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Ashrams & Spiritual Centers

Note: * Vegetarian, **Vegan, *** Live Food

Ashinah: Centre for Awakening - Ashinah is an intentional learning centre for awakening and creativity. Reconnect with your innate body wisdom. Permaculture gardens, strawbale buildings. We offer workshops and retreats in yoga, fasting, meditation, movement, raw-vegan food, creative art & art therapy, permaculture education, and strawbale construction.

Winlove, BC

Canada

Spiritual Raw Food Educational Center

PachaMama */**/*** - A community that is active in exploring the heights of consciousness through diet-raw food, cleansing and fasting, silent retreats, therapy groups, body work, gardening, dance and musical festivals. See detailed write-up in our Costa Rica Guide.

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Costa Rica

Raw Food Community, Retreat & Meditation Center

Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center *** - Founder Gabriel Cousens M.D. is an empowered, spiritual teacher, Spirit Dance Chief, yogi, and a Rabbi. The Tree of Life is known as "A Oasis for Awakening," and the Zero Point Process Course taught by Gabriel is an intensive spiritual Liberation path. From Native American Sweat Lodges to Yoga, to Kabbalah, including daily meditation and fire ceremony, the staff seeks to honor and integrate the spiritual path, the Culture of Liberation, in all they do.

Patagonia, AZ

USA

Spiritual Raw Food Educational Center

Bed & Breakfasts & 'Do-it-Yourself' Retreats

The Nest Cabin Rental **/*** - 2hours from Vancouver. If you and/or your family follow a vegan diet or a raw food diet, you will look forward to staying at our cabin. We welcome guests from around the world who maintain a meat-free diet and do not eat animal products.

Yale, BC

Canada

Do-it-Yourself Retreat

Peace Garden Vacation Houses **/***- Located on three acres overlooking the Hamakua Coast.

Honokaa, Hawaii (Big Island)

USA

B&B/Do-it-Yourself
Retreat

Hi`iaka's Healing Herb Garden **/***- Walk to the ocean, soak in their Jacuzzi, swim in their pool, or simply sit and relax on your private lanai! Stay includes a guided garden tour, and a fruit basket of organic tropical delicacies. The cottage has a gas stove, full-size refrigerator, blender, and small food processor. 16 miles south of Hilo airport.

Kea`au , Hawaii (Big Island)

USA

B&B/Do-it-Yourself
Retreat

Hawaiian Retreat **/***- 808-965-1279 (Eliot). 3 acre vegetarian health/spiritual retreat featuring 17 varieties of tropical fruit trees (mango, avocado, banana, papaya, etc.). Reasonable rates. E-mail: info@hawaiianretreat.com

Kopoho, Hawaii (Big Island)

USA

Do-it-Yourself Retreat

Sanivan Holistic Retreat and Spa

"A Bed and Breakfast for the Soul," Sanivan is a personalized retreat for anyone needing relaxation and healing. Enjoy organic meals (vegetarian and raw options), supervised juice fasts, an ozonated pool, sauna, exercise equipment, labyrinth, available yoga, nearby hiking, and nurturing spa treatments.

12 Columbia Drive, Hurleyville, NY 12747 | (845) 434-1849 | sanivan1(at)hotmail.com

Hurleyville, NY

USA

B&B/Fasting/Spa

Annapurna Inn & Retreat Center **/*** - 360-385-2909 or (800) 868-ANNA. Retreat center that provides organic vegan cuisine, live food lifestyle, yoga, steam bath, sauna, foot reflexology, therapeutic massage, cranio/sacral therapy, and the quiet beautiful setting of a Victorian Seaport, only two hours from Seattle.

Port Townsend, WA

USA

B&B/Inn

Clothing Optional Beaches, Resorts & Resources

Canadian Guide to Naturist Resorts & Beaches - Hard to find...even used, great resource.

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Canada

Nude Beach Guide

The American Association for Nude Recreation

Kissimmee, FL

USA

Resource Center

Naturally

Newfoundland, NJ

USA

Magazine

Nude & Natural Magazine

Ohkosh, WI

USA

Magazine

BeachNude.org - Califonia / Florida

CA/FL

USA

Beaches

NudeTravelGuide.com - Beaches and resorts around the world.

