Meet our featured beauty with brains Cherisha Nagarkar, an entrepreneur and teacher based in Melbourne, Australia. She is passionate about Health, Nutrition and Natural Medicine.
Cherisha is a natural medicine practitioner who along with her husband has been offering homeopathy treatments and nutritional consultations from her business practice in Melbourne’s western suburbs since the past 8 years. Cherisha moved from Mumbai (India) to Melbourne to pursue her Master’s in Teaching in 2011. She works as a lecturer in one of the prominent institutes of Melbourne that provides natural medicine courses and is passionate about teaching. She believes that the empowerment women can have by making conscious health choices can go a long way when it comes to investing in the health and wellbeing of a family.
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Outside of work, Cherisha enjoys practicing Yoga, gardening and spending time on creatively upcycling household items to support sustainable lifestyle. She also conducts kids Yoga workshops (Little Minds Yoga) to educate children on the benefits of physical activity and mindfulness.
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Being an animal lover, she loves to spread awareness on the benefits of vegetarian diet and is passionate about cooking healthy nutritious wholesome food with a mixture of Indian and western cuisines.
Here is an interview with the immensely talented and inspirational lady.
- What are your goals in life? Have you achieved them?
I can say that I am at a good starting point to be focusing on my long-term goals which include raising awareness about the drawbacks of consumption of processed foods. I would want to be able to provide people with the knowledge of cooking healthier meals with basic ingredients and educate about nutritional value of foods to children. Getting the kids involved in cooking helps in increasing their interest towards healthy eating. I have achieved some of these goals within my clinical practice setting but being able to reach a broader audience is a work in progress long-term goal for me.
- What is a typical day in your life?
I start my day with a 5 to 10-minute mindfulness practice followed by a healthy breakfast. In a week I have different days allocated to homeopathic consultations and my teaching therefore depending on the agenda for the day, I follow my work routine. An important tip for those who (like me) are working from home considering the COVID situation, try to have a specific work space so that you can separate your break and relaxation time from work. It is essential to take regular breaks, to move and stretch or even go for a walk to ensure we can work productively. After finishing work, I spend time with my 4 and half year-old daughter and we usually do a few activities together like painting, reading, doing yoga or going out cycling. This is followed by meal prep for dinner and I involve my daughter so she participates in household chores and helps with tiny kitchen tasks.
We try to stick to a regular meal time which involves no distractions from TV or phone or any other devices as this allows us to focus on what we eat with mindfulness. It is also essential to turn off electronic devices about half an hour before the sleep time to follow a relaxing sleep pattern.
- Can you give some basic health and wellness tips for busy women trying to juggle both home and career?
I would say that planning ahead for the week with prepping for healthy meals works well for me. Also being aware of how much canned/packaged food items go in preparing a meal is essential to cut back on the preservatives and replacing these with wholesome ingredients. Taking time out everyday for physical activity is essential, even if you can spare 30 mins a day this would be beneficial. Exercise doesn’t have to be exertional or stressful on your body so try something that makes you feel good and this can be walking, dancing, yoga, cardio or anything that truly helps you feel energised at the same time as burning calories. Working from home can create the urge for frequent snacking too, therefore try to replace the packaged foods with whole nuts, yogurt or fruits which are essential for the body. Set yourself a daily goal of having 6 to 8 glasses of water a day and remind yourself to keep hydrated. Following a set pattern for meal times also helps the body in maintain good metabolism and you can try to keep a gap of about 2-3 hours between dinner and bedtime as this is essential for the body to absorb the nutrients in a meal.
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