Thanks Jennie for reminding me.

I was going to put down that I am interested Leisa when you come to Adelaide when you first messaged.

I think it is a great idea.

Hopefully there is enough interest in Adelaide.....

Jo

Hi RC, no I don't know sorry. Please do feel free to email her with any questions that you have. She is very nice to deal with.

Hullo Joju, Leisa is going to be travelling all around the place so I'm sure she will have no problems in Adelaide. It might be worth dropping her a line to see what her minimum numbers will be.

How exciting!

xoxoxox

Where is Leisa from? Is she Australian? Will go check out her site...

Hi guys!

This is Leisa here who's putting on the retreats - thanks so much for your interest!

Yep, I'm a local here on the Gold Coast and was the Naturopath out at Hippocrates for several years before they closed.  I loved working with the program out there, the full on detox, raw vegan foods, education etc - but of course there were many limitations there as well...

I have had this idea for quite a long time, to set up a space where people could do a detox while learning about raw food, basic food preparation, healing, emotions, natural medicine - the whole deal, as well as enjoying the full R&R (yoga, massage, sauna) experience.

Having people for a whole week has so much more impact than trying to educate them in a one hour naturopathic consultation, so this will be great for people that are already into raw foods and want a nice place to do a detox and maybe learn a bit more - but it's also for people who don't know that much about it but are interested. It will be very eye-opening for newbies, but in a really nice way :-)

I'm just planning out the schedule for 2009 now - this year I'm doing Sept on the Sunshine Coast which is almost booked out, October is Perth and November looks like it will be on the Gold Coast or maybe Byron.  I'll put up the new dates as soon as they're released on the site.

If anyone's got any questions, I'd be more than happy to answer them.  I've been into raw food for more than 20 years - starting as a teenager in the 80's with Leslie Kenton's The Biogenic Diet.  Not to say that I've only done raw all that time - I've been my own guinea pig for every type of healing diet, so that I could see what effect it had on my health, but I always came back to raw!

Thanks,
Leisa

I found out about your retreats from a friend who is attending your september one. I just wanted to say how wonderful it is to find a health retreat that is much less expensive than the usual. Your prices are amazing! I'm not sure how you do it, but I am so glad you are. You've made health retreats accessible to the everyday person who needs them, not just for the elite.

Thank you!

I'll definitely be keeping an eye out for one I could attend.