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August 7, 2008

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August 2008 Newsletter

Summer Tidings Celebrated Raw Spirit!Here at the Raw Spirit headquarters we are creating a verdant paradise and invite you to join us.Canyon frogs jump in the hydrogen peroxide pool and swim with us. A fox visits daily to drink from the bird bath, munch seeds, sip hummingbird nectar and play on the yoga decks. The garden is huge and happy, writhing with scrumptious soil. Serpentine canyon streams we drink while swimming. Ponds are teeming and singing. We sleep in a cliff dwelling beneath the stars. The fruit harvest abounds between hammock and hot tub

and trampoline gatherings. We are feasting on peaches, plums, apricots, sunshine and smiles. This Happy Oasis Raw Retreat is on the verge of re-opening to the public. Meanwhile...

Great News! Ticket Prices Will Remain the Same and Are Far From Selling Out. There's plenty of room.

Considering the exotic price of fuel and transcending economy, the Raw Spirit Board voted to keep ticket prices at $325 until September 1st.

Our Family Is Expanding. So be prepared for quite a celebration! Quiet vortex nooks, woodsy brook passages and spacious rolling lawns exist for treasured serenity and relaxation in this spectacular environs. The festival focuses on healing so volumes are low and the ambience is uplifting.

"Raw Spirit Sedona" Music CD Debuts! A sweet, dynamic sampling of astounding musicians' renderings will be available for sale at the Raw Spirit Festival booth on the patio.

Raw Spirit Tote Bags featuring beloved earth sprout logos will be available at the entrance gate for a modest donation.

Intriguing Inspirational Interview! David Favor with Happy Oasis Sure to Make You Smile. To listen

Meet New Friends on The Shuttle while enjoying Sedona's jaw-dropping scenery. Using shared transportation, including free shuttles not only saves on gas but is o so Eco-Raw Spirit of You! Frequent shuttle schedules to be posted on line soon.

Extreme Food Labeling?A startling majority of American adults smoked cigarettes prior to the advent of the Surgeon General's Warning. Three decades later, merely 15% of Americans consider themselves to be regular smokers. Why so few? "Just as the popularity of smoking plunged due to widespread dissemination of knowledge of its potentially perilous consequences, Happy Oasis, foresees a law requiring warning labels on pre-fabricated foods, including those chemically-preserved, fried, pasteurized, artificially dyed, hydrogenated, homogenized, roasted, toasted, canned, boxed, processed, injected

with hormones and antibiotics, sprayed with pesticides and insecticides, genetically modified, and otherwise nutritionally emaciated.Ms. Oasis is the founder of the Raw Spirit Festival, gathering-place for today's hippest international food fashion called the Raw Spirit Movement, which is primarily based on consuming more fresh organic vegetables and fruits.Oasis suggested that a possible Surgeon General's Warning could read: "Consuming this 'food' can cause a plethora of diseases including cancer and heart disease, and may lead to painful, pre-mature death." She explained, "Given accurate information, most adults will choose health as evidenced by cigarette smoking's significant downward trend. Generations raised on packaged foods have been misled by mostly well-meaning food manufacturers for

several decades, thus most people today are not in a position to discern what is truly nutritious, since ties to foraging and horticultural practices, which have sustained humanity, have been severed."Gently re-introducing and increasing the percentage of fresh organic vegetables and fruits into the SAD (Standard American Diet) is one of the primary aims of the Raw Spirit Festival, a fun-loving educational celebration in its 4th year. The festival grew by a phenomenal 1000% in 2007 and is expecting a 300% increase in 2008. "We are only just beginning!", beams exuberant, health-radiant Happy Oasis, who has big plans to expand the festival to several locations, including internationally.The 4th annual Raw Spirit Festival is Arizona's largest healthy-living and eco-sustainable celebration, returning to spectacular Sedona's Radisson Poco Diablo Resort, Friday

through Sunday, September 12th to 14th.The unusual enthusiasm for this festival is due to burgeoning interest in the delicious nutritious raw vegetarian gourmet fare provided combined with an entertaining, comprehensive health program that attracts a devoted national and international following.The RawSpirit.com website's main page invites the approximate 5000 participants to "Come discover ancient wisdom and the latest findings from the greatest minds in healthy eco-living. Features include: three organic raw vegan gourmet meals, 40 raw food preparation demos with complimentary food tastings, +100 dynamic cutting-edge speakers including many doctors, an outstanding array of world class musicians, 250 educational booths, a creative children's program, raw chocolate emporium, an extensive raw restaurant food court, outdoor and indoor main stages,

