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Ep. 180 Manifestation and Eight Feet of Nothing with Summer McStravick

This image includes pictures of Katie Silcox and Summer Summer McStravick. It links to a Spirit Sessions podcast episode about manifestation.

Are you ready to align with your wildest dreams and invite more magic into your life? In this episode, Katie is joined by personal growth coach, author, and manifestation maestro, Summer McStravick. Over two decades ago Summer created a powerful manifestation and personal healing technique called Flowdreaming. Katie and Summer discuss the parallels between Tantric manifestation techniques and Flowdreaming, limiting beliefs, self-worth, and those deepest desires we just can’t seem to manifest! Tune in to learn Summer’s step-by-step manifestation process!

Today’s episode is sponsored by our friends at PAAVANI! PAAVANI Ayurveda is a women-owned business on a mission to help you feel renewed and refreshed this spring. Take 10% off your first order on paavaniayurveda.com with the code 'SHAKTIPOWER'.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

~ What is Flowdreaming

~ How to get into the flow state

~ Why emotion is your strongest, most powerful manifestation tool

~ How to find your inner worth

~ The true meaning of Tantra and the Yogini

~ The ancient understanding of ‘limiting beliefs’ aka Vikalpa

~ Why spiritual materialism and transactionalism limit your ability to manifest

~ How to fully own and open to your desires while also letting them go

~ The importance of relaxation in the manifestation process

~ How to create an ‘acquiring aura’

~ Ready to go deeper? Registration for the 2025 class of our year-long Ayurveda School is now open!

Other links mentioned in this episode:

~ Connect with Summer on her Website, Instagram, and YouTube

~ Listen to Summer’s podcast, Flowdreaming: Still Kinda Woo Woo

~ Follow the Shakti School on Instagram and Facebook

~ Katie’s latest book, Glow-Worthy, is available now!

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  • Ayurveda Certification
  • The Shakti School Subscription

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Have fun playing with these manifestation techniques!

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Katie

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Feminine-form of spiritual expression is a big par Feminine-form of spiritual expression is a big part of Ayurveda too. Because even though the Ayurvedic texts were written by men, it was the women who largely practiced and developed the tradition on the day to day, down in the trenches of life. These women were busy taking care of their families and villages with Ayurveda – they didn’t have time to sit and write or meditate for hours.⁠
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And that’s who Tantra is for. The householder, not the monk.⁠
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Are you a monk? Probably not. ⁠
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If you’re a woman who wants to enjoy her life in all the earthly, sensual, spiritual ways, Tantra and Ayurveda offer THE theoretical marriage that can help you get there. ⁠
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Tantra is integrative, and the way we teach it in The Shakti School allows the practitioner to love her life, her partner, and her mess of a house, without feeling less-than a perfect yogini, A Divine Mother, or an Aphrodite Goddess of Love.⁠
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Oh, and the best part? Tantra embraces ALL religious traditions, or none at all. ⁠
I believe Tantra is one of those philosophical systems that we have so much still to unravel and learn from. It's mysticism for the woman who wants it all in her modern life: spiritual fulfillment, worldly success by her own terms, a loving romantic partnership AND a life outside of her romantic partnership.⁠
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If you want to learn about Tantra, join my one-year immersion called Ayurveda School! We start in just two days and spots are filling fast! ⁠
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🪔 Comment MYSTIC for the links to my podcast series about all things Tantra.⁠
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🌿Comment AYURVEDASCHOOL to learn more about our yearlong immersion starting in just a few days!
📚 How are women using their Ayurveda certificat 📚 How are women using their Ayurveda certifications in the real world?

We get this question a lot. This is purpose + practicality, soul meets paying the rent. :-) And yes, we love helping women make money with meaningful work (if that’s what they want to do).

Here are the top real ways our grads are using their Ayurveda Health Coach training:

🌸Private 1:1 Coaching. Support clients with digestion, hormones, stress, sleep, nervous system health and seasonal rhythms. Deep, transformational work.

🌸Women’s Health & Hormone Support. Menstrual health, perimenopause, menopause, fertility, adrenal fatigue and burnout recovery, helping women feel at home in their bodies again.

