Speakers 2015
Chris Kendall (Canada)
Chris, also better known as the Banana Commander is a registered Holistic Nutritionist (RHN), a raw food lifestyle coach, a raw food chef, a lifelong athlete and a yoga teacher. He will be the chef at the festival and has previously led the kitchen at many raw food events, including the Woodstock Fruit Festival in the USA. Besides his awesome culinary skills he will be giving some inspiring lectures and food demos. www.therawadvantage.com
Dr. Douglas Graham (USA)
Dr. Graham is the author of many books on health and raw food including ‘The 80/10/10 Diet’ and ‘Nutrition and Athletic Performance’. Recognized as one of the fathers of the modern raw food movement, Dr. Graham is the only lecturer to have attended and given keynote presentations at all of the major raw events in the world. At the same time he is a lifetime athlete and over 30-year raw fooder, plus an advisor to world-class athletes and trainers from around the globe. Doug will be giving lectures and holding fitness classes. www.foodnsport.com
Rosalind Graham (UK)
Rosalind is a mother, professor in Applied Nutrition, dance and fitness instructor and renowned Natural Hygiene teacher. She has been eating and teaching raw food for more than half of her life. Among her specialties is the emotional aspect of living, eating disorders and the proper nurturing of children. She is the author of the book “Stay fit after 50″ and a 2-disc set “Nurturing Peace”, with lectures about raw parenting and cultivating inner peace. At the festival Rozalind will be giving some inspiring lectures.
Anne Osborne (Australia)
Anne began her journey on the fruit diet in 1991 and is both an author, speaker and mother. Anne’s book ‘Fruitarianism The Path To Paradise’ was published in English in 2009 and the Italian version in 2011. She has raised two very happy and healthy children on this diet. Cappi her younger child has accompanied her to Fruit Festivals in England and the United States and is an advocate for the environmental, ethical, and health benefits of a fruit-based diet and will also be joining us at the Fresh Food Festival this year. Anne has given presentations on the fruit diet in Australia, Asia, Europe, and the United States and she currently works for the Woodstock Fruit Festival in USA and is also a freelance author and illustrator. Anne believes the Fruit Diet is the most compassionate, the most environmentally positive, the healthiest, and the most rational way forward for our Planet and you can visit her webpage here www.fruitgod.com
Paul Tarbath (UK)
Paul Tarbath is a Nutrition and Lifestyle Coach, a world traveller and the author of 6 books on the subject of raw food lifestyle and health. He has delivered a number of talks internationally on the subject of raw food, fitness and health. Together with his wife, Yulia Tarbath, he runs a popular youtube channel that has over 24,000 followers, spreading the message of the high-fruit raw food lifestyle. He will be giving a talk, as well as doing barefoot/minimalist morning run and holding a men support group. www.rawsomehealthy.com
Yulia Tarbath (UK)
Yulia Tarbath, also known as Fruitymama Yulia, is a qualified Nutrition and Lifestyle Coach with a background in Psychology and Business. She is passionate about helping people manifest a vibrant level of health. She is the author of 7 books on the raw food lifestyle and has delivered talks internationally. She will be talking about the key success principles on the raw food lifestyle, as well as holding a support group for females and a Q & A on pregnancy and birth. www.rawsomehealthy.com
Louise Koch (Denmark)
Louise has cured herself naturally through a diet and lifestyle change and is a coach, speaker and author of several books in danish about natural healing. She is known from Youtube as Fruity Lou where she promotes a low fat raw vegan diet and also in Danish from ‘Rask på Raw’. At the festival she will be doing various talks and she is also the organizer of the entire festival. www.fruitylou.com and www.raskpaaraw.dk
Petr Cech (Czech Republic)
Petr Cech is self-educated in Natural Hygiene and has been living on fruit for more than a decade. He is an absolute expert when it comes to fruit and vegetables and has been the one who buys food for the festival since it’s very beginning. Besides founding the festival back in 2008 he has also done a lot of raw food workshops, lectures and some fruit retreats in Thailand and most importantly he is the one who brought 80/10/10 to Denmark. www.fruitretreat.cz/en
http://fruit-powered.com/petr-cech
Instructors 2015
Qi Gong with Uffe Eisted Poulsen (Denmark)
Uffe has a great passion for Qi Gong and has trained for six years, with munks and a Chinese master in both Denmark and at the Shaolin temple in China. The form of Qi Gong he is practising was developed at the Shaolin temple in China and it is a dynamic form where you work with both movements, breath, meditation and static positions. This form both enhances blood circulation, breathing, flexibility and muscle strength and it is all about being present in the moment. Uffe also enjoys Muay Thai and Shaolin Kung Fu and studies to become a physical therapist. This year at the festival he will be teaching Shaolin Qi Gong for beginners.
Yoga with Chris Kendall (Canada)
Besides giving talks and preparing food Chris Kendall will also be giving some yoga classes at the festival. Chris practices both Kundalini yoga and Raw Power Yoga but is most famously know from his own silly version called Kendalini yoga. Chris has been teaching yoga both at the Fresh Food Festival last year but also at the Woodstock Fruit Festival in New York and at Doug Grahams fasting retreat in Costa Rica. www.therawadvantage.com/yoga
Yoga with Marina Grubic (Serbia)
Marina Grubic practices and teaches Vinyasa flow yoga and has studied at “Yogea – Yoga Out Of The Box” school in New York City. She teaches yoga 3 times a week in Serbia where she is originally from and has also modelled for a book about yoga in New York and for various Youtube videos. Besides beeing a yoga instructor and a rawfood chef Marina is also doing retreats, making recipe books and has translated the ’80/10/10 Diet’ book into Serbian. At the festival she will be doing Vinyasa flow yoga and do her best to tailor the routines so that all participants can follow at a comfortable pace. Check out a routine with Marina at the “Yogea ArtFlow Yoga” channel here http://youtu.be/FKavvquMWis and https://www.facebook.com/Healthglows
Head Chefs 2015
Chris Kendall (Canada)
Chris, also better known as the Banana Commander is a registered Holistic Nutritionist (RHN), a raw food lifestyle coach, a raw food chef, a lifelong athlete and a yoga teacher. He will be back at the head chef at this years festival and has previously led the kitchen at many raw food events, including the Woodstock Fruit Festival in the USA and the Fresh Food Festival in 2014. Besides his awesome culinary skills he will also be giving some inspiring lectures, teach yoga and do food demos.
Marina Grubic (Serbia)
At this years festival Marina Grubic will be the rawfood chef in the kitchen alongside Chris Kendall also be doing a food demo and a talk. Marina switched to the vegan diet back in 2005 and today she promotes a fruit based diet in both Serbian and English. Marina was also the head chef at the Fresh Food Festival back in 2013 and she has trained her low fat raw vegan culinary skills at an internship with Dr. Douglas Graham in Costa Rica. In June 2013 Marina started the so called “Raw Friday” project in her home city and every Friday she prepares low fat raw vegan meals at a vegan restaurant. Marinas passion is to make recipe books and on her Youtube channel “Health Glows” you can find both low fat raw vegan recipes, workout routines and videos about tropical fruit. https://www.facebook.com/Healthglows & http://biljnaishrana.com
These speakers attended the 2014 festival…