Comprehensive Wellness Retreats For Cleansing, Healing and Rejuvenation

An Opportunity of a Lifetime Be Empowered - Take Charge of your Health! The Larches Inn is not only a beautiful Bed and Breakfast located on Sampson Pond, in Carver, MA, but it is also a Wellness Center dedicated to expanding its healing programs. Join our team Rosana Gijsen, Joe Lucier, Dorothy Torrey, Cindy Soby and Rain Philips (Owner and operator of The Larches) for many programs including incredible comprehensive 2 or 5-Day Cleansing, Healing and Rejuvenation Retreats. Be empowered by taking charge of your life through making wiser choices and living a healthy lifestyle with nourishing food.

Goals
What Do You Want To Create in your Life?

 
Our programs inspire you to take care of your most valuable asset, your health! Begin being pro-active and cleanse away years of accumulated toxins from our environment, from our water and especially from our foods which may be irradiated, hybridized, genetically modified and are often full of processed sugars, pesticides, antibiotics, chemicals, preservatives and hormones. After completing your training and cleanse, you will have the skills that are easily put into effect at home to accomplish these goals. Your success after the program is also important to us. We offer on-going support after the program to help you maintain lasting success.

Goals of the Comprehensive Wellness Program Retreats:

• Healing - "Let food be your medicine and medicine be your food", Hippocrates
• Cleansing - Detox gently and replenish the body with vibrant foods - out with the old, in with the new
• Education - Know the reasons and the science behind plant based nutrition and lifestyle choice - be a conscious, educated and happy eater
• Immersion - Total immersion is important for positive healing momentum in this team-supported-environment
• Community Support - Our team, as well as other participants, offer great support and a community experience to help everyone adopt these simple and effective techniques
• Toxic Overload - Help reduce toxicity and malnutrition (malabsorption) - the common causes of most dis-ease
• Breath - Learn breathing techniques - sufficient oxygen is critical for survival
• Energy Healing and Live Food - Organic raw and living food, together with Tong Ren Energy Healing and Breathwork Training support higher levels of health and healing
• Personal and Emotion Support - Available throughout the program
• Joy - Find joy and abundance in being healthy!

Program Benefits
The body has a tremendous natural ability to heal and regenerate.
Our programs guide and support you to give you the skills
to promote this natural ability and achieve everlasting vibrant health

Benefits:

• Boost the immune system and enhance healing
• Increase energy levels
• Promote healthier skin
• Increase mental clarity
• Reduce allergies
• Open a blockage - Tong Ren Healing - Tuina healing - maximize body resources
• Support vibrant health
• Create homeostasis through naturally alkalizing foods
• Reduce sugar cravings
• Get help to achieve your natural weight
• Increase flexibility, mobility and agility
• Reduce toxic buildup
• Learn dairy-free and gluten-free food strategies - all recipes are dairy, wheat and gluten free
• Relax in a beautiful and nourishing environment
• Learn the science behind the benefits - over 30 hours class instruction in plant based nutrition
• Bring home practical skills to continue your progress

5 Day Comprehensive Wellness Retreat
Graduates Receive Health Educator Certificate

Education, Exercise, Meditation and Healing To Support your Cleansing, Healing and Rejuvenation Over 30 hours class work including Powerpoint Slide Presentations, Food Demonstrations and Energy Healing Techniques

• Daily meditation
• Quick and easy kitchen and jar sprouting including mung and lentils
• Easy to learn daily exercises including Master Gao warm-up and stretching, Dao Yin Qi Gong, Yoga and the Five Tibetan Rites
• Tong Ren group healing treatments and education
• Tui Na Asian bodywork treatment included
• Instructional movies
• Herb walk, wild edibles discussion and plant identification - Nature is our guide - Guest speaker - Tommy Priester
• Many more group activities - we are located right on a pond (check out the seminar location http://www.thelarchesinn.com)
• Boat rides with our own wellness center boat - Cruise to health
• Over 30 hours of classes including powerpoint slide presentations, food demonstrations and healing techniques on:

  • Healthy living and raw food nutrition and the abundance of vitamins and minerals
  • Importance of colon care; Digestion, absorption and elimination - we are what we absorb
  • Benefits of vibrant, organic whole foods
  • Technique for weight loss
  • Importance of enzymes
  • Benefits and recipes for juicing and green smoothies - nutritious smoothie of the day
  • Micro-green growing for wheatgrass and buckwheat
  • Demonstration and recipes for fermentation and making sauerkraut and vegan cheese
  • Basic kitchen knife skills
  • Vegetable pasta tools and other kitchen utensils
  • Healthy alternatives to processed sugars
  • Benefits and recipes for nourishing sea vegetables

   

• 15 Vibrant Meals plus demonstrations including:

