Do you wish you could explore purposeful, fulfilling hobbies in a simpler way?Â
Join the waitlist today and be the first to know about any future launches.
This course is a resource-packed 10-week online experience starting June 10th! Â
It provides a light-hearted and fun way to explore new hobbies that fit into your daily life within a community of those who are like-minded.
Back to Basics is about returning to the fulfilling habits that generations before us intuitively knew and thrived in.
Reclaiming the joy and beauty of living
Letting light into our lives
Enhancing our lifestyle with healthy habits and hobbies
I am so thankful for the Back to Basics course. As a young mother, I feel the content, skill acquisition, and inspiration I gained this summer will shape the home I am building into one that is simple yet abundant and beautiful. Do yourself a favor and go back to basics!
Megan
We will cover topics including:
- A new mindset on how to joyfully view food
- The creative beauty of sourdough bread-making
- Discovering the joy of cooking and celebrating the act of eating
- We will provide the necessary tools to help you up your kitchen game through teaching knife skills, the 7 steps to intuitive cooking, and how to be resourceful with making quick, nutrient-rich meals taste amazing
- The rhythm of food preservation
- Cultivating a life of love and hospitality
- Natural remedies for your most common health concerns
- A beginner’s guide to medicinal herbs
- Creating a healthy, wholesome home
It also includes reflective exercises to deepen the exploration process, weekly community-based calls where you can join in on exciting conversations with other people like yourself, and a ton of additional resources and handouts that you won’t want to miss!
You can participate in the course alongside the community and attend the live calls each week. Or, you can go at your own pace and watch the recordings when you can. There is no pressure here! It is just fun, joy, and a fulfilling and inspiring learning experience.
Discover sourdough master dough, artisan bread recipes & more
Explore gardening & regenerative agriculture principles
Learn the principles of intuitive cooking
Cultivate knife skills & kitchen essentials
Learn food preserving methods & preserved food recipes
Embrace the world of medicinal herbs
Craft your own tinctures, teas, salves, syrups & more
Uncover natural remedies for common health concerns (energy, fatigue, GI issues, sleep, inflammation, immune & respiratory support)
Explore the art of beeswax candle-making
Immerse in the art of flower arranging
I very much enjoyed participating in the course. The e-book and videos were excellent and I am confident that I will be revisiting all the materials in the future
Emily
What's included in the course:
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✔  Kick-off emails every Sunday starting June 9th
âś” Â In-depth instructional videos every week
âś” Â Lifetime access & online portal for all course content in one convenient place
✔  A fun “Tea Time” chat & challenge video with Olympia, Cynthia & Molly every Friday sent straight to your email
âś” Â Weekly Community Calls on Saturdays (recorded if you can't make it)
âś” Â A Private WhatsApp community throughout the week
âś” Â Weekly encouragements, reflection questions & activities
✔ 150+ page E-book FREE with purchase of the course
✔ Olympia’s own San Francisco sourdough starter for the first 100 people who sign up
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Back to Basics is a ten-week online immersion experience in cultivating an abundant, beautiful way of life.
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Orthodox homesteader Olympia Rusu, Molly Sabourin, and Cynthia Damaskos bring you this community-based movement towards radical simplicity and better stewardship of our land, health and homes.
Meet your Team
Olympia Rusu is an Orthodox Christian, homesteader, and certified holistic nutritionist. She and her husband Ephraim uprooted their lives in California to cultivate a 7.5 acre farm in North Carolina in April 2022.
They have since started a tea company and sell their sourdough, teas, & produce at farmer’s markets and local boutique stores.
With an integrative approach to medicine and nutrition counseling, Olympia focuses on addressing the whole person rather than individual body systems because she has learned that there is an inseparable whole body connection between what we believe, what we eat, and how we live.
Her nutrition coaching, farm shop, and blog can be found at www.embrace-holistic-health.com
Molly Sabourin is a freelance writer focusing on family, faith, and community issues. She is a wife and mother of four, and her first book, Close to Home, has become a source of comfort and inspiration to many.
Molly is the co-host of the Filled With Less podcast on Ancient Faith Radio and has spoken at several Ancient Faith conferences. She is also the co-founder of Filled With Less Ministries.
She specializes in helping others declutter all areas of life, thereby reducing stress, and increasing peace, joy, and productivity so that they can pursue a more simple and calm existence.
You can find her blog at www.filledwithless.com
Cynthia Damaskos is a Certified Integrative Nutrition Health Coach specializing in Functional Medicine and Lifestyle Management.Â
She is the author of The Holistic Christian Woman and hosts the Holistic Christian Life podcast. She is also the co-host of the Filled With Less podcast on Ancient Faith Radio and the co-founder of Filled With Less Ministries.
She believes we must be intentional about being a good steward of our two biggest gifts, our life and our bodies.Â
You can find more about her at www.holisticchristianlife.com and www.filledwithless.com
This course taught me so many wonderful principles about going "back to basics." Most of all, it was inspiring and life-giving, and I've come away excited to continue the learning journey. I would highly recommend this course~ it has something for everyone!
Anna
There is so much depth to this course, yet it embodies simplicity at the same time! Olympia, Cynthia, Molly and Martha were wonderful teachers that I feel like have now become friends. Very grateful to have been a part of this and love all the new things I have learned!
Laurie
This class got me moving to implement things I’d read about, but only dipped my toes into. I feel comfortable now to take the next step in making my own herbal home remedies. I never imagined I would make sourdough regularly - it seemed far too complicated. This class made it simple. It wasn’t easy, but I learned from my mistakes. Cynthia, Olympia and Martha’s leadership is wonderful - funny, knowledgeable, encouraging and supportive. Molly leads the most beautiful prayers I’ve ever heard. Overall quite an inspiration and well worth the time and effort.
Ann
This course has really helped me grow and find joy. I learned skills that have not only changed the way I eat and feed my family, but the way I think about food, and food as medicine. It is amazing to see all the things God and provided for us, and how we can use it to heal and serve our families and others. Cynthia, Molly, and Olympia were kind, informative, and so supportive throughout this journey. It was a beautiful way to spend 10 weeks learning skills that I can continue to cultivate and pass down to my children and one day my grandchildren.
Jasmine
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