Previous Nutritional Cooking Classes, Workshops and Events
Naturopathic Medicine Week
Free Healthy Living Events Held in BC May 7-13. For Naturopathic Medicine Week How can seeing a naturopathic doctor benefit you and your family? Find out by attending a forthcoming event in BC!
SAGE CLINIC OPEN HOUSE
Naturopathic doctors and associations all across Canada are working to raise awareness of our transformative medicine.
Please join us at the clinic for an open house.
We will have snacks at the door, prizes and themed rooms with our doctors present to discuss health and give demos.
- Come and learn about adrenal health in our "Stress and the Body" room,
- have your baby weighed or your toddler measured in our "Healthy Baby" room,
- relax with a Cranio-Sacral Treatment in our "Physical Medicine" room,
- try a facial acupuncure treatment in our "Anti-Aging" room
- or come and learn about alternative lab testing "Labs for Functional Imbalance" room for a unique and in-depth look at your health
Healthy Choices for 2012 Series I Part 3 I Cleansing
Food As Medicine: Eating Clean /Cleansing in Spring
WHEN: Thursday March 15 , 6:30pm-8:30pm
WHERE: Robert Lee YMCA downtown- 955 Burrard St.
COST: Members: $35 Non-Members: $45
REGISTER: Call the YMCA: (604) 673-6180 and quote the workshop title or registration number.
How to set yourself up for Success for a Cleanse:
Learn the Foundations of the Anti-inflammatory Diet
Are you cleanse-curious?
- Do you want to lighten up?
- Clear some clutter?
- Create space for mental clarity?
- Become more energized for summer ahead?
You may consider a cleanse this spring!
Why? This is the ideal season for our bodies to open the EMUNCTORIES (the organs of elimination) and release accumulated toxins.
Supporting our bodies with a cleansing foods diet is the most effective strategy for producing long-term positive health results.
Join this workshop that will show you how to bring this diet to your day to day living- while on a cleanse and beyond -in your optimal meal choices day to day.
This is the third in a series of 3 workshops HEALTH CHOICES FOR the NEW YEAR 2012 that Dr. Heidi Lescanec is offering with the YMCA starting in January 2012.
They can be taken individually, or as a 3 part sequence, once a month for Jan Feb and March- a great way to get motivation and inspiration to start 2012 with healthy tools to put your New Years Resolutions into practice!
What you will get out of this:
- informative health lecture,
- a featured nutritious and delicious snack and demonstration prep in the fabulous kitchen,
- recipe handouts and information sheets on nutritional ingredients and how- to at home!
Food As Medicine: Eating Clean /Cleansing in Spring
Food As Medicine: Eating Clean /Cleansing in Spring
Healthy Choices for 2012 Series I Part 2 I Weightloss
Sustainable Weight Management #38394
WHEN: Thursday Feb 16 , 6:30pm-8:30pm
WHERE: Robert Lee YMCA downtown- 955 Burrard St.
COST: Members: $35 Non-Members: $45
REGISTER: Call the YMCA: (604) 673-6180 and quote the workshop title or registration number.
Bypass the Yo –Yo: Going Beyond Calories In and Out.
Achieving a sustainable weight involves more than the calories you eat and how much you exercise.
- Learn about the important foundational role of hormone balance plays to meeting consistent weight goals.
- Examine whole foods nutrition, optimal digestion and dig deeper into the mind /body connection.
- Discover how to work with your individual constitution and unearth the potential obstacles in the way of sustaining healthy body weight.
Beat the February blues with some positive self-care tools that can bring you back to body balance
This is the second in a series of 3 workshops HEALTH CHOICES FOR the NEW YEAR 2012 that Dr. Heidi Lescanec is offering with the YMCA starting in January 2012.
They can be taken individually, or as a 3 part sequence, once a month for Jan Feb and March- a great way to get motivation and inspiration to start 2012 with healthy tools to put your New Years Resolutions into practice!
What you will get:
- informative health lecture,
- a featured nutritious and delicious snack and demonstration prep in the fabulous kitchen,
- recipe handouts and information sheets on nutritional ingredients and how- to at home!
Healthy Choices for 2012 Series I Part 1 I Food/ Mood
Stress and the Food Mood Connection #38393
WHEN: Thursday Jan 19 , 6:30pm-8:30pm
WHERE: Robert Lee YMCA downtown- 955 Burrard St.
COST: Members: $35 Non-Members: $45
REGISTER: Call the YMCA: (604) 673-6180 and quote the workshop title or registration number.
- Discover how to improve your health and learn how to better manage stress and enhance energy and mood.
Join us in this workshop which examines how our food choices and eating habits can either help or hinder us as we encounter the stress of every day life.
- Examine the connection between stress hormones and our daily regimes.
- Explore the foods and at eating behaviours that can promote better digestion, lighten us up, balance our blood sugars, enhance mental clarity, improve mood and, generate sustainable energy for the winter season.
This is the first in a series of 3 workshops HEALTH CHOICES FOR the NEW YEAR 2012 that Dr. Heidi Lescanec is offering with the YMCA starting in January 2012.
They can be taken individually, or as a 3 part sequence, once a month for Jan Feb and March- a great way to get motivation and inspiration to start 2012 with healthy tools to put your New Years Resolutions into practice!
Involves:
- informative health lecture,
- a featured nutritious and delicious snack and demonstration prep in the fabulous kitchen,
- recipe handouts and information sheets on nutritional ingredients and how- to at home!
Nourish Health Chat at Sage Clinic- Saturday NOV 26 and Saturday DEC 3, 1-2pm
SAT NOV 26, 1-2 pm , Sage Clinic , 487 Davie Street, Vancouver, BC
The FOOD MOOD Connection.
