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THE GLO FLEX CAFE & CENTER

& INSTA FEED

GLOPRO Organic Blends sold here

GLOPROTM now offers 5 organic products sold at the GLO Flex Cafe + Center in Asseredores, Northern Nicaragua (and around the world!)

GLOPROTM Organic + Realfood Blends were created by Natural Nutritionist & Live Food Chef Grace Van Berkum. Grace is an international wellness educator and creator of GLO Flex Center in Nicaragua. She teaches clients how to heal their bodies and transform their health and lives with fresh foods found in nature.

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GLOPROTM Immune Blend:

 

Medicinal adaptogens to increase vitality, de-stress, fuel human performance + help with physical & mental recovery. 

WELCOME TO GLO FLEX

Health Cafe & Empowerment Center

GLO is a health cafe and empowerment community center located in tranquil Northern Nicaragua. Our unique, creative, & health conscious courses and experiences at the center are designed for stress reduction, health rejuvenation, & life recalibration with a customized educational component. The center's  GLO Retreat Program includes a fresh, local, menu from the GLO Flex Cafe, outdoor functional movement practices, vagal toning and breathing practices, life coaching, Chinese Medicine & Ayurvedic treatments with local practitioners, daily earthing, and community connections. With the support of mother nature, we are here to support you as you reclaim your health and your life. 
 

The GLO philosophy is rooted in using ''food as medicine'' and "living your life as your medicine". Team GLO is passionate about teaching the world how to use food to heal the body. Our retreat programs are focused on cell health, digestive health, liver health, brain health, and skin health while helping to increasing inner clarity and life fulfillment. Our GLO “Cellular Nutrition” menu has been specifically designed to shift the body and mind into a more abundant state.  

GLO Superfood + Fresh Food Meals are all geared towards balancing your body and hormonal system, reducing inflammation, improving digestion & elimination, releasing toxins, and improving weight, all while satisfying your taste buds in delicious and creative ways.

The GLO Mission represents self-empowerment and self-love through mindful lifestyle choices and habits.
Team GLO is here to provide you with the best nutrition & lifestyle support and coaching.

ABOUT THE GLO CREATOR

Grace of GLO

Grace Van Berkum, founder of GLO Cafe & Center, GLO International Retreats + GLOPROTM Organic Superfood Blends, is a Holistic Nutritionist, Raw Food Chef, Certified Yoga Teacher, and Certified Personal Trainer. Known for her anti-inflammatory, fresh food-as-medicine nutrition plans and menus, detox retreats, and raw chef trainings, Grace teaches Private and Group International Retreats based on a Level 1-8 Cell Health system. Hundreds of her recipes and photos can be found in international magazines, websites and sponsor sites around the world. She has 5 RAW HEALING recipe books found on her personal website (raw, vegan, gluten-free, sugar-free) focused on disease prevention and healing. Since 2006, Grace has helped thousands of clients transform their health and re-direct their futures with her lifestyle knowledge and nutrition coaching. She has helped many people heal from diseases and cancer, including her father.

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GLO ACCOLADES & FEATURES

TIME MAGAZINE 

listed Salt Resorts in Mauritius in the TOP 100 WORLD'S GREATEST PLACES IN 2019. Grace's GLO Raw Food Recipes are featured on their menu, and showcased in their Salt Cookbook.

