Namaste,
I am Smita Daya, an Ayurveda Wellness Consultant and Chef. I am often asked how I got involved in Ayurveda and I guess I was involved even before I even realized. Many of my lifestyle routines and dietary habits were naturally ‘ayurvedic’ taught by my mother in my youthful years. She was my inspiration. I quickly became curious about our day-to-day rituals and food habits from her. Over the years she kept sharing with me, new recipes and would guide me in adapting and making substitutions adding in a layer of complexity to traditional recipes.
After having worked in corporate for over 25 years, I decided it was time to follow my true passion for wellness and healthy eating. Learning Ayurveda and having the opportunity to share it with others has been a deeply humbling experience. I continue to expand my knowledge through attending workshops, seminars and courses. I hope I can help make Ayurveda feel more accessible to others but it is also my aim to practice in a way that is as authentic as possible and honors the original teachings while making way for some inevitable adaptations according to the world we live in today.
My role as your wellness coach is to assist you in discovering your unique body-mind type so that you can realize your true potential in life. Health and healing begin with you. My vision is to share with you the wealth of ancient Ayurvedic wisdom in an uncomplicated and applicable way without compromising its authenticity.
As a certified Ayurvedic Chef, I also love to help busy working people like you eat your way to better health by creating delicious and balancing meal plans infused with the knowledge of Ayurveda. My mission is to inspire my audience through my workshops and individual wellness consultations, with effective and long-term solutions to their health concerns. I hope to make a difference by educating, inspiring, and empowering you to heal in a way that promotes happiness, connectedness and heightened spiritual awareness--eat according to your constitution type. My services include consulting and in-depth, hands-on Ayurvedic cooking workshops. I love to fuse the Mediterranean and Ayurvedic cuisines. My purpose is to bring Ayurvedic principles for a more natural, and healthy approach into the Mediterranean rich, tasty and celebrative culture of food.
Ayurvedic general principles ask us to bring awareness on how, what, and when we eat. And, of course, coming back to a simpler way of eating and living. It is not just a mix of the ingredients from the two cultures, we like to focus on the whole eating experience for a more natural and healthy approach. The simpler the better.
Though food choices have an inarguable impact on health, the bigger picture here is the Lifestyle. Both Mediterranean and Ayurvedic lifestyles place emphasis on eating slowly in a quiet environment, buying fresh seasonal food more often, and being active regularly. Diets come and go, but lifestyles stick. Healthy eating habits naturally correlate with thriving in other aspects of life; they are tied with our personal and social lives.
I believe in living an expansive, peaceful and fulfilling life. A life where we connect with people and to nature. A life where we measure happiness by our state of being rather than a collection of achievements.
My studies in Ayurveda have introduced me to some amazing gurus, experts and mentors, such as Myra Lewin, Dr’s Rani and Tarun Gupta and Dr. Suhas Kshirsagar.
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