- Going beyond Vitamin D! Learn how to support your whole body for the shorter days of winter.
- We explore how food choice and our nervous system's workings can impact our energy, outlook and hormone balance.
* note this is not a cooking class, it is a health talk / information session.
SAT DEC 3, 1-2 pm, Sage Clinic , 487 Davie Street, Vancouver, BC
Sustainable Weight Management.
- Bypass the yo-yo: going beyond Calories In and Out.
- Here we examine hormone balance, whole foods nutrition and dig deeper into Rest and Digest from Food/ Mood Connection
* note this is not a cooking class, it is a health talk / information session.
WINDS OF CHANGE 2011 WELLNESS GATHERING
WINDS OF CHANGE 2011 WELLNESS GATHERING
The Winds of Change Committee presents the 2nd Annual Wellness Gathering and Recognition Event on Thursday, October 20, 2011 at the Pemberton and District Community Centre in Pemberton from 11:00am to 7:00 p.m.
GOOD FOOD- GOOD MOOD
the connection between diet choices, stress, energy and mental health
Presentation at 1 and 2pm
Discover how to improve your health and learn how to better manage stress and enhance energy and mood.
Join Dr Heidi Lescanec, ND in this workshop which examines how our food choices and eating habits can either help or hinder us as we encounter the stress of every day life.
This workshop will
· Examine the connection between stress hormones and our daily regimes.
· Explore the foods and at eating behaviours that can promote better digestion, lighten us up, balance our blood sugars, enhance mental clarity and mood and most importantly, generate sustainable energy for the winter ahead.
COOKING CLEAN: WORKSHOP for the CLEANSE-CURIOUS
Cleansing --Why for and how? read more below!
The Anti-Inflammatory Diet -- great tasty recipes and how-tos!
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DATE: THURSDAY, September 29th.
- TIME: 6 pm- 9 pm
- LOCATION: Vancouver (near Granville and Broadway)
- COST: $85 includes meal (dinner at 7:30) and HST included
- REGISTER: email: dish@heidilescanec.com
(photo above: Milk Thistle plant)
Are you cleanse-curious?
- Do you want to lighten up?
- Clear some clutter?
- Create space for mental clarity?
- Become more energized ?
You may consider a cleanse this fall!
Why? Autumn is the ideal season for our bodies to open the EMUNCTORIES (the organs of elimination) and release accumulated toxins.
Many typically think cleansing is all about taking liver supportive herbs (dandelion, milk thistle) and nutrients in the form of supplements and vitamins (B vitamins), anti-oxidants (like glutathione) and various amino acids etc.)
While herbs and supplements are certainly useful for accomplishing detoxification goals, I have observed that one of the biggest benefits of people doing a “cleanse” or “detox” is the clean diet that accompanies it.
How to get the most out of the cleansing season?
LONG-TERM SUSTAINABLE RESULTS beyond the 7-14 days of being angelic.
Supporting our bodies with a cleansing foods dietis the most effective strategy for producing long-term positive results and sustainable weight management and energy improvement. It is the solid foundation.
I am offering a 3 hour workshop that will cover how to bring this to your day to day meal choices- while on a cleanse and beyond .
In the food as medicine section we will cover the following:
o The principles of the anti-inflammatory diet
o Delicious, nutritious ingredients and recipes. This will expand your horizons to illustrate how eating clean is not about deprivation—but gaining more options and culinary expertise- a broader spectrum of tasty choices in perhaps uncharted wholefoods territory
o Experience this hands on/taste-bud feast: we will prepare an enticing gluten-free dairy free dinner with recipes and take home tips for preparing and cooking with many fabulous staple ingredients for eating clean and anti-inflammatory.
In the healthy living techniques segment
we will explore the nourishing (yet not food -related) at- home-how-tos for supporting all the organs of elimination from radiant skin to efficiently water-balancing kidneys and all points in between.
Hollyhock Cooks! on Cortes Island
Cooking Workshop at Hollyhock on Cortes Island
Fuel your passion for delicious cuisine that feels good and that you can feel good about: healthy cuisine with local and seasonal ingredients. Using the generously stocked Hollyhock kitchen as our palate, we explore and prepare West Coast and internationally inspired meals. Our focus is on primarily vegetarian meals, using unrefined ingredients from the garden, the orchard, and the sea. Discover how cooking delicious and inspired meals can be an incredible creative outlet that is both nourishing and nurturing. Learn how your daily diet can impact your energy, mood, and overall health. Tour our organic garden and take a field trip to nearby Linnaea Farm. Through lectures, discussion, and hands-on cooking classes, explore the conscious and creative eating that is the hallmark of our famous kitchen.
- Welcome to foodies of all experience levels.
Heidi Lescanec, ND, is a naturopathic doctor, talented cook and teacher who brings her diverse culinary experience and knowledge of food as medicine to the kitchen with zest. Heidi is passionate about good food, nutrition and the art of creating nourishing and beautiful meals. She has cooked at backcountry lodges, retreat centers, the movie industry and at Hollyhock. Heidi brings her diverse culinary experience and knowledge of food as medicine to use in the kitchen in a spirited and inspiring way. www.heidilescanec.com
Rebeka Carpenter leads the wonderful kitchen team at Hollyhock. She has a passion for baking and preparing locally grown food and seafood, particularly shellfish from Manson’s Lagoon on Cortes Island.
- TUITION: $525 CDN (meals & accommodation extra) / 5 nights
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487 Davie Street (at Richards)
Vancouver, BC
V6B 2G2
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