Our Courses
Organic, plant-based education to heal your body and ignite your spirit!
At Pachavega Holistic Wellness Education, we offer both online and in-person programs that go far beyond the kitchen. From Plant-Based Fundamentals and Raw Food Chef Certification to Gut Health Mastery and Vegan Nutrition, each course is designed to nourish your body—and your life. With expert guidance and heartfelt support, you’ll learn to eat better, feel better, and live in alignment with your healthiest, most empowered self.
Our Courses
At Pachavega Holistic Wellness Education, we offer both online and in-person programs that go far beyond the kitchen. From Plant-Based Fundamentals and Raw Food Chef Certification to Gut Health Mastery and Vegan Nutrition, each course is designed to nourish your body—and your life. With expert guidance and heartfelt support, you’ll learn to eat better, feel better, and live in alignment with your healthiest, most empowered self.
Online Programs
Our online programs combine hands-on plant-based culinary skills with deep-rooted nutritional science and holistic healing philosophies to support real, lasting transformation. These aren’t just cooking classes—they’re immersive journeys of growth and self-discovery. You’ll be seen, supported, and celebrated in a space that honors your goals, your healing, and your unique path forward.
HEAL & IGNITE MASTERCLASS
Online Gut Reset Challenge
This powerful holistic approach will reset Gut Health and includes delicious recipes and lifestyle modifications
Your Holistic Detox Journey
INTRO TO A RAW FOODS LIFESTYLE
LEVEL ONE: PLANT-BASED NUTRITION FUNDAMENTALS CERTIFICATE
RAW FOOD CHEF CERTIFICATE COURSE
Raw Food Chef Certification
Self-Paced vs. Guided Year
Course Format Options - Choose Your Learning Path
Self-Paced Program
When you join the Self-Paced Raw Food Chef Certification, you’ll receive immediate access to the Welcome Module—so you can begin right away, or take the time you need to prepare with intention.
Inside the Welcome Module, you’ll find your grocery list, equipment checklist, and everything you need to set yourself up for success. While you can technically start anytime, we encourage you to use the first week or two to gather your tools, create space in your schedule, and ground into the mindset that will carry you through.
Once you’re ready, Module 1 will be waiting. From there, you’ll receive weekly emails with new modules, recipes, video lessons, and reminders to help you stay focused and inspired. And since it’s self-paced, you’re always in control—start, pause, or repeat as life allows.
You’ll have 5 years of access to the entire course and all its materials—so you can move through it in your own time, in your own way.
Guided Year Program
When you join the Guided Year, you’ll receive immediate access to all course materials—but we begin together. Our group officially kicks off with a live coaching call during the first week of June or October (your choice).
This high-touch option includes weekly group calls, community accountability, and mentorship to help you stay on track and go deeper with the work.
Level One follows a weekly rhythm and is designed to be completed in 26 weeks.
Level Two slows to a bi-weekly pace and wraps up by the end of the year.
By the end of 12 months, you’ll be a fully certified Raw Food Chef—with real confidence in the kitchen and a deeper understanding of how food can heal the body and change lives.
Best of all, with the Guided Year, you receive lifetime access to the course and its resources.
Why Take Our Courses?
We offer transformational Plant-Based Nutrition Fundamentals and Raw Food Chef Certification Courses—both online and in-person at our Raw Food Chef School in Nicaragua. Our in-person programs are intimate and immersive, with just 8–20 participants per course to ensure personal guidance, deep connection, and hands-on learning that sticks.
Rooted in nutrient-rich recipes and holistic nutrition, this education goes beyond technique. You’ll learn how to prepare over 150 vibrant, healing meals created by our founder, internationally recognized plant-based chef and wellness educator Danielle Arsenault.
This is not just about becoming a raw food expert— you’ll learn to heal your body, reset your gut, and awaken your inner vitality. Together, we’ll explore the real challenges of letting go of harmful foods, and build confidence to embrace a lifestyle that supports energy, clarity, and full potential.
Who Takes Our Courses?
Our courses are for the complete beginner, those with prior nutrition knowledge and traditional chefs looking to enhance their plant-based culinary repertoire. Our students include the stay-at-home mom, the nutritionist, the Chinese medicine doctor, the new retiree, the red seal chef, the professional athlete, those looking for a new career, those looking to enhance their nutrition intake, the fresh out of high school student and many more.
What we all have in common is a desire to create healthy whole food recipes for our families and loved ones and ourselves. We want to know how to help our body do what is designed to do, heal itself.
What are our graduates doing?
Starting their own business
Catering events
Offering private chef services
Provide health, wellness & lifestyle coaching
Selling homemade plant-based goods
Teaching plant based workshops
Developing healing menus for Naturopaths, Doctors and Community Health Programs
Working or collaborating with restaurants
In-Person Courses
At Pachavega, our in-person courses in Nicaragua are more than just culinary trainings—they’re transformational experiences. We offer intimate, hands-on programs in Plant-Based Nutrition Fundamentals and Raw Food Chef Certification, with fewer than 20 participants per course to ensure deep connection, personalized support, and lasting impact.
Together, we’ll navigate the shift away from foods that harm and embrace the healing power of whole, plant-based ingredients. You won’t just leave with chef skills—you’ll walk away with the tools to nourish your body, reset your gut, and reconnect to the energy and purpose within you. This is where your transformation begins.
Our Raw Food Chef Certification courses are approved by:
CAHNPRO (Canadian Association of Holistic Nutrition Professionals) for upgrading hours and continuing education credit units.
CSNN (Canadian School of Natural Nutrition) for graduates and current students to receive external practicum hours.
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