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Ayurveda views winter as the season where Kapha generally predominates with its qualities of earth and water. Winter is cold, damp, heavy and cloudy (like Kapha) and sometimes dry, cold, windy and clear (like Vāta, which has air and space as its main qualities).

A warm curry is the perfect soothing meal antidote for the cold, damp season of winter. Vidya will show how to make this particular curry vegetable recipe that is spicy, warm and nourishing, and which is excellent for all three Ayurvedic doshas – Vāta, Pitta and Kapha. What gives this recipe, comprised mainly of potatoes and vegetables, its distinctive flavor is curry powder, a blend of powdered spices such as coriander, turmeric, cumin and often some form of pepper or chili.

Join Vidya as she guides you through each and every step. At the end of the class, you will have delicious food to eat, all cooked in one pot! Registrants will receive a short shopping list of ingredients and options.

The workshop will be live online on Zoom and will be recorded. Registrants will receive a copy of the video.

Vidya (Denise) Chapman is a certified yoga teacher since 2001, a licensed massage therapist, an ayurvedic practitioner and professional member of NAMA. After a life-threatening illness in 2002, she was introduced to Dr. Vasant Lad at Ananda Ashram. In 2007 Vidya travelled to India to study yoga with Nischala Joy Devi and Bhaskar and to see Ayurveda in its homeland. She is a graduate of the Ayurvedic Institute in Albuquerque, New Mexico, founded by Dr. Vasant Lad, and of the Gurukula and Panchakarma Therapy programs at his institute and clinic in Pune, India. Vidya has taught Ayurvedic principles, philosophy and cooking at several yoga teacher trainings, as well as marma therapy, shirodhara, abhyanga and other ayurvedic body therapies at the Sivananda Yoga Retreat in Nassau, Bahamas.