Healthy Food at Maui Mysic Garden Party

You can expect delicious, wholesome, consciously prepared food from the Mystic Garden staff. The menu at the Mystic Garden has been specially designed for this community. Featuring organic foods this menu will also be wheat, soy and dairy free. The menu will be culturally diverse with food for all to enjoy. Of course there will be lots of tasty raw foods as options with every meal. 

We're happy to have Bruce involved in helping coordinate our healthy meals for this retreat. Bruce's credentials are endless including his being the Executive Chef for the Raw Spirit Fest in Sedona, 2007. Many have referred to that event as the largest Raw Food Gathering in the world to date.

Bruce will coordinate our overall menu, ingredients list and help oversee kitchen staf with our other co-exective chef.

Bruce’s Raw Story:

In 1998, Bruce walked into RAW, Juliano’s one-of-a-kind live-food restaurant in San Francisco. Sensing his destiny, Bruce volunteered every day for a month, and finally got his big break when the dishwasher didn’t show up one night. Six months later, he had worked his way up to head chef! After the restaurant closed its doors in July 2000, Bruce took his knives over to O2, an oxygen and elixir bar, whose opening he had catered earlier that year. Later that summer, the managers of Michael Franti’s band, Spearhead, called asking if Bruce wanted to vend raw food in the park at their protest concert, Power to the Peaceful. Huge lines of people devouring nori wraps as fast as he could roll them inspired Bruce to take his show on the road! Thus ensued five summers of feeding festival-goers at west coast festivals out of his booth, the Sun Kitchen.

Christopher is going to oversee the design & selection of meals, getting healthy orgnaic produce, managing kitchen volunteers & serving from the ground up. He'll be working & collaborating with Bruce on ingrediants & quality control and will probably spend more time in the kitchen than anyone at this gathering. We're grateful for all his high quality & wonderful contributions to this event.

Christopher Iverson's Bio: 

Christopher has been a vegetarian / vegan / living foods chef for over a decade. In 2003, Christopher set up his worldwide consultation company called Raw Temple. Raw Temple does consulting and advising with living foods and the consciousness that comes with it. During the last few years he has conducted several workshops and has designed and conducted chef certification training programs in places such as Amsterdam, Vancouver B.C. and Maui. In the spring of 2004 Christopher helped to open Vancouver, Canada’s first 100% live food restaurant called the Living Source Café.

Makana Green's playful passion for preparing and working with food has been alive for as long as she can remember.  Being born and raised on the Big Island of Hawaii, she has been blessed with the gift of a strong connection and reverence for Mother Nature  Makana love's the adventure of creating delicious, vibrant & health conscious meals, while holding positive intentions.  Her main intentions are to prepare food with love and gratitude for the Earth and with a peaceful mind, bringing her own healing touch into the hearts of people she meets.  Being a 20 year old, she has had some experience working at the Peace Village Festival as well as the Oregon Country Fair with Get Fried Rice.  However, her main experience is derived from her day to day life, learning from her health conscious chef of a mother, Judy Sunflower.

Len Watson (Lenny) is going to particpate in our kitcen in the area of Raw Food Prep. He's committed to contribute a side dish or two and will collaborate on some level with our other two co-exec. chefs. Lenny is also teaching a workshop on cleansing & healing with Raw Foods that you can see in the Workshops area.

Len Watson's Bio:

Len Watson iives on Maui, HI and is a Nutritionist, Colon Therapist and Ashtanga Yogi. He specializes in helping people detoxify thru Cleansing and Fasting Programs and Retreats. He has been practicing the Raw Food Lifestyle for 30 years. Len’s ability to communicate complex nutritional ideas in clear and meaningful ways insures that others catch the excitement of living their Highest Potential. Len’s Cleansing Programs are designed to heal the digestive, assimilative and eliminative functions of the body.

Len has found that Periodic Cleansing and Fasting help us stay in right Relationship to our food. Len has helped thousands of people cleanse, detoxify and regain their Youth and Vitality. Len has served as Co-Director of a Biological Medical Clinic and worked at an Alternative Cancer Clinic among his many Healing Life experiences. He has been Licensed as a Nutritionist, Massage Therapist and Colon Therapist since 1979. For the past 18 years Len has been living in Maui Hawaii where he guides clients in Rejuvenation and Youthing.