I chose the word "relationship" for this title because I interact with food daily, just as I interact with the people in my life. It sounds like food is alive, right? I learned this unique concept about the CHI of food from Michio and Aveline Kushi. I had the great pleasure of studying the Macrobiotic diet amd life style with them and graduating from the extension program in 1993.

I learned that food has a life force, an energy field that can be photographed by Kirlean photography. This teaching about the chi or life force of food has been a life altering concept that has sustained MY life force/ chi for the past 20 years. I equate food, which is alive, with the people that I am cooking for, who are alive. At a cooking class in Cleveland, I had the honor of assisting Aveline Kushi at a cooking class. Not surprisingly, she was talking to the lotus root that was in the pot!

I was teaching a cooking class at Mustard Seed Market and Café in Akron, Ohio. After the class, a lady came up to me and said that she was adopting a young child and wanted to cook healthy for him. She concluded by saying that she would go shopping for vegetables for the whole year and store them in her freezer. In her mind, buying organic produce and freezing it for the whole year was healthy. I studied her for a moment wondering how to respond gently about the chi of food. I noticed that she had no spark, vitality, or the essential chi needed for the task at hand. She had a pallor that was indicative of lack of chi in food. I simply stated that buying fresh produce every week was a lot healthier than buying one time for the whole year and freezing it! I am deeply grateful to the Kushi Institute for teaching me about the energetics or chi in fresh organic whole food.

Would you like to experience the effect that fresh, whole organic food can have on your vitality? Whole, unadulterated food makes you feel complete, whole and satisfied. Food that is fractionated and incomplete makes you feel incomplete and unsatisfied.

I would like to open up the following food options for you. I am available to teach cooking classes for you, either hands on or demonstration style. I live in Telluride, Colorado and would like to invite you to visit here. You can spend three days or longer in the Rockies at 9000 feet viewing spectacular 14,000 foot mountain panoramas out of my kitchen window/walls of glass. You can experience first hand the benefit of fresh organic whole grains, legumes, vegetables, miso soup and non- dairy, non- sugar desserts.

It will be a life-altering experience and you will leave knowing the basics of cooking healthy, wholesome and delicious macrobiotic meals. We will cook a wide variety of grains, (rice, millet, barley, teff), savory soups, legumes, lentils, chick peas, anasazi beans, and mouth- watering desserts like carrot cake, rice krispy treats, raspberry almond flan, grain sweetened chocolate chip cookies and other foods too numerous to mention.

I invite you for a Rocky Mountain retreat that will alter how you feel. Other options can be tailored to fit your personal needs. Outdoor choices are: hiking on 70 acres, tenting, skiing, hot mineral springs, Jeeping, in season. Indoor options are: use of radiant heat sauna, (flushes heavy metals out), treadmill, rebounder, Biobreath Kinetics with Carry Wolf and Five Tibetan Rites of Longevity/Ancient Secret of the Fountain of Youth on video. Also available are home remedies of all kinds: ginger compresses, salt water baths, daikon hip baths, body scrubs, body brushing and shiatsu massage.

You can tell me what your requirements are and what you want to accomplish on your retreat. Together we can tailor a program to fit your needs. Besides cooking classes and wholesome macrobiotic meals, lectures are available on Feng Shui and BioGeometry. Copies or my OVERNIGHT CONGEE COOKLET and FENG SHUI FOR HARMONY HANDBOOK are included.

The investment for 3 days and 3 nights (actually, it's 5 days, including and arrival day and a departure day, then the three full retreat days) is $588 for one person, $1000 for two. A sliding scale is available for 3 or more people in your group. If you are flying into Telluride or Montrose Colorado, the price also includes transport to and from the airport, all nutritious meals and 3 nights stay in a spacious, non- carpeted, non-toxic log home. Side tours into the historic silver and gold mining town of Telluride are also available.

If you are interested in my presence at your facility, I can present a three day/evening retreat, cooking, feng shui and/or biogeometry for you and your group. Call 970. 901. 9871 or email me at Barb Jurecki. There is a TREAT in reTREAT! So come experience the CHI of whole food!

Here's a sample schedule of a

MOUNTAIN WELLNESS WEEKEND

(YOUR  OPTIONS: PLEASE CHECK WHAT YOU’RE INTERESTED IN)

RECOMMENDED  

• Liver cleanse  ____
• Ginger Compress   ____
• Carry Wolf Kushi Intstitute Video  ____
• Radiant Heat Sauna  ____
• Sweet Vegetable Drink  ____
• Do-In and Sun Salutation   _____
• Rebounder (move lymph)  ____
• Shiatsu massage with essential oils  ____
• Biogeometry Egyptian Energy Analysis and Balancing

OPTIONAL 
 

• Feng Shui consult (bring your floor plan)  ____
• Hike outside  ____
• Daikon Greens Hip Bath  ____
• Telluride Town field trip  ____
• Treadmill  ____
• Yoga video   ____
• Dr Schulze Intestinal Healing Video  ____
• Ear Candling

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE

Upon Rising:

• Liver flush Drink     (wait 1 hr to eat)
• Ginger Compress,
• Do-In / Sun Salutation
• 8:30           Breakfast: Congee Oat Groats,  Mochi Waffle, Buckwheat Overnight Waffle
• 9:30 – 11:30        Class/ Discussion (Video, Feng shui, Biogeometry, lite lunch cooking)
• 12:00 – 2:00        Lunch/ Relax, Sauna, Rebounder, Video/ Hike/ Discussion
• 2:00-4:00   Massage with essential oils/ Gua Sha/ Sweet Vegetable Drink/ Green Drink
• 4:00          Cooking Class
• 6:00     Dinner/ CHEWING with Lino Stanchich Healing Mealtime Music/ Clean up
• 8:00   Relax, make congee, salt bath, shower hydrotherapy, discuss feng shui/ food/ video

TENTATIVE MEAL SELECTIONS

BREAKFAST: All Night Oat Groats, OverNight Waffles  Congee  Corn Grits
LUNCHES Soba Noodles with broth,  Squash Soup  Split Peas Mesquite Soup,    Bean Burrito with Vegenaise Sour Cream,  Barley Soup
DINNER: Quinoa with Roasted Vegetables,,  Miso Catfish with kale/rice carrots onions  Leech Lake Hand Harvested Wild Rice With Veggies, Millet Cauliflower Mash Potatoes, Millet Sweet Rice Balls Rolled in Nuts,  All above include various sea veggies, beans, tempeh etc.  . Salmon for Omega 3’s  The  Goal is to use a variety of grains.. Airport food when leaving:  Rice Travel Triangle
DESSERTS: I’ll make in advance: Christina’s Almond Biscotti (good for tea dunking) Meredith Mc Carty’s Choco Chip Cookies ( grain sweetened chips) Spicy Apple Cake

WHAT TO BRING:

Spiral for taking notes. Body brush if you have one. Sweats and comfy clothes for treatments and around the house,.... slippers, sweatshirt and turtleneck if cool ( we have lots of windows floor to ceiling). Water bottle, jeans to go to Telluride. Tennis shoes for treadmill and in town, tutrleneck, jacket, hat. I have outerwear if we need more. Don’t bring too much. I have terrycloth robes for sauna, washer/dryer etc.

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