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Ep. 237 10 Life Lessons I Learned in 2025 & A New Year’s Practice

This is a picture of Katie Silcox. The text reads, "Spirit Sessions: Find your true spiritual home with Katie Silcox."

In this special New Year's episode, Kaite shares the most powerful life lessons she learned in 2025. Tune in to learn a simple year-end reflection practice and hear an inspiring invitation to let go of the old, integrate life lessons and call forth your dreams in the new year!

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In this episode about life lessons from 2025, you’ll hear:

~ An invitation to book a FREE call with us! Click here to book your call.

~ A message of hope!

~ 2025 was the year of the snake

~ 2026 is the year of the horse

~ A simple year-end reflection practice

~ Katie’s most powerful personal life lessons from 2025

~ Do something today to nourish yourself

~ Why things NOT going as planned is the spiritual curriculum

~ An invitation to integrate your life lessons and pursue the dream you’ve been putting off

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Love this episode about life lessons? Check out these episodes:

~ Ep. 121 Starting a Spirit-Infused New Year

~ Ep. 143 Hot Tips on Building Winter Immunity

Episode 237 Transcript:

Happy, happy New Year, baby. What is up, y'all? It's your Ayurveda gal Friday here, Katie Silcox. I'm sitting here with Ojas. Naughty, naughty. Listen, she is looking at me like, you know what, mom? I'm going to bark. I'm going to bark my ass off during your podcast. So, hey, she's here, y'all. If you hear some barking, it's Ojas. As 2025 has come to a close, I want to let you know that there is light, there is hope, there is newness.

It is the year of the horse. We talked about it in the last podcast. If you didn't hear my sweet little podcast on Christmas, please go listen to it. And it's not like, oh, it's so good because I did it and I'm great. I mean, yeah, I am great. But like, go listen to it because it's so sweet. And there's this beautiful meditation at the end.

2025 Was The Year of The Snake

Anyways, the year of 2025 for me was bonkers and beautiful. And I fell in love. And I also fell out of love. And I fell in love again. And I fell in love with this new person in my life called my own heart. And then I fell out of love. And all of that happened, by the way, in one day and every day. And I also did meet someone great.

And a lot of beautiful, beautiful experiences happened for me in 2025, including the experience of unbelievable love and support and resources known and unseen and unknown just come to me. And also, as you all know, my house burned down. And, you know, everything I owned, basically.

I should stop saying my house burned down. It didn't totally burn down, but you all know what I'm saying. Anyway, 2025 was like a really hard, challenging year. And I think for a lot of us, the year of the snake.

A Year-End Reflection

The snake's all about shedding its skin, letting go, burning away everything that's not going to be going forward with us into 2026. And so I really want you to take a moment sometime today, over the next few days, and just really consider 2025.

What was the snake-like shedding for me? What was I invited to look at to let go of? And I know we've all heard that kind of thing a million bajillion times. It's like the astrology joke is like, hey, the astrology is going to present challenges that you must open to and overcome. But really, doing it is a different thing.

And so I just really encourage you to take a moment sometime today, if you can, sometime soon, and really think about what am I shedding? What was I asked to shed in 2025? So you can really see what you want to bring into 2026, and what maybe not so much, right?

2026 is the Year of the Horse

2026 is the year of the horse. Let's effing go energy. Last time in my podcast, I sat on the horse. I'm on it. I want you to visualize yourself on the horse. You're on it. You're squeezing it. It's so powerful. Can you feel its muscles, its capacity to run? Go and get shit done. Okay. But 2025 did not come to play. So we've got to revisit it.

The Life Lessons I Learned in 2025

And I want to tell you the life lessons that this wild year taught me, what the snake shedding skin taught me. And I invite you to do the same for your own life. For me, I think there's this false idea, and I always really, really try to kind of lay it out and bring it to light.

