I started my studies of Ayurveda at a deeper level in 2021, considering a career change, after 30 years of professional experience in hospitality interior architecture & design in NYC. Now I’m a MS candidate - Ayurveda and Integrative Medicine program at the Maharishi International University, starting February 2025.

My first encounter with Ayurvedic Wisdom was in 2009, through Dr. Pratima Raichur for menopause consultations, and more intensely in 2016, with Chef Divya Alter, to heal recurring digestive issue through an Ayurvedic diet. After tasting Divya’s delivered meals for 3 months, I not only acquired a new taste for healing, comforting, wholesome food, but also started attending her cooking classes at Bhagavat Life Cooking School.

I joined the 2021 Ayurvedic Nutrition and Culinary Training Foundations Program (ANACT), and the 2023 ANACT - Professional Program, which trained me as an Ayurvedic Chef, Culinary Instructor, and recipe explorer.

Mindful cooking has become a meditation.

At ANACT’s program, one learns how to prepare fresh, well-balanced, flavorful plant-based and vegetarian meals, how food can be not only nutritious but also medicinal and restore our innate ability for healing and spiritual wellbeing. Following Nature’s cycles. Being a Nature admirer, it couldn’t have been a better alignment!

Last but not least, I was born in Ilheus, Bahia, Northeast State in Brazil, raised and educated in Rio de Janeiro, lived in London, in Sao Paulo, and settled in NYC in 1988.

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