 Dr. Cousens has selected five “live food elders” who share over 175 years of cumulative expertise, research, wisdom, and personal experience to present during this special event. Through a unique lecture and panel format these remarkable experts will discuss and illuminate the deeper purposes of life and longevity with opportunities for your questions. Join us as live food elders Gabriel Cousens, Shanti Golds Cousens, Viktoras Kulvinskas, Dr. Brian Clement, and Dr. Anna Maria Gahns-Clement share their wisdom - gleaned through many years of experience and research - on longevity and spiritual enlightenment.
The Live Food Elders Conference will be focusing on the efficacy and the longitudinal impact of a live food diet on individuals over time. The presenters will share their life experience on live foods for 30-40 years; they’ll be sharing the secrets of their success and radiant health. Their shared experience will be provided to support you in the great power of a living and live foods lifestyle for your physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual wellness. The Live Food Elders Conference will provide ample opportunity for you to ask your questions about sustaining a vegan, live food diet and optimizing your diet for longevity and vitality. The program provides a unique insight into the long-term effects of the live food diet as demonstrated by the lives of these selected experts.
While you’re with us you’ll enjoy our delicious, nutritious Rainbow Green Live Food Cuisine prepared with love and devotion by the chefs at the Tree of Life Café. Yoga classes each morning will be taught by Shanti Golds Cousens, and throughout your stay you’ll have access to our Culture of Life Shoppe, Dr. Cousens’ Natural Pharmacy, hot tubs, saunas, our chlorine-free swimming pool, spacious grounds, and the largest Chartres labyrinth in the world. We’ve created new accommodation options that include eco-friendly rooms (with private baths) and boutique rooms in our newly renovated Garden House. The conference is limited to 100 attendees so early reservations are recommended.
Don’t miss this amazing opportunity to receive direct teaching and transmission from these pioneers of live food nutrition. Reserve your space today!
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Monday, July 2nd (checkin is Sunday, July 1st)
- 6:45 - 8:00 a.m. — Kali Ray TriYoga with Shanti Golds Cousens
- 8:00 - 9:00 a.m. — Breakfast
- 9:30 - 11:00 a.m. — Dr. Cousens: Why Vegan Live Food is the Evolutionary Diet of the Future
- 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. — Panel discussion and Q&A with the Elders
- 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. — Lunch
- 2:30 - 4:00 p.m. — Brian Clement and Anna Maria Gahns-Clement: The Physical and Spiritual Effects of Ionic Nutrition
- 5:00 - 6:00 p.m. — Dinner
- 6:00 - 7:00 p.m. — Live Food Q&A with Elders Panel
- 7:30 - 9:00 p.m. — Spiritual Nutrition Summary with Shaktipat Meditation by Dr. Cousens
Tuesday, July 3rd
- 6:45 - 8:00 a.m. — Kali Ray TriYoga with Shanti Golds Cousens
- 8:00 - 9:00 a.m. — Breakfast
- 9:30 - 10:30 a.m. — Longevity Discussion (Each speaker presents for 20 minutes on the secrets to longevity)
- 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. — Panel discussion and Q&A with the Elders
- 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. — Lunch
- 2:30 - 3:30 p.m. — Live Food Lifestyle (Each speaker presents for 20 minutes on how to live successfully on a live food lifestyle LONG TERM)
- 4:00 - 5:30 p.m. — Panel discussion and Q&A with Elders
- 6:00 - 7:30 p.m. — Dinner
- 7:30 - 9:00 p.m. — Informal Chanting and Live Food Q&A Panel with Elders
Wednesday, July 4th
- 6:45 - 8:00 a.m. — Kali Ray TriYoga with Shanti Golds Cousens
- 8:00 - 9:00 a.m. — Breakfast
- 9:30 - 11:00 a.m. — Viktoras Kulvinskas: The Importance of Enzymatic Supplementation for Everyone, Including Raw Foodists
- 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. — Panel discussion and Q&A with the Elders, and Shanti Golds Cousens
- 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. — Lunch
- 2:30 - 3:30 — Dr. Cousens & Viktoras Kulvinskas: Live Food Over the Years
- 3:30 - 4:30 p.m. — Panel discussion & Q&A with Viktor, Dr. Cousens, and Shanti
- 5:00 p.m. — Check out
Live Food Elders' Bios
Brian Clement, PhD, LNC, Co-Director of the Hippocrates Health Institute
