Our Courses

Organic, plant-based education to heal your body and ignite your spirit!

We provide both Online Education and In-person Certification Courses with chapters that reach across the Globe. Let us guide you through practical, everyday cooking skills and how to prepare delicious recipes as well as dive deep into the holistic and nutritional benefits of the foods we eat.

Our Courses

Organic, plant-based education to heal your body and ignite your spirit!

We provide both Online Education and In-person Plant Based Fundamentals and Raw Food Chef Certification Courses. Let us guide you through practical, everyday cooking skills and how to prepare delicious recipes as well as dive deep into the holistic and nutritional benefits of the foods we eat. During your time with us, you will discover how to eat better, feel better, heal your body and inevitably detoxify your body naturally.

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Online Courses

Our comprehensive online plant-based nutrition certification courses will guide you through everyday food preparation skills, how to prepare nutritious meals and shift your lifestyle towards abundant health.

We’ve helped hundreds around the world discover how food affects their health, how to make delicious, gourmet meals that wow and how to revitalize innate vitality on a cellular level from the comfort of their own kitchens.

In-Person Courses

We teach life-changing, inspirational Plant-based Nutrition Fundamentals and Raw Food Chef Certificate Courses in Nicaragua. Each program is comprehensive, intimate and interactive with under 20 participants per course.

We will navigate the challenges that may arise from reducing the consumption of foods that do harm and learn to embrace the transition towards a healthier lifestyle. You will become more than just a raw food chef, you will learn to heal your body and ignite your spirit with the power of plant-based whole foods!

Pachavega Plant-based Culinary Arts Institute

When Can I Start?

If you are joining our Scheduled Self-Paced Semester, the course will “start” 2 weeks after you purchase the program. You’ll immediately get the instructions on how to enroll as a student and then the welcome module will follow. In the Welcome module, you’ll be able to download your grocery list and purchase (or borrow) the necessary equipment to flow through through the course smoothly. You’ll have 2 weeks to prepare everything before you get the first of many automated emails, that starts with Module 1. Module by module, week by week, you’ll get a motivational email that will serve as a reminder to keep you on track and stay focused. However, with the self-paced option, you can literally start and end whenever you choose. You’ll still get weekly emails, but you can save them in a separate email folder and open them when you plan on making the time for the course. With the self-paced option, you have 5 years access to the course and it’s materials.

If you’re joining our Guided Year, you’ll get immediate access to the course material and content, however, we won’t officially start until the day we meet as a group on our first weekly group coaching call in the first week of July each year. With the Guided Year option, you have lifetime access to the course and it’s materials. In total, if you complete the course at the pace of one module a week on average, you’ll complete Level One in 26 weeks. Level Two slows down to one module every two weeks (ish) and finishes within the year. The Full Raw Food Chef Certificate takes 1 year to complete.

Retreat - 25-Day Raw Food Chef Residency

Why Take Our Courses?

We teach life-changing, inspirational Plant-based Nutrition Fundamentals and Raw Food Chef Certification Courses in-person and online. Our in-person Raw Food Chef School Nicaragua program is comprehensive, intimate and interactive with only 8-10 participants per course. With practical hands-on learning, a lot of taste testing, this education is founded on plant-based nutrition to support total body wellness.
We will navigate the challenges that may arise from reducing the consumption of foods that do harm and learn to embrace the transition towards a healthier lifestyle. You will become more than just a raw food expert, learn to heal your body and ignite your spirit with the power of plant-based whole foods! There are over 150 recipes to learn, created by our founder, world renown plant-based chef, nutrition expert and educator, Danielle Arsenault.

Retreat - 25-Day Raw Food Chef Residency

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

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.

The Raw Food Chef Alliance, an International organization that Certifies Raw Food Schools and Raw Food Chefs. Upon successful course completion, graduate students will automatically join this alliance.

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