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Ep. 176 Kapha Mama! How to Release the Heavy

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If you’ve been feeling a little out of sorts, heavy, and lethargic you’re not alone! According to Ayurvedic wisdom, we’ve entered into the kapha season when the wet, muddy environment outside often exacerbates feelings of sadness, grief, and heaviness within our minds and bodies. In today’s solo episode, Katie shares her favorite self-care practices and tips to help you navigate the kapha season with ease.

From red light therapy to kapha balancing foods, tune in to learn how to release the heavy and lean into the life-affirming qualities of the kapha season!

In this episode, you’ll hear:

~ How kapha dosha feels in the body when in balance and out of balance

~ Tips to reduce seasonal depression

~ How the waters of your environment influence the waters of your body

~ What is sattvic light?

~ Sunlight practices to support your circadian rhythms

~ The main mama medicine in Ayurveda

~ The spring energetics of transition, birth, and baby

~ How the kapha season is a portal into sadness, grief, and attachment

~ The best type of movement and exercise for this time of year

~ Ayurvedic herbs and foods to eat during the kapha season

~ Tastes to favor and avoid to balance kapha

~ Ready to go deeper? Our Level 2 Ayurvedic Health Counselor training program starts on April 9th, 2024!

Other links mentioned in this episode:

~ Sign up for our newsletter on our website

~ Follow us on Instagram and Facebook

~ Katie’s new book, Glow-Worthy: Practices for Awakening Your Inner Light and Loving Yourself as You Are—Broken, Beautiful, and Sacred is available now!

~ Kaite’s favorite Joove light red light therapy device. Use code SHAKTISCHOOL for $50 off your first purchase.

~ Ep. 40 To Sunscreen or Not to Sunscreen? How About Natural?

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Ep. 175 Channel Joy Amidst the Chaos with Brett Larkin

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If you have trouble staying consistent with your yoga practice, or if your daily routine has become rigid and uninspired today’s episode is for you! This week Kaite is joined by yoga teacher trainer and author Brett Larkin. They share why tailoring your yoga practice to your unique Ayurvedic mind-body type is important. This personalized approach is true to yoga’s ancient roots but was distorted as yoga spread to the West. Brett also shares the creative inspiration behind her new book Yoga Life: Habits, Poses, and Breathwork to Channel Joy Amidst the Chaos.

Yoga doesn’t have to be another item to check off your to-do list. Tune in to learn how to infuse yoga into every aspect of your daily life!

In this episode, you’ll hear:

~ Three potent questions to start your yoga practice with each day

~ How to make your whole life a yoga studio

~ Ways to personalize your yoga practice based on your Ayurvedic constitution

~ Why we’re often attracted to yoga poses that aren’t beneficial to us

~ The concept of “soul mate postures”

~ How asanas influence the nervous system

~ The origins and evolution of modern yoga

~ Why publishing a book is an emotional rollercoaster

~ Why personalization is the future of the wellness industry

~ How to become consistent with your yoga practice

Other links mentioned in this episode:

~ Find Brett Larkin’s Yoga Teacher Training and Uplifted Yoga Membership on her website

~ Connect with Brett Larkin on her YouTube and Instagram

~ Katie’s teacher A.G. Mohan

~ Katie’s new book, Glow-Worthy: Practices for Awakening Your Inner Light and Loving Yourself as You Are—Broken, Beautiful, and Sacred is available now!

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Ep. 22 Meditate With Me: A 15-minute Anti-Anxiety Meditation

In this special bonus episode, Katie leads you through a 15-minute anti-anxiety meditation to melt away stress. This meditation is particularly helpful during the holiday season when you're juggling family, work and everything in between but can also be used at any other time of the year.

Tune into this anti-anxiety meditation any time you're feeling scattered and stressed so you can return to your day more focused and grounded.

Happy Holy-Days!

