Plant Consciousness, Food & You

A Teleseminar with the Organization of Nature Evolutionaries

*Watch the recording HERE

Come and join me for an enlightening, engaging conversation about food and our sacred relationship with the plant kingdom. Through small powerful moments, we truly can change our lives to be in ceremony with the divine. How do we feed ourselves mindfully, consciously, and with great reverence for Mother Earth and all her beings? I will share seasonal recipes that engage all the elements while honoring the divinity that lives within us all.

Mindful Eating in Harmony with Spring

A Yoga & Nutrition Workshop with Laura Parisi & Regina Arabia
Online Workshop

Spring is a time of rebirth, renewal and regeneration. It sets the tone for the year to be expressed through our presence. How can we eat and flow in harmony with this season; experience a clearer and calmer mind despite the surreal reality we are living in now? We invite you to open your hearts and explore the infinite creation of exciting possibilities, as we release, let go and heal with a new awareness. 

Bring your yoga mats and a small blanket as Regina leads the group through a yoga practice that invites the body to move with ease and freedom. We will relax and meditate with the music of the plants, and then participate in our own kitchens as Laura prepares light Spring recipes that you can follow along with.

Should you choose to join us in the kitchen, recipes and a simple shopping list will be sent to you upon receipt of payment to give you time to gather the ingredients before the class. We will also be sending you a private zoom link to access the workshop on the day of the event.

FREE Spring Webinar

Online Workshop with Laura Parisi & Regina Arabia

Join us *online* in Regina’s Studio and Laura’s Kitchen.  Regina will share her favorite yoga tools to pacify stress and anxiety. Laura will discuss immune-boosting nutrition and easy recipes.

TO PARTICIPATE: Download the Zoom App to your phone, iPad or computer. Register in advance for this meeting. You will receive a confirmation email from Zoom regarding how to join the call (note: it sometimes goes into your spam folder - be sure to check there!). Thanks!

Harmonizing with the Seasons: Autumn Regeneration

with Laura Parisi & Regina Arabia

Sad to say goodbye to summer? You are not alone! Moving between the seasons may cause irritability, anxiety, mild depression or all of the above. This workshop is intended to support you in this transition, helping you to maintain excellent health and spirit.

In this workshop we will: move through a yoga practice for grounding & nurturing; learn a simple, 5-minute, self chakra connection to clear stagnant energy; reduce stress through relaxation that is guided by the Music of the Plants, embark on a journey of self-renewal through creative visualization, enjoy a seasonal soup, sweet treat & herbal tea.

Harmonizing with the Wisdom of the Heart

A Yoga & Nutrition Mini-Retreat

The intention for this mini retreat is one of deep self care - the care and keeping of the heart. In this workshop, Laura will join her colleague, yoga practitioner Regina Arabia, to learn about primary and secondary food in the support of heart health.

In our retreat you will move through several yoga sequences, learn breathing techniques & gratitude exercises, and participate in a guided meditation. We will: Start with a fun physical asana, partner poses included, Learn breathing techniques and chants for the heart, Reduce stress through relaxation and meditation that is guided by the Music of the Plants, Practice gratitude exercise for compassion and forgiveness, Prepare a gluten-free & vegan lunch, Better understand how cholesterol and high blood pressure affect heart vitality.

Heritage Cookbook Preview Class!

Over the course of the last year, Laura and her daughter, Nicola, have been co-writing and photographing a cookbook together! This class offers a sneak peek of some of the work they've been doing, focusing on a Spring menu that encourages us to awaken to the spirit of the Earth. Heritage, Celebrating Family Recipes is coming out November of this year. Check the blog and Instagram for more updates and behind-the-scenes shots.

Cooking & Eating for a Healthy Gut & Brain

In this workshop, we will explore the foods that support healthy functioning of the gut and the brain using seasonal foods. The digestion that begins in our belly affects the digestion of our brain cognition and our thoughts. Learn more about how to keep and achieve a positive and focused outlook on life through nutrition. 

Harmonizing with the Season of Winter

A Yoga and Nutrition Mini-Retreat for Self-Care Practices and Relaxation

The winter season is known in Ayurveda as Kapha Season, associated with the energy of structure and lubrication. It is also a time for the body, mind and soul to catch up with each other. If you want to stay healthy all year long, try living in harmony with these natural cycles by adjusting to the changes in your environment, through the foods you eat, the type and amount of exercise you do and the herbs you ingest. In this workshop we will: Practice a morning Kapha Detox Yoga, Learn Breathing Techniques to strengthen the respiratory system and warm the body, Learn about the most important foods to support your constitution during the Season of Winter, Learn about important herbs and essential oils to assist in keeping your spine strong and your joints flexible, Move to a meditation that is guided by the music of the plant kingdom, Enjoy a revitalizing calcium and mineral rich vegetarian soup to support the health of our bones.

