Our Speakers
Alex
Ashley
Avyanna
Bio:
Avyanna mentors individuals and couples who are committed to growing themselves and their families with the support of raw foods. She has been on the Primal Diet™ for over a decade and has learned how to overcome many of the physical and emotional challenges that come with change, healing and transformation. Her work continues to redefine cultural norms and challenges the status quo while building deeper resiliency, presence and courage.
Whether you are struggling to find a compatible partner, wondering if your current partner is the right fit, hoping to start a family, want to optimize your health for conception, struggling with infertility, wanting support in navigating preconception, pregnancy and postpartum, have questions about unassisted birth or raising a primal family, Avyanna’s personal and professional experience is a treasure trove of knowledge. Her preconception process inspired a body of work called the Art of Creation, which is a synthesis of the intentional journey that Phoenix and Avyanna embarked on together.
Avyanna is as a licensed Massage and Bodywork Therapist, Spiritual Counselor and Higher Alignment Relationship Coach who specializes in deep listening and personalized care. Her offerings include but are not limited to Fertility Massage, Prenatal and Postpartum Massage, Shamanic Breathwork Facilitation, Process Art Integration and the Wisdom of Inner-Seeing. She also works with in-home hospice care clients, providing Palliative Massage at the end-of-life. Bereavement Massage is also available to family members who have lost or are facing the inevitable loss of their loved one’s.
Avyanna co-owns Blossom and Be Wellness Retreat with her husband, Phoenix. They work diligently to grow wholesome food, raise a vibrant child and growing homestead, provide mentorship and guidance to their communities, all while developing the foundation for a Primal Diet™ Healing Center and Farm School.
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Betsy
Bio:
Betsy is the granddaughter of Annie Riley Hale, author of “The Medical Voodoo”, which is a comprehensive early history of the deceptive propaganda used by the orthodox medical establishment to coerce the public into accepting the false narratives and the invasive and largely harmful “therapies” it promotes.
She was delivered at birth by Dr Henry Bieler, author of “Food Is Your Best Medicine”, and her parents raised her in accordance with his advice, which included the importance of raw animal protein, and warnings against refined sugars and salt, as well as the understanding that microbes are not the cause of disease.
After falling into a sugar addiction during her teen years, she succeeded in gaining control of her eating habits and renewing her health as a young adult.
Years later, she read “We Want To Live” and immediately recognized many of the principles she had learned as a child. She met Aajonus at one of the raw potlucks in Santa Monica, California, and was inspired to try a completely raw diet, finding it even more beneficial than what she was already doing. That was over 25 years ago, and today she continues to enjoy the results of careful food choices.
For the last several years, she has been sharing her knowledge and experience of Aajonus’ work with those who seek her guidance.
Chris
Bio:
Chris has navigated The Primal Diet™ for over 6 years, mostly dealing with fatigue, skin conditions, acne, hair loss, insomnia, and tinnitus. You can check out his vlogs where he gives information and reports on his diet experience here.
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David
Jeff
Bio:
A little background info: 20 years ago Jeff graduated from the school of hard knocks. It was a 3 year journey of extreme fatigue coupled with weight loss, ultimately down to 78 pounds! (not so hot for a 5’9 male human)
After 18 months of looking for answers from mainstream medicine and not finding any, Jeff felt it was time to look outside the box and explore the world of alternative health.
After another 18 months of intriguing but only partially beneficial stepping stones, he learned of Aajonus Vonderplanitz and his Primal Diet™, an omnivorous raw diet that especially emphasizes the importance of raw animal foods. Within a very short time of being on this diet Jeff realized he was finally about to graduate from Hard Knocks University! His body grew from approximately 80 pounds to 170 pounds of athletic weight in a mere 8 or 9 months. He could finally go outside and play again!
Jeff was a new man!
Not surprising, this experience forged a new direction in his life.
For the past 20 years he has been passionately observing, experimenting, and learning what best facilitates the health of living things and what most interferes with it.
He has also thoroughly enjoyed and is honored to consult with people looking to overcome health issues and take charge of their overall well-being! If you think Jeff can be of assistance to you please feel free to reach out to him directly.
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Kat
Kim
Bio:
2 words….Life Changing!
Kim grew up in a mainstream household where western medicine was the norm. She worked for some of the largest pharmaceutical and medical device companies in the world. If someone was ill… there was a pill for that. In her mid 30’s she was exposed to alternative modalities, Aajonus Vonderplanitz and his book, “We Want to Live”. She read the book and thought this guy was crazy.
But there was something about it that seemed so right…so natural. After doing a deep dive into his claims, she found the actual scientific research that supported all of his claims…raw meat, raw fat and how bacteria and viruses are not in our body to harm us but to actually detoxify us. In fact, she found over 10,000 studies that prove that bacterial and viral infections are actually our bodies going through a cleansing process. She was shocked.
Her entire family was on medications, had various health problems, having medical procedures, and the like. Kim decided she did not want that for her life. She is now 60 years old and has been on the Primal Diet™ for over 20 years. Kim vacillates from 100% to about 80% raw. She is not on any medications, is healthy and strong and eternally grateful to have found the work of Aajonus Vonderplanitz.