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World

Beaches

Worldwide Nudism & Naturism - Links to beaches around the world.

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World

Beaches

Traveler's Digest - Top 10 Nude Beaches

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World

Beaches

Lee Baxandall's World Guide to Nude Beaches & Resorts: New for the '90s (Nov. 1997) by Lee Baxandall - Hard to find...even used, but a great resource.

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World

Nude Beach Guide

Educational Centers & Resorts

Clohesy River Health Farm - The 300 acre farm, which is the campus for the Academy of Natural Living, is located 45km (35 miles) from Cairns. Guests are welcome to attend the weekly classes of the Academy of Natural Living's Lifestyle Consultant's Course in Natural Living, which are held at the farm.

Queensland

Australia

Water Fasting, Biogenic & Natural Hygiene Retreat

Natural Attitudes Health and Wellbeing Retreat - Exclusive healing haven, be the only guest, and heal on a deeper level, choose your own workshops. Educational, experiential, and simply inspirational. Cuisine: majority is raw, living foods, organic, fresh from the garden.

Queensland

Australia

Live Food (mostly)

Ashinah: Centre for Awakening **/***- Ashinah is an intentional learning centre for awakening. We offer workshops and retreats in yoga, fasting, meditation, movement, raw-vegan food, creative art & art therapy, permaculture education, and strawbale construction.

Winlove, BC

Canada

Live Food

New Life Retreat *** - Eco-sustainable 100-acre organic farm in the beautiful Lanark Highlands. Fresh, organic, live, vegetarian cuising is the heart of the diet. New Life Retreat offers a relaxed hands-on educational experience in living food preparation. Gardens and greenhouse.

Lanark, Ontario

Canada

Live Food

The Farm at San Benito: Hippocrates health Resort of Asia **/***- They have assembled a team of experts in various healing modalities, from medical doctors, massage and bodywork therapists, living food chefs, fitness consultants, colonic therapists, meditation teachers, organic gardeners, visiting experts in a variety of holistic fields, and other specialized practitioners to help you on your healing journey.

Lipa City, Batangas

Philippines

Live Food

Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center ***

Patagonia, AZ

USA

Live Food

Optimum Health Institute of San Diego ***

Lemon Grove, CA

USA

Live Food

Hippocrates Health Institute & Spa **/***

W. Palm Beach, FL

USA

Live Food

Creative Health Institute - Living foods lifestyle program - Teaching the Late Dr. Ann Wigmore program of detoxification, nutrition, and healing.

Union City, MI

USA

Live Food

The Ann Wigmore Foundation® ***

San Fidel, NM

USA

Live Food

Optimum Health Institute of Austin ***

Cedar Creek, TX

USA

Live Food

Ann Wigmore Institute ***

Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico

Live Food

Fasting Retreats

The Clohesy River Health Farm - This 300 acre farm was established in 1971 lies in a peaceful valley with a natural bush setting on the banks of the Clohesy River. Fasting can be undertaken (but is not mandatory, and is sometimes contra-indicated) under the supervision and care of John Fielder.

Queensland

Australia

Water Fasting, Biogenic & Natural Hygiene Retreat

Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center *** - Offer a Spiritual Fasting Retreat, Yoga Fasting Retreat, and a 10, 17, or 24-Day Detox Program. Tree of Life Founder, Gabriel Cousens, M.D. has been called a "Fasting Guru" by the New York Times.

Patagonia, AZ

USA

Spiritual Fasting, Yoga Fasting, and Detox Program

Regency House Natural Health Spa **/***- 800-454-003, 954-454-2220. Juicing program is tailored to your individual needs and personal medical history. The water fasting program is personally supervised daily by Dr. Frank Sabatino - "one of the few physicians fully certified to clinically monitor the fasting process."

Hallandale, FL

USA

Juice & Water Fasting Spa

Tanglewood Wellness Center *** - 301-898-8901. Visits by appointment only.
E-mail:
info@tanglewoodwellnesscenter.com.