The Spiritual Path Often Isn't Easy

But there's this false idea that, like, if you are on the spiritual path, then you have your life together all the time. And why I love the Shakti School is that you can be launching a school and really, really having a heart for the divine, and still sometimes just really be like, wow, this is a lot, right? Rebuilding a burned-down house, navigating relationships, family, aging parents, tending to illnesses, children, pets, jobs. And yet what I learned in that is that life still comes up and knocks on the door and says, what are you going to make for dinner? And I know that is like a crazy thing that I learned, but I really did learn it, and it's like, do what you can do today to nourish yourself.

No matter what's going on in your life, divorce, illness, heartbreak, loss, grief, all of those things, we still have to cut vegetables, fry up a little oil and spices and nourish our bodies. What's for dinner? And it's honestly been in the moments where life felt the hardest, where I leaned the most into going to the gym and doing my yoga and doing my meditation and just chopping freaking vegetables and making kitchari and eating right. And I know that seems like a weird one, but I really thought that was important to share, because when life gets really hard, the self-care goes out the window, and that's also okay.

There were days, oh my God, during the fire where I was like, you know, eating granola bars on the front porch, right? So, number one. Number two, this wound is the way is more than just an annoying, at this point, internet meme. It's a life path, and it's a life path that I am 1,000% committed to.

Opening to the Messy Reality of Life

The parts of me that I don't like are the way. Opening to it, not wallowing in it, not identifying with it, not making a story about it, but opening to the places I feel so cracked open, broken, that's where the sacred slips back in. That's where it actually can be revealed.

That's where everything gets a lot more soft, like ghee. Number three, the archetypes show up not when we necessarily ask them, but when they are absolutely needed. And when my house stuff happened, I really felt this other thing show up, and it was strength, and it was like Durga energy.

It was like invincible love, right? Like, you've gotta do this. You've gotta do this. They're like cosmic first responders with ancient job descriptions.

Life lesson number four, when the divine wants you to transform, you're gonna be asked to transform, right? It's time. And I do not like it. Not one bit, right? But so often the things that are unexpected and unplanned for are the soul lessons being given.

Aging Parents

Another big thing I realized is that family is really important, and when your parents start to age and show signs of their temporality, we're walking right onto the holy ground. I won't go too deeply into all of it personally, but just looking at my parents this year and seeing the way their bodies are changing and their minds are changing has really been a place of a lot of sweetness and loving them, right, for who they are exactly as they are with what they give and feeling really grateful for them. And I know my mom listens to this podcast, and she's gonna be like, why are you saying my face looks old? My mother is the most beautiful woman in the world.

But yeah, just really using this time with our parents, with all their flaws and all their beauty, to just really appreciate them.

Life Lessons from Panchakarma

Ooh, ooh, ooh. Another big one for me was Panchakarma this year.

Really, I got to go twice to my favorite Panchakarma center, and I'm doing a whole podcast on this, so I don't want to spoil it, but Panchakarma remains the only legal psychedelic the Ayurveda world will admit to, at least. And we are going to have a whole podcast on the psychedelics of ghee. Maybe it already came out.

Anyways, psychedelics and ghee. Number seven, things not going as planned is the spiritual curriculum. God's favorite hobby, and I know I'm kind of repeating the same things over and over, but that's intentional.

God's favorite hobby is to gently, and sometimes not gently, dismantle your human agenda. And I think every year we have to go through a recalibration, and it can feel like a downgrade in order to up-level.

Another life lesson that I've realized, eight, oh my gosh, how much I love the Shakti School. I mean, it's every year I care about it more, I value it more, because selfishly of what it gives to me, just how great it is. Our students and our teachers are basically like mystical superheroes that are also like flawed humans. And every year our community gets bigger and stronger and funnier and deeper and wiser, and I love you.

I love you, Shakti School. Thank you for being in my life. And thank you to everybody who makes that happen.

Dreaming Big, Integrate the Life Lessons and Persevere

Another life lesson that I'm learning, and 2025 taught me, is making big plans is not always the best idea, and it's my favorite thing to do. But last year, every single freaking plan that I had, almost to a T, did not occur, at least not in the way I thought it was. And guess what? I'm going to still make big plans, because I think we're meant to.