Awakening Feminine Beauty (Spring)

Everything we eat influences our bodies physically of course, but also energetically. We will prepare a menu that focuses on a woman’s sacred journey with food. Rooted Angel Cooking Workshops honor the sacred connection with Mother Earth and the Divine through our communion with food and one another. We focus on the use of whole, fresh, organic, seasonal and local foods. Come with an open heart - no previous experience in the kitchen is required.

Mindful Eating in Harmony with Spring

Yoga sequence and breath work will help us to release old patterns and clear energy systems in the mind and body. We will invite awareness to the connection to the foods we are eating in the season of Spring. There are certain plants that will assist in the cleansing of the liver, the kidneys, the digestive tract. We will discuss practical ways to keep your energy flowing freely and effortlessly both on and off the mat. Enjoy a seasonal beverage and healthy snack as we listen to the Music of the Plants device, a special instrument created in Damanhur, Italy.

Awaken to Early Spring

A demonstration of cutting and cooking methods, harmonizing of acid/alkaline forces for a balanced meal. Home gardening & planting of the seed in relation to biodynamic principles, and yes, we will prepare a meal together! Simple recipes to inspire busy families who want to be vibrantly healthy as we transition gracefully into a new season.

Spring Food and Mood

Creating a meal through the 5 rhythms of the soul.

Fermentation and Enzymes

Preparing the body to receive finer vibrations and energies that are available for optimal health and well-being. Chewing and breathing exercises will be included in the workshop. 

Summer Restoration

Cook from the heart, made from the heart. Rejuvenating herbal tonics, teas and seasonings will be incorporated into the meal.

Cooking with Qi and the Summer Garden

Explore and co-create a summer menu as we tune into the musical vibration of energy from the plant kingdom. 

Nourishing the Chakras - Seasonal

Creating a menu through color, vibration and tone to feed and revitalize the energy centers of the body. This class has been taught at various times of year, to celebrate the bounty of what the seasons have to offer. One summer, the focus was on smoothie recipes - using colorful, seasonal whole foods. Learn about different combinations of vegetables, fruits and superfoods and how the inherent colors support the energy centers and regenerative systems of the body.

Harmonizing with the Season of Autumn

A Yoga & Nutrition Mini-Retreat with Regina Arabia and Laura Parisi

These days of seasonal change around the equinox are a perfect time to cleanse, rejuvenate and develop a trust with our body and spirit, to guide and ground us in the areas of movement, diet, meditation and lifestyle. In this workshop we will: move through a basic yoga sequence, learn about Abhyanga (self-care massage), practice breathing techniques, and learn about herbs & essential oils that can assist us in the autumn transition. Attendees will enjoy a revitalizing broth and healthy snack. Take-home recipes & a small Rooted Angel Essence Blend will be provided. Come join us!

Cooking for the Love of the Earth

Enliven the imagination and thinking as we create a menu that encourages us to awaken to the spirit of the Earth, the spirit of Love. Taught seasonally to honor what each season has to share with us.

Divine Desserts

Instructor: Nicola Parisi

A conscious dessert-making workshop using unrefined sugars, nut butters and gluten-free flours. An opportunity to explore and bring awareness to some of our everyday habits surrounding sugar intake and processed food. 

Winter Regeneration

We will create a lunch / dinner menu of whole foods that bring light, energy and seasonal balance - especially aimed at restoring our adrenals!

Seasonal Market Tour

Whole Foods Markets (Darien, Greenwich, etc)

These tours are offered seasonally at local Whole Foods locations. It is intended to inspire and nurture you, whether you want to lose weight, gain more clarity and youthful energy or work through a specific health issue. Grocery shopping can be daunting - and this tour will help you to shop with ease, focus, and knowledge around what's best for you and your family. Tour includes comprehensive handouts and recipes!

Medicinal Kitchen

A focus on botanical & plant spirit remedies and spices. We will also cover the therapeutic use of the 5 tastes and their relationship to the health of the organs of the body.

Healthy Body, Healthy Brain

Eating for energy, regeneration & keeping a positive outlook. Learn more about good nutrition that improves the biology of life with this high vibrational menu.

Building Better Bones

This class focused on calcium rich, nutritious Whole Foods and nourishing herbal infusions. Learn about the 8 keys to healthy bones through food and lifestyle balance. Laura will be co-teaching with a guest - bone specialist Irma Jennings, and together they will help to provide some tips and recipes that are beneficial to your vitality & longevity.

Eating & Living in Balance for the Holidays

Family-inspired, health-conscious dishes that reflect a way of finding the unique and sustainable balance in each and every person who attends.

Cosmic Memory of Lulu

Every year during the holidays we make doggie treats for all of our 4-legged friends! Sadly we said good bye to Lu’s physical body last year but she’s still with us in spirit! We will make, roll out and bake as many love biscuits as we can.  *No fee to participate.

Sound Healing Yoga & Healing Fair

Regina Arabia will be leading a beautiful yoga sequence, accompanied by the healing sound of Tibetan bowls with Karin Reetz. Other practitioners and healers will be offering their services. Proceeds donated in full to H.O.P.E. Gymnastics, an organization that empowers girls through sport. Rooted Angel Skin healer and other apothecary items will also be available.