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Ep. 216 The Heart Chakra: Love, Courage and Goofball Energy

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Living from the heart is one of the most courageous things we can do. A healthy heart chakra brings about grace, strength and impenetrable boundaries. In today’s episode, Katie shares ancient Tantric wisdom and modern scientific findings to help you understand the chakra system and tap into its immense power!

Do you want to be guided through energetic practices for clearing, opening and awakening the heart chakra? This episode is part of a recent live workshop taught by Katie in our Spirit Sessions membership. To watch the full workshop replay with guided meditations AND join us for a LIVE for the next chakra system workshop, click here to join for just $28 a month!

In this episode about the heart chakra, you’ll hear:

~ The message and wisdom of the heart

~ The biggest heart chakra = the most powerful person in the room

~ A review of the first, second and third chakras

~ Us/them consciousness vs. universal consciousness

~ How our experiences are processed through the chakra system

~ Why many people stuck in the first three chakras

~ The heart's electromagnetic field

~ Growing and strengthening your heart chakra

~ Coherent and incoherent heart fields

~ Sensing the heart field of others

~ Important scientific discoveries about the heart

~ Why our emotions affect our digestion

~ The heart as a primary nervous system organizer

~ The HeartMath Institute’s Inner Balance Coherence Plus

~ Image of the biomagnetic heart field that Katie references

~ How our magnetic fields influence each other

~ The connection between the heart chakra, the thymus gland and Shiva Rudra

~ Reigniting the thymus gland to improve immunity

~ How to know if you’re living from the heart

~ Why true forgiveness of self and others is an inside job

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

Other resources related to this episode:

~ Learn more about Ayurveda School

~ 2025 Chakra Yoga Nidra Workshop: Study with Katie and other luminary teachers this fall in the Bahamas!

~ 2026 Chakra Yoga Nidra Retreat: Deep dive into the chakras with Katie as your guide in the beautiful Bahamas in spring 2026!

~ Follow us on Instagram and Facebook

~ Katie’s latest book, Glow-Worthy

Or Subscribe on iTunes

Episodes related to the heart chakra and energy work:

~ Ep. 154 Energy Medicine 101

~ Ep. 44 We All Need Self-Love Training Wheels

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From my heart to yours,

Katie

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The Sacred is Calling: Ritual as a Way of Living 🪶

🕯️Join us for the next Spirit Sessions Membership workshop with sisters Mary McQuate and Katie Silcox, September 25th, 10-12PM on Zoom

This is not just a lecture. It’s a living, breathing initiation into the power of ritual. You’ll learn how to create sacred space in the middle of a busy, modern world and walk away with tangible tools that anchor you back into meaning, beauty and spirit.

Through guided practice, storytelling and community, you’ll remember what your soul already knows: life is richer, deeper and more whole when you weave the sacred into the everyday.

We live in a culture that has stripped away our ceremonies. Our nervous systems are fried from too much screen time, too much doing. Our bodies long for moments that connect us to beauty, nature, and something larger than ourselves.

This workshop is your antidote.

By attending, you will gain:

~ Practical tools to create daily and seasonal rituals that bring meaning to your life.

~ The skill of building and tending personal altars that anchor intention and beauty.

~ Katie’s Ayurvedic wisdom on aligning ritual with the rhythms of nature and your body.

~ An introduction to practices that awaken the sacred in your everyday routines.

~ A deeper connection to your intuition, creativity, and spiritual guidance.

~ Rituals for grief, love, transition, and celebration—meeting you in all seasons of life.

~ Community connection: the power of practicing ritual in circle with others.

~ Techniques to calm your nervous system and restore your inner radiance.

~ Permission to re-enchant your daily tasks with sacred presence.

~ A felt experience of the divine moving through you, leaving you resourced and renewed.

Without ritual, we feel untethered, anxious, and disconnected from our bodies and each other. 

Join us and reconnect. 

✨ Comment MEMBERSHIP for all the information on joining our monthly membership to gain access to this upcoming live workshop.
When your neighbor asks you, “What’s feminine- When your neighbor asks you, “What’s feminine-form Ayurveda?” or even more simply - what’s AYUR-VEDA?... Here’s how to respond. 👇🏼

🌿 So…what exactly is Ayurveda, anyway? 

