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Ep. 117 7 Vital Steps for a Spiritual Practice (Tantra Talks #6)

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This episode delves into Tantra within the context of meditation and the framework for better understanding who we are. Different forms of meditation can help us feel more ‘real’. Seven tangible steps are outlined for crafting a meditation practice which helps deepen the connection to your spiritual life.

In this episode you’ll hear: 

~ The meaning of Tantra within the context of meditation

~ Tantra as a methodology for better understanding who we are

~ Passive vs active meditation

~ How meditation can make you feel more like yourself

~ Sahaja yoga and how it may benefit your practice

~ 7 steps to a meditation practice to deepen connection to your spiritual life

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Ep. 116 Ayurveda and Disordered Eating

Spirit Sessions Podcast Guest - Marissa

This powerful and heartfelt episode welcomes special guest, Marissa Angeletti. Marissa is a movement-based trauma specialist and therapeutic movement educator working with disordered eating and holistic healing. This important discussion dives deep into emotional eating patterns, food fears, and nervous system states as they related to eating. Marissa is a teacher in Level 2 of Shakti Ayurveda School.

In this episode you’ll hear:

~ An intro about following your soul’s purpose 

~ How dogmatic food rules can perpetuate disordered eating

~ Fear foods and emotional views of eating

~ How circumstances and food scarcity can impact restriction

~ Relationship to food as relationship to God

~ Nervous system states as they relate to eating

~ Pleasure and biophysical needs

~ Eating to feel satiated both physically and emotionally

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~ Click here for 2022 Level 1 Ayurveda School

~ You can find Marissa Angeletti at inlokahmotion.com

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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

Spirit Sessions Podcast Guest

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

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~ Find Cristal Mortensen online at awarealignedawake.com

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Ep. 105 The Healing Vortex with Cristal Mortensen

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How do we invite the divine into our tissues? We open our perceptions. In this episode with special guest Cristal Mortensen, Nervous System Specialist & Somatic Neuroplasticity Expert, we discuss the embodiment of consciousness and the divine in our bodies. This episode includes an Earth-energy based grounding practice!

In this episode you’ll hear:

~The Healing Vortex vs The Trauma Vortex

~What is Spiritual Bypassing

~What’s Right Attention

~Valuing our past and pain

~Rewiring Attachment

~Polarization of the mind

~Beyond duality for embodiment

~Working with Earth energy

~Find Cristal Mortensen online at https://awarealignedawake.com/

~Book: The Great Coddling of the American Mind

~Upcoming Course: Deeper Dating & Relationships

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Sponsored: This episode is brought to you by PAAVANI Ayurveda. PAAVANI Ayurveda is a female owned and family run health & skincare company based in Northern California. Use promocode GHEESPOT at checkout for 15% off your order.

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