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Ep. 209 A Good Death: Sensuality, Life and Learning to Die Authentically with Katy Butler

Today Katie is joined by Buddhist journalist and New York Times bestseller, Katy Butler. Her books examine how our culture has over-medicalized death and lost touch with its sacredness. In this episode, Katy and Katie candidly discuss the topics others often avoid including food addictions, death and finding your voice in the bedroom!

If you’re ready to deepen your spiritual practice we invite you to join the 2025 class of our Divine Feminine Ayurveda School. Doors close soon, so click here to learn more and enroll today!

CW: Abuse against women and childhood abuse are mentioned in this episode which may be triggering for some listeners.

In this episode with Katy Butler, you’ll hear:

~ An invitation to our Feminine-Form Ayurveda School!

~ How Katy overcame her food addiction

~ How to start shedding shame

~ Katy Butlers’s experiences studying with Thich Nhat Hanh

~ The importance of telling your story

~ How Katy Butler found her journalistic voice

~ The five Buddhist remembrances

~ Lessons learned from watching a loved one die

~ What is a good death?

~ The Ars Moriendi (The Art of Dying)

~ Bringing homegrown ritual into your life and death

~ Finding your voice in the bedroom

~ How Katy keeps her relationship steamy in her 70s

~ Get our free mini-course about Women’s Wisdom and Ayurveda!

Other resources mentioned in this episode:

~ Learn more about our Ayurveda School

~ Connect with Katy Butler on her website and Facebook

~ Katy’s first book, Knocking on Heaven’s Door

~ Katy’s latest book, The Art of Dying Well

~ Read Katy Butler’s article in Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, Not Empty, Not Full

~ The Hite Report: A National Study of Female Sexuality

~ Our Spirit Sessions Membership

~ Follow The Shakti School on Instagram and Facebook

Related episodes:

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

~ Ep. 205 Winter Magic, Death and Dignity

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Ep. 208 Awaken Your Feminine Energy Through Yoga & Ayurveda with Brett Larkin

Today on the podcast Katie is joined by dear friend and founder of Uplifted Yoga, Brett Larkin! This episode is a total lovefest as Brett and Katie share why tapping into our feminine energy is so difficult for many of us. Tune in to learn practical ways to amplify your feminine energy so you can experience more pleasure, increase your productivity and move through life with more ease!

Want to spend a full year working deeply with your feminine energy? The 2025 class of our Divine Feminine Ayurveda School has begun! Click here to learn more and start studying today!

In this episode about feminine energy, you’ll hear:

~ An invitation to study with us in Ayurveda School!

~ What is feminine energy?

~ Brett Larkin’s favorite life mantra

~ The first ‘rule’ of working with feminine energy

~ Double goddess power

~ Why the feminine doesn’t like to be defined

~ The feminine form of Guru

~ How the science of Ayurveda helps us navigate our inner duality

~ Working with the energetic currents of manifestation and liberation

~ A forgotten key to increasing your productivity

~ Creating different textures of energy

~ Practical ways to honor the feminine in your daily life and work

~ Yoga as a trauma release methodology

~ The Ayurvedic concept of Bhuta Shuddhi

~ Get our free mini-course about Women’s Wisdom and Ayurveda!

Other resources mentioned in this episode:

~ Learn more about our Divine Feminine Ayurveda School

~ Follow Brett Larkin on Instagram

~ Listen to Brett’s podcast, The Uplifted Yoga Podcast

~ Get Brett’s free Somatic Yoga Workshop

~ Brett’s latest book, Yoga Life

~ Follow The Shakti School on Instagram and Facebook

~ Katie’s latest book, Glow-Worthy

Related episodes about feminine energy:

~ Ep. 175 Channel Joy Amidst the Chaos with Brett Larkin

~ Ep. 190 What is Feminine-Form Ayurveda?

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Ep. 207 The Wound is The Way with Cat Pinfold

We all put up walls and armor ourselves when we get hurt. This armor is often necessary to get through the day and show up for our work. However, sometimes the strategies we use to cover up our wounds hold us back in life. In today’s episode, Katie and Cat share why the wound is the way to true health and self-growth. Learn how to begin releasing your armor so you can uncover your true self!

Ayurveda School is now in session! Start studying Ayurveda today with immediate access to our first three classes. Click here to learn more and register!

This session was hosted by a dear friend of The Shakti School, Cat Pinfold, and was originally released on her podcast, The Spark Inside.

In this episode about the wound is the way, you’ll hear:

~ An invitation to study with us in Ayurveda School!

~ The unconscious, destructive ways we cover up our wounds

~ Wallowing in discomfort vs. building walls

~ How to identify the ways you armor yourself

~ Finding a place of non-judgment

~ The important role of the ego

~ Ways to balance the ego

~ Why the wound is the way to spiritual growth

~ Opening to pain without being consumed by it

~ Ayurvedic and Tantric practices to shed your armor

~ How to become more you

~ Get our free mini-course about Women’s Wisdom and Ayurveda!

