Rooted Chefs Youth Culinary Workshop

Youth aged 10yrs+ are invited to join for this unique week long workshop centred around empowerment, mindfulness, and exploration in the kitchen and beyond. Youth explore the wonders of food and how they can bring nourishment through all of their senses using everyday foods and herbs. Through daily morning yoga, meditation and simple breathwork, these tools will cultivate grounding and awareness which will lay the foundation for afternoons spent crafting delicious and nutritious creations.

This program is designed to help youth grow each day, building on skills through fun, interactive and stimulating activities everyday. Each day is bursting with flavour, as we explore all of the senses and how we can nourish each one to live a life with more awareness and care. Stemming from the roots of yoga and Ayurveda, this program is centred around our essential connection with Nature.

Take Home Skills:

- food preparation & handling
- knife skills
- how to follow a recipe
- how to create a recipe & menu
- team building & communication
- entreprenurship (market day)
- meditation & breathing practices
- attunement with the 5 senses
- intuitive connection


Schedule

Day 1 - TASTE

10am
- Ice breaker game/meditation/share circle
- kitchen basics/knife skills 101
- create soup & salad
12:30-1:30pm
- lunch break
1:30-3pm
- explore Ayurveda & 6 tastes
- create bliss balls
- game/home

Day 2 - SIGHT

10am
- yoga/meditation/share circle
- kitchen basics & food prep
- create mac n cheese & greens
12:30-1:30pm
- lunch break
1:30-3pm
- paint with natural homemade food and herb based paints
- game/home

Day 3 - TOUCH

10am
- field trip - garden harvest day & walking meditation
- make plant based pizza & limeade
12:30-1:30pm
- lunch break
1:30-3pm
- create facial plant masks
- game/home

Day 4 - SOUND

10am
- Sound journey & dance
- team challenge! (follow recipe in teams and create lunch)
12:30-1:30pm
- lunch break
1:30-3pm
- menu planning and meal prep for market day

Day 5 - all 5 Senses
- Market day! Offer lunch to the community and share in all the bountiful experiences of the week

Meet the fascilitator!
Rainer

Rainer has a deep love and connection with food and serving community. She has been serving communities plates full of love for the past 10 years, and is now an Ayurvedic chef and health advisor. Her passion is in sharing this knowledge, teaching and mentoring those looking to find balance in their lives. Her joy for children is sparked by shared curiosity, playfulness and learning. Just as much as she may be a guide or mentor to youth, she marvels at the inherent wisdom that each child holds within. It is her intention to fascilitate a safe and inspiring space to explore the inner and outer worlds of Nature, through one of the most essential building blocks of life - food. It is with a heart full of gratitude that Rainer offers this intentionally curated workshop for youth to feel empowered in their lives, rooted and well resourced as they grow and expand.