shea lynn baird presents:
Monday Night LIVE! @ Café Gratitude
WELCOME!

Monday Night LIVE! @ Café Gratitude is My Baby!
Monday Night LIVE! is a FREE, live, educational speaking event that I organize and host on a weekly basis. As the name implies, the events take place LIVE, on Monday nights, at Café Gratitude's Healdsburg location. The events feature presenters, authors, demos, films and panels in the areas of raw food, health, spirituality and green living.

For more info on Monday Night LIVE! click here.

Monday Night LIVE!: 2010
upcoming speakers & events

All Events Start at 7:00 PM

CHERIE SORIA
Monday 9/6/10
TOPIC: Raw Food Career Choices

Link to 5 Minute Audio Interview with Cherie Soria

Cherie Soria is founder and director of Living Light Culinary Arts Institute and author of Angel Foods: Healthy Recipes for Heavenly Bodies and The Raw Food Diet Revolution: Feast, Lose Weight, Gain Energy, Feel Younger! Cherie has trained many of the top raw food chefs today, which is why people often refer to her as the mother of raw gourmet cuisine.

In 1990, after teaching vegetarian cuisine for nearly twenty years, Cherie studied with Dr. Ann Wigmore and learned the principles of using whole, live foods to aid in healing and rejuvenation. Inspired and motivated, she went on to develop gourmet raw culinary arts by combining the two contrasting worlds of gourmet vegetarian cuisine and raw vegan simplicity that is known today internationally as gourmet raw vegan cuisine. She immediately began sharing this exciting new art with students from around the world.

Cherie says, "I experience great joy connecting personally with students and helping them to become the best that they can be--not only as raw food chefs, but as radiant, inspiring teachers. The key is to accept people where they are on their path and to help fuel the light that shines within them!"

For more information about Cherie Soria and Living Light International, call 707-964-2420 or e-mail info@rawfoodchef.com or visit www.rawfoodchef.com .

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JASON WROBEL
Monday 9/13/10
DEMO & TOPIC: Easy and Affordable Raw Comfort Foods

Link to 5 Minute Audio Interview with Jason Wrobel

With a focus on radical simplicity and artful presentation, Jason Wrobel’s ecstatic creations are imbued with the energy of fresh, local, organic produce and the healing properties of exotic raw superfoods. A graduate of the Living Light Culinary Arts Institute in Fort Bragg, California, he holds official certification as an Associate Raw Foods Chef and Instructor. He has been blessed with an amazing array of mentors, including Cherie Soria, Elaina Love, Angela Kasmala-Newsom, Tiziana Alipo Tamborra and Cosmo Meens.

Honing his culinary skills at organic establishments like The Karmic Café and Jivamuktea Café, he has offered his unique creations to posh dinner parties, private clientele, and the world-famous Raw Spirit Festivals. As Head Raw Food Chef at the award-winning Café La Vie in Santa Cruz, California, Jason highlighted the amazing local produce from Northern California’s central coast, taking innovative simplicity to new heights while challenging palates and generating gustatory bliss.

Jason is also a presenter and featured raw food chef at David Wolfe’s Longevity Conference, presenting to thousands of people from around the world at the bi-annual conference. He has also been a featured presenter at the Lightning in a Bottle festival and BhaktiFest. He will also be chefing at the Raw Dolphins retreat in Bimini, Bahamas for the first time this year.

Jason first gained notoriety in Los Angeles with his raw food business called Mint Creativity, providing personal chefing, event catering, nutritional counseling and café consultation services as well as product line development and menu planning. Building on the company’s budding success, he is launching a newly branded series of products, including a raw preparation DVD in 2010 and a raw food lifestyle/recipe book in 2011, showcasing simple, elegant, easy raw recipes for the masses. His brand new website, JasonWrobel.com, debuted in early 2010, showcasing a variety of online raw food demos, live videos and his new raw food e-book!

He has also been known to dazzle a crowd with his amazing vocal range and acoustic versions of classic Motown tunes.

For more information on Jason, please see his websites at: www.jasonwrobel.com and www.youtube.com/JasonWrobelTV

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DEBORAH MYERS
Monday 9/20/10
TOPIC: Health is at Your Fingertips

Link to 5 Minute Audio Interview with Deborah Myers

Deborah Myers, director of Health at Your Fingertips, is a Certified Acupressurist, Jin Shin Jyutsu Practitioner, Theta Healing Practitioner, Health Educator and author, and a Certified CEU Provider through the California Board of Registered Nursing.

