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Ep. 196 Are you a Scrunchy, Silky or Crunchy Woman?

This is a picture of Katie Silcox. The text reads, "Spirit Sessions: Find your true spiritual home with Katie Silcox."

Inspired by the scrunchy, silky and crunchy mom TikTok trends, Katie describes the three types of students we have at The Shakti School. A truly powerful woman knows who she is and has explored her light, her dark and everything in between. Tune in to get to know yourself on a deeper level! Then send Katie a message on Instagram or Facebook to let her know if you’re a scrunchy, silky or crunchy woman!

Join us for a year of deep inner work in our Feminie-Form Ayurveda School! Click here to learn more and enroll in our 2025 class!

In this episode, you’ll hear:

~ Wondering if Ayurveda School is right for you? Book a free call with one of our coaches here.

~ What are a scrunchy mom, a silky mom and a crunchy mom?

~ Are you a scrunchy, silky, or crunchy woman?

~ The gifts and shadow side of each personality type

~ Advice for starting or continuing your Ayurveda studies

~ Perfectionism’s (the crunchy woman's) dark side

~ The Buddhist concept of the middle path

~ The age of Kali Yuga

~ Why passion always comes with imbalance and how this shows up in silky, scrunchy and crunchy women and moms

~ Learn more about Ayurveda School

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

Other resources mentioned in today's episode about the silky, scrunchie and crunchy woman:

~ Article in The Cut: Are You a Silky Mom, a Crunchy Mom, or a Scrunchie Mom?

~ Movie: Tommy Boy with Chris Farley

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

Check out these related episodes:

~ Ep. 181 Ayurveda Fundamentalism & Why We May Wanna Avoid It

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

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Ghee is psychedelic medicine. If you think about Ghee is psychedelic medicine.

If you think about the word psychedelic as the expansion of our consciousness, ghee can have that effect on us, especially if we have tuned our awareness to be more subtle and more connected to spirit. 

Ghee is ancient lunar mother medicine. It affects your consciousness, and the ancient beings understood that ghee is not just fat. It’s not just clarified butter.

It is the essence of the cow’s nourishment to its baby. It’s mama medicine, and the ancients called this soma. 

Soma, the Vedas speak of, is the nectar of immortality, the milk of moonlight, the fluid intelligence that cools and loves and nourishes and restores our mind after the intensity and heat and drama and trauma of life, of effort, of initiations that burn us down.

Long before soma was known in India as a highly debated brew, it was related to ghee.

Soma is considered the nectar of the gods, and we can see from the Sanskrit it is called smriti vardhaka, the enhancer of your memory. It literally helps our brain remember, but it also helps us to remember who we really are. 

It’s medya, the nourisher of our higher intellect.

It’s ojaskara, meaning the builder of soul immunity, and yogavahi, a carrier that delivers medicine into the deepest tissues, including our mind.

That is why ghee is what we call anapana in panchakarma. It doesn’t cleanse like fire, it loosens our karma through love. 

So in panchakarma, that’s why we take ghee first before everything else. 

Learn more in my podcast Episode 235 Why Ghee Is the Quiet Psychedelic: Expanding the Mind Without Breaking It. 🧈👁️🧬

🎧 Comment “235” below for the link.
One of the biggest questions I get from women expl One of the biggest questions I get from women exploring our program is “What can I actually do with an Ayurvedic coaching certification? What’s the scope of a coaching practice?”⁠
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Becoming a certified coach is absolutely a viable career path, and it can also enhance the offerings that you already have. 🌿⁠
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With an Ayurvedic Wellness Coach certification, you can legally and ethically work with people as a coach and educator in so many ways, including:⁠
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📒 Working 1:1 as a wellness or lifestyle coach, helping clients with digestion, stress, hormones, energy, daily rhythms and self-care (within the coaching scope and with proper insurance)⁠
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🧘🏽‍♀️ Teaching workshops in yoga studios, community spaces, retreat centers or online⁠
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🌬️ Guiding people through nutrition education, daily routines, seasonal resets, meditation, and nervous system support⁠
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🥀 Supporting women with cycle awareness, womb wellness and feminine rhythm education⁠
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🪐 Weaving Ayurveda into your existing work, whether it’s yoga, bodywork, coaching, energy work, movement or spiritual mentorship⁠
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🗓️ Creating group programs, circles or educational offerings rooted in preventative care and self-healing⁠
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💗 Using Ayurveda first and foremost for your own life—and letting your lived experience become your medicine⁠
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Working as an Ayurvedic Wellness Coach is about teaching people how to live well, how to listen to their bodies and how to create daily practices that actually work in real life.⁠
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And yes, when you go through our program you’ll also leave with real tools: a gorgeous training manual, client forms, starter business resources and a community of women walking this path with you.⁠
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Our Level 1 class began a couple of weeks ago, and we’re still welcoming our last-minute ladies who feel the nudge and don’t want to wait another year.⁠
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If this is speaking to you, send us a DM to learn more.⁠
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We’d love to welcome you into our school. 🌹
My dear brother @micah_rewilding (and Shakti schoo My dear brother @micah_rewilding (and Shakti school teacher!) reminded me to get out in it! ❄️❄️❄️❄️ post your fave winter ritual below ⬇️💘
When we try to define the feminine, we’re doing When we try to define the feminine, we’re doing our best to talk about that which really can’t be talked about. 

It can only be felt. 

It can only be experienced. 

You can start to meet the feminine by beginning to notice what’s happening in your body, what’s happening in your heart, what’s happening in your sensations, what’s happening in your emotions. 

When I start to share about the feminine with the women in our school, there is this thing that happens:

They have a recognition of something I’ve said that awakens something in them that they already knew. 

I just reminded them of what was already inside. 

And so if there’s one thing that the feminine is, it’s the wisdom in you that already knows how to heal herself, that already knows the things in your life that are weakening you and the things in your life that are strengthening you. 

That intuitive, deep wisdom, we call the feminine. 

Our approach to Ayurveda is honoring how this ancient method is rooted in folk wisdom that women have been practicing all over the world.

Women have been doing this root mother medicine for as long as we’ve been here.

And it all starts from this place of: you are the boss. 

You’re the authority on you. 

We want to provide a place and a practice and a method where you get to feel the part of you that’s the boss. 

When you start tapping into that part of you, you start to know this feeling of warmth and kindness, and that’s a good sign that you’re starting to enter into that wisdom realm. 

If you’re feeling the pull towards that remembrance… you would love our year-long Feminine-Form Ayurveda School. 

It’s a full immersion into your feminine intelligence and inner knowing, while studying the time-tested wisdom of Ayurveda in a way that honors women’s bodies, rhythms and lives.

Classes just started last week and it’s not too late to sneak in the door.

🌙 Comment AYURVEDASCHOOL to learn more.
The feminine isn’t here to do more. She’s here The feminine isn’t here to do more. She’s here to do what matters, slowly and intentionally.

When we try to overhaul our lives overnight, burnout is inevitable… and your higher self already knows this ;)

Feminine-form Ayurveda teaches you how to move with your rhythms, not against them. Less force, more wisdom, real sustainability. This is exactly why we built a whole school around women’s bodies, hormones and cycles.

It’s not too late to join us and begin 2026 in a way your nervous system can actually handle.

Comment AYURVEDASCHOOL to learn more. 🌿

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