Quick Intro
Namasté and welcome!
I am Lisa, the creator behind this website, an Ayurvedic food, health, and wellness platform, helping you to pair delicious recipes with ancient wisdom.
As a passionate Ayurvedic cook, doula, and psychologist with the intention to inspire and educate you to reclaim your maximum health using Ayurvedic principles and practices, I invite you to come along with me on this transformative journey.
By changing your eating habits and lifestyle, you will experience greater well-being and overall happiness. I empower and support you with my psychological and Ayurvedic background to help you to regain your innate balance. I am devoted to supporting you in restoring your connection to your “true nature” by sharing ways to gain a greater understanding of how not only to nourish your body but also your mind and soul.
As an advocate for cooking and baking with love, I share my secrets with you through my blog as well as in Ayurvedic baking and cooking classes, workshops, one on one sessions, consultations, as well as prenatal, birth, and postpartum support.
My Ayurveda Journey
HOW Ayurveda changed my life
Already as a toddler, I was fascinated with food and started creating my very own versions of cake recipes, mixing flour and other fascinating ingredients on the floor. I picked flowers and frehs herbs from the garden and created blends with it, that was the first time my mom started calling me an alchemist. Unfortunately, my first diet also started very early, when I turned 4 years old, due to acute neurodermitis. I had to say no to my favourite thing in the world, sweets. Growing up and being sick almost every week, with tonsillitis, migraines, chronic eczema etc. and having a severe lung infection, held me back from truly living my life. No health food diet I tried, nor medication could help me fully. My energy was low, I felt fatigued, my digestion was not right, I suffered from abdominal cramps, I was pale and my skin looked dull. I was eating whatever health ingredient and superfood I could find, still I seemed to be doing wrong…
After working in the bakery of my great aunt in Mexico I got encouraged to take my cooking skills further. I have learned cooking and service in my Austrian high school, participated actively in the food industry and developed new food products. Eight years ago, I worked in a lovely Indian curry restaurant and in another company in HR administration, while studying Applied Psychology full-time in Vienna. Needless to say, I was overworked and often sick, at a very young age. But luckily, through one of the jobs, I got recommended to help out and work for an Ayurvedic catering for yogis. This was the first time I met my Ayurveda teacher and the first possibility to support in an Ayurvedic kitchen.
After Ayurveda came into my life, many things have changed and “it simply clicked”. Only through Ayurveda and understanding how to work with my own energy, could I reclaim my health and start to live according to my true nature. Overworking and migraines lie in the past now. The holistic approach of Ayurveda introduced me to an entirely new and rewarding way of living, leading to much more energy and less sickness.
As my interest grew for the Ayurvedic lifestyle, so did my willingness to teach others how to heal themselves. After completing my masters, it became clear to me that Psychology is a piece of a much larger puzzle of trying to help other people. Ayurveda covers much more. In Western medicine, there is a specific doctor for digestion, for skin and then there are special therapists for your psyche. An Ayurvedic practitioner would ask about all of these topics because there is no separation between them. Ayurveda finds connections between bloating and depression, heartburn and anxiety, acne and anger. And its goal is to bring the totality of you into balance. It sees the person as a whole, including not only the body, but also the mind and psyche, the environment, what a person thinks, does, eats, thinks and more. Ayurveda is such a flexible system, it states that no two people are alike. What works for me, might not necessarily work for you.
It is about tuning in and listening to your body, allowing it to communicate about what it is craving and needing and honoring that. You don’t need to follow the newest diet or workout trend. You simply tune in and follow what your body tells you and find balance through it, back into your nature, your prakruti. I believe, just like animals that know what is good for them and what not, we can also find back into our innate knowingness. Therefore, I decided to interlink Psychology and Ayurveda. Together, with my dedication for healthy cooking and baking and sharing with others, I was inspired to create this blog. I sincerely hope it will encourage you to choose a wholesome lifestyle.
Take with you, what most resonates with your heart. For the heart understands immediately, while the mind tends to take its time. To me, cooking and baking should involve our highest elevated emotions, because then, we are able to give love in the food we make, in life, in everything. Even the old German word for dessert “Liebesgabe” signifies “gift of love”. If you have been introduced to Dr. Masaru Emoto’s work with water, then you will understand my approach and realize why we should embrace love and gratitude in our lives. His scientific proven facts also go hand in hand with a Mexican tale I grew up with, called “Como agua para chocolate” (like water for chocolate) by Laura Esquivel. It tells the story of how the emotions of the chef are interlinked with the emotional effects our meals have on the consumer. Having had the honor to learn from wise teachers, I have gained knowledge of the importance of either listening to mantras in the background or simply mood-elevating tunes. This will balance our emotional states while preparing our food.
