236: New Year Interactive Detox Cleansing Retreat With Dr. Reuven Barak

Dr. Reuven Barak is a physician with over 30 years of experience, a graduate from the Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School of Jerusalem in 1982. He specialized and practiced General and Pediatric Surgery for 10 years.

Since 1992 he learned Traditional Chinese Medicine, traveling to mainland China for this purpose, and has had advanced studies under the guidance of several renown teachers from all over the world. After his basic studies, and since then, he continues to study, learn, investigate and expand his knowledge on Healing methods constantly.

Dr. Barak lectures in College, Universities and Medical Congresses Worldwide, is regularly invited as a guest to TV shows, Newspapers and Radio programs. In 2005 published, in Hebrew, together with his life companion, Anat Zahor, who is a Yoga and Meditation Teacher, the book “A guide to Healthy Living”, which deals with leading a healthy way of life and gives natural solutions to many ailments.

Reuven has been practicing Vipassana meditation for 20 years, and was ordained as a Buddhist monk in 1999 at the Chom Tong monastery in Northern Thailand.

In his private clinic in  Tel Aviv he treats and advices to his patients using his vast knowledge in Natural Healing methods, his long experience in Conventional, Western Medicine, and Traditional Chinese Medicine; Nutrition, and other systems of healing, all of which, when  applied together, become a real Integrative Medicine system.

WHY DETOXIFICATION 

PROGRAM INCLUDES:

• Seven or more days before the fast, please abstain from  alcohol, nicotine, caffeine, sugar, dairy, wheat, animal meat, fish, and eggs. Try to consume mainly organic fruits, vegetables, and beans.
• Breaking of the fast will be initiated on the last day and a half of the retreat, but you are advised to resume normal eating slowly and gradually for another week. The customary program is as follows:
• Day 1: Two pieces of fruit. Each piece of fruit is divided in half so there are four servings for that day.
• Day 2: Lightly steamed non-starchy vegetables, such as spinach.
• Day 3: Brown rice, fresh salad.
• Day 4: Organic yogurt, unflavored and unsweetened. Eggs.
• Day 5: Meat, chicken, fish, tofu, if eaten.
• Day 6: Beans, other grains may be introduced, if eaten.
• Day 7: Other foods, as desired.

• Pregnant or nursing women, People with diabetes, low blood sugar, eating disorders, kidney disease, liver disease, malnutrition, addictions, underweight, anemia, impaired immune function, infection, nutritional deficiency, low blood pressure, ulcerative colitis, cancer, terminal illness, epilepsy, or other chronic conditions. People shouldn't try a juice fast before or after surgical procedures.
• A juice fasting can reduce blood proteins and change the way prescription drugs react in the body. People taking prescription medications should inform us before enlisting into the retreat, and in case they parcipitate in it, should never discontinue or reduce their medications on their own.

Fees include: workshop, accommodation and vegetarian meals. 

• • Triple occupancy in a private casita $1,550
  • Double occupancy in a private casita $1,750
  • Shared room in the Rancho dormatory $1,400
  • camping on a private platform $1,250

*Waitlist for single private room available.