This workshop is our most personalised approach allows you to develop an intuitive understanding of optimising bread according to your own specific health needs and to use bread as preventative health
Our course uniquely combines artisanal sourdough baking with personalised nutrition, leveraging your genetic insights to create bread tailored specifically to your health needs. Under the expert guidance of Dr Vanessa Kimbell, you’ll gain hands-on experience crafting exceptional, gut-friendly loaves that not only taste incredible but also support your overall well-being. By integrating cutting-edge Nutrient Core analysis with immersive baking techniques, this course transforms bread-making into a personalised wellness journey.
Elevate Your Baking with Health-Focused Sourdough Mastery
The Sourdough School offer an exceptional fusion of artisanal baking techniques and nutritional science, with a specialised focus on gut health and the digestibility of sourdough bread. This is a tailored approach to baking and nutrition, these workshops provide an unparalleled educational experience.
Hands-On Experience: Over three immersive days, craft personalised stunning open-crumb sourdough boule, including our signature Porridge Sourdough Boule—a diversity bread designed to optimise gut health.
Immersive Experience: The workshop is 1:1 (although we can accommodate booking extra family members on request.) Because this course is more than just learning recipes; it’s an immersive course where my job is to impart the sensory attributes of baking, including aroma, texture, and flavour. It is about a deep, intuitive understanding of your own health needs and a personalised approach to crafting exceptional sourdough bread. This workshop is an opportunity to engage with the art of baking on both a physical and emotional level and, transforming your approach to bread.
What You’ll Learn
We advocate baking as a form of preventative health. The curriculum is meticulously structured according to the BALM Protocol (Baking as Lifestyle Medicine), the gold standard in defining healthy bread used to produce the highest standards of nutritious, gut-friendly loaves that support overall well-being. As well as creating a botanical blend flour unique to you, tailoring your fermentation methods, and your sourdough starter and the way you eat your bread to optimise health you will also learn advanced baking techniques that include:
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- Principles and Concepts: Acquire a profound, intuitive understanding of blending your own flour to optimally nourish according you your personal nourishment needs.
- Add Diversity specifically that your body requires – essential for producing exceptional personalised nourishing bread.
- Mixing: Understand mixing dough to develop gluten strength and how this as a routine can impact your parasympathetic nervous system.
- Bassinage: Learn the bassinage technique to improve dough hydration and structure.
- Proofing: Recognise the signs of properly proofed dough to ensure optimal fermentation, higher levels of micronutrients and ease of digestion.
- Shaping: Gain expertise in shaping dough for uniformity and aesthetic appeal, and as a mindful practice to support mental health.
- Scoring: Discover the best techniques for scoring to open up the crumb structure and enhance the bread’s appearance.
- Sourdough Starters: Deepen your knowledge of maintaining and revitalising sourdough starters for consistent optimal breakdown of gluten and ease of digestion and help lower inflammation.
- Mindful Baking Practices: Integrate mindful baking techniques that elevate the sensory experience and improve the nutritional profile of your bread.
- Sensory Engagement: Engage all your senses—touch, taste, smell, and sight—to deepen your sensory appreciation of the bread-making process.
Why Choose Our Personalised Sourdough Course?
Our course goes beyond anything that a traditional baking workshop offers by integrating cutting-edge nutritional science with hands-on sourdough techniques from Dr Kimbell’s many years of research and workmen with people to optimise health. By leveraging insights from the Lifecode Nutrient Core Reports, you’ll learn to craft bread that not only tastes exceptional but also specifically supports your overall well-being.
Course Highlights
- A 45 minute pre course consultation
- Hands-On Crafting: Over three immersive days, you’ll bake stunning open-crumb sourdough boules, including our signature Porridge Sourdough Boule. Each loaf is meticulously designed to optimise gut health and cater to your individual genetic needs.
- Personalised Nutrition Integration: Receive a comprehensive Lifecode Gx DNA test kit and Nutrient Core Report. Understand how your genetics influence your baking and health, allowing you to tailor your bread recipes for maximum nutritional benefit.
- Intuitive Baking Skills: Develop a deep, sensory understanding of baking. Master the aromas, textures, and flavours that make your bread truly exceptional.
- Preventative Health Approach: Embrace baking as a form of lifestyle medicine. Our curriculum is structured around the BALM Protocol (Baking as Lifestyle Medicine), ensuring you produce nutritious, gut-friendly loaves that support long-term health.
Course Investment
Total Course Investment – £2499.00
This includes:
- Lifecode Gx DNA Test Kit
- Lifecode Gx Nutrient Core Report
- Lifecode Gx Methylation Report
- 60-Minute Practitioner Appointment
- Comprehensive Three-Day Baking Workshop
- All Course Materials and Ingredients
Who Should Enrol?
This course is ideal for bakers passionate about health and wellness, who want to create bread that not only tastes exceptional but also supports their personal health goals through a scientifically tailored approach.