Other resources mentioned in this episode:

~ Follow Cat on Instagram

~ Learn more about our Divine Feminine Ayurveda School

~ Follow The Shakti School on Instagram and Facebook

~ Katie’s latest book, Glow-Worthy

Related episodes:

~ Ep. 150 The Healing Climate in Spiritual Practice (and Life)

~ Ep. 30 Adulting – When Life is Hard

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Ep. 206 Are You Actually Grown? Reparenting Your Inner Mother & Father with Cynthia Amaro

What is reparenting and how can you begin this inner work? According to Ayurveda, we are all dualistic creatures who have both feminine and masculine energies within us. Unfortunately, most of us have inherited unhelpful, immature parental archetypes.

In this episode, Katie shares what the immature and mature forms of the inner mother and inner father look like in each of us and how they affect our relationships. Then she leads you through a grounding guided meditation so you can start maturing your inner voice and reparenting yourself today!

Ayurveda School is now in session! You can start today and get immediate access to our first two classes. Click here to learn more and register!

Today’s podcast is a recording from a session hosted by a Cynthia Amaro, a dear friend of The Shakti School.

In this episode about reparenting, you’ll hear:

~ An invitation to join us in Ayurveda School today!

~ Why most of us need inner reparenting

~ How to balance your feminine and masculine energies

~ Signs that you have an immature inner father or mother

~ Do I need to be in my masculine to get stuff done?

~ How reparenting can improve your relationships

~ Rewiring the templates of father and mother we develop in childhood

~ Overcoming perfectionism, addiction, and overindulgence

~ Katie’s #1 Ayurvedic lifestyle practice

~ What is feminine-form meditation?

~ A guided meditation to start reparenting yourself

~ Get our free mini-course about Women’s Wisdom and Ayurveda!

Other resources mentioned in this episode:

~ Follow Cynthia on Instagram

~ Learn more about our Divine Feminine Ayurveda School

~ Follow The Shakti School on Instagram and Facebook

~ Katie’s latest book, Glow-Worthy

Related episodes:

~ Ep. 166 How to Connect With Your Inner Divine Feminine

~ Ep. 198 Family Archetypes: Understanding the Thanksgiving Dinner Table Dynamics

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Ep. 205 Winter Magic, Death and Dignity

In most nature-based cultures and spiritual traditions, January is a time for deep internal reflection, not New Year's celebrations. Winter magic is about opening our hearts to an important truth that we often avoid, the truth that everything we love, including our own bodies, will one day be lost.

In today’s solocast, Katie shares how to move through your fear of loss, open to winter magic and live your life with dignity.

We invite you, dear listener, to join us for a year of deep inner work. Our Divine Feminine Ayurveda School kicked off this week, but there’s still time to enroll! Click here to learn more and register!

In this episode about winter magic, death and dignity, you’ll hear:

~ Enroll in Ayurveda School today!

~ Why Katie is thinking a lot about death

~ The energetics of winter magic

~ Buddha's invitation to his students

~ How to cultivate dignity

~ Accepting what we can and cannot control

~ Opening to fear and sadness

~ Soul lies and soul truths

~ Consequences of not following our intuition

~ The true source of self-worth and self-esteem

~ Why we often abandon ourselves

~ How to stand in your power in relationships

~ Katie’s favorite poem: Wild Geese by Mary Oliver

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

Other resources mentioned in this episode:

~ Email us at [email protected]

~ Follow us on Instagram and Facebook

~ Katie’s latest book, Glow-Worthy

Related episodes about winter magic:

~ Ep. 145 Goddess Work & Deep Spiritual Remembrances for Winter

~ Ep. 20 Honoring Our Ancestors This Winter

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Ep. 204 Feminine-Form Ayurveda for Women

Here at The Shakti School we practice and teach Ayurveda a bit differently than other schools. Today on the pod, Kaite shares why it’s so important to balance the feminine and masculine approach when studying Ayurveda for women.

Learn how feminine-form Ayurveda can help you unravel years of cultural conditioning, reclaim your feminine energy and rediscover how unique, beautiful and worthy you are!

If you're ready to dive deeper into Ayurveda for women and the inner work discussed on today's podcast we invite you to join our year-long Divine Feminine Ayurveda School! Our 2025 cohort kicks off in just 5 days on January 15th! Click here to learn more and enroll now!

In this episode about Ayurveda for women, you’ll hear:

~ Enroll in our Ayurvedic Wellness Coach Certification Program by January 15th!

~ Download our free Feminine-Form Ayurveda Practices E-Book here!

