August 2, 2011 (Powerhomebiz.com) You may know that Essential Oils and Chinese herbs are used to treat anything from soar throats to cancer, but did you know that you can use these powerful ingredients in your cooking as well? The Inner Metamorphosis University in Chicago offers fun and informative cooking workshops on how to improve your health and well-being through cooking with these vital oils and herbs; a practice known as Dietary Therapy!
Dietary Therapy is a holistic practice based on the idea that “you are what you eat.” By learning to cook and eat healthy, organic meals made with beneficial ingredients, such as Essential Oils and Chinese Herbs, you can learn to let your food be the medicine your body needs to operate at optimum levels.
COOKING WITH ESSENTIAL OILS
Plants contain virtually everything our bodies need to thrive. By concentrating a plant’s extraordinary ingredients into an Essential Oil you can access up 70 times more therapeutic potency than by eating the plant itself. By cooking with these Essential Oils you can provide your body with all of the plant’s healing nutrients, vitamins, hormones, amino acids, oxygenating molecules, trace minerals, enzymes, and more. The Inner Metamorphosis University invites you to learn the secret to creating delicious meals that also nurture your body. Please join us Saturday August 6, 12:00 to 3:00pm for Cooking with Essential Oils where you will learn which the benefits of this therapeutic cooking style to add extra layers of flavor complexity and discover the myriad ways that these most aromatic components of plants. Registration is required as space is limited.
COOKING WITH CHINESE HERBS
Another not-to-be-missed workshop offered by IMU is our popular How to Cook with Chinese Herbs class, also taught by Benjamin Zappin. Chinese herbs have been used for generations as a way to achieve optimal health and well-being. These plants have been used for centuries to treat ailments without the side-effects of synthetic drugs. Using these impressive ingredients in cooking adds their therapeutic properties to bring balance to the body and help remedy specific diseases. The Chinese Herbs cooking class at IMU will show you how to create versatile and delicious nourishing meals with incredible dietary therapeutic benefits. The Cooking with Chinese Herbs workshop will be held Sunday August 7th from 12:00-3:00pm. Registration is required as space is limited.
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
IMU offers fantastic Dietary Therapy workshops taught by professional caterer and herbalist, Benjamin Zappin, L.Ac. Benjamin been catering events and teaching traditional Dietary Therapy in acupuncture schools for over a decade. He maintains a clinical acupuncture and herbal practice in San Francisco where he also operates Five Flavors Herbs and directs Sylvan Institute of Botanical Medicine. http://lifesurfing.org