Chaya-Ryvka is a raw food chef, raw food pastry chef, educator, and promoter of vibrant health currently located in Northern California. Through food preparation workshops, lectures, private classes, and catering Chaya-Ryvka shares with her clients and audiences a new paradigm of food as ideal body/mind/spirit fuel, and medicine while providing the nurturing flavors and textures we have all come to associate with as satisfying “comfort food”.

Chaya-Ryvka trained for two years as an apprentice with Master Raw Food Chef Elaina Love. Together they catered raw food retreats, served private catered events, taught classes, and opened a raw food café – Café Soulstice in San Mateo, CA. She also apprenticed with gourmet raw pastry chefs and creators of the desserts for the voted #1 raw food restaurant – Café Gratitude. Chaya-Ryvka spent 6 months apprenticing in the art of raw chocolate confections; she worked in a newly opened raw/vegan chocolate factory, Coracao Confections (http://www.coracaoconfections.com). Chaya also trained as a juice feast consultant during her own 92 day juice feast by David and Katrina Rainoshek of www.JuiceFeasting.com.  

Currently Chaya-Ryvka is expressing her living foods creativity catering private events, teaching group classes, creating specialty gourmet raw desserts, raw wedding cakes and providing private raw lifestyle/kitchen consultations. She works locally in the Bay area as the "Bakery" Supervisor at Café Gratitude. 

Chaya Ryvka’s passion for fully experiencing the potential that life offers and being a vehicle of radiance for the service of all creation has lead her and continues to lead her through many adventures of deep learning, shedding of the un-serving natures, and affirming those of the greatest service through daily practice and constant reflection.  Introducing raw foods as the bulk of her food intake has proven to stimulate a more awakened sense of life, love, awareness to the subtleties of her own feelings, thoughts, true desires as well as a much heightened sense and experience of well being. A mainly raw foods lifelstyle has also introduced ease around  weight management (having come from an early life of obesity weighing in at 280 lbs. during her heaviest period), and an overall healthier relationship to food and the planet.

Chaya Ryvka’s greatest joy is serving as a vehicle to help others transcend their own obstacles, challenges and ultimately experience the gift of those very things. She uses live foods, and heavenly raw desserts  as a chariot to carry a person delicately and delectably into the realm of self empowerment by way of your food choices. Ideally this would lead one to realize all things are choices and you can choose life, love, unity, consciousness etc. Ultimately giving you the opportunity to experience life in all its glory - shinning the light of life, inspiring many and being inspired one bite, one breath, one moment at a time. With Live Food, Live Wisdom, you can choose to Live Vision!