 Dr. Brian Clement has spent more than three decades studying nutrition and natural healthcare. He has received graduate degrees in both naturopathic medicine and nutritional science. Since 1980 he has directed the Hippocrates Health Institute's growth and development. In recent years he has been commissioned by government-supported organizations to establish, organize, and direct health programs in Denmark, Switzerland, Greece, and India. Brian has also written numerous books in which he explores the various aspects of health, spirituality, and natural healing. His recent best-selling book, Living Foods for Optimum Health, has been acclaimed by Marilyn Diamond, co-author of the book Fit for Life, as "an important and eminently readable book for the new era of self care," and by Coretta Scott King as a "landmark guide to the essentials of healthy living." His progressive ideas on natural health approaches, coupled with his vast theoretical and practical scientific experience, have earned him a reputation as a leading expert in the natural health field. Brian's professional opinion is highly regarded and much sought after; he is a frequent guest on television, radio and in print, and acts as a resource expert for several publications. Brian has also been recognized for his significant contribution in the field of modern health care by Who's Who Among Outstanding Americans.
Rev. Viktoras Kulvinskas M.S., HHE
 Viktoras Kulvinskas has been a leader in the live food movement for over 42 years. He founded the Hippocrates Health Institute with Ann Wigmore in the late 1960's. Viktoras Kulvinskas is a live food pioneer and author of several books including Survival Into The 21st Century. He published and co-authored the first book on scientific enzymology, Food Enzymes for Health and Longevity with Dr. Edward Howell. More than a million books by Viktoras have sold worldwide. Viktoras' writings have been featured in magazines and journals including Vegetarian Times, Vegetarian World, Health Street Journal, Vegetarian Voice, and Alternatives. He directed a Morbid Obesity Research Center for Dick Gregory, and pioneered work in probiotics with Dr. Ken Shaini.
Rabbi Gabriel Cousens M.D., M.D.(H), D.D.
Dr. Cousens is considered the leading live-food medical expert in the world, and according to the New York Times: "the fasting guru and detoxification expert". He is also a psychiatrist, family therapist, Ayurvedic practitioner, homeopath, acupuncturist, medical researcher, ecological leader, and bestselling author of books such as Spiritual Nutrition, Conscious Eating, Rainbow Green Live Food Cuisine, and There Is a Cure for Diabetes. Dr. Cousens is also recognized as an internationally celebrated spiritual teacher, Ordained Rabbi, founder of the Essene Order of Light and an Modern Essene Master, and acknowledged as awake by his two enlightened spiritual teachers. He was adopted into the Lakota High Horse Clan after his fourth year as Sundancer, and was appointed Horse Clan leader of Spirit Dance. He is a knight of the Eastern Orthodox Imperial Orders of Constantine the Great and of Saint Helen (the world’s oldest knighthood) and a knight of the Sovereign Order of the Orthodox Knights Hospitaller of Saint John of Jerusalem (pre-cursor of the Red Cross). Dr. Cousens' spiritual background involves extensive study and direct personal experience with the Judaic Kabbalistic Essene, Yogic, and Native American aspects of Self-Realization, which have given him a unique, authentic, interdenominational, unified worldview. He is considered a master of kundalini as well as a teacher of meditation, prayer, jnana, bakti, karma, and mantra yogas for over 35 years.
He is listed in the International Who’s Who of Entrepreneurs and the Strathmore’s Who’s Who. As a spiritual evolutionary visionary, he has committed his life to the world service of elevating planetary consciousness and to establishing these healing and transformational programs on an international basis including diabetes and vegan live food programs in Israel, Ghana, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Peru, Argentina, and Nicaragua so that he and everyone who chooses to help can participate in the healing and transformation of the individual and the planet. Gabriel is married to Shanti Golds Cousens; he has two children and three grandchildren.