I think we're meant to dream big, plan big, think big, dream big, and then watch the way that God laughs. So don't stop dreaming big, don't stop planning big, and know that, you know, a lot of it may or may not happen. And being in that kind of juxtaposition of what we want and what actually occurs and being okay with both, but also continuing to dream big is, I think, a really cool, cool way to be.

The last thing is, like, life's not going to slow down and chill out, and that's okay. It's not supposed to. If you're listening out there and you're young, like, you should be dreaming big.

The Stress Sandwich

If you're listening out there and you're in your 40s and 50s, Ayurveda calls this the stress sandwich of pitta, time of life. It's supposed to be intense, and that's okay. And if you're listening out there and you're in your 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 100s, like, it's supposed to be about do what you love.

Get those last remaining desires out of the way. Go on the trip, right? Get a hot boyfriend, Florida lady. Did you guys hear about this? The number one community for STDs is the aging community, and that's hilarious.

I don't want anyone to have STDs, but old people are getting it on, and I think that you should. You should live out those last desires, but then don't stay there, right? The last part of life is about letting go of everything and learning what your true essence is and your true spiritual home, which is your soul, your infinite nature. Life is not going to stop, and neither should you, and so I want you to create the thing that you want to create now.

Write the book now. Join the thing you've been waiting to join, right? Get involved. Do it.

Do the freaking thing. Heal now. Laugh now.

It's so cheesy, but, like, love the person now, and you got to do it all the while feeling like maybe you can't, and that's what I've learned this year just to keep going, and I hope that this inspires you to take some time in the new year to really consider what matters.

Thank You Listeners!

Thank you all for being a part of my experience through the podcast in 2025, and I wish you all the most beautiful new year. A big special thanks to Kevin Carlell of Goodbye Gemini, who wrote this beautiful podcast music, and to DJ Juan Pablo Jimenez in southern Spain for mixing it and making it magic.

Thank you.

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Ep. 236 Winter Surrender: Finding the Light as the Weary Soul Rejoices

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Surrender to the sacred mystery of life and discover your true self. Inspired by her favorite Christmas carol, “Oh Holy Night,” Katie shares about self-worth, surrendering to the divine and opening to the darkness of winter.

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In this episode about surrender and letting go, you’ll hear:

~ What if your soul could feel its worth?

~ The power of falling on your knees

~ Feeling inadequate, worthless

~ Surrendering your defences and becoming more yourself

~ Overvaluing the intellect

~ Death and rebirth

~ The sacred spiritual practice of surrender

~ 2026 is the year of the horse

~ An old recording of “Oh Holy Night” by Harry Macdonough

~ Questions about Ayurveda School? Click here to book a FREE call!

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Other spirit-infused episodes to keep you company this Christmas:

~ Ep. 228 The Art of Letting Go and Divine Surrender with Brett Larkin

~ Ep. 119 Katie’s Christmas Special: Cosmic Jesus Anointing

Episode 236 Transcript:

It's your girl, your Ayurveda gal, Friday, Katie Silcox, coming to you. I'm twinkling. I'm spiriting. I'm Christmas feeling. I'm just here. I'm here with you. And I want to wish everyone out there a Merry Christmas, if you celebrate it. And if you don't, a Happy Holidays. A Happy Hanukkah. A Happy Kwanzaa. A Happy Winter Solstice.

You are alive.

It is the darkest time of the year. And in the darkest time of the year, we have to remember the light, don't we? And last night, I wrote an email about one of my all-time favorite Christmas carols, Oh, Holy Night. And there's a line in that beautiful carol that says, Oh, Holy Night.

Divine Surrender

It talks about surrender and divine, divine surrender. And there's this moment when we finally give it up, you know, and in the carol, it says fall on your knees. And I just, I want you to kind of feel what that feels like in your body. You may even kneel down to pray. And I know for me, there's this moment and it's so beautiful. It's like, it's like the best moments of the, of the week, of the month, of the years for me. And it's like this divine, holy recognition. And there's a quality of falling on the knees because that's all about letting the ego die and letting our heart open to the things about ourselves that we can't see. I mean, that's what a blind spot is, right? And so fall on your knees.

