Recipes
and Rituals

وصفات و عادات

A Women’s Program Guide to
Multi-Dimensional Nourishment

An 8‑week ancestral practice for women who steward plant wisdom, cultural memory, and generational care. Through meditation, recipe‑making, storytelling, and embodied rituals, you will reclaim kitchen‑knowledge as ceremony and develop a living practice that nourishes family, community, and land.

Oct 11 to Dec 1, 2026 (Registration open)

TUESDAYS

6:00 – 8:00 pm KSA

Live online

THEMES:

Rituals, Recipes, Love & Grief — an ancestral return

 Regional Sisterhood

This is our second cohort: women joining from across the Arab region — cultural workers, cooks, elders’ kin, artists, and community leaders coming together in regional sisterhood.

Lead Facilitators

NOOR KAYYAL

Wellbeing guide

Cultural Developer

MARYA KAYYAL

Chef and Culinary Creative 

What to expect

8 weekly live sessions (Tuesday, 6:00–8:00 pm KSA)

Guided meditations, embodied practices, and opening dua

Storytelling, lineage work, and collective processing of love & grief

One private 1:1 session with Noor + lifetime access to replays

Plant ancestry teachings: seasonal selection, preparations, and lineage care

Live recipe demos, hands‑on recipe creation, and sensory design work

Sessions include

Guided settling + meditation to listen to body and land

Ingredient & plant ancestry exploration (how plants teach and heal)

Recipe making: techniques, traditional infusions, and ritual preparations

Practical frameworks for preserving and sharing family practices with care

Communal sense‑work: grief, gratitude, transmission, and celebration

Syllabus

Opening the circle

We begin by arriving in our own stories. We explore ancestral memories, family narratives, and the experiences that have shaped our relationship with nourishment, care, love, and loss.

We will introduce the journey ahead and begin to identify the memories, people

Visualization, meditation & inner listening

A guided exploration of the heart as a place of memory, intuition, love, and knowing.

Through visualization, meditation, and embodied practices, we create space to listen inwardly and connect with what is alive within us—before putting words, recipes, or rituals to it.

Reigniting ancestral recipes through the family tree

What stories live inside our family recipes?

We trace recipes, ingredients, cooking methods, and food memories through our family trees, exploring the people and places behind them.

We begin to uncover what has been preserved, what has been lost, and what we might lovingly bring back into practice.

 

A hands-on kitchen workshop with Chef Marya

An embodied exploration of cooking beyond the written recipe.

With Chef Marya, we enter the kitchen as a space of intuition, sensory awareness, creativity, and memory. Through a hands-on workshop, we explore how ingredients can guide us and how recipes can become living expressions of care.

Place, plant wisdom & ancestral knowledge

An exploration of the plants of the Hejaz and the relationships our communities have cultivated with them.

We will learn about plants being explored through the project and consider their seasonal, cultural, sensory, and ancestral significance—asking what plants can teach us about place, belonging, care, and continuity.

Self-love, remembrance & transformation

What does it mean to practice love?
What does it mean to make space for grief?

We explore love and grief as living rituals: not experiences to simply move through, but forms of relationship that can be held, witnessed, and transformed.

Through embodied practices and reflection, we consider how ritual can help us honor ourselves, our loved ones, what has been lost, and what continues.

Personal project studio

A dedicated space to bring the threads of the journey together.

Each participant will develop their own recipe and ritual, drawing from their stories, lineage, plants, memories, and experiences of love and grief.

Through individual reflection and group work, we will refine the intention, ingredients, preparation, sensory elements, and ritual structure of each project.

Sharing our recipes & rituals

We gather to witness and celebrate what has been created.

Each participant presents their recipe and ritual, sharing the story, memory, or lineage held within it.

This final gathering is an act of transmission: taking what we have remembered and transformed, and offering it back to the circle.

Cohort highlights — Summer 2025

Three‑generation henna ritual: a participant created and led a layered ceremony uniting grandmothers, mothers, and daughters.

Frequency of flowers: an alum hosted a baby shower serving flower‑infused drinks that evoked feminine storytelling and wisdom.

Art as nourishment: a UAE participant integrated recipe‑rituals into a gallery show using scent, edible elements, and embodied storytelling.

Testimonial Section from Cohort 1

 Did the program support your intention or personal journey around nourishment?

“Yes! By having a dedicated time every week to gather around that intention, with a group of women on their own journeys, and alongside the discussions, meditations and knowledge shared — it quite directly nourished what i believe was a malnourished aspect of my life in this chapter. You asked great questions that I wrote and reflected on through the week, you opened up possibilities in the ways we consider our connection to body, plants, creation, and spirit; and you were so generous in the ways you held space. thank you, truly.”

Testimonial Section from Cohort 1

What did you find most nourishing or valuable in this program?

“ The space to be curious and vulnerable together; the exposure to the different forms of knowledge the facilitators, attendees and guests brought !!! Altogether the experience really helped ground me and root me in the tools and practices I want and need in my journey of healing and self expression.” 

“ The different perspective which we experienced and witnessed in others” 

“ Even though I loved every single guest speaker, but the most nourishing moments when we were there for each others as a group. Those sessions were most valuable and meaningful.”

Testimonial Section from Cohort 1

Any additional thoughts or reflections on the container and the facilitators?

“I couldn’t have dreamt of a better pair of facilitators! Your combination of knowledge is really so inspiring and exactly what made this so special.

A side point – as much as I truly appreciated the guests, I would have loved if more of the guests were from our region or at least not strictly European/White. This isn’t to say their presence wasn’t immensely valuable but because of the nature of the container’s themes and this group, it would be enriching in a very different, deeper way for the knowledge to be coming from SWANA women or women of color (in my humble opinion).” 

“YOU GUYS WERE BEYOND AMAZING! 🦋🦋🦋”

Registration open for Cohort 2.

Spaces limited.

4000 SR Installments Available.

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