1 & 2 Weeks Ayurveda Cooking Courses in Rishikesh, India

• Eating as per body requirement:We have variable needs for nutrients in the body at different stages in life, such as during illness, pregnancy, athletic training, aging, and mental stress. Ayurveda recommends foods per each condition you are currently experiencing and can prepare you for future conditions or aspirations.
• Dosha: Each individual is unique which means their doshas are equally as unique. In Ayurveda, foods function as a way to balance the mind-body-spirit. Ayurveda is a tool to balance the various doshas and the simplest way to do it is through food and lifestyle changes. By looking at food as a way of supporting and building both physical and mental health, well-being increases and dis-ease decreases.
• Nutrition and flavour: No other cooking system has recipes, techniques, and knowledge that combines nutrition and flavour the way that Ayurveda does. That is what makes is so special. Tasty food that offers potent nutritional value is the core foundation of Ayurveda. Even a simple rice dish receives comments like, “this is the most flavourful meal I have ever had in my life!”
• Enzymes and metabolic process:Feeding to balance your dosha supports the fire (agni) or the enzymes and metabolic processes within the body, i.e. digestive process. Ayurvedic preparation reveals the secrets of which time of the day our ‘agni’ is strongest and offers us the solution to eliminate a meal for optimal health.
• Lose the Lable: Ayurvedic preparation promotes homemade meals focused on the freshest, whole foods that are unadulterated or modified by human hands (as is the case in many Western countries, unfortunately). There is no categorization among the Ayurvedic lifestyle. It does not impose titles or diets such as vegan, vegetarian or non-vegetarian.
  The beauty of Ayurveda is that is looks at the body and also the state of affairs in order to guide you back to feeding what's sensible for you. There are no foods that are not part of the Ayurvedic pathway. It embraces all types of foods including vegetables, fruits, grains, legumes, seeds, fats, meat, and spices. The difference between Ayurveda and other types of food science or diets is that it teaches you how to use these foods to your benefit and optimal health and well-being.
• Six tastes:Learn about the six tastes (rasa) of sweet, sour, salty, bitter, pungent, and astringent, and the best way to use these tastes to balance your doshas.
• Cures: Not only does Ayurveda allow us to make flavourful meals for the entire family, it opens the doorway to using foods, spices, and herbs as cures. Each food, spice, and herb has its own secret. Nature has truly given us so many gifts! Through the study of Ayurveda, we learn how to use food to make remedies for various ailments. Here are some areas that Ayurveda is famous for healing: rekindling the digestive fire, easing of menstrual cramps, boosting the immune system. We can even learn which spices or herbs to use for burns and cuts as well as which herbals blends are suitable for cold, cough, and flu.
• Carrier foods: Ayurvedic cooking identifies carrier foods as a part of its arsenal. They are used as a supply herbal medicine in your body. Such foods are drawn butter (ghee), honey, and milk. They encourage the absorption of herbal concoctions.
• Connection to foods: Most Ayurvedic preparations encourage physical connection and activity. Hands are used to grind spices, process grains to make flour, blend buttermilk to make lass, and knead dough to make bread.
  In today’s culinary world, such a large amount of these processes are often done through mechanical means such as grinders, blenders, food processors, and bread machines. The reason why Ayurvedic cooking encourages your own hands in cooking is that you put your own energy and love directly into the cooking. This is why grandmother’s and mother’s cooking cannot be repeated. Even if someone follows the same recipe, the results will be different based on the energetic application from hand to food product.

Ayurvedic cooking encourages physical movement. By manually grinding spices, processing grains to make flour, kneading dough for bread, and blending buttermilk to make lassi you put your own energy and love into the cooking.

The improper digestion produces the toxin (ama), which leads to the majority of diseases, e.g. it causes rheumatoid arthritis (amavata) when it afflicts the joints. The relation between the faulty food and diseases are well explained like if one consumes only sweet (madhura rasa) in excess, the development of diabetes is sure to arise. If the person continues on this path, then obesity is also likely to occur.

Nowadays, diseases like autoimmune diseases, diabetes (madhumeha), obesity (sthoulya), cancer (arbuda), liver diseases (yakrit vriddhi), insomnia (nidranasha), anxiety neurosis (chittodvega) and bronchial asthma (tamaka swasa) are highly prevalent and are labeled as lifestyle disorders. These lifestyle disorders are due to avoidable causes, mainly faulty diet habits and practices. Therefore, it is worth mentioning that creating appropriate, healthy eating habits balances the systems for optimal health and healing. Ayurveda focuses on creating the treatments that reduce dis-ease in the body and mind and with consistent practices, these dis-eases are likely to completely vanish. The benefits of Ayurveda are astounding --- take a course and see for yourself.