The Academy of Healing Diets opens it’s doors, summer 2012, in Torquay, Devon. Bonny Casel has been developing the healing diets part of her teaching for many years and the number of students interested in this teaching has continually grown. Now, Bonny Casel has created a school that focuses entirely on food as medicine, and training students in a variety of natural vegetarian, vegan and living foods approaches to diet and food preparation. Her courses range from fasting and superfoods, through to vegetarian cooking and vegan baking, offering a valuable foundation for students who wish to explore food for their own personal healing and for practitioners who wish to create effective and safe dietary programmes for their clients.

‘The English Riviera’ - Torquay, Torbay, Devon

The Healing Diets Teacher Training is part of the Naturopathy, Master Iridologist and Master Herbalist Diploma programmes, or can be studied separately. Students who wish to undertake a Healing Diets Diploma can speak to Bonny directly to discuss the curriculum and requirements.

Tags: Living foods, superfoods, bonny casel, bonny white, vegan cooking, vegan baking, Fasting , raw foods, Torquay, Devon, United Kingdom, England

Medicine Flower Flavour Extracts are a culinary delight for raw foodists. With a delicious range of flavours to choose from, Medicine Flower Extracts can be added to shave ice, smoothies, raw sweets, drinking water, sparkling water, sorbet, raw chocolate and more. For those on a vegan diet they can be added to pancakes, muffins, bread...and then let you imagination take it from there.

Medicine Flower Extracts are gluten free, calorie free, extracted below 118 degrees F, organic, wild-crafted and water and oil soluble. They are very highly concentrated so you won’t need more than a drop or two to bring life and exotic flavours to your recipes. Many of us are familiar with the multi-faceted pleasures and benefits of pure essential oils. Here, Medicine Flower harnesses the pure, delicious flavours and aromas of organic fruits, nuts, beans and flowers in ‘raw’ extracts. You will have to smell and taste this extracts yourself to appreciate the potency and intensity of their flavours...up to 70 times more flavour than most other extracts on the market.

Medicine Flower Extracts in 45 Delicious Flavours

Medicine Flower Extracts are available at Medicine Flower in the US or at Raw Living in the UK and include the following flavors: Almond, Golden Apple, Green Apple, Red Apple, Apricot, Banana, Bergamot, Black Currant, Blackberry, Blueberry, Black Cherry, Morello Cherry, Chocolate (light), Chocolate (dark), Chocolate (white), Cinnamon, Coconut, Coffee, Elderberry, Fig, Guava, Hazelnut, Honeydew, Jasmine, Kiwi, Lemon, Mango, Mint, Orange, Passionfruit, Peach, Peanut, Pear, Pineapple, Plum, Pomegranate, Raspberry, Bulgarian Rose, Rum, Strawberry, Tropical Fruit, Vanilla, Violet, Walnut and Watermelon. The difficulty will be in choosing which flavour to try first.

Here is a recipe to get you started:

Blueberry Milkshake

1 cup cashew milk (walnut or almond milk also very good)
1 cup ice
1/2 tsp Maple Syrup
6 drops Medicine Flower Blueberry Extract
4 pitted dates
10 soaked Goji Berries
Pinch Himalayan Salt

Blend until smoothe

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These extracts can also be used in natural beauty products. Check back for recipes for my favorite ‘edible’ body lotion.

Tags: raw foods, bonny casel, Academy of Healing Diets, medicine flower extracts, blueberry milkshake

It can be challenging to find healthy alternatives for children in a ‘plastic dominated’ children’s world, so when I came across these non-toxic lunch boxes I was thrilled. These stainless steel lunch boxes will keep the lovingly made, organic meals that you prepare for your children’s lunches, plastic free, and the design is wonderful. Many times I have watched children in India, smartly dressed in their school uniforms, walking to school with their stacked stainless steel lunch boxes filled with Dahl and rice and chapatis. Here is the merging of those two worlds.

Lunch Boxes by Plantbox

If you are looking for something for your own lunches, particularly larger salads, try To-Go Ware. Also made of stainless steel, this company imports my favourite stacked stainless lunch boxes from India. They are wonderful!

To-Go Ware

The best way to transport healthy meals and extremely popular with raw, living food and vegan families. To-Go Ware also sells a ceramic version of the quintessential New York Deli To-Go cup. 180,000,000 used and thrown away in New York every year, this re-usable cup is a classic.

An eco-choice with a sense of humour

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Tags: Living foods, raw foods, childrens lunch boxes, Planetbox, Academy of Healing Diets, Eco-friendly children

This July we completed the third part of the Healing Diets course (The series of 3 Classes starts again this Autumn - follow this link to find out more). For two of the students attending the class, this was their final class before undertaking their clinical training. Soon both Leandra Costa and Michelle Redgrave will graduate as Naturopaths.

Part 3 of the Healing Diets course focuses on the effect that food has on our consciousness and thus how our dietary choices affect the environment we live in, our relationships and ultimately our relationship with the planet as a whole. I had some lovely feedback from all of my students. Here are some comments from Leandra, our student from Brazil. Leandra is currently a highly skilled massage therapist in London and it is her plan to return to Brazil upon graduation and open a Naturopathic clinic there that includes full cleansing and rejuvenation programmes.

“The Healing Diets workshops have been an amazing teaching on all levels for me. It opened my eyes about food both in terms of my own experience and also its effect on the world.

This course made me think and reflect on my relationship with food, giving directions and teaching for cleansing, regeneration and rejuvenation from diet, fasts, cleanses, alkaline diets, raw food diets and more. I also broadened my learnings into diverse cultural diets and studies, learning about Ayurvedic diet and doshas, macrobiotic diets, and vegetarianism, to name just a few.

Part three of the Healing Diets has been a big reminder of how all of us are responsible for a healthy, clean and fair environment where we can grow organic, healthy foods for generations to come.

I can only thank Bonny for sharing all her vast knowledge, caring and love, It makes one inspired to become healthy and to spread all the good positive information to the world” - Leandra

To find out more about the Healing Diets course visit this page...http://www.herenowhealing.com/UK/Cert/certificationcourse/livingfoods.html or CONTACT Bonny directly with your questions.

Tags: purification, cleansing diets, Fasting , Living foods, raw foods, politics of food