Essential Nourishment helps you to:
-choose food purposefully, making food your friend and not your enemy
-understand how your moods are affected by the foods you eat
-discover how you can stabilize your blood sugar naturally by consciously eating balanced meals
-achieve weight loss — without counting calories or dieting — simply by eating great-tasting, nourishing foods
Essential Nourishment presents the topic of food from a holistic point of view and encourages you to harness food's nurturing potential by choosing food with awareness and intention. At the same time Essential Nourishment is a beautifully designed everyday cooking guide.
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Marika Blossfeldt is trained in the visual and performing arts. She was both a painter in the late 1970s in Berlin and a featured soloist in the New York dance scene in the 1980s and '90s. She also conceived and choreographed multimedia dance works and toured internationally in the Americas, Asia, Australia and Europe. On screen, she played the role of the bald bartender in the Hollywood movie Bright Lights, Big City.
While in her late thirties, she purchased an old farm in her native Estonia – a dream come true – and transformed it into an international art and wellness center called POLLI TALU ARTS CENTER. Once the restoration of the farm complex was complete, Marika began to facilitate yoga, cooking and wellness retreats during the summer months. As a budding self-taught natural foods chef, she created her own herb and vegetable gardens and harvested the wild greens and berries growing on her land. To this day, she personally oversees the quality and tastiness of all meals served to her guests.
After a decade of pampering visitors with delicious healthful food, Marika decided to formalize her culinary skills by completing a program of study with world-renowned nutrition specialists at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition in New York City.
The institute was a life-changing experience. Marika shifted her focus from making individual works of art to making life itself a work of art – by practicing a holistic lifestyle where body, mind and spirit are integrated and deeply cared for. As a holistic health coach, she now inspires other women to step into the limelight of their own lives, to make self-care a priority. Clients learn how natural foods, enjoyable physical activity, a sense of purpose, building community and creating a high-quality lifestyle will restore their vitality and boost enthusiasm for pursuing their dreams and passions.
Marika Blossfeldt lectures at Tartu College on Thursday, April 11, at 7:30 pm.
