Post Partum Ayurveda Medicinal Kitchen Apprenticeship Certification

For Birthworkers, Doulas and Natural Health Chefs

Join Roshni Kavate and her mother Usha Divate, as lineage holders of recipes, rituals and wisdom of over 500 years that has been passed down to us from our Grand mothers and ancestors.

• 6 week immersion and apprenticeship in cooking nourishing recipes for the Post Partum Window for healing, rebuilding and preventing depletion.

• Learn how to use Ayurveda wisdom to cook from your own ancestral background and customize recipes to any food culture in the world.

• Classical Indian recipes meets global comfort food rooted in tradition

• Learn how to make Ghee from scratch, warming meat and lentil broths, energy dense Laddoos (bliss balls), grain bowls and heirloom flatbreads, nourishing sweets and desserts, cooking with spices, herbal teas, crafting botanical oils and medicinal lattes.

• Foods, Rituals, Storytelling, Ancestral Healing and Memory Making

• Crafting care packages, navigating cultures with humility, intersectional activism, combining food, post partum justice rooted in pleasure and sensuality

• Join like minded Post Partum Caregivers to create a new language of care and help heal new parents through nourishing food, nutrition and botanical medicine

• Business mentorship on launching your medicinal kitchen start up.

• Introduction to Ayurveda and Evidenced Based Nutrition Guidelines

Taught by mother and daughter, Roshni Kavate and Usha Divate who will share their treasured family recipes that are over 500 years old. Includes Expert guest talks with Ayurveda Healers and Curandera. Includes a copy of our Mending a Broken Heart Cookbook, and a digital recipe guide.

• Expert talks on supporting digestion, building vitality with medicinal healing broths, stews, porridges, herbal teas, snacks, crafting your own medicinal, herbal ghee, puddings, herbal oils and food for rejuvenation.

• Includes access to teaching platform with Cooking demonstrations, Guest talks, Lectures, Live class meetings, Recipe Book and Private fb group. All calls will be recorded.

• Certificate upon completion of final project, final project is creating a 3 day meal plan with food and herbal preparation for your potential client based on the principles taught in the course.

Investment: $879, payment plans available, 2 gift spots for Indigenous or Black identifying people

Friday Dec 17th 10:00 am-12:30 pm at Stephy’s, Barcelona, €30

First in our monthly series on crafting a nourishing postpartum experience for yourself  with a supportive community. We will talk about emotional wellness, wholesome nutrition and mindful movement for starting the holiday season with vibrant energy, and ease in your mind and body. Join Michelle, Roshni and Hande who bring decades of experience working with new mothers and post partum people to reclaim their vital and vibrant selves. This is for any new parent looking for an empowering community to feel healthy and radiant. Snack included! and come with your babies!

Homecoming: Navigating South Asian Ancestral Grief & Reclaiming Spirituality at Reimagine Festival

In this Table Talk, explore what it means to be part of the vastly diverse South Asian diaspora and how that intersects with ancestral grief and spirituality.

The panelists and audience will be invited to share how ancestral grief shows up in their lives in these times, where do they draw strength from? Living across lands and generations, what does their spiritual path look like, and how does it inform living through loss and making meaning.

They’ll also offer perspectives on how it feels to be South Asian in the yoga and meditation communities that are often dominated by Caucasian voices.

Panelists

Aman Ali is an award-winning storyteller and filmmaker based in New York City. He's been featured in the NY Times, CNN, NPR, NBC News, HBO for his work promoting Muslim American narratives. He has traveled to all 50 states and 27 countries to tell stories to audiences of thousands of people worldwide. His current film, Two Gods, about a Black American Muslim casket maker in Newark, NJ, is premiering on Vice/PBS this year and has won several awards at top-tier film festivals worldwide. The film currently has a 100% score on Rotten Tomatoes.

Serita Colette is a queer Malayali-American healer and organizer in the art and science of sustainable healing on occupied Tongva and Dakhóta land. In 2015 Serita established one of the first People of Color Yoga & Ayurveda practices in Minneapolis, MN. Serita’s work intersects trauma relief, liberation, gender-race-class-sexuality, mutual aid, resilience based practices, bodywork and rest. For the last 4 years Serita has been leading QTBIPOC Rest & Liberation retreats and workshops across the country.

