Body - Mind - Food Wellness
A journey of discovery
How does our relationship with food affect us?
Experience in Serbia
In June 2025, an immersive experience took place, a week-long coexistence, where three experts accompanied a group of 17 young people.
The topic was explored in-depth, along with how the participants, and young Europeans, currently experience this reality with food, their bodies and their mental wellbeing.
They delved into practical, physical, psychological, and nutritional tools that can greatly facilitate their lives, and that of the people they share them with.
This activity remains, above all, a matter of the participants' experiences, although you can discover more about it by continuing the journey with us.
Other activities
As if that were not enough, we have also done a couple of other things in different parts of Europe.
The participants in the Serbian experience took over and became creators of opportunities for other young people and other people in their local communities. They changed their lives a little, and now they're ready to help others do the same.
Our Core Activities
How we understand food socially, our relationship with our bodies, the emotions triggered when we sit at the table, the thoughts that arise around this whole topic.
A new paradigm can open up before us: a joyful, conscious, healthy, and loving relationship. With ourselves, with food, with our bodies, with our emotions, and with our social network.
Join us, and let's walk this new adventure together.
Meetings in Spain
and France
Our entire coordinating team has met three times in person, in France (La Borie Noble) and Spain (Asturias and Madrid), where they have worked hard, but with joy, to create everything you'll be able to enjoy on this website, in addition to a lot of other invisible, yet essential, work.
Let's not underestimate the endless online meetings and constant communications for more than two years! And what's left!
Podcast
On this journey into our emotions, our relationship with food, and how it affects our social relationships, we've dared to record an emotional diary, a bunch of voice notes unashamedly expressing what our diet moves us.
In addition, several experts have shared everything they know, including basic and simple tips, in-depth exercises, and fun experiences to bring us closer to real problems and their solutions.
With all of this, along with some of our research findings, we've developed a Podcast! A fun and enjoyable way to bring these tricks into your everyday life.
Toolkit
The Wellness Awareness Toolkit is a practical resource designed for youth workers, educators, and facilitators who wish to support young people in developing awareness of their bodies, emotions, and relationship with food.
It offers experiential tools, reflective exercises, and group activities that promote holistic wellness and self-awareness in non-formal education settings.
Use it to inspire dialogue, reflection, and care — both in your own work and within the communities you guide.
"From awareness to action — tools for youth workers supporting holistic wellbeing.”
Discover who we are
A community project built by three different organizations of three different countries, sharing the knowledge and the experience on wellbeing.
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Creando Floresta, from Spain. We are busy searching for strategies that combine environmental stewardship and healthy eating, community life and caring in human relationships, traditional crafts and the return to rural life.
Regain, from France. From the village of La Borie Noble, in the south of France, this intergenerational and intercultural community seeks to foster cultural exchange and respect for diversity, self-sufficiency, healthy living, and environmental awareness, always with a primary focus on the active and inclusive participation of young Europeans.
Zeleno Doba, from Serbia. We are committed to the personal development and empowerment of young people and adults to become drivers of social change, toward a sustainable lifestyle, returning to the villages, or through urban gardening and permaculture.
Erasmus +. It is a program funded by the European Union, focusing on education, training, youth, and sport as key areas that contribute to the personal and professional development of European citizens. This project is co-financed under this umbrella.
Podcast
Food & Mood
A podcast where, through audio diaries, songs, and fragments of literature, we explore the intimate relationship between food, body, and mind from an anthropological and feminist perspective.
This podcast is one chapter in a collective journey — a cross-cultural exploration of how we nourish, perceive, and inhabit our bodies.
Enjoy the stories that live between appetite and identity.
Episode 2
Food as a Cultural and Symbolic System
Food is argued to be a profound system of communication. Every choice we make—what we eat, how we prepare it, with whom we share it—sends messages about who we are, our backgrounds, and even our values. How the economic system and social class play roles in how we relate to food.
Episode 3
Ideology, Gender, Power and Vegetarianism
Our third episode shows how making, eating, and even thinking about food are deeply tied to cultural ideas and how gender and power play a key role. How Vegetarianism is still fighting against ingrained social traditions and the status quo even when it is is shown to be a healthier option than most other diets.
Episode 4
The Body as a social construct
In today's episode we discuss how things like thinness, appetite, and even hunger aren’t neutral. They’re deeply gendered and loaded with moral value—especially in women’s lives. How much social pressure we receive even without noticing. How controlling hunger becomes a moral duty.
