The Rest and Repair Diet is a simple step-by-step diet for both vegetarians and meat eaters. It is designed to improve the state of your gut health, with weight loss as a side-benefit.
You start the diet by detoxifying your body for 1 week, using herbal preparations and making a few easy changes in your lifestyle. After the detox, you then begin the 3-week Rest and Repair portion of the diet. This diet is not a fast. Ideally, it should be a feast that improves your microbiome and digestion. Realistically, you should at least feel satisfied after each meal. When you finish with the Rest and Repair phase, you begin your Self Discovery Lifestyle Program. This is an valuable part of your road to health, involving the reintroducing of specific foods that you eliminated in your 3-week diet. You will also keep a Food and Lifestyle Journal so that it will be crystal clear how changes in food and lifestyle affect your body and mind.
The Rest and Repair Diet is an important first step towards lifelong health, integrating modern medicine with the ancient knowledge of Ayurveda. By taking responsibility for your own health and using the Rest and Repair Diet and Lifestyle recommendations, you will have begun your journey to a more resilient, healthier, happier state of mind and body.
Farley, Alexis: - ALEXIS FARLEY is passionate about food! She learned to cook in her grandma's kitchen, and after graduating from the University of Calgary, visited over 30 countries, experiencing the foods and flavors of different cultures. Returning to Vancouver, BC, Alexis became a chef at a boutique bed and breakfast and began her journey of helping people heal through diet and lifestyle. Most recently, she was a chef at an organic farm and yoga retreat in Northern California. Alexis' expertise is creative plant-based cooking, in which food is medicine, and ingredients showcase themselves, leaving guests nourished and energized after each meal.
Wallace, Robert Keith: - ROBERT KEITH WALLACE is a pioneering researcher on the physiology of consciousness. His work has inspired hundreds of studies on the benefits of meditation and other mind-body techniques, and his findings have been published in Science, American Journal of Physiology, and Scientific American. After receiving his BS in physics and his PhD in physiology from UCLA, he conducted postgraduate research at Harvard University. Keith currently serves as Professor and Chairman of the Department of Physiology and Health, and is a Trustee at Maharishi University of Management (MUM) in Fairfield, Iowa. The author of several books, he has given hundreds of lectures on Maharishi Consciousness-Based education and health programs around the world.
Wallace, Samantha: - SAMANTHA JONES WALLACE was once featured on the cover of Vogue, Cosmopolitan, and Look. Happily married for over forty years, the Wallaces have a combined family of four children and six grandchildren. Samantha's passions include painting, exploring essential oil skin care, and creating rare organic perfume. A longtime practitioner of Transcendental Meditation, she also has a deep understanding of Ayurveda and its relationship to health and wellbeing. Samantha is the coauthor of Gut Crisis, and Quantum Golf, and is an editor of Dharma Parenting. Her most recent book, Deep Beauty, is a friendly introduction to Ayurveda with a special emphasis on essential oil skin care.