interactive workshops in the discovery dome, an art garden, dancing, poetry, theatre, open mike, sacred exercise area including free yoga and chi kung classes throughout the 3 days, an ongoing meditation circle, electric cars, eco-products, 5-minutes-for peace program each hour led by musicians and spiritual leaders, healer's area with massage, astrologers, shamans and psychics, a leadership sharing circle, nature trails, guided creek-side hikes, fantastic foods and fabulous friends." The festival is a family event that welcomes children though the event is equally esteemed by singles and couples. The atmosphere is unusually friendly with a hug patrol, peace & harmony services (instead of 'security') and a speed dating game - but a few of the ways to meet new friends from around the world.The celebration is free of alcohol, meat, cigarettes, profanity, stress and drugs. Pet-owners are requested to

leave their furry family members at home because many participants will be dining beneath Sedona's famous red rocks amidst the duck-filled ponds on the festival resort venue's rolling lawns.The Raw Spirit Festival is a 501c3 educational non-profit that provides CEUs/CMEs (Continuing Educational Units) to healthcare professionals.The fledgling festival is funded mostly by ticket sales, though is now focusing on seeking sponsorships, donations and grants to fund three programs, namely 1. a Scholarship Fund for the elderly, indigent and ill 2. a Venue Land Procurement Fund and 3. a Perennial Operations Fund. "Donors may choose where the money will go, which makes giving much more meaningful and fun", says Happy Oasis, CVO, an acronym for Chief Visionary Officer. She added, "Everyone should have access to health information. This is a basic human

right." Tickets are on sale now though seem likely to pre-sell out. For more information, peruse www.RawSpirit.com or call 928.708.0784.This article by the festival C.V.O. was snatched up by Google and other Mass Media.

Why Be A Friend of Raw Spirit? Learn how to pay

for your entire flight and admission, letting our computers do the work by placing the Raw Spirit banner on your website or, if you have email only, by simply sending an eblast to your associates. In the spirit of sharing the abundance, Friends of Raw Spirit receive monthly thank you referral commissions. Sign up here or call us at 928.708.0784

Grateful to soon be in your presence when we shall activate the miraculous. Bliss Forth,Love!Happy Oasis and The Stellar Raw Spirit StaffaffLo

Love!Happy Oasis, CVO & Stellar Raw Spirit StaffRawSpirit.com928.776.1497

Volunteering? Way To Go! More than 100 volunteers positions are yet open and awaiting your call to the Volunteer Coordinator at 520.906.5680 and 928.649.0456. It's a most marvelous way to to save, be behind the scenes and of service five hours per day with the remainder of the day free. Volunteer admission is only $150 August 10th when it rises to $200.

Raw Spirit Radio Show Rawks with hostess Laura Fox live each Wednesday evening at 7 pm Mountain Time. To listen to last week's show,

Official Raw Spirit Videos To Be Filmed for sale shortly after festival. Media restrictions apply to all those other than on the Raw Spirit Film Team.

100 Reasons To Participate In The Raw Spirit Festival in Sedona1. Raw Spirit is unique. There is nothing else like it! And it may be the last year in Sedona.2. Raw Spirit is the biggest gathering of organic raw vegan eco-peace consciousness embodied via 5000 human angels including You.3. The vibration is astoundingly high and positively contagious. 4. One can learn both ancient wisdom and the latest findings from the greatest minds in healthy eco living.5. Meanwhile upgrade one's health to supernaturally high realms via personal consultations choosing from over 100 transformational speakers, including many doctors.6. Be part of the solution by adopting health practices which make disease obsolete.7. Discover new eco tools and raw lifestyle innovations among the 250+ educational vendor and sponsor booths.8. Feast at 30+ organic raw restaurant booths will be offering full service meals together in the same site.9. Be awe-struck by Sedona's astounding beauty right from the resort venue.10. Bask in the sun beneath the famous Red Rocks of Sedona from the

verdant, luxuriant resort lawns.11. Quack and commune with the friendly ducks who live at the resort's five ponds.12. Enjoy a stroll along the trails which lead into the wilderness beside the creek just 100 yards from the resort. 13. Along the creek, heading down stream, explore the many cliffside caves. 14. Tantalize your taste bus at the world's first Raw Chocolate Emporium.15. Entertain, educate and inspire your children in the Creative Children's Program. 16. Get an raw-eco-peace job at the Job Fair in the Discovery Dome.17. Hire fabulous employees at the Job Fair for your thriving