GLO SCHEDULE Nicaragua 2024/2025

  • COSTA RICA Oct 7-14: "Eat to Heal" ~ Cellular Detox Retreat with Grace
    Join an intimate group in the Pacific Coast in Costa Rica for this transformative experience and embrace the power of food as medicine with plant powered detox nutritionist Grace Van Berkum complimented by trauma informed Yoga Therapy with Hali Love and other ASW Healers. Costa Rica offers a conducive environment for relaxation, rejuvenation, and improving overall well-being. Living in harmony with nature promotes healing and the relaxed environment in itself can be therapeutic. Sometimes it is necessary to escape the hustle and bustle of urban life and dedicate the time to really heal. This experience transcends the ordinary; it's a journey towards vitality and resilience. Led by the esteemed Grace Van Berkum, it's a holistic immersion into the profound healing potential of food. Prepare to learn the secrets of optimal performance and well-being as you delve deep into the science and art of nourishing your body. Read more here: https://aswmasterclass.samcart.com/products/asw-retreat-eat-to-heal/ Only 8 spots available for this transformational, high end retreat presented by Align & Shine World.
  • November 5-12, 2024: GLO 'Botanical Medicine Retreat'
    GLO 'Botanical Medicine Retreat' with Aleksandra Gamrat + Grace Join Aleksandra Gamrat, herbal and menopause expert and holistic nutritionist, for an informative, inspiring, important retreat! Learn all about practical herbal home remedies that are chemical-free that will help your body heal! Everyday Aleksandra will teach a DIY workshop on various herbal tinctures, salves, and ointments that you can make yourself. Take home recipe book included. Daily DIY herbal science workshops: Day 1: Introduction to Herbalism Day 2: Herbal Infusions & decoctions Day 3: Herbal Oxymels and Tonics Day 4: Herbal Tinctures, Extract and teas Day 5: Herbal Skincare and Salves/Balms Day 6: Herbs for sleep/stress Daily superfood, plantbased detox menu provided by the GLO Flex Cafe onsite. Message Team GLO for more info or to book your spot. GLO Center is an intimate retreat space conducive for detoxing, learning, coaching, and healing, and spots are limited.
  • November 12-19, 2024: GLO 'Menopause Mastery Retreat'
    Nov 5-12, 2024: GLO 'Menopause Mastery Retreat' with Aleksandra Gamrat + Grace Join Aleksandra Gamrat, herbal and menopause expert and holistic nutritionist, for an informative, inspiring, important retreat! Learn all about menopause and how to understand it and master it. Imagine sailing through menopause? Yes it is possible! This retreat ia all about women's hormones education, plus creating important dialogue and supportive sisterhood community for women. This retreat is ideal for any woman of any age. We will discuss hormone balancing, for peri-menopause, menopause, and post-menopause. Take home manual and recipe book for all beautiful guests. Daily superfood, plantbased detox menu provided by the GLO Flex Cafe onsite. Message Team GLO for more info or to book your spot. GLO Center is an intimate retreat space conducive for detoxing, learning, coaching, and healing, and spots are limited.
  • November 19-26, 2024: GLO 'Yin Yoga Retreat OR Yin Yoga Teacher Training' with Nora Sundari
    GLO 'Yin Yoga Retreat + Teacher Training' with Nora Sundari Join Nora Sundari for a yin yoga retreat or teacher training combined! For those wanting a yin yoga retreat only, you will receive 2 yin yoga classes per day with GLO anti-inflammatory plantbased menu. For those wanting to get yin yoga certified: Nora will teach you how! This portion of the training will include 20 hours of certified training for the week, plus GLO anti-inflammatory plantbased menu. Choose which offering you would like, retreat or yoga training. Bridge the gap of an active life to a meditative life. While practicing stillness in postures with longer holds, one’s mind begins to quiet down and allow greater awareness and understanding of oneself to emerge. Yin yoga is based on the Taoist concepts of balancing the Yin and the Yang, the opposite and complementary principles in nature. With our busy lifestyles our bodies tighten up from mental tension and causing ailments and lack of mobility which lead to discomfort and pain. Yin yoga postures give an opportunity for deeper tissues such as connective and fascia to release long held tensions allowing for the Prana/ life force to flow more easily through previously blocked areas increasing overall energy and well-being. Yin Yoga helps us to play our edges, unwind, breath more consciously and turn inward. There is less instruction to listen to, much to discover within oneself and more peace to be found. Yin yoga is a stabilizing, feminine and contemplative practice and is a wonderful compliment to any other form of yoga or any other activity in our life. Benefits of Yin yoga are: •⁠ ⁠Calming and balancing the mind and body •⁠ ⁠Regulates energy, balances hormones, Improves sleep and deeper relaxation •⁠ ⁠Increases mobility in the body, especially the joints and hips •⁠ ⁠Lowers stress levels, reduces anxiety, tmp and migraines •⁠ ⁠Greater stamina, better ability to sit through meditation •⁠ ⁠Better lubrication, protection and flexibility of joints and connective tissue Release of fascia throughout the body The Yin retreat offers 12 CEU’s with Yoga Alliance. Yin Yoga Teacher Training (for teachers and practitioners) This 20 hour Yin Yoga teacher training includes 20 CEU’s with Yoga Alliance and is a valuable addition to your teaching repertoire. As a teacher you will learn: to help students ease agitation and promote relaxation explain organic and emotional/energetic benefits of postures suggest specific postures therapeutically assess comfort of your students develop an understanding of the healing process offer verbal cues and hands on adjustments to re-align and restore the root of imbalance to guide students through several sequences of yin yoga postures Learn more about Nora, you're wonderful, professional, and experienced yoga teacher HERE. Message Team GLO for more info or to book your spot. GLO Center is an intimate retreat space conducive for detoxing, learning, coaching, and healing, and spots are limited.
  • December 3-10, 2024: GLO 'Reset Your Body + Your Mind' Retreat
    GLO 'Reset Your Body + Mind' Retreat: Rejuvenate your cells, body, and mind. Message Team GLO for more info or to book your spot. GLO Center is an intimate retreat space conducive for detoxing, learning, coaching, and healing, and spots are limited.
  • January 7 - 14, 2025: GLO New Year's Reset + Detox Retreat with Grace + Team GLO
    Join us for another powerful week of detoxing, cleansing, and resetting the body and mind. As always, Grace will be delivering a delicious cleansing menu with a variety of movement classes designed to reset the nervous system in nature while becoming stronger. Stay on for the next detox retreat week Jan 15 -22, 2025 for an even more impactful and transformative experience. Message Team GLO for more info or to book your spot. GLO Center is an intimate retreat space conducive for detoxing, learning, coaching, and healing, and spots are limited.
  • January 15 - 22, 2025: GLO 'Wealth & Wellness' Retreat with Melita
