Click here to take survey and enter the draw to win a free conscious cooking class!   2012 brings a new year of conscious cooking classes! We are cooking up a batch of delicious new classes for the year and you have the chance to attend one for FREE! Here’s why…   I’m setting up [...]

In the world of nutrition, my experience has been that the approaches used by nutrition professionals tend to fall under one of two labels: mainstream science and naturopathic. A new, third option now exists: Integrative Nutrition, the combining of clinical western approaches with alternative modalities.

Who do you call for professional help with nutrition – maybe to lower cholesterol, cope with a food intolerance, or get expert advice to eat better? ‘Nutritionist’ might seem the obvious answer, but it’s not: anyone, with or without qualifications, can call themselves a nutritionist.      Finding a nutrition professional wasn’t always an issue [...]

You wouldn’t think it, but this dish abides by natural laws of nutrition, such as proper food combining and use of simple plant-based wholefoods. This makes it easy to digest and assimilate the nutrients, leaving you free of bloating and with stable blood sugar levels afterwards. Oh, and a huge smile!

Places are strictly limited. For bookings, click here! Gone are the days of cooking and eating for taste at the expense of health. Learn how to lovingly create nourishing, delicious meals from simple, fresh wholefoods and give yourself and your loved ones the gift of natural health and vitality!   Learn a way of cooking [...]

The Five Pillars of Practice The next course, on the five essential elements of a yoga practice, will run from Thursday October 27th to Saturday November 26th. Each of these pillars is based on one of the five elements – Water, Earth, Air, Fire and Space. The five pillars are Asana, Vinyasa, Bandha, Pranayama and Drishti. [...]

Clean, Lean Detox Cuisine I Saturday 15 October @ Essence of Living 12 noon - 2:30pm Check out our Detox Cuisine Flyer To book, contact Essence of Living 3/52 Peerless Ave, Mermaid Beach, QLD 4218 (07) 5526-6600 essence@essenceofliving.com.au Please your palate, nourish and heal your body and skyrocket your energy levels, with this first of two exciting workshops! You’re [...]

When it comes to diet, I advise people to select wholefoods from the bounty of nature rather than eat out of packets. We select the right foods by tuning in to our bodies time and time again until we know exactly how our bodies will react to certain combinations and types of foods – this [...]

Here is part 2 of 3 installments covering Palasis’ recent water fast. You can read part 1 here. As a nutritionist and soon to be dietitian, I do not endorse such extreme measures to be undertaken in today’s western body and environment, unless the individual has a deep understanding of the risks and methods involved [...]

The perfect diet In an ideal world, there would be no need for someone to tell us what and how to eat. Like animals in the wild, prehistoric humans, and some modern yogis, dancers and athletes who are very in touch with their bodies, we would naturally be drawn to eating a vibrant, delicious, satisfying [...]