AYURVEDIC COOKING

Ayurvedic Vegetarian Cooking with Bharata

Friday, March 22—Sunday, March 24, 2013
Bharata •

"Food Is Medicine"

This workshop promises "Good digestion, Balanced meals, tasty and easy to digest food for the whole family."  Learn the art of using Indian spices for balancing your specific condition. 

Description

Learn the science of the 6 tastes, a unique feature of ayurvedic nutririon to insure proper digestion,assimilation of nutrients and elimination. The use of spices and sattvic food, based on grains, pulses and vegetables, savouries and sweetmeats as prescribed in Ayurveda bring about a wholesome experience of wellbeing.

6 Tastes

Sweet- provides nutrition and tissue build-up.
Salty- retain water to keep cohesion in the tissues.
Sour- promotes secretions for proper metabolism.
Bitter- cleanses blood and toxins left along g.i. tract.
Hot- enhances agni(digestive fire), dissolves phlegm and has antimicrobial effects.
Astringent- allows water absorption in the colon for proper elimination.

Daily Schedule

6am Satsang
8am Yoga Class
10am Brunch
12pm Workshop with Bharata
1pm Break
3pm Cooking with Bharata
6pm Dinner
8pm Satsang

About Bharata
Javier Lopez(Bharata) is a Sivananda Yoga Teacher and a certified Ayurveda Practitioner, Counselor , Pancha Karma specialist and Marma therapist trained in the US and India. For the last 15 years he has led a private practice and dealt in multiple corporate scenarios leading stress and pain management programs. He is actively providing marma therapy services at the Yoga Farm & centers in California.