Archive forDecember, 2013

About her talk:

Raw Vegan Chef and Life Optimization Coach Jillian Love will be delivering an inspiring talk sharing easy impactful strategies to optimize your health and vitality with Conscious Cuisine and Intentional Living Practices. She will share highlights from her “Food For Life” 20 Recipe Ebook and will be teaching how to make Raw Vegan Green Hornet Superhero Soup and provide tastings.

Bio:

Combine equal parts imagination and training. Add a heaping dash of talent and an overflowing cup of passion. Top it off with the ability to create engaging sensory experiences with the fusion of food, entertainment and fun.. and you have the recipe for a Jillian Love….

Talented raw vegan chef, accomplished workshops leader, international raw educator, community organizer and event planner, inspiring presenter, extensive background and training in assisting people in personal transformation and change.

Jillian is a change agent & pioneer in the conscious cuisine and sustainable health movement! She is founder of Bay Area Raw, an organization providing events and social networking opportunities to bring together local businesses, entrepreneurs, visionaries, activists, community leaders and the greater Bay Area community members to share information, celebrate healthy lifestyle and support the growth of the Bay Area Raw Food Movement. Jillian also runs the Revolutionary Raw Conscious Cuisine Meet Up Group, a community hub for individuals interested in exploring raw food cuisine and optimal nourishment and engaging in lifestyle choices that sustain the planet. Jillian Love is committed to global transformation through conscious cuisine and is an advocate for food justice.

Jillian completed her certification as Associate Raw Food Chef from Living Light Culinary Arts Institute in October 2003. She has her Bachelors Degree in Communications and a Masters Degree in Counselling. She is a Certified Life Coach through The Coaches Training Institute and a Certified Master NLP Practitioner through NLP California. She has lead retreats, taught classes and provided raw dinners, menu consultations and trainings in the USA, India, Thailand, and Indonesia.

Some of her clientele include:

Yoga Tree SF, SF California
Tirtagangga Villas, Bali Indonesia
Soulshine Bali, Bali Indonesia
Turtle Bay Hideaway, Bali Indonesia
Bed Supperclub, Bangkok Thailand
Margot Anand, Bali Indonesia
Elevate Films, Ojai CA
Silicone Valley Innovations Institute, CA
She is available for classes, speaking engagements, boutique catering and chef services,personal health and life optimization coaching.

Visit her at:

WEBSITE: www.JillianLove.com

MAILINGLIST: http://eepurl.com/hn7No

Chef Jillian Love FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/ChefJillianLove

TWITTER: https://twitter.com/JillianLove

INSTAGRAM: http://instagram.com/chefjillianlove

About her style of yoga:

Jivamukti Yoga is one of the nine internationally recognized styles of Hatha Yoga. The name Jivamukti means “liberation while living.” This style of yoga was created by Sharon Gannon and David Life in 1986. They named this yoga practice “Jivamukti” to remind students of the ultimate aim of the practice: spiritual awareness and enlightenment. It is a vigorously physical and intellectually stimulating practice combined with an equally strong foundation in the ancient spiritual traditions of Yoga.
As a path to enlightenment through compassion for all beings, Jivamukti Yoga is grounded in the original meaning of the Sanskrit word asana as “seat, connection” - relationship to the Earth. Earth implies all of life. Citing Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra, which states that asana should be sthira and sukham, Jivamukti Yoga maintains that one’s relationship to others (asana) should be mutually beneficial and come from a consistent (sthira) place of joy and happiness (sukham). This is a radical idea that, when put into practice, can dismantle our present culture, which is based on the notion that the Earth and all other animals exist for our benefit and to be exploited for our own selfish purposes. So the practice of asana becomes more than mere physical exercise to keep one’s body fit or to increase strength or flexibility; it becomes a way to improve one’s relationship to all others and thus lead to enlightenment - the dissolution of the sense of separateness, the realization of the oneness of being, the discovery of lasting happiness.

Bio:

Tara is a Certified Teacher of the Alexander Technique, a Certified Jivamukti Yoga teacher and holds a B.A. in Music from Sarah Lawrence College. Her first love and her introduction to discipline was opera singing, and she sang professionally in New York City in the 1990′s. This led her to the Alexander Technique, which unraveled habits of tension and reactivity, but most importantly demonstrated that profound change is possible. A New Yorker, she stumbled upon Jivamukti Yoga at her gym in September, 2001, and has been engaged with it ever since. Tara loves rigor, clarity, music, depth, mojo, and yoga philosophy and endeavors to weave all these into her classes. She has extensive knowledge of anatomy and how the body works from over 15 years of teaching the Alexander Technique and enjoys the art of giving hands-on assists in class. Tara has worked extensively with her Alexander Technique colleague Peter Grunwald, a pioneer in the field of natural vision improvement, for over a decade. She has traveled widely, is an avid if unsophisticated harmonium player, and has an intimate relationship with language and writing. Tara’s youthful vegetarianism sprouted an abiding interest in all aspects of food from nutrition to spirituality and at this stage she most enjoys eating and preparing raw food, though she is also an accomplished cook and baker.

Tara Sullivan became vegetarian as a child, after reading Charlotte’s Web and deciding that she too wanted to save Wilbur from becoming the Christmas ham. Decades later, it was her yoga teachers, Jivamukti Yoga co-founders Sharon Gannon and David Life, who led her to make the connection and fully grok the astounding interconnection of all sentient beings that has grounded her fully as a joyful vegan for life.

Tara relocated to the Bay Area in 2010 after three years in New Zealand and currently lives in Berkeley with her son, who has been vegan since his inception.

Award winning Lani Muelrath, M.A., CGFI, CPBN, FNS – The Plant-Based Fitness Expert – specializes in helping people who struggle with health, weight and energy levels transform their bodies – and their lives – without going hungry or grueling, excessive exercise.

Lani is the best-selling author of Fit Quickies: 5 Minute Targeted Body Shaping Workouts with plant-based diet (Penguin/Alpha) and creator of Lani Muelrath’s Plant-Based Blueprint. She is presenter and celebrity coach for the 21-Day PCRM Vegan Kickstart and VegRun Programs and is the Fitness Adviser for the Dr. John McDougall Health and Medical Center Discussion Boards. She presents regularly for the Complete Health Improvement Project (CHIP). In addition, she is the Health and fitness expert for Vegan Mainstream and Plant-Based Fitness and Healthy Living Examiner at for Examiner.com and contributing author for VegWorld and N.A.K.E.D. magazines.

Recently featured on ABC TV’s The List, CBS TV, Huffington Post, Prevention, and The Saturday Evening Post, Lani has been a Guest Lecturer in Kinesiology at San Francisco State University and is an Associate Professor in Kinesiology at Butte College. She has a Master’s degree and several teaching credentials in Physical Education, and holds multiple fitness certifications including Fitness Instructor from the American Council on Exercise, Yoga, and Pilates-based instruction from the PhysicalMind Institute.

Certified in Plant-Based Nutrition through Cornell University, Lani holds a Fitness Nutrition Specialist Advanced Credential from the National Academy of Sports Medicine.

Lani created and starred in her own CBS TV show, “Lani’s All-Heart Aerobics.” Recipient of the Golden Apple Award for Excellence in Instruction, she regularly speaks and writes about healthy living, plant-based nutrition, weight loss, and fitness. She overcame her own lifetime struggle with weight over more than 15 years ago when she lost 50 pounds, which she has maintained easily with the tools that she uses to coach others to be successful with in weight loss, body shaping, and health. Lani synergizes smart exercise, optimal nutrition, and mastery of psychology in realizing your body ideal.