"The Shift" is in full swing as people are awakening to a truer sense of community, harmony and love everywhere around the globe. As we come together in High Vibratonal events, we are truly assisting in the transformation of our world to a greater expression of peace and love. Hope to see you soon!

Friday October 6 to Sunday October 8
Sedona Arizona
The Second Annual Raw Spirit Festival Join local live food chef Laura Fox and other Richmonders at the most exciting, delicious, high vibrational festival on the planet! www.rawspiritfest.com When you register, say Laura Fox sent you.

Saturday, October 14
9:00 a.m. to Noon
Richmond, Virginia
Helping Kids Eat Healthfully: An Interactive Food Prep Playshop for Parents, Teachers and Caregivers. Includes discussion, handouts, recipes, meal plans. Join Dietary Upgrade Consultant, author and Live Food Chef Laura Fox to learn quick, easy ways to please kids and remove the “bad” stuff from their diets. REGISTRATION/INFO: 804-678-8568, e-mail nitya@justbeyoga.net or print out and mail registration form at www.justbeyoga.net. LOCATION: Just Be Yoga, 2219 West Main Street, Richmond VA 23220. $55 per person or $90 couples/two friends in advance. $60 per person or $100 for couples/two friends at the door. Pre-register by October 8 for discount. You MUST r.s.v.p. for this event. .

Raw Richmond Potluck: Mexican Fiesta!
This will be our second Richmond Raw Potluck! The suggestion the group made at the meeting is that we have a theme night for each event. Mexican for October!
When: Sun., October 15 • 5:00 PM
Details: http://rawfood.meetup.com/231
Please Bring: Raw Vegan Mexican Dish to share (10 servings) AND $3.00 per person. Location and directions are on the meetup.com website. Please sign up if you're a Richmonder as it makes it very easy to help create the smoothest flowing event possible.

Tuesday, October 17
6:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m
Richmond, Virginia
Live Food Gourmet Prep Class: Fermented Foods Experience nut and seed yogurts, cheeses and fermented veggie krauts. Living foods lifestyle discussion and more. Counts for credit toward Live Food Chef Certification. $35 You must call or e-mail in advance to register and receive your food assignment: radiance777@earthlink.net, (804) 708-7324. To register: Richmond Raw & Living Foods Meetup

Friday, October 20
6:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m
Richmond, Virginia
Live Food Gourmet Prep Class: Dehydrated Foods, Pastries, Breads Advanced live food prep. Focus on making crackers, breads, cakes, cookies. Living foods lifestyle discussion and more. Counts for credit toward Live Food Chef Certification. $35 plus food assignment. You must call or e-mail in advance to register and receive your food assignment: radiance777@earthlink.net, (804) 708-7324. To register: Richmond Raw & Living Foods Meetup

Living Foods Lifestyle Discusson: Enzyme Therapy
Join Laura for this free discussion with yummy samples of delicious living food! This food is SOOO good it's ridiculous! You will learn why eating more raw food is enzyme therapy, enhancing the ability of your body to heal itself, and increasing your energy. SAMPLE LIVE HEARTY BRAZIL NUT STEW & FLAX CRACKERS!
When: Sat., October 21 • 1:00 PM
Where: Ellwood Thompsons Natural Market
Ellwood & Thompson Streets Richmond
RSVP: Please register for this FREE event by calling ahead to Ellwood Thompsons Natural Market. (804) 359-7525 Extension 15.

Rejuvenate your Mind, Body & Spirit Transformational Liquid Fasting Retreat
Eden Hot Springs, Arizona
Heart Transformation by Fire: A Sacred Journey into the Sacred Heart
October 25th ~ 29th, 2006
HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS SOLD OUT -- TENTING ONLY
I'll be offering Thai Massage and Manna Touch healing sessions at the retreat. Here's your chance to join David Wolfe, Kerrie Dancing Butterfly, Nick Good, Steve Adler, Laura Lamun, Bruce Horowitz, Jerry Fun Yung Moon and the whole outrageously vibrant Eden crew for a powerfully transformative liquid juice fasting retreat into our sacred heart center. This experience will STRETCH, INSPIRE, AWAKEN, TRANSFORM, REJUVENATE and REVITALIZE every cell of your entire being!!! www.dancingbutterfly.net/retreats/
Saturday, November 4 th
Just Be Yoga Richmond, VA The Anchor the Dream Experience: A joyous event celebrating Planetary Awakening and Anchoring the New Dream of Earth. Become a Visionary Steward: Visionary Stewardship for Planetary TranceFormation! This is world service of the highest (and most fun) order! Come have a blast exceeding your wildest expectations for what’s possible in an earth life filled with joy, sustainable co-creation, dynamic harmony, Divine love and spiritual healing. Stay tuned for another download about this exceptional event, coming soon!

When we started filming The Visionary Stewardess in NYC last month, my friend and collaborator Martin Verigin ended up inadvertently eating nothing but raw food for three days. It can happen!

LAURA: So Martin, how is your body feeling after three days on raw?

MARTIN: I woke up today and felt really energized. My body feels fresh.

