Day 1 – Friday, March 5th, 2021

What is SHI Macrobiotics? (Denny Waxman) 

SHI Macrobiotics is the most up-to-date, comprehensive and effective approach to macrobiotic practice. It is also the easiest approach to implement. Learn the key points to start and maintain your macrobiotic practice for maximum benefit and enjoyment.

Day 2 – Saturday, March 6th, 2021

Awakening the Living Seed: Sprouting Grains, Beans, Nuts and Seeds (Joe Waxman)

One of the world’s greatest culinary traditions in macrobiotic style.

From Seed to Table – A Journey to the Origin of our Food (Beti Minkin)

The story of how macrobiotic studies led Beti Minkin to discover endangered heritage seeds and grains in her native land and her efforts to revive them! She will take us from golden sesame harvest to TOHUM® Tahini production to highlight the origin and quality of products we consume as healthy, nutritious, and healing. We will have the opportunity to examine aspects of biodiversity conservation and traditional, organic, sustainable agriculture practices. 

Cooking Class #1 (Susan Waxman)

Details for this class are to be announced by January 22nd

Body Rub for Healthy Living (Gina Compello)

Learn how to do the body rub efficiently and effectively and how to incorporate this practice into your daily routine.

Connections: We Really Are All In This Together (Denny Waxman)

SHI Macrobiotics is far more than a diet and lifestyle. Learn how orderly macrobiotic practice connects us with God, Nature or the Universe, our thoughts and feelings, each other, food itself and our planet. This is perhaps the most important benefit and reason for practicing macrobiotics.

Healing Your Body And Mind By Healing Your Microbiome (Tom Monte)

If there is a single aspect of your life that proves your body’s optimal function depends on a plant-based macrobiotic diet, it is your microbiome.

The microbiome — a vast population of microorganisms that exist primarily in your digestive tract — is a living intelligence that plays a central role in the health and vitality of your immune, digestive, and central nervous systems.  Your microbiome determines the clarity and function of your brain, your emotional stability, and much of your mental health.  It prevents and, in many cases,  can reverse depression, anxiety, and various forms of learning disabilities, including as ADHD.  The microbiome also has been shown to prevent serious illnesses, including common cancers, heart disease, and diabetes.

Recent research has shown that a healthy microbiome can prevent Covid-19, or reduce the strength of the illness should it take hold within your system.   

Your microbiome thrives on on a diet of whole grains, fresh vegetables, beans, sea vegetables, and fruit.  The macrobiotic diet can transform your microbiome within a month, usually within two or three weeks.

In this talk, Tom Monte will show you how to restore your microbiome, and in the process revitalize your physical, emotional, and mental health.

Day 3 – Sunday, March 7th, 2021

Awakening Your Potential: Living The Better You (Tom Monte)  

At the top of our life goals, at least for most of us, is the hope that we will fulfill our potential.  The question most of us ask is, how — how do we bring out what is most loving, gifted, wise, powerful, and beautiful within us?

The short answer is this: Your evolution depends on how you respond to challenges.  All species either evolve and bring forth potential abilities in the face of challenges, or they stagnate, decline, and eventually die out.

For humans, that means responding from the potential state when under stress.

When faced with a stressful situation, most of us react from deeply engrained, automatic behaviors — in short, habits that are physiological, emotional, and mental.  In the grip of our patterned responses, we tend to make bad decisions — and we make them consistently, which is why we experience the same problems over and over again.

In this talk, Tom Monte will reveal a simple, easy to follow, step-by-step approach to (first) seeing your patterned responses; (second), awakening the potential state within you; and (third) allowing that potential state to displace your automatic behaviors, especially when you are under stress.

The potential you does not respond to challenge with the same automatic patterns that your current consciousness dictates.  Therefore, the potential state creates an entirely new life, based on the new and evolved you that comes into being.

Turkish Food Culture w/ Springtime Recipes (Beti Minkin)

Presentation of fun Springtime recipes with background stories on Turkish food culture. Turkey is a bridge between East and West, the melting pot of many civilizations, the heartland of thousands of years of agriculture. Each region presents rich food traditions. During her field projects, Beti cooked with traditional women collecting recipes. She will share some of her experiences with us. 

Cooking Class # 2 (Susan Waxman)

Details for this class are to be announced by January 22nd