Online Macrobiotic Winter Conference
January 19 - 23, 2022

  • Early Bird Registration countdown until December 31st!

  • Meet Jessica Porter, trained actress and comedienne

  • Spirit of Rice Documentary: Watch the new trailer

  • Memorial Tribute to Edward Esko
Jessica Porter, trained actress and comedienne, will be joining us once again during the Online Macrobiotic Winter Conference on Sunday, January 23rd from 4 pm - 5:30 pm, ET. Her topic:

7 Levels of Being Alive in the 21st Century

Jessica Porter is the author of The MILF Diet and The Hip Chick’s Guide to Macrobiotics. She has been practicing macrobiotics since 1991, managed the Way to Health Program at the Kushi Institute in the mid-nineties, and has worked as a traveling macrobiotic cook.

She also collaborated with Alicia Silverstone on the New York Times number-one bestseller, The Kind Diet, and worked with Tia Mowry and Patricia Heaton on their cookbooks. She is also a hypnotherapist and has created two hypnosis CDs for people practicing macrobiotics. Jessica makes her lectures funny, inspiring and informative. She lives in Los Angeles.
The filming for the
Spirit of Rice Documentary
has been completed. Planetary Health still needs to raise some funds for the editing process. Your tax deductible donations are much appreciated. You can view the new trailer here:
Edward Esko
1950 - 2021

We are deeply saddened by the passing of Edward Esko, our close friend, colleague, and co-founder of Planetary Health. He died peacefully at home with his wife Naomi, and family in mid December.
Early Bird Registration only until December 31st:
Online Macrobiotic Winter Conference January
19th - 23rd, 2022
As we celebrate our 5th Online Macrobiotic Winter Conference, we are excited about this year's line-up of faculty and topics:
we have many new presenters, including young teachers from Europe and Asia, and in addition to dynamic cooking classes and presentations on health and healing, we will feature classes on modern art, diet & the climate crisis, growing rice in you backyard and traditional Yoga from India.
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Faculty:
Neal Barnard, MD,
Sommer White, MD,
Jessica Porter, Bill Tara,
Susan Krieger, Sheri DeMaris, Manjari Agarwala, Danka Rabcanova, Kimberly Ashton, Melanie Waxman, Simon Brown,
Patricio Garcia de Paredes,
Alex Jack, Bettina Zumdick
and more...

  • 6 cooking classes based on cuisines from China, Slovakia, Spain, Japan, United Kingdom and other regions
  • 7 lectures on diet, health and lifestyle
  • 3 yoga classes from India
  • health forum on Covid related topics and other subjects
  • 4 open discussion sessions