Zen Cooking Class is a natural and organic cooking, market shopping, and learning experience with the cooking and classroom done on an organic farm in Hanoi, Vietnam. We guide you on in an engaging and mindful journey of cooking in the Vietnamese style. Fresh, local and seasonal ingredients are always used in our classes. We teach you how to balance yin and yang in your cooking to create a healthy lifestyle for you. All classes / tours are led by native Vietnamese teachers who speak English. There is a full ay class and an half day class. The half day class is offered in the morning and the afternoon. For the full day class, we start the day by picking you up at you up from your hotel at 8am. We go directly from your hotel to one of the local markets to experience shopping with an English speaking Vietnamese chef to select fresh ingredients to use in your cooking class. We then travel to an organic farm where your classroom and kitchen is located. We will then join together for a 30 minutes guided sitting meditation then an hour of peaceful guided walking meditation around the farm. At the organic farm, we will cook together and learn about how food is grown in Vietnam. We take time for meditation and then learn how to make an herbal drink. We will pick fresh herbs and vegetables for our cooking lesson. The chef will guide you in selecting the best and freshest ingredients. You will have plenty of opportunity to get hands on while at the farm. If sunny, we will cook outside; if raining, we will cook inside. After we cook and reproduce the flavors of Vietnam, we will sit down to mindful eating meditation as we enjoy the dishes you have just prepared. After we finish eating, we will wash the dishes together and then engage in “total relaxation” meditation and well as “the body as practice”. We will then take time for for a tea meditation, then join together for a working meditation in the garden. We will then say our farewells and transport you back to your hotel by 5pm. Your class includes: English speaking Vietnamese chef Transportation to and from your Old Quarter hotel. All ingredients for the dishes you will cook in your class. Lunch or dinner that you prepared in the class. Herbal drink and tea The full day class is $89 and the half day class is $62.