A Relish Immersion™ for food freedom, body trust, and conscious eating.
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Saturday, June 27
9:00am–5:00pm Pacific
Live on Zoom
Reunion call: Wednesday, July 8 at 12:00pm Pacific
Food is supposed to nourish us.
But for so many people, food has become tangled in rules, guilt, anxiety, shame, cravings, emotional eating, restriction, overeating, and the constant question:
“Am I doing this right?”
Maybe you have tried dieting. Or tracking macros. Or “just listening to your body.”
Maybe you know a lot about nutrition, but still feel disconnected from or judgmental of yourself around food.
This immersion offers a different path.
THIS IS NOT A DIET
And it is not about throwing structure out the window.
Make Peace with Food offers a mindfulness-based middle way between rigid food rules and “just trust your body.”
You will learn how to reconnect with your inner wisdom — your hunger, fullness, satisfaction, emotions, needs, and body cues — while also learning how to integrate outer wisdom, like health and nutrition knowledge, without turning it into another set of rules.
The goal is not perfect eating.
The goal is a more conscious, compassionate, and flexible relationship with food — one where you can care for your body without fighting yourself.
THIS IMMERSION IS FOR YOU IF…
You are tired of food taking up so much mental and emotional space.
You want to feel more peaceful and less reactive around food.
You struggle with emotional eating, stress eating, binge-like patterns, restriction, cravings, guilt, or shame.
You want to stop labeling foods as “good” or “bad,” but you also want to treat your body with respect.
You are craving a sustainable, grounded way to relate to food — one that honors freedom, self-care, health, and your time.
WHAT WE'LL EXPLORE
During this live one-day immersion, you will learn and practice tools to help you:
- Understand your current relationship with food
- Recognize food rules, guilt, and shame patterns
- Practice conscious eating with real food throughout the day
- Learn how mindfulness helps you respond rather than react
- Explore emotional eating, stress eating, and binge-like cycles
- Understand hunger, fullness, satisfaction, cravings, and taste satiety — both practically in your own body, as well as the science
- Differentiate inner wisdom and outer wisdom
- Map your personal food patterns and cycles
- Bring self-compassion to the parts of you that struggle
- Create practical next steps for your own food freedom
This is not just a day of information. You will be guided through embodied practices, written reflections, food-based experiences, meditations, breakout conversations, and integration work.
WHAT YOU'LL EXPERIENCE
You will be guided through practices that help you slow down enough to notice what is actually happening inside you — not so you can eat perfectly, but so you can relate to yourself differently.
We will practice with food directly, including multiple conscious eating experiences, a guided lunch practice, and an experience exploring cravings, satisfaction, and taste.
You will also explore the emotional side of eating: the stress, shame, needs, nervous system responses, and protective patterns that often live underneath food struggles.
By the end of the day, you will have more than insight. You will have a set of practices you can continue using in your actual life.
YOU'LL LEAVE WITH
- A clearer understanding of your food patterns
- More compassion for why those patterns exist
- An embodied understanding of your inner wisdom and outer wisdom
- Tools for emotional eating, cravings, guilt, and shame
- Practices for hunger, fullness, satisfaction, and body awareness
- A personal action plan for continuing the work
- Integration prompts for after the immersion
- Take-home recordings for ongoing support
- A community experience that helps normalize what you’ve been carrying
This one day is not here to “fix” your relationship with food—healing is an ongoing journey.Â
But one day can give you an embodied understanding and shift in how you relate to food, so you can leave with a new foundation — and a felt sense that peace with food is possible!
WHAT'S INCLUDED
- One full live online immersion day facilitated by Alyssia
- Pre-work, approximately one hour
- Digital workbook
- Guided practices and food-based exercises
- Breakout conversations and group reflection
- Integration and journaling prompts
- Take-home meditation / practice recordings
- One-hour live reunion call on Wednesday, July 8 at 12:00pm Pacific (optional, attendance recommended but not required)
Because this is an intimate, experiential container with personal sharing, replays are not included. Please plan to attend live for the entire day.
TUITION
Summer Opening Tuition: $697
Because this is one of the first Relish Immersions, it is being offered at an opening-season rate. Future immersions will be offered at $997.
You may also enroll in both summer immersions — Make Peace with Food and The Neuroscience of Manifestation — for $1,294, receiving $100 off your total tuition.
Reserve your spot →
ABOUT ALYSSIA
Alyssia Sheikh is a mindfulness teacher, coach, facilitator, longtime creator of Mind Over Munch, and host of the Relish podcast.
She holds a Master’s degree in Mindfulness Studies, is certified in Mindfulness-Based Eating Awareness Training, and has years of experience teaching meditation, emotional and somatic processing, embodiment, and healing around food.
This immersion brings together her training in mindfulness, conscious eating, coaching, somatic work, nutrition and health education, and her own lived experience healing her relationship with food.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Is this a diet or weight-loss program?
No. Make Peace with Food is not a diet, weight-loss program, meal plan, or nutrition protocol.
This immersion is focused on shifting your relationship with food through mindfulness, conscious eating practices, emotional awareness, self-compassion, and practical tools for relating to hunger, fullness, cravings, satisfaction, food rules, and body trust.
Do I need to prepare anything?
Yes. You’ll receive preparation emails before the immersion with your pre-work, digital workbook, Zoom link, and guidance for creating a supportive online immersion environment at home.
Because we’ll be practicing with food directly, you’ll also receive a list of specific foods and simple supplies to have ready for the day.
Are replays included?
No. Because this is an intimate, experiential container with personal sharing, breakout conversations, and food-based practices, replays are not included. Please plan to attend live for the entire day.
What if I register and can’t attend?
Because each immersion has limited space and your registration reserves your spot, all sales are final and refunds are not available.
If your plans change, you may request to transfer your tuition to another eligible Alyssia Sheikh offering, such as a future immersion, retreat, or coaching session, with at least 14 days’ notice. Transfer requests made within 14 days of the immersion are not guaranteed and may not be available.
Is this appropriate if I have a history of an eating disorder?
This immersion may be supportive for people who are in stable recovery from restrictive eating or binge eating patterns, especially if they have therapeutic support available.
It is not appropriate if you are currently in an active eating disorder, including active anorexia, bulimia, or other medically or psychologically acute eating-disorder symptoms.
If you have a history of an eating disorder, I recommend being at least one year into recovery and ideally working with, or having access to, a therapist, dietitian, or qualified treatment provider.
This immersion is educational and coaching-based. It is not eating-disorder treatment, therapy, medical care, nutrition counseling, or a substitute for working with a qualified provider.
What if I’m nervous about doing this in a group?
That makes sense. Food can be tender.
You will never be pressured to share more than feels appropriate. The group components are there to help normalize what many people carry privately, and you are always invited to participate with self-honesty and self-respect.
Reserve your spot →A NOTE BEFORE YOU JOIN
You do not need to have a “perfect” relationship with food to be here. That is the point!
You are welcome to arrive exactly where you are — even with potential confusion, shame, frustration, hope, fear, and desire for something different.
This is a day to practice meeting yourself with more honesty, compassion, and trust.
Reserve your spot →
