Thursday, 24 April 2014
Thursday, 17 April 2014
Mahesh and the 6 Ayurvedic tastes
We welcomed Mahesh Sharma to Cooking Club to demonstrate and share his skills and knowledge of South Indian Cuisine using the 6 tastes of Ayurveda amd adding a spiritual conciousness to the activity of cooking.
Mahesh learned to cook from his mother.
Thursday, 3 April 2014
Dont forget..............Tuesday April 8th 1pm-2.30pm
Amanda Rew, a local herbalist and educator will be taking us on a Walk and Talk around Walworth Garden farm to look at culinary herbs and their medicinal values. All meet promptly at 1pm at CoolTan Community Kitchen.
Amanda Rew, a local herbalist and educator will be taking us on a Walk and Talk around Walworth Garden farm to look at culinary herbs and their medicinal values. All meet promptly at 1pm at CoolTan Community Kitchen.
Our growing window-sill herb garden and the lovely view from The Cooking Club Community Kitchen
A Mindfulness Eating Exercise: Simple Instructions
Using a mindfulness eating exercise on a regular basis is only one part of a mindfulness approach to your diet. The liberating power of mindfulness takes deeper effect when you begin to pay mindful attention to your thoughts, emotions, and bodily sensations, all of which lead us to eat. Mindfulness (awareness) is the foundation that many people have been missing for overcoming food cravings, addictive eating, binge eating, emotional eating, and stress eating.
If you’ve heard about mindful eating but aren’t sure where or how to start, here are instructions for a brief mindfulness eating exercise.
The following exercise is simple and will only take a few minutes.
Find a small piece of food, such as one raisin or nut, or a small cookie. You can use any food that you like. Eating with mindfulness is not about deprivation or rules.
Begin by exploring this little piece of food, using as many of your senses as possible.
First, look at the food. Notice its texture. Notice its color.
Now, close your eyes, and explore the food with your sense of touch. What does this food feel like? Is it hard or soft? Grainy or sticky? Moist or dry?
Notice that you’re not being asked to think, but just to notice different aspects of your experience, using one sense at a time. This is what it means to eat mindfully.
Before you eat, explore this food with your sense of smell. What do you notice?
Now, begin eating. No matter how small the bite of food you have, take at least two bites to finish it.
Take your first bite. Please chew very slowly, noticing the actual sensory experience of chewing and tasting. Remember, you don’t need to think about your food to experience it. You might want to close your eyes for a moment to focus on the sensations of chewing and tasting, before continuing.
Notice the texture of the food; the way it feels in your mouth.
Notice if the intensity of its flavor changes, moment to moment.
Take about 20 more seconds to very slowly finish this first bite of food, being aware of the simple sensations of chewing and tasting.
It isn’t always necessary to eat slowly in order to eat with mindfulness. But it’s helpful at first to slow down, in order to be as mindful as you can.
Now, please take your second and last bite.
As before, chew very slowly, while paying close attention to the actual sensory experience of eating: the sensations and movements of chewing, the flavor of the food as it changes, and the sensations of swallowing.
Just pay attention, moment by moment.
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Tuesday, 1 April 2014
Please come and join us on Thursday 3rd April for a talk on Weight Management and Emotional Eating by Harley St. dietition Susan Burry.
You will be getting top professional advice absolutely FREE!!!!
We will start promptly at 1pm and finish at 2.30pm so be sure to come just before at 12.50.
Hope to see you there.
You will be getting top professional advice absolutely FREE!!!!
We will start promptly at 1pm and finish at 2.30pm so be sure to come just before at 12.50.
Hope to see you there.
Come to our Free Talk this Thursday 3rd April!
Please come and join us for a talk by Harley Street Dietition Susan Burry and get professional advice on Weight Management and Emotional Eating absolutely FREE!!!
We will start at 1pm sharp in Artroom 1, CoolTan Arts
We will start at 1pm sharp in Artroom 1, CoolTan Arts
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