Joan Rupram is an Indo-Caribbean & South Asian femme immigrant and descendent of Indian Indentureship of Guyana. They are a healer and educator focused on ushering wellness as the foundation of sustainable leadership and decentering whiteness through reclaiming our ancestral lineage. Bridging the gap between the spiritual and the political, Joan’s mission is to harmonize inner transformation to restore collective responsibility within our families and communities; creating ruptures of communal care within societies. Joan is the Founder and CEO of JR Consultancy; providing Leadership Embodiment Mentorship for Leaders pioneering self accountability in collective responsibility.

About Table Talk

Table Talk is an honest, lively, and unscripted conversation among health professionals, spiritual and faith-based leaders, artists and other creative individuals to address this central question: "What does it mean to live and die well in our respective communities?"

Every community and culture -- Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian American, Disabled, LGBTQ+, etc. -- has its own unique perspective and shared truth. How do we deal with serious illness, dying, grief, discrimination, and inequity? What does it mean to flourish, celebrate, honor, and connect?

Many of us describe more than one of these groups as home, and many of us have experienced oppression based on multiple aspects of our intersecting identities: race, ethnicity, gender, religion, sexual orientation, and more. At present, we have few spaces to talk about these questions freely, in ways that make sense for who we are. That’s why Reimagine launched Table Talk. While this ongoing series is explicitly created by and for underrepresented communities, we invite people of all backgrounds to join us to witness, listen and learn. Ultimately we are creating space rooted in the principles of Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion in order for everyone to thrive.

About the organizers

Roshni Kavate is the Founder and Creative Director of Cardamom and Kavate, a wellness platform dedicated to reclaiming nourishing practices rooted in ancestral wisdom for collective liberation. She believes grief is a portal to wholeness. Through rituals and storytelling, we can reconnect to our origins and be our wild selves. She sees the path to being whole as a radical art and political practice.

Roshni's early childhood was marked by the grief her mother and ancestors experienced by living on the margins based on gender and caste. As a Palliative Care Nurse in the US, Roshni witnessed racialized trauma and its lasting impact on the health and wellness of communities of color. Combining her interest in art, wellness and advocacy she has launched a startup, Cardamom and Kavate to reimagine what it means to rebirth ourselves, embody our freedom and live in our pleasure.

Zubin Desai is the Head of Product & Design at Reimagine, a nonprofit organization that draws on the arts, design, medicine, and spirituality to transform taboo cultural attitudes around death and grief, and to address the inequities surrounding how we live and die.

Zubin met Reimagine's founder, Brad Wolfe, when they were classmates and housemates at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business. In 2018, Zubin embarked on a spiritual journey through Bali and India and has since dedicated his career to designing products and services that elevate and shine light on the hardest parts of the shared human experience.

6 Week Transformational Journey for Birthers, Birthworkers, Mothers, Caregivers, Womb folks, Womxn, Artists and Nurses

Who want to transform their grief and enter the portal of Wholeness rooted in Ayurveda

This is ideal if you:

• Have yearned to create meaning and beauty from your grief

• Feel confused on what to do and what your body, mind and spirit needs

• Crave connection to your ancestral rituals and community

• Know your story needs to be spoken and you feel this within your bones

• Feel isolated and exhausted at suppressing the messages of your body

Imagine at the end of this beautiful Ceremony if your could:

• Embrace the grief you hold and tap into it’s wisdom to live your highest authentic life

• Cultivate beautiful rituals rooted in your ancestral tradition to craft your healing journey

• Nurture yourself and your clients with soulful, soothing recipes and practices

• Create a new language and culture around grief by shedding the shame and owning it’s power

• Transform the deep pain and suffering in this lifetime and heal ancestral grief

The 6 week Guided Ceremony

• 6 weekly Rituals and Knowledge Shares on Zoom

• Journal invitations, Cultivating your Altar

• Body as an Altar

• Crafting your Ritual with the Elements

• Cultivating Ojas, Vitality

• Connecting to Plant Ancestors and Pleasure Practices

• Tools to hold space for clients and community members

• Cultivating a personal Grief Practice

• Ayurvedic Food, Somatic Body Work, Breath Work, Abhyanga and Marma

• Guided group Rebirth Ceremony and Curandera led Limpia Ritual

• 2 Gift Spots for folks identifying as Indigenous or Black

• Limited to 14 spots by Invitation, Request below

We will explore how grief shows up in the mind, body and spirit and the transformational wisdom it holds. Grief does not have to be limited to physical death, it can exist along side joy and is part of a holistic post partum experience. Roshni will share how grief exploration, ancestral healing rituals and Ayurveda wisdom can create a nurturing experience for you and for Post Partum people.

