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Ep. 259 Ayurveda: The OG Grandma Maxxing

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What if the things our grandmothers did instinctively are exactly what we need in our modern, screen-saturated world? Today, Katie explores grandma maxxing, the joyful return to hands-on creativity and slow living. Learn how nonna maxxing can help regulate your nervous system by weaving sacred feminine wisdom into your daily life, and why Ayurveda is the original grandma maxxing!

Join Katie LIVE on October 27th for a free workshop to take your grandma maxxing Ayurvedic lifestyle to the next level! Click here to register for our Feminine-Form Ayurveda Workshop!

If you’re ready to spend a whole year learning how to embody feminine wisdom, we want to invite you into our Ayurveda School! Early-bird tuition ends in just ONE WEEK, on October 31st. Click here to learn more and enroll!

In this episode about grandma maxxing, you’ll hear:

~ Reclaiming grandma wisdom

~ Sacred feminine art and handicrafts

~ The importance of having hobbies

~ Simple ways to embrace grandma maxxing in everyday life

~ The surprising brain benefits of hands-on crafts

~ The karmendriyas, AKA the five organs of action

~ The impact of nonna maxxing on the doshas

~ How creativity can soothe Vata and regulate your nervous system

~ Grandma maxxing as an act of rebellion in our digital world

~ Rediscovering beauty, belonging and the joy of slow living

~ Join our grandma maxxing challenge!

~ Our gift to you: Click here to have our Women’s Wisdom and Ayurveda Mini-Course delivered directly to your inbox.

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Your Ayurveda Principles Starter Kit:

~ What Is Ayurveda? 

~ The Three Doshas: Are You a Bullfrog or an Orchid? 

~ Beyond the Ayurveda Checklist

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