Fast for the Planet - Love Yourself, Heal the Planet

My enthusiasm grows as we prepare for the first 'Juice Fast for Peace' launching March 1st 2009 in Los Angeles!

It is a joy working with Dr. Gabriel Cousens, Rev. Michael Beckwith, Michael Bedar, Jaia Lee and the Fast teams at both The Tree of Life and Agape International Spiritual Center on this beautiful project educating people about plant based diets!

Dr. Michael Beckwith, Gabriel Cousens, MD and staff guide you on a spiritual journey of transformation to unblock the Divine source of youth, vitality and harmony. Embrace a lifestyle and diet that enhances feeling oneness with the planet, and reduces 1.5 tons of carbon footprint per year per person.

It is exciting to know about how many people will learn and shift from what we are staring here. Helping to heal ourselves and the planet through reducing the dietary and lifestyle effects that cripple our living planet's ecosystem (which we are inseparably a part of).

Juice Fast for Peace -- Heal the Planet and Ourselves

March 1st - 8th 2009
Los Angeles

"We're not trying to save the world, we're trying to server an emrging paradigm." - Rev. Michael Beckwith

The Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center - Gabriel Cousens, MD

The moment I saw this photo, of the Labyrinth, I knew I wanted to go to this special place. I said to Michael Bedar, right hand to Dr. Gabriel Cousins and one of the main administrators of the organization, "Where is this? I want to go there!" That was in December '07 and by March of '08 I was in my car driving across the California / Arizona desert on my way to the Patagonia Mountains of southern Arizona. I had met Michael during a reception following The Eco Gift Expo at the home of Greg Wendt in Santa Monica, California. We connected right away, he told me of his work with Dr. Cousins and The Tree of Life, and I could feel the energy of authenticity and love. I just knew there were special things happening at this place and I knew I had to visit.
The Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center is surrounded, on all sides, by the beautiful Patagonia Mountains. The staff is loving, caring, and thoughtful, and the food is extraordinary. The simple restaurant there has views like very few in the country and each of the day's meals are prepared with love and care.
The all-vegan, lifefood is worth the visit alone. Each day there is yoga, talks, meditation, and classes to choose from. Or you could soak in a hot tub, lie on the sun deck surrounded by nature, go for a hike, and relax in the far inferred sauna at the end of the day. The sunsets there are among some of the most powerful I have witnessed as only the desert, in it's unique and particular style, seems to be able to conjure up.