The Vitals:
A comprehensive, affordable and integrated program aimed at educating you not just on the nature and tools of food and health, but of your own health and essential makeup. We provide a template for the process, expert guidance, tools, resources, connection to the community you cleanse with and the area businesses that support the lifestyle making the transition after the program smooth and effective.
We are now proud to be partnering with expert acupuncturist Donna Parker to offer her RESET program to help people kick the sugar addiction. Take a look at the RESETprogram for more information.
The Core Program:
Core Workshops - A-Z of food, food politics, cleansing, mental-emotional components, physiology, exercise, relationships and how to evolve. Q/A sessions and discussion included.
Practice Sessions - Guided meditation practices based on exactly who is in the room and what they're going through. Every one is different and this is the primary toolkit for rebooting the nervous system, ending the fight or flight feedback loop and landing in your own life on your own feet.
Online Community - Stay in touch with the group 24/7 for answers to questions, discussion, support, tips n tricks and a constant stream of additional resources from the CVD staff.
Guided Shopping Trip - Shop at one of the Nation's finest natural foods groceries with the cleanse group and CVD staff to learn first hand about food - what to look for, how to buy, alternatives and superfoods.
Detox Book and Journal - Learn about the unique CVD way of personal evolution through dietary detoxing and track your progress through the program and your own body.
Program Partners - Get discounts and special cleanse-friendly packages at area business that support personal transformation and are key to living the healthy green lifestyle such as organic restaurants and spas.
Catering! Also available are a variety of catering options from the pick of the Bay Areas's star chefs. Forget deciding on a diet, have it handed to you deliciously packaged by the experts! - Email for more info. Note: This is a personal development program emphasizing dietary cleansing, not a fast - Most participants will be required to eat throughout the program, more advanced practitioners may choose a raw foods diet, juice diet or short periods of fasting to achieve their detox and development goals.
Who should Detox?
- People responding to the powerful call of the evolutionary imperative being presented to humanity right now - City dwellers that need to counteract the intense and unhealthy urban environment including car exhaust, pesticides, food additives, heavy metals, cleaning solvents, paint fumes, drug residues etc. - Frequent business travelers recovering from incessant jetlag, stress and the effects of prolonged restaurant dining. - People recovering from stressful and emotionally toxic jobs or relationships. - Yogis interested in jump starting their practice after a hiatus or going deeper into the stillness as they surf the madness of modern life. - Health conscious people interested in developing an integral lifestyle practice including the elements of diet and cleansing as medicine. - Busy people that want to cleanse but have a hard time sticking to it by themselves. - Anyone that is baffled by the glut of information available and just needs to know where to start and how to get through to the other side without a major meltdown.
Contraindications:
Anyone with an existing significant health conditions, pregnant or nursing women, anyone significantly under or over weight.