Speakers
Tim Van Orden
The world is taking notice of Tim VanOrden, elite athlete and creator of the Running Raw Project (RunningRaw.com). Tim is a raw vegan athlete who has an international reputation for excelling in some of the world's most grueling sports. He's recently been crowned the New England Master's Mountain Running Champion and his recent performances in Stair Climb Racing (US Bank Tower, Sears Tower, Empire State Building), have been featured in GQ Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, VegNews, and the London Guardian. In January of 2009 Tim was featured on the Food Network show "My life in food".
Over the past 4 years, Tim has transformed himself from a sedentary couch potato, suffering from severe depression and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome into one of the world's fittest men over forty. He did this by adopting a simple raw vegan diet. Tim is opening the eyes of athletes around the world to the possibility that a simple, raw, plant based diet can provide performance and health beyond that which has been previously experienced.
Yuri Elkaim
Yuri is the founder and owner of Total Wellness Consulting, a leading Canadian-based internet company dedicated to developing the most innovative fitness and nutrition programs to help people live healthier and fitter than ever.
Before founding Total Wellness Consulting, Yuri enjoyed playing professional soccer for 3 years, in Canada with the Toronto Lynx (USL/A-League) and in France with Lille OSC (1st division). He was also a 2-time All-Canadian with the University of Toronto Men’s Soccer team before acting as the Head Strength & Conditioning and Nutrition Coach for the nationally ranked University of Toronto Men’s Soccer program.
Out of the need to help more people get active without the financial cost of hiring a trainer, Yuri also created the revolutionary Fitter U and Treadmill Trainer iPod workouts.These one-of-a-kind "audio" workouts are the next best thing to actually working with Yuri himself!
His approach to health and vitality is all about balance, both physically and mentally, and achieving one’s true potential. Through properly prescribed functional exercise, alkalizing & energy nutrition programs, and attention to the inner person, Yuri has helped thousands of individuals reach new heights and achieve a greater quality of life.
Yuri has shared his wealth of knowledge and expertise by publishing articles in Beyond Fitness magazine, Impact magazine, and Fitness Business Canada magazine. Also, he and his MP3 guided workouts have been featured in several media including: Maximum Fitness magazine, Breakfast Television, CityTV News, Perfect Fit, CP24, 24 Hours, the Calgary Herald, and CTV's e-Talk Daily. Yuri has also been a guest speaker inspiring audiences at BMO (Bank of Montreal), BNI, the Sports Clubs of Canada, Avalon Woods, Advocis, the Montreal Women's Show, and as a keyonte speaker at the Holistic World Expo.
Jim Carey
Dr. Jim Carey, PhD, DD, has been a raw living foods advocate for six years, ever since the Dr. Ann Wigmore program changed his life. You can learn more about Dr. Wigmore, N.D., and Dr. Carey at AnnWigmore.com.
He’s currently doing an American television series about the raw vegan lifestyle. Episodes of his show can be seen at GrassyRootsTV.com.
Dr. Carey resides in rural Georgia, USA, where he loves to eat wild edibles, and travels extensively sharing the message of the raw living foods lifestyle.
Dr. Carey also served as Director of Creative Health Institute for several years, and is a Trustee of the Creative Health Institute 501(c)-3 Non-Profit Trust.
Patti McAllister
Patti has been around the health industry for over 20 years. After being diagnosed with a pituitary tumor in 1987, she began the path of health that ultimately healed her. She was a vegetarian for many years, next a vegan, and then naturally progressed to living a raw/live food lifestyle. While being a vegetarian, she discovered how nutritious and inexpensive sprouts are, and has been sprouting and growing greens ever since! Patti has studied iridology, holistic nutrition, herbology, colonics, and is a Certified Living on Live Food Chef and Teacher. She had the honour of working for the late, great master healer, Dr. Leo Roy, M.D., N.D. in Kelowna, B.C. While discovering the raw/live food lifestyle, she read many books, attended courses, lectures, and festivals. In the past few years, she has taught sprouting classes, written articles, and founded the York Region Raw Food Potluck Group. Currently, her passion is creating Essene Health Bread, a 100% sprouted bread. You may visit her websites at www.EsseneHealthBread.com or www.NaturallyAlive.ca
Natasha Kyssa
Natasha Kyssa is the author of The SimplyRaw Living Foods Detox Manual, as well as the founder of SimplyRaw. She has been living a raw vegan lifestyle for nearly 20 years, and has been facilitating detoxification and cleansing programs since 1993, working with clients from all over the world.
Francesco Comito
Francesco Comito is a living foods chef with knowledge and experience in Mediterranean, modern Canadian, and international cuisine. He has trained extensively in both Italy and Canada under renowned chefs. For health concerns, Francesco decided to start his journey with a pristine lifestyle and took a new approach to raw vegan cuisine. His unique style of living and food preparation has grown to be known as vegan fusion cuisine.
Beverley Ann Bazowski
www.saskworld.com/holistic/rebound
Beverley owns her own business as the Canadian distributor for the Needak Soft-Bounce Rebounders, and trains Needak representatives throughout Canada in rebound-movement. As a Certified Reboundologist and Lymphologist, she is known for her innovative teaching strategies in utilizing therapeutic vertical motion. Her clients range from inactive people of all ages, developmentally disordered, learning disabled, physically disabled, obese, and lymphedematous children and adults to dancers, athletes, and physically active people (and even pets!).
Explore, understand and apply the physics and physiology of bouncing for wellness. Learn a safe, progressive, in-home rebound program that maximizes lymph flow, builds total strength, and activiates the cardio-vascular & pulmonary system. Bounce – breathe – and Belly Laugh!
Dorit
Specializing in transitioning to a Plant Based, Living Foods Lifestyle from a grounded perspective. Adding variety to her work as a Certified Living Foods Chef, Dorit is an educator for the Chopra Centre, coaches Lifeskills Groups, and is a retreat and workshop leader for medically supervised Cleansing and Detoxification Retreats such as the one that Dr David Wong and Dorit organized and ran at the Fox Hollow Clinic and Spa in Kentucky.
Rhio
Rhio is a singer and author, as well as an investigative reporter in the area of health and environmental issues. Her best-selling book Hooked on Raw is about living a life more closely aligned with Nature by adopting a raw/live food lifestyle. The 358-page book covers many of the reasons for making these healthy lifestyle changes, as well as more than 350 raw recipes in all categories. CNN and American Journal aired stories on raw foods featuring Rhio. She is considered an expert in the area of raw and living foods and lectures on both the raw/live food lifestyle and the genetic engineering of seeds/plants.
Rhio hosts an internet radio show called Hooked on Raw which can be heard worldwide at: www.NYTalkRadio.net
Jocelyne Lavergne
Ayant complété une formation de Coach de Vie en Emotivo-Rationnel, thérapie cognitive, et aussi une formation de coach alimentaire en alimentation vivante, j’offre depuis déjà trois ans des cours en alimentation vivante afin que chacun puisse contribuer, avec ces nouvelles connaissances, à faire du redressement alimentaire dans son quotidien. De plus, depuis 2008, j’ accompagne un groupe de personnes francophones comme traductrice à l’Institut Ann Wigmore de Porto-Rico, un camp-école en alimentation vivante.
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