Donna’s Mentors

I have spent over 30 years learning, practicing, teaching health and wellness. As Tony Robbins one of my mentors teaches, one of the fastest and best ways to have success is to model those already getting the results you want. So, much of my journey has been seeking out people who know and live their lives with radiant health and vitality, who have healed and help others heal. Who do you want to model?

Viktoras Kulvinskas and Donna at Raw Spirit Festival

I look to Viktoras Kulvinskas, who is known as the grandfather of the LIVING RAW FOODS movement . I remember reading his book “Survival in the 21st Century” many years ago. Victoras co-founded, with Dr. Ann Wigmore, the Hippocrates Health Institute a health resort now located in West Palm Beach, FL.
He is an active promoter of health and wellness through living foods and enzymes.

Victoria Boutenko with Donna in Sedona!

Another one of my favorite teachers is Victoria Boutenko and the Raw Food Family. Victoria, Sergei and Valya all add to the great lessons they have learned and share with us. They have books, CDs, & DVDs that I highly recommend with delicious recipes for their signature dishes and tons of great smoothies! Make sure to visit their site – Click HERE.  Their books are great and, I learned so much from Victoria’s DVDs where she shows you exactly HOW to make the recipes and give a ton of tips and tricks to make preparing healthy food EASY!

Valya & Sergei at Raw Spirit Festival!

Raw Food Family

I also spent 21 days at Hippocrates Health Institute. WOW, what a wonderful cleansing, revitalizing experience. 21 days is the recommended amount of time to create new habits… and I did. It was also a time for me to fully immerse myself in what I was continuing to learn and teach.

Drs Brian and Anna Maria Clement at HHI

Drs. Brian and Anna Marie lead the team at an absolutely amazing 32 acre campus in South Florida. It is a perfect setting for cleansing, healing, learning and simply enjoying the pleasures of living well. The Hippocrates Health Institute has been the preeminent leader in the field of natural and complementary health care and education since 1956. HHI is a community that offers a natural path for you to heal your body, reconnect with your spirit, and rejuvenate your health. “The Hippocrates philosophy is dedicated to the belief that a pure enzyme-rich diet, complemented by positive thinking and non-invasive therapies are essential elements on the path to optimum health!”

Their ’21 Day Life Change Program’ is one of the very best on the planet. If you would like experience a residential Life Change program with wheatgrass, sprouts, living food, green juices, movement, salt pools, movies, rest, yoga and amazing educational classes, send me an email energyforlife@mac.com and I will send you information on how to get the most out of your stay and also save you some money on your stay. It IS tremendous!

Dr. Robert O Young and Donna at the Ranch

Dr. Robert O Young was one of my first alkalizing teachers and I studied with him to become certified in Nutritional Microscopy at the pH MIRACLE RESEARCH CENTER in Valley Center, California.
The CLINICAL MICROSCOPY AND BLOOD CELL ANALYSIS is a blood test for detection and monitoring of metabolic dysfunction.

The phase contrast blood assessment and brightfield live and dry blood analysis are used as a screening tests to monitor metabolic dysfunction—thereby taking the guesswork out of diet determination and the selection of an appropriate supplementation regime.

Donna & Gabriel Cousens at the UM Medical Symposium in Miami

Dr. Gabriel Cousens is amazing! The Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center is the world’s leading spiritual, vegan raw and live food retreat center. Gabriel founded Tree of Life in 1993 to promote spiritual awakening and to support an inspiring, healthy and “alive” lifestyle through education and first-hand experience. The Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center, located in Patagonia, Arizona is an oasis for the realization of whole-person, whole-planet healing with live food education and spiritual fulfillment.

The Best Day Ever!

David Wolfe is brilliant, playful and on the cutting edge. David Wolfe is considered one of the world’s top authorities on natural health, beauty nutrition, herbalism, chocolate, and organic superfoods.

These are a few teachers and mentors that have guided my journey in health and wellness. If you study or have studied their teachings you will find the core beliefs that I bring to my coaching and the information offered on this site!

What Do You WANT?

My deepest gratitude goes to Dr. Janet Konefal, a dear friend and mentor. For 15 years I had the privilege of studying Neuro-Linguistic Psychology & Meta-Energetics with Dr. Janet, who is a Master Trainer of NLP. She has used her more than 25 years of experience combined with intuitive skills in counseling to assist her private clients in reaching their goals. Her success with clients covers areas as diverse as dealing with potentially catastrophic illness (cancer, AIDS, etc.), and curing phobias, to issues of success and fulfillment in personal life. She spearheads the Wellness and Acupuncture Center and is the leading force behind the Center for Complementary and Integrative Medicine at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. Dr. Konefal is committed to supporting and restoring patients’ resources and lifestyles in healthy and natural ways.

5 Elements

Where did my health learning start? Lino Stanchich, certified Macrobiotic Educator and Counselor, impressed upon me that healing is not just food, it is lifestyle. It is emotion. It is movement.

You are HOW your eat!

And, it is food and the way that it is prepared. I much appreciation for my friends and teachers in Coconut Grove in the early 80s and my 3 years of macro-biotic living. I am also grateful to my macro friends for introducing me to SEA VEGGIES! One of the best sources of minerals available. You will find them in any cooked or warmed soup recipe that I share.

Bobbi Goldin, Miami

It was a real blessing when I incorporated Iyengar Yoga into my life. Thanks to Bobbi Goldin for years classes and teaching quantum physics way before any of us knew it by name. In almost every pose, I remember Bobbi gently teaching us through guided imagery, just how our body was going to move into it’s new space and perfect alignment. And sure enough, it DID! Yoga is a wonderful way to stretch and strengthen the body, the mind and the soul!

It's good to come togehter for the purpose of co-creating!

You are what you EAT…. You are what you THINK…. You are what you FEEL…

Add John Roger, John Morton, Abraham, a few awesome REVs at CSL,

Reverands Barbara & John Waterhouse

Oneness Blessing, Eckhart Tolle, Louise Hay, Wayne Dyer… I think I will need another page to acknowledge my spiritual teachers. Quantum physics, “What the Bleep”, “The Secret”, Emerson, Earnest Holmes to name a few.

Michael Beckwith

As food and exercise is to the body, our thoughts and feelings create our lives. It did not take long for me to realize that we are powerful beyond our own understanding.

Today, my passion and what really excites me is helping people to discover HEALTHY options for lifelong wellness and HEALTHY options for having Energy For Life!

YES, you can have ENERGY FOR LIFE and it can be FUN, FABULOUS, EASY! Click on the different tabs for information and recipes for Juicing, Shakes, Soups and Delicious Alkalizing Meals! you will also find links for products I use and recommend and resources that can help you come up with your own quick and easy ways to have more energy and vitality in your life!

Gratitude, Forgiveness, Laughter, Playfulness, Curiosity, LOVE……

… and so it is!