Intentional Cooking with Spices

Pause, unwind, and discover the healing benefits of cooking with spices through an Ayurvedic lens. Create spice blends, make tea, learn how foods' qualities impact digestion, and discover how including tastes in food and drinks will help you feel more content. Take home some spicy goodies and detailed Ayurvedic theory information about continuing to use spices for yourself and your family to aid digestion and enhance satiation. Spices have been used for thousands of years around the world and in Ayurveda as medicine. They can be used to increase the digestive properties of a meal as a way of removing impurities in the body and to cultivate balance. Each spice, fresh or ground, has a different quality. Your awareness of this can help you decide what you use, when and why. Bring a large mortar and pestle and three small recycled jars for your spice blends.