Learn to cook healthy and delicious vegetarian meals
Ayurvedic Cooking Retreat
This workshop is great for beginners, or if you're already a cook and want to try some new healthy, delicious, vegetarian ideas.
Learn to create authentic Ayurvedic vegetarian cuisine in a completely hands-on learning environment.
• Back to Basics
• Fresh from the freezer
• Healthy meals for busy people
From the preparation of the ingredients, right through to the cooking process and then to the best part - eating - you will experience it all first hand. You will receive easy to follow take home recipes to practice what you've learnt.
From the preparation of the ingredients, right through to the cooking process and then to the best part - eating - you will experience it all first hand. You will receive easy to follow take home recipes to practice what you've learnt.
Course Consists of:
- Back to Basics
- Beyond Basics
- Celebrating the Five Senses
- Very Veggie
- Fabulous Desserts
Some of the great delicacies on the menu include:
- Fragrant rice with roasted cumin and fresh coriander
- Potatoes cooked in an Ayurvedic basic sauce garnished with shallots
- Lentils cooked with mild spices and fresh herbs
- Lussi, sweet yoghurt smoothie
- Creamy rice and date pudding
- Home-made nut butter … and much more.
COOKING COURSE DATES IN 2013
- Sunday 26 May @ Nirvana Wellness Retreat, Beechmont.
- Saturday 7 Sept
- Saturday 7 Dec
Time: 9am - 3pm.
Cost: $250. Register
Cost: $250. Register
The course price includes your cooking workshop, entire set of recipes, hands-on practical experience, buffet lunch and a skill for life, all compressed into 6 hours.
Cooking Books available

Ayurvedic Cooking
Back to Basics: The yoga of food, kitchen pharmacy, foundational recipes
by Shanti Gowans $35
Food for Life
Wonderful information about Ayurveda, the science of life and 100 + recipes
by Shanti Gowans. $49.95