It's such an important moment in our psychology. And I want to read you a few more lines from the hymn, from the carol. And it says the soul felt its worth. The soul felt its worth. Holy moly, madre mia, right? How many of you out there, raise your hand, would think your life would be a little bit different if you walked around the day feeling like your soul could feel its worth. And this is an energy that I've been really interested in lately.

Feeling Your Worthiness

This idea of wealth, worthiness, richness versus, because this is what it feels like. It feels like a dichotomy, a paradox or a setup of opposition. And the opposite feeling is poverty. One of the hardest things for me to feel and really feel like I jump off of it. Like a frog in boiling water is the feeling of being inadequate. The feeling of being worthless, of not being chosen. And that stuff shows up in my life everywhere. And it's sneaky and it's covert. And my psyche, like a lot of you out there, like I would say everyone, creates remarkable strategies for hopping off of that particular feeling.

I really think that everything we see in our lives that is painful and suffering and tragedy, a lot of it, at least on the psychological, emotional, relational realm, comes from this big secret that we all feel like we have. And that is, I don't feel adequate. I don't feel worthy. I don't feel rich in the sense of richness of heart. I don't feel chosen. I don't feel wanted.

The soul felt its worth is that moment when you finally feel like you deserve love like anyone else, like you actually are something of immense value. That is what Oh Holy Night is about. It's about falling to your knees and letting all these old ideas and perspectives and versions of yourselves die in the darkest night of the year to plant the seeds of who you could possibly become.

Becoming More Yourself by Surrendering

Guess what? We want you to become. But the great irony is you all mystics out there know when you become, you realize you're just becoming what you already really were underneath all the shrouds. And the next line I want to share with you is the weary soul rejoices.

There's this great phrase in Buddhism where I don't remember the exact way it was said, but it's something like when you feel completely and utterly weary and exhausted on the level of your soul, it is now the time for rejoicing. It's like, hallelujah, I have finally fallen to my knees. It's like I'm yelling uncle at the gods, right? And it's in that moment where we really are softened by how hard it is to be a human.

The weary soul rejoices when finally I lay down all the weapons, all the defenses, all the strategies. For me, I want to share a big one, and I'm sharing it, it's not super fun, but I'm going to share it with you. Because I know there are so many of you out there that may resonate and that may support you.

Overvaluing the Intellect

And that is the strategy of being very analytical. Raise your hand if you overthink, overanalyze, overevaluate the evaluative mind. And it's not that that's bad.

It's just that so often for me, it's like I go straight to the intellect and I like to talk about it. I like to talk about it with my friends and especially like to talk about it with my boyfriend. It's like, I want to like, you know, I want to talk about us.

Like there's nothing wrong with talking about stuff, right? Talking about us, talking about your needs, talking, talking, talking. But sometimes it's a strategy that keeps me from feeling how, how scary it is to be loved and to be close to someone and how terrifying it is to be alive, to be human, to be in this world where the only thing that's true and forever is that things always are changing. Fall on your knees and hear the angel voices.

This past year of my life was banana sandwich, the year of the snake, the shedding, the burning, the sloughing, the exfoliation of everything that is not essential for me. And I know probably for many of you, 2025 was yet another experience of shedding skin. For me, it's felt like a constant lesson in, in loss, grief and yes, total and utter heartbrokenness.

Falling to Our Knees in Surrender

I wonder if it is in those moments when we finally fall to our knees in the loss, in the dreams that actually don't come true and that we're able to actually feel there's a certain freedom. I was about to say pleasure in being able to let go. We fall on our knees.

We have to. If we ever want to have any hope of standing up strong again of in the Christian tradition of resurrection and this time in this time of our Christian tradition and this idea of birth, right? Of the birth of something sacred. It's all here in that song.

It's when we feel our most small, our tiniest, that little manger in the cold, darkest night and the falling snow, our most befallen, the manger, this place of, of dirt and animals and hay and poverty. We can finally hear the voices of the angels. Something new is being reborn.

Death as a Teacher

There's a child, a knowingness breaks through all of that suffering and inner poverty and brokenness and cold, cold, dark night of the soul. And in that letting go, there is generative life, everlasting life. The Buddha said it too. He said, death is my teacher. I don't want any of you to die today. I don't want to die today. It's going to happen. But Buddha was not talking about his body. He was talking about his mind.