Join us for a retreat rooted in rituals of Curanderismo and Ayurveda where we will connect with our plant ancestors, movement medicine, breath work and storytelling to mend our broken hearts.

Join healers, activists and artists, Lilia Roman and Roshni Kavate on a deeply restorative journey towards belonging, acceptance and nourishment. Grief, sadness, and heartbreak can lodge itself into our body and spirit creating disconnect. Our collective practice will involve working with plant allies, herbs, music, ritual and movement to move towards wholeness.

We will start with an intention setting ritual to connect with the elements of the earth to find grounding. We will move mindfully to find ease and sensuality. We will then be guided through the ritual of self limpia with herbs, and flowers to cleanse and nourish our spirits. We will finally be guided into deep, sweet rest through restorative practices to connect to our source of freedom and wholeness.

If available please bring:

• yoga mat or blanket to lie on (or a chair can substitute)

• pillow or yoga bolster

• another blanket to cover your body

• Fresh herbs or flowers if available (for self-limpias): rosemary, basil, mint, lavender, rose, sage are all good options.

• Herbal tea (I recommend chamomile, passionflower, tulsi or any favorite herbal tea)

• bowl of water, a candle, stone and incense/smoke

Roshni Kavate is Founder and Creative Director of Cardamom and Kavate. A wellness startup dedicated to reclaiming nourishing practices rooted in ancestral wisdom for collective liberation. She believes grief is a portal to wholeness. Through food, spirituality, storytelling and ritual we can reconnect to our wild selves. She sees the path to being whole as a radical art practice.

Lilia is from Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico, from what has been known as “the city of eternal Spring”, or from its indigenous name: Cuauhnahuac, ‘surrounded by or being close to trees’, in Nahuatl language. After many travels and studies, she found a home in the Bay Area and has brought her beloved yoga practice to different populations since 2011.Yoga and other ancient healing modalities such as Qi Gong and Curanderismo, the healing arts of Mexico, continue to be Lilia’s source of inspiration. Her practices are the forces that keep her grounded and help her cultivate faith and clarity in an increasing challenging life where trauma is prevalent. Leading retreats and workshop and helping people cultivate resilience and self-love is what motivates Lilia’s life. Lilia has experienced this healing first hand and now shares what has transformed her because she believes healing is everybody’s birth-right.Lilia currently teaches Yoga for People with Cancer, Chair Yoga, and Clases en Español. She also offers private classes, one-on-one, and leads beautiful, and profoundly healing, retreats and workshops. Due to the current situation we are going through, all offerings are ONLINE. You can connect with her here https://liliaroman.com/

This is part of the Nourishing Grief Retreat in collaboration with the Reimagine Festival.

Join us for a somatic exploration as we come to witness our body as an altar. A space where we place our hopes, losses, prayers and dreams. We will start with arriving into silent meditation, and be guided in gentle exploratory movement with time and space to fully step into the experience of our body's expression. The space is created to offer you utter expansiveness and freedom to be, just as you are and to witness what may come forth. We will close with gentle breath work and reflections to seal the practice.

This Retreat is offered from a multicultural perspective with teachers practicing their medicine with integrity and reverence to their culture, our retreat will be an experiential practice in :

• How to build connection to your ancestors, and your inner artist to create beauty and meaning from your personal and collective grief.

• How to connect to ancestral wisdom to cultivate daily rituals to nourish your grief.

• Build kinship with plant medicine, and reimagine rest, movement and breath as medicine for the soul.

• Create a new culture of community care

• Explore intergenerational traditional wisdom of cooking, storytelling and how food is medicine.

• Reimagine your own personal code for cultivating self pleasure

Who is this Retreat for:

• Anyone who wants to connect to their body with compassion, curiosity and explore what it means to nourish our soul.

• Move from strength and resilience to radical rest, pleasure and softness.

• Deep desire to connect ancestral traditions and rituals as tools for activism for contemporary times.

• If you are needing a space to reflect, contemplate and cultivate a personal practice of wholeness.

• For empaths, caregivers, activists, birth workers, health care providers, artists, healers.

