JOIN us in Bali to become a successful plant-based vegan chef!

Plant-Based Vegan

Chef Training Level 1

13 days certification course

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Learn our best seller dished at Sayuri Healing Food Café & immerse yourself with healthy, comforting, nourishing plant-based vegan cooked meal!

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1-13 MARCH 2025

Full price $ 1990

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10-22 MAY 2025

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2-14 AUGUST 2025

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Course information

Unleash your inner vegan chef with our Vegan Chef Training level 1 program!

Learn how to create healthy and comforting, nourishing vegan cooked meals for your family and for your vegan café. Introduce our best sellers at Sayuri healing food café in Ubud. The training is designed to provide the complete experience as a plant-based vegan chef, and it covers everything from kitchen basics, food safety and hygiene, knife skills, fundamentals of vegan cooking & vegan dessert, gluten-free bread & baking, how to prepare allergy-free dishes, balanced nourishing meal, basic presentation and food photography. we will be making many different cuisines from all over the world, including all the customer’s favorite dishes at Sayuri Healing Food such as dragon sushi roll, Malaysian Laksa, vegan omelette, teriyaki tempeh burger, nourish bowl, falafel plate, soups & stews, basic sauces, gluten-free soda bread & gluten-free flat bread, Italian sauces and pastas & pizza with some good tasty cheese such as vegan mozzarella, party cheese balls, vegan nacho cheese, desserts such as our café s most famous ‘life is a blessing cake’, muffins and cookies, chocolate tart and more!!

*NOTE: Items that we teach are ALL gluten-free.

You will be fully immersed tasting of plant-based vegan cuisine not only the food that we make, and tasting Sayuri Healing Food Café’s most popular dishes from the menu, field trip to Bali’s trendy vegan cafe to inspire your creativity, and you may end up training your taste bud to become a good food critique.

(See the full description of what you will learn on CURRICULUM TAB)

At the end of the training, you will receive a PLANT-BASED VEGAN CHEF Level 1 certificate from Sayuri Healing Food Academy (See CERTIFICATE TAB for more info). After graduation, you can move onto our Level 2 training, or choose another TRAININGS AND COURSES ONLINE and OFFLINE!

By the end of the training, you will gain the skills and knowledge to create delicious, healthy, and nourishing vegan dishes that will impress your family and customers. Sign up for Vegan Chef Training level 1 today and take the first step to becoming a successful vegan chef!

 

You will have hands-on practice at our fully equipped workstations, where you will work in teams to replicate and re-create our Sayuri Healing Food recipes, magic and techniques. Each class will have demonstrations and hands-on practice. Our training includes lunch from Sayuri Healing Food Café combined with the meals that you will make during the classes, a field trip related to the training content, and a final graduation party. We also include a Balinese cultural, spiritual excursion to experience the essence of Bali on a day off.

You will spend quality time with an inspiring group of people from all over the world, sharing your experiences and learning from each other. By the end of the course, not only you will have gained confidence in developing your own creations, but also you will make best friends for the rest of your life.

 

Indonesian island, Bali, is a dream destination with Ubud being its spiritual, cultural and artistic centre. Ubud is a mecca of raw and vegan restaurants and has some of the world-best yoga centres. Before or after the classes, you will have plenty of opportunities to explore the Ubud lifestyle, go to music and dance events and nourish yourself in one of the many spas or nature walks through lush jungles to one of the hundreds of waterfalls in the closer surroundings.

During our trainings, we encourage and facilitate participants to work together as a team and to create food magic together. When we can create something together with others, the joy, excitement and rewards multiply. The whole experience is so much more than just learning amazing recipes and cook delicious dishes (although this is an important part of the training, too????). After the training, what usually stays with each one of us, are the friendships we make, the experiences we go through together and the feelings and emotions we share. It is truly a life-time experience!

The training ends with a final project in which you will apply all skills and knowledge you learned to develop your own creations. There are many highlights in our trainings, but this is one of the top experiences because you will witness with your own eyes the magic of love of your creation and the transformation and heart-opening of the people with the food that you create.

Our Bali Academy classroom is located within the premisses of Sayuri Healing Food Café, where you can hang out, relax and connect with each other to build a beautiful community!! You will have sufficient time to enjoy the vibrant life happening in the cafe, have some coffee and our famous desserts and join many events happening at our studio!

 

Our passion is to share, teach & remind ourselves that we all are unique sources of limitless potential. Our philosophy is that if we are aligned with our higher purpose, we can achieve anything and can become anything we want, simply by re-connecting with what we already are and what we have always been. Healthy, vibrant, clean, plant-based vegan food is our tool to discover that. In this training, we will learn tools to help us discover our true purpose, our dharma, for ourselves and all living beings. All this is possible from the simple act of eating, as we have witnessed so many times in our previous courses!

