Mathilda has loved food since the day she was born in Indonesia. At seven month old, she had her first spicy Indonesian dish and was hooked on tasty and spicy food since. She studied in Australia at fourteen to escape religious and political instability. After graduating high school, her family reunited in Toronto, Canada, where she pursued her Behavioural Psychology degree at the University of Toronto. She worked several jobs to pay for her university education. Prior to graduating university, she studied Gerontology and worked in health care as a Personal Support Worker. After looking after thousands of people in the community and nursing homes, she started developing injuries and dis-eases in her mid twenties that set her back mentally, emotionally, psychologically, and physically.
Multiple injuries and car accidents led her to become sicker and sicker by the year. When she turned 30, she hit rock bottom and surrendered. This led her to a plant-based diet in 2015, and shortly after, a vegan lifestyle. Trying to heal herself, Mathilda went on to study clinical and metaphysical hypnotherapy, yoga therapy, Neurolinguistic Programming, and Holistic Nutrition.
She has always loved experimenting in the kitchen, from baking and cake decorating to cooking multicultural dishes. In 2016, Mathilda co-founded Alam Yoga and Wellness, which, due to exponential growth of the restaurant, has been closed as of Dec 31 2019. Mathilda continues her yoga and hypnotherapy journey privately. She facilitates group and private sessions in the community. She has been coaching clients to make small, sustainable changes to release excess weight and achieve long term health by preventing and reversing lifestyle diseases. Her approach is holistic and looks at the complete Self: mental, emotional, physical, psychological, and spiritual. She practices what she preaches, having released 50 lbs of excess weight herself by NOT trying to diet. She is also the hypno-yoga lady, where she believes that mindful movement, breathing, and meditation are at the core of healing and fitness (inside and out).
She believes that we can be strong without exhausting and torturing the body. Movement should be enjoyable and promote long term health. Her yoga teaching focuses on the FOUNDATION that must first be addressed before doing anything else. Most people are not “fit” enough to work out as they’re making their misalignments and injuries worse. She is passionate about healing back injuries, living with scoliosis, and realigning the body to perform optimally in all areas.
She witnessed that not many people ever get off medications once prescribed. She is not interested in managing symptoms; her goal is to heal the root cause and reverse diseases whenever possible. After overcoming her own health struggles, she is on a mission to get the community healthy and vibrant, starting with their plates. She is here to show people that plant-based foods are healthy AND delicious. There is no magic pill or shortcut to overall health and wellbeing. We must do the required work.
In June 2018, Mathilda started Alam Catering as a project and an experiment, where she launched different multicultural dishes for people to pre-order. The universe works in incredible ways. In August 2018 she opened a plant-based restaurant in Oshawa under MATHILDA'S. The menu is unique and delicious with a variety of International dishes. There are options for every kind of allergies and food sensitive people out there, such as gluten free, oil free, soy free, etc.
In June 2019, Mathilda’s Restaurant moved to a bigger space across the street and has since welcomed and served tens of thousands of people.
Mathilda is an advocate for finding balance and ease between healthy eating, mindful movement, and joyful living. Over the years, she has improved her original recipes, making many of them gluten free, refined-sugar free, oil free, and overall much more conducive to healing. Follow Mathilda’s on Facebook and Instagram. Watch for exciting news, online cooking videos, collaborations with local businesses, daily specials, new retail items, pop-up shops, and more.
