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Ep. 251 The Crystalline Body, Tantra and Ayurveda

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What is the crystalline body? In today’s episode, Katie explores the parallels between the ancient wisdom of Tantra, modern neuroscience and the crystalline body. She shares how we can expand past our limitations, clear blockages in our energy body and ultimately move from confusion to clarity.

If you want to learn more about the crystalline body and how to regulate your nervous system through Ayurvedic practices, join Katie LIVE for our free Somatic Ayurveda Workshop. Click here to save your spot!

This beautiful talk was originally a Chai with CAAM event hosted by our dear friends at The California Association for Ayurvedic Medicine (CAAM). Learn more about CAAM here!

In this episode about the crystalline body, you’ll hear:

~ Common misconceptions about Tantra

~ The intersection of Tantra, Ayurveda and the crystalline body

~ Expanding past our limitations

~ The root definition of the word Tantra

~ Moving from confusion to clarity

~ What is the crystalline body?

~ Parallels between Tantra and modern Neuroscience

~ The seven gateways of perception

~ How unprocessed past experiences shape our reality

~ A Tantric formula for digesting the past

~ Radical self-honesty

~ The Vedic concepts of Swastha, Prana, Tejas, Ojas

~ Clearing blockages from the crystalline body

~ Effects of the “Information Age” on our minds

~ Cultivating the ability to stay with yourself

~ The Validation Breakthrough by Naomi Feil and Vicki de Klerk-Rubin

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Tune in to these episodes to build more self-trust:

~ Energy Medicine 101 - Episode 154

~ Menopause Made Me Look Like My Mother with Mary Thompson - Episode 186

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Ep. 250 The Art of Self-Trust

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Self-trust isn’t about having all the answers, feeling completely certain or never doubting yourself. In today’s episode, Katie explores the true meaning of self-trust through the lenses of Tantra, Ayurveda and neuroscience, offering a gentle invitation to cultivate more self-trust and connect more deeply to your inner wisdom.

To hear the full Art of Self-Trust workshop and join us LIVE for part two, click here to join our Spirit Sessions Membership for just $28 per month!

In this episode about self-trust, you’ll hear:

~ What is self-trust, really?

~ The Vedic concept of Sutika

~ How to recognise ways you’re outsourcing your wisdom and authority

~ Balancing sovereignty and surrender

~ Cultivating self-trust

~ Can self-trust and self-doubt co-exist?

~ Common ways that we abandon ourselves

~ Boundaries, validation and self-abandonment

~ Self-trust and nervous system awareness

~ Connecting more deeply to your inner wisdom

~ Becoming your own source of refuge

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Tune in to these episodes to build more self-trust:

~ Ep. 124 From Negative Self-Talk to TRUE Self

~ Ep. 225 Tea with Your Shadow Self: From Self-Sabotage to Self-Compassion with Carly Banks

Connect with Katie and The Shakti School:

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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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~ 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. 92 Attachment Theory & The Science of Life with Vanessa Durrant

Vanessa Durrant is a licensed psychotherapist, reiki master, yoga teacher, public speaker and graduate level adjunct professor. She’s a graduate of our Ayurveda training and teaches in our Level 2 training.

In this episode you’ll hear:

~Brain spotting: how where you look affects how you feel

~Healers, Ancestors and our Innocence

~Herman Hesse poem on trees

~Who can hold your heart

~Healer folk and the quality of our presence

~The power of being a witness and being witnessed

~Attachment in our physiology

~The link between Ayurveda and Attachment theory

~Why you can’t do your healing via social media

~Find Vanessa online at https://www.kindredtreehealing.com/

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Ep. 85 Intuition as a Life Guide with Dr. Siva Mohan

I’m joined in this juicy, real-talk episode by Dr. Siva Mohan. Siva began her path to healing in neuroscience, and this sparked her interest in the mind-body connection. In medical school she focused her studies on the extension of the mind-body relationship: the effects of community, development, and culture on health behavior. Siva brings a unique and integrative perspective to the Ayurvedic tradition. She teaches in Level 1 and Level 2 of our Ayurvedic training program.

In this episode you’ll hear:

~The Western medicine and Ayurveda connection

~Integration of Ayurveda in modern times

~Thoughts on spiritual bypassing

~Why finding hope is difficult during times of trauma

~The primal brain’s innate wisdom and intuition

~How to access your inner voice and emotional body

~Drawing boundaries in relationships

~Trust-falling into the emotional body as a life guide

~Finding alignment to usher in high-vibrational experiences

~Daily practices to commit to one’s own heart

~ Find Siva online: ayurvedabysiva.com

~Siva’s Resolving Internal Conflict Course

~Siva’s Ayurveda for Yoga Teachers and Students: Bringing Ayurveda into Your Life and Practice Book

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