Yogic Living Cooking Classes

Learning to cook beautiful, nourishing life-giving foods and offering this food from the heart is the greatest gift you can give to yourself, your family and community.

Kookaburra Yoga offers vegan & yogic food classes, retreats, recipes and resources. Yogi's Kitchen is a recent addition to the Kookaburra program, but in many ways has always been an integral part of our retreats - with the sumptuous, vital plant-based food being a surprising highlight for many people.
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​Food is so integral to our physical, mental and even spiritual wellbeing, and a 'sattvic' diet is fundamental to the yoga lifestyle. Learning to prepare nourishing, life-giving foods can be easy, and is one of the greatest gestures of loving kindness you can give to yourself, your family and your community.

We go deeply into the philosophy and theory of spiritual nutrition, and cover:  Ayurveda approach to Food; The Yogic Diet - Sattvic Foods; Healing & Cleansing Foods; Pranic  Foods; Rainbow Chakra Foods; Sweet Soul Foods; Prasadam - Foods to offer and share.

We show you how to prepare a multitude of wonderful dishes, provide you with recipes and resources, and share a delicious meal to delight the senses, nourish the body and feed the soul.

2022 Cooking Class Dates

Click date to book & pay easily online to confirm your place

17 Dec Vegan Feast - Festive Foods

Classes include

• Immersive 4 hour workshop which include cooking demonstrations of many dishes.
• Dinner, plenty of snacks throughout the class.
• Mindfulness, meditation & yogic philosophies of food. How to develop the awareness, discipline and ethical foundation for the yogic diet and healthy living.
• Using food as an integral component of yoga to increase vital life-force & peacefulness, balance energy, emotions, and mental clarity
• Learn how to safely prepare and cook nourishing, seasonal plant foods including vegetables, fruit, herbs, sprouts, legumes, grains - in creative, delicious, visually appealing and healthy ways 
• Ayurveda - Food as medicine, Life in Balance - incorporating restorative plant foods to help heal digestion and health
• Recipes and Notes to make the same dishes at home.
• Ayurvedic and Herbal Supplements available for purchase

Cost of each 4 hour class is $150. Includes dinner & recipes. 
​Advance booking online is essential.

About our yogic living classes...

Summer Workshop
Superfoods which cleanse and heal

With an abundance of greens, healing herbs and light summer vegetables in our kitchen gardens and holiday time at home, this is the season to embark on a short cleanse - a 7 day routine of self-care and diet of healing plant foods. On this 4 hour workshop we teach the principles and show you how. You will feel amazing! Workshop includes:

• Summer superfoods - foods for lightness, health, vitality, cleansing and detoxing
• Learn how to cook and prepare the foundation foods for a summer including a light kitchari and healing dishes
• Raw food creations including sauces, juices, breakfasts, desserts and mains
• Harvesting and preservation of plants for teas, elixirs and cooking. Drying,dehydrating and safe storage.
• Cooling elixirs to support health made from tamarind, ginger, turmeric, pepper)
• Protocol for 7 Day Summer Cleanse & Daily Routine (with guidelines, recipes and shopping list)
• Tips to overhaul your diet and lifestyle and commit to your 7 day eating and lifestyle plan
• Yogic and mindfulness practices to support your intentions and resolve
• Earth prayers and plant meditations
• Understand your constitution (dosha) to plan and commit to a realistic 7 day cleanse and routine
• Ayurvedic supplements available​ for sale

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Summer Festive Foods 

A N N A D A N A M  ~ Life-giving Festive Foods to Share 
Annadanam - the sacred offering of food to those on the spiritual path, family, friends and those who are hungry including animals - has been practiced in the Indian yogic traditions for thousands of years. This workshop delves into the philosophy, spirituality, customs, rituals and offering of food and how it relates to our own yogic / spiritual practice.

You'll learn to make festive plant-based vegan dishes for your Christmas table which are beautiful, healing and nourishing, delicious and spectacular - sure to delight everyone at your table. Learning to create and give food to others is to quite literally share the gift of life. Life-giving foods shared with devotion is the highest of all gifts.

It is possible to combine and prepare an amazing array of plant-based ingredients into wonderful, sumptuous dishes which will please and delight everyone at your Christmas table!  All dishes are vegan, gluten-free and can be further modified to cater to allergies and intolerances. You'll learn about the herbs, spices and garnishes which transform dishes into colourful, delicious, healthy masterpieces you can share at any festive occasion.

