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Ep. 32 The Ultimate Body Yantra Meditation: A Taste of Lineage of Love

One of the most important episodes I’ll record. This is a special meditation and sneak peak into the work we’re doing in the Lineage of Love and Ayurveda School.

In this episode I discuss:

~My life's work

~A practice to experience reality and the body as it is

~Paying attention to yourself without judgment = Love

~Building a holistic nervous system

~Alicia Farjado: https://www.transformationspdx.com/about-transformations-studio

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What is Enlightenment?

There is a lot of talk about Enlightenment in the yoga & meditation milieu. If you haven’t experience enlightenment or a ‘spiritual awakening’, you may think of it as some disembodied state, or something too mythical, an unavailable state for us mere householders.

While popular discourse makes it seem like enlightened individuals have something others don’t (like some magic download from the cosmos), it’s actually the opposite. Enlightenment comes from a shedding, an unveiling and a losing of our Shadow and patterning, and a great changing of these patterns as we start to see ourselves more and more clearly in-the-light.⠀
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Unwinding Karma, Shadow and en-Lightening ourselves, this is the work we’re doing and teaching in Shakti School. We have two options for online learning that I’ve poured my heart into because I want to make these technologies available to YOU:

✨) Lineage of Love, a super affordable yoga and Ayurveda subscription platform where you get to study with me every month and join at any time for the cost of 1 yoga class per month, and

✨) Ayurveda School! our groundbreaking year-long online 300hr Ayurveda health coaching certification program, the next school year starts in January 2019.⠀
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The true path is one of learning and awareness. We can all do and be this.

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Self-Love? How About We Start With SELF-LIKE

The biggest epidemic we face right now is the sickness of our lack of loving ourselves. I hear about it all the time in my line of work. And as I read the millionth blog post about self-love, I take pause. I think a much better place to start is self-like. You can’t fall in love until you fall in like.

Last week, a gorgeous, talented, 20-something woman asked me if I thought she was beautiful. She felt so ugly. Fat. She asked me if I thought she’d ever make something of herself. If I believed in her…I looked at her, mouth-agape. How is the beauty butterfly not landing on this child’s heart? How is the beyond-obviousness of her beauty escaping her?

But I know why.

Inside all of us lives a tiny little wounded bunny. The proverbial Inner child.

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This stuff is so real. Until we actively begin to engage with this creature….like it, snuggle it, ask it what it needs,

get to know it, can we ever hope to truly love it and integrate it. There is so much talk in the spiritual world on transcending. Just get over it. But you can’t get over it until you’ve gone through it. Felt it. Healed it through an intimacy that combines the Love Witness with the Wounded One. That love session creates the alchemical fuel needed to burn and rise.

Self-love can be defined by how capacious we are at actually liking our funny, quirky, silly little inner child. Self-love happens when we know where she/he got hurt, and we remain SUPER gentle with those places (without letting them run the show).

When I was little I would hide peanut butter and jelly sandwiches in my piano bench. I used to hate that little kid and would get mad as she showed up in me as an adult. Why can’t “hide peanut butter sandwich girl just go away!?” I did not like her. In fact, I hated her.

My first step towards healing was a full-on shamanic love fest with her. I had to SEE her. See her geeky glasses, her braces, her chubby fingers, her broken heart that longed to be comforted and understood. I had to be with the fact that she needed soothing. She was a little girl. And she wasn’t getting that soothing from the people that she wanted it from the most. Ergo, peanut butter.

Today I can honestly share that I like that chubby girl. She has mad piano playing skills. She still eats peanut butter. She’s not perfect. She’s emotional. And I like that about her. I’ve worked hard to keep her alive in a world that so often destroys innocence.

Beloved friend – what parts of yourself have you kicked out of your own heart?

Join us in Ayurveda School. I’ll teach you how to fall in like with these unintegrated spaces. And who knows, maybe even fall in love…

~Katie

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April = the cool, damp heaviness of Kapha begins t April = the cool, damp heaviness of Kapha begins to collide with the rising warmth and intensity of Pitta. 🌿🔥💦⁠
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We’re moving deeper and deeper into spring’s awakening… which means things can feel a little muddy, a little swollen, and then suddenly hot. So, Ayurveda says: lean into the bitter, pungent and astringent tastes right now.⁠
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These tastes help dry and lighten Kapha while gently clearing heat from the blood. This supports us through things like inflammation, skin flare-ups, sore throats and that early spring “heat” in the system.⁠
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(Southern hemisphere friends: you're in autumn right now, so lean into fall grounding + warming foods instead. 🍂)⁠
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Here are some April allies + why they’re our plant BFFs right now:⁠
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🫜 Beets (bulb + greens): support liver + blood cleansing while keeping things moving⁠
🌱 Microgreens: concentrated bitter energy to cut through heaviness⁠
🍊 Grapefruit: light, drying and helps with sluggish digestion⁠
🥬 Chard: mineral-rich + gently detoxifying for the blood⁠
🌿 Dandelion greens: classic bitter for clearing heat + supporting liver flow⁠
🫙 Fermented foods: rekindle agni, aka an instant gut boost⁠
🌾 Fennel Bulb: light, slightly sweet and aids digestion without overheating⁠
🌽 Corn: drying + grounding to counter excess moisture⁠
🌰 Cinnamon: warming + stimulates circulation and digestion⁠
🌶️ Cayenne: ignites agni + breaks up stagnation⁠
⚫ Black Pepper: sharp + penetrating for clearing channels⁠
🌿 Chives: gently pungent, helps move stuck Kapha⁠
🧅 Onion: warming + liquefies congestion⁠
🧄 Garlic: stimulating + antimicrobial⁠
🌿 Watercress: peppery + clears heat from the blood⁠
🥗 Arugula: bitter + light for spring detox support⁠
🌱 Asparagus: diuretic + helps drain excess fluid⁠
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Take the next step on your journey to health, soul-purpose and vitality—comment WISDOM for our free women’s wisdom + Ayurveda mini-course. ✨
How to tell if you’re a Pitta type: you’re cur How to tell if you’re a Pitta type: you’re currently masterminding your entire next year… and knowing you, you’ll probably accomplish it all in the next six months. 💪🏼🔥