Thurmont, MD

USA

Water Fasting Center

Inner Light Retreat ***- 120 Ray Road, Greenwich, NY 12034. Phone: 518- 253-7184 | 518-692-7806. E-mail: elena@innerlightcleansing.com. Peaceful rural retreat at the foothills of Adirondacks and mineral springs of Saratoga. All-inclusive raw food detox packages (with colon hydrotherapy, Vortex energy healing, far-infrared sauna, aromatherapy, massages, yoga and meditation classes etc). Additional liver/gallbladder, lymph/blood, kidneys cleanses and holistic beauty spa treatments also available.

Greenwich, NY

USA

Juice Fasting Retreats

Gentle Earth */**/***

Ithaca, NY

USA

Juice Fasting Retreats

Scotts Natural Health Institute ***. 216-671-5023.

Strongsville, OH

USA

Water Fasting Institute

The Rest of Your Life Health School & Retreat *** - 830-234-3488

La Vernia, TX

USA

Water Fasting Retreat

Dr. Cinque's Health Retreat **/*** - 5 miles south of Austin. 512-295-4256

Buda, TX

USA

Water Fasting Retreat

Cedar Springs Renewal Center ***- 360-826-3599. Exercise, juicing for health and raw food organic cleansing on 50 idyllic acres in the beautiful Cascade foothills.

Sedro Woolley, WA

USA

Douglas Graham, D.C. *** - Fasting retreats in Costa Rica

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Costa Rica

Water Fasting Retreat

Festivals, Events & Conferences

Raw World *** - Feb 7-18, 2007. Enjoy world-renowned speakers, morning yoga on the beach or by the pool. Daily fun exercise classes with athletic trainer, Doug Graham. Improvisational music, vocal, and percussion classes. Tribal music jams with Jas. Massage/bodywork classes. Community building and networking with other Raw Food Enthusiasts. Nature and beach walks, swimming, sunshine, snorkeling, hiking, kayaking, horseback riding, and relaxation.

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Costa Rica

Raw Food Festival

The Fresh Festival ***

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England

Raw Food Festival

Funky Raw Festival *** - Cornwall, England.. Features: Raw food cafes, juice bars, tea tent and raw treats; Talks, workshops, & stalls on raw food & cleansing, eco life, spirituality, and healing; Daily yoga, qi gong, meditation and chanting; Childrens eco activities yurt; Full moon drumming circle; Evening entertainment with live muscians; Full on Funky Raw all night Sat. party!; Sweatlodge & solar showers; Camping and campervan space. Find or offer a lift share on their discussion board. For more lift share info, enquirers and help getting there please ring Chris on 07906 340803 .

Cornwall

England

Raw Food Festival

VEG SOUL with Aris La Tham *** - Featuring Classes & Demonstrations by: Raw food master chef Aris Latham, Dr. Sunyatta Amen, Khepere Anu, Amensa Shep Teker, and Dr. Kamau Kokayi, MD.

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Jamaica

Raw Food Event

Healthful Living International *** - conference

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USA

Natural Hygiene Conference

National Health Association */**/*** - NHA Conference.

FL

USA

Natural Hygiene Conference

The Raw Spirit Festival *** - Located amidst trees and ponds on verdant lawns beneath Sedona, Arizona's famous Red Rocks, The Raw Spirit Festival™ celebrates raw vegan foods, music, spirituality and the Earth. The Third Annual Raw Spirit Festival™ is making history as the first to attract so many well-loved raw vegan celebrities such as Woody Harrelson and Alicia Silverstone, acclaimed performers such as William Eaton, Shimshai, and Tina Malia, distinguished doctors such as Dr. Fuhrman, Dr. Lodi and Dr. Sheridan, reverends such as Dr. Michael Beckwith (of 'The Secret' movie), and the vegan Congressman, Dennis Kucinich, who is establishing a Department of Peace.