And so I invite us all today and in this season to let ourselves open to that feeling of falling, to that feeling of surrendering, to that feeling of not actually knowing anything. And in that, there is this great, great revelation that's possible. I know this may initially taste a little depressing.

It's like, wait, I want to focus on the light in the season of darkness. But the more we're able to actually open to what's hard, to let go of how we think things are or how they should be, our soul, as that song so beautifully says, can finally feel its worth. And this is a worthiness beyond anything outside.

When we can finally acknowledge by falling on our knees that we're not in control, nothing is forever, we are making offerings to the sacred mystery of life. We are rescued from our suffering. We are blessed by God.

Rebirth and Finding the Light

And then this amazing thing can start to happen again. And that's the birth, right? The juiciness, the excitement, the life, the life everlasting can flow back into our arteries and light can illuminate our darkened veins. This is the mystical holy.

This is the time right now of the divine night, where the Christ within us can be born again and again and again to be born again. With each gesture of surrender, we have this possibility of entering back into the gates of the holy. And I want you to know that no matter where you're from, no matter what you look like, no matter who you vote for, no matter who your mommy is and your daddy is, we want to be a home for you, a spiritual home.

It's a place of spiritual sovereignty, meaning you and the way you experience your own body and your own energy and your own mind and your own path to the divine. It is sacred. Here at Shakti school, we offer this orientation as we gear up right now, less than a month away.

I cannot believe it for our mega event. It starts in a few weeks. It is in this course of level one Ayurveda school where we hold space for you to deepen your life of spirit.

Plus all the great juicy lady Ayurveda lifestyle, nutrition and beyond. So listen up. I definitely cannot promise that 2026 will be a perfect year, but I do know it is the year of the horse galloping forward.

2026 is Big Ashwagandha Energy

Let's go! Let's do it. Strength, stamina, ashwagandha energy. Big ashwagandha energy, baby girl. Are you with me? If you're like, what is ashwagandha? It is an herb. It was a joke for you Ayurveda dorks. Ashwagandha means the strength of a thousand stallions. Baby girl, I'm ready.

Who is ready for 2026 to be the year of a big, strong steed? I feel my legs tingling. I'm on the horse. I'm squeezing onto the horse. Let's go. This is 2026.

So I cannot promise you that the year will be perfect. I can't promise you that our course is going to be a place free from loss or pain. It's just not possible.

An Invitation to Join Ayurveda School

What I can say is that I have seen thousands of women who have gone through our program learn how to live a more surrendered, joyful experience. That's my goal in this life. And if you are intrigued and you're like Katie Silcox, I've been listening to this podcast for days, for months, for years, and I still haven't joined level one.

Girl, now's the time. I want to see your face in Zoom. I can't wait to be with you.

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Ep. 205 Winter Magic, Death and Dignity

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In most nature-based cultures and spiritual traditions, January is a time for deep internal reflection, not New Year's celebrations. Winter magic is about opening our hearts to an important truth that we often avoid, the truth that everything we love, including our own bodies, will one day be lost.

In today’s solocast, Katie shares how to move through your fear of loss, open to winter magic and live your life with dignity.

We invite you, dear listener, to join us for a year of deep inner work. Our Divine Feminine Ayurveda School kicked off this week, but there’s still time to enroll! Click here to learn more and register!

In this episode about winter magic, death and dignity, you’ll hear:

~ Enroll in Ayurveda School today!

~ Why Katie is thinking a lot about death

~ The energetics of winter magic

~ Buddha's invitation to his students

~ How to cultivate dignity

~ Accepting what we can and cannot control

~ Opening to fear and sadness

~ Soul lies and soul truths

~ Consequences of not following our intuition

~ The true source of self-worth and self-esteem

~ Why we often abandon ourselves

~ How to stand in your power in relationships

~ Katie’s favorite poem: Wild Geese by Mary Oliver

~ Get our free mini-course about Women’s Wisdom and Ayurveda for Women!

