heartmindbelly is here for your "thriving!" We host events in Southern California, mainly LA and OC. We embrace conscious food and lifestyle habits from ancient and modern sources of wisdom, in order to heal, live optimally, and truly know the Self. Our activities include: learning about healing/cleansing tools, collaborating, sharing, cooking and embodying the wisdom of Ayurveda, Yoga Therapy, and more modern food and lifestyle traditions (primal/raw foods, herbology, elemental bodywork includi …

Welcome to the NEW and improved Rawkin, Vegan, Whole living Food meet-up group!  If you are new to raw food for weight lose, healing, looking younger and having more energy this is the group for you. This group is a place for raw foodies (newbies and masters) to gather together and further enhance their already grand adventure in the world of raw foods. May we share, nourish, inspire, and create new ways of living for ourselves and others! To contact the organizer, Ron Russell, and to get additi …

This is a mutual support and learning group for people interested learning and sharing  experiences with home based, self directed nutritional/herbal healing, detox programs and emotion/mind/body work inspired by natural health researchers and healers from all places and all times such as: Yogi Bhajan, Yamuna Zake, Dr. William Bates, Frederick Alexander, Peter Grunwald, Hippocrates, Norman Walker, Max Gerson, Johanna Budwig, Kathryn Alexander, Paul Pitchford, Donna Gates, Rosita Arvigo, Henry B …

Many people desire to be healthier, but don't know where to begin.  If you want to take charge of your health and well being while eating delicious foods and having fun at the same time, welcome aboard! Join us  Market  demonstrations and cooking classes on how to incorporate wholesome nutritionally dense foods into your diet. Whether you are new to healthy eating, vegetarian, vegan, carnivore or omnivore, welcome! Check out www.EatUnprocessed.com for free recipes and www.HealthyTasteofLA.com t …

Meet other locals who are interested in the nutritional benefits of eating delicious plant based, nutrient rich whole foods. Share knowledge and discuss the impact that diet has on the body for good health and disease prevention and reversal. Participate in a monthly potluck where you will meet interesting, fun and like minded people who prefer to not eat processed foods. (remember all OILS and SWEETENERS except for FRUIT are PROCESSED). While you do not have to have taken one of Chef AJ's healt …

I am super excited to share my secrets to getting the best flavor, quality, and benefit in your grocery basket in this series of grocery tours! Even the "healthy stores" have junk food, so I'll show you my best ninja tactics to support you in making the most beneficial food choices for you and your loved ones.

We're people who want to explore the reality of health through nutrition. We're also people who want to learn from the those with success stories, in order to write our own! Everyone is welcome. We have one rule: no hawking of any MLM product lines. Each meeting has a theme. Come and meet others who are putting their hands on the steering wheel of their own health reality, by choosing what they put in their mouths, whether as whole food, or as supplements, herbs, homeopathics, etc.

LA Nutrition provides a space for people to become nourished, strengthened, and educated. We provide FREE services - lectures discussing the latest nutritional research, advice for living a healthier life, activities to become a more fit you. Most importantly, we provide a reliable support system. LA Nutrition is sponsored by HEALTHY ROOTS NUTRITION, a nutrition consultation firm located in the Los Angeles area. To celebrate this group, HEALTHY ROOTS NUTRITION is offering one FREE nutritional co …

SoLA Food Co-op is a growing group of people working to bring South LA it’s first full service natural foods grocery store, a store that will be cooperatively owned by its members. We are all residents of South LA  who buy and eat natural foods and would like to have easy access to them in our own community. Our website http://www.solafoodcoop.com/

The integration of plants and fish to produce the ultimate food production system that is healthy, local, sustainable and accessible to all. Start a desktop food system in your closet or a mega farm anywhere.

For anyone who is vegetarian (or would like to spend a day exploring its yummy possibilities), seeks spiritual growth, loves hiking, exploring, and meeting positive people, we are a group whose purpose is to develop Conscious Community throughout the Los Angeles area! We engage in various activities and go on hikes to amazing locations, thanks to California's geographically diverse climate, and share tasty vegetarian food to develop a more slo-cal feeling in this big city. Join us if you like to …

Glendale's Shared Table ~ Dinner Exchange & Community Food Events The focus of this group is to meet others in the local area who would like to cook together and share healthy cooking ideas. We will have some social events (to meet folks), field trips (to explore new foods and shopping experiences), and monthly Make & Take Cooking Events.

This group is for people to come together to discuss and participate in lectures, cooking classes and events related to food, healthy living, green lifestyles, and nutritional education. We will have guest speakers that are foodies, chefs, healthy lifestyle coaches and authors here to demonstrate their knowledge and provide you with the tools you'll need to live healthier, enjoy new foods & enrich your life. You'll also get some great Whole Foods Market samples and meet other like-minded individ …

Welcome! You've found the Hollywood/LA area support group for those on or curious about the GAPS diet (Gut and Psychology Syndrome). From the book Gut and Psychology Syndrome: "Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride set up The Cambridge Nutrition Clinic in 1998. As a parent of  a child fully recovered from a severe learning disability, she was acutely aware of the difficulties facing other parents like her, and she has devoted much of her time to helping thses families. She realised that nutrition played …

If American diet trends continue, it is predicted that by the year 2015, 2 in every 5 adults will be obese. Hundreds of nutritional studies have demonstrated a strong and undeniable link between malnourishment and chronic illnesses such as Type 2 diabetes, Heart Disease, and Cancer. By providing the members with the opportunity to attend nutrition lectures in addition to special diet cooking classes, healthy eating farmer's market and store tours, nutrition book club, consultations, and outdoor …

Hi All! Welcome to Hollywood Raw Meetup! I recently took over as the organizer of this group and plan on re-energizing this meetup. I am hoping to get everyone (including myself) more involved... so look for some fun changes! If you have an idea for or want to host a Meetup, please post it here: If you have any questions, feel free to email me at steve@rawhealth.info Hope to see you soon, Steve

Wild edible mushrooms? Yes we have them here in Los Angeles and in Southern California: Chanterelles, Morels, Porcinis and yes, we even have Truffles! there is nothing like them! Watch out they may be deadly! They have to be ID'd by an expert or asta la vista baby. Join us for a wild mushroom hunt as we go look for edible and medicinal mushrooms here in our backyard or in faraway places. Here is a partial list of what you can find here in LA: Chanterelle - Cantharellus cibarius Morel - Morchell …

This meetup is for people who want to have eco-friendly fun, (mostly for free!) with like-minded friends who come together to eat, watch movies, learn, laugh and spread the love! Green Veggies is a non-profit formed to explain how eating meat directly causes climate change and how we can all save the world by the fastest, easiest, cheapest means possible. We offer a friendly, supportive approach to empower people to Eat Green, go vegetarian, and connect with a growing movement. Read more at gree …

Chines face reading is a branch of Chinese medicine that teaches us how to read character and personality from features on the face. The purpose of this group is to help more people discover and share the numerous benefits of face reading both in personal development and professional life.