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Ep. 145 Goddess Work & Deep Spiritual Remembrances for Winter

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 This is a special episode hosted by the lovely and amazing, Eden Garcia Thaler, originally aired on her podcast who has generously given us this audio recording of our conversation on her podcast Field Notes from the Spiritual Journey Podcast with Eden Garcia Thaler. Eden is a Shakti Ayurveda School graduate, a shadow alchemist, helping highly sensitive beings liberate their true selves, connect to their personal version of the divine, and manifest their desires by integrating their shadows and blocks. 

In this episode you’ll hear: 

~ What is "the Goddess?"

~ How can we relate to the goddess archetypes within us

~ How our ancestors personified nature through symbols and deity work

~ The importance of death work in Winter, the spirituality of Winter in the northern hemisphere, the loss of the light (physical and spiritual), and the birth of eros

~ Reviving ancient rituals in modern times

~ Learning to venerate even the parts of you that you find "intolerable"

~ Projection, division, and integrating the "good" and "bad" that exists within

~ About Eden: Eden Garcia Thaler is a shadow alchemist helping highly sensitive beings liberate their true selves, connect to their personal version of the Divine, and manifest their desires by integrating their shadows and blocks. She's also the host of Field Notes From the Spiritual Journey podcast where she explores topics like how to do shadow work, the anatomy of feedback loops, shares her personal manifestation stories and interviews experts in personal development and spirituality.

~ Level 1 Ayurveda School starts January 18, 2023! Here’s your chance to launch your Ayurvedic path with our one-of-a-kind course. If you’ve ever considered diving deep into this healing tradition, whether for your own health journey or as a career path, this is your chance to jump start that change and get the support you need. 

~Have questions about Ayurveda School? Head here to book a free coaching call with a Shakti School grad

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Ep. 144 Santa, Sex and Reviving the Mystic Roots

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This is a podcast for any of you out there feeling like you need a reminder that magic still exists. And that the Spirit of the Season is alive and well. And that it’s also totally okay and normal to feel sad, nostalgic, lonely or just plain weird during the winter solstice.

In this episode you’ll hear: 

~ Winter as a sense of deconstruction

~ Tension of opposites as it relates to ancestral meaning and death

~ Depth psychology and how it relates to myths and traditions like Santa Claus and mistletoe

~ What are teleological quests?

~ Darkness and how our ancestors compensated with light

~ The collective compensation mechanisms of our ancestors and how that informs our current seasonal and holiday rituals

~ Freud, pleasure and melancholy

~ Santa as the representation of wish-fulfillment, abundance and prosperity both seasonally and psychologically

~ What does the Electra Complex as proposed by Carl Jung have to do with Santa?

~ Book mentioned: https://bookriot.com/santa-claus-erotica/

~ Santa as an archetype

~ How rituals can protect us and bring us back into right relationship with the collective

~ Level 1 Ayurveda School starts January 18, 2023! Here’s your chance to launch your Ayurvedic path with our one-of-a-kind course. If you’ve ever considered diving deep into this healing tradition, whether for your own health journey or as a career path, this is your chance to jump start that change and get the support you need. 

~Have questions about Ayurveda School? Head here to book a free coaching call with a Shakti School grad

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Ep. 143 Hot Tips on Building Winter Immunity

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The Fall to Winter transition is here, and now is the time to tune inward and take advantage of this winter energy. It’s time to understand our external dynamics and get in alignment with them. After all, that is what Ayurveda is all about. In this episode, Katie shares with us her hot tips on building winter immunity, and ways to thrive in the wintertime. If you aren’t a fan of these darker months, we hope this episode can bring you some helpful tips to flourish this season.

In this episode you’ll hear: 

~ Practical tips to make this winter as immune-building as possible

~ Why a thermos will become your best friend this season

~ Self-care practices to cultivate, including all things oil massage

~ Recommended foods and supplements for winter wellness

~ The importance of being outside first thing in the morning

~ Practices to reset your nervous system and lower your stress levels

~ Why sleep is the medicine of the winter

~ Ways to honor this season through prayer and dreamwork

~ Level 1 Ayurveda School starts January 18, 2023! Here’s your chance to launch your Ayurvedic path with our one-of-a-kind course. If you’ve ever considered diving deep into this healing tradition, whether for yourself or as a career path, this is your chance to jump start that change and get the support you need. 

~Have questions about Ayurveda School? Head here to book a free coaching call with a Shakti School grad

~ Join Katie over at The Breath Source for more healing breathwork focused on subtle energy, the parasympathetic nervous system and heart-centered spirituality.

