RawInspiration

Yesterday Iwas privalaged to teach another Raw Living foods class and what a pleasure it is to bring this wonderful, empowering truth to people. I feel blessed that wherever I am, to be able to just give through my own wonderous experiences through eating raw foods. To inspire through delicious, simple vibrant uncooking, then describe the changes in myself and my immmediate family through going raw, people leave my home with a fresh new understanding, and with new tools to unlock the blocks they have been living with in their own lives.

I have had wonderful feedback from my classes! A beautiful woman, looking for new knowledge caught up with me in the market this morning explaining that after my class the food left her feeling clear and calm, and she had no trouble sleeping that night after weeks of laying awake and feeling exhausted in the morning, that she awoke refreshed and clear today. She felt as if there was an underlying profound truth in eating food as nature intended.

My classes leave people feeling inspired to take control of their food intake from that moment!

That is exactly how the class I took in England left me feeling in May 2008 when I attended Anna Marcon's Raw Live Foods Class (Alyssa Cohan certification). Although I was already Raw I was renewed, and it really enhanced my comittment to my self, my health, my education, my family and my Life.

I felt fresh and inspired and I have never looked back! Anna gave me and others the tools and the commitment through imparting her own personal experiences! It is very rewarding to be able to give that sort of freedom to people, through your own experiences.

So, If you want to know more about the most health giving, low impact diet on the planet or if you need that little nudge to get back into it or get your self functioning clearly and energetically, where ever you are see if you can attend a raw uncooking class. Inspiration guarenteed!

Contact whollyraw@gmail.com or www.rawpower.com.au for the latest classes going on in Australia! If you know of more websites offering raw live food preparation classes please feel free to mention them below and I will post them up!

Good Living to you all!

Raw Food Classes in WA
Karn Bartz B H Sc Nutr, Adv Dip Naturopathy

Beginners Classes
Feb 1st, March 1st, or April 5th
Crackers, bread, nut milk, green smoothies, sprouts, transitioning and a meal plan

Gourmet Classes
Feb 15th, March 22nd, or April 19th
Pizza, cakes, pies, deserts, cookies, veggie burgers and nut cheeses

Bookings:
Cost: Beginners $55. Gourmet $65
Classes: 1.00pm to 5.30 pm (Sunday)
Venue: 148 D Richmond St Leederville
Email: karenbart@hotmail.com
Phone: 041 994 3328

An attitude of gratitude, a monsoon, and a wedding

I have returned home to a monsoonal Townsville (my backyard is a pool, and the frogs are singing) from a little trip across to Western Aus. I was privilaged to cater an all raw food wedding for my partner Pecks older brother Sean! What an amazing experience!

I learned so much and it honestly felt amazing to touch so many folks positively through sharing food! Raw live food just speaks volumes without you having to preach or song and dance about it, I was approached over and over about the vibrancy, the taste and how much it was like eating "normally"! ("It doesn't taste raw, but there is something about it...")

The majority of the people attending the wedding had never heard of the concept before and were so receptive and open. I have had offers for me to teach Raw to the Porongurup community! Assist with some recipes that can nutrionally support kids with learning problems, one wonderful young lady approached me with such a keen interest in the food that she couldn't wait to try it out on her family!

The menu, in case you are thinking you might like to cater a wedding or perhaps a festival!:

• Live vegie pizza rounds
• Nori Bites, made with a delicious "rice" of cauliflower, cashew and chickpea miso. Filled with sprouts, avocado, curly carrots and soaked wakame. Sprinkled with dulse powder.
  
• Tonnes of dips, raw sunflower almond hoummus, pinenut herb pestos, rich tomato sauces served with gorgeous buckwheat and flax crispy crackers and vege scoops and loads of chopped herbs.
• Abundant fruit platters topped with mint.
  
• Waldorf Salad with creamy Almond Mayo
• Ani Phyo's Curried Rice Salad with a whollyraw twist and lime wedges
  
• Zucchini pasta marinara
• Leafy basil salad with honey mustard dressing
• Felafel, tahini dressing, tabouli and hummus platters
  
• Sunburgers resting on lettuce leaves heaped with hummus, rich tomato sauce, lemon, basil and olive oil
  
• Green Salads
• Very berry Oh my god it is really like cheesecake! cheesecake
• Black forest torte
• Banana kream pie topped with a layer of macadamia kream then a raw berry sorbet on top of that.
  
• Sexy chocolate mousse fruity kream cups for the bridal party.
  

Check out a few foody pics right here:

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I found that I used up the 2 days leading up to the wedding dehydrating crackers and pizzas and burgers, making all dips and sauces, and pies etc. I found most of the work had to be condensed down into the few hours before and after the wedding ceremony ( before dinner service) as things like nori and salads begged to be made just prior.

