Workshops
About Our Workshops
Nutricia Consulting offers a variety of topics for in-house wellness seminars. These interactive, informative workshops make wonderful lunch, evening, or weekend events. Each seminar is tailored to your organization’s needs, lasting anywhere from 45 minute lunch seminars to afternoon garden gatherings to full-day intensives to three-day retreats! Schedule one as a special event, or pick your favorites and offer them as a subscription series.
Clients include The Actors' Center, Baker Botts LLP, Chadbourne & Parke LLP, Circle Yoga, Healing Arts of Capitol Hill, Common Good City Farm, Old City Green, Tai Sophia Institute, Tranquil Space Bethesda, and Venus Theatre.
Choose from the following topics, or contact me to design a custom workshop:
Workshops on Healthy Eating:
The Complete Plate: How to be Fed by Your Food What does it mean to "eat healthy"? And what exactly IS "holistic nutrition"? Re-examine the traditional meal with new tools for structuring a healthy breakfast, lunch, dinner, and beyond.
Stop Singing the Sugar Blues Are you stuck on a sugar roller-coaster? Learn to deconstruct your cravings, and find healthy alternatives to refined sugar.
Staying Healthy On-The-Go Is your challenge is cooking with a busy schedule, or eating on the run? Or both? Learn time-saving tips and tricks.
Workshops on Herbalism and Health:
Kitchen Medicine Discover the health benefits of common kitchen herbs and spices. Bring a mug!
Herbalism 101 Harvest the power of your garden! We’ll discuss the history of using healing plants, as participants learn to dry herbs, brew teas, and make poultices and compresses. Bring a mug!
Herbalism 102 Learn to create tinctures and vinegars, and begin to understand the art of matching plants to people.
Supporting Digestion with Food & Herbs This interactive class begins with a holistic overview of digestion, and provides participants with simple tools and practices to balance digestive challenges. Bring a mug!
Boosting Your Immune System with Food & Herbs Perfect for cold and flu season, this interactive workshop provides participants with simple tools and practices to stay healthy all year long. Bring a mug!
Stress Management with Food & Herbs Feeling stressed out? Participants will gain a holistic view of the nervous system, and learn simple, clear practices to balance the stressors in their lives. Bring a mug!
Optimal Heart Health Learn practical, easy ways to support your cardiovascular system through food, lifestyle, and herbs. Bring a mug!
Supporting Women's Health with Food & Herbs Just for the ladies! Understand how to support your body’s needs through all the cycles of your life. Bring a mug!
Outdoor Workshops for the Garden or Neighborhood:
Herb Walk An herb walk is the traditional way to learn about herbs. Bring your questions and we’ll walk and talk in the garden or farm, interacting with the plants where they grow.
Weed Walk An herb walk is the traditional way to learn about herbs. Bring your questions and we’ll walk and talk in the city streets or an abandoned field, interacting with the plants where they grow.
Workshops on Making Herbal Products:
Herbalism 101 Harvest the power of your garden! We’ll discuss the history of using healing plants, as participants learn to dry herbs, brew teas, and make poultices and compresses. Bring a mug!
Herbalism 102 Learn to create tinctures and vinegars, and begin to understand the art of matching plants to people.
Creating Infused Oils and Salves Learn to create herbal massage oils, salves, and lip balms in this interactive workshop. Participants take home samples, and should dress prepared to get messy!
Creating Herbal Cordials Learn to create delicious seasonal holiday beverages using infused brandy, fruit, chocolate, and more! Participants must be age 21 or over.
Don't see the topic you want? I will be happy to create a customized workshop for your organization.
Contact me for full workshop descriptions and booking information.
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