• The class includes many snacks, and a Festive Christmas Dinner comprised of the many dishes you learn to make.
• Learn how to make vegetable, legume and nut-based cooked festive mains dishes, and plant-based desserts including Christmas cake, cheesecake, chocolate and more which the whole family will love!
• How to develop a loving, respectful relationship with plants and food by incorporating mindfulness, meditation and prayer into daily life.
• Learn about using food as an integral component of yoga increasing vital life-force and peacefulness, balancing energy, emotions, and mental clarity, aligning with your yogic values and principles.
• How to safely prepare and cook nourishing vegan plant food proteins (legumes & grains)
• We will make together the celebratory foods of our for our Christmas table which include:
  • hors d'oeuvres and starters including vegan cheese 
  • vegetable, nut & legume mains and sides (ie pumpkin & pecan loaf, vegan wellington)
  • festive salads and dressings 
  • sauces and chutneys
  • nut based ice-cream, christmas pudding, vegan cheesecake
  • edible gifts - chocolate, mince pies, fudge
  • herb infused drinks & summer chai

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Winter Workshop ​

The Yogic Diet - the foundation for Health, Peace & Happiness 

• Mindfulness, meditation & food. How to develop the awareness, discipline and ethical foundation for the yogic diet.
• Learn about using food as an integral component of yoga increasing vital life-force and peacefulness, balancing energy, emotions, and mental clarity
• How to safely prepare and cook nourishing vegan plant food proteins (legumes & grains)
• The restorative plant foods which help heal digestion and health
• We will make together the foundations foods of our winter diet which include:
  • spice blends for tea and curries
  • delicious dahls
  • healing kitchari
  • life changing bread
  • fermented mung-bean loaf
  • payasam (legume-based dessert)
  • winter salads
  • nut butter
  • chai flavoured compote (cooked winter fruits).

The yogic diet is vegetarian and includes foods which are nourishing, natural and appealing to the 5 senses. In this course you'll learn about 'sattvic' (peaceful) eating, determining your unique constitution and the foods and diets which suit you best. You'll also learn about the yogic food pyramid (a little different to what you might think!), the 6 tastes and how to combine them to delight the senses, foods which cleanse and help heal the digestive system. You'll learn to prepare delicious, aromatic vegetarian dishes including dahls, kitchari, juices, spice blends, spiced teas and desserts. We finish each week with a wonderful feast! 

• Health Ayurveda: understand your constitution and an approach to food which supports your health. Learn about vegetarian grains/protein sources. Learn to make spice blends, vegan, plant-based main dishes including dahl and aromatic curries and also chai tea using your own spice blends.
• Peace Yogic diet: eating for peace & longevity. Learn about 'sattvic' foods. Learn to make plant-based mains, desserts, kadha herbal tea and dishes to delight. Learn about 'sattvic' foods, mindful eating, and the ethics of food.
• Healing Healing & cleansing foods. Learn the Ayurvedic and Yogic dietary approaches to fasting, healing and recovery. Learn to make nourishing kitchari, condiments and immunity-boosting teas.

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Spring Workshop ​

Healing, life-force foods: Chakras, Prana, Plants 
Mindfulness, Prana, Plants, Life-force Foods. Learn about the healing diet, foods for repair and recovery, foods for Chakras, Rainbow foods, floral teas, sprouting, microgreens and more. You'll learn to cocreate with plants on yogic principles.

• Prana, Plants & Life Force Eating: learn about building and sustaining your health, vitality and wellbeing through unlocking the lifeforce inherent in plant-based food. Learn about 'pranic' foods and how to activate, grow, prepare and present incredible plantfoods - including sprouted yeast & grain-free bread, vegan cheese (almond feta, macadamia ricotta), vegan chocolate mousse, colourful, festive warm and fresh salads, zesty dressings to enhance digestion and a delicious ojas building dessert. We also cover seed activation, sprouting, growing micro-greens and you'll leave with seeds to get started!​ 
• Healing Foods: Chakras & Rainbow Foods: learn the theory and practice of healing through food and daily routine. We use beautiful, colourful, nutrient-dense and living plant foods to balance and heal not only the chakras, or our energetic field, but every aspect of body, mind and soul. We also consider our daily routine 'dinacharya' and approaches to attune our days and lives to the wisdom and rhythms of nature. We'll make a multitude of healing dishes to delight the senses - from grounding, heartwarming mains, to high-vibration elixirs and desserts.​​

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Course facilitator

Kookaburra Courses have been developed by Mandy BeckerKnox who has over 25 years teaching experience, has studied directly with renowned teachers, studied Ayurveda and also spent considerable time in the kitchens of India learning the culinary secrets of the ashram cooks, street vendors and householders. Mandy regularly caters for Kookaburra Yoga Retreats.