Part of the catering that I like most is creating interesting platters that are full of discovery and have vibrant colour, leaping off the platters! It really captivates peoples interest and draws them into trying new things! Thank you to Scott and Viv for the fruity contribution! Thank you to my wonderful wedding wenches in the kitchen Chloe, Donna, Sara, Miles and Terri.

Check out a couple of pics on my facebook (Holly Clark) and no doubt you'll soon be seeing the fruity pies I have been practicing for a really special organics shop to sell . Can't wait, it is gonna be raw bliss all over the place!

Congratulations Sean and Miles, may your union be full of Love, wonder, discovery and always truth! Thank you for so, so much!

Travelling Raw

Well, today Moss and I are off to reunite with our beloved Peck in West Oz and attend a wonderful Raw! Wedding of his brother! I am going to come up with some wonderful live wedding bliss treats and enjoy a beautiful week with the Firth's in the bush!

From Townsville we have an approximetly 8 hour journey. Stopping over in Sydney for a couple hours too. Staying raw in the air, isn't hard, it just takes a bit of planning, especially with the little one!

Planes for me are really dehydrating and the dry me right out, i find sipping my own water with a little crystal salt in it really good, but to today I am also going to take a couple of packs of Vitacoco (coconut water) this is sure to keep me and Mossy hydrated and vitalised as we cross the country.

I also packed some activated nuts and figs as a snack and made some of my famous Crakalakas! to munch with some avocado! Yum!

Following Victoria Boutenko's travel advise I also made a dehydrated "salad" with pumpkin, tomato, garlic, zucchini, carrots, basil, parlsey, beetroot and more, which i can simply rehydrate with some warm water when we need it! should make for a colourful fresh soup like meal that grows as it rehydrates, so it really packs down tiny in my carry on bag!

So I think it will be an easy day Raw transiting all over Australia.

Can't wait to post about my first ever raw!wedding! See you soon!

So many reasons to eat raw wholefoods!

You are what you eat . . . so eat well. A stupendous insight of civilizations past has now been confirmed by today's investigative, nutritional sciences. They have shown that what was once called "The Doctrine of Signatures" was astoundingly correct. It now contends that every whole food has a pattern that resembles a body organ or physiological function and that this pattern acts as a signal or sign as to the benefit the food provides the eater.


Here is just a short list of examples of Whole Food Signatures:

A sliced Carrot looks like the human eye. The pupil, iris and radiating lines look just like the human eye...and science shows that carrots greatly enhance blood flow to and function of the eyes.


A Tomato has four chambers and is red. The heart is red and has four chambers. All of the research shows tomatoes are indeed pure heart and blood food.


Grapes hang in a cluster that has the shape of the heart. Each grape looks like a blood cell and all of the research today shows that grapes are also profound heart and blood vitalizing food.


A Walnut looks like a little brain, a left and right hemisphere, upper cerebrums and lower cerebellums. Even the wrinkles or folds are on the nut just like the neo-cortex. We now know that walnuts help develop over 3 dozen neuron-transmitters for brain function.


Kidney Beans actually heal and help maintain kidney function and yes, they look exactly like the human kidneys.


Celery, Bok Choy, Rhubarb and more look just like bones. These foods specifically target bone strength. Bones are 23% sodium and these foods are 23% sodium. If you don't have enough sodium in your diet the body pulls it from the bones, making them weak. These foods replenish the skeletal needs of the body.


Eggplant, Avocadoes and Pears target the health and function of the womb and cervix of the female - they look just like these organs. Today's research shows that when a woman eats 1 avocado a week, it balances hormones, sheds unwanted birth weight and prevents cervical cancers. And how profound is this? .... It takes exactly 9 months to grow an avocado from blossom to ripened fruit. There are over 14,000 photolytic chemical constituents of nutrition in each one of these foods (modern science has only studied and named about 141 of them).



Figs are full of seeds and hang in twos when they grow. Figs increase the motility of male sperm and increase the numbers of sperm as well to overcom e male sterility.


Sweet Potatoes look like the pancreas and actually balance the glycemic index of diabetics.


Olives assist the health and function of the ovaries.


Grapefruits, Oranges, and other citrus fruits look just like the mammary glands of the female and actually assist the health of the breasts and the movement of lymph in and out of the breasts.


Onions look like body cells. Today's research shows that onions help clear waste materials from all of the body cells. They even produce tears which wash the epithelial layers of the eyes.



"The news isn't that fruits and vegetables are good for you, it's that they are so good for you, they can save your life." David Bjerklie, TIME Magazine, Oct. 2003 _.___