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Healing Superfoods Culinary Vacation in Nicaragua

Join Monica and Danielle in the kitchen to ​discover new ways to incorporate local vegetables and fruits into your diet and emerge from this weekend with a renewed sense of inspiration to incorporate delicious meals into your everyday routine!​ In this 5-day immersion course, discover ways to optimize health, digestion, and overall well-being then discover how laughter, movement, and self-care can liberate you!

Meet the instructors

Danielle
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Highlights

  • Cacao Ceremony infused with local superfoods
  • Join 2 yoga classes and an Ecstatic Dance session
  • Dive into the science behind how food benefits the body
  • Hands-on culinary workshops (learning to make food taste delicious!)
  • Laughter Liberation Journey
  • 4 nights accommodation
  • 11 meals included
  • Airport transfer

Skill level

  • Beginner
  • Intermediate
  • Advanced
4 days with instruction in English
The organizer also speaks: Spanish
Group size: Maximum of 22 participants
Airport transfer included: Augusto C. Sandino International Airport
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Accommodation

Your home base is on the island of Ometepe in Nicaragua at an incredible retreat facility called Wanderlust Utopia – a conscious, plant-based, health and wellness retreat center for holistic events and private functions.

There will be six lake-side private cabanas with a 12-person dormitory and a separate cabana for retreat leaders.

Program

Join culinary workshops from a vegan chef who specializes in healthy eating. In the culinary workshops, you learn how to make and enjoy more than 20 recipes using what is most found in Nicaragua.

  • What is the microbiome and what is it for? Learn how to make fermented food that contains certain live bacteria that continue to act once they are in our body, providing diversity and benefiting the intestinal microbiota
  • Make the best super soup to heal our gut microbiota
  • Why eat some “raw” crackers? You will have heard of raw food, which literally translated would be raw food since traditional cooking methods are not used in its preparation. Many chefs and experts in raw food, however, prefer to use the translation "living food" which denotes the essence of this type of diet that maintains the nature of the biochemical compounds of food. Learn to make "raw" crackers from scratch.
  • It's all about the sauce! Learn to make 4 versatile sauces that can be used in food or desserts to give everything a better flavor
  • Lessons in the science behind how food and the way you prepare it to eat benefits the body

Sample schedule

Day 1

  • 15:30 - 16:30: Arrive and check-in
  • 18:00 Dinner

Day 2

  • 07:00 - 08:00 Opening cacao circle
  • 10:00 - 12:00 Workshop The Microbiome Boost – Learn to make Kimchi and Fermented Cashew Cream and Ayote Bacon, Tapache (pineapple), cooking with Jamaica
  • 12:00 Lunch: Cashew Caesar Spiral Salad with fresh garden arugula, raw crackers, and ayote, bacon
  • 16:30 Workshop: Self-Love Ritual: Hair soaking with the Jamaica and ginger
  • 18:00 Dinner: Ayote Parcels and Flor de Jamaica with pan-fried Chaya and Yuca leaves and garlic, crisps, and Mango Dijon Vinaigrette

Day 3

  • 06:00 Juice and bulletproof coffee or tea (with coconut oil)
  • 07:00 - 09:00 Laughter, Liberation: Cultivate joy through choice, play, fun, and yoga Flow
  • 09:00 Breakfast – Fruit bowl with Cashew Milk & Granola
  • 10:00 - 12:00 Workshop: The Science of Soaking: Soaking of flax and chia for the Super Salad Crackers, soak chricano beans overnight in epazote, soak jamaica, soak Mung beans for mung bean sprouts, Savory Super Salad Crackers Workshop
  • 13:30 - 16:00 Free time
  • 16:00 - 18:00 Workshop Energy Balls and Raw Cheesecake
  • 18:00 Dinner: Gallo Pinto, The Next Level

Day 4

  • 06:00 Juice and bulletproof coffee or tea (with coconut oil)
  • 07:00 - 09:00 Heart opening yoga flow and Shakti shakes
  • 09:00 Breakfast- Coconut yogurt and fresh fruit and Hippee Dust & Grawnola
  • Free Time
  • 11:00 - 13:00 Workshop: Making coconut milk and coconut yogurt, Gut-Healing Super Soup (onion, quiquiseque, ayote, chayote, yuca, beans, cilantro, oregano, lemongrass, ginger, black pepper, turmeric, coconut milk, moringa, salt)
  • 13:00 Lunch: Soup, Salad, Crackers
  • 16:00 - 18:00 Workshop: It’s All About the Sauce (make 4+ more versatile sauces: Ranchito, Hummus, Hot Sauce, Pesto and Pineapple Salsa, Noni Cheese Sauce)
  • 18:00 Dinner: Rainbow Protein Power Bowls with Ranchito Dressing, (shredded beets and carrots, kimchi, beans, rice, fresh sprouts, avocado, arugula, moringa, pan-fried yuca and onion with garlic, ginger, and turmeric). Raw cheesecake!

Day 5

  • 07:00 Breakfast
  • 08:00 Cacao ceremony, Ecstatic Dance, and closing circle
  • 11:00 Check out and (send home with energy balls)

Included excursions

  • Magical swims in the organic pool
  • 2 yoga classes
  • Ecstatic Dance
  • Laughter Liberation Journey
  • Cacao Ceremony infused with local superfoods

Instructors

Danielle Arsenault

Location

Wanderlust Utopia is a slice of paradise nestled in the island of Ometepe in Nicaragua, a private facility created to host retreats, family vacations, private groups, and functions.

Food

The retreat includes 11 meals as well as exciting cooking workshops. Recipes you will learn: Ayote Caesar Sprials, Cacao Cream Custard Cake, Flax Crackers, StarFruit Pico de Gallo, Overnight Oats and Tropical Jam, Chunky Beetroot Hummus, Basil and Culantro Pesto, Classic Dijon and Cumin Vinaigrette, Tomato Sofrito, Pipian Parcels and stuffed Flor de Calabaza, Pan-fried Chaya and Garlic Crisps Gut Healing Super Soup and Cinnamon-Cardamom Rice Pudding.

The following meals are included:

  • Breakfast
  • Lunch
  • Dinner
  • Drinks

The following drinks are included:

  • Water
  • Detox juices

The following dietary requirement(s) are served and/or catered for:

  • Vegan
  • Gluten Free
  • Organic
  • Raw food
  • Lactose Free
  • Whole food
If you have special dietary requirements it's a good idea to communicate it to the organiser when making a reservation

What's included

  • Hands-on culinary workshops (learning to make food taste delicious!)
  • Dive into the science behind how food benefits the body
  • 11 meals included (welcome dinner on day 1, breakfast, lunch, and dinner on day 2, 3 and 4, breakfast on day 5)
  • Magical swims in the organic pool
  • Yoga classes
  • Ecstatic dance
  • Laughter liberation journey
  • Cacao Ceremony infused with local superfoods
  • 4 nights accommodation
  • Airport transfer worth 200 USD is offered as a gift to our guests

What's not included

  • Airfare

How to get there

Airport transfer included: Augusto C. Sandino International Airport No additional charges. You can request this in the next step.

Cancellation Policy

  • A reservation requires a deposit of 25% of the total price.
  • The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.
  • The rest of the payment should be paid 30 days before arrival.
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