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Ep. 10 My Yoga and Ayurveda Soapbox: Bootleg Broadcast from Shine Yoga Cincinnati

If you love Yoga but feel like something is missing in your wellness journey then you're in the right place. In this bootleg broadcast live from Shine Yoga in Cincinnati, Katie got up on her Yoga and Ayurveda soapbox!

Learn how Yoga and Ayurveda are intimately related and why Ayurveda and Tantra are, unfortunately, missing in the Yoga moment in the West.

This lecture goes deep, so brew yourself a pot of tea and settle in or save this one for a long car ride.

In this episode about Yoga and Ayurveda, you'll hear:

~ How Ayurveda is different than Yoga

~ Ayurveda & Yoga cannot be practiced in isolation

~ Yoga: A fire practice for death and nonreactivity

~ Classical Yoga vs Tantrik Yoga

~ How we can use the science of Yoga more consciously

~ What’s this got to do with swastikas

~ Why Tantrik Ayurveda is the missing component in the contemporary yoga movement in the West

~ How we can understand Life Force, Prana, Chi

~ Our subconscious soup of aging and why it’s totally FALSE!

~ How PMS, Menopause, Mental Aging are psychosocial constructs from the West

~ Life as pulsating sexuality

~ How to rebuild your essential vitality and youth through Yoga and Ayurveda

~ We become what we eat

~ The Westernization of healing vs healing more broadly

~ The diet plague

~ The relationship between toxins and fat

~ Nourishing vs extracting food

~ The smoothie dilemma

~ A story of elements

~ AND so much more! This is a jammed-packed session!

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When it comes to making salads you can get really creative. Just simply think of what flavors and textures you love most and create a salad from that. For me, I love crunch, I love FAT and I love citrus. I usually end up making a big bowl of greens, some sort of seed sautéed in ghee, avocado, radishes and all of it topped with a lemon vinaigrette. I often will always add some sort of protein source. Grilled chicken, fried tempeh and hard boiled (farm fresh eggs) are all my favorite go-to forms of protein.
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