Ayurvedic Cooking for Everyday Life
Presenter: Raman Das Mahatyagi
Ayurvedic Practitioner (B.Sc, Dip.Yoga, Ayurveda-Ratna)
In this Ayurvedic cooking workshop you will learn how to cook fast yet tasty and nutritious food for all the meals of the day. The Ayurvedic principles, including the vegetarian cooking method, will be applied to Australian meals making the recipes practical to use in everyday life. Different constitutions, doshas, require different foods so recipes for each dosha will be taught. Along with this, guidance will be given on how to cook for a family where everybody has a different constitution.
This workshop is suitable for all those who are interested in health through cooking. It will provide practical insight into cooking to acquire and maintain good health using the Ayurvedic methods of food preparation and combining to create balance in our meals. It will explain how we gain contentment and satisfaction from the food we eat due to our five senses being stimulated by it. Only by using these senses are we able to gain optimum health and nutrition from the food. The sense organs are able to asses the value of the food through the stimulation of neurotransmitters, digestive enzymes and the endocrine system.
Although in Australia most of us have a busy lifestyle and are unable to spend hours cooking, eating in restaurants and having “take-away” is not suitable for maintaining long term health. To address this problem Raman Das has developed a technique for preparing everyday meals in a short space of time requiring minimum washing up and time spent in the kitchen. Each meal incorporates a variety of ingredients so that your body will receive all the proper nutrients, healing qualities and desired post digestive effect whilst you enjoy its delicious taste.
Topics covered include:
During the workshop Raman Das will introduce:
- Cooking for different types of physical and mental disorders
- Knowledge of recipes
- The effects of food combining, including the merits and demerits
- How to identify which foods are good and bad for your system
- How to change the property of food during cooking by adding certain ingredients
- Acid/alkaline balance
- Preparation of food according to the person’s dosha type
- Ayurvedic methods of oxygenation of food after cooking
- How to achieve the targeted benefits from your food
- How to cook faster and eat healthier
- Utilising the time spent in the kitchen wisely