Ayurvedic Diet

Presenter: Raman Das Mahatyagi

Ayurvedic Practitioner (B.Sc, Dip.Yoga, Ayurveda-Ratna)

In this workshop you will learn that through following an Ayurvedic diet you can balance your doshas (constitution), and how different foods affect the doshas. Vegetarian and non-vegetarian diets will be addressed with advice on how to apply Ayurvedic principles to your cooking to harmonize your dosha.

Certain foods when mixed together can have a toxic effect on the system e.g. milk with fish or bananas. Ayurveda has antidotes for these toxic effects and this will be explained further during the workshop. An example of an antidote is eating citrus fruit after meat.

The seasons effect and can create imbalance in our body also, so by eating seasonal foods we can help to stabilize our system. Ayurveda has diet guidelines for each season enabling us to pass through these transitional times smoothly.

What you will learn and experience...

Raman Das will introduce to you:

• Food combining- how to combine different foods according to your constitutional type
• Diet according to profession and daily activity
• Balancing the mineral levels in the body
• Foods which will encourage deep, quality sleep
• Foods which promote the healing process – e.g. after a bone injury, IBS, diverticulitis, constipation, diarrhea, asthma, diabetes, obesity, arthritis, jaundice, food allergies, food poisoning etc.
• The importance of organic foods and fresh fruit and vegetables – how pesticides effect our system
• Food with aphrodisiac qualities