Deborah is passionate about teaching others how to reduce stress, relieve symptoms and promote healing by balancing their own energy through simple acupressure techniques. She offers workshops to individuals, companies, elder care facilities, high school and college campuses, and organizations. Health care providers can learn techniques that can complement what they already offer their clients. Everyone can easily and effortlessly improve their lives by learning how to access their own healing potential.

Deborah is also passionate about empowering others to live life in a balanced and healthy way. She has a private practice in Sonoma County, working with individual clients to assist them in their search for stress reduction, pain relief and healing. Her energy balancing techniques that include acupressure and Jin Shin Jyutsu help anyone who wants to boost their energy, creativity, and productivity. Through her coaching and workshops, Deborah has helped hundreds of people discover how they can easily and effortlessly improve their lives and have health at their fingertips.

For more information on Deborah or her work please see her website at: www.healthatyourfingertips.com Or, you can reach her at: 707-546-5692 or by email at: deborah@healthatyourfingertips.com.

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Diana Stobo
Monday 9/27/10
Topic: Get Naked Fast - Stripping Away the Foods that Weigh You Down

Link to Audio of 5 Minute Interview with Diana Stobo

Diana Stobo

In Diana Stobo's words:
Who am I?
As long as I can remember, people have come to me with food questions: How did you make that dessert? What did you dress the salad with? What should l buy when I go grocery shopping? What should I make for dinner?

I’ve always enjoyed the questions and the teaching process. I found the inspiration for my own interests, motivation for more knowledge, and the drive to experience new avenues for the art of food through others. Over the years I have been urged, enticed, encouraged, and supported to create something tangible for others to read and refer to when they need some hand-holding in the kitchen.

As time passed, my health became my primary focus. I concentrated less on “yummy” food and more on nutritional food. A natural transition occurred with the information I had to offer and I was no longer the quintessential “foodie.” I became the nutritionist, the healer, and the go-to person when someone needed to make a dietary change in their life.

Diana Stobo’s Get Naked Fast!: A Guide to Stripping Away the Foods That Weigh You Down is not a diet in and of itself, but rather a way of changing your lifestyle so that you will still enjoy the wonderful sensations of amazing foods while cleaning your body, your organs, and your mind.

“I use the term Naked instead of Raw, because we are often set up for failure if we strictly limit ourselves to just one thing. I wrote this book to help and empower people to shift to a lifestyle that strips away the harmful foods that produce toxins within our bodies and lead to many harmful side effects: from emotional to physical. Get Naked Fast is written for those who want to consume healthier, more live food, but do not know where to begin, or how to start. I will help you. Within these 132 pages, including 44 recipes and photos, the base knowledge you will need to begin a Naked lifestyle is presented, not forced and guided, not told. The goal of the book is to inspire and help you, for all of us to have the most healthy, vibrant and beautiful life possible." —Diana

For more information on Diana, please see her website: www.dianastobo.com

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Rhio
Monday 10/4/10
TOPIC: What All People Who Eat Should Know About Genetically Engineered Food

Link to Audio of 5 Minute Interview with Rhio

rhio

"What All People Who Eat Should Know About Genetically Engineered Food" presented by Rhio, author and activist. Everyone eats, and everyone should have the right to know what they are eating. In this presentation Rhio will discuss what many people do not know about the genetically modified/engineered food industry and how it affects our earth, our health, what to look out for in the future and how to protect yourself.

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

Rhio’s Raw Energy website: http://www.rawfoodinfo.com also provides extensive information on the raw/live food lifestyle, as well as organic agriculture, environmental, human rights, civil rights, globalization and economic justice

Rhio and her partner Leigh, are also fledgling permaculture, biodynamic,
eco-farmers in Upstate New York with a focus on growing edible wild foods, heirloom vegetables, leafy greens and lettuces, fruit, berries and nuts.

For more information on Rhio please see her website at http://www.rawfoodinfo.com.

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Bethanne Wanamaker & Christian Bates
Monday 10/11/10
Topic: How to Make Superfoods Work for You

Link to Audio of 5 Minute Interview with Bethanne

Bethanne Wanamaker & Christian Bates

Bethanne Wanamaker -
Bethanne Wanamaker is a passionate Certified Nutrition Educator and Superfood Herbal Skincare Formulator. Bethanne is intensely devoted to empowering both men and women to take control of their own health and become responsible and accountable for their actions and results regarding nutrition.

Introduced to Superfoods and the raw food lifestyle in the fall of 2001, Bethanne has been in love with Superfoods ever since. Her passion for raw foods came later. Bethanne credits superfoods for having radically shifted her health status for the better and launched her own journey into conscious eating and living.

