Plant-based, life-sustaining.
“You’re spoiled for choice on this entirely plant-based retreat in beautiful California.
With your very own vegan chef providing nourishing meals, you will be fuelled and energized for the entire 4 days.
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Plant-based
We believe that every spiritual /wellness retreat should be plant-based in order to be, well, spiritually compassionate and wellness focused. That’s why all meals served at Desert Reset are plant-based and offered with love and health in mind. But don’t worry, they’re far from rabbit food. You’ll find our foods are satisfying, satiating, energy enhancing, and tasty, too.
A strong body of research supports the idea that a plant-based diet is the future. Studies show that a plant-based diet can boost your health, help you stay at a healthy weight and improve the quality of your life. It can even lengthen your lifespan, according to a recent study that tracked more than 70,000 people. And it’s not just good for our health; it is good for Earth’s health and the health of animals, too.
Deset Reset is just ahead of that curve. Founder Cynthia Morgan has been vegan for 30 years, and her husband Brad Klopman, Desert Reset’s Hospitality Director, has been vegan for a third of his life. But, don’t worry, we don’t preach or teach, we simply give you delicious gourmet plant-based meals to enjoy for the weekend. We think you’ll see, taste, and feel the difference a plant-based meal can make.
Fresh & Organic
We all love great-tasting, flavorful food, which is why it’s important to us to use fresh, locally-sourced, and organic ingredients whenever possible.
We offer gluten-free options for each meal.
“The food was 100 times better than I could have ever imagined!”
Kitchen open daily
24 hours
We serve all three daily meals, plus snacks and drinks, and we have a communal kitchen, so anytime you get the munchies, hop into the kitchen and satisfy your cravings.
“Desert Reset has inspired me to eat more plant-based meals when I get home! The food was so delicious. I didn’t miss meat. In fact, even when I had the opportunity to order meat or dairy for dinner, I chose plant-based instead. That’s a first!”
“Food was delicious! We felt pampered eating such fresh food and juices at Desert Reset.”
Plant-Based Health Perks
Research from NutritionFacts.org that might pique your plant-based interest.
Researchers have shown that a more plant-based diet may help prevent, treat, or reverse some of our leading causes of death. Interventional studies of plant-based diets have shown, for example, 90 percent reductions in angina attacks within just a few weeks. Plant-based diet intervention groups have reported greater diet satisfaction than control groups, as well as improved digestion, increased energy, and better sleep, and significant improvement in their physical functioning, general health, vitality, and mental health. Studies have shown plant-based eating can improve not only body weight, blood sugar levels, and ability to control cholesterol, but also emotional states, including depression, anxiety, fatigue, sense of well-being, and daily functioning.
People who once ate vegetarian diets but then started to eat meat at least once a week experienced a 146 percent increase in odds of heart disease, a 152 percent increase in stroke, a 166 percent increase in diabetes, and a 231 percent increase in odds for weight gain. During the 12 years after the transition away from eating vegetarian, meat-eating was associated with a 3.6 year decrease in life expectancy.
Only one way of eating has ever been proven to reverse heart disease in the majority of patients: a diet centered around whole plant foods. If that’s all a whole-food, plant-based diet could do—reverse our number-one killer—shouldn’t that be the default diet until proven otherwise? The fact it may also be effective in preventing, treating, and arresting other leading killers seems to make the case for plant-based eating simply overwhelming.