Other resources mentioned in this episode:

~ Email us at [email protected]

~ Follow us on Instagram and Facebook

~ Katie’s latest book, Glow-Worthy

Related episodes about winter magic:

~ Ep. 145 Goddess Work & Deep Spiritual Remembrances for Winter

~ Ep. 20 Honoring Our Ancestors This Winter

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Ep. 176 Kapha Mama! How to Release the Heavy

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If you’ve been feeling a little out of sorts, heavy, and lethargic you’re not alone! According to Ayurvedic wisdom, we’ve entered into the kapha season when the wet, muddy environment outside often exacerbates feelings of sadness, grief, and heaviness within our minds and bodies. In today’s solo episode, Katie shares her favorite self-care practices and tips to help you navigate the kapha season with ease.

From red light therapy to kapha balancing foods, tune in to learn how to release the heavy and lean into the life-affirming qualities of the kapha season!

In this episode, you’ll hear:

~ How kapha dosha feels in the body when in balance and out of balance

~ Tips to reduce seasonal depression

~ How the waters of your environment influence the waters of your body

~ What is sattvic light?

~ Sunlight practices to support your circadian rhythms

~ The main mama medicine in Ayurveda

~ The spring energetics of transition, birth, and baby

~ How the kapha season is a portal into sadness, grief, and attachment

~ The best type of movement and exercise for this time of year

~ Ayurvedic herbs and foods to eat during the kapha season

~ Tastes to favor and avoid to balance kapha

~ Ready to go deeper? Our Level 2 Ayurvedic Health Counselor training program starts on April 9th, 2024!

Other links mentioned in this episode:

~ Sign up for our newsletter on our website

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~ 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!

~ Kaite’s favorite Joove light red light therapy device. Use code SHAKTISCHOOL for $50 off your first purchase.

~ Ep. 40 To Sunscreen or Not to Sunscreen? How About Natural?

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Ep. 170 The Prodigal Daughter – We Start January 17th!

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This quickie episode is a love-note from Katie to your heart. Enjoy this bite-sized episode, and pull out the tissues before you hit play!

In this episode you’ll hear: 

~ Katie was listening to this beautiful song while writing this, tune in!

~ This special episode is a message from Katie’s heart to yours

~ This is the FINAL CALL to enroll in our life-defining Ayurveda Wellness Coach course. Our intuitive online classroom starts Jan 17th! Discover the time-tested wisdom of ancient Ayurveda on this path of radical health, happiness, and service. Embody your Divine Goddess within and embrace ALL of yourself, the SPARKLE and the SCARS!  

~ Book a free Clarity Call with a graduate of the program to answer any questions you may have or to find out if it’s right for you by clicking here

~ Read this episode as an email instead here: https://mailchi.mp/theshaktischool/only-one-week-left-to-join-our-year-long-adventure

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Ep. 169 A New Year for Awakening to Your Inner Feminine

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This episode is a special broadcast from The Shakti School’s most recent webinar, A New Year for Awakening to Your Inner Feminine. In today's crazy world of do-more, achieve-more and be-more, this workshop offers an antidote: the inner feminine. Join us as we dive into the time-tested philosophies and methods for contacting that which is already and always in you: your feminine essence. 

In this episode you’ll hear: 

~ Ayurveda School Level 1 begins in 9 days! This is the FINAL CALL to enroll in our life-defining Ayurveda Teacher Training course. Our intuitive online classroom starts Jan 17th! Discover the time-tested wisdom of ancient Ayurveda on this path of radical health, happiness, and service.

~ How to deepen our understanding of the concept of inner feminine energy

~ Explore ways to connect with and embrace the energy of receptivity, rest, ease, patience, sensuality and openness

~ Learn techniques to balance the masculine and feminine energies in all of us

~ Tap into dharma and our soul’s true purpose

~ A meditation with Katie 

~ If you’d prefer to watch the webinar as a video, you may do so at this link: https://vimeo.com/900228532/54bacdb363?share=copy&mc_cid=cb994b57ce&mc_eid=UNIQID

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Ep. 167 Creating Sacred Ritual for the Winter Solstice

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In today’s solo episode, your girl Katie talks about the spiritual meaning of the winter solstice. The longest night of the year doesn’t have to be a dark night of the soul, but it is a time for deep inward journeying. Katie shares practical ways that you can tap into the spirit of the season by creating sacred rituals. Learn what the most solstice advice and practices on the interwebs are missing, and what to avoid on this sacred day.

