Ayurvedic Nourishment Retreat
A Daylong Workshop
Vichara Yoga Shala
Join Tiffany for a full-day immersion into the healing art of Ayurvedic nourishment — a day devoted to food as medicine, cooking as ceremony, and eating as a pathway back into harmony with the body, the seasons, and the sacred rhythms of life.
The Sacredness of Food
This is not simply a cooking class. It is an invitation to remember that food carries prāṇa, that digestion is sacred fire, and that the way we prepare, offer, receive, and digest food can become a profound act of healing.
Location
Held in the peaceful beauty of the Vichara Yoga Shala, this workshop will weave together Ayurvedic teachings, hands-on inspiration, nourishing food, gentle yoga, meditation, and time to reconnect with the deeper intelligence of your own body.
Ayurvedic Cooking
Ayurvedic cooking begins with the understanding that food is alive with qualities. Every ingredient, spice, cooking method, and meal carries a specific effect on the body, mind, digestion, and subtle energy.
Together, we will explore how to prepare simple, beautiful, deeply nourishing meals that support agni, reduce āma, strengthen vitality, and bring more sattva into daily life.
You will learn how to think Ayurvedically in the kitchen — not through rigid rules, but through relationship: relationship with the ingredients, the fire, the season, your constitution, your hunger, and the needs of the moment.
Understanding the Doṣas
We will explore the foundations of Vāta, Pitta, and Kapha in a practical and embodied way.
You will learn how each doṣa expresses itself through the elements, the guṇas, digestion, appetite, cravings, energy, emotions, and food preferences. From there, we will look at how food can either aggravate or pacify each doṣa, and how to begin recognizing what your body is truly asking for.
Cooking for Vāta, Pitta & Kapha
Ayurvedic cooking becomes deeply therapeutic when we understand how to adapt food for each constitution and imbalance.
We will explore:
For Vāta: warm, moist, grounding, oily, soft, and stabilizing foods that soothe dryness, depletion, anxiety, irregular digestion, and nervous system sensitivity.
For Pitta: cooling, calming, mildly spiced, refreshing, and nourishing foods that reduce heat, acidity, intensity, inflammation, and irritability.
For Kapha: light, warm, spiced, dry, stimulating, and clarifying foods that support circulation, digestion, motivation, and the movement of stagnation.
You will learn how the same meal can be adjusted with spices, oils, textures, toppings, cooking methods, and portions to support different people in different ways.
Cooking with the Seasons & the Weather
Ayurveda teaches us that we are not separate from nature. The weather outside enters us through the senses, the skin, the breath, and the digestive fire.
In this workshop, we will explore how to cook according to ṛtu — the season — and also how to respond to the actual weather of the day.
What do we eat when it is cold and windy?
What supports us when the weather is damp and heavy?
How do we cool and nourish the body in summer heat?
How do we transition gracefully between seasons?
You will learn how to make seasonal adjustments using food, spices, oils, teas, cooking methods, and daily rhythms so that your kitchen becomes a place of living intelligence.
You Will Leave With
A deeper understanding of Ayurvedic cooking
Practical tools for cooking for Vāta, Pitta, and Kapha
Seasonal and weather-based food wisdom
An understanding of Laṅghana and Bṛṁhaṇa approaches
Simple rituals to make cooking and eating sacred
Greater clarity around agni, āma, and ojas
Inspiration to bring more beauty, rhythm, and reverence into your kitchen
A felt sense of nourishment from the inside out (not to mention a FULL BELLY!)
Come Be Nourished
This day is for anyone who longs to deepen their relationship with food, digestion, seasonal living, and sacred daily rhythm.
Whether you are new to Ayurveda or already walking this path, you are warmly invited to spend the day at the Vichara Yoga Shala, surrounded by beauty, good food, wisdom, community, meditation, yoga, and the living presence of nature.
Come learn how to cook with more intuition, eat with more presence, and nourish yourself in a way that touches body, mind, heart, and spirit.