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Ep. 201 Wait for the Yum: A Convo with Food Maven, Meredith Klein

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Calling all perfectionists! Do you want to drop the self-judgment and experience more joy and freedom around food? In today’s episode, Katie is joined by Shakti School teacher, chef, and author of Food Ritual, Meredith Klein. They share how to approach your Ayurvedic lifestyle with gentleness instead of judgment, and why it’s so important to adapt traditional Ayurvedic guidelines to your specific time, place and culture.

Study Ayurvedic nutrition and so much more with Meredith and Katie in our year-long Divine Feminine Ayurveda School! Click here to learn more and register before classes start on January 15, 2025.

In this interview with Meredith Klein, you’ll hear:

~ Sign up for our free mini-course about Women’s Wisdom and Ayurveda!

~ Time is running out to secure your spot in our upcoming Ayurvedic Wellness Coach certification program!

~ Do I have to eat Indian food to be Ayurvedic?

~ Is it okay to eat leftovers?

~ How to make Ayurveda more approachable

~ Why Ayurveda is for everyone

~ The importance of bhavata when cooking

~ Meredith Klein’s food and cooking philosophy

~ Using the gunas as guides for cooking

~ Advice for those learning how to cook for themselves

~ Cultivating curiosity in the kitchen

~ A simple pre-cooking ritual to center yourself

~ Book a free call to learn more about Ayurveda School!

Other resources mentioned in this episode:

~ Connect with Meredith Klein on her website, pranaful.com, and Instagram

~ Learn more about our Ayurveda School here!

~ Cooking app by the New York Times

~ Follow us on Instagram and Facebook

Related episodes:

~ Ep. 62 Don’t Work for Free with Chef Meredith Klein

~ Ep. 163 The Deepest Meaning of Ayurveda with Sandhiya Ramaswamy

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  • The Shakti School Subscription

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When I first started falling in love with Ayurveda When I first started falling in love with Ayurveda and spirituality, everyone in my world told me there was “no way” to make a great living in the wellness world. Even my yoga teacher…⁠
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Well, thank God(dess) I called bulls&!t on that and followed the voice inside my HEART. ⁠
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Because I learned how to make a great living while sharing what I absolutely love. And there is nothing more fulfilling than to wake up in the morning getting to live out your passions and help others. ⁠
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I wanna’ teach you how to do that. Whether it be as a health coach, or in whatever career or mission you long to be a part of on the planet. ⁠
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A part of what we do in Ayurveda School, both Levels 1 and 2, is empower you to get super-clear on what it is your heart longs to share with the world.⁠
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For some of you, it will mean becoming an Ayurveda Wellness Coach.⁠
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For others, it will mean letting the most ancient science on the planet inform you so deeply that you can truly HEAR THE VOICE OF YOUR HEART and follow its nudging. ⁠
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The heart voice whispers while the crazy world around us roars like a broken banshee. ⁠
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Come hear the whisper with me and my posse of genius-filled, heart-full teachers in 2026.⁠
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There’s only TWO WEEKS LEFT to sign up for our 2026 class with early bird tuition. Get in the door now before prices go up by $500 on Nov 1st! 🌹⁠
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🌿 Comment AYURVEDASCHOOL to book a call with our team and join us now.
Last week, my house burned. Half of it gone. Smoke Last week, my house burned. Half of it gone. Smoke damage everywhere else. In one night, almost every material thing I owned was lost.

It was 1 a.m. when Ojas, my Bernedoodle, barked in a way I’d never heard before. Groggy, I grabbed my glasses and opened my bedroom door to a wall of orange - sparks, smoke, alarms.

I froze. My body didn’t know what to do. But somewhere inside, a voice said move. I clutched Ojas’s collar, bolted through the back door, and landed in the garage with shaking hands.

I couldn’t even press 911. My fingers wouldn’t work. “Okay, girl,” I whispered to myself. “You know what this is. Your body’s in freeze. Breathe. Dial the numbers.”

And then - peace. A strange calm washed over me. A voice inside said: You’ve been training for this. God is with you. You are not alone.

Worried the garage would ignite, I grabbed the only thing I could find for a leash - a bungee cord - and stumbled outside in nothing but a t-shirt and underwear. I stood barefoot, watching one side of my house glow molten orange. The night was silent except for the crickets. It was terrifying and strangely holy all at once, watching my home consume itself.

