Strategic Energy – Food, Focus & Sustainable Performance
Food, focus, and performance
Discover how food shapes not just your body, but your attention, emotions, and decision-making. This interactive session blends practical insights with experiential learning: you’ll explore why energy dips happen, how stress and distraction affect eating choices, and why…
Mindful Eating
Mindful Tasting
Mindfulness
Taste
Workshop
Description
Discover how food shapes not just your body, but your attention, emotions, and decision-making. This interactive session blends practical insights with experiential learning: you’ll explore why energy dips happen, how stress and distraction affect eating choices, and why sometimes “eating doesn’t equal feeling energized.”
Through a dynamic guided mindful tasting, you’ll notice subtle shifts in attention, breath, and posture, making the connection between what you eat and how you perform tangible.
The session also offers a clear framework for sustainable energy: combining nutrients strategically, timing meals around cognitively demanding tasks, and creating small, individually tailored adjustments to avoid reactive choices under stress.
Finally, each participant leaves with a personal insight and one practical adjustment to apply immediately—ensuring the experience is not only informative but directly actionable.
Benefits
- More stable daily energy
- Improved post-meal focus
- Reduced reactive eating under stress
- Better connection between food choices and cognitive performance
- Practical, realistic strategies for busy professionals
Hosted by Stefania Colangeli
About the Host
I am a pharmacist by training, with several years of clinical experience in community pharmacy, mostly in London. Working closely with patients deepened my understanding of the limits of symptom-focused care and led me to expand my perspective toward prevention, lifestyle, and nervous system regulation.
This professional evolution brought me to integrative health practices, including yoga, mindfulness, and Ayurvedic principles, which I later formalized through certification in Meditation & Mindfulness teaching and Ayurvedic Lifestyle Consultation.
Today, I work as a wellness facilitator, designing structured and accessible sessions that combine clear physiological explanations with guided experiential practices. My work focuses on nervous system regulation, clarity, and sustainable focus in demanding environments.
I am currently completing my degree in Nutrition (expected July 2026), further strengthening my understanding of the relationship between food, energy, and cognitive performance.
My facilitation style is calm, structured, and grounded in both science and embodied awareness. I create safe spaces where professionals can temporarily step out of constant performance mode and reconnect with regulation, clarity, and presence.
Certifications & Credentials
1- Meditation and Mindfulness Teacher training, 02/11/2024, School of Positive Transformation, Accredited by International Mindulness and Meditation Alliance and CPD Course,
2- Ayurveda Lifestyle Consultant, 12/12/2023, PVA Ayurveda and Yoga School, India
3- Hatha Yoga Teacher Training, 05/10/2020, The KEW Training Academy, Accredited by CTAA
Focus Areas
Well-being/Health
Location
lisbon and Setubal area
Languages
English, Italian, Portuguese
Corporate Experience
Moderate
Session Types Offered
Interactive & Passive
Past Experience Doing Sessions
Yes - Performing
Client Requirements
Yoga Mats
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