From Yule alters to setting your intentions for 2024, Katie helps you create solstice rituals that are personal and sacred to you.

In this episode you’ll hear: 

~ Download Katie’s Winter Survival Guide to learn the exact products and practices she uses to stay vibrant all winter long!

~ Registration for Level 1 Ayurveda School is open for just a few more weeks! Join us to learn how to align your life with the solstice and other cycles of nature!

~ The significance of the winter solstice

~ How to tap into solstice energy

~ Why most New Year resolutions don’t work

~ The most nourishing solstice rituals

~ How to create a personalized solstice ritual

~ What to avoid on the solstice 

~ The significance of the Yule log

~ How to set up a Yule alter

Learn more:

~ Click here to register for the free webinar, A New Year for Awakening to Your Inner Feminine, on January 5th

~ 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!

~ Join us in our monthly membership group, Spirit Sessions

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Fall Lickable

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This little lickable is great for when you’ve got the ick (a.k.a. Cold and Flu season)

Add together:

  • 3 tablespoons Manuka honey 
  • 3 tablespoons Grass-fed ghee
  • 1 tsp. Turmeric powder
  • 1 tsp. Licorice powder 
  • ½ tsp. Cinnamon 
  • ¼ tsp. Cardamom 
  • A few dashes of Cayenne Pepper powder (*leave out if it’s too much heat for your system) 

Mix all together until a smooth paste. 

Lick a teaspoon a few times a day!

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When we try to define the feminine, we’re doing When we try to define the feminine, we’re doing our best to talk about that which really can’t be talked about. 

It can only be felt. 

It can only be experienced. 

You can start to meet the feminine by beginning to notice what’s happening in your body, what’s happening in your heart, what’s happening in your sensations, what’s happening in your emotions. 

When I start to share about the feminine with the women in our school, there is this thing that happens:

They have a recognition of something I’ve said that awakens something in them that they already knew. 

I just reminded them of what was already inside. 

And so if there’s one thing that the feminine is, it’s the wisdom in you that already knows how to heal herself, that already knows the things in your life that are weakening you and the things in your life that are strengthening you. 

That intuitive, deep wisdom, we call the feminine. 

Our approach to Ayurveda is honoring how this ancient method is rooted in folk wisdom that women have been practicing all over the world.

Women have been doing this root mother medicine for as long as we’ve been here.

And it all starts from this place of: you are the boss. 

You’re the authority on you. 

We want to provide a place and a practice and a method where you get to feel the part of you that’s the boss. 

When you start tapping into that part of you, you start to know this feeling of warmth and kindness, and that’s a good sign that you’re starting to enter into that wisdom realm. 

If you’re feeling the pull towards that remembrance… you would love our year-long Feminine-Form Ayurveda School. 

It’s a full immersion into your feminine intelligence and inner knowing, while studying the time-tested wisdom of Ayurveda in a way that honors women’s bodies, rhythms and lives.

Classes just started last week and it’s not too late to sneak in the door.

🌙 Comment AYURVEDASCHOOL to learn more.
The feminine isn’t here to do more. She’s here The feminine isn’t here to do more. She’s here to do what matters, slowly and intentionally.

When we try to overhaul our lives overnight, burnout is inevitable… and your higher self already knows this ;)

Feminine-form Ayurveda teaches you how to move with your rhythms, not against them. Less force, more wisdom, real sustainability. This is exactly why we built a whole school around women’s bodies, hormones and cycles.

It’s not too late to join us and begin 2026 in a way your nervous system can actually handle.