  • Daily nourishing green juices - efficient power packed nutrition for maximum benefit, healing and absorption - 3 times a day
  • Daily immune-building wheatgrass juice - every morning
  • Nutritious and delicious green smoothies - everyday (vitamins, minerals and your favorite fruits and greens in a glass)
  • Easy kitchen sprouting for mung beans, lentils and others
  • Quick & easy sandwiches & wraps - purple & green cabbage wraps, nori rolls, collard rolls, romaine sandwiches, stuffed bell peppers
  • Vibrant pates - for sandwiches, dips and side dishes - sunflower seed cheese, guacamole, spinach dip and more
  • Non-dairy milk - using ingredients like almonds or sunflower seeds, learn an alternative for better nutrition and for calcium absorption
  • Salads and dressings - enjoy making and tasting a variety of salads and dressings
  • Super soups - vegetable soup, miso soup and chowder
  • Vegetable pasta techniques including Pasta Marinara meal
  • Delicious healthy desserts
  • Amazing coconuts - coconut opening techniques
  • Fantastical avocados - these bundles of healthy fats are versatile and delicious - good for smoothies, salads, spooners
  • Fermented foods - sauerkraut, rejuvelac and seed cheez - natural probiotics
  • Quick and easy breakfasts - chia porridge, avocado coconut spooners - an easy nourishing beginning to your day
  • Dehydration techniques - fruit leathers, falafel, dried fruit snacks, crackers, burgers, banana chips and kale chips

Everyone will receive a Health Educator Certificate and Comprehensive Manual with reference materials and recipes.
Please RSVP Rain Phillips 508-866-9228 or email rainphillips@yahoo.com

• 6 Vibrant Meals plus demonstrations including:

• Daily nourishing green juices - efficient power packed nutrition for maximum benefit, healing and absorption - 3 times a day
• Daily immune-building wheatgrass juice - every morning
• Nutritious and delicious green smoothies - everyday - vitamins, minerals and your favorite fruits and greens in a glass
• Easy kitchen sprouting for mung beans, lentils and others
• Quick & easy sandwiches & wraps - purple & green cabbage wraps, nori rolls, collard rolls, romaine sandwiches, stuffed bell peppers
• Salads and dressings - enjoy making and tasting a variety of salads and dressings
• Non-dairy milk - using ingredients like almonds or sunflower seeds, learn an alternative for better nutrition and for calcium absorption
• Delicious healthy desserts

• Daily Activities and Training:

• Easy to learn daily exercises including Master Gao warm-up and stretching, Dao Yin Qi Gong, Yoga and The 5 Tibetan Rites
• Daily Meditation
• Basic kitchen knife skills
• Vegetable pasta tools and other kitchen utensils
• Tong Ren Group Healing Treatments and Education
• Vegan nutrition lectures:
  • Healing
  • Detox
  • Food combining
  • pH balance
  • Colon health
  • Digestion and absorption
  • Healthy alternatives to processed sugars
  • Importance of enzymes

Joseph Lucier LMT, AOBTA. Graduating from Boston College with a Degree in Chinese Studies and after living in Asia over 15 years as a student, translator and software engineer, he returned to the US. Then from 2001 to 2010 he has been acquiring Raw and Living Food Chef and nutrition training, as well as running his Tong Ren Healing practice and Living Food Coaching practice.

• Alissa Cohen Chef Programs in Florida and California
• Brenda Cobb Living Foods Ann Wigmore Program at the Living Foods Institute, Georgia
• Living Light Culinary Arts Institute Chef in Fort Bragg, California
• Raw Doctors Vegan Nutrition Programs in Fort Bragg, California
• Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center Nutrition and Chef Apprenticeship Program, Arizona
• Colin Campbell Plant Based Nutrition Certification, Cornell University, New York

 

To further his interest in healing, he studied healing herbs, Asian Bodywork, Shiatsu and Acupressure as well his primary healing approach, the highly effective Tom Tam Healing System Tuina and Tong Ren Therapies and became a licensed medical massage therapist (LMT). 

• Licensed Medical Massage Therapist (LMT, AOBTA), Asian Bodywork, Acupressure Therapy Institute, Massachusetts
• Tam Healing System, Tong Ren Healing, Massachusetts
• Boston School of Herbal Studies, Massachusetts

While still maintaining a strong interest in Asia and Asian culture, he has transitioned from Chinese Translation and Software Engineering to healing. He does this with his passion for Tong Ren Healing, Raw Foods Nutrition Education and Chef Work, Herbalism, The Raw Foods Community (Raw New England Community Founder and Webmaster) and Asian Bodywork (Tuina). He is also a taiji (tai chi) and qigong enthusiast. His creation of these 2 day and 5 day programs (White Lotus Wellness Programs) are the culmination of his experience and passion for healing and sharing.

 

Rosana Gijsen, is an international trainer and educator as well as raw vegan chef. She is originally from Brazil and is a renowned Breathworker. She was trained by Leonard Orr, the founder of Breathwork. She has assisted him internationally for the past eleven years. She has transformed the lives of hundreds of people in her own practice, in the past eight years by helping people break through personal challenges and above all, experience the presence and power of full body breathing.

Rosana is a Yoga enthusiast and instructor. She is a graduate of the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta center in India, and went on to become an internationally known yoga teacher.

Rosana (also known as Rawsana in the Raw Community) is also a Raw Foodist.  She not only lives the Live Foods Lifestyle, she has recently graduated as a Raw Food Chef Instructor at the Living Light Culinary Arts Institute in California where she found herself accessing a deeper level of consciousness and felt a strong desire to share that experience with others through teaching about the Raw Food Diet and lifestyle. She has received additional high level training and experiences while cheffing in the Boston Massachusetts and currently works at the Prana Raw Food Cafe.

Her spiritual approach to life and her compassion for others with her healing, are pervasive in all her work.