In this experiential workshop, we’ll learn about Ayurveda, an ancient system of holistic healing from South Asia, with a focus on cooking. We’ll learn about Ayurvedic perspectives on food and nutrition and cook a few medicinal dishes. We’ll also explore the connections between Ayurveda and social justice through interactive dialogues and reflections. 

Prita has been an educator and activist for over 20 years and has ancestral roots in Ayurveda as a child of South Asian immigrants. She was an organizer at Casa Atabex Ache (the House of Womyn’s Power) in the South Bronx, where she co-facilitated monthly healing circles for womxn of color based on earth-based modalities. She completed a 200 RYT at Yoga to the People,  an Ayurveda Health Coach program at the MN Institute of Ayurveda, and most recently studied Ayurvedic cooking and nutrition at Greens Ayurveda in Mahe, Kerala in South India. She is a faculty member at The Evergreen State College, where she teaches anti-racism and anti-colonizing education, food justice, ethnic studies, and social movements.