Comment AYURVEDASCHOOL to learn more. 🌿
💻 We are in the classroom at 2pm Eastern US Tim 💻 We are in the classroom at 2pm Eastern US Time today for our second class of the year in our Feminine-Form Ayurvedic Wellness Coach Certification Training…⁠
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And it’s not too late to join us.⁠
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In our training, we honor both forms of wisdom. The masculine form gives us structure, philosophy and foundational understanding. And the feminine form connects us to intuition, spontaneity and present-moment knowing. 🪔⁠
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The Shakti School is not about an either/or approach. It’s a sacred both/and.⁠
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We learn the principles of Ayurveda and we listen for what arises organically within the body, the moment and the mystery. ⁠
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This is feminine-form education: embodied, alive and intuitive. 🌺⁠
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This is a clip from the first class of the year and the full lecture is waiting for you inside the virtual classroom. ⁠
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If you feel that heart nudge, know that it’s not too late. You can join us starting TODAY for our second class of the year (no catch-up necessary). Join us for a yearlong initiation into your feminine - you won’t regret it. ✨
Ayurveda is not just a practice. It’s a way of r Ayurveda is not just a practice. It’s a way of remembering who you are and living from that truth.⁠
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The first class of our yearlong feminine-form Ayurveda School is ready and waiting for you inside the classroom and tomorrow we meet LIVE on Zoom for the second class of the year.⁠
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It’s not too late.⁠
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Now is the moment to say yes to that nudge (or loud shout) of your heart and join a community of women spending the next year together, studying Ayurveda and women’s wisdom.⁠
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The doors will be closing soon and they won’t reopen until 2027.⁠
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Our second live class of the year is tomorrow at 2pm Eastern and yes, we’re still welcoming you in! (No, you don’t need to be caught up on last week's class to join us!) ✨⁠
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This is your year to remember who you really are. ⁠
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🌹 Comment AYURVEDASCHOOL (one word) for the link and shoot us a DM if you have any questions.
​​In Ayurveda, January in the Northern Hemisph ​​In Ayurveda, January in the Northern Hemisphere is cold, dry, heavy and inward-pulling, a time when Vata qualities dominate in both nature and the body. Kapha qualities begin to accumulate in the second half of winter. To stay balanced, Ayurveda emphasizes foods that are warming, grounding, moistening and easy to digest, supporting digestion, immunity and nervous system stability. 

🍠 Sweet potatoes: deeply grounding and warming, offering steady energy during winter’s inward pull.
🥕 Carrots: gently sweet and nourishing, supporting digestion and blood-building.
🫜 Beets: warming and mineral-rich, supporting circulation and vitality when energy feels low.
🥔 Winter squash: moist, sweet and comforting, helping balance dryness and depletion.
🧅 Onions: pungent and warming, clearing stagnation and supporting immunity.
🥬 Dark leafy greens (cooked): grounding and detoxifying when sautéed or stewed, never raw this season.
🍗 Chicken, lamb and turkey: nourishing and easy to digest, ideal for rebuilding strength. Lamb is deeply warming and strengthening for Vata imbalance.
🥩 Bone broth: restorative and mineral-rich, feeding the nervous system and connective tissue.
💛 Mung dal: light yet nourishing, supporting digestion while rebuilding vitality.
🫘 Lentils: warming and grounding when soaked and well-cooked with spices.
🍎 Stewed apples: gently cleansing while warming and calming the gut.
🍐 Stewed pears: moistening and soothing for dryness and tension.
💜 Dates: deeply nourishing, supporting energy and reproductive tissues.
🥣 Oats: warming, comforting and stabilizing for the nervous system.
🍚 Rice (especially basmati): easy to digest and grounding, ideal for daily nourishment.
🫚 Fresh ginger or ginger tea: ignites digestive fire and keeps circulation moving.
🌼 Turmeric: anti-inflammatory and grounding, supporting immunity and tissue health.
🫖 CCF tea: balancing digestion while gently detoxifying.
🧈 Ghee: supports digestion and nervous system health.
🌰 Sesame oil: warming and lubricating, ideal for winter cooking and self-massage.

🌿 Ready for more? Explore our year-long Feminine-Form Ayurveda School. Comment AYURVEDASCHOOL (one word) for more info.

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