Juice Fasting is Out, Juice Feasting is In
As a Valley Girl would observe, "Juice fasting is like, so 20th century!"
For most of us, fasting on only fresh fruit and vegetable juice brings images of severe hunger, deprivation, lots of laying in bed, and other visions relating to pain and suffering for your health.
Enter the newest in 21st Century Juicing & Healing Technology: Juice Feasting
Simply put, Juice Feasting is an extremely nutrient-dense and digestive-saving way to cleanse and detoxify the body while still getting mounds of the nutrients your body needs. Perhaps the greatest difference between juice fasting and Juice Feasting, is that Juice Feasting is specifically designed so the feaster will still get enough calories to supply their daily requirements.
Juice Feasting's current hero and biggest supporter is David Rain, who holds an M.A. in Live Food Nutrition and also is research assistant to Dr. Gabriel Cousens at the Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center in Arizona.
David and his wife Katrina have created the official website of Juice Feasting, JuiceFeasting.com, and they created it to be "a treasure-trove of exciting information, stories, music, movies, books, and files for you to learn all about personal healing with Juice Feasting."
Their membership site is specifically designed to fully support you every day on your 92-day juice feasting journey. In addition to the full juice feasting information available, each day you will learn different facets of the raw and living foods lifestyle.
Oh, and don't think you have to sign up and pay for a membership just to learn how to juice feast, David & Katrina offer the most basic Juice Feasting information to be available for free on the JuiceFeasting.com website.
Don't believe us? Go to their site and read everything under the "Juice Feasting Intro" section: Link.
Juice Fasting Will Be Forever Changed
David has shattered that past image of juice fasting and has been coaching many people on how to thrive on a 92 Day (or less) Juicing Program. Of course, David doesn't have enough time to coach everyone, so in addition to offering the basic Juice Feasting information for free (and the full membership program for those who want to go further), he has several Juice Feasting Consultants to help you on your journey. Notable consultants include Juice Feasting superstar Angela Stokes, John Rose (the man behind the Juice Feasting philosophy), and David and Katrina themselves.
Does the Full Program Live Up to the Hype?
David and Katrina were kind enough to give us access to their membership site so we could give you a full and honest review of what they have to offer.
First off, there is no doubt that David and Katrina have not only done their homework...they have written the most massive "book" on detox, health, healing, raw foods and juicing either of us have ever seen!
JuiceFeasting.com is like a fresh green juice, packed full of so many hidden benefits that you can't tell how good it is inside by just looking at it from the outside. When you finally get a chance to dig in and enjoy it, you will be amazed at how much nutritious information is packed into each part of the JuiceFeasting.com website.
Hundreds of Raw Food Lifestyle Resources
Each day, you will have access to David's personal files on every aspect of the raw and living foods lifestyle, including PDF files to download and refer to at anytime. These files contain a wide range of topics, including clean water, how to get a good night's sleep, what to eat after your feast, and many (many!) more topics! To see a list of all of the topics that are covered in the full membership program, click here.
Feeling lonely on your feast? If you choose to get a membership to the website, you'll have access to their Juice Feasters forum so you can connect with other juice feasters.
Not ready to join the full program? To start getting a taste of what this is all about, we recommend you go join their newest social networking site for free over at Global Juice Feast. Here, you can meet other juice feasters, those interested in learning more, as well as possibly find someone in your area to support you locally and swap juicing tips with. (We'll be talking more about the Global Juice Feast in a future post)
Their utter passion and belief in what they are doing will leave no doubt that these two are for real and not just another online, faceless person schlepping the latest health craze.
Let us reiterate that this powerful program is not your typical juice fast. In fact, you will find no caloric or nutrient deprivation should you take this path. In fact, David has specifically designed this program to be the most nutrient dense your diet may ever be in your life! David claims that "We go back in time 120 days for every day that we Juice Feast!"
Yow!
No program is perfect, however. Even though David & Katrina have created something spectacular, there are a few improvements we would like to see:
One of our favorite aspects of the Juice Feasting concept, is that you don't have to run off to a month long retreat on a remote island to starve yourself to health.
According to David, Juice Feasting is:
First off, there is no doubt that David and Katrina have not only done their homework...they have written the most massive "book" on detox, health, healing, raw foods and juicing either of us have ever seen!
JuiceFeasting.com is like a fresh green juice, packed full of so many hidden benefits that you can't tell how good it is inside by just looking at it from the outside. When you finally get a chance to dig in and enjoy it, you will be amazed at how much nutritious information is packed into each part of the JuiceFeasting.com website.
Hundreds of Raw Food Lifestyle Resources
Each day, you will have access to David's personal files on every aspect of the raw and living foods lifestyle, including PDF files to download and refer to at anytime. These files contain a wide range of topics, including clean water, how to get a good night's sleep, what to eat after your feast, and many (many!) more topics! To see a list of all of the topics that are covered in the full membership program, click here.