We look forward to meeting you in Bali to create the magic together!

Meet out teachers:

Please see this page to see our instructors.

Our instructors take turns.

If you want to know who are teaching in the specific training, please contact us at [email protected]

how to book

Booking Procedure & Payment

ONLINE BOOKING – MEGATIX:
CHOOSE YOUR DATE of your choice and click sign up button to purchase the course in Indonesian Rupiah through our secure payment partner MegaTix. You can pay with most international cards, and the currency will automatically be converted.
Payment by credit card will be processed in Indonesian Rupiahs IDR.
If booking from overseas, please choose ‘Credit card’ option when doing the booking.

* For extra inquiries please email us at [email protected]

*Please note that flight and accommodation are not included. Find our recommended accommodations and taxi information in Travel & Accommodations TAB.

Frequently Asked Questions

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Our certificates are a proof of completion of each individual training. We offer certain trainings in modules or levels, which is reflected in the certificates. There is no world standard certification in the raw vegan culinary world at the moment, not like the Yoga Alliance.

However our certificates describe the content of the training in detail and are recognised within the raw vegan culinary world. Our foundational Raw Chef Training level 1 certificate proves the achievement of a basic raw kitchen skill set and plant-based nutrition knowledge.

Our certificate is very useful and well recognised in the raw food field, but in Indonesia restaurants very rarely hire foreigners as the immigration rules are very strict and local salaries are lower than foreigners expect. Even volunteering and internships are restricted by the strict immigration policies. In exceptional cases, our café will consider long-term internships (6+ months) but the intern will need to cover all travel, accommodation and living expenses including the “kitas”/work permit costs.

It takes a lot of courage, sweat and tears to cook professionally! Our trainings are a stepping stone into the vegan culinary world and then you will need to practice, practice, practice. Gain experience by volunteering or interning in cafés and restaurants or by assisting experienced teachers in cooking classes and culinary trainings. This will give you opportunities and contacts for your future career.

Please speak to us directly or email [email protected] and we will put you in touch with any open opportunities we know of. All training alumni are invited to join our Raw Chef Collective Facebook group where we post job opportunities from our friends and network.

This is a very individual question! If you have courage, passion and confidence, yes, please go ahead and share your gifts with the world! It is all about sharing and spreading the love! Our trainings will definitely help increase your passion and confidence!

Sayuri is co-founder of The Seeds Of Life and co-creator of the original Seeds Of Life Raw Chef Training. She is, however not involved with The Seeds of Life project anymore and the trainings have developed since then. Sayuri likes to integrate Eastern philosophies such as Ayurveda and Chinese Tonic Herbalism into her teachings and focuses on World Cuisine recipes and the energetic aspects of food and eating.

Our raw chef trainings are more condensed, we share a similar curriculum in 2 weeks instead of four. We focus on world cuisine recipes, Eastern nutrition philosophies and we offer lectures on holistic, plant-based nutrition, Ayurveda, Chinese Tonic Herbs and Indonesian Jamu. We like to work in groups and inspire creativity and new connections. Don’t hesitate to email us at [email protected] for further questions.

Trust your instincts! You will naturally be drawn towards the training that will benefit you at this particular time in your life. Don’t overthink things :)

Many of us have taken several trainings, just like many yoga teachers have taken different yoga teacher trainings. Elaina Love’s course is more about the cleansing raw life-style , less nuts, low glycemic index. PlantLab’s courses are more technical, more about individual plating & presentation, less nutrition (separate culinary nutrition course), less Eastern holistic perspective.

At Sayuri Healing Food we share our life-style, philosophy, and the most delicious recipes, accessible to everyone.

The 4-day Intensive is a demo-style class in a fun group of 10-20 like-minded people in which we share the basic foundations, techniques and recipes of our raw food lifestyle. In 8 x 2-hour classes we touch on raw kitchen equipment, ingredients, fermentation, dehydration, flavour balancing, raw chocolate… and many desserts!

The 2-week Raw Chef Training is a deep-dive into experiencing the raw vegan lifestyle and learning the practical skills and techniques in groups of 4 at your own equipped workstations. Students also hear talks on Western and Eastern nutrition and philosophy, and we go on field trips.

Both are truly life-changing, they simply depend on the time- and financial investment you are wanting to make at this time in your life

We are very confident that all our trainings will provide great value, even for long-time raw food lifestyle practitioners and experienced chefs.