A sensorial journey as we explore aliveness and how de we feel in the midst of grief? Let’s examine how pleasure is codified in our culture and how we can reimagine it as a source of wellness.

Calling all pleasure feeling people to join healers and activists, Joan Rupram and Roshni Kavate for an afternoon of exploration and discovery.

Our cultural conditioning has separated us from embodying and savoring the simple acts of self pleasure. What does it look like to place our desires at the center? We will explore the themes of shame, guilt, eroticism and definition of pleasure in the context of grief.

Through collective sharing, and ancestral rituals we will participate in a full body experience of awakening the senses. Roshni will lead us on a Mango Meditation, we will devour a whole mango and reflect on sensuality. Joan will guide us in the ritual of a self face massage as we collectively rewrite our pleasure code.

Materials needed:

Favorite fruit of your liking

Favorite face oil of your liking

ex: sweet almond oil, coconut oil, shea oil, jojoba oil

About your hosts:

Roshni Kavate is Founder and Creative Director of Cardamom and Kavate. A wellness startup dedicated to reclaiming nourishing practices rooted in ancestral wisdom for collective liberation. She believes grief is a portal to wholeness. Through food, spirituality, storytelling and ritual we can reconnect to our wild selves. She sees the path to being whole as a radical art practice. 

Joan is an Indo-Caribbean & South Asian femme immigrant and descendent of Indian Indentureship of Guyana. They are a healer and educator focused on ushering wellness as the foundation of sustainable leadership and decentering whiteness through reclaiming our ancestral lineage. Bridging the gap between the spiritual and the political, Joan’s mission is to harmonize inner transformation to restore collective responsibility within our families and communities; creating ruptures of communal care within societies. Joan is the Founder and CEO of JR Consultancy; providing Leadership Embodiment Mentorship for Leaders pioneering self accountability in collective responsibility.

A guided hands on workshop with Master Food Preserver Hae Jung Cho who will share her family's Seaweed soup recipe and we will collectively explore connection, community, wellness and ancestral wisdom

This is part of the Nourishing Grief Retreat Series hosted by Roshni Kavate and Reimagine Festival

Seaweed soup making is an act of ceremony, it is honoring birth, ancestral lineage, and reclaiming resilience and wellness. You are invited to join Los Angeles based Master Food Preserver and professional cook Hae Jung Cho with fellow Master Food Preserver, Palliative Care Nurse and artist Roshni Kavate for an afternoon of soup making and story telling.

We will dig deeper on how we can connect with our ancestral wisdom to reclaim wellness, preserve traditions and foster kinship with our ancestors and our land.

Food is a connection to our past and daily act of nourishment. We will ponder how to keep our collective traditional wisdom alive and what it means to feed ourselves, to nourish ourselves.

Your Hosts:

After an early career in nonprofit management and human rights, Hae Jung Cho made the switch to food and has been cooking professionally for over 15 years. Trained as a master food preserver in 2011, Hae Jung teaches kimchi making and other food preservation classes across Greater Los Angeles. She is the Secretary of the Culinary Historians of Southern California, and a lazy gardener at the Crenshaw Community Garden. For more information, check out "Hae Jung's Kimchi Club" on Facebook and find her Kimchi recipe in the recently released cookbook, The New Homemade Kitchen

Roshni Kavate is Founder and Creative Director of Cardamom and Kavate. A startup dedicated to reclaiming nourishing practices rooted in ancestral wisdom for collective liberation. She believes grief is a portal to wholeness. Through food, spirituality and art we can reconnect and be our wild selves. She sees the path to being whole as a radical art and social justice practice. 

This is part of the Nourishing Grief Retreat in collaboration with the Reimagine Festival.

Join us for a somatic exploration as we come to witness our body as an altar. A space where we place our hopes, losses, prayers and dreams. We will start with arriving into silent meditation, and be guided in gentle exploratory movement with time and space to fully step into the experience of our body's expression. The space is created to offer you utter expansiveness and freedom to be, just as you are and to witness what may come forth. We will close with gentle breath work and reflections to seal the practice.

This Retreat is offered from a multicultural perspective with teachers practicing their medicine with integrity and reverence to their culture, our retreat will be an experiential practice in :

• How to build connection to your ancestors, and your inner artist to create beauty and meaning from your personal and collective grief.

• How to connect to ancestral wisdom to cultivate daily rituals to nourish your grief.

