Classes

Conscious Nourishment: Exploring Our Relationship With Food & Hunger

Sat, Sep 10, 2016 2:30pm 14:30 Sat, Oct 1, 2016 4:30pm 16:30

Schedule: 4 Saturdays from 2:30-4:30PM — September 10, September 17, September 24, October 1

Location: 131 Essex Street, New York, New York, 10002 (Studio 4)

Cost: $300

How we feed ourselves reflects how we feel about ourselves. For most women, our relationship with food is based in fear and rules. When consumed with thoughts about food — planning the next meal, counting calories, congratulating ourselves when we are “good” and castigating ourselves when we are “bad” — we are unable to inhabit our bodies and our lives fully.

Nourishment is not just about nutrition: we are also fed by the stories we tell ourselves about who we are, by movement and stillness, and by the people with whom we interact and the activities in which we choose to engage. But when we are disconnected from our inherent body-wisdom, we respond to our various hungers (physical, sensorial, emotional, relational, intellectual) by using or abusing food and our bodies.

In a community of eight women, over the course of four weeks, we will explore our hungers with compassion and curiosity to awaken the body-wisdom we all possess. We will examine our current stories, imagine the stories we might prefer, and begin to implement new ways of nourishing ourselves in order to live new stories.

Through interpersonal exercises, narrative practice, meditation, mindfulness, movement, and spiritual inquiry we will:

  • Examine our patterns and beliefs about food, hunger, and our bodies
  • Explore the many types of hunger: physical, sensorial, emotional, relational, intellectual
  • Experiment with using pleasure as a means to awaken our body-wisdom
  • Experience mindful eating practices
  • Cultivate new ways of nourishing ourselves!

SAMPLE CURRICULUM

  • Week 1: Introspection — What are our current eating patterns? What foods are we drawn to? What stories do we tell ourselves about the foods we’re craving? What is our relationship and history to those foods? What judgments are present?
  • Week 2: Our Many Hungers — How connected are we to our hunger cues? What are we actually hungry for? How do our senses play a role in our hungers? What energies are we craving that we could seek out in food (eg: eating root vegetables to ground and comfort ourselves)? What is “normal eating”?
  • Week 3: Mindful Eating — How can we practice mindfulness with our food? What does it feel like to eat mindfully? How can we cultivate an ongoing practice?
  • Week 4: The Physiology of Pleasure — What is our relationship to pleasure? How do we know what brings us pleasure? How can we learn to trust pleasure as a means to awaken our body-wisdom?

Conscious Nourishment: Exploring our Relationship with Food and Hunger

Sat, Feb 6, 2016 2:30pm 14:30 Sat, Feb 27, 2016 4:30pm 16:30

Schedule: 4 Saturdays in February from 2:30-4:30PM — February 6, February 13, February 20, February 27

Location: 131 Essex Street, New York, New York, 10002 (studio 4)

Cost: $200

How we feed ourselves reflects how we feel about ourselves. For most women, our relationship with food is based in fear and rules. When consumed with thoughts about food — planning the next meal, counting calories, congratulating ourselves when we are “good” and castigating ourselves when we are “bad” — we are unable to inhabit our bodies and our lives fully.

Nourishment is not just about nutrition: we are also fed by the stories we tell ourselves about who we are, by movement and stillness, and by the people with whom we interact and the activities in which we choose to engage. But when we are disconnected from our inherent body-wisdom, we respond to our various hungers (physical, sensorial, emotional, relational, intellectual) by using or abusing food and our bodies.

In a community of eight women, over the course of four weeks, we will explore our hungers with compassion and curiosity to awaken the body-wisdom we all possess. We will examine our current stories, imagine the stories we might prefer, and begin to implement new ways of nourishing ourselves in order to live new stories.

Through interpersonal exercises, narrative practice, meditation, mindfulness, movement, and spiritual inquiry we will:

  • Examine our patterns and beliefs about food, hunger, and our bodies
  • Explore the many types of hunger: physical, sensorial, emotional, relational, intellectual
  • Experiment with using pleasure as a means to awaken our body-wisdom
  • Experience mindful eating practices
  • Cultivate new ways of nourishing ourselves!

SAMPLE CURRICULUM

  • Week 1: Introspection — What are our current eating patterns? What foods are we drawn to? What stories do we tell ourselves about the foods we’re craving? What is our relationship and history to those foods? What judgments are present?
  • Week 2: Our Many Hungers — How connected are we to our hunger cues? What are we actually hungry for? How do our senses play a role in our hungers? What energies are we craving that we could seek out in food (eg: eating root vegetables to ground and comfort ourselves)? What is “normal eating”?
  • Week 3: Mindful Eating — How can we practice mindfulness with our food? What does it feel like to eat mindfully? How can we cultivate an ongoing practice?
  • Week 4: The Physiology of Pleasure — What is our relationship to pleasure? How do we know what brings us pleasure? How can we learn to trust pleasure as a means to awaken our body-wisdom?