“You are what you eat” the old German saying of Ludwig Feuerbach is true. In Ayurveda, we go even deeper and say “You are what you can digest”. What you consume consciously or unconsciously, what you can digest and how you digest life – is forming who you are. You hold the power of choice, the free will to choose the right foods and to use your senses correctly.
In order for you – your mind, your body, and soul – to thrive, I show you tips, tricks, and recipes which you can incorporate into your life – all based on the holistic principles of ancient Ayurveda.
My Ayurvedic Doula Path
How Ayurveda and the Work as a doula Feel like a necessity for me
Ayurveda found its way into my life when I needed it most.
While I was studying full-time for my Psychology master’s and working in 2 different jobs, I got referred to aid and cook for a Yogi catering. Since then, I have over 10 years of Ayurvedic cooking experience, and would not want to miss Ayurveda for a second. It has been such a great aid in my life!
You might ask, from studying Psychology to cooking Ayurvedically (Sattvic, balanced, harmonious with nature) meals, how did she become a doula?
Well, Ayurveda is huge. It is the science of life, there is nothing more broad. It includes 8 different branches: Psychology, Internal Medicine, Treatment of Children / Pediatrics, Treatment of disease above the clavicle, Surgery, Toxicology, Geriatrics / Rejuvenation, as well as Aphrodisiac therapy. Of course, conscious conception, pregnancy, and postpartum are also included in these subjects.
I truly honor every mother, and I wish my own mom would have had more help. There was this inner calling, and I could not not follow it…
As we drift further away from our true nature, we need a loving, healing community, in accordance with nature’s rhythms. And we oftentimes forget what a big offering it is to house another body within our own. This is big, and often not as supported by our modern and sometimes cold society as I would wish for.
One of my Ayurveda mentors read my Jyotish chart (ancient Vedic astrology) and she confirmed what I felt, that I need to work with women, and to me, taking care of the earth starts with women and birth! Taking care of our first mother, nature is essential to me. And how can that be more honored, than by taking care of all divine women, that chose to gift this planet one more soul?
I often times felt like swimming in this vast wisdom of Ayurveda, and when working with pregnant women, and their families, I feel at home. It feels so natural. I simply am following my dharma.
And I want you to feel so loved and nourished as if mother nature is opening her arms up for you. I want you to feel that you are that nature. Because you are as magical, majestic, and regenerative as her.
You are divine, and you don’t need to do this alone.
I am here for you.
Please get in touch with me, to see how I can support you to achieve your goals.
Let’s embrace this journey together!
With Love,
Lisa
“The most durable act in a harsh and hungry world is found in Caring. Caring for our earthly home and its vast, diverse family - the human, the wild and the dying. Caring for who’s sick, forgotten and lonely and putting our hearts out there to shrink the margins. Caring to the point of seeing a need and doing something about it. Caring is such soft, potent power. Once it ignites, it spreads like fire.”
- Susan Fybort
Education
Psychology, Nutrition, Doula & Wellness Education
Ayurvedic Fertility and Pregnancy Program and Massage Training, 2023-2024
Ayurvedic Postpartum Doula program, 2022-20223
Certified Ayurvedic Wellness Coach (300 hours), 2022
DONA Birth Doula Workshop, 2022
Birth Doula Program (158 hours), 2022
Certified Ayurvedic Postpartum Doula, 2021-2022
Certified Wild- and Healing Herbal Woman, 2022
Certified TCM and Ayurveda Postpartum Cook, 2022
Aromatherapy for Pregnancy, Birth and Postpartum Workshop, 2022
Ayurveda for Pregnancy and each Trimester Course, 2022
Vedic Astrology and Ayurveda Workshop, 2022
Moon Shakti Wisdom, 2022
Certified Ayurvedic Postpartum Doula, 2021-2022
Keeper of Women’s Circles and Blessing Way Course, 2021
Yoni Steaming Certification, 2021
Certified Cooking Class Instructor, 2021
Certified Ayurveda Integrative Nutrition Coach (150 hours), 2021
Ayurvedic Wisdom and Modern Science Course, 2021
Various Ayurvedic Cooking Courses, 2020
Vedic Wisdom and Astrology in Relationships Workshop, 2019
Biodynamic Bread Baking Basic Course, 2019
Certified Ayurvedic Nutritionist and Cook, 2018
Master’s Degree in Applied Psychology, 2018
Various Ayurvedic Cooking and Baking Courses, 2016-2017
Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology, 2014
Cooking and Service Diploma, 2009