Anna Maria Gahns-Clement, PhD, LNC
 Anna Maria founded the first raw food organization in Scandinavia, and was a member of the Natural Health Care Coalition, a government supported effort in unifying the field of complementary health care in her native Sweden. Anna Maria is the Co-Director and Chief Health Administrator of Hippocrates Health Institute. She is one of the leading experts in live blood cell analysis, a revolutionary technique in the comprehensive assessment of a person's state of health. Anna Maria Gahns-Clement is the author of four books on the application of natural health methods in family and children's care. As multi-faceted as her life is, the one role Anna Maria considers to be the most important, the most challenging and, undoubtedly, the most enjoyable of all is her role as mother to her four children, whose perfect health is a tribute to her and the Hippocrates lifestyle. Her advanced education in nutritional science, iridology, bodywork therapy, touch-for-health, and nursing healthcare serve to enhance the instinctive qualities that, as a natural healer, she already possessed.
Shanti Golds Cousens, M.A.
 Shanti is the co-director of the Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center in Patagonia Arizona where she teaches Kali-Ray® Tri-Yoga, aromatherapy, and other classes in the Center’s spiritual retreat programs. She has earned her B.A. and Masters Degree in Vegan and Live-Food Nutrition from the University of Integrated Science.Shanti became a vegetarian at age 16 and she began her study of yoga at the age of nineteen. In 1986 she became among the first of the trained Kali Ray TriYoga teachers and taught as a Senior Teacher at the Kali Ray TriYoga® headquarters in Santa Cruz, California for 16 years. For seven years she studied and worked under Elizabeth Van Buren, Director of the College of Botanical Healing Arts in California. She completed extensive studies of botany, chemistry, blending therapeutic oils and individualizing the healing approach for each client.
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YOUR PROGRAM ALSO INCLUDES THE FULL TREE OF LIFE EXPERIENCE: - 100% Organic, plant-source-only, live food, gourmet meals at the world renowned Tree of Life Cafe**
- Yoga Classes 5 Days a Week. (Kali Ray TriYoga™ style when Yogini Shanti Golds Cousens is available)
- Evening Meditation Programs and Spiritual Support (5 days per week)
- Shaktipat Initiation (Friday Evenings) when Dr. Cousens is onsite.
- Kirtan (Devotional Chanting) every other week (Wednesday Evenings)
- Unlimited Wheatgrass Grown with Ocean Minerals and Effective Microorganisms
- Unlimited access to our Chlorine-Free Swimming Pool
- Unlimited access to our Far Infrared Saunas
- Unlimited access to our Chlorine-Free Hot Tubs
- Experience the world's largest Chartes Labyrinth
- Access to our Veganic Gardens and Greenhouses
- Nature & Hiking Trails
- Co-Ed and Women's-Only Sun Decks
- New Moon Inipis (Native American Sweat Lodge)
- Access to the Tree of Life Wellness Spa (Additional fees apply)
** If you are coming to the Tree to fast, meals are offered before and after your fast based on your fasting workshop schedule. ~ All activities are optional and offered as a way to enhance your experience. ***Accommodations are included in the ONSITE price (please see the dates & rates tab above). |
*Sign up by May 1st and receive $100 off the total cost!
*Sign up by May 1st and receive $100 off the total price!
