Balanced Ritual Workshop with
Mimi & Michael: Ayurvedic Somatics, Cooking, and Cosmic Alignment

Sat. June 13, 2026 -
2:00pm-5:30pm


Location: Waterfront Dumbo, Brooklyn
(address provided upon sign up)

Exchange: $150 per person

LIMITED SPOTS
Registration below!

Unlock a deeper connection to your body, your palate, and the stars. 

In this immersive three-part workshop, Mimi Lê 500RYT will share ancient Ayurvedic wisdom with somatic integration. Chef (Ananda Ashram) artist/vedic astrologer Michael Carpenter, will offer a sensory food demo and cosmic Jyotish/Vedic astrology reading.

Workshop Schedule & Experience

Part 1: Foundations of Ayurveda – Somatic Dosha & Chakra Balancing

Establish a foundational understanding of the Ayurvedic system, treated not just as theory, but as a felt, internal experience.

  • Discover your dosha and engage in a somatic practice designed to balance your unique bio-energy state through the chakra system

  • Feel the shift as you align your internal energy centers with your physical body

Part 2: The Alchemical Kitchen – Embodied Eating & Food Demo

Transform your relationship with nourishment through an exploration of Ayurvedic culinary arts and rasa, the six Ayurvedic tastes.

  • Participate in a dosha-balancing food demonstration while enjoying a pre-meal digestive tea

  • Savor the flavors and textures of nourishing 3-4 vegetarian Ayurvedic dishes

  • Explore relational intimacy with food, for nourishment beyond flavors, and cultivate a deep, intuitive understanding of your digestion

Part 3: The Cosmic Mirror – Group Jyotish Readings

Close the circle by looking upward to discover how the celestial dance influences your personal constitution.

  • Participate in a mini Jyotish (Vedic Astrology) group reading

  • Learn how current cosmic alignments may be influencing your specific chart and daily life

  • Leave inspired by how the macrocosm of the stars reflects the microcosm of your soul

  • Please Note:

    • Michael will need your birth date and time to run your chart in advance of workshop

    • Michael will offer guidance on how to review a particular aspect of your chart in relation to the current cosmic cycle and how it might affect your current doshic state

    • Your chart will not be shared with the group

Your Facilitators:

Mimi Lê
Driven by an empathic and sensitive nature, Mimi’s approach to healing is both embodied and heartfelt. Her journey began early, cultivating a profound self-awareness and a curious, inquiring spirit. Raised in a devotional Buddhist household with Vietnamese roots, Mimi was surrounded by traditional herbal and healing remedies and a reverence for ancestors and the sacred.

In 2018, while completing her advanced 300-hour yoga training, she felt a natural pull towards the sister science of Ayurveda, leading her to Holistic Health and Ayurveda training with Vaidya (Dr.) Naina Marballi, followed by specialized training in Yoga Therapy with Yoga Bharati. Mimi honors all the teachers and traditions that helped her reconnect with her own inner wisdom. Through her classes and workshops, she offers a welcoming space for you to connect with your own intuitive healing capacity.

Michael Carpenter
Michael's relationship with the inner sciences and disciplines began at age seven, when they took up meditation and martial arts - practices that profoundly shaped the trajectory of his life. By 2016, that early devotion had deepened into ashram life and he was introduced to Ayurveda, a path he was called to by necessity: the body asking for answers Western medicine could not provide. In 2018, the study of Jyotish began, offering another way of seeing what Ayurveda was already teaching him to feel.

For Michael, Jyotish and Ayurveda are instruments of intuition and historically sister sciences - ways of reading what the body is asking for and how to navigate the rhythms and seasons of a life. As a personal chef and ashram cook for groups of up to 150, they have expanded what people believed possible with simple, intentional food, and supported many through the tender work of releasing harmful patterns and evolving their lifestyles.

An artist and a self-taught yogi, Michael teaches from the marrow of their experience - weaving Ayurveda, yoga, Jyotish, and the kitchen into one continuous practice of harmonious living. 

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