Bethanne works with HealthForce Nutritionals as their National Nutrition Educator. Her work includes doing demos, sales, trainings, events, nutrition consultations, teaching classes, and leading the free weekly Superfood Education tele-seminars Wednesday nights at 5pm PST. She is the creator and author for the Edible Goddess blog, www.EdibleGoddess.com, a resource dedicated to sharing cutting edge health and natural beauty strategies to achieve everything you’ve always wanted for yourself: superior internal health and flawless external beauty!

For more information about Bethanne, please see her website: www.EdibleGoddess.com

Christian Bates-
Christian Bates is a Superfood Eco Lifestyle Expert and Raw Gourmet Chef, Formulator, and Herbalist. For the past eight years, he has been studying, living and teaching only the leading edge raw and Superfood health practices. Never one to accept “last year’s” methods, Christian knows that there is always a next step up in health practices and health results, and that there is always a solution if one’s health is in trouble.

Christian Bates is the co-creator of the infamous WildBar, a Superfood cacao bar that has been on natural food stores’ shelves nationally for over four years. His deepest passion is to teach people how to eat and live in a way that is both completely delicious, really fun and densely healthful! Christian is now going full force as an exciting speaker, beloved yoga teacher, cacao party host, and internet author for his blog, www.ChristianBates.com. Keep up with him as he lays out the most uncompromised, highest quality, results-driven, outrageously fun raw food lifestyle education ever presented!

For more information on Christian Bates, please see his website: www.ChristianBates.com

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Dr. Denise Coouris, ND & Shea Lynn Baird, CCH
Monday 10/25/10
Topic: Your Other Brain: Listen to What Your Gut is Telling You

Link to Audio of 5 Minute Interview with Denise & Shea

Dr. Denise Cooluris, ND Shea Lynn Baird

Dr. Denise Cooluris, ND
A licensed Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine, Denise Cooluris is a holistic physician who listens carefully and deeply to her patients, combining the diagnostic skills of a primary care physician with treatment philosophies that address the root cause of health issues.

"My confidence in the body’s innate ability to heal itself is the foundation of my approach with every patient. The body communicates its needs through the language of symptoms; the person communicates needs through their story. Therefore, if I were to choose one therapy that works finest above all others, it would be to listen."

With specialties in integrative family practice, women’s health, alternative cancer support, and botanical medicine, Dr. Cooluris blends cutting-edge medical science with the centuries-old wisdom of successful natural therapies to yield lasting results.

Dr. Cooluris joined Gordon Medical Associates in May 2009, having completed her family practice residency and serving as adjunct faculty at Bastyr University, the nation’s leading university of natural medicine. In addition to having practiced integrative medicine in a diversity of settings ranging from hospitals to directing medical relief efforts in Kenya, she has received advanced training with leaders in the field of integrative medicine. Her unique contribution to our medical community is her use of targeted therapies specific to naturopathic medical training, bringing a different approach to integrative medicine.

A valuable addition to our GMA practitioner team, Dr. Denise brings her extensive experience in addressing chronic complex health concerns, and a strength in working with digestive concerns, autoimmunity, allergies, environmental medicine, detoxification, infectious diseases such as acute Lyme exposure and chronic viral infections. She welcomes patients of all ages, knowing that naturopathic and integrative medicine effectively addresses a diversity of acute or chronic health concerns.

For more Information or to contact Dr. Denise Cooluris please see: www.gordonmedical.com

Shea Lynn Baird, CCH
Shea Lynn Baird (a.k.a. “Colon Girl”) is a Certified Colon Hydrotherapist, Food Allergy & Sensitivity Testing Consultant, and Raw Food Believer. She has been in private practice helping people cleanse since 1999 (the same year she discovered raw foods), and in the health field in general since 1989. She and her partner, Stephen, have Every Body Cleansing Studio in Santa Rosa, California, and their services include: Colon Hydrotherapy, the 10-Day Booty Boot Camp, Liver & Gall Bladder Flushing, Detox Foot Baths, Infrared Saunas as well as Food Allergy & Sensitivity Testing (which can be done long-distance). She is a presenter at Raw Spirit Festival as well as at the Santa Rosa Raw Health Expo, has been featured on two episodes of the Renegade Health Show, is support staff for RawFu.com, a columnist for Raw Fu Magazine, and she is the organizer of the amazing live weekly speaker event “Monday Night LIVE! @ Cafe Gratitude”.

To find out more information on Shea Lynn, Every Body Cleansing Studio, her services, or Monday Night LIVE! @ Café Gratitude, please see her websites: everybodycleansing.com and mondaynightliveevents.com (And remember… Poopin’ is Cool!)

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