    Join this unique retreat with holistic finance coach Melita from Canada that will focus on financial wellness. Learn how your health is connected to your wealth! Daily finance workshops with GLO Cell Health menu + strength classes to help you feel more empowered, physically and mentally. More details coming soon.... Message Team GLO for more info or to book your spot. GLO Center is an intimate retreat space conducive for detoxing, learning, coaching, and healing, and spots are limited.
  • BAHAMAS Feb 1-8, 2025: GLO 'Fresh Food Reset'
    https://sivanandabahamas.org/presenter/grace-van-berkum/
  • February 25 - March 4: GLO 'Food As Medicine' Certification Course ~ Level 1
    Discover how to utilize natural fresh foods to restore and rejuvenate the body. Grace offers 20 hours of instruction and guidance in the kitchen on incorporating fresh local ingredients from any region. The program includes ample hands-on experience in the kitchen for developing recipes. Grace will also mentor students on leveraging this knowledge to organize workshops and retreats. Participants in Level 1 and Level 2 will be taught authentic, anti-inflammatory recipes and meal planning commonly featured at GLO Reset / Detox Retreats worldwide. Successful and passionate graduates of Level 1 and Level 2 have the chance to collaborate with Team GLO on upcoming retreats. Participants will also receive a nutrition and recipe manual to support their learning, along with a certificate that showcases 20 hours of completed mentoring with Grace and Team GLO. Interested students must apply to see if this is the course for you. *See our growing team of successful GLO 'Food As Medicine' graduates here: https://www.gracevanberkum.com/post/glo-international-food-as-medicine-roster *GLO Center is an intimate retreat space conducive for detoxing, learning, coaching, and healing, and spots are limited.
  • March 5 - 12: GLO 'Food As Medicine' Certification Course ~ Level 2
    Discover how to utilize natural fresh foods to restore and rejuvenate the body. Grace offers 20 hours of instruction and guidance in the kitchen on incorporating fresh local ingredients from any region. The program includes ample hands-on experience in the kitchen for developing recipes. Grace will also mentor students on leveraging this knowledge to organize workshops and retreats. Participants in Level 1 and Level 2 will be taught authentic, anti-inflammatory recipes and meal planning commonly featured at GLO Reset / Detox Retreats worldwide. Successful and passionate graduates of Level 1 and Level 2 have the chance to collaborate with Team GLO on upcoming retreats. Participants will also receive a nutrition and recipe manual to support their learning, along with a certificate that showcases 20 hours of completed mentoring with Grace and Team GLO. Interested students must apply to see if this is the course for you. *See our growing team of successful GLO 'Food As Medicine' graduates here: https://www.gracevanberkum.com/post/glo-international-food-as-medicine-roster *GLO Center is an intimate retreat space conducive for detoxing, learning, coaching, and healing, and spots are limited.
  • March 12-19: GLO 'Nervous System Rebalance" Certification Course with Louisa Pucci
    GLO 'Nervous System Reset" Certification Course with Louisa Pucci- 20 hours Are you are burnt out? Are you a caregiver who needs some self care? Perhaps you could benefit from learning some simple and effective ways to recenter and rebalance your nervous system. This certification course is also ideal for GLO 'Food As Medicine' graduates who want to learn further tools and knowledge to help their clients on retreats. Improve your quality of life: sleep better, boost vitality, support you immune system. Learn a variety of simple and effective techniques to enhance your mind and body and soul integration. The techniques are a great addition to anyone working in health care, care-giving type roles, or to anyone wishing to improve their quality of life. Louisa will teach movement, breath work, meditation, energy healing based in Yoga, Thai Massage, and Theta brain wave healing to help you and your clients thrive. This healing retreat and 20 hr certification with manual, is excellent for anyone who works in wellness, nutrition, movement, healing and caregiver roles. By taking care of and honoring ourselves we ideally improve the quality of our relationships, aid mobility, reduce pain and discomfort, improve sleep, boost vitality and immunity. Louisa Pucci BIO: Louisa Pucci is a visionary and intuitive, mentor and guide. As a survivor of complex traumas, she is dedicated to healing and sharing, and has studied with many teachers and guides. Wholeheartedly, she shares her integrated life long experiences, with her students and clientele for over 15 yrs. Teaching yoga, training Yoga teachers and Thai massage. Including food and herbs as medicine, breath work, meditation, acupressure, movement, body work, subtle energy work and more. She recognizes that all humans experience hardships on some level. Some traumas are more complex than others. All patterns get stored in the body. Much can be resolved or supported by clearings limiting beliefs, and integrating ancestral issues, and harvesting the lessons from them. In this trauma informed retreat space, Louisa and Grace and the team at GLO, offer a supportive atmosphere, for healing, integration, and ideally experiencing a sense of empowerment. Working with and embracing the mind body spirit connection is essential to balancing and regulating our nervous systems when life is turbulent, when wounds get activated, when feeling foggy, indecisive or stuck in any way. Louisa Pucci IG @Enlighteningup •ECYT 750 Yoga Teacher trainer •Certified Thai Massage Practitioner •Certified Theta Healing ™️ •BA York University, Toronto Message Team GLO for more info or to book your spot. GLO Center is an intimate retreat space conducive for detoxing, learning, coaching, and healing, and spots are limited.
  • COSTA RICA March 31 - April 7, 2025: "Eat to Heal" ~ GLO Cellular Detox Retreat
    Join an intimate group in the Pacific Coast in Costa Rica for this transformative experience and embrace the power of food as medicine with plant powered detox nutritionist Grace Van Berkum complimented by trauma informed Yoga Therapy with Hali Love and other ASW Healers. Costa Rica offers a conducive environment for relaxation, rejuvenation, and improving overall well-being. Living in harmony with nature promotes healing and the relaxed environment in itself can be therapeutic. Sometimes it is necessary to escape the hustle and bustle of urban life and dedicate the time to really heal. This experience transcends the ordinary; it's a journey towards vitality and resilience. Led by the esteemed Grace Van Berkum, it's a holistic immersion into the profound healing potential of food. Prepare to learn the secrets of optimal performance and well-being as you delve deep into the science and art of nourishing your body. Read more here: https://aswmasterclass.samcart.com/products/asw-retreat-eat-to-heal/ Only 8 spots available for this transformational, high end retreat presented by Align & Shine World.
  • BAHAMAS May 23-30, 2025: GLO 'Fresh Food Reset'
    https://sivanandabahamas.org/presenter/grace-van-berkum/