Kim wrote her own book called, “Raw To Radiant-The secrets to radiant health” as an introduction to “We Want to Live” which can be too much too fast for many people. It is the cliff notes version to give people an overview of the science and help people get started on the diet. It can be purchased on Amazon here
Kim currently work as a private health consultant specializing in helping people get to the root cause of their ailments so they can take control over them and eliminate the need for medications. Helping people incorporate the Primal Diet™ is part of her work. Kim can be reached at the following websites:
www.KimberlyLynnWilliams.com
www.Toxicology-Inc.com
Liev
Bio:
Liev studied Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Dalhousie University and was originally on track to become a dental surgeon. After a change of heart, he completed a Master’s in Counseling Psychology and opened a successful therapy practice incorporating wilderness therapy, EMDR, mindfulness, somatics, and related approaches.
Over time, Liev realized that much of the therapeutic and medical system keeps people stuck in the healing process, so he stepped away from that field.
Alongside his formal education, Liev spent years studying natural law, philosophy, and countless healing modalities, eventually arriving at what is known as the terrain perspective. Much of his work has involved questioning and falsifying many of the assumptions we’ve been taught about health and disease. Through unlearning and returning to simplicity, we create the conditions that allow the body and mind to return to balance.
Website:
https://beyondterrain.com/
Megan
Otis
Phoenix
Bio:
In 2000, Phoenix had his first consultation with Aajonus.
Coming from a background as a fitness trainer, bodyworker, and Ayurvedic Health Consultant, he was angry to find out that 8-glasses of water a day and eating lean meat were not strategies for building health.
Phoenix has been eating raw meat, raw eggs, and raw dairy for over two decades and seen the benefits of eating the Primal Diet™ for him, his friends, his family, and his clients.
Phoenix and his wife, Avyanna, had an unassisted, natural home birth and have raised their healthy son entirely on the Primal Diet™.
They assist on a grass fed farm in raising beef, lamb, pork, chickens, turkey, and dairy in Southern Appalachia. They are creating a Primal Diet™ retreat center and farm school to connect and support other families on this journey.
Click Here to contact Phoenix.
Sam
Bio:
Sam has been experimenting with the diet since he was 21 after reading a book called Awaken the Genius. In the book, the author explains how to open your mind to reach your fullest potential. At the end of the book he talked about eating a clean vegan diet. It made Sam realize that something was not right with the way that he felt and it didn’t make sense for him to feel tired after eating. He would catch himself staring and daydreaming all the time. Sam read the ingredients on the food he ate and it just seemed crazy that he was consuming all these chemicals. Sam then decided to try that and eat as healthy as he knew how at the time for a week to see how he felt. Back then Sam ate the same as everyone else, but after eating this way for a week he felt so much better that he decided to eat a vegan diet from then on. Sam picked up a few books on vegetarianism and learned more.
After 3 years of eating a clean vegan diet Sam bought a book about eating a Raw Vegan Diet and that made a lot of sense to him so he tried that diet. He only ate raw organic fresh fruit, vegetables, and nuts. Some amazing things happened when Sam did this diet! All of his senses clarified and became sharp. He felt like he sobered up, a fog was lifted off of his mind, he became more conscious, felt a sense of depression fade away, felt an inner peace, and his self-confidence was raised.
But the drawback was that the food he was eating did not have enough calories, fat, or protein to be sustainable. He was very thin and experienced lowered stamina when doing physical activity. His muscles would burn and felt weak when he rode his bike. After 10 months on the raw vegan diet Sam found that he was hungry all of the time and felt like he could never catch up with his food intake needs.
He began researching raw vegan information to figure out how to solve the issues that he was having. It was recommended to eat more vegetables or nuts or certain combinations of foods, but none of these worked. Sam searched and searched on the internet and he eventually came across an interview of Aajonus Vonderplanitz online. Sam liked being vegan so he thought he was crazy haha! Sam knew he was onto something with this rawfood stuff, he just wasn’t getting results with the vegan path so he thought “Maybe humans are supposed eat meat.” Sam bought his book We Want to Live in 2005, which describes the Primal Diet™. He tried his diet full on. He gained strength, stamina, put on healthy weight, and became more amiable. Plus He maintained all the clarity of mind benefits the he had eating the raw vegan diet.
Sam has been eating this diet for the last 19 years. Every year he is feeling healthier than the year before it!
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Tom
Bio:
Tom (with his son Hoyt in the picture) is 57 years old. He has been on the Primal Diet™ for about 26 years.
It was introduced to him through a friend, Phoenix, at a place called Earthaven, (of which he is a founder of) in western North Carolina, where they both lived at the time. Earthaven, an intentional community on 320 acres of wooded undeveloped land, required lots of labor to get underway. Manly tree felling at first. Tom had the skills for the project from being in construction since a teen. The enthusiasm came from the need for a life style change through an alternative approach. The Primal Diet™ was ideal for him (optimal health, more stamina, quick recovery from injury). And no cooking. Which he didn’t want to waste his time on anyway.
Aajonus actually came to visit back in the day. Back then there were more Primals in the community than now.
A highlight of his life is the birth of my son. His mom was introduced to the diet when she met Tom and included (certain parts) into her diet. Hoyt is a living example of the benefits of the diet. Bottle fed on raw milk. He eats raw eggs and meat. But not always. He’s a thriving young man, and adapts to all kinds of situations. Tom is eternally grateful to Aajonus and Phoenix and all those those who are spreading the word.
Three epiphanies that have come to him in his midlife are:
1) The myth of contagion
2) the heart is not a pump, and 3) it’s none of his business what you or anyone else think of him.
Tom can share what he knows and how it’s helped him.
Eat fat and be happy!
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