Sedona, AZ

USA

Raw Food Festival

Hot Springs & Mud Baths

Sierra Hot Springs */**/***. Juice fasting retreats

Siele, CA

USA

Juice fasting retreats

Natural Hygiene: Retreats, Spas & Seminars

The Rest of Your Life Health School & Retreat

Barksdale, TX

USA

Retreat & Fasting Center

Dr. Cinque's Health Retreat - 5 miles south of Austin. 512-295-4256

Buda, TX

USA

Fasting Center

Raw Food Events ... with Doctor Doug ***

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Costa Rica & USA

Fasting Retreats & Sports Camps

Retreats: Live Food

The Clohesy River Health Farm

Queensland

Australia

Water Fasting, Biogenic & Natural Hygiene Retreat

Alive Foods

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Bali, Fiji
Australia

Raw Food Retreat

Costa Rica Retreats - Hosts: Zemach Zohar

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Costa Rica

Raw Food Retreat

Shazzie Retreats

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England

Raw Food Retreat

Children of Future: Center for Families & Advanced Trainings - Nature study, meditation, permaculture, watching and trekking, guidance in questions of life and study, practical training in ecology, seminars.

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Germany

Raw Food Retreat: for the whole Family

Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center *** (Map) - Patagonia, AZ. 520-394-2520. Holistic raw food retreat center.

Patagonia, AZ

USA

Holistic Raw Food Retreat Center

The Happy Oasis: Prescott Arizona's Raw Vegan Retreat ***- Prescott, AZ. 928-708-0784. 800-797- 8704. Cozy raw vegetarian retreat, snuggly situated beside a private lake in a secret canyon north of Prescott, Arizona.

Prescott, AZ

USA

Raw Food Retreat Center

River Canyon Retreat ***- 530-292-0171. Situated on 500+ acres of meadows, hills, cliffs, ponds ... in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains. River Canyon Retreat facilitates celebrations, ceremonies workshops, seminars and retreats for groups and individuals. Activities include: Shamanic Breathwork, Vision Quests, Personal Retreats, Yoga, Hiking, Mountain Biking, River Stone Hopping, Swimming, Horseback Riding, Whitewater Rafting, and Kayaking. (NOTE: Check website to see if still operating)

N. San Juan CA

USA

Raw Food Retreat Center

Raw Food Retreat with Storm *** in the mountains of Southern California.

Ojai, CA

USA

Raw Food Retreat

Be You... Retreat ***- 970-222-5604. The perfect wellness retreat balancing mind, body and spirit in an oasis of beauty and tranquility! Honor yourself in a week filled with inspiration and endless possibility. Organic, raw food cuisine, hiking, yoga and massage provide a foundation for adventure and celebration! Set in the glorious Rocky Mountains of Winter Park, Colorado- this is the perfect place to experience the healthiest you.

Winter Park, CO

USA

Raw Food Retreat

The Joy of Raw *** - P.O. Box 325, Bingen, WA 98605. 509-493-8353. Email: osha@gorge.net. Raw food retreats in Hawaii.

Hawaii

USA

Raw Food Retreat

Body Mind Restoration Retreats *** - 56 Lieb Road, Spencer, NY 14883. 607-272-0694. Living foods diet, exercise, colon care, health education classes, yoga, and meditation. We specialize in helping people with weight loss issues, diabetes, chronic fatigue syndrome and other chronic conditions.

Spencer, NY

USA

Raw Food Educational
Retreat

Washington Lake Retreat */**/***. Raw food optional.

Yulan, NY

USA

Vegetarian Retreat Center

Shambhalla: A Mystical Wildernaess Retreat */**/***

Ashland, OR

USA

Vegetarian Retreat Center

Eden Retreats ***. 888-729-3663. Nature's First Law and David Wolfe conduct several raw-food retreats each year. Event locations include: Hawaii, Bali, New York (upstate), Arizona, England, and more.

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World

Raw Food Retreat

Spas & Resorts: Raw Food

We Care Holistic Health Center **/***

Desert Hot Springs, CA

USA

Vegan Spa offering 'Liquid Fasting'

Regency House Natural Health Spa **/***. Raw food, juice & water fasting optional.

Hallandale, FL

USA

Vegan Spa

Hippocrates Health Institute & Spa **/***- 1443 Palmdale Court, West Palm Beach, FL 33411. 561-471-8876.

