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

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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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Ep. 174 Explore Your Inner Child with Nicole Frolick

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Are you doing everything you’re “supposed” to do to create the life of your dreams, but still can’t break free from self-sabotaging patterns? Your inner child may be trying to get your attention. In this episode, Katie chats with practical mystic and intuitive coach Nicole Frolick about how to connect with and heal your inner child. They share how the neglected parts of ourselves often hold our most powerful and potent hidden strengths, talents, and purpose!

Tune in to learn how you can start getting in touch with your inner child today so you can heal yourself and generational karma.

TW: Childhood SA

In this episode, you’ll hear:

~ What is your inner child?

~ What happens when the inner child is suppressed?

~ Signs that your inner child needs attention

~ Nicole’s step-by-step meditation practice to connect with your inner child

~ Why we repeat self-sabotaging patterns

~ The gifts of your inner child

~ How inner child work is so much more than facing your pain and fears

~ What is soul fractal healing?

~ Why disconnecting from our inner child = disconnecting from our power

~ The importance of learning how to play

~ How the womb is a portal to your intuition and universal wisdom

~ Practices to move out of ancestral karma and trauma

~ Katie’s new book, Glow-Worthy: Practices for Awakening Your Inner Light and Loving Yourself as You Are—Broken, Beautiful, and Sacred is available now!

Other links mentioned in this episode:

~ Connect with Nicole on her Website and Instagram

~ Check out Nicole’s coaching programs and Forbidden Journey retreat

~ Tune in to Nicole’s podcast, Enlighten Up

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Ep. 168 Ayurveda & Tantric Herbalism with Brooke Sullivan

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In this episode, Katie is joined by tantric herbalist, yoga therapist, and educator Brooke Sullivan. Brooke and Katie explore the parallels between Tantric Herbalism and inner energy work, and share practical ways that you can tap into the ancient knowing within you to navigate this wild life! They also have a candid discussion about the importance of waking up from our cultural amnesia around the repressed Divine Feminine and Masculine. It’s time to reawaken to your inner Shakti power!

Tune in to learn Brooke’s favorite ways to deepen your connection to Mother Nature this winter, and her favorite herbs to support your health during the coldest months of the year!

In this episode you’ll hear:

~ Registration for Level 1 Ayurveda School is open for less than two weeks! Join us to study with amazing teachers like Katie and Brooke.

~ What is Tantric Herbalism?

~ How to appreciate rather than resent the monotonous routines of life

~ The most Tantric question you can ask yourself

~ How the divine and the mundane are two sides of the same coin

~ Why constantly growing and expanding isn’t always healthy

~ The difference between being open and expanding

~ The magical benefits of non-attachment

~ What is the Holy, ten-thousand-armed Mother?

~ The concepts of Shri Yantra and Sahaja Yoga

~ Why the world needs a matured feminine and masculine

~ Uncovering and unblocking your power

~ Turning to nature as a teacher

~ Brooke’s top 3 herbs to explore this winter

~ How to meditate with herbs

~ Katie’s new book, Glow-Worthy: Practices for Awakening Your Inner Light and Loving Yourself as You Are—Broken, Beautiful, and Sacred is available now!

Other links mentioned in this episode:

~ Connect with Brooke on her website and Instagram

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Ep. 147 Meditate With Me

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What if instead of just resolutions, we committed to a spiritual practice that would actually help us get clear on our Heart’s Deepest Longings? What if instead of constantly looking to the outside world as a mirror, we cultivated an inner reservoir that could nurture us in ways we only dreamed possible? This episode is from a webinar led by Katie on infusing spirit into your new year. Katie leads a 10 minute meditation that you can tap into anytime.

In this episode you’ll hear: 

~ What does it mean to start a spiritual practice?

~ Paradox is the path

~ How to work with unconditional positive regard

~ How ‘patiently sitting on the edge of consciousness’ can bring magic into your life

~ Katie leads a 10 minute meditation that you can access anytime

~ Click here for the Sacred Steps PDF Katie mentions in the episode 

~ Level 1 Ayurveda School starts THIS WEDNESDAY January 18, 2023! Here’s your chance to launch your Ayurvedic path with our one-of-a-kind course. If you’ve ever considered diving deep into this healing tradition, whether for your own health journey or as a career path, this is your chance to jump start that change and get the support you need. 

~Have questions about Ayurveda School? Head here to book a free coaching call with a Shakti School grad

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Ayurveda Certification

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Ep. 146 Author Talk and Life as the Everyday Spiritual Practice

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We have another special guest-led episode this week with author, Ayurvedic counselor, and Shakti Ayurveda School teacher, Lisa Marie Rankin. Lisa hosted this ‘author talk’ featuring Katie and Healthy, Happy, Sexy. Tune in to the discussion on a myriad of topics and some practical ways for supporting yourself spiritually and emotionally.

In this episode you’ll hear: 

~ How our lineage roots inform our current energies

~ What is Svastha?

~ How to balance between the feminine and the masculine

~ The heart field as the feminine lodge 

~ Katie’s take on the word ‘happy’ and it’s deeper meaning

~ Internal conflict and emotions

~ How can you create ease if you have a chaotic lifestyle? 

~ Supporting ourselves by being able to hold the chaos and move spirit through ourselves in the moment

~ Why is it so hard to change our habits?!