🌸Corporate Wellness & Burnout Prevention. Lunch-and-learns, workshops and nervous-system education for teams and leaders. High demand, high impact and often well paid.

🌸Group Programs & Online Courses. Scalable 6–8 week offerings like digestive resets, seasonal cleanses, nervous system repair or feminine vitality.

🌸Retreats, Immersions & Women’s Circles. Ayurveda + food + ritual + rhythm + rest = life-changing containers.

🌸Integrative Health Clinics & Wellness Centers. Work alongside functional medicine doctors, acupuncturists, chiropractors and more, filling gaps modern medicine can’t.

🌸Content Creation, Writing & Education. Blogs, Substack, social media, books, podcasts and workshops. Teaching is a powerful healing path.

🌸Postpartum, Caregiving & Recovery Support. Supporting new mothers, caregivers and those healing from illness or long-term stress. Tender, needed work.

🌸Spiritual & Personal Development Coaching. Ayurveda also supports energy patterns, emotional digestion, purpose and rhythm, often blending with yoga, meditation and trauma-informed work.

🌸Building a Conscious Business or Brand. Wellness brands, product lines, education platforms—Ayurveda as the foundation of a bigger vision.

The deepest truth? This wisdom is deeply needed, and there is real demand for it.

Whether you want to make this your career or simply do it for yourself (about half our students do), our program begins Wednesday. This is your time.

🌹 Comment AYURVEDASCHOOL to get all the details.
Which one resonates with you the most? 🗓️🥳 Which one resonates with you the most? 🗓️🥳🔮🛹 What intention are you taking into 2026? Drop it below. 👇🏼✨

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What should you really look for in a Divine Femini What should you really look for in a Divine Feminine Ayurveda certification program? ✨⁠
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Not just information. But transformation. ⁠
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Not just lectures. But lived wisdom. ⁠
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At The Shakti School, our program is intentionally designed for women’s bodies, women’s nervous systems and women’s beautifully complex lives. 🌸⁠
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We believe how you learn matters just as much as what you learn.⁠
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Our teachings are rooted in embodied wisdom, not performative spirituality, and we give you practical tools and client-ready resources you can actually use.⁠
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With a flexible schedule for busy lives, a deep reverence for women’s hormonal and seasonal rhythms and a diverse faculty of respected Ayurvedic luminaries, this program empowers you to learn Ayurveda in a way that honors your intuition, your pace and your real life.⁠
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🌿 Our 2026 Shakti Ayurveda School starts tomorrow. Soon, the doors will close and they won’t open again until 2027. ⁠
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🧬 If you feel the pull, this is your moment to say yes. Comment AYURVEDASCHOOL for more information.
This is not Tantra for monks.⁠ ⁠ This is Tantr This is not Tantra for monks.⁠
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This is Tantra for women with real lives.⁠
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Women who love, work, mother, create, rest, desire, fail, succeed…and begin again.⁠
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In this free 1-hour class, Katie Silcox and The Shakti School team reveal Feminine-Form Tantra, a spiritual path that does not ask you to leave your body, silence your desires or renounce your life in order to be spiritual.⁠
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Instead, it invites you deeper into it.⁠
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Tantra teaches us how to experience the sacred:⁠
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Inside relationships⁠
Inside emotions⁠
Inside pleasure⁠
Inside the mess and the magic of being human⁠
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In this complimentary live workshop, you’ll learn:⁠
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✨What Tantra actually is (and what it is not)⁠
✨Why spirituality that excludes the body eventually fails women⁠
✨ How emotions, desire and discomfort become sacred fuel⁠
✨The link between Ayurveda, Tantra and the embodied nervous system⁠
✨ Why pleasure and beauty are forms of spiritual intelligence⁠
✨How to stop separating your “spiritual life” from your real one⁠
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This is mysticism for women who want it all.⁠
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Depth without dogma.⁠
Spirit without renunciation.⁠
Truth without shame.⁠
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🌹 Comment EXPAND to register for free to save your spot for Feminine-Form Tantra: The missing bridge between Ayurveda, embodiment and modern womanhood.⁠
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Recording of the session included for those who can’t attend live!

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