Feeling lonely on your feast? If you choose to get a membership to the website, you'll have access to their Juice Feasters forum so you can connect with other juice feasters.
Not ready to join the full program? To start getting a taste of what this is all about, we recommend you go join their newest social networking site for free over at Global Juice Feast. Here, you can meet other juice feasters, those interested in learning more, as well as possibly find someone in your area to support you locally and swap juicing tips with. (We'll be talking more about the Global Juice Feast in a future post)
Their utter passion and belief in what they are doing will leave no doubt that these two are for real and not just another online, faceless person schlepping the latest health craze.
Let us reiterate that this powerful program is not your typical juice fast. In fact, you will find no caloric or nutrient deprivation should you take this path. In fact, David has specifically designed this program to be the most nutrient dense your diet may ever be in your life! David claims that "We go back in time 120 days for every day that we Juice Feast!"
Yow!
No program is perfect, however. Even though David & Katrina have created something spectacular, there are a few improvements we would like to see:
- Each day of support, you are given a slew of amazing PDFs to download for your continued use. All of the downloads require a password (which is given). But when you download the PDFs, the password is embedded. Which makes opening the PDF in the future difficult unless the passwords are written down and easily accessible.
- Each day should contain a sample menu, so people can see what a full 92 Day juice feast would look like. David and Katrina could easily use the records of any public Juice Feasting blog, such as Angela Stokes for example, as a reference.
- Speaking of Angela we would love to see her Juice Feasting Handbook as a permanent part of the program. We feel her ebook (which we will be reviewing soon) gives a much needed practical and personal voice to the overall juice feasting journey from someone who has been there and done it. The two together would make a complete program.
One of our favorite aspects of the Juice Feasting concept, is that you don't have to run off to a month long retreat on a remote island to starve yourself to health.
According to David, Juice Feasting is:
"a self-empowering practice, accessible to all, that can be accomplished while still going to work and taking care of family responsibilities. Never before has such a dramatically impactful, deep-cleansing program in which one can heal to completion been so accessible to the public. As you will learn in "Modern Challenges," Juice Feasting is coming online just when society needs it most desperately."
There is a Reason "Everyone Is Doin' It"
Why does it seem like so many people are jumping on this bandwagon?
This post is not an advertisement for Juice Feasting or JuiceFeasting.com, but we both feel very strongly that David and Katrina are onto something revolutionary here. I'm sure you've noticed that Heidi has been posting about her daily juice feast experiences here on RFRN. The response from our readers has been incredible.
JS also has started to increase his daily juice intake and has noticed immediate results. In fact I (JS) would go even as far as saying that I'm experiencing more positive, immediate results by just adding more green juice to my diet than I did when I first started to include green smoothies in my diet.
It is our belief that the people who have Juice Feasted and blogged about it (with pictures) have shown the most dramatic and beautiful life changes we have yet seen. Their written descriptions of their journeys are remarkable and they have the pictures to prove it. Take a look at Courtney Pool's before and after on WLIR to see what we mean.
The results are pretty clear. Juice increasing and Juice Feasting really work. And we feel the JuiceFeasting.com membership site is such a valuable tool for those who are interested in taking their raw food journey to the next level.
If you are interested in taking this path on your health journey, we highly recommend you read their full introduction to what Juice Feasting is here: Link.
And for those who are planning on participating in the Global Juice Feast starting March 1st, we highly encourage you consider getting a membership to the JuiceFeasting.com website. It will empower you by giving you the tools, resources, and information to make your juice feast an educational and life changing experience. David and Katrina are offering three different levels right now to make it affordable for everyone out there.
We want to take this moment to thank David and Katrina for their hard work and dedication and to thank them for putting this comprehensive program together.
Let the Juice Feasting begin!
~ Raw Food, Right Now
2 comments:
The thing I like about fasting, as opposed to feasting, is that one takes time out of their lives to look inward during a fast - to be alone and not have to keep up with their everyday life. I realize that this very reason is what draws a lot of people to feasting, who simply can't step away from life, but I'm an old fashioned girl and fasting calls to my spirit more now than the concept of a juice feast.
I'm planning my first seven day juice fast for the fall equinox and I couldn't be more excited! A week and a half to myself, to reflect, to allow my body to do it's thang without trying to still keep up with life... what a blessing!
Not to say I won't juice feast at some point, I followed Angela Stokes' feast last year with wide eyes. I just think that someone needed to stick up for fasting over here ;)
Erica,
I totally agree. Fasting and feasting are both life changing experiences. There truly is not much difference between juice fasting and juice feasting. The differences are very subtle. But the main difference is with juice feasting, you can go for a VERY long time. With juice fasting, you need to make sure that you are taking care of your body.
You will have to keep us all posted after your juice fast and tell us all about it!
- Heidi
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