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Ep. 208 Awaken Your Feminine Energy Through Yoga & Ayurveda with Brett Larkin

Spirit Sessions Podcast with Katie Silcox and Brett Larkin

Today on the podcast Katie is joined by dear friend and founder of Uplifted Yoga, Brett Larkin! This episode is a total lovefest as Brett and Katie share why tapping into our feminine energy is so difficult for many of us. Tune in to learn practical ways to amplify your feminine energy so you can experience more pleasure, increase your productivity and move through life with more ease!

Want to spend a full year working deeply with your feminine energy? The 2025 class of our Divine Feminine Ayurveda School has begun! Click here to learn more and start studying today!

In this episode about feminine energy, you’ll hear:

~ An invitation to study with us in Ayurveda School!

~ What is feminine energy?

~ Brett Larkin’s favorite life mantra

~ The first ‘rule’ of working with feminine energy

~ Double goddess power

~ Why the feminine doesn’t like to be defined

~ The feminine form of Guru

~ How the science of Ayurveda helps us navigate our inner duality

~ Working with the energetic currents of manifestation and liberation

~ A forgotten key to increasing your productivity

~ Creating different textures of energy

~ Practical ways to honor the feminine in your daily life and work

~ Yoga as a trauma release methodology

~ The Ayurvedic concept of Bhuta Shuddhi

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

Other resources mentioned in this episode:

~ Learn more about our Divine Feminine Ayurveda School

~ Follow Brett Larkin on Instagram

~ Listen to Brett’s podcast, The Uplifted Yoga Podcast

~ Get Brett’s free Somatic Yoga Workshop

~ Brett’s latest book, Yoga Life

~ Follow The Shakti School on Instagram and Facebook

~ Katie’s latest book, Glow-Worthy

Related episodes about feminine energy:

~ Ep. 175 Channel Joy Amidst the Chaos with Brett Larkin

~ Ep. 190 What is Feminine-Form Ayurveda?

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Ep. 175 Channel Joy Amidst the Chaos with Brett Larkin

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If you have trouble staying consistent with your yoga practice, or if your daily routine has become rigid and uninspired today’s episode is for you! This week Kaite is joined by yoga teacher trainer and author Brett Larkin. They share why tailoring your yoga practice to your unique Ayurvedic mind-body type is important. This personalized approach is true to yoga’s ancient roots but was distorted as yoga spread to the West. Brett also shares the creative inspiration behind her new book Yoga Life: Habits, Poses, and Breathwork to Channel Joy Amidst the Chaos.

Yoga doesn’t have to be another item to check off your to-do list. Tune in to learn how to infuse yoga into every aspect of your daily life!

In this episode, you’ll hear:

~ Three potent questions to start your yoga practice with each day

~ How to make your whole life a yoga studio

~ Ways to personalize your yoga practice based on your Ayurvedic constitution

~ Why we’re often attracted to yoga poses that aren’t beneficial to us

~ The concept of “soul mate postures”

~ How asanas influence the nervous system

~ The origins and evolution of modern yoga

~ Why publishing a book is an emotional rollercoaster

~ Why personalization is the future of the wellness industry

~ How to become consistent with your yoga practice

Other links mentioned in this episode:

~ Find Brett Larkin’s Yoga Teacher Training and Uplifted Yoga Membership on her website

~ Connect with Brett Larkin on her YouTube and Instagram

~ Katie’s teacher A.G. Mohan

~ 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!

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Ep. 172 Embodied Nutrition with Claire Ragozzino

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This week Katie chats with certified Ayurveda Counselor and yoga teacher Claire Ragozzino about all things embodied nutrition. They go beyond the typical Ayurvedic food rules and Dosha food lists into the deeper realm of our senses and intuition. Learn why “intuitive eating” isn’t best for everyone all the time and a simple practice that you can do to become more embodied as you prepare your next meal!

We eat about 1,095 meals a year! After this conversation, you’ll be able to use each of those meals as an opportunity to reconnect with your body and cultivate self-love!

In this episode you’ll hear:

~ Level 1 Ayurveda School is still open for registration! Join us to learn more from Claire and our other amazing Ayurvedic cooking and nutrition teachers. Doors are closing soon and won't reopen until 2025, don't miss out this year!

~ What is embodied nutrition?

~ Can Ayurveda exacerbate eating disorders?

~ Why you should trust your intuition over the “food rules”

~ How to tune into your intuition when choosing foods and eating

~ Why doesn’t intuitive eating work for everyone?

~ Why being more rigid and disciplined is often not the answer

~ The importance of compassion and curiosity when approaching food

~ How stress affects your digestion

~ How is Ayurveda “individual medicine”?

~ 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!

