Herbs for the Heart: Cultivating Love, Vitality & Connection

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Sat Feb 14 2026 at 12:00 pm to 02:00 pm

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Teaching Kitchen @ Honest Weight Food Co-op | Albany, NY

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The heart in Ayurveda is not just a physical organ, rather it is the seat of ojas (vitality) emotion, consciousness, and connection.
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Herbs for the Heart: Cultivating Love, Vitality & Connection

The heart in Ayurveda is not just a physical organ, rather it is the seat of ojas (vitality) emotion, consciousness, and connection. When the heart is nourished, we experience warmth, intimacy, resilience, and presence. When depleted, we see dryness, fatigue, anxiety, and emotional withdrawal.

Discover how herbs can nourish your heart, support vitality, and cultivate presence and connection. In this hands-on workshop, we’ll explore the Ayurvedic perspective on heart health, including how stress, dryness, and depletion can block emotional and energetic connection. Together we’ll explore gentle self-care rituals and heart-nourishing herbs like rose, tulsi, hawthorn, shatavari, ashwagandha, maca, and cacao—plants that support the nervous system, strengthen ojas, and foster emotional warmth and connection.Participants will make and taste several remedies, including:

  • Ojas-Building Hot Chocolate – a warming blend of cacao, shatavari, ashwagandha, maca, cinnamon, and ginger that supports our resilience to stress and nourishes reproductive health through a mindful, ritual experience.
  • Heart-Opening Tea Blend – rose petals, tulsi, hawthorne and linden to calm stress, support emotional presence, and cultivate softness.
  • Sweet, Nourishing Snacks – energy bliss bites made with dates, nuts, seeds, ghee, rose, and cardamom to build vitality, support digestion, and encourage mindful, sensory-rich consumption.


Through hands-on preparation and tasting, you’ll learn how to incorporate these herbs into daily rituals that foster presence, vitality, and self-connection—supporting love and connection from the inside out, naturally and sustainably.

About your Teacher: Cathy is a Certified Ayurvedic Health Counselor, Panchakarma Specialist, Clinical Herbalist, Chef, and wellness educator. She is the owner of Balanced Body Ayurveda and also works part-time as an advanced cook at Honest Weight Food Co-op.

To explore her offerings please visit:

www.balancedbodyayurveda.com


This class has a $10 fee, plus eventbrite fees. To avoid eventbrite fees, bring exact cash to class and give it directly to Cathy. Please inform us of your intent to join and pay in cash by emailing Anastasia, you will receive confirmation [email protected]

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