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Ep. 115 Feeling Safe Within the Body

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This guided meditation focuses on rewiring the nervous system and increasing the felt sense of being at home within the body.

In this episode you’ll hear:

~ How rewiring our nervous system out of states of fight, flight and freeze lies in our capacity to feel at ease, relaxed, and safe

~ Proprioception in the brain

~ Outer orientation

~ 15 minute guided meditation for feeling at home and at ease within the body

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Ep. 114 Why Things Are Always Better Than We Think

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This heart-expanding episode addresses our human innate negativity bias and how evolutionary survival mechanisms affect our polarities. When we step into the healing vortex and vulnerability, we are able to instead grow hope, compassion, and capacity to see future dreams.

In this episode you'll hear:

~ Our innate negativity bias

~ Evolutionary survival mechanisms

~ Growing our hope, compassion and capacity to see future dreams

~ Tocqueville effect and polarizing tendencies

~ The healing vortex 

~ Vulnerability as a tool for strength

~ Positive news from the book Ten Global Trends Every Smart Person Should Know

~ The electromagnetic heart field 

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Ep. 113 Ayurveda as the University of the Soul

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This amazing interview was originally featured on the Walk 'n Flow podcast, hosted by Babette, a student of Shakti Ayurveda School and outdoor coach and trainer at Walk 'n Act. Thanks to Babette and Janna for the fun collaboration on this episode!

In this episode you'll hear:

~ What is Ayurveda?
~ Katie's personal journey into this field
~ Patriarchal thinking and feminine wisdom
~ Daily routines for better physical, mental, and spiritual health
~ Beauty standards and the female body
~ Avoiding the pitfalls of getting stuck in a system of rules
~ Intuition
~ And many other gems!

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Ep. 112 A Self-Healing Meditation for Fall

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This meditation is directly from Ayurveda School, a year-long coaching certification connecting you with your body, mind and spirit, while also learning how to help others do the same. Connect to the truest, most authentic you with this warming, grounding practice to balance Vata.

In this episode you’ll hear:

~ Shakti Ayurveda School helps connect you to your body’s innate wisdom and true spirit

~ This meditation practice is directly from Ayurveda School teachings

~ Allow Katie to guide you through a grounding practice to balance Vata

~ The practice helps connect you to your truest, most authentic self

~ Gratitude for the spirit of Vata Dosha

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Ep. 111 The Role of Spirituality in Healing Trauma and the Nervous System

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This episode features special guest Cristal Mortensen, a trauma and nervous system specialist and somatic neuroplasticity expert. Katie and Cristal discuss the physiological responses of the nervous system and increasing our felt sense of safety and protection in the body.

In this episode you’ll hear:

~ Trauma and states of safety within the body

~  Integration of the physical and emotional bodies

~ Role of the vagus and cranial nerves

~ The matrix of safety and support

~ Attunement of the brain and body

~ The science of safety

~ Stability as connection to the Divine

~ Click here for the Spirit and Safety course on November 7th

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~ Find Cristal Mortensen online at awarealignedawake.com

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Ep. 110 How To Turn On Your Single Most Important Immunity- The Lymph!

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This juicy episode delves into the physiology and spiritual qualities of Rasa and all that it feeds within the body systems. Lymph plays a large role in Rasa and is directly connected to how we feel. Learn how to maintain healthy lymph and why it’s so important.

In this episode you’ll hear:

~  Rasa as your first line of defense

~ The physiology of Rasa 

~ Tips for healthy, high-quality Rasa

~ Rasa’s role in immunity

~ Lymphatic massage to keep lymph fluid moving

~ Spiritual qualities of lymph

~ Pulsation of life

~ Ways we stifle healthy Rasa and how to combat this

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Ep. 93 There Is Only ONE Thing You Are Meant To Do In 2021

There is only ONE thing you are meant to do in 2021, and I hope you will find much comfort in it. Tune in to hear my end of the year pep talk and get inspired.

In this episode you’ll hear:

~The power of a new year

~Why you don’t need a New Year’s resolution

~Present moment awareness

~The social dilemma

~Interested vs Interesting

~Boundary grief

~Inspiration from Rumi

~Book: Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?

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Ep. 89 Holding Dark and Light with Dr. Scott Blossom

Join Katie and Scott where they will go deep and wide into how we can hold both our anger/fear/grief as well as great love and transformation at this time. Dr. Blossom is a Traditional Chinese Medical practitioner, Shadow Yoga teacher & Ayurvedic Consultant. He has been studying yoga since 1990 and teaching since 1997. His primary teachers are Zhander Remete, founder of Shadow Yoga and Dr. Robert Svoboda, Ayurvedic physician and scholar.

In this episode you’ll hear:

~Working with grief, fear and anger in these trying times

~Bowing to Corona Devi

~The virus as a goddess with healing potential

~The Devi Mahatmya prayer

~The importance of Bhakti - love and devotion to something bigger than self

~There’s no more going back to normal—and why that’s a blessing

~The time of trauma release

~How the patriarchal + colonial mindset has influenced modes of yoga and our bodies

~The Buddha is the sangha - how our healing will come from the community

~Poets, seers and the healing role of the senses

~Katie’s favorite gospel guru: Tasha Cobbs Leonard - listen to You Know My Name

~Find Scott Online: https://www.doctorblossom.com/

"Our anxiety comes from the desire to have things be different. There's going to be the day after the election. And the day after that. We need to be present to what is regardless of the outcome you want. My ancestors had to prepare themselves over and over again for moving toward a freedom that was nowhere in sight. We prepare for life as it unfolds, not our ideal image of it. That is literally the only path forward." — Rev. angel Kyodo williams

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Nature thrives in her cyclical routines. In fact, Nature thrives in her cyclical routines. In fact, She is very predictable.⁠
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Last week, my house burned. Half of it gone. Smoke Last week, my house burned. Half of it gone. Smoke damage everywhere else. In one night, almost every material thing I owned was lost.

It was 1 a.m. when Ojas, my Bernedoodle, barked in a way I’d never heard before. Groggy, I grabbed my glasses and opened my bedroom door to a wall of orange - sparks, smoke, alarms.

I froze. My body didn’t know what to do. But somewhere inside, a voice said move. I clutched Ojas’s collar, bolted through the back door, and landed in the garage with shaking hands.

I couldn’t even press 911. My fingers wouldn’t work. “Okay, girl,” I whispered to myself. “You know what this is. Your body’s in freeze. Breathe. Dial the numbers.”

And then - peace. A strange calm washed over me. A voice inside said: You’ve been training for this. God is with you. You are not alone.

Worried the garage would ignite, I grabbed the only thing I could find for a leash - a bungee cord - and stumbled outside in nothing but a t-shirt and underwear. I stood barefoot, watching one side of my house glow molten orange. The night was silent except for the crickets. It was terrifying and strangely holy all at once, watching my home consume itself.

Here’s the wildest part:

Just two weeks earlier, I had been teaching a class at The Shakti School on fear. We practiced something called The Precious Things Practice, a Buddhist meditation where you imagine giving away everything you love - first easy things, then the hardest. Not to lose them, but to feel the grief of impermanence… and to practice letting go.

I didn’t know it then, but I was rehearsing for this exact moment.

And it worked. The practices I’ve taught for over a decade became the lifeline I clung to as my world literally burned. They held me steady in loss. They reminded me: everything is fleeting. 

Everything is Divine. And beneath it all, there is still love.

I’ve never felt so held. So raw. So real. 

With a heart full of gratitude,
Katie

P.S. - The whole story is in the latest podcast episode. Comment 226 and I’ll send you the link.

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