“You’re already raw,” says

Dr. Gabriel Cousens

The raw and living-foods lifestyle has captured the imagination of the conscious dance community. As we refine ourselves spiritually, mentally, and emotionally, we naturally wish to complement this process physically in the way we care for our bodies. Many of us have already embarked upon a journey to wellness through conscious dietary choices. For some, the process has meant confronting the very nature of feeding ourselves. If we wish to align our bodies with higher consciousness, we must ask whether we are feeding emotional cravings or meeting our nutritional needs.

Evolutionary Nutrition is a dynamic synthesis of the mind, body, and spirit of our food. In his book Spiritual Nutrition: Six Foundations for Spiritual Life and the Awakening of Kundalini, Dr. Gabriel Cousens advocates live foods and spiritual fasting as the first foundation of divine health. The system he puts forth includes sacred music and dance as well as meditation, yoga, service to the community, and being in nature. Cousens writes: “… the point of Spiritual Nutrition is to obtain optimal physical and mental energy to develop your spiritual life. When people don’t take care of themselves … their physical body and their mental states (as affected by the function of the brain) aren’t strong enough to optimize their spiritual pursuits. With this understanding in mind, the importance of eating and living in a way to activate your genes at their highest phenotypic healthy potential gives us the option to maintain our health for an extended period of time to optimize our spiritual life.”

Testimonials of the many physical benefits of a raw and living-foods diet abound and include increased energy, weight loss, improvement of skin conditions, better digestion, mental clarity, and healing of disease. Dr. Cousens believes that cooking destroys the enzymes that occur naturally in live foods. He states that enzymes “carry out all the biological processes in the body such as digestion, nerve impulses, detoxification processes, functioning of RNA/DNA, repair and healing of the body, and even the functioning of the mind.” By eating raw foods, you minimize the enzymes that would be secreted for digestion. “The body’s enzymes can then be converted,” he ays, “and used for the process of detoxification, repair, and overall healing. The preservation of our enzymes by eating live foods seems to play an important role in slowing the aging process.”

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

“Living foods are jet fuel for dancers; eat raw and fly!”

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Getting started on a raw foods diet is easy when you focus on the beauty, energy, and nutrition of whole foods in their natural state instead of dwelling on what you’re missing. Resources on the Internet and in books can help you transition to a diet filled with light and inspire you to discover a new way of nourishing yourself. When we bring light into our bodies through Evolutionary Nutrition, through breathing, meditation, and movement, we begin to radiate it in all of our expressions. As Gabriel Cousens says, “Living foods are jet fuel for dancers; eat raw and fly!”

For more information, visit:

www.treeoflife.nu