There’s something about this spring equinox energy that wakes up the inner Martha Stewart with her color-coded graph paper and 12-step strategy. 📊

Pittas: we love your drive, but remember to leave a little room for spontaneity and softness, too. 😉

✨ Calling all Level 1 Shakti School grads—if you’re feeling the call to channel your spring energy into the next chapter of your soul’s evolution, Level 2 at The Shakti School begins in just a few weeks and we would love to have you. 

🌹 Comment LEVEL2 (one word) to connect with our team.
In this Level 2 class, core faculty teacher Sandhi In this Level 2 class, core faculty teacher Sandhiya Ramaswamy brings Ayurveda to life with a live demonstration of how healing can start right in your kitchen. 🫚 From crafting herbal spice blends to preparing face packs, this is where food becomes medicine.

Inside this class, Level 2 students learn:

🌿 How to cook with spices as medicine, understanding their energetic qualities on the deepest level

🌿 How to create herbal preparations like digestive blends, teas and functional spice mixes

🌿 How to customize remedies for doshas, seasons and individual constitution

🌿 How to use everyday kitchen ingredients for holistic skincare and external therapies

🌿 How to approach Ayurveda in a way that’s intuitive, adaptable and rooted in real life (not perfection - aka the core Shakti School ethos 😉)

This is just one piece of our rich Level 2 curriculum where you’ll deepen into herbalism, build a home apothecary, understand the why behind imbalance (samprapti) and learn to craft truly personalized Ayurvedic protocols for yourself and others.

If you’re ready to move from learning Ayurveda to living it… Level 2 is where that transformation happens. We begin in less than THREE weeks. ✨

🌺 Ready to explore Level 2? Book a call with one of our coaches—comment LEVEL2 (one word) to connect. Please note that these calls are offered only to Level 1 graduates.

📢 Level 2 Alumni: what was your favorite part of this class with Sandhiya or favorite herbal preparation you learned in year 2? Drop it below to share the inspo! 👇🏼🫚✨
Kapha on a life-giving, life-affirming level is st Kapha on a life-giving, life-affirming level is stability. It’s endurance and resiliency, the structure that makes us feel safe and held. But this time of year, that same energy can start to feel heavy, slow and a little stuck, which is why we want to gently bring in light, movement and awareness. ⁠
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Here are three unconventional ways that you can work with kapha-balancing this season that I personally love. 👇🏼⁠
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☀️ Get that morning sunlight or try red light therapy. I have found red light therapy to be one of the best pieces of technology for helping to wake up your system, support mood, and regulate hormonal rhythms (all important for kapha this time of year). ⁠
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🌊 Instead of pushing through or staying busy, take a moment to slow down and feel what’s actually there. Underneath the rushing activity of our lives, there is often grief, and letting yourself feel it can open the heart to create real healing. In Ayurveda, this can help us begin to clear the channels of the body (and subtle body) - by bringing the light of our attention into the heaviness, into what’s been unseen.⁠
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🥬 Finally, this is the time of year to lean into fresh, light, and yes, raw seasonal foods. Dark leafy greens, herbs and raw veggies help move stagnation and sluggishness. Just add some oil, spices, salt and vinegar to reduce the vata. I sometimes add cinnamon!  Yep! ⁠
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Ready to dive even deeper?⁠
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💦 Comment RELEASE for my podcast episode Ep. 176 Kapha Mama! How to Release the Heavy. In the episode, I dive deeper into how I incorporate these practices this time of year.
The Level 2 course begins in 3 weeks and we are ge The Level 2 course begins in 3 weeks and we are gearing up to make it more amazing than ever before. We're adding new classes, teachers and finessing the curriculum to support the most transformative, deep-learning experience possible.⁠
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But don't take our word for it, here's what some of our past Level 2 graduates are saying:⁠
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🦋 "I am SO SO SO glad I said YES to Level 1. And even GLADER that I said YES to Level 2. This is more than a school. As someone who has her Masters degree & (loads) of 'qualifications', this is without doubt, the best 'school' I have ever studied under because it is taught with, from & for LOVE."⁠
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🦋 "Level one blew my heart and mind open to make a shift in my business and LIFE from the unbalanced masculine to the balanced masculine & feminine. I leaned so far into this transformative energy that I went on to learn how to facilitate womb circles, and led my first one this past Sunday! It was a magical experience- singing, sharing and surrendering with a group of amazing women. I am excited to merge our lineage of Ayurveda with my lineage of womb teachings to create a uniquely magical way to serve the womxn in my community. So grateful for all the teachings, support and inspiration I received here..."⁠
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Don't miss out on another incredible year with The Shakti School. We begin April 21st and there are only three weeks left to get in the door!⁠
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🔥 Ready to take your Ayurveda studies to the next level? Comment LEVEL2 (one word) to book a call with our team and let’s explore what’s possible. (Available to Level 1 graduates interested in Level 2. 🩷)⁠
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🎓 Level 2 grads: what was the most impactful part of Level 2 for you? Share below to light up our incoming Level 2 class. 👇🏼✨

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