Zen Around th Table with Chef Avital Sebagg. Medicinal Mushrooms on My Plate
April 29 to May 3 (second entry Thursday April 30th)
Limited places
A unique retreat for those who love plant-based cuisine, local ingredients, and creative cooking with a wide variety of mushrooms.
The course focuses not only on recipes, but on learning how to be efficient, mindful, and joyful in a healthy kitchen.
Avital Sebbag, a vegan chef and certified practitioner of Chinese medicine, will inspire us to cook an impressive array of nutritious and delicious mushroom-based recipes.
What’s Included
- 🍄 3 hands-on cooking classes with Chef Avital Sabag
- 🥣 Shared meals: breakfast, lunch, and dinner
- 🧘 (Optional) Daily afternoon yoga sessions
- 🌲 Guided mountain walks and foraging for wild mushrooms
- 🧘♂️ (Optional) Traditional Korean Zen practice, morning and evening
- 🌿 Time for rest, connection, and a truly special togetherness
Daily Schedule (Thursday–Saturday)
• Morning Zen practice
• Breakfast
• Cooking class
• Lunch
• Rest & yoga
• Dinner
• Evening Zen practice
Teacher: Avital Sebbag, an anthropological food researcher and accomplished vegan chef, known for her book “Five Seasons in the Kitchen –Zen Inspired Vegan Cooking“, has been practicing Korean Zen for two decades, and today , teaches and manages the Hasharon Zen Center in Israel. Avital has integrated her wide worlds of culinary content with Zen teaching, and conducts cooking and enrichment workshops in the kitchens of temples, Zen centers and various bodies that invite her knowledge. Avital teaches to make the connection by choosing dishes based on the seasons’ vegetation, most suitable for her retreats.
Price: 390 € / 290 € (Kwan Um School of Zen Members)
Includes course and simple rural accommodation
10% discount if you sign up before April 1st!
For more information and registration, please write to, boricentrozen@hotmail.com