All our level 1 courses are equally suitable for both. We very often have an inspiring mix of health professionals who are new to the culinary world and seasoned chefs who are new to the world of healthy, raw vegan food. We all learn from each other!

Raw Food kitchens are very different from commercial kitchens, not only with regards to the techniques and equipment, but also to philosophy and kitchen culture. If you are a beginner, we will explain raw vegan basics from the beginning. If you are a pro, you will take many new ideas, techniques, and a whole new worldview back home, promised!

Unless stated in the course description, none of our classes or trainings require prior knowledge or experience in raw vegan food.

First of all, we recommend you try eating a high-raw food diet for at least a little while before joining our trainings. Even if it is just adding more smoothies and big salads to your usual diet. It will make it easier to dive straight into our Ubud lifestyle! Personal experience is so valuable!

You can try these resources:

Videos/Movies:
YouTube search:

  • “Raw Food”
  • “Gabrielle Cousens”
  • “David Wolfe”
  • FoodMatters.com

Documentaries:

  • Forks over Knives
  • Earthlings
  • Cowspiracy
  • Dominion

and many more…

Books:

  • David Wolfe”s “Superfoods”
  • Gabrielle Cousens’ “Conscious Eating”
  • “Secrets of an Alkaline Body” by Dr’s Annie & David Jubb.
  • “Becoming Raw” by Brenda Davis
  • “The China Study” by T. Colin Campbell

If you already have a favourite knife, we definitely recommend bringing it. It is much more fun working with good equipment you are familiar with. We have enough knives for you to borrow if you do not have one though, no worries.

We like Global, Wüsthof, Shun, and Victorinox. We would recommend a 18-21 cm blade + a smaller pairing knife. Try them out in a shop first and buy something that feels right for your hand. Sayuri likes an 18 cm blade.

Until the course fills up. We confirm bookings in the order of payment/receipt.

Our studio capacity is 16 for raw chef/desserts/chocolatier trainings. Some dates fill up very quickly, please check in with us before booking. The maximum capacity for 4-day intensives is 24, so no worries here!

There are many options from the Four Seasons to cheap and cheerful homestays. We recommend looking on Booking.com as only you can know what standard you are looking for.

If you want to stay for longer and rent a house, you can check out following Facebook groups:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1523008504577896/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/ubud.rentals/

We can only pass on recommendations students have made:

In walking distance to Sayuri Healing Food Café and Academy and in budget price-range:

  • Tebesaya Homestay
  • Desak Putu Putera Hidden
  • Bali Sila Tebesaya Apartment
  • Pondok Kutuh Guest Houses
  • Desak Putu Putera Cottages
  • Do Re Mi Guesthouse
  • Krishna House

The following are a little further away for those who ride a motorbike or are willing to take a
motorbike/taxi each day:

  • Villa Mantra https://www.villamantrastudio.com/
  • Runa Guesthouse http://www.booking.com/hotel/id/runa-guesthouse.html
  • Pangkung House www.booking.com/Pangkung-House [email protected]

Mid-range:

  • Rumahtaman villa www.rumahtamanubud.com
  • Green field hotel www.greenfieldubud.com

A little more expensive:

  • Villa Adyashanti: https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/14077283
  • Villa Merdu (on Tirta Tawar street): https://www.villamerdubali.com
  • Villa Gaia (Gaia Retreat Center): www.gaiaretreatcenter.com
  • Wa Pa Di Ume: www.wapadiume.com
  • Green Field Hotel: www.greenfieldubud.com
  • Bamboo Villa: IG: bamboo.villa, Airbnb: https://abnb.me/ouMLMjE4kM, Email: [email protected], Phone : +62 (0)89672843885

There are many studios! The two largest are Yoga Barn and Radiantly Alive with different yoga styles and classes. Usada and Seeds of Life offer Ashtanga Mysore practice every morning, as does Ashtanga Yoga Bali Research Center (15 mins bike ride outside of town).

Bali is very child-friendly! We can easily help you find a nanny. They cost around 70,000~100,000 IDR/hours. you are welcome to contact them directly.
Sri Sakde +62 819-3880-4076 (whatsup)
DwiYanti +62 82 236 177 395 (whatup)

We can also arrange them to come to meet you on the 1st day opening ceremony and you can discuss timing/price etc directly in person.

Can’t find your question?
Please contact us at [email protected]

ADDRESS

JL Sukma kesuma no 2 , Br Tebesaya – Ubud, Peliatan, Ubud, Kabupaten Gianyar, Bali 80571, Indonesia

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