Episode 5
Bodies as Sites of Resistance
How bodies can become a way to resist. Like when Laura, a teenage girl in Florence, starves herself—not to be thin, but to escape the future her mom has mapped for her: cooking, caring, being domestic.
Her body says “No.” It’s a rebellion against what society has mapped for her. But it’s also dangerous. Because when the body is your only voice, it can turn against you.
Eating disorders. Beauty standards and how profit drives the insecurities that promote the market.
We approach possible ways out.
Participants
activities
The participants in the Serbian experience took over and became creators of opportunities for other young people and other people in their local communities. They changed their lives a little, and now they're ready to help others do the same.
Check it and join the next ones!
Roxana's Workshop and website
Roxana, a participant from Spain, has led a conscious movement workshop, inspired by some of the exercises she did during her time in Serbia.
Participating in this project has inspired Roxana to continue her professional career as a psychologist, now creating a website to more easily showcase all her services.
Cristina and Ana's school workshop
In Spain, the two youngest participants in our project shared their experience with their classmates and friends.
They detailed the logistical and technical aspects to encourage their peers to join the Erasmus+ adventures. They didn't forget the more subjective aspect, focusing on each of their personal experiences and what they learned. But what they emphasized most was undoubtedly sharing their discoveries and how their experience had changed their lives, and how others could also improve their own.
Serbian dissemination activity
On the 18th December the Serbian participants team made a workshop with 22 people.
Then, they present the project, the Erasmus + programm and make some games and dynamics about the new learnings from their experience. Also, the ToolKit was shared for free and the Podcast was promoted.
Erasmus+ Day in Montpellier (France)
On Monday, October 13th the French National Agency invited us to an Erasmus+ Day event to showcase exemplary projects and leading local organizations.
Young people from across the Hérault region were able to learn about some of the opportunities offered by the Erasmus+ Program.
BodyMindFood - Wellness was one of the projects selected for this initiative, and hundreds of young people have benefited from its results.
Christmass online food workshop
Roxana, one of the participants, did her second activity! An online workshop focusing on the Xmas food, and how we feel our relationship with this important moment of the year.
Social pressure, traditions, sugar, special food, late dinners... and our body collapsing.
She helped us to find our limits, how to communicate with our body, our family and friends, and enjoy Xmas time in a healthy way!
More projects coming up!
Some projects are coming up as a result of this experience. Youth Exchanges and Training Courses will be uploaded in the following months. Pay attention to our social media!
YouTube Channel in progress...
A YouTube channel is in progress to be created, with several interviews with experts, where we can go deeply in the topics of the project through different approach.
Testimonies
The project “Body Mind Food Wellness” was a deeply enriching experience that helped me connect with my inner self, brought me peace, and allowed me to meet wonderful people from whom I learned so much and to whom I am grateful for their kindness.
Andrea - Project participant (Spain)
Testimonies
I loved the training, but the follow-up activities were where I really found my flow. Spreading the message of the course helped me stay proactive and fully embrace everything I learned about wellness.
Roxana - Project participant (Spain)
Testimonies
I discovered different parts of my personality and gained a deeper understanding of how the mind works. The sessions were thoughtful, attentive, and very educational. It was challenging to experience my body through senses other than sight, but the safe space we created together made the process feel holistic and truly transformative.
Milica - Project participant (Serbia)
Testimonies
It is very rare to work in a team where people share the same values and have the same vision. This is what this project clearly showed me: to be available and listen to the group necessities.
Everything we suggested to the group had quite a direct impact/feedback, so it could be adjusted according to what was emerging. This is what allows people, and communities, to grow.
Sara Venuta - Dietitian and yoga teacher
Testimonies
I really appreciated the digital detox, as well as the deep connection we built with the group and with ourselves at the same time. Being in nature helped me slow down and become more present. I learned how to spend quality time with my body and mind, and how to approach myself in a gentle and caring way
Anonymus - Project participant (France)
Testimonies
An eye opening experience to the incredible world of Erasmus projects that gives us back faith in humanity!
Gonzalo Esteban - Podcast conductor
Testimonies
I loved how we worked together in pairs, small groups, and as a whole group. It allowed me to see how differently people can view the same topic. The amount of reflection time really supported my learning process, and I especially appreciated the intercultural aspect, which added so much richness to the experience
Anonymus - Project participant (Serbia)
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