Show Notes

#022 Fed up with diets and wellness hype? Christine Okezie is on a mission to guide you to approach your food, weight and body image challenges from a genuinely "whole-istic" perspective.  She's passionate about you having the right tools to understand the deeper soul truths in your health challenges so you can feel empowered in your body and in your life. 

On this show you'll learn about Ayurveda, the oldest system of holistic and preventative medicine.   The sister science to yoga, Ayurveda helps us to find balance in our body by cultivating self-awareness.   The principles of Ayurveda are based on the philosophy that all healing starts with conscious daily choices.  It’s about finding routines to ignite the inner-healing power of the physical body.  

I spoke with Rich LaMarita who’s been a practitioner and teacher of Ayurveda, for 35 years.  He has studied with Vedic and Ayurvedic master Maharishi Mahesh Yogi and has led seminars on Ayurvedic diet, cooking, yoga and meditation throughout the U.S., and in Europe and Asia.  I had the pleasure of meeting Rich, or actually Chef Rich when I was in culinary school at NYC’s Natural Gourmet Institute, where he was a chef-instructor for 25 years.   Today,  Chef Rich teaches at the Institute of Culinary Education teaching in their Health-Supportive Culinary Arts program.  

How it offers different food guidance to support unique bodily constitutions in great contrast to diet culture and nutrition dogma.  The fundamental role that self observation plays so that we can understand our own tendencies.  And ultimately, how we can engage with food and our bodies in a way that  feels deeply nourishing in our own life and with the life all around us. 

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