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Ep. 21 Overcoming Anxiety in a PTSD World

We're living in the midst of an anxiety epidemic, so in today's episode, Katie discusses her personal journey with anxiety and depression and shares the sweet practices she uses for overcoming anxiety.

Learn why struggling with anxiety is so common in our modern world, what this has to do with our nervous system state and the Ayurvedic perspective on anxiety, fear and related emotions. At the end of the episode, Katie leads you through a guided practice to help you in overcoming anxiety.

In this episode about overcoming anxiety, you'll hear:

~ Why mental health is such a big deal in today’s world

~ The power of naming something

~ Anxiety is not a disease

~ A PTSD Culture

~ The Kali Yuga/the Time of a Quickening

~ The nervous system and psychic constipation

~ States of the nervous system

~ Fear can be healthy

~ Anxiety vs Fear

~ Samsara - the Wheel of Repetition

~ Working in the Healing Arts

~ The relationship between perfectionism and anxiety

~ Pop meditation and anxiety

~ Namaha: that’s not mine

~ Constriction vs Spaciousness

~ A special practice for overcoming anxiety

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Ep. 20 Honoring Our Ancestors This Winter

Coming to you from snowy Virginia! We invite you to feel the healing power of hibernation and cozy up with today's podcast episode about honoring our ancestors. The winter season provides a unique opportunity to deepen your understanding of your lineage and connection with your ancestors.

Learn rituals and practices you can use to more deeply honor your ancestors this winter while resolving and dissolving family patterns.

In this episode about honoring our ancestors, Katie talks about:

~ Winter hibernation

~ Ancestral connection and deepened understanding

~ Inheritance and our roots

~ Rituals and practices honoring our ancestors

~ Resolving and dissolving patterns

~ The importance of intuition and gratitude

~ Book: It Didn’t Start With You by Mark Wolynn

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Ep. 19 BONUS Thanksgiving Special

Join Kaite and surprise guest, Vera Silcox (aka Katie's mom) for a sweet, candid conversation about Thanksgiving, dating, and the special relationship between mother and daughter.

Topics discussed in this special Thanksgiving episode:

~ Dating

~ Popcorn

~ Sweet spicy tea we love – our wine alternative

~ On changing patterns

~ On mothers and daughters

~ Constant growth

Happy Thanksgiving!

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Ep. 18 Sleep Like a Baby this Winter…Yes Please.

Excitement for the winter is percolating! Here at The Shakti School, we love the way the winter season gives you permission to be a bear and hibernate. So in today's episode, Katie talks about all things sleep!

Learn about the systems in our body that regulate sleep including the nervous system, hormones, and our bodies natural detoxification system so you can start sleeping better!

In this episode about sleep, Katie discusses:

~ Parasympathetic Nervous System

~ SLEEP

~ How the body heals, detoxes, and regulates hormones

~ Immune System

~ Healthy Brain Processing

~ Obsessions of the Mind

~ Insomnia

~ How to Sleep Better

~ Subconscious Support Tools

~ Integrity

~ Day and Evening Routines

Sleep products mentioned in the podcast:

  • Sleep Easy Oil 
  • I Sleep Soundly Tablets

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Ep. 17 Owning Aphrodite – A Bootleg Broadcast

In this bootleg live broadcast from The Shakti School's OJAS training, Katie dives deep into feminine archetypal wisdom and a discussion about the goddess Aphrodite. We talk about all things love, self-care, Ayurveda and ojas!

Listen til the end for a juicy writing prompt. The podcast ends at a place where you can reflect on words that came up for you during the ending meditative practice. We'd love to hear what came up for you! How will you be owning Aphrodite in your life?

In this talk about Aphrodite, you'll hear:

~ Self love and oil massage

~ Less DOING, more BEING

~ Feminism

~ Women's power to choose

~ Inheritance and sexuality

~ Embodying the goddesses within and without

~ Aphrodite in the streets and in the temple

~ Questions from the live audience

~ Abandonment, unworthiness, neediness

~ Dating life + control + addictions

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