A Taste of Ayurveda

## Time & Location

03 Aug 2025, 10:00 am – 3:00 pm
Woodend Neighbourhood House, 47 Forest St, Woodend VIC 3442, Australia

BOOKINGS: A Taste of Ayurveda | Woodend NH

## About the Event

What's it all about?
Under the guidance of a Chopra Certified Meditation and Ayurveda Lifestyle Instructor, explore and practise Ayurveda – the original Lifestyle Medicine – to support transformation and connect with your most beautiful, balanced self, inside and out. Learn how to live a life of health, happiness, fulfilment, and vitality – your way.

Through nutrition, meditation, pranayama and mindful movement, learn how to restore balance and deepen your connection with yourself, others, and the natural world (our extended body). This 5,000-year-old holistic healing system can help reduce inflammation (a key factor in many chronic conditions), support gut health, and regulate the nervous system for overall wellbeing.

Take a well-rounded, life-changing approach to your health. Release fear, stress and judgement while cultivating clarity, compassion, curiosity, peace and love. Activate deep healing by embracing wholeness.

Discover your unique mind-body type (Dosha)

A key principle of Ayurveda is restoring balance by understanding your Dosha. You’ll complete a simple 10-minute questionnaire to uncover both your Prakruti (your natural constitution) and your Vikruti (your current state). With this insight, we’ll explore Ayurvedic nutrition and lifestyle practices tailored to your unique make-up – helping you restore balance and support long-term wellness.

Learn to become your own best doctor by recognising early signs of imbalance and applying daily practices to rebalance and prevent, or even reverse, the progression toward dis-ease.

Ayurvedic Cooking Demonstration & Shared Lunch

Experience the healing power of Ayurvedic food in action. You’ll learn how to prepare Khichadi, a classic Ayurvedic dish, using the principles of the Six Tastes, the power of spices, and eating for your Dosha. This will be followed by a shared buffet-style vegetarian, Ayurveda-inspired lunch. Please see menu below.

You’ll leave feeling replenished, revitalised, and equipped with simple, effective Ayurvedic tools to support your unique path to lasting health and happiness.

Who will be teaching?
Fiona Mardling is an award-winning Health Coach with over three decades of experience as a Health Professional. Blending the timeless healing wisdom of Ayurveda with Contemporary Western Lifestyle Medicine, Fiona brings a lifelong passion for empowering others to live to their fullest potential. She supports people to take charge of their own health and happiness through self-realisation and self-discovery.

Fiona is a credentialled Health Coach, Registered Nurse, and Chopra-certified Meditation and Ayurveda Lifestyle Instructor. She is also an experienced workshop facilitator and educator, having developed and delivered a wide range of programs. These include the WA Cancer Council’s inaugural Life Now Meditation Program for cancer patients and carers in Broome, as well as professional development workshops for medical professionals, nurses, and Aboriginal health care workers.

Originally from Victoria, Fiona has recently returned to the Macedon Ranges after spending 11 years living and working across the remote Kimberley region of Western Australia. She is the Director and Founder of RiverWalk Mind-Body Health, a professional member of the Australasian Society of Lifestyle Medicine and the Australian Meditation Teachers Association, and a recipient of the 2023 HCANZA Award for Excellence (Health Coaches Australia & New Zealand Association).

Workshop Information
A Taste of Ayurveda will run for 5 hours on Sunday 3rd August between 10am - 3pm in the Rodney Snell Function Room of the Woodend Neighbourhood House. The cost for this activity is $140 per participant and includes a shared buffet style vegetarian Ayurveda inspired lunch.

Please advise of any dietary requirements