• Build kinship with plant medicine, and reimagine rest, movement and breath as medicine for the soul.

• Create a new culture of community care

• Explore intergenerational traditional wisdom of cooking, storytelling and how food is medicine.

• Reimagine your own personal code for cultivating self pleasure

Who is this Retreat for:

• Anyone who wants to connect to their body with compassion, curiosity and explore what it means to nourish our soul.

• Move from strength and resilience to radical rest, pleasure and softness.

• Deep desire to connect ancestral traditions and rituals as tools for activism for contemporary times.

• If you are needing a space to reflect, contemplate and cultivate a personal practice of wholeness.

• For empaths, caregivers, activists, birth workers, health care providers, artists, healers.

The Calling:

• 5 weekly live nourishing practice sessions on Zoom, recorded for convenience

• Illustrated practice guide with recipes, resources and weekly guided journaling prompts

• 5 Wednesdays starting Oct 21, 10-11:30 am PST/ 1 pm-2:30 pm EST/

  7 pm-8:30 pm CEST

• 2 Bonus Kosha Body embodied movement sessions to witness, and commune with your spirit body guided by Roshni Kavate on Oct 26, and Nov 9

• One bonus hourlong discover your creative inner artist session on Nov 6

Week 1 Altar Making and Grief as an Art Practice with Roshni Kavate

• Creating an altar as an art practice, including elements of Ayurveda in altar making

• Body as an altar

• Journaling, art practices, creativity as a spiritual practice

• Movement medicine to come home to the body

Week 2 Traditional Food as medicine and nourishment with Hae Jung Cho

• Food as Medicine

• Korean food philosophy

• Intergenerational cooking and preserving

• Soups and Stews, Seaweed Soup spirituality and cooking stories

Week 3 Plant Medicine Allies, Curanderismx and Limpia Ritual with Lilia Roman

• Ancestral plant medicine, medicinal flowers and healing properties

• Learn more about Curanderismx rooted in Mexican healing wisdom

• Earth elements and body elements

• Limpia spirit cleansing ritual with herbs and flowers

Week 4 Ecological grief and reconnecting with the land with Aileen Suzara

• Sweet Potato medicine

• Eco activism as ancestral tradition

• Moving beyond sustainability to regenerative living

Week 5 Pleasure Practice with Joan Rupram and Roshni Kavate

• Rewriting the Pleasure code

• Decolonizing pleasure

• Ancestral pleasure rituals

Investment

• $487 for 5 live guided calls and 3 bonus embodiment and creative exploration sessions

• A once in a lifetime opportunity to be in community with wisdom holders from around the globe over hundred’s of years of continued wisdom transmission

• 2 gift spaces for Black or Indigenous identifying people, please email Roshni

• Early Bird pricing $25 off until October 16, enter RETREAT on checkout

The Pleasure Code; What is this, What can it look like, and how can we bring our ancestral wisdom to rewrite it

Calling all pleasure feeling people to join healers and activists, Joan Rupram and Roshni Kavate for an afternoon of exploration and discovery.

Our cultural conditioning has separated us from embodying and savoring the simple acts of self pleasure. What does it look like to place our desires at the center? We will explore the themes of shame, guilt, eroticism and definition of pleasure.

Through collective sharing, and ancestral rituals we will participate in a full body experience of awakening the senses. Roshni will lead us on a Mango Meditation, we will devour a whole mango and reflect on sensuality. Joan will guide us in the ritual of a self face massage as we collectively rewrite our pleasure code.

Materials needed:

Favorite fruit of your liking

Favorite face oil of your liking -

ex: sweet almond oil, coconut oil, shea oil, jojoba oil

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About your hosts:

Roshni Kavate is Founder and Creative Director of Cardamom and Kavate. A wellness startup dedicated to reclaiming nourishing practices rooted in ancestral wisdom for collective liberation. She believes grief is a portal to wholeness. Through food, spirituality and art we can reconnect and be our wild selves. https://www.cardamomandkavate.com/

Joan is an Indo-Caribbean & South Asian femme immigrant and descendent of Indian Indentureship of Guyana. They are a healer and educator focused on ushering wellness as the foundation of sustainable leadership and decentering whiteness through reclaiming our ancestral lineage. Bridging the gap between the spiritual and the political, Joan’s mission is to harmonize inner transformation to restore collective responsibility within our families and communities; creating ruptures of communal care within societies. Joan is the Founder and CEO of JR Consultancy; providing Leadership Embodiment Mentorship for Leaders pioneering self accountability in collective responsibility.

