Health Ranger report from the Raw Spirit Festival 2007, Sedona, Arizona

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I'm bringing you this report live from the Raw Spirit Festival taking place this weekend in Sedona, Arizona (www.RawSpirit.com). The festival brings together thousands of participants, over a hundred raw foods vendors and dozens of top-notch speakers, authors and artists who have so far delivered an unforgettable experience in raw living foods and high-vibration living. Organized by the delightful visionary Happy Oasis (yes, that's her real name), the festival has grown ten times in size over last year's festival, bringing the attendee count to well over 2,500 (and probably closer to 3,000). For a festival focused on raw living foods nutrition -- which was barely a blip on the radar of mainstream America just two years ago -- this is phenomenal growth. Raw foods is going mainstream!

So aside from the obvious things like stuffing your face with raw cacao and goji berries, what else is there to see and do at this festival? First off, the people here are incredible. From open-hearted meditation masters to everyday consumers looking for answers for improving their lives, you'll find the people here to be amazingly open-minded, generous and enthusiastic. (Thank you to all the many people who introduced yourselves to me. I love your feedback and compliments!) Far from being what one of my friends called a "hippy fest," I found the Raw Spirit Festival to be a Happy Fest! Where else can you find a tent entirely dedicated to the activity of hugging? Where else can you see outrageously masterful musicians rapping out improvisational mind-bending music that's good enough to be the headline soundtrack for a major motion picture? On top of this, you also get to immerse yourself in an endless stream of raw foods chocolate, raw nut mixes, high-vibration salads, raw food bars, massage booths, hemp clothing, and fermented living foods!

Amid all the incredible activities I've already mentioned, you can watch raw foods preparation demonstrations, listen to top authors speak about living foods nutrition, and enjoy a complimentary dinner plate featuring a unique and delicious raw sprout dish made with a spirulina superfoods dressing. I ate it up with a big purple smile! (Don't worry, the spirulina rinses right off your lips... but you look hilarious while eating it!)

The musical highlight of the day was, in my opinion, the mind-blowing performance of Scott Huckabay (www.scotthuckabay.com) who somehow manages to transform one guitar, two hands, two feet and one exotic mind into a symphony of reverberating rhythms and riffs that transport you beyond the realm of mere mortal music. (The musical demo on his website is but a small taste compared to what he did live today...) Other musical performances featured top vocalists, indigenous instruments and percussion that rocked this small gently valley in Sedona, Arizona.

Speakers today included Dr. Len Horowitz, Viktoras Kulvinskas and Victoria Boutenko. As the sun set, I took the stage for a few minutes and decided to help the audience warm themselves from the evening chills with a group laughing exercise, after which I introduced David Wolfe from Sunfood Nutrition (www.SunFood.com) who spoke on secrets of Stonehenge and ways in which we can transform human understanding in mere moments if we are courageous enough to cast off old ways of looking at the world.

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