raw-eco-peace company.18. Meet your True Love at the Speed Dating Game.19. Share a hug with someone from the Hug Patrol.20. Join the Hug Patrol Force of thousands as a spontaneous undercover volunteer.21. Meet that special investor or business partner at the Investors Meet Entrepreneurs Table on the upper patio.22. Convene with other teenagers at the Teen Table on the upper patio.23. Commit to including more fresh organic vegetables and fruits into your diet.24. Learn how to prepare delicious nutritious raw vegan dishes inside the resort's convention center at the Raw Food Demos.25. Taste the dishes when America's leading raw chefs offer samplings at their Raw Food Demos.26. Rendez-vous with leading CEOs at the Raw Business Dinner on Thursday September 11th.27. Listen to World Class Music by dozens of Dazzling Musicians.28. Dance your feet off on the verdant lawns all day, evening and at the late night dance parties.29. Join fun, transformative, interactive playshops and workshops at the Discovery Dome.30. Gaze at, create, and procure art in the Art Garden.31. Express your creativity on the Music, Dance, Theatre and Poetry stage.32. Do yoga any

time of the day at Sacred Exercise Area.33. Meditate with new friends in the center of the festival at the Meditation Circle.34. Meet friends and talk with leaders at the Leadership Sharing Circle.35. Join Feather Jones on a herb walk along the creek.36. Attend Raw Pioneer Viktoras Kulvinskas' zany Monday Play shop.37. Come play at the African Drumming Circles.38. Share your creative bliss at the open mikes on the Music, Dance, Theatre & Poetry Stage.39. Go deep into meditation communing with quiet friends at the Meditation Circle.40. Your friends

will be there!41. Disappear on a nature hike along the creek or up one of the many amazing trails of Sedona.42. Shop in Sedona's many art galleries and health food stores.43. Swim in the resort's pool and soak in the hot tub.44. Bring an instrument and play music.45. Get lost on a hike and meditate in a vortex amidst Sedona's famous Red Rock Mountains.46. Join the Children's program whatever your age if you like to feel young at heart.47. Go within during the 5 Minutes For Peace Main Stage Meditations each hour. 48. Slow down and relax amidst

friends.49. Realize that this weekend is merely the beginning of transformational magic in your life.50. Enjoy a nap beneath the willows, rocks and azure Sedona sky on the lawn.51. Explore the many many educational booths and learn from the vendors.52. Thank a sponsor for their generosity of spirit for making this festival possible.53. Thank a volunteer and volunteer to volunteer just for fun. 54. Receive a massage in the healing area and/or give one.55. Experience a shamanic healing from a facilitator.56. Learn a new musical instrument at a music

booth. 57. Discern the many nuances of chocolate at the Chocolate Emporium.58. Take a jeep tour around Sedona's sites.59. Go deeply into yoga practice with the many yogis who shall lead. 60. The Earth is in support of this event.61. Peace will pervade Sedona and crime rate will lower as a result of this gathering.62. Arizona's sunshine warms the heart63. Participants achieve new heights of supernatural health64. Camping beneath the extraordinary array of stars is dreamy 65. Meet up with treasured

friends in Sedona 66. Treat yourself to visit or stay at one of Sedona's resplendent resorts67. Meet others from Meetups at the Meetup Table on the patio68. Inspire someone and change someone's life direction by your positive example69. Feel free to be entirely yourself70. Surround yourself with thousands of cutting-edge health enthusiasts71. Reassess your life and priorities72. Start a new company73. Be interviewed by the many journalists74. Be featured in a Raw Spirit Festival film75. Roll on the luscious lawns, a rarity in Arizona76. Go barefoot all day long77. Experience the most eclectic array of raw cuisine ever yet to manifest in one location78. Say "Yes!" to the raw-eco-peace economy by your honored presence79. Heal Yourself.80. Feel the oneness and wonderfulness of the community. We are never alone. 81. Express your highest truths and be deeply heard.82. Wake up in beauty and zest for life as if in a dream come true.83. Proceed from the dream outward.84. Learn to garden, hone your skills and share your knowledge.85. Delight your senses in the many roses patches.86. Sponsor someone in financial need who also has health challenges.87. Join a sponsor or vendor booth team in celebratory service.88. Sing on stage at the open mike, and to anyone who would smile.89. Dance dance dance until you gently drop.90. Learn Chi Kung and Tai Chi at the Sacred Exercise Area.91. Become more loving, blessing each with wonder-filled words.92. Create peace by feeling the peace.93. Delight in a balloon ride over Sedona's Red Rocks at dawn.94. Feel the prayerful ambience of new expanded possibilities.95. Please your children, your parents, friends and beloved.96. Create a family reunion at the festival.97. Meet those who will soon be deep treasured friends.98. Listen listen listen.99. Learn new ways to care for our precious planet.100. Love Yourself.101. Your presence will help someone.