~ Some of Katie’s favorites to get you through this winter:

Winter Oil

Ashwagandha powder

Ginger powder

Astragalus

Echinacea

Zinc

Omega-3

L-Glutamine

Thermos

Huberman’s Sleep

 

Katie’s sleep cocktail recipe:

Magnesium 3-4mg

L-Theanine - 2-4mg

Gaba - 150mg

Glycine - 2g

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Ep. 142 360 Degree Love: It Ain’t All Sex, Bonbons and Roses

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This episode is a lecture from Spirit Sessions workshop on self-love and thought patterns, along with actionable ways you can make shifts in your life today.

In this episode you’ll hear: 

~ To be seen and loved just as we are as our deep, innate human desire

~ The approaches broken down in this session are derived from Bruce Tift’s book, Already Free

~ Fruitional and developmental paths

~ How our foundational thought patterns and belief systems are laid in the first six years of life and why this is important to our current reality

~ The idea that to access true freedom, love and consciousness, we need to access different parts of the mind than those patterns formed when we were young that may be reactive

~ Do you create drama subconsciously? How to recognize this pattern

~ Fundamental consciousness of YES

~ Being kind to our worst fears

~ To get the rest of this workshop, along with access to 130+ talks, movement practices, recipes, meditations and so much more, join Spirit Sessions Membership for only $28. All of the info can be found here: theshaktischool.com/subscribe

~ Book a free coaching call with a Shakti School coach here: theshaktischool.com/coaching-team

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Ep. 141 The Breath of Deep Grounding

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In this episode, Katie shares a breathwork practice that she does consistently for grounding. When we speak of breath work or prana, we aren't only talking about bringing air into our body, oxygen, carbon dioxide, although of course those physical things are important, but we can also think of breathwork as a way of training ourselves to be able to tune to the inner. To be able to humble our intellect to life energy, your animal nature, your primal nature, and perhaps most importantly, the realm of the subtle. Tune in and ground yourself with this 15 minute guided practice.

In this episode you’ll hear: 

~ How breathwork can help us tune into the subtle

~ 15 minute guided grounding breathwork practice with music

~ Want to learn more about meditation and breathwork? Level 1 Ayurveda School covers these topics and incorporates practices, as well as techniques you can learn to teach others. Get in now before spots fill up!

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Ep. 140 Are Your Leggings Making You Sick?

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In this episode, Katie shares a shocking new article and scientific studies about how some of the largest workout retailers are using harmful chemicals in their workout apparel. That’s right, our beloved leggings may be contributing to deleterious health consequences, especially for women. Tune in to get the scoop, plus learn about alternative options that are chemical-free.

In this episode you’ll hear: 

~ Leggings are a staple wardrobe item and deeply loved by most women - but could they be toxic?

~ A recent Watchdog report shows testing reports that BPA, the chemical used to make plastic, among other yucky chemicals, is a component in a ton of our workout gear

~ BPA has been directly linked to health dangers like asthma, cardiovascular disease, obesity and more

~ Much of our leggings and workout gear also contain PFAs, which are also known as “forever chemicals” because they don’t break down, meaning they also accumulate over time in the environment and in our bodies

~ PFAs are hormone disrupting chemicals and linked to infertility, miscarriage, metabolic diseases and reduced vaccination response among many other things

~ A recent CNN article exposed some of the biggest brands that are using these chemicals in their products

~ The studies on yoga leggings mentioned by Mamavation can be found here

~ Katie’s Leggings Recommendations:

There are two brands that I found to have a “no chemical commitment.” In the spirit of transparency, I signed up for an affiliate with them because this project took hours of my valuable time and I believe in an equal energy exchange. Feel free to do your own research on products, but in my opinion, these two companies really stood out for their commitment to chemical-free and women’s health.

  1. Pact Apparel 
  2. Mate the label

~ A RADICAL LIFE CHANGE IS WAITING FOR YOU! Level 1 Ayurveda School Starts January 18, 2023! Here’s your chance to launch your Ayurvedic path with our one-of-a-kind course. If you've ever considered diving deep into this healing tradition, whether for yourself or as a career path, this is your chance to jump-start that change and get the support you need. 

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Ep. 139 The Journey to Self-Awareness and Healing with The Shakti School Coaching Team

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This extra-special episode features The Shakti School’s Coaching Team and graduates of Ayurveda School, sharing their personal journeys into the depths, spirituality, healing, wellness and self-acceptance.

