Erin offers cooking workshops, catering, personal chef services, and individualized guidance on sattvic cooking and eating. She specializes in preparing tasty, organic, vegetarian meals that are balancing to the mind, body and spirit based on the principles of Ayurveda - India's ancient science and philosophy of healing.
Erin prepares all meals by integrating and harmonizing the six tastes (sweet, sour, salty, pungent, astringent and bitter) -- which together embody a combination of the five elements (Ether, Air, Fire, Water and Earth). According to Ayurveda, these five great elements are the fundamental building blocks of all matter in the universe, including our bodies and the food we eat.
In addition, she uses only fresh, seasonal and organic ingredients and limits the use of ingredients or processes that can aggravate or dull the mind and senses (e.g. garlic, onions, frozen foods, etc.). It is said that by eating the proper combination of the six tastes (elements) for our unique body-mind type and using sattvic ingredients and processes we can heal and balance our body, mind and spirit. In this way, sattvic cooking and eating uplifts us in our contemplative or yogic practices and in our lives.