GLO ONLINE PROGRAMS

==> Welcome to RENEW and REVIVE .... the Ultimate GLO Online Detox Retreat Weekend programs!

 

​Do you feel tired, sluggish, and bloated? Are you struggling to get the energy you need to tackle your day? Do you want to feel more vibrant, alive, and energized? If so, you've come to the right place. 

Start feeling energized and inspired with Bashar León & Grace Van Berkum, Certified Holistic Nutritionists and Retreat Leaders in the wellness space for over 16 years, as we lead you through a weekend of activities designed to support and elevate your health & wellness goals. 

Click here for more details and 60 day unlimited access!

GLO Online Detox

GLO TALK PODCAST

Join your Team GLO hosts Grace Van Berkum and Bashar León as they explore human stories of healing and transformation, including their own. A podcast created to inspire and illuminate the human journey of pain, and how it is necessary and also beneficial to one’s growth and quest for inner peace and deeper meaning.

GLO Talk Podcast

ABOUT THE GLO PROPERTY

GLO is an empowerment health center that offers customized experiential programs as well as online educational programs. Situated in beautiful nature, it is focused on healing through fresh, local, organic foods, functional movement, de-stressing in nature, and making authentic friendships. It features a main club house with kitchen for nutrition classes, a health cafe, a private fitness, boxing, and yoga rancho which also doubles as a community dining area, an outdoor  tropical massage area, and a full spectrum infrared sauna.

Also on-site in lush nature:

 

5 secured rooms with ceiling fans + individual bed fans

• 5 Private bathrooms and 5 private rain water showers

• 12 beds total on-site

• Tiled floors, microfiber towels, all-natural soap provided 

• Berkey Water Filters in every room 
• Full spectrum Infrared Sauna 
•Ice Bath / Wading Pool

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