Dr. Gabriel Cousens is one of the world's foremost authorities on living food nutrition, holistic lifestyle and complementary medicine. He is Founder/director of the Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center in Patagonia, Arizona. He received his M.D. degree from Columbia Medical School in 1969 and completed his psychiatry residency in 1973. He was the Chief Mental Health Consultant for the Sonoma County Operation Head Start and a consultant for the California State Department of Mental Health.
Dr. Cousens is a holistic medical doctor, a psychiatrist and family therapist, and a licensed homeopathic physician in the state of Arizona. He uses the modalities of live-food nutrition, naturopathy, Ayurveda, homeopathy and acupuncture, blended with spiritual awareness, in the healing of body, mind and spirit. A best-selling author of Conscious Eating, Depression-Free for Life, Spiritual Nutrition and the Rainbow Diet as well as several other books.
TITLE:
"Kali Ray TriYoga® and Shaktipat Meditation with Shanti and Gabriel Cousens, MD."
DESCRIPTION:
Kali Ray TriYoga® is a complete and revolutionary system based in ancient Yoga. Experience the kundalini-inspired sequenced flow of yogasana (postures) synchronized with pranayama (rhythmic breath) and mudra (focus). The result is increased energy ... physically, mentally, and spiritually. This gives the mental clarity to manifest one's life with greater awareness. Shanti GoldsCousens is a Senior Teacher of Kali Ray TriYoga®..
Shaktipat Meditation immediately following TriYoga® maximizes the quieting of the mental vrittis (tendencies) and the balancing of the chakra petals that occurs during and after practice TriYoga® with integrity. Shaktipat Meditation after TriYoga is when the body-mind-I-Am is in a highly open and receptive state of being for the descent of grace, which is the meaning of Shaktipat. In Gabriel's spiritual lineage, in which he is acknowledged as liberated by his two enlightened spiritual teachers, the Shaktipat (Smicha l'Shefa) meditation creates a field for the potential of a safe awakening of Kundalini (Shekhinah) energy only when one's body-mind-I-Am system is ready. The awakening of Kundalini is the next evolutionary step of human potential and consciousness, as described in Gabriel's book, Spiritual Nutrition: Six Foundations for Spiritual Life and the Awakening of Kundalini.
2) Sunday 11 to 1 Keynote Talk:
TITLE: "Live Food Cures Diabetes"
("Lifestyle for Loving Yourself and the Planet Enough to Heal")
DESCRIPTION: Diabetes has become a seemingly unstoppable national epidemic, affecting more than twenty million Americans. Conventional wisdom calls it incurable, but renowned holistic physician, Gabriel Cousens, MD, counters that claim with this breakthrough. There Is a Cure for Diabetes lays out a three-week plan for reversing the negative genetic expression of type-II diabetes to a physiology of health and well-being. Dr. Cousens's method, widely tested at his famous Tree of Life centers, is to reset the DNA through green juice fasting and a 100% organic, nutrient-dense, vegan, low-glycemic, low-insulin-scoring, and high-mineral diet of living foods in the first twenty-one days. Both practical and inspirational, the presentation explains how to abandon the widespread "culture of death"–symbolized by addictive junk food–that fosters diabetes in favor of a more natural, nurturing approach. The program renders insulin and related medicines unnecessary within four days as the blood sugar drops to normal levels; and the diabetic shifts into a non-diabetic physiology within two weeks. The third week focuses on live-food preparation, featuring 100 delicious raw recipes. Dr. Cousens emphasizes regular consultations, monitoring blood chemistries, and emotional support, and includes a one-year support program to help maintain a diabetes-free life. "The cure," Dr. Cousens says, is living a in the Culture of Life with a lifestyle and cuisine that promotes the wellbeing for all life."
3) TIME: 6:20 p.m. Starting and Candle Lighting
TITLE: "Kabbalat Shabbat -
Ecstatic Mystical Invocation"
DESCRIPTION: Shabbat is celebrating the inner union of being beyond time and space with a holy invocation of the Divine together with Rebbe Gabriel Cousens, MD, and Shanti GoldsCousens. This helps bring you to the personal direct experience of the joy and radiance the Shekhinah, the indwelling spiritual Presence in all - in every element, in every direction, on every plane, as the oneness of who we are.
4) SATURDAY EVENING
TIME: 5:30 to 6:45 p.m.
TITLE:Havdallah
DESCRIPTION: Havdallah is an active, participatory, Culture of Life and Liberation ceremony starting with meditation. It includes a teaching for guidance on the Path of Liberation from Torah and Kabbalah. In Havdallah, Rebbe Gabriel Cousens, MD, and Shanti GoldsCousens also offer a space for communion through deep in-breathing of aromatic spices (bisammim), and a candlelight blessing for a shavua tov, "a good week, a week of peace." 7:00 p.m. throuhg 8:00 p.m. Saturday
Bio: Gabriel Cousens, MD
Gabriel Cousens received his MD from Columbia Medical School and has over 30 years experience in healing diabetes naturally. He is a member of the American Board of Holistic Medicine and a Diplomat in Ayurveda. He also facilitates the spiritual, nutritional, relationships/family, and lifestyle tele-seminars, "Alive with Gabriel" and has founded the Culture of Life Community--a spiritual social media network with personally hosted lifestyle support shows, podcasts, premier content, philanthropy, organizing, and sacred commerce at www.gabrielcousens.com.
Recognized as the leading world-wide medical authority on live-food nutrition and as an internationally known spiritual teacher, he is a lecturer, holistic physician, psychiatrist, family therapist, international lecturer, and medical researcher. He is the author of six books including There Is A Cure for Diabetes and Creating Peace by Being Peace (2008). He appears in a leading role in the feature documentary on the natural healing and transformation of diabetics on live food, Simply Raw, and has released the DVD, Spiritual Nutrition for Yoga.
Gabriel Cousens is the founder and director of the Tree of Life Foundation and the Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center in Patagonia, Arizona, where he, Shanti GoldsCousens, and a devoted staff offer green juice Spiritual Fasting Retreats, Vegan Spirit Vacations, the 21-Day Life Rejuvenation, the 21-Day+ Reversing Diabetes Program, Sacred Relationships Courses, the Modern Essene Way, and Zero Point Process lifestyle empowerment programs -- www.treeoflife.nu.
Shanti GoldsCousens comes from the depth of her experience in the spiritual and healing arts. After many years of study she has been ordained as an Essene Priestess in the Essene Order of Light, and she is currently assisting Gabriel Cousens, MD, her husband, specifically in the preparation and training of priestesses. She co-teaches the Sacred Relationship Course at the Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center in Patagonia, Arizona, with Gabriel. She has earned her Master's Degree in Vegan and Live-Food Nutrition from the University of Integrated Science.
Shanti became a vegan at age 16 and she began her study of yoga at the age of nineteen. She would spend 16 years with Kali Ray, living, learning, training, meditating and teaching. In 1986 she became among the first of the trained Kali Ray TriYoga teachers and taught as a Senior Teacher at the Kali Ray TriYoga headquarters for 16 years. For seven years she studied and worked under Elizabeth Van Buren, Director of the College of Botanical Healing Arts in California, in the art, science and spirit of aromatherapy.
The essence of Shanti's work is to bring the healing power of the Shekhinah energy (Sacred Feminine) into the planet for the healing of the world.
Previous page: Who's Coming?! 2008
Next page: 2008 Photos