In this episode you’ll hear: 

~ Malia shares her beautiful experience of how Ayurveda School found her

~ TaKisha shares about tapping into her intuition and inner-knowing and finding her gifts while moving through a heavy time in her life

~ Jackie shares the spark of inspiration that she found within the grandmother wisdom of Ayurveda and the map of feminine-form wisdom

~ Dominique shares her spiritual awakening that came surprisingly through a cartoon, and how it helped launch her path to seeking bliss and ease in her life

~ Netflix and cheesy television as a spiritual practice and how we can find God or Spirit in everything around us

~ Laurie speaks to being a ‘recovering perfectionist’ and how entering the world of feminine form Ayurveda and Tantra led her to discover that spirituality is in every moment of the day, including the mundane and little moments

~ Perhaps the goal isn’t to be free from the constraints of our minds and emotions, but to be awake to the awareness that can love all of you

~ Natalie shares about how touring with Disney on Ice for years perpetuated an unhealthy lifestyle of body and weight management, competition amongst the skaters and how it led her to lean into routines that support and nourish, and the flow of feminine-form medicine

~ Eva speaks about her experience with religion and the shift in her spiritual practice of today, which includes nature and experiencing it with all five senses, and how it connects her to the Divine

~ Eva shares how Shakti School helped her learn how to truly experience the full range of human emotions and process them using tools that she has learned and alchemize the experiences

~ The team shares the longings and desires that they hear from other women on calls

~ Head here to connect and book a conversation with any of the women on this call and find out if Shakti Ayurveda School may be right for you and the catalyst for change in your own life

Personal Offerings of The Shakti School Coaches

Laurie Riley’s Ayurvedic Coaching practice can be found at https://leitaayurveda.com/. Leita Ayurveda is ancient wisdom for mind, body and soul wellness, offering feminine-form Ayurveda and lifestyle + preventative healthcare.

Jackie DeConti is the founder of Madre & The Muse, an Ayurvedic wellness company, host of Elixir Podcast, and co-founder of Terra Sol Sanctuary, a yoga studio in Wilmington, NC. As an Ayurvedic health counselor, Jackie works within the realms of feminine-form Ayurveda to inspire and empower women - awakening the wisdom within. With a multifaceted background in education, yoga, art, and music, she offers one-on-one Ayurvedic wellness consultations, private and public workshops, and yoga teacher trainings. Find Jackie’s offerings at www.madreandthemuse.com 

Eva Peterson launched a new podcast called Happy Me Happy Earth last month! It's available anywhere you get your podcasts. New episodes every Tuesday. Eva also offers a life coaching program Becoming the Change. A program to support aspiring and experienced changemakers, activists, and advocates in creating the change they want to see in the world without sacrificing their health and well-being.

Natalie Wegenka launched her brand name on the island of Maui as Nai’a Veda, Nai’a is the Hawaiian word for dolphin. Nai’a Veda hosts cleanses every fall and spring and is hosting one at the end of October. She is also a certified sound practitioner and hosts yoga nidra sound baths with her alchemy bowls, and private yoga sessions infused with the essence of Bhakti and Ayurveda, online and in person. Nai’a Veda also writes Ayurveda articles on the app Plotaverse and continues to teach workshops introducing yoga trainees and college students to the science of life & love. To inquire about any of these offerings email her [email protected] Special discount if you mention Shakti School!

TaKisha August offers soulful support for mothering whole from pregnancy, postpartum and all of Motherhood. She is teaching a 90-minute workshop called The Art of Self Preservation. You can find TaKisha’s offerings at https://takishaaugust.com/

Dominique Lynch is a Career Transition Coach who combines modern career and business principles with the timeless wisdom of Ayurveda to help emerging Holistic Helping Professionals to co-create a sustainably prosperous business aligned with their Dharma and Dosha Type so they can transition from corporate to calling with safety, security, and stability. Book a call with Dominique here: https://appt.link/meet-with-dominique-lynch/ShaktiSchoolFreeCoachingCall

Malia Wright works 1 on 1 with clients while offering workshops of embodied movement, emotional processing and healing collective and cultural trauma with influences in Somatics, Ayurveda and Ancestral belonging. Connect with her offerings at  www.maliawright.com or on IG: maliaewright

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Ep. 138 Your Life LONGS for depth and meaning – 1 tip on getting there

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Does your life have a deeper meaning than going through your same routine every day? If you are anything like Katie, the modern era of tech and linear time can be a straight-up straight-jacket sometimes. We need to return to the animal. The instinct. The wildness within that is ENCHANTED by the world around us. So, what do we do? Quit life and buy some land? Start a farm? Scream and run naked in the forest? Well, maybe. What can we do right now, in our own sacred lives, without burning it all down to the ground? 

Here is a quick, little love episode with an easy way to get there right now. It requires humility before the grandeur of your mind. A soft pillow to lay your head. And an attitude of reverence.

In this episode you’ll hear: 

~ The deeper purpose to all of our lives and how to connect with your soul

~ One of the ways collectivity and interrelatedness have been taken away from us

~ How to activate the deeper meaning inside of ourselves, our families, and our communities

~ How dreams are connected to the initiation into the realm of deeper meaning for your life

~ Click here to sign up for the Spirit Sessions Membership to attend the workshop with Dr. Blossom

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