Campbell and Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn.

The filmmakers travel with Drs. Campbell and Esselstyn on their separate but similar paths, from their childhood farms where they both produced “nature’s perfect food,” to China and Cleveland, where they explored ideas that challenged the established thinking and shook their own core beliefs.

The idea of food as medicine is put to the test. Throughout the film, cameras follow “reality patients” who have chronic conditions from heart disease to diabetes. Doctors teach these patients how to adopt a whole foods plant-based diet as the primary approach to treat their ailments – while the challenges and triumphs of their journeys are revealed.

FORKS OVER KNIVES utilizes state of the art 3-D graphics and rare archival footage. The film features leading experts on health, examines the question “why we don’t know,” and tackles the issue of diet and disease in a way that will have people talking for years.

FORKS OVER KNIVES was filmed all over the United States, Canada and China.
For additional information, please visit http://ForksOverKnives.com/ or call Linda at (250) 380-6383

Healthy Entertaining in the Raw: Green Smoothies, Kale Chips and Gluten-Free / Dairy Free Desserts

Linda — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 08:12:26 +0000

VIVA-Raw partners with Royal Roads University Continuing Education and Transition Victoria Food Group

Learn how to make the popular Green Smoothies and Kale Chips which are both made with nutrient dense green leafy plants. Discover how ingesting kale, lemon sorrel, spinach and other greens have the power to enhance your energy level and overall health. Learn how to have your cake and benefit from it too.

Eating “raw” doesn’t mean giving up desserts! Discover how anyone who loves sweets but is trying to avoid wheat, dairy products, refined sugars, and unhealthy fats can still enjoy cakes, pies, tarts, ice cream, and cookies. Watch as healthy and nutritional desserts are demonstrated. In this class, you will learn how to make a gourmet chocolate cake in 10 minutes, how to make easy no-roll, no-bake pie crusts and how to use coconut oil to replace butter in raw desserts.

Please bring your own plate, utensils and glass to this class. You will be sampling the green smoothies, kale chips and gluten-free / dairy-free desserts prepared in this class.

Facilitators will be Ken Steele and Jim Maurice

Ken Steele has been a raw foodist for the past 6 years and completed Raw Rose’s Culinary Arts Program Raw Chef Certification Course. He currently writes a column, “My Search for Optimum Health” by Lief Lett USS in the James Bay Beacon.

Jim Maurice is a Certified Raw Food Chef and Instructor. He received his training from Living Light Institute in Ft. Bragg, California. He founded Rawsome Living Foods on Salt Spring Island with the purpose of educating people on the benefits of a raw living diet with the emphasis on fun.

Cost: $50 + applicable taxes – Best to register by Sat, Nov 19, 2011

Info + Registration: http://www.royalroads.ca/continuing-studies/CYPEHL2686-Y11.htm

Contact Info: continuingstudies@royalroads.ca or 1-866-890-0220 or 250-391-2600 ext. 4801

Cindy Dreger – FOOD is Medicine – but being HAPPY is Paramount to health!

Linda — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 17:36:03 +0000

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Sunday, November 20

Doors open at 5:30 p.m.

Potluck Welcome, Blessing and Food Sharing will start at 6:00 p.m.

Speaker Presentation “FOOD is Medicine – but being HAPPY is Paramount to health!” by Cindy Dreger of Ingredients Health Food and Apple Cafe at 7:00 p.m.

Location – Pioneer A + B in Esquimalt Recreation Centre, 527 Fraser Street

Cost: $5.00 per adult

(The $5 fee is to cover the cost of the rental of facility, to build the lending library and to cover the administration costs of printing for VIVA-Raw potlucks and events, etc.)

About the Presentation: FOOD is Medicine – but being HAPPY is Paramount to health!

Cindy Dreger is the owner of “Ingredients Health Food & Apple Cafe ” which will be opening very soon.

In her talk “FOOD is Medicine – but being HAPPY is Paramount to health” Cindy will share information on the following topics:

* Whole Food is KEY
* Eating with the SEASONS with a raw emphasis
* Balancing life with LIFESTYLE
* Being HAPPY
* Living your DREAMS

About Cindy Dreger: She has been “into” health food for 30 years, owning an Organic Food Delivery service for several years in the Cowichan Valley, advocating wheat grass juice while being a vendor at the Duncan Farmers Market selling alternative baking and Market Garden Fair when her kids were young. Cindy was the main buyer at the “Community Farm Store” at the Duncan Garage from when it opened till this past July. Having been a commercial Certified Organic Grower for several years has also given her a deep appreciation of Local Food Production and the need to advocate for food security and local producers!

Cindy studied to be a holistic health counsellor with Integrative Nutrition based out of New York. She has always believed “Food is Medicine” and teaches workshops using this theme to empower people to take charge of their Health with food and Lifestyle.