West Palm Beach, FL

USA

Vegan Spa & Living Food Educational Center

Inner Light Retreat ***- 120 Ray Road, Greenwich, NY 12034. Phone: 518- 253-7184 | 518-692-7806. E-mail: elena@innerlightcleansing.com. Peaceful rural retreat at the foothills of Adirondacks and mineral springs of Saratoga. All-inclusive raw food detox packages (with colon hydrotherapy, Vortex energy healing, far-infrared sauna, aromatherapy, massages, yoga and meditation classes etc). Additional liver/gallbladder, lymph/blood, kidneys cleanses and holistic beauty spa treatments also available.

Greenwich, NY

USA

Living Food Retreat | Holistic Beauty Treatments

Rancho La Puerta (Spa in Tecate, Mexico) - (tel. & ask if a raw food option is vailable.)

Tecate

Mexico

Vegetarian Spa

Sports & Fitness Centers & Retreats

Raw Food Boot Camp with Storm ***

Ojai, CA

USA

Fitness Camp

Raw Food Sports Camps ... with Doctor Doug ***

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World

Fitness Camp

Tours: Raw Food

Wild Vegetarian Adventures & Tours ***. 928-708-0784. 800-797- 8704. The "Earth's first adventure tour company especially for spiritual vegetarians and raw vegans who enjoy fun-filled gentle adventures amidst natural beauty." Destinations include the secluded treasures of Arizona, Hawaii, New Zealand, Thailand, Bali, Mexico and India.

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World

Raw Food Retreat

Yoga Centers & Retreats

Vibrant Living Yoga Teacher Training. May 20 - June 17, 2007. A comprehensive Yoga Alliance certified residential intensive encouraging forth your highest potential. Experience yourSelf free of false limitations. Empower yourSelf to assist others. Drawing on our extensive yoga practice and training you dive deeply into a spectrum of today's yogic styles, including Jivamukti, Astanga, Iyengar and more. Discover how you share yoga by learning what's come before you. We create the ultimate Yogic environment for education and transformation, an international community awakening our true selves. Magic happens as every component is top caliber: exceptional guest faculty; natural tropical beauty; the simple luxury of Anahata Villas; the healthiest, tastiest organic/living food prepared by Elaina Love and much more.

Ubud

Bali

Raw Food Yoga Teacher Training and Intensive

Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center *** - The Tree of Life is considered "One of the World's Top Ten Yoga Retreats" by Harper's Magazine. Gabriel Cousens' book, 'Spiritual Nutrition: Six Foundations for Spiritual Life and the Awakening of Kundalini' has been reviewed by LA Yoga, and his articles have appeared in Yogi Times. He is considered a "Yogi of true spiritual attainment" by Baba Prakashananda, and is empowered by Swami Muktananda to be vehicle for the transmission and initiation of Kundalini Shaktipat energy.  Dr. Cousens has presented recent workshops at Jivamukti Yoga and Integral Yoga in NYC, Yoga West in L.A., and the Yoga Society of San Francisco. Sharon Gannon, the Co-Founder of Jivamukti Yoga, describes the Tree of Life as her "retreat center of choice." Yoga asana is taught every day at the center, and the program also features weekly Kiirtan, mantra teaching, satsang, sangha, and shaktipat.

Patagonia, AZ

 

USA

 

Raw Food Educational Center & Community

 

The Reichian Institute ***

Sacramento, CA

USA

Yoga Center

Mana Fusion Retreats *** - Yoga and Living Foods on Maui. January 19-25, 2007. Everyday will include intensive yoga instruction taught by Anusara-Inspired instructor Jennifer Lynn, as well as three living food meals prepared by raw food chef Dave Elberg. Retreat-goers will stay at the luscious and cozy Shangri-La Retreat Center in Huelo, complete with hot tubs, salt-water pool, saunas, and a beautiful yoga studio. For more information contact Jennifer Lynn at 808-268-4095 or visit their web site at www.yogawithJenniferLynn.com

Maui

USA

Yoga Retreat

Yoga Oasis */**/***

Pahoa, HI

USA

Yoga Retreat

Satchidananda Ashram: Yogaville */**/***

Buckingham, VA

USA

Yoga Ashram & Vegetarian Retreat

 

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