Vegan Healing Centres
A Spotlight on Vegan Companies and Business
by M. 'Butterflies' Katz
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The Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center has three departments that market products: The Tree of Life Cafe, the Awakened Living Shoppe, and the Health Practice Dispensary. The Tree of Life Cafe serves only vegan, organic, live food. The Awakened Living Shoppe carries only vegan food, personal, and home products. The Health Practice Dispensary seeks and chooses vegan holistic supplement alternatives at all times; it uses non-vegan products such as gelatin capsules only when an alternative is not available. The company owner is vegan for 30 years and the company was founded in 1993. Employees, staff, and the entire community are all 100% vegan. Apprentices and volunteers are also given to uphold the same dharma, not only for the time they are hear but also 1 month in advance. Rebbe Gabriel Cousens, M.D., M.D. (H), Dip. American Board of Holistic Medicine, Dip. Ayurveda, who functions as a healer, a scientist, and a spiritual teacher, is committed to sharing a way of life that heals, uplifts, and makes peace with the individual, the family, the community, all cultures, the living planet, and our relationship with God. While in medical school he recognized healing involves the whole society and the whole person, of which diet is important. One of his missions since the late 1970's is to learn and share how to live and eat in a way that supports maximal spiritual unfoldment and creating peace by being peace, which includes a vegan way of life. The books, retreats, workshop experiences, and products are designed to continually inspire this transformation on every level. "Food is a love note from God. It's letters are written by the rays of the sun. It says, 'I love you and I will take care of you with the gifts of my Earth.'" - Rebbe Gabriel Cousens, M.D., M.D.(H), Dip. Ayurveda, Dip. American Board of Holistic Medicine, Founder-Director of the Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center.
Tree of Life Cafe: http://www.treeoflife.nu/cafe.html
3 vegan, organic, live-food meals, 7 days a week. Many ingredients from our veganic farm program. 100's of vegan, live-food, low- glycemic, balanced recipes from vegan recipe books written by Gabriel Cousens, M.D., and the Tree of Life Cafe Chefs.
Awakened Living Shoppe Several dozen optimal choices for vegan nutrition, home, and body products.
Website: http://www.awakenedshoppe.com Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center is located at PO Box 778, Patagonia,AZ. 85624 U.S.A. Phone: (520) 394-2520 x20
Michael Bedar, Community and Media Relations
E-mail: michael@treeoflife.nu
Web site: www.treeoflife.nu
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Maitreya Meditation Center is a retreat center which provides all vegan meals. All residents, visitors and guests are asked to consume only vegan products while on the property. It is run by vegans. The spiritual leader, Maitreya Ishwara, has been vegan for 10 years. opened The retreat has been in existence for 4 offering a nutritionally balanced vegan diet ideal for meditation and healing. See below excerpt from Maitreya Ishwara's book "Unity the Dawn of Conscious Civilisation" which explains the basic reasons for a vegan lifestyle:
“A Divine Temple - Consumption of animal products has a major negative impact on humans and the environment. Little can be done about such barbarity while most people are ignorant of the harmful effects of eating animal products, and while the murder of animals is condoned by society. Health is largely a reflection of diet; you are what you eat. Recent research verifies that cancer, heart problems and degenerative diseases are linked directly to an excessive intake of animal products and junk food. We are eating ourselves to slow and painful deaths. We have no nutritional need to eat animals; this is an unnecessary murder of innocent creatures. Soon we will cease all violence towards sentient creatures; we will live in harmony with nature and with our true needs. We will look back with disbelief at our present epidemic of self-inflicted disease, and we will shudder at our unnecessary cruelty to innocent creatures. All animals, not just human animals, have a right to freedom from violence and abuse. An organic vegan whole food diet is healthy for humans; it obviates the killing of animals and the squandering of water, crops, land and other vital resources that are used in raising livestock. Veganism will allow the Earth to sustain six to ten billion people with high- quality nutrition without harming the Earth or any creature; veganism is the diet for the new dawn. Your body is a divine temple. Now it is time to start treating it as such.” Maitreya Meditation Center; The silent pulse of Love, is located at 760-788 Wakamarina Rd. Havelock, Marlborough 7154 New Zealand
Phone: 0800 1 UNITY or +64 3 5741234
Fax +64 3 574 1232
E-mail: maitreyacentre@ihug.co.nz
Web site: www.ishwara.com
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Highwood Health is amidst majestic mountains, lofty trees and nestling on the Great Dividing Range in Australia. It is 102 acres of beautiful gardens, lawns, forests, mountain-streams and trails of unsurpassed sanctuary for resting, relaxation and restoration. Nature is the effectual restorer and possesses curative powers. All intelligent men and women can be their own physicians when they understand the true philosophy of health. Their health professionals will equip you with vital information on the science of health and healing, which when applied, will add years of wellness to your life. Qualified experienced doctors and therapists, together with well- trained staff, ensure that guests are provided with the best of attention, care and treatment that their body needs. They offer three live-in programs, a 5-day Introduction program, a 12-day Better Life program, and a 19-day New Life Program. Their aim is to help restore people to health using natural remedies, encouraging lifestyle changes, and introducing clients to a vegan diet. Part of the program includes exercise routines, steam baths, massage, hydrotherapy, juicing fasts, educational classes, and of course vegan meals, and vegan cooking classes. They also serve meals made with fresh produce from their organic gardens.
Phone 03-5963 7000
Fax 03-5963 7045
Web site: www.highwoodhealth.org
M. 'Butterflies' Katz is the co-author of Incredibly Delicious; Recipes for a New Paradigm which is published by Gentle World www.gentleworld.org
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