Cindy has been a part time yoga teacher for 10 years, living with an “everything in moderation” philosophy, knowing that fanaticism can be unhealthy. But now, moving into her 50^th year, she values raw food more than ever.

About Ingredients Health Food & Apple Cafe : Ingredients Health Food & Apple Cafe is an alternative health food store and cafe with extensive organic bulk food owned located at 2031 Store Street (just n0rth of Capital Iron). It is owned and managed by Cindy Dreger and her long time friend and now business partner Deanna Danychuk.

*** With this “Ingredients” themed store and Cafe, they will be advocating better health by nutrition. Products will be organic and locally sourced as much as possible, with many gluten-free raw options available. Cindy and Deanna chose the name ingredients “because you can come in and buy the building blocks to create a healthy life”. Package reduction is a key theme. Customers will be encouraged to bring their own container for bulk items and containers and reusable bags will be for sale. Visit their web site at http://ingredientshealthfood.com/

*** From Times-Colonist Article: http://www.timescolonist.com/health/Fresh+local+organic+ingredients+market/5303273/story.html

Transitioning to Raw Food, Sprouting and Salads with Pizzaz with Chris Gay and Jim Maurice

Linda — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 16:40:20 +0000

VIVA-Raw partners with Royal Roads University Continuing Education and Transition Victoria Food Group

Raw living food opens up possibilities to regain energy and vitality plus lose weight. Take part in an interactive session on transitioning to a raw living foods lifestyle. Learn how easy it is to incorporate more raw food in your lifestyle. You will be introduced to sprouting inexpensive and nutritious sprouts and wheatgrass and how these are stored and used. In this class you will go beyond “just” a green salad by experimenting and creatively preparing salads, discovering that a salad can in fact be a meal. Please bring your own plate, utensils and glass to this class. You will be sampling the salads and raw food prepared in this class. Ionized alkaline water will be provided.

Facilitators will be Chris Gay and Jim Maurice of Rawsome Living Foods.

Chris Gay is a Lifestyle Coach at Rawsome Lifestyle Coaching. In her weekly blog at www.rawsomecoaching.ca, Chris provides transition tips and recipes to help people incorporate more raw living foods in their diet. In this class, she will offer a unique and supportive approach to assisting others in making the shift to a raw food lifestyle from the Standard American Diet (SAD). Chris is the author of an e-book Eating Raw for a Day and has Live Food Teacher Certification through Alissa Cohen.

Jim Maurice is a Certified Raw Food Chef and Instructor. He received his training from Living Light Institute in Ft. Bragg, California. He founded Rawsome Living Foods (http://rawsomelivingfoods.ca) on Salt Spring Island with the purpose of educating people on the benefits of a raw living diet with the emphasis on fun, ease and taste.

Cost: $50 + applicable taxes

Info + Registration: http://www.royalroads.ca/continuing-studies/CYPEHL2685-Y11.htm

or by Phone: 1-866-890-0220 or 250-391-2600 ext. 4801

Link to VIVA-Raw: http://vivaraw.ca

Location of Workshop: Arbutus 103

See Map: Campus%20Parking%20Map%28B-W%29%2009.pdf

Lynda Whittaker

Linda — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 19:28:01 +0000

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Sunday, October 16

Doors open at 5:30 p.m.

Potluck Welcome, Blessing and Food Sharing will start at 6:00 p.m.

At 7:00 p.m. Lynda Whitaker will talk about Kombucha tea. She will give a brief history, the benefit and how to brew it. There will also be some samples and handouts.

About Linda Whittaker: Linda has been a vegetarian for about 40 years with a couple of interludes caused by handsome carnivores dashing through her life. Her instincts have lead her deeper and deeper into studying about nutrition and the human body. She now believe that a raw, plant based diet is the most natural one for us. She believes the body can heal itself if given the building blocks to do so. Those building blocks must come in the form of living foods to feed our living bodies. She continues to research human nutrition and to use her own body as the research subject. At the present time, Kombucha tea is part of that research.

Location – Pioneer A + B in Esquimalt Recreation Centre, 527 Fraser Street

Cost: $5.00 per adult

(The $5 fee is to cover the cost of the rental of facility, to build the lending library and to cover the administration costs of printing for VIVA-Raw potlucks and events, etc.)

VIVA-Raw Potluck with Raw Food DVD

Linda — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 06:32:12 +0000

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Sunday, Sept 18

Doors open at 5:30 p.m.

Potluck Welcome, Blessing and Food Sharing will start at 6:00 p.m.

Instead of a speaker presentation, we will show a Raw Food DVD (DVD: TBA)

Location – Pioneer A + B in Esquimalt Recreation Centre, 527 Fraser Street

Cost: $5.00 per adult

(The $5 fee is to cover the cost of the rental of facility, to build the lending library and to cover the administration costs of printing for VIVA-Raw potlucks and events, etc.)