Other links mentioned in this episode:

~ Connect with Claire on her website and Instagram

~ Claire’s book: Living Ayurveda: Nourishing Body and Mind through Seasonal Recipes, Rituals, and Yoga

~ Claire’s Living Ayurveda Immersion program

~ Other books Claire mentioned: Bhavaprakasa of Bhavamisra, Bhojankutuhalam, Charaka Samhita

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Ep. 166 How to Connect With Your Inner Divine Feminine

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Connecting to the Divine Feminine has nothing to do with putting on a dress or lipstick. It’s so much more than that! It’s an energy that underlies our reality, linking every one of us. Our modern culture often undervalues and misunderstands the Divine Feminine, but when women reconnect with her magic happens! The good news is that this energy is already inside of you and you can access it anytime.

In today’s episode, you’ll learn how to connect with your inner Divine Feminine and Katie shares a guided meditation practice from inside our Ayurveda School (aka Divine Feminine mystery school)!

In this episode you’ll hear: 

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

~ Registration for Level 1 Ayurveda School is open for just a few more weeks! Join us for a year-long deep dive into your divine feminine!

~ What is the Divine Feminine?

~ The great lies that may be preventing you from connecting to the feminine

~ Practical ways to connect with the Divine Feminine

~ Why most Ayurvedic and Yogic trainings are taught through a masculine lens

~ How living from the Divine Feminine feels

~ Why the feminine can’t be tamed or put in a book

~ How to access Divine medicine from within

~ The mantra of the feminine

~ Why the feminine doesn't use labels like good or bad

~ The secret strengths of the feminine

~ 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!

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Ayurveda Certification

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Ep. 160 Courage in Facing the Shadow

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This week on the podcast, Kaite chats with licensed psychotherapist and yoga teacher Ashley Turner. They share candidly about the beautiful and ugly parts of their spiritual journeys. Learn how to recognize when your shadow is running the show and how to deeply accept and work with the parts of yourself that you want to hide. By moving beyond spiritual materialism and into a higher level of awareness we can show up in our lives with more confidence and less insecurity!

Join Katie and Ashley as they deep dive into the intersection of Yoga, Buddhism, Tantra, and Jungian psychology in this conversation about how to take our spiritual awareness to the next level.

In this episode you’ll hear: 

~ Level 1 Ayurveda School is open for registration, at the lowest early bird tuition price! Early bird prices are active through October 31st, so get in this month to save! Click here to learn more, register, or book a call with a graduate of the program. Payment plans abound!

~ What does “to heal” actually mean?

~ Why Katie is a Jungian psychology PhD dropout

~ How to start integrating all the parts of yourself

~ Tools to expand your awareness beyond spiritual materialism

~ What does “shadow work” mean?

~ How to work with your shadow

~ What is a healthy, balanced ego

~ 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!

Other links mentioned in this episode:

~ Ashley’s online yoga & mental health platform, The Haven

~ Connect with Ashley on Instagram and on her website

~ Ashley’s teacher Mona Miller

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Ep. 104 How to ACTUALLY Get Grounded

This episode includes a short practice to help you get grounded, for real. You’ll find the practice about half way through the episode.

In this episode you’ll hear:

~Why we need to be grounded

~Technology’s effect on our energy

~Where feelings get processed

~Why the soul leaves the body

~How to move energy down

~A practice for getting grounded

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Ep. 100 Why Love and Light Are Still Alright With Me

It’s cool to dismiss “love & light” these days as “toxic” - But what does that really mean? And is there still a place for authentic love & light in our public discourse? How do we build the fortitude to withstand our own individual and collective karma? It might be simpler than you think.

In this episode you’ll hear:

~Toxic positivity

~Authentic expression

~The misunderstanding with love

~Why we can’t weaponize love & light

~Love as a tool kit for deep presence

~Spiritual bypassing

~How we use non-verbal communication

~The polarization of trauma

~How we build the healing vortex in our daily lives

Resources:

~ Maya Angelou: Righteousness and Love: https://whatittakes.simplecast.com/episodes/f6a7725d-f6a7725d

~ Chloe Valdary, Great Learning Resource on Why Love Is Still The Way for True Change:

https://www.theoryofenchantment.com/

~ Kathy Kain, Somatic Practice: https://somaticpractice.net

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Ep. 99 The Most Radiant: Deep Rest with Tracee Stanley

Tracee is not only a dear friend, but also an important emerging spiritual teacher in the realm of feminine-form Tantra. She's the Founder of Empowered Life Circle and shares teachings that are sourced from more than 20 years of study in the tradition of the Himalayan Masters and Sri Vidya Tantra. Tracee teaches an embodied and feminine form of Yoga Nidra and has a new book called 'Radiant Rest' available on March 9th. She’s a guest teacher in our Level 2 Ayurveda certification.

In this episode you’ll hear:

~ Yoga Nidra as a state of consciousness

~ Finding your true nature with Yoga Nidra

~ Embodied vs Disembodied practice

~ A practice of dissolution and Pratyahara

~ Embodying all of our levels of being

~ Digesting our lives with rest

~ The Roots of Yoga Nidra as a GODDESS energy within us

~ Find Tracee online at traceeyoga.com

Tracee’s gift to all of our listeners 

30% discount off Tracee's book "Radiant Rest" which is now on pre-order from the publisher's site with the code RR30 until 3/31/31 at https://www.shambhala.com/radiant-rest.html

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