Ayurvedic Cooking Event: "Mood Meter: Happy"

“I’ll just let everything happen,” said Jeanette Augusto when she traveled to Sundern in Westphalia to meet Frank Lotz. “I’m in a good mood and agreeable to everything, so everything can only go great.” The state-certified gymnastics and yoga teacher was drawn in the last MAP raffle. Her prize: cooking and enjoying a meal together with Ayurveda star chef Frank Lotz. The original winner, Tanja Beratz, was unable to claim the prize due to her pregnancy.

When she won, Jeanette Augusto first felt "pure joy. My heart was truly overflowing with happiness. My thoughts immediately settled into my ‘heart space.’" Together with her mother Anne and friend Sonja, she went to the big Ayurveda cooking event at the end of May.

The cooking event took place directly at Frank Lotz's house, who accompanied his guests through the day with great joy, experience, and warmth. Together, they prepared a delicious Ayurveda gala menu, which Frank Lotz had specially composed for this particular occasion.

"The ladies brought good humor – and their good humor spread to me. The 'right' people came to my house today. It was a great day," Frank Lotz enthused about his guests.

In addition to cooking, the experienced Ayurveda chef, who also offers training for hotel and restaurant kitchens and cooking classes, answered many questions from his attentive listeners and revealed important fundamentals of Ayurveda, the "science of life," as well as Ayurvedic cuisine. For instance, that one should always eat the right food at the right time of year. In spring, for example, food should be light. In summer, the diet should have a cooling effect, and in autumn/winter, it should be warming. The Vata type needs more "oily" food, the Pitta type more "cooling" – not necessarily eating something cold, but food to reduce internal heat. Kapha types need some "movement." One should cook according to type and season; nutrition should be light and easily digestible.

Here you will find more dietary tips for your Dosha type

The menu included Papadams with Cucumber Raita, Daal, Tomato Chutney, Cauliflower Curry, Mango Lassi, and as a grand finale, the "Heavenly Cream Shri Kandt" (to the recipe). The culinary delights had a lasting effect. "Every cell in my body is dancing and saying mmmhhh," smiled Jeanette Augusto, "super, super delicious, a truly wonderful experience. We feel richly blessed."

The impressions were still present the next day, as she wrote to us in an enthusiastic email: "Everyone there was cheerful, simply a great team, actually indescribable: warm, deliciously tasty, instructive, tears of joy, pure indulgence, a desire for more... simply heavenly. Mood barometer set to happy."

On YouTube, we have compiled a video for you with the most beautiful moments and information from the Ayurveda cooking event.

And who knows? Maybe you’d like to invite guests to an Ayurvedic cooking event at your home sometime? It’s very easy: you’ll find many delicious recipes and tips in Frank Lotz’s cookbook “Heavenly Cooking and Living in Harmony with the Veda.”

Or you can book a cooking class with your friends and experience an incomparable day at Frank Lotz's home.

Write to us. We look forward to hearing from you and are happy to support you with your plans.

Your Maharishi Ayurveda Team

You can find many more exciting questions and answers in our webinars on YouTube.

And maybe you'll be there with your questions at the next live webinar yourself. We look forward to seeing you!

Your Maharishi Ayurveda Team