Liberate Obstruction; Experience Your Raw Truth; Live Your Deepest Life
Place of Retreat Dedicated to Raw Living Foods, Cleansing and Fasting as a Tool for Spiritual Integration
Who We Are
We believe in the power of raw living food cleansing and water fasting as a powerful tool of transformation and awakening on all four levels: physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual.
We see cleanse and detoxification as a yogic art, the potential in playing with temporary extremes in order to initiate inner revelations and wisdom. Physiological healing is merely one symptom of applying a raw living foods lifestyle in a holistic way. The purpose of the lifestyle is missed if the intention is to simply heal physical symptoms.
Physical dis-ease and disharmonies are divine messengers, the soul using the body to communicate. Cleansing and fasting, as well as learning to sustainably walk the path of a raw living foods lifestyle, offers us the potential to integrate our deepest spiritual truth and embody it. A cleanse or fast is where it all begins...
Raw Refuge is creating a container for people to establish themselves in the foundations and principles of cleansing on raw living foods and fasting. We are creating a supportive environment in the ideal climate for people to begin to walk the path or go deeper on their journey.
The result is a reclamation of physical, emotional, mental and spiritual vigour, and the confidence to integrate the lifestyle on returning to daily life if desired. Moreover, the experiential knowledge is gained so that one can practice longer cleanses and fasts independently, in a safe and sustainable way. We encourage that the intention in these endeavors is to help integrate deeper spiritual insight, which is the true purpose in the discipline of fasting.
The Place
We are based in the Puerto Viejo area, on the lush Caribbean coast of Costa Rica … a land where jungle meets ocean, howler monkeys echo through the canopy, and time slows down to the rhythm of nature. This wild, nourishing landscape is the perfect setting for deep reset and transformation. The climate itself is ideal for healing physiological disease through natural hygiene methods. We are situated in a quiet valley that is home to several young and maturing fruit forests, populated by a very fruit-conscious neighborhood.
Meet Your Guides
Ålam Nevill
Founder
[email protected]Vision Keeper and Space Holder.
Alam has been gradually becoming aware of his mission to create a place dedicated to the path of raw living foods and deep meditative silence over the last decade since he sat his first 10 day Vipassana meditation course in 2017.
He is passionate about working closely with others in discovering the transformational potential of proper detoxification periods and practicing a raw living food lifestyle as a means of integrating one's spiritual truth and unique gifts to this world.
His inspiration is drawn from his exploration of meditative silence sitting annually since 2017 in Goenka's Vipassana Meditation Centres around the world. Since 2020 he began experimenting with raw living foods, extended juice cleanses and water fasting. He paticularly took inspiration from the 80/10/10 approach, Arnold Ehret's Mucusless Diet Healing System, Medical Medium and a natural hygiene approach.
He is fascinated by the mystery that relates to eating and from where humans truly draw energy from. Alongside these experiments he has studied extensively the 5 Elements of Traditional Chinese Medicine and has devised a technique of Acupressure and Shiatsu that supports his work in assisting others to heal and transform through the power of natural hygiene methodologies.
In 2023 he moved to Costa Rica to found a space dedicated to this work and to create a supportive environment suitable for others walking this experimental path: finding support, Sangha and fellowship in one another.
Finally, he views the path of raw living foods as a gateway into revelation. He observes the need to see the path as a spiritual discipline, a martial art in its application, if it is indeed to be healthily and sustainably integrated. Finding Sangha (spiritual community) is an essential part of that. He is also grateful for the work of David Deida and the topic of polarity, as well as the exploration of life according to the three realms: therapeutic, yogic and spiritual.