Raw Spirit Festival Comes to
Phoenix for New Year’s Eve
For the first time, the Raw Spirit Festival is bringing in the New Year in a lush desert setting just north of Phoenix, Arizona, in the most elegant, sweetly-spiritual, healthful, cutting-edge, fun-loving, conscious, abundant, musical, interconnected way imaginable. The festival will run from December 30, 2011 to January 1, 2012 at Arizona’s most magnificent five-star resort, the JW Marriott Desert Ridge. It features 300 Audubon Society approved acres, lush lawns, mountain views, trails, 4 acres of heated palm-lined swimming pools and rivers, plus a gilded Wildflower Ballroom reserved exclusively for the Raw Spirit New Year’s Festival.
With a theme of “Inspiration, Education, Meditation & Celebration,” participants can expect to have plenty of fun while learning the latest information in health, eco, and spiritual living via dynamic presentations and musical performances, including educational sessions by an eclectic array of doctors who are also research authors on natural health. Plus, raw vegan chefs will offer organic raw vegan demos and tastings, amidst a plethora of playshops on yoga, dancing, meditation, singing, and more. Meanwhile, attendees can sample organic raw vegan dishes and shop at vendor booths.
According to festival founder Happy Oasis, “This is much more than a vibrant vegan festival. Our vision is to integrate healthy living, eco-sustainable solutions, music, art, and world peace while creating a community of fun-loving kindness, because together these comprise a comprehensive strategy for positively addressing current global challenges. We feel that our Raw Spirit Festival belongs to the entire ever-expanding, international community.”
Billed as “the world’s leading, largest and longest-lived raw vegan-eco-peace celebration,” the Raw Spirit Festival is a 501(c)(3) educational non-profit that offered its first festival in Sedona, Arizona in May of 2005. The non-profit has offered more than 200 celebrations since its inception, most of them entirely free to the public. Raw Spirit organization gives freely to several other non-profits and groups in need, including Women’s Shelters, VA, Native Groups, Big Brothers Big Sisters, and more. Raw Spirit welcomes sponsors and donors so that it can continue to serve for many years to come.The December 30-January 1 weekend celebration is only $125 until December 1, and $150 thereafter, or $75-$85 per day. The group hotel rate is $149 per room. To register, and for more information, call 928.308.2146 or e-mail info@rawspirit.com. Tickets are limited, so pre-registration is recommended. The schedule can be viewed at www.RawSpirit.com. See ad on page 4.