RESERVE YOUR SPOT TODAY! Contact our program specialists to book your reservation or discuss your program options. Please note - email is the best way to reach us; please email us using the form below. If you call, please leave a voicemail and a representative will get back to you within 24 - 48 hours. Our programs specialists will only respond to inquiries regarding programs. USA: 1-866-394-2520 (Toll-free), ext. 1 International: 1-520-233-7010, ext. 1 |
BEFORE YOU ARRIVE: Please review our Welcome Guide and Important Policies before you arrive at the Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center. Inside you will find details on how to prepare for your stay, what to bring, and what to expect. ACCOMMODATIONS: Please note: The majority of our rooms are shared, double-occupancy lodging with shared bathrooms a short walk away. Our listed prices reflect this lodging option. You will be given a roommate of the same gender when necessary. We have four private rooms with private bathrooms available at additional costs. Alternatively, you may choose to stay off site in town and attend your program at the Tree of Life during the day, though this option typically requires approval from our medical staff. We generally recommend that you stay on site with us to assist you in your healing journey. The Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center spreads across 180 acres of land, nestled within the pristine natural setting of the Mountain Empire of Patagonia. Our on-site lodging is intentionally simple to inspire a profound inward journey. The Casitas, one of our on-site housing options, are ecologically constructed. We have ten bright and clean rooms surrounding a Spanish-style courtyard. Four outdoor shared bathrooms with showers are only a few steps from each room. Two of the Casitas are private rooms with private bathrooms, available for an extra fee (please contact us for details) and the other eight rooms are shared, with two twin beds per room. The Casitas are located a short walk from our Café and a 15 min walk to the Oasis, which is the administrative building that includes the front desk, wellness spa, medical center, Culture of Life Shoppe, and natural pharmacy. The Garden House is located a short 5 minute walk from the Oasis. It is the closest housing option to all our rejuvenation & spa treatments. There we offer 2 guest rooms, each with a single queen bed and its own full bathroom, as well a shared living room, kitchen, and laundry room. The bathrooms have standing showers, not full bathtubs. Our water is well water, with some of it being pumped through solar energy. The drinking water is filtered through a Reverse Osmosis (RO) water purification system. All the guest rooms are cleaned daily with all-natural, chemical-free products. The all-inclusive daily base-rate is $199, including lodging, meals and juices, daily activities and free amenity use. - Lodging*; The base rate is for the eight rooms in the Casitas that are small, each equipped with two twin size natural latex beds and a shared wardrobe and dresser. Bathrooms are shared with other guests. Accommodations in the two private casitas (one double bed and a private bathroom) or the Garden House are available for an additional charge.
- Healing Live-Food Cuisine is served buffet-style at the Tree of Life Café. All meals are 100% organic, locally-grown, plant-source-only, high-mineral, low-glycemic, and prepared with love.
- Daily Activities include Kali Ray TriYoga*®, spiritual nutrition education classes, healthy living Q&A with physician, food prep classes, meditations and spiritual evening programs. *Yoga is offered 5 times weekly. When Shanti Golds Cousens is available, the Yoga offered is Kali Ray TriYoga®.
- Amenities; unlimited wheat grass and tea stations, non-chlorinated pool and open-air hot tubs, sundecks, Mikvah (purification bath), labyrinth, medicine wheel, teepee, far-infrared saunas, nature trails, wireless internet at the Oasis and the Cafe and on-site shuttle service available upon request. Please note that shuttle is only available at certain hours of the day, and the center requires a lot of walking regardless. Walking also encourages the healing process.
- NO: in-room phones, TV, internet, or stereo. This is intentional to facilitate a feeling of complete retreat. We do not have wireless internet available anywhere on the property.
Guests may also stay off-site, if they have been approved to do so by the medical staff, at one of the local B&Bs or guest houses. Patagonia is a small mountain town with only one main street and no traffic lights. Partner locations are only few minutes driving distance away from the Tree of Life campus. Please click the link to view local lodging options: http://www.patagoniaaz.com/lodging.html Please click the link to view the map of the Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center facilities: Tree of Life Map PLEASE NOTE: We are not wheelchair accessible! The Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center celebrates living close to the earth and deliberately provides this experience for our guests. In support of aiding our guests in cultivating a relationship with surrounding nature, our paths and roads are rugged and often rocky, with minimal artificial lighting. Any guest who has difficulties maintaining stability while walking, and especially our diabetic guests struggling with neuropathy, should use care while traversing our grounds. Though we typically encourage our guests to walk around our Center for exercise and to support inner peace, those dealing with any conditions that promote imbalance would be wise to use a car to get around our premises and to choose those walking paths offering smoother, more level surfaces and ample lighting. Guests should use their own discretion while at our Center. The Tree of Life is not liable for any injuries incurred in our natural setting. TOURS Tours of the Tree of Life grounds are offered during high volume times, such as during our 21-day programs. Outside of these programs, tours can be arranged upon advanced notice. Please call ahead to arrange this. We are not set up to offer tours without advanced notice. Thank you for your understanding. |
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