LAURA: What has been your favorite raw meal experience so far?

MARTIN: My favorite raw food experience was at Center Point Yoga Studio, Laura, when you made us the yellow squash and baby coconut curry soup, carrot brazil nut pate on baby greens with tomato tapenade and mac cream sauce, and raspberry mousse. I really didn't think I would like it because it was all squishy, but, I truly enjoyed it. I even ate the rest of Fun Yung Moon's plate. It was like, give me more! give me more!

LAURA: That is awesome. So you've been indoctrinated into the Inner Circle of RAW. How did you like David Wolfe's talk at The Plant?

MARTIN: David Wolfe has inspired me to go in the direction of my destination. I desire to live with as much clarity on all levels as is possible, and David definitely represents the types of clarity that can happen when you're eating all raw.

MARTIN: I think that when you go raw, you feel more powerful because of the food that you eat. You are the food that you eat, clearly, but I've discovered that I really feel more clean and healthy. I feel flushed.

LAURA: There's some raw inspiration for you! Thank you Martin. Have fun eating those avocados!

Laura's Note: Sir Fun Yung Moon, the King of Rhapsodic Synchronistic Rap for Conscious Awakening, inspires us this month with a further insight into the phenomenon of Mental Clarity that seems to come with a raw diet. Thanks Moon Man!

The times they are a changin', there is no doubt about that. Of course the times have always been a changin', that's what times do.

Yet it is clear to most people that time as we know it is speeding up— consciousness is evolving at a much quicker rate than ever before. Synchronicity is a more "every moment" occurence than it once was.

To say that eating raw foods increases synchronicity might come off a little preachy (like most things that are true). The mental clarity and focus that comes with eatting raw foods, however, definitely makes one more aware of the interconnectedness of all things.

I like to track synchronicity by estimating the probability of events, like, say, running into a friend in city of eight million after experiencing cell phone non-compliance.

Try it out for yourself: eat living foods for a day (or a week, or a lifetime if it's for you), and witness how amazingly things tend to fall into the right place at the right time. I'll see you there in the present moment, and you can tell me all about it.

One Love,
Fun Yung Moon

"... enzymatic parasympathetic reactivity, ability to respond is responsibility, ya feelin' me?..."

By the way, Moon is the Master of Ceremonies at the Raw Spirit Fest and the DJ at the Eden Retreat Halloween Party. I'm thinking that this is why we manifested an experience of "time" – so we can do all these very fun, very particular things! See you there?

We have just started a local Richmond, Virginia Raw Vegan Meetup via meetup.com. Related groups include alternative health, the vegetarian and vegan meetup, organic meetups, and more. This is a great site for finding out what's going on with interest groups in your area. Enjoy, and please click this link to out our local meetup page by clicking the picture above.

Richmond Raw & Living Foods Meetup

~Laura

The Salad

1 big bowl of mixed baby greens
1-2 ripe avocados, diced
1 large ripe mango, diced

Dressing

1 cup macadamia nuts
1 tsp. sea salt
1 tsp. dill
1 chunk onion
1 clove garlic
1 lime, peeled
3 cups water
Blend dressing until creamy.
Pour over salad.
Enjoy!

Well, it seems that the Inner Rebel once again peeked her head out from underneath my intention to go all green — with no fruits or fats other than avocado — for a month. I felt the same kind of thing when I first went all raw. I tend to do things in extremes, and though eventually I catch up with myself, usually there's a period of adjustment, and this last month has been just that. So as not to go off the deep end, I simply returned to my normal 100% raw 99% of the time diet, without trying to be all green. I love my shakes with a handful of brazil nuts, a bit of bee pollen, spirulina, maca, agave and cacao, and maybe some berries. So I added those back in, and made myself some salted dehydrated pumpkin seeds.

Eventually it will happen, I will get my green fast in, and I will just have to ease into it. These changes in our diet are BIG in our conscious and subconscious minds. It's okay to let ourselves catch up to our intentions gently! With the busy month ahead, I'm not planning on going all green, but it may just be that the lack of planning it will turn it into a reality! Who knows? I'll let you know next month!

The Raw Spirit Festival is a "not to be missed" high vibrational opportunity to meet new friends, play like never before, enjoy three full days of delicious raw meals (including breakfast for three hundred made by yours truly), and more fun than humans have formerly been allowed to have -- not to mention a plethora of presenters and musical appearances! Here's what Happy suggests you bring:

a friend
a song
a vision to share
a smile
a swimsuit
a folding chair
a poem
a flashlight
a sleeping bag (unless you prefer to make hotel arrangements)
a towel
fresh flowers
yoga mats

a drum for the circle
a flute for the night
for the show, your talent
a headlamp for light
a palate for fresh foods
a hunger to learn
curiosity
an offering
encouraging words

The Raw Spirit Festival is also an opportunity to practice Visionary Stewardship! I will be giving two brief talks, one on Sustainability and one on Visionary Stewardship, and a Sunday Anchor the Dream Workshop.

Come on, let's play!

Just call or e-mail Laura at (804) 243-9909 or laura@rawinspirations.com.

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