~ What is feminine-form Ayurveda for women?

~ The importance of adapting Ayurvedic teachings to the time, people and place

~ The Ayurvedic definition of health

~ Your true essence according to Ayurveda

~ The thing that’s missing from most Ayurveda education

~ The source of most people’s suffering

~ Building self-love through Ayurvedic practices

~ How to start shadow work

~ What is self-abandonment?

~ The five elements of nature

~ Emotions are associated with each element

~ What’s your dosha?

~ The shadow side of each dosha

~ Awakening the life-affirming aspects of your dosha to fulfill your destiny

~ Check out our free mini-course about Women’s Wisdom and Ayurveda for Women!

Other resources mentioned in this episode:

~ Click here to book a free call with one of our coaches and see if Ayurveda School is right for you!

~ Email us: [email protected]

~ Katie’s teachers Cristal Mortensen and Tara Brach

~ Poem by Jeff Foster, The Inner Mother

~ Follow The Shakti School on Instagram and Facebook

Related episodes:

~ Ep. 179 The Three Doshas: Are you a bullfrog or an orchid?

~ Ep. 14 Feminine Archetypes of the Glorious Queen, Sacred Prostitute or Worthless Girl

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Ep. 203 What You Offer is Priceless: Women and Spiritual Business

Today’s episode is a sneak peek into the spiritual business training included in The Shakti School’s premier Ayurveda Wellness Coach certification course! So many of us, regardless of our economic background, experience shame and hang-ups around money that hold us back from financial abundance. Tune in to hear Katie share the inner work that helped her go from a broke yoga teacher to an abundant spiritual business owner!

Our Divine Feminine Ayurveda School starts in just 12 days! Click here to learn more and register before it’s too late!

In this episode about money and spiritual business, you’ll hear:

~ Time is running out to enroll in our Ayurvedic Wellness Coach Certification Program!

~ Why you may be self-sabotaging in your finances

~ Shining a light on unconscious money beliefs

~ Letting go of shame around money

~ The Tantric concept of Spanda

~ Why you’re worthy of owning a successful spiritual business

~ The primary reason people will (or won’t) want to work with you

~ The Vedic concept of Adhikara

~ How to share Ayurveda in a way others can understand

~ Common fears that prevent women from starting a spiritual business

~ What is certification-itus?

~ Why Ayurveda is priceless

~ Check out our free mini-course about Women’s Wisdom and Ayurveda!

Other resources mentioned in this episode:

~ Katie’s latest book, Glow-Worthy

~ Learn more about Ayurveda School here!

~ Follow The Shakti School on Instagram and Facebook

Related episodes:

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

~ Ep. 159 Glow-Worthy AF: A Meditation

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Ep. 202 Panchakarma, Snoop Dogg and Sisterhood with Laurel Odom

Today’s podcast guest is long overdue! Katie is joined by Clinical Ayurvedic Specialist, Pancha Karma Specialist and certified yoga teacher, Laurel Odom. Laurel is a supervising practitioner at The Shakti School and facilitates our unique women's circle-style Office Hours. In this episode, Laurel and Katie share their perspectives on the Divine Feminine, why living the perfect Ayurvedic lifestyle won’t solve all your problems, at home Panchakarma and the importance of cultivating sisterhood!

Study Ayurveda with Laurel and Katie in our year-long Divine Feminine Ayurveda School starting on January 15, 2025! To learn more and register before it’s too late, click here!

In this rich conversation about Panchakarma and sisterhood, you’ll hear:

~ Time is running out to enroll in our Ayurvedic Wellness Coach Certification Training!

~ Laurel’s journey to becoming an Ayurvedic Specialist

~ The Shakti School’s favorite mudra

~ Balancing Ayurvedic guidelines and your intuition

~ The first cause of disease in Ayurveda

~ Why you are your own best healer

~ The importance of ‘sororitas’ aka sisterhood

~ Honoring the phases of womanhood

~ The power of initiations

~ Sensuality as a gateway to spirituality

~ What is Panchakarma?

~ At home Panchakarma

~ The path of “Yes And”

~ Loving family members with different political views

~ Laurel’s most important piece of wisdom for your healing path

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

Other resources mentioned in this episode:

~ Connect with Laurel on her website

~ Not Your Mama's Health Class: Feminine Embodiment & Sexual Education for Teens & their Caregivers

~ Learn more about Ayurveda School here!

~ PAAVANI Ayurveda - Use the discount code SpiritSessions for 10% off your order

~ Feeding Your Demons by Tsultrim Allione

~ Follow The Shakti School on Instagram and Facebook

Related episodes:

~ Ep. 166 How to Connect With Your Inner Divine Feminine

~ Ep. 188 Your Fall Ayurvedic Kitchari Cleanse Guide

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