Brain Foods: How to build a better brain through food, lifestyle, and habits

We all want to have more energy, motivation, improve cognitive skills, and adapt to our learning environments. Did you know that the foods you eat (or don't) also impact your mood and immune system? For all this, we need to fuel our brain and give it the right exercise. Join Cham in a workshop where you will go over the top 10 foods for brain health for children and adults, learn some movements and exercises to help build a better brain, and get some recipes and ideas of how to eat these foods while also creating habits to make long lasting changes in your life and health journey.

Food plays a critical role in our current health but also in our long-term mental and physical health.

This workshop is for adults who are wanting to improve their mental and physical health, or for parents who would like to help their children eat a variety of foods for learning and memory. We will have food to sample, and also some time to make a brain based meals together!

This class will include an informational session, cooking demo, and taste test.

Taught by Cham Edussuriya, HomeGrownUrban

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Chamila Edussuriya better known as “Cham”  is an Integrative Health Coach. She was first drawn to the wellness space when working with children in a Montessori setting while sharing her love for cooking, heritage foods, preserving cultures through slow living, regenerative agriculture, and environmental science. When working with clients, students or giving workshops, he integrates nature, movement, sunshine, whole foods, seasonal produce, and ingredients that are part of her client's identity and heritage as ways to help them heal from the inside out. 

Her protocols blend a wide range of expertise using Integrative and Functional Medicine, Ayurvedic and Traditional Chinese Medicine, along with bio-individualized medicine. She also integrates functional movements to help the nervous system and cognitive health for pain management and prevention and overall brain health. 

Cham holds a  B.A. in Existential Psychology and an M.Ed in Montessori Education. She holds additional certificates in Trauma Informed Movement, Regenerative Agriculture, and Mindfulness and Meditation. She is passionate about the environment and connecting people and children to it. She spends a lot of time hiking and camping with her family and taking others out into nature. She was a part of the San Diego chapter of Children and Nature Network to bring more families outdoors. In addition to her clients, she works with women who are survivors of being trafficked and volunteers with Second Chance Youth garden to bring nutrition and cooking classes focusing on health and wellness. She is a guest instructor at Wild Willow Farm, runs youth camps from her home, and works to connect individuals with the local community.