Ayurveda is one of the world’s oldest systems of holistic healing, born in India over 5,000 years ago. It teaches that health isn’t just the absence of disease—it’s the art of living in harmony with nature, your body, your mind and your spirit. Ayurveda reminds us that we are microcosms of the great cosmos, and that true healing comes from honoring that connection.

🪔 So then, what is feminine-form Ayurveda? 

It’s Ayurveda with the feminine soul turned back UP. Rather than just focusing on rules and “dosha quizzes,” feminine-form Ayurveda is about listening to your body and embracing the lived wisdom traditions that women have carried for millennia. It’s Ayurveda filtered through your heart, sensuality and embodied experience.

💃🏽 That’s where The Shakti School comes in.

Our school isn’t just another program where you buy a stack of textbooks, fill out the quizzes and print out yet another certificate.

The Shakti School is a living, breathing global sisterhood of women and a portal for soul-transformation. It’s a place where you’ll find your new best friend, business partner or soul sister while diving deep into YOU as Healer.

Here’s what makes our program different:

🌹 A feminine-form curriculum that blends ancient teachings with science and psychology.

🌹 A dynamic online classroom with LIVE classes and a supportive, like-hearted community.

🌹 A faculty of inspiring teachers—from Ayurveda practitioners to neuroscientists to holistic healers.

Our school is a path of remembering who you are and an invitation into a circle of women walking it with you.

Here are some ways to start diving deeper with us: 

🌿 Comment WISDOM for our free Women’s Wisdom & Ayurveda mini-course.

🌿 Comment AYURVEDASCHOOL (one word) for more info about our yearlong Ayurvedic Wellness Coach Certification (earlybird enrollment ending next month!)

🌿 Comment MEMBERSHIP to get details on our monthly Spirit Sessions Membership—live lectures, guided practices and a vault of ready-to-use tools.
Big news – we’re welcoming two incredible new Big news – we’re welcoming two incredible new teachers into Level 2 of Ayurveda School (our Ayurvedic Health Counselor Certification Training)! 🌹✨⁠
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🌿 First, Dr. Shivani Gupta – an Ayurvedic practitioner, turmeric researcher + speaker who bridges classical Ayurveda with functional medicine. With a Master’s in Ayurvedic Sciences and a PhD focused on turmeric, she’s devoted her career to helping women calm inflammation, balance hormones + restore energy through daily rituals and practical, science-backed tools.⁠
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🌸 We’re also honored for our Level 2 students to learn from Vaidya Dinal Khatri, a renowned Ayurveda practitioner, professor and researcher from India with deep expertise in herbs, Agadtantra, Dravyaguna and hypothyroidism. With over a decade of experience, she guides people toward wellness through Ayurveda, lifestyle, yoga + meditation, blending ancient wisdom with compassion.⁠ She is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Dravyaguna (Ayurvedic pharmacology), where her research focuses on the Ayurvedic management of hypothyroidism, including pharmaceutico-analytical studies on classical herbal formulations.⁠
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We are beyond excited for these Ayurveda leaders to bring their brilliance, devotion and lived wisdom to the women in our school. We can’t wait for our community to learn with them inside Level 2.⁠
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🦋 Are you curious to learn more about the path to becoming a certified Ayurvedic Health Counselor? Comment AYURVEDASCHOOL (one word) to learn more about our school.
The humble, one-pot, Ayurvedic comfort food known The humble, one-pot, Ayurvedic comfort food known as kitchari has been used for centuries to:⁠
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🌿 Reset digestion and restore agni (your digestive fire)⁠
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🌿 Gently detoxify while deeply nourishing⁠
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🌿 Provide steady, grounding energy⁠
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🌿 Comfort the nervous system and calm the mind⁠
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Kitchari is your belly’s steady friend during seasonal transitions, after travel or anytime life feels like “too much to digest.” It nourishes both your belly and your being, gently cleansing and nourishing your tissues at the same time.⁠
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💌  Want to try it for yourself? Comment INSTANT below and I’ll send you my Instant Pot Kitchari Recipe so you can make this soul-soothing dish in your own kitchen.
Where are my sweata’ weatha’ loving ladies? ;) Where are my sweata’ weatha’ loving ladies? ;) Raise your hand if you are ready for spicy turmeric lattes, stewed apples, roasted root veggies and smokey autumn bonfires - name the one thing you’re most looking forward to below. 🍠🫚🎃🍁👇🏼

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