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ESSENTIAL INFO
If you purchase a ticket for this course, all the information on this page will be emailed to you with your ticket.
👥 Suitable for: Ages 18 and up
📍 Venue: Bellingen High School
📈 Level: Suitable for all skill levels
⏰ Schedule: Mon–Wed, 9am – 4pm (3 Full-Days)
🏷️ Extra costs: This course has a cost of $150 for materials
🚗 Check your venue: If you are booking multiple courses, we are unable to provide transport between venues.
Required skills & experience
No experience required
Supplies that will be provided by your tutor
Cost of $150 includes:
All food for recipes and food sampling
Take home lip balm, comfrey oil & bath salts
All other course supplies for recipes
Herbs
Printed booklet of recipes
NOTE: Supply costs will be collected by the tutor before Camp Creative.
Learning outcomes
Eat for High Energy: Learn how to use simple, everyday wholefood ingredients to naturally support your gut health, brainpower, and hormone balance.
Supercharge Your Gut & Immunity: Master basic fermentation and cook up comforting, immune-boosting recipes like gut-loving pickles, miso soup, and herbal syrups.
Whip Up Guilt-Free Treats: Cook a whole menu of delicious, healthy staples—from protein-packed breakfasts and chickpea flatbreads to dairy-free lavender ice cream and chocolate coconut caramel slices.
Ditch the Chemicals for Natural Self-Care: Craft your own handmade, toxin-free wellness products, including beeswax lip balms, herbal ointments, and soothing oat face masks.
Bring Wellness Home: Learn how to identify seasonal medicinal plants in the garden and walk away with a practical toolkit to keep cooking and living healthy at home.
COURSE PLAN
DAY ONE - Eat Well, Feel Well
Start your wellness journey by learning how food can become your everyday medicine.
We'll explore the foundations of wholefood nutrition while preparing vibrant smoothies, protein-rich breakfasts, nourishing salads, fermented vegetables, healthy snacks and naturally sweet desserts. Throughout the day you'll discover how simple ingredients can support gut health, brain function, hormone balance and sustained energy.
You'll leave inspired with practical tips to make healthy eating enjoyable, affordable and easy to incorporate into everyday life.
Recipe examples:
Protein Blueberry Smoothie
Chia Puddings with fruit toppings
Green Smoothies
Lavender Ice-cream
Red Cabbage Pickle
DAY TWO - Gut Health, Immunity & Everyday Wellness
Discover why your gut is often called your "second brain" and how caring for your digestive system can improve immunity, mood and overall wellbeing.
Together we'll prepare fermented foods, comforting miso soup, homemade hummus and fl atbreads, immune-boosting herbal gummies and syrups, plus healthy treats to nourish the whole family.
You'll also learn about medicinal herbs, probiotics, digestive health and practical lifestyle habits that support long-term wellness.
Elderberry and Echinacea Gummies and Syrup
Miso Soup
Chickpea Flat breads and homemade Hummus with Smoked Trout
Chocolate Coconut Caramel Slices
Chicken and Goats Cheese Patties
DAY THREE - Herbal Living & Natural Self-Care
Our final day celebrates the wonderful world of herbal medicine and natural living.
Learn how to create beautiful handmade wellness products including herbal-infused oils, nourishing lip balms, relaxing bath salts and natural face masks using quality ingredients and traditional herbal knowledge.
We'll finish with refreshing wellness drinks, herbal teas and, weather permitting, a walk through the vegetable and herb garden to identify seasonal medicinal plants.
You'll leave feeling confident, empowered and equipped with practical skills to continue your wellness journey at home.
Beeswax Lip balms
Homemade Comfrey ointment
Bath salts with Rose and Lavender
Honey, Yoghurt and Oat Facemasks
Cacao, Withania Macca Tea
Dragon fruit and Cherry Power Smoothie
COURSE TUTOR
Sandy Luhrs
Welcome to Sandy's Soulfoods, I'm Sandy a qualified Nutritionist Herbalist and Cookbook Author.
I have a wealth of knowledge and 25 years of working within the Natural therapy Industry. Join me for an unforgettable culinary experience through this wellness journey.
Together we will experience the joys of preparing meals, which have been created purposely to support your health. You will learn not only meals, but treats to die for and great little herbal products for your first aid kit.
Billy Gowing will be working alongside Sandy as the assistant for this course.
“Sandy is an inspirational teacher, I learned so much and had great fun with Sandy creating a wonderful ambience for the students. Thanks so much!”
“Sandy was fabulous and the variety of everything we did was fabulous. Ccoking, making smoothies, making bathsalts and lip gloss etc”
