Katya Joy began observing and studying the healing and transformational abilities of plants when she was a young girl. A voracious reader, she immersed herself in the ancient healing arts, driven by a passionate, deep desire to improve her own life, and the lives of others through passing on her knowledge and experience. This enduring desire has been the fuel which has ignited her heart’s calling.
In 1978, after completing a beauty therapy course, Katya bought a popular beauty business in Flinders Street, Melbourne. As well as introducing natural beauty classes, Katya began making her own fresh, plant-based facial treatments to use on her clients. The fascinating teachings of raw food revolutionaries, Ann Wigmore, Viktoras Kulvinskas and Arnold Ehret entered her life at this time, stimulating further growth in her approach to health and healing. After becoming a mum to a gorgeous daughter, Tara Jade, Katya went on to study classical homeopathy, herbal remedies, tantra and flower essences.
In 1992 Katya founded the Tasmanian Flower Essence Centre where she formulated and taught a comprehensive 12 month Accredited Certificate Course in Flower Essence Therapy. The Course included plant identification and flower essence preparation field trips and proved to be an invaluable source of knowledge and inspiration, activating deep personal growth for every student. Around this time Katya began to experiment on herself with detoxification practices and several years later, urged on by her inner guidance, began to study and practice as a colonic irrigation therapist and commence a raw food diet.
In late 2001 Katya pioneered the first Australian 100% raw food café, Rawjuvenate, which was way ahead of its time! Raw food eating was definitely seen as extremist back then and way off the grid. People thought she was crazy to restrict herself to selling all raw gourmet meals and drinks and said it couldn’t possibly work. Undeterred, Katya forged ahead. After a year-long expensive, yet in hindsight, priceless education in experimenting, preparing and selling her raw food recipes, the Rawjuvenate Café closed its doors and Katya went on to conduct Rawjuvenate For Life raw food health retreats and 5 week intensive education programs. She released her first book in 2005, Rawjuvenate with Katya, which included recipes from the café together with information from her own raw food journey and years of experience in the health and healing arts. Katya then took a 3 year sabbatical from the blossoming raw food movement, mainly to focus on writing her second book as well as facilitating private one on one raw food healing retreats, consulting, and speaking at various functions and events.
With the release of her second book, The Rawjuvenate For Life Principles, Katya felt compelled to commence teaching again.
Katya’s 35 years of experience in the Holistic Health and Wellbeing arena and her 10 years of success in guiding people on a raw food lifestyle has carved her niche in the raw food movement as an authority in leading the way for people to higher, possibilities for ageing, rich with vibrant wellness, youthful looks, passion and sex appeal.
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