Health Empowerment Workshops

These interactive workshops are designed to enable participants to take charge of their bodies and rekindle their intuitive self-knowledge. They combine leading edge functional nutrition science with traditional wisdom and common sense. Learn to make healthful choices and improve your well being. A wide range of subjects are covered, including:

General Nutrition Guidelines • Improve your health through self-assessment • How to recognize nutritional needs expressed in the way you look and feel • Arrest colds • Handle minor emergencies • Reduce stress naturally • Self mastery with body typing • How we know what to eat • Develop common sense externally, intuition internally • Develop harmony with nature and your own biorhythms • Seasonal eating

Past workshop topics:

"Improve your health through self-assessment. Fat savvy."
In this workshop we will look at how we can monitor our health through understanding the signs our bodies give us (tongue, hair, fingernails etc.) General nutrition guidelines. Food pyramid evaluation. The basics on good vs. bad fats.

"Seasonal eating: autumn. How to stop a cold. Good fats: olive oil."
This workshop will investigate why we should eat in harmony with the seasons. Autumn specific foods. We will look at the benefits of olive oil in our diet. How to stop a cold from stopping you with natural methods such as food, herbs and massaging your own key acupressure points.

"Self Mastery with body typing. Good fats: coconut oil."
This time we will explore one of the oldest methods of body typing: ayurvedic body types. Body typing lays the foundation for the intimate self knowledge that is the goal of this workshop series. You will understand why you don't like the wind, why you get colds in damp weather or why hot spices disagree with you. We will also look at fats further, this time coconut oil.

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