~ You can find Lisa Marie Rankin’s book The Goddess Solution here and find her at LisaMarieRankin.com

~Get on the waitlist for Lisa's 10-week Divine Feminine Ayurveda program to increase your energy, boost your radiance, and ignite your sensuality.
https://www.lisamarierankin.com/waitlist

~ Level 1 Ayurveda School starts January 18, 2023! Here’s your chance to launch your Ayurvedic path with our one-of-a-kind course. If you’ve ever considered diving deep into this healing tradition, whether for your own health journey or as a career path, this is your chance to jump start that change and get the support you need. 

~Have questions about Ayurveda School? Head here to book a free coaching call with a Shakti School grad

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Ep. 145 Goddess Work & Deep Spiritual Remembrances for Winter

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 This is a special episode hosted by the lovely and amazing, Eden Garcia Thaler, originally aired on her podcast who has generously given us this audio recording of our conversation on her podcast Field Notes from the Spiritual Journey Podcast with Eden Garcia Thaler. Eden is a Shakti Ayurveda School graduate, a shadow alchemist, helping highly sensitive beings liberate their true selves, connect to their personal version of the divine, and manifest their desires by integrating their shadows and blocks. 

In this episode you’ll hear: 

~ What is "the Goddess?"

~ How can we relate to the goddess archetypes within us

~ How our ancestors personified nature through symbols and deity work

~ The importance of death work in Winter, the spirituality of Winter in the northern hemisphere, the loss of the light (physical and spiritual), and the birth of eros

~ Reviving ancient rituals in modern times

~ Learning to venerate even the parts of you that you find "intolerable"

~ Projection, division, and integrating the "good" and "bad" that exists within

~ About Eden: Eden Garcia Thaler is a shadow alchemist helping highly sensitive beings liberate their true selves, connect to their personal version of the Divine, and manifest their desires by integrating their shadows and blocks. She's also the host of Field Notes From the Spiritual Journey podcast where she explores topics like how to do shadow work, the anatomy of feedback loops, shares her personal manifestation stories and interviews experts in personal development and spirituality.

~ Level 1 Ayurveda School starts January 18, 2023! Here’s your chance to launch your Ayurvedic path with our one-of-a-kind course. If you’ve ever considered diving deep into this healing tradition, whether for your own health journey or as a career path, this is your chance to jump start that change and get the support you need. 

~Have questions about Ayurveda School? Head here to book a free coaching call with a Shakti School grad

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Ep. 144 Santa, Sex and Reviving the Mystic Roots

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This is a podcast for any of you out there feeling like you need a reminder that magic still exists. And that the Spirit of the Season is alive and well. And that it’s also totally okay and normal to feel sad, nostalgic, lonely or just plain weird during the winter solstice.

In this episode you’ll hear: 

~ Winter as a sense of deconstruction

~ Tension of opposites as it relates to ancestral meaning and death

~ Depth psychology and how it relates to myths and traditions like Santa Claus and mistletoe

~ What are teleological quests?

~ Darkness and how our ancestors compensated with light

~ The collective compensation mechanisms of our ancestors and how that informs our current seasonal and holiday rituals

~ Freud, pleasure and melancholy

~ Santa as the representation of wish-fulfillment, abundance and prosperity both seasonally and psychologically

~ What does the Electra Complex as proposed by Carl Jung have to do with Santa?

~ Book mentioned: https://bookriot.com/santa-claus-erotica/

~ Santa as an archetype

~ How rituals can protect us and bring us back into right relationship with the collective

~ Level 1 Ayurveda School starts January 18, 2023! Here’s your chance to launch your Ayurvedic path with our one-of-a-kind course. If you’ve ever considered diving deep into this healing tradition, whether for your own health journey or as a career path, this is your chance to jump start that change and get the support you need. 

~Have questions about Ayurveda School? Head here to book a free coaching call with a Shakti School grad

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Ep. 143 Hot Tips on Building Winter Immunity

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The Fall to Winter transition is here, and now is the time to tune inward and take advantage of this winter energy. It’s time to understand our external dynamics and get in alignment with them. After all, that is what Ayurveda is all about. In this episode, Katie shares with us her hot tips on building winter immunity, and ways to thrive in the wintertime. If you aren’t a fan of these darker months, we hope this episode can bring you some helpful tips to flourish this season.

In this episode you’ll hear: 

~ Practical tips to make this winter as immune-building as possible

~ Why a thermos will become your best friend this season

~ Self-care practices to cultivate, including all things oil massage

~ Recommended foods and supplements for winter wellness

~ The importance of being outside first thing in the morning

~ Practices to reset your nervous system and lower your stress levels

~ Why sleep is the medicine of the winter

~ Ways to honor this season through prayer and dreamwork

~ Level 1 Ayurveda School starts January 18, 2023! Here’s your chance to launch your Ayurvedic path with our one-of-a-kind course. If you’ve ever considered diving deep into this healing tradition, whether for yourself or as a career path, this is your chance to jump start that change and get the support you need. 

~Have questions about Ayurveda School? Head here to book a free coaching call with a Shakti School grad

~ Join Katie over at The Breath Source for more healing breathwork focused on subtle energy, the parasympathetic nervous system and heart-centered spirituality.

~ Some of Katie’s favorites to get you through this winter:

Winter Oil

Ashwagandha powder

Ginger powder

Astragalus

Echinacea

Zinc

Omega-3

L-Glutamine

Thermos

Huberman’s Sleep

 

Katie’s sleep cocktail recipe:

Magnesium 3-4mg

L-Theanine - 2-4mg

Gaba - 150mg

Glycine - 2g

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