Join us for a retreat rooted in rituals of Curanderismo and Ayurveda where we will connect with our plant ancestors, movement medicine, breath work and storytelling to mend our broken hearts.

Join healers, activists and artists, Lilia Roman and Roshni Kavate on a deeply restorative journey towards belonging, acceptance and nourishment. Grief, sadness, and heartbreak can lodge itself into our body and spirit creating disconnect. Our collective practice will involve working with plant allies, herbs, music, ritual and movement to move towards wholeness.

We will start with an intention setting ritual to connect with the elements of the earth to find grounding. We will move mindfully to find ease and sensuality. We will then be guided through the ritual of self limpia with herbs, and flowers to cleanse and nourish our spirits. We will finally be guided into deep, sweet rest through restorative practices to connect to our source of freedom and wholeness.

If available please bring:

• yoga mat or blanket to lie on (or a chair can substitute)

• pillow or yoga bolster

• another blanket to cover your body

• Fresh herbs or flowers if available (for self-limpias): rosemary, basil, mint, lavender, rose, sage are all good options.

• Herbal tea (I recommend chamomile, passionflower, tulsi or any favorite herbal tea)

• bowl of water, a candle, stone and incense/smoke

Roshni Kavate is Founder and Creative Director of Cardamom and Kavate. A wellness startup dedicated to reclaiming nourishing practices rooted in ancestral wisdom for collective liberation. She believes grief is a portal to wholeness. Through food, spirituality, storytelling and ritual we can reconnect to our wild selves. She sees the path to being whole as a radical art practice. https://www.cardamomandkavate.com/

Lilia is from Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico, from what has been known as “the city of eternal Spring”, or from its indigenous name: Cuauhnahuac, ‘surrounded by or being close to trees’, in Nahuatl language. After many travels and studies, she found a home in the Bay Area and has brought her beloved yoga practice to different populations since 2011.Yoga and other ancient healing modalities such as Qi Gong and Curanderismo, the healing arts of Mexico, continue to be Lilia’s source of inspiration. Her practices are the forces that keep her grounded and help her cultivate faith and clarity in an increasing challenging life where trauma is prevalent. Leading retreats and workshop and helping people cultivate resilience and self-love is what motivates Lilia’s life. Lilia has experienced this healing first hand and now shares what has transformed her because she believes healing is everybody’s birth-right.Lilia currently teaches Yoga for People with Cancer, Chair Yoga, and Clases en Español. She also offers private classes, one-on-one, and leads beautiful, and profoundly healing, retreats and workshops. Due to the current situation we are going through, all offerings are ONLINE. You can connect with her here https://liliaroman.com/

Suggested Sliding scale: $15-$30, venmo and paypal account will be provided on day of workshop, no one turned away due to lack of funds, all are welcome.

The first 42 days after birth or loss of a pregnancy is a sacred window towards deep nourishment and transformation. Learn about ancestral food and ritual practices to heal the body, mind and spirit.

This moment calls for a revolution when it comes to caring and nurturing birthing people. Everyone who is passionate about caring and nurturing their community is invited to join this discussion on reimagining post partum care.

Join Roshni Kavate, founder and creative director of Cardamom and Kavate, a wellness startup rooted in ancestral nourishment practices to reclaim the Post Partum window. We will explore the unique challenges facing birthing people. How we can use medicinal foods, plant allies and spiritual practices to nurture and support the birthing person and the next generation. This is a practice of intergenerational healing and activism.

Roshni will draw upon her extensive knowledge of Ayurveda, Nutrition, Plant medicine, Somatics and Mind Body medicine to heal the body, mind and spirit.

Roshni Kavate is Founder and Creative Director of Cardamom and Kavate. A wellness startup dedicated to reclaiming nourishing practices rooted in ancestral wisdom for collective liberation. She believes grief is a portal to wholeness. Through food, spirituality, storytelling and ritual we can reconnect to our wild selves. She sees the path to being whole as a radical art practice. https://www.cardamomandkavate.com/

Join us on our third salon in our series as we share our stories and observations of immigrant experiences with end of life through multicultural lenses.

