Macrobiotic Counselor & Cooking Classes


Diane Avoli is a Michio Kushi certified Senior Macrobiotic Teacher and Counselor with more than 40 years of experience lecturing, advising and living the Macrobiotic way.

Senior Cooking Teacher at the Kushi Institute

She is currently a senior cooking teacher at the Kushi Institute, where she has trained others to become teachers for more than 22 years.

A regular speaker at the Summer Conference, she has taught in several cities around the US, Canada, Australia and the Kushi Institute in the Netherlands.

She has a background in Special Education and raised a macrobiotic family of 8 children and 15 grandchildren.

The Macrobiotic Way

Macrobiotics is a lifestyle philosophy that balances and harmonizes your life. Since people change over time, macrobiotics has a flexible approach and encourages a diet adjusted to suit every individual.

Healthy Balance and Body Intuition

By avoiding extremes and equalizing what we take in, our bodies are able to remove toxins naturally, recover from illness and operate at their optimum. Every individual is different, and the goal of macrobiotic counseling is to tech people to read and recover their natural intuition to know what to eat, when, and in what amounts.

Macrobiotic Foods

Wonderful foods are the key to health, happiness, and enlightenment. Specifically, a macrobiotic diet consists of whole grains, vegetables and beans supplemented with fruit, fish, nuts and seeds. By eating these centered foods we can restore well-being, increase energy, and learn to live in harmony with nature and ourselves.


Upcoming Schedule

Teaching level I and II classes, Way to Health and Way to Health Plus at the Kushi institute in Becket MA for the rest of January and February.

Teaching at the New Bedford East West Center for macrobiotics, Carol Luoro Director and Instructor. February 8th and 9th.

Consultations available both days, Cooking class the 8th at 6:30," Italian night", Discussion groups, "Intro to Relationships" on the 9th, during the day, for Men and Women. Diane's husband Joe will be available for shiatsu massages and will lead the men's disscusion group.

For more information call Carol 508-993-8785