Ayurvedic Cooking Class: October 26th from 6 – 8:30 pm. Wish to optimize your health? Fall is an excellent time to prepare foods from the season as roots ripen, storage crops flavor, and the weather gets cooler. Get creative recipe ideas for eating wisely to optimize digestion. Learn how to prepare Delicata Squash, Mixed Vegetable Curry and Homemade Applesauce. The twist? Ann is a Ayurvedic Practitioner and will infuse the class with wisdom of the ages: learn about your Ayurvedic body type (Dosha) and the foods and recipes for the Fall (Vata) season. We will also make chai from scratch! Cardamom, clove, pepper, cinnamon, ginger, oh my! Come learn how simple it is to make your own chai. Choose from the spices that most balance you. Stay warm, purify your blood, relieve gas, restore the nervous system, strengthen bones, improve digestion. DEMO, Level: Beginning.
Ann Wagoner co-founded the Institute of Ayurvedic Yoga Therapy in the fall of 2015. This year long program certified students from Yoga Alliance and NAMA to be an Ayurvedic Yoga Consultant. The 300-hour certificate allows those with a 200-hour RYT to become Yoga Therapists.
Ayur means life and Veda means knowledge. This ancient knowledge of life holds the secrets to a healthy mind, body and spirit. Discover how you can share these ancient healing secrets with others.
Ann Wagoner is an Ayurvedic Practitioner with Lighthouse Ayurveda, Yoga Teacher, MA, CAP, E-RYT-200. Learn healthy routines for life. Applications for 2015 are now closed. For NEW programs and courses in 2016-17 email ann@lighthouseayurveda.com. Oregon Yoga and Ayurveda therapy students can be distance learners as well. Attendance in person at the school is required. Courses are offered one weekend per month. Learn to use yoga, pranayama, meditation, diet, marma, chakras, daily routines as well as tongue and pulse reading to balance the doshas.
RamaFlierAcclaimed Yoga teacher and international peace mediator, Rama Jyoti Vernon will teach yoga and lead a discussion from her new book “Yoga: The Practice and Myth of Sacred Geometry” on Friday April 3rd. From 1-4pm, she will be at SomaSpace, 4050 NE Broadway Street ($40). From 6:30 to 8:30pm, she will be at New Renaissance Bookshop, 1338 NW 23rd Avenue ($20). To register, email: ann@lighthouseayurveda.com or call 503-890-2105.
Ayurvedic Yoga Training! Four full-day Sundays: January 25th, February 22nd, March 29th, April 26th at The Bodhi Tree Studio, 3430 SE Belmont Street, Portland, OR 97214. 10am to 5pm with lunch at Tao of Tea from 1-2pm. $100 for one day, $300 for all four.
Learn to use yoga poses, focused breathwork and daily practices for seasonal and constitutional (Dosha) balance. Expand your Yoga practice with a deeper understanding of Ayurveda and the three Doshas.
Friday, December 12th, “Ayurvedic Cooking Class” at The Herb Shoppe, 3912 N. Mississippi Ave, Portland. OR; 6-8pm. $35.
Learn delicious and nutritious seasonal cooking with Ayurvedic spices. Ayurveda is the sister science of Yoga, and teaches us how to eat the best local foods for the most balance. Enjoy freshly prepared Ayurvedic food for dinner, take home three recipes, and find some new ideas for holiday meals. We’ll be cooking Kitchari, Chai and Curried Butternut Squash.
Fall and winter are a time of increased coldness and movement (Vata), and sometimes snow! For best health, be sure to take time to slow down, chew your food thoroughly and have plenty of good fats such as ghee. Ann Wagoner has been practicing Ayurveda in the Pacific Northwest for the past four years. She is also a certified Yoga teacher. Learn about the nutrition to go with your yoga or exercise practice to augment your sattvic qualities.
When your daily intake of spices and food is appropriate for the season, disease can be prevented. Let your food be your medicine!
Ayurvedic Yoga Training! Four full-day Sundays: May 11, June 22, August 3 and September 21 at The Bodhi Tree Studio, 3430 SE Belmont Street, Portland, OR 97214. 10am to 5pm with lunch at Tao of Tea from 1-2pm. $100 for one day, $300 for all four.
Learn to use yoga poses, focused breathwork and daily practices for seasonal and constitutional (Dosha) balance. Expand your Yoga practice with a deeper understanding of Ayurveda and the three Doshas.
Portland, Oregon hosts its second annual Ayurvedic Health Fair on Saturday, March 22nd from 10 am to 4pm at Tabor Space on 54th Street and SE Belmont. For the past 20 years, renowned herbalist K.P. Khalsa, author of The Way of Ayurvedic Herbs, has said that maybe this year will be the year that Ayurveda finally takes off in Oregon. All signs point to 2014 being a year of change in the Pacific Northwest.
Only last year, Seattle’s Bastyr University launched its Master of Science in Ayurvedic Sciences and became the first such accredited program in the nation. And the year before, NCNM hosted an Ayurveda Seminar Weekend with Dr. Shanbhag, Dr. Sodhi, Dr. Dhru and K.P. Khalsa. Ayurvedic Practitioners in Oregon plan to launch further programs in 2014. Come to the Ayurvedic Health Fair and meet practitioners from the region. Find out more about this healing system and how it can benefit you. It is cost effective, pro-nature, holistic, safe and a complete diet and lifestyle system. You can boost your immunity, improve your digestion, find better sleep and less stress. Find out more about what Dosha you are and what simple tips could bring you in to balance. Guest speakers will present on how:
Food can be your medicine
Ayurvedic approaches to women’s health
Introductory tips from the secrets of Ayurveda
Diabetes can be addressed with Ayurvedic protocols
Yoga and Ayurveda’s combined benefits
Spices to balance your Dosha
The Spring Equinox is one of the best times of year for cleansing. Take advantage of the moment and bring the bliss within yourself to a fuller opening. The event is FREE. For more on tabling or directions, visit the Ayurvedic Health Fair.
This vegetable frittata is made with local Pacific Northwest vegetables from the Sauvie Island community supported agriculture. I find this a great way to use up zucchini. I’ve served frittata for a brunch with zucchini carrot cake as a complement for a meal of “Zucchinis in Flight”. If you’re going all out, prepare a raw zucchini salad dressing from Gabriel Cousen’s raw food book. Zucchini blends with other foods so well, it’s hard to recognize.
Ingredients:
6 eggs
2 T olive oil
1 1/2 cups onion
4-5 slices old bread, cubed and dried 2-3 days (1 1/2 cup)
Kitchen spices aid in daily digestion and disease prevention. Fresh ginger, lemon and salt promote salivation at the beginning of digestion for those without an appetite. Roasted fennel seeds after a meal helps digestion and preserve dental health. What spices are best in the Springtime?
