Nature unfolds
@ OUR TABLE
Earth- Based Summer Program Ages 3–6
Our program offers a grounded and joyful path forward for children. Centered in food, rhythm and whole-being. Created for parents seeking deeper support around how to nourish their children, physically, emotionally and behaviourally.
Facilitated by a community of holistic educators and nourishment guides, this is more than a camp program—
It's a Food Playground woven into all of life & a home away from home where your child is seen, held and supported in their natural growth.
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Join us this summer- spots are limitied!
Weekly or Full Summer Enrollments Monday–Friday | 9:30am–2pm
July 7–August 15
Children will connect with their food through cooking, tasting, connecting to the land and learning the natural cycles that guide real nourishment. Set in an intimate, home-based environment, our days are woven with sensory food play, art, earth-based exploration, embodied learning, conscious community and shared rituals around OUR TABLE.
This foundation is intended to extend into the home. To inspire families to slow down, reconnect and nourish together.
Each day includes~
One nourishing meal + wholesome snacks
Seasonal food from local farms & community gardens
Sensory play + embodied learning
Support for digestion, focus & emotional regulation
Gentle rhythms that ripple into the home
Our Table is a living, breathing space where ancient wisdom and progressive practice meet.
We are a collective of loving guides devoted to nurturing the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual wellbeing of children. We guide children in remembering their inner knowing through direct relationship with the Earth… By sensing, touching, tasting and tending to the natural world THROUGH THEIR FOOD, they come home to themselves. Their development is not abstract, it is rooted, relational and alive.
REALationships with Self, Each Other & Nature
Our program offers a structured, nature-rooted curriculum designed to help children build a grounded relationship with food, their bodies and the world around them. Rooted in seasonal and circadian rhythms, each day follows a nourishing flow that supports emotional regulation, connection, and self-awareness.
A Food Playground Woven into Life
Children engage with food through their senses—seeing, touching, tasting, smelling and creating. In our kitchen and garden spaces, food becomes a source of ritual, art and meaningful relationship.
Embodied Learning & Earth-Based Exploration
Outdoor play, gardening, botany and observing natural cycles spark curiosity and belonging. Children explore the world through their bodies and hearts, cultivating a felt connection with the land and its rhythms.
Our Daily Table
Each day includes preparing food with ingredients from local farms and gathering around our table to share in what we’ve created together. These shared rituals nurture reverence, gratitude and a sense of wholeness.
Nourishment as a Whole Practice
Children learn that true nourishment touches every part of them—body, mind, and spirit. Through daily acts of care, creativity and celebration, they develop the tools to self-regulate, trust their instincts and relate with kindness & care.
FACILITATORS
Taryn Black and Alexandra Tsamis are two holistic guides devoted to the nourishment and thriving of children and families. Together, they bring decades of experience in Ayurvedic healing, Culinary Arts, Montessori Education, Child Development and Earth-Based practices. Their shared vision is rooted in the belief that children flourish when learning is embodied, nature-connected and emotionally attuned. Together, they’ve created OUR TABLE—a food playground that invites children to explore, express and remember their innate wisdom in community. By weaving together human development, heart-centered learning and healing family rhythms, they offer a space where children thrive, freely, fully and in harmony with the world around them.
Alexandra Tsamis
Alexandra is a spiritual educator and visionary rooted in the rhythms of the earth and the sacred unfolding of childhood. Her work bridges ancestral wisdom with modern pedagogy, creating learning environments where children are not shaped, but witnessed, held and gently guided back to themselves.
Her training includes Early Childhood Development, Postgraduate Specialization in Special Needs, Spiritual Psychotherapy, Astrology Herbalism, Children’s Reiki and Sound Medicine. She is a certified Earth Medicine Woman devoted to the truth that we are all connected, from soil to soul, seed to child.
Her origin story begins in the mountains of Greece, where summers were spent harvesting wild herbs, preparing food from the land and living in deep connection with nature through family traditions. At the center of it all was the olive tree, a symbol of peace, nourishment, and sacred continuity. In her lineage, the olive was not only food but medicine woven into every part of life…from what was cooked and shared, to what was pressed and applied as outer oleation to soothe, protect and bless the body.
This reverence for the earth and for food as ritual and relationship, became the thread that shaped Alexandra’s path. As the founder of two Montessori schools in the Greater Toronto Area, she has spent over 20 years creating emotionally safe, holistically integrated spaces for children and educators.
In every space she holds, the kitchen remains the heart. She believes that proper nourishment of the body, spirit and senses is foundational to a child’s ability to regulate, relate and thrive.
Her life’s work is a prayer of continuity: a return to rhythm, reverence and rootedness.
“When we honor the patterns of the earth, we remember the patterns within ourselves.”
Taryn Black
Taryn is an Ayurvedic Health Coach, Chef, Writer & Sensory Food Educator who weaves nourishment into every layer of life.
She believes food is not just fuel, but language, rhythm, medicine and love. Her work is rooted in the understanding that everything we take in through our senses, emotions and meals shapes how we feel, think and live.
Her path to this work began in disconnection. For years, Taryn moved through the world feeling unseen, anxious and out of rhythm with herself. The journey through illness, depletion and self-doubt led her toward healing, not just of the body but of the spirit. Food became her anchor. Cooking became her prayer. Ayurveda gave her a framework to listen, digest and transform.
Now, after years of culinary training, lived experience, and deep study in Ayurvedic healing and emotional nourishment, Taryn helps others reawaken to their own inner rhythm. Her approach is sensory, seasonal, and intuitive—blending food, ritual and everyday beauty to support true healing and self-trust.
She has cooked and studied in Toronto, Melbourne and New York City. Her offerings invite you to come home to your body, restore right relationship with the earth and rediscover the pleasure of nourishing yourself.
“Let’s reframe food choices as acts of love and life itself as a practice of harmony.”
Our intention
Our collaboration is rooted in a shared devotion: to honor the natural unfolding of childhood as a sacred rite of passage. We bring the wisdom of our ancestors and the richness of our experience to create spaces where children are seen, trusted, and guided…gently and with care.
We believe children already hold deep knowing: curiosity, courage, wonder and a higher intelligence that speaks through their senses. Our role is not to fill them, but to hold space for what’s already there. To nurture their growth through real relationships with food, the earth and themselves. This is not about learning what to think, but how to feel, notice and trust. From this rooted place, a child’s true intelligence, creative, intuitive and embodied, can flourish.
