Healthy Intentions: Delicious Food to Start the New Year Right

A DHARMAKAYA CENTER RETREAT

You made a New Year’s resolution to eat healthier—and now that the excess of the holidays is over, you intend to keep it. Make it easy on yourself, by mastering a few techniques that help make delicious food healthy and healthy food delicious. You will be in the kitchen with Chef Eytan Kurland, getting hands-on training and education. Perfect your chopping, sauteing and roasting, and pick up new skills as you learn some of the simple secrets behind your favorite Dharmakaya dishes. Most importantly, learn how to incorporate these techniques and recipes into your daily life.

Every day starts with yoga and includes some optional meditation practices. You may even like it so much that vegan-uary ends up lasting the whole year. Come on your own or bring a friend. Hands-on cooking is on the menu, so class size is strictly limited to 10 people.

“The food was out of this world. It tasted like love.”

“A wonderful variety of delicious vegetarian food. I want the chef to do YouTube videos.” 

BRING A FRIEND DISCOUNT: Do you know someone who would like this program, but hasn’t been to the Center? Bring them, and you both get a 10% discount on your entire program package. For the discount to apply, there must be two reservations, at least one of whom has not taken a Dharmakaya Center class previously.

SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE: We are pleased to be able to offer partial scholarships for this program. Please apply here.

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

You promised that you would start eating more healthily. But where to start? Here! Learn how to prepare vegetarian and vegan dishes that not only offer comfort during the long winter months, but that dazzle your tastebuds and improve your health. We will work side-by-side in the kitchen, chopping, stirring and tasting. You’ll go home with the course recipes and some bonus ones—plus the knowledge to :

• Prepare comforting meals that aren’t heavy or rich
• Scale recipes to feed a crowd easily
• Choose ingredients to cook seasonally

Put on an apron, come hungry, and leave with confidence and recipes to replicate at future home meals.

EVENT HIGHLIGHTS

• Intimate setting with hands-on training
• All recipes provided
• Interactive sessions with question and answer periods
• Shamatha and guided meditations
• Delicious all-vegetarian meals with locally sourced ingredients—prepared by you!
• Option to extend stay on Personal Retreat
• Extensive library of dharma books
• Expansive wooded grounds with beautiful paths, flora and fauna

OPEN TO ALL

Suitable for any level of cooking experience, you will work alongside other students, receiving step-by-step instructions to create delicious, healthy comfort food.

SCHEDULE

(subject to change)

Friday, January 8

Saturday, January 9

Sunday, January 10