Raw Food and Juice Fast Detox Retreats

Kawai Purapura is offering Fasting and Raw Food Retreats under the professional guidance of Louise Darragh-Law, who brings her skills and expertise from over thirty years as naturopath, homoeopath, medical herbalist and ayurvedic practitioner.

In the past six years, she has studied Rongoa Maori Medicine in mature, native New Zealand bush. 

Dates: bi-monthly throughout 2015

April 3-9 :: April 13-19 ::  June 1-7 ::  August 3-9 ::  October 5-11

Options for 2105:

• 5-Day Juice Fast - Monday to Friday
• 2-Day Raw Food Retreat Weekend - Friday to Sunday
• 7-Day Inclusive - Monday to Sunday

Are you often sick? Have you not been yourself lately? Do you want to be restored to good health? Then come and discover the wisdom of fasting.

Why fast? In the early days, people fasted towards the end of winter because their food stocks ran out. They took advantage of a natural cleansing opportunity. Today, there is so much food about that we eat far more than we need, a lot of it is processed and often indigestible, we never take a day off from eating and therefore never get rid of the waste that builds up and causes disease.

“The body is basically a food-cycle. If you change what you put into it, if you stop toxifying it, fundamentally, you will deal with disease.” – Adi Da Samraj

5-Day Live-In Juice Fast (Mon to Fri)

Your liquid diet: You will be provided with and join in the preparation of all the necessary liquids (juice, broth, herbs) to sustain you safely throughout the week’s retreat.

Talks and Discussions: Louise will offer daily talks on the many different ways of fasting and their benefits; and the variety of beliefs about where toxicity comes from. She will also lead discussions on the detox process as it unfolds and offer her trademark secrets and tricks to make fasting easier. (Bring a diary to write your experience).

Bush Walks: will include discussion of Rongoa and we’ll pick some native teas that will help our fasting process.

Daily: yoga and meditation classes, bush walks, sauna, spa and pool.

Optional extras: offered for those wanting to indulge or give an extra charge to the cleansing process: Massage ($70 1 hr), shirodhara ($70 ½ hr), reflexology ($35 ½ hr), Indian head massage ($35 ½ hr)

Day 5 marks the first step back to eating and will largely focus on how to break the fast wisely.

3-Day Raw Food Retreat (Fri to Sun)

“The secret is to get the whole body into its natural state, in which it is naturally secreting all those substances that rejuvenate it.” – Adi Da Samraj

A Raw Food Revolution has quietly been growing as a reaction to the health complications of the modern world and the need to return to our roots. The original human diet would have been spring water, a few fruits, roots, berries and the occasional meat. The body would have rested in seasons of scarcity and celebrated at harvest. When ill, we might have said a mantra or prayer to the god of the day, or perhaps received a special touch from a local healer. The Raw Food Diet is a simple, in vogue approach to health and well-being that has the added bonus of causing weight loss, good health and renewed vitality.  

The Raw Food Retreat follows the Five Day Juice fast. This is for those who wish to extend their programme and maximise the journey back to wise eating. It is also for anyone who would like to experience two days of Raw Diet. During this time, Louise will guide you through the process of preparing (and eating) 100% raw meals, and you will go away with recipes and a new understanding of how to successfully follow a well-balanced Raw Food Regime.

Time and weather permitting, we will take a bush walk and consider the understanding of Rongoa and traditional native bush lore for health and healing and look at appropriate foraging recipes to include on our retreat.

Louise Darragh-Law

Dates: bi-monthly throughout 2015

April 13-19 ::  June 1-7 ::  August 3-9 ::  October 5-11

Options for 2105:

• 5-Day Juice Fast - Monday to Friday
• 2-Day Raw Food Retreat Weekend - Friday to Sunday
• 7-Day Inclusive - Monday to Sunday

Costs (including twin-share accommodation): 

• 5-Day Juice Fast Detox: $499 early bird ($535 full price)
• 3-Day Raw Food Retreat: $275 early bird ($310 full price)
• 7-Day Total Detox (includes two days Raw Foods): $695 early bird ($725 full price)

Deposit: $75 secures your place. Transferable within 6 months. Non-refundable unless course is cancelled.

Optional extras: Bedding $10 extra per night; Single room surcharge $25 per night;

Venue: Kaiwai Purapura Retreat Centre, 14 Mills Lane, Albany, North Shore, Auckland

For more information: wellness@kawaipurapura.co.nz 

Louise’s website: www.ayurveda4u.co.nz

Relax, Revive, Rejuvenate, Inspire. Begin the journey to your Sacred Health and Wellbeing.

Fasts can be extended up to seven days or longer, charged at $135 per day (includes juices, yoga and meditation classes).

Individual Fasting Retreats can also be arranged.

We reserve the right to cancel or postpone a course if less than 3 bookings. You will be informed of this 1 week before the course.