Purpose designed spaces

Kookaburra Creek features a model kitchen which is spacious and airy with an outlook over the productive food garden. This is a space conducive to learning the principles and methods of cooking and eating for peace, vitality, health and community 

Integrated system of wellbeing

Kookaburra Yoga's integrated system of Hatha and Raja Yoga includes practices which are holistic and beneficial on every level of being, bringing about internal balance and peacefulness. You learn not only the postures and practices of traditional yoga, but also what constitutes a yoga lifestyle and how to meaningfully and authentically integrate yoga into daily life. 

2022 Cooking Class Dates

Click date to book & pay easily online to confirm your place

• ​17 Dec Vegan Feast - Festive Foods

Gift Vouchers

Give a gift of peace and healing. Vouchers available for 1 or more people.

​Let them choose - valid for any retreat date within 3 years.
Buy online here. You'll receive the voucher immediately.

Gift Voucher Purchase

Kookaburra Creek Yoga Centre
210 Carradine Road, Bedfordale WA 6112

Why choose Kookaburra Yoga?

• Established, reputable business. Kookaburra Cooking Courses were developed and are taught by centre director Mandy BeckerKnox. Kookaburra Creek Yoga Centre is well established having been operating for twenty years.
• Quality content. Kookaburra Yoga's Courses draw upon the knowledge and wisdom Centre Director, Mandy BeckerKnox, has gained through her personal study and practice of yoga and training she has undertaken in the fields of traditional yoga, Ayurveda, tantra, yin yoga. Course content is a balance of traditional yoga with modern perspectives from contemporary, relevant and increasingly research and evidence-based sources. 
• Experienced teachers. Mandy and Robert are both exceptional yoga and meditation instructors with decades of continuing education, self-enquiry and practical teaching experience. They have literally taught thousands of people yoga and to meditate and how to effectively apply the knowledge gained to enhance and transform lives.
• ​Value for money. We believe Yoga should be affordable and accessible for all. Our prices are generally well below the industry standard price in Western Australia.
• Socially and environmentally responsible. We care for people and the planet. Kookaburra Creek is an eco-conscious venue drawing on its own and natural resources including solar power, rain and spring water and our own organic food gardens. 
• Personal development. Kookaburra Yoga provides a wonderful opportunity for personal and professional development. You'll be gently guided to explore limitations and obstacles to achieving your potential and become equipped with the tools, techniques and practical wisdom to evolve and grow. 

Do I need experience in Yoga?

• No, we welcome anyone who is interested in learning the foundation of yoga and meditation.
• The yoga and meditation practices are carefully explained and taught in a caring and respectful manner.
• All of the practices taught can be adapted to suit the needs of each participant.
• We welcome everyone, regardless of prior knowledge of or experience in yoga. 
• If you have any injuries, are pregnant or have medical conditions or concerns please include these on your booking form to ensure your teacher is aware. In some instances this course may not be suitable.

Where is Kookaburra Creek?

• Kookaburra Creek Yoga Centre is located at 210 Carradine Road, Bedfordale WA 6112.
  
• This is approximately 40 minutes drive from both Perth and Fremantle and only a few minutes drive from the Armadale town centre. 
• Kookaburra Creek is not accessible by public transport. The nearest train station is Armadale. This is a 40 minute walk.
• See map below.

What if I Need to cancel or miss a class?

• Full payment is required to secure you place on this retreat.
• If you do not notify us prior to workshop, you you cannot transfer your booking to another date and/or be entitled to a refund.
• If you cancel on the day of the workshop and we are unable to cover your spot from the waitlist, a $100-cancellation fee will be applied to your original booking. You can can reschedule your booking to another date and pay the balance, or receive a refund after we deduct the cancellation fee (i.e. $50).
• If you cancel within 48 hrs of start date/time and we are able to cover your spot from the waitlist, you can can reschedule your booking to another date, or receive a full refund.
• If you have to change your booking and provide us with more than 48 hours notice, you can request for a rescheduled booking to another date or receive a full refund.

WHAT ARE THE PAYMENT OPTIONS? ​

• Full payment of course is $180 which is payable online in advance.
• You can pay securely using our online booking system. Payment options are credit card, PayPal or direct deposit.
• We don't have eftpos facilities at the centre so can only accept cash on arrival if you choose that payment method.
• If you are experiencing financial difficulty please be in touch with us directly as we can organise a payment plan for you.

WHAT If I have an ILLNESS or am pregnant?

• You are fine to attend this course if you are pregnant or have a medical condition including chronic illness, The food is fresh and life-giving and suitable for most people
• If you have a food allergy or intolerance please include details of this on your booking form.

What should I bring?

• notebook and pen

What equipment is provided?

• There are no requirements to bring any equipment to this course.