Take a Cruise, Vegan Style!

With its 10th year, the Holistic Holiday at Sea vegan cruise provides in-depth lessons and experiences for guests who are living or are interested in learning more about a vegan lifestyle. While on-board, guests will dine on quality vegan and macrobiotic food prepared under the guidance of distinguished chefs. Throughout the day the ship’s public spaces are transformed into a floating classroom offering 140 classes, lectures, workshops and consultations from 40 highly qualified presenters including doctors, academics, authors, research scientists and celebrities.

Holistic Holiday at Sea provides unique access to life changing educational, social, and spiritual experiences. From cooking effectively for a vegan or macrobiotic lifestyle, to daily meditation practices, and even how to become more socially and politically active in the local community, this cruise allows for the broadening of one’s knowledge.

Guests can choose from a wide range of alternative health experiences beyond veganism including classes on macrobiotics, meditation, yoga and Pilates, as well as individual consultations and treatments. One of the most electrifying and rewarding aspects of the cruise is the deep personal connections made with other like-minded individuals in the vegan and macrobiotic community. People from all walks of life enjoy the social entertainment including dance parties, evening socials, special musical performances and the popular singles events. Holistic Holiday at Sea is truly ‘a community at sea, an island of friends.’

The 10 Year Anniversary – Just on the Horizon
From March 2nd to the 9th, 2013, Holistic Holiday at Sea will be pulling out all the stops as guests voyage across the Western Caribbean aboard the MSC Poesia for the 10th Anniversary sailing co-sponsored by VegNews. After embarking from Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, guests will soon experience new worlds, featuring the colorful port of Falmouth, Jamaica, the striking city of Georgetown, Grand Cayman, the always welcoming Cozumel, Mexico, and the serenity of Isla de Roatan, Honduras.

All the while, passengers have the opportunity of meeting and learning from guest speakers and presenters from around the world. In 2013, such presenters include Colleen Patrick-Goudreau, Rory Freedman, Dr. Caldwell B. Esselstyn Jr., Dr. T. Colin Campbell, Christina Pirello, Robert Cheeke, and many more. All offering real-world strategies to help you take responsibility for your health, preserve your environment, and enrich your life.

History of Holistic Holiday at Sea
Holistic Holiday at Sea was founded in the early 2000s as an extension of many years of land-based holistic and alternative health conferences produced by Sandy Pukel, primarily in Miami Beach, Florida. After years of contemplating a cruise conference, Sandy tapped John Belleme, a long time business associate, to help develop the Holistic Holiday at Sea cruise. The first cruise was on the Costa Atlantica and attracted approximately 400 guests.

Since then, the event has steadily grown in both size and complexity with attendance growing by 100 to 150 people every year. With steady annual growth the conference has expanded its program to include a greater diversity of lectures and workshops, more social activities and entertainment, and a broader range of holistic consultations and therapeutic treatments. The 2011 cruise was the largest and most successful event to date, attracting over 1200 guests to nearly 140 classes including 7 cooking classes, nightly parties and social events, and much more. For the 10th Anniversary Holistic Holiday at Sea hopes to grow to 1400 or more guests.

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