While many issues we will bring up are universal at the end of life, we are speaking to them through an immigrant lens. In sharing our stories, we hope to raise awareness and open a forum to discuss the clash of cultures that can occur for immigrants as they experience end of life. What an immigrant may need in the areas of communications, decision making, comfort, community, identity, and grief often is at odds with a more unilateral Euro/Western-centric model of dying. We hope our audience leaves with a better understanding of issues to be aware of and how to better advocate such that the end of life process is the best it can be outside of people's home lands and cultures.

Guest Speakers: Enver Rahmanov was born and raised in Turkmenistan, then the former Soviet Union republic. He immigrated to the United States in 1995. Enver works as Chaplain Resident at the UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital in San Francisco. He identifies himself as a citizen of the world and a person of multiple spiritual belonging. Rashida Sanchez is a bereavement counselor working for Calvary Hospital in New York City and a certified Fellow of Thanatology through the Association of Death Education and Counseling. She is proud to be Haitian-American and passionate about working with immigrants, children, and faith communities as they navigate and experience grief. She looks forward to a continuing contribution to the field of death and dying and how grief can be viewed through the lens of social justice. Lillian Mehran is the Director of Outreach and Communication with End of Life Choices New York.

A communal storytelling gathering to share our collective mango stories as way to reconnect and reclaim our stories. Don't forget to bring a mango, we will practice the art of devouring a whole mango.

We all have a Mango story. For many of us around the world, mangoes are an essential part of our family histories. It reminds us of summers gone, the ephemeral sweetness of a summer captured in a mango. Eating a mango is an exercise in pleasure. A memory that we long for, the grief and sorrow of summers and grandparents no longer here. Longing for our homelands. Colonization, and Appropriation are also now part of the Mango journey. Curious about the spirituality, and abundant resiliency mangoes hold?

Join Artist and Palliative Care Nurse Roshni Kavate on this journey of reclaiming our cultural traditions, on reclaiming our stories of resiliency and grief. How do we practice pleasure and make space for grief? Roshni is deeply passionate about exploring ways in which folks of color can reclaim nourishment, and pleasure under the weight of carrying the burden of loss and grief.

Let's gather and share our Jackfruit stories. They are our ancestors, delicious reminders of connection to our homelands and memories that nurture our soul. Bring a recipe and make some new friends.

What does a Jackfruit mean to you? How do you describe it's taste? Maybe it's part of your ancestral history or you are feeling curious to try it. It's a beloved fruit, plant ancestor connecting the diaspora worldwide.

Jackfruit's recent claim to fame is it's a plant based meat substitute. The dominant food media has narratives that fail to see it in it's all encompassing glory. Who gets to tell food stories and what do we celebrate?

Join Roshni Kavate, Artist, Nourishment Guide and Palliative Care Nurse with Darlena David, an avid gardener and keeper of ancestral recipes from Kerala, India.

We will join in an intimate conversation exploring our food memories, go deeper in discovering the spiritual significance, and share recipes. We will weave stories, recipes and wisdom to reclaim narratives of our ancestral foods and soak in the joy of sharing space that is in celebration of nourishing ourselves.

A guided hands on workshop with Master Food Preserver Hae Jung Cho who will share her family's Kimchi recipe and we will collectively explore connection, community, wellness and ancestral wisdom.

Kimchi making is an act of ceremony, it is community building, preserving bounty of the land and reclaiming resilience and wellness. You are invited to join Los Angeles based Master Food Preserver and professional cook Hae Jung Cho with fellow Master Food Preserver, Palliative Care Nurse and artist Roshni Kavate for an afternoon of Kimchi making and story telling.

We will explore the history, science, and the art of preserving Kimchi. We will dig deeper on how we can connect with our ancestral wisdom to reclaim wellness, preserve traditions and foster kinship with our ancestors and our land.

Food is a connection to our past and daily act of nourishment. We will ponder how to keep our collective traditional wisdom alive and what it means to feed ourselves, to nourish ourselves.

After an early career in nonprofit management and human rights, Hae Jung Cho made the switch to food and has been cooking professionally for over 15 years. Trained as a master food preserver in 2011, Hae Jung teaches kimchi making and other food preservation classes across Greater Los Angeles. She is the Secretary of the Culinary Historians of Southern California, and a lazy gardener at the Crenshaw Community Garden. For more information, check out "Hae Jung's Kimchi Club" on Facebook and find her Kimchi recipe in the recently released cookbook, The New Homemade Kitchen