Here’s the wildest part:

Just two weeks earlier, I had been teaching a class at The Shakti School on fear. We practiced something called The Precious Things Practice, a Buddhist meditation where you imagine giving away everything you love - first easy things, then the hardest. Not to lose them, but to feel the grief of impermanence… and to practice letting go.

I didn’t know it then, but I was rehearsing for this exact moment.

And it worked. The practices I’ve taught for over a decade became the lifeline I clung to as my world literally burned. They held me steady in loss. They reminded me: everything is fleeting. 

Everything is Divine. And beneath it all, there is still love.

I’ve never felt so held. So raw. So real. 

With a heart full of gratitude,
Katie

P.S. - The whole story is in the latest podcast episode. Comment 226 and I’ll send you the link.
Raise your hand if your spirit guides (or God) has Raise your hand if your spirit guides (or God) has ever been a little too blunt with you. 🙋🏼‍♀️✨

Whether it happens through a door closing abruptly, those moments when you ask for a clear answer but are met with radio-silence, or straight-up rejection delivered by the Universe, walking this path is not always unicorns and rainbows. Also - I have found that my spirit already KNOWS the answers, I may not always be ready to HEAR it…

But these “blunt” spiritual moments often contain the biggest lessons and spiritual initiations.

That’s why we all need a sisterhood, and wise supporters, walking alongside us.

If your heart’s been whispering that you need a real-deal circle of women walking the spiritual path with you, Shakti Ayurveda School is here for you. 💫 

Earlybird tuition ends in just about 2 weeks—after that, tuition increases by $500.

☎️ Comment AYURVEDASCHOOL to book a call with our team and learn more!
Eva’s story of pivoting her career from corporat Eva’s story of pivoting her career from corporate, NYC architect to Ayurvedic Health Counselor through The Shakti School! 👆🏼

“My soul was dying…I had been trying to force myself into this masculine, corporate world that I just didn’t really fit in. I decided I just had to leave it all.” – Eva Peterson

🎓 Eva is a graduate of both levels of our Shakti Ayurveda School training program. Now, Eva is a life coach + Ayurvedic Health Counselor and works with activists, changemakers, and healers who want to expand their impact while preserving their health and wholeness. She helps clients align with their mission by blending mindset work, Ayurvedic self-care, and personalized clarity tools so they can lead transformational lives without burnout. Learn more at https://theevapeterson.com/ 🌿

✨ There are just over TWO WEEKS left to enroll in our yearlong Ayurvedic Wellness Coach Certification Training with earlybird tuition. 

Ready to explore how our program can support you through your next career transition? 

☎️ Comment COACHING CALL to learn more and book a free call with Eva.
If you’re the one everyone comes to when they’ If you’re the one everyone comes to when they’re in pain…

If you’ve studied all the healing tools but still wake up wondering: “Why do I sometimes STILL feel so far from myself and my potential?”

I see you, sister.

Because that was me.

For years, I taught, I held space, I gave everything to others, but I STILL struggled to genuinely give myself the warmth, tenderness, generosity and forgiveness that I easily doled out to others. 

One of the greatest and most humbling lessons that we “giving” people have to learn in this lifetime is that we often RUN from loving ourselves because we are so busy helping everyone else. In fact, that isn’t real love - it’s avoidance. 

You see, one day it hit me - I’m not here to learn how to help others (because that comes naturally for me - and many of the women in our program). My soul was whispering something that was really HARD:

❤️‍🔥 “Lover, love thyself. Healer, heal thyself.”

That whisper became a wildfire.

It led me to create The Shakti School Ayurveda Academy - a devotional path back to yourself. A program that isn’t just a certification, but a map back to your own bones, your dignity and your magic. And from that magic -  we truly can be a light unto this world as servants of change. 

Here’s a little taste of what you’ll learn inside Level One:

🌿 The art + science of feminine form Ayurveda
🌿 Nervous system regulation + hormonal harmony through natural methods 
🌿 Sensual + spiritual embodiment practices
🌿 Coaching + Ayurveda for food, sleep, sensuality + life
🌿 How to be a change agent and Ayurveda-based healer the world needs without losing yourself
 
This is the school for women ready to stop outsourcing their wisdom.

To fall back in love with their bodies.

To lead others by leading themselves.

There are just over 2 weeks left of earlybird enrollment for 2026 Shakti Ayurveda School.
 
🌹 Say yes to your own healing today while earlybird tuition is still available... ‘cause prices go up on November 1!

☎️ Comment AYURVEDASCHOOL to book a free call with our team and learn more.

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