Ayurveda Cooking Class – with Aja Krystal

This Ayurvedic cooking class is one of the most practical ways to bring Ayurveda off the page and into your kitchen.

Guided by Aja Krystal, you’ll cook a kapha-balancing buddha bowl from scratch — a meal designed to help the body feel lighter and clearer, especially after the heavier months of winter. The class is delivered as a follow-along video, so you can cook at the same time as watching, or simply observe first and return to the kitchen when you’re ready.

What you’ll explore in this Ayurvedic cooking class:

• The six tastes in Ayurvedic nutrition — sweet, sour, salty, bitter, pungent, and astringent — and how each one acts on the body and mind
• Why kapha-balancing food matters, and how to recognise when your body is asking for something lighter
• How to build a whole-food meal that genuinely supports digestion without sacrificing flavour
• A simple, repeatable buddha bowl template you can adapt throughout the year as ingredients and body needs shift
• The Ayurvedic understanding of food as intelligence — something alive that can help restore balance at every level, not just the physical

One of the things that makes this Ayurvedic cooking class so accessible is Aja’s approach: she doesn’t want to show you a single recipe. She wants to give you a template — a way of thinking about food — that you can carry into your kitchen long after the video ends.

Aja’s teaching style is grounded and warm, shaped by her rich and varied life experience — from growing up in Kenya to her Ayurvedic training with Dru, where she first understood that food could be a way to co-create health rather than simply manage it. She developed a deep love of cooking as both a creative act and a way of caring for others, and that comes through clearly here.

This Ayurvedic cooking class is well suited to you if:

• You’re curious about Ayurvedic nutrition but want to start with something practical and hands-on
• You already have some familiarity with Ayurveda and want a simple way to bring it into daily life
• You’d like a calm, accessible introduction to doshas, the six tastes, and seasonal eating

You’re welcome to join Aja in the kitchen whenever feels right.