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Ep. 36 Can I Be a Tantric Yogini and a Christian?

My personal relationship with Christianity, what Christ consciousness is, and how my first yoga teacher in India, AG Mohan, and my mom’s “little” bible study revealed the most Christ-like love to me.⠀

In this episode I discuss:

~My story with Christianity and the dilemma many Christian folks face in the new spiritual era

~The time I moved to India to study yoga

~What is Christ consciousness?

~Whatever works to get you expanded

~The question of sex in Christianity

~Find us on instagram to continue the conversation: katiesilcox_shaktischool

~The viral blog post I wrote 6 years ago about my bible study experience

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Ep. 35 5 Life-Changing Ancient Meditations You Can Do Today (Tantra Talks #4)

This is an experiential episode! I’ll lead us through some of the most accessible and powerful practices from the Tantra tradition. Get out your nice speakers or headphones for this one 😉

In this episode I discuss:

~Tantra as an oral tradition

~The connection between Tantra and Shamanism

~A tool for expansion

~TAN (expand or stretch) TRA (tool)

~The attention we deserve and tending to what it is to be human

~The power of Sanskrit as a language

~5 simple but powerful meditations you can start doing NOW

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~Vijnana Bhairava Tantra interpretation by Lorin Roche

~Vijnana Bhairava Tantra translation by Satyasangananda Saraswati

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Ep. 34 What is Feminine Form Yoga?

I started a conversation last year with the community about yoga and the rise of the feminine in the world. This episode is part of a larger series and conversation I want to have with you about what yoga is, what Shakti is and what the concept of “the feminine” is in relation to a yoga practice. You might want to start with Ep. 23 Why Your Yoga Practice May Need To Die before diving into this one.

In this episode I discuss:

~A reading from Wild Mercy by Mirabai Starr

~What is the Rising Feminine actually?

~Student LOVE!

~The longing in your heart to know who you are

~Yoga as an individual practice

~The medicine to an over bloated masculine

~Why we need to understand our primal biomechanics/nervous system

~That point just before death

~Yogic monks vs the feminine

~The control issue

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Ep. 33 Soft Pain – Becoming Awake to the Gifts of Our Imperfection

What does it mean to truly sit with our discomfort and vulnerabilities? What about other people’s vulnerability and shame? In this episode I speak to the journey of learning and yoga.

In this episode I discuss:

~ What “God mud wrestles me in the closet” means

~The infinite Yoga

~Dissolving the layers that polarize us

~The paradoxical aspects of life

~Our need to know what’s “good/right” or “bad/wrong”

~The idealized self-image

~How our kids learn from us

~A look at our petty tyrants

~What it means to come home to YOUR heart

~Tapping into the soft pain of our vulnerabilities

~The channel of “I See You”

~How our soft pain leads the way to our true self

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Ep. 28 The True Self VS. What-Had-Happened Was: Pra and Vikruti

A look at our True Nature, or Prakritu; and, our Separated-From-Our-True Nature-Self, or Vikruti.

In this episode I discuss:

~Our True Nature or True Self

~Everything begins on the subtle plane

~The Blueprint vs the Overlays (aka Samskaras)

~Yoga at its best is a dissolution

~Why I don’t like online quizzes

~Love as Listening

~Ayurveda as nothing to do with your dosha

~Freedom & Desire

~Authenticity

~Trying vs watching

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Ep. 23 Why Your Yoga Practice May Need to Die

This is an introductory talk on my newest research into the nervous system, yoga in America, women in yoga and more.  I hope it peaks your interest. It's just a little taster. There is more where this came from...

In this episode I discuss:

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~Chill the F Out by ApotheKary! My friends started an ayurvedic wellness store =) use the discount code GHEESPOT10 for 10%

~The American yoga dilemma

~My painful experiences with American yoga

~The power of sharing your storey

~Masculine lineages of Indian yoga

~American yoga is only 100 years old

~Where yoga really comes from… hermit monks that wanted to basically die or transcend this reality

~Viyoga : “separation, elimination, denial, upward transcendance”  vs Samyoga

~Mind Over Matter, The Masculine Approach

~My Nervous system collapse

~The definition of Health

~What many yoga practices do to your nervous system

~The worst of the yoga cues

~The relationship between the structural body and the nervous system

~Horizontal lines  of movement vs vertical in the body

~Fight or flight nervous system

~Anti Anxiety month on Lineage of Love!

~The true Guru

~ Book: The Oxygen Advantage

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Ep. 10 My Yoga and Ayurveda Soapbox: Bootleg Broadcast from Shine Yoga Cincinnati

If you love Yoga but feel like something is missing in your wellness journey then you're in the right place. In this bootleg broadcast live from Shine Yoga in Cincinnati, Katie got up on her Yoga and Ayurveda soapbox!

Learn how Yoga and Ayurveda are intimately related and why Ayurveda and Tantra are, unfortunately, missing in the Yoga moment in the West.

This lecture goes deep, so brew yourself a pot of tea and settle in or save this one for a long car ride.

In this episode about Yoga and Ayurveda, you'll hear:

~ How Ayurveda is different than Yoga

~ Ayurveda & Yoga cannot be practiced in isolation

~ Yoga: A fire practice for death and nonreactivity

~ Classical Yoga vs Tantrik Yoga

~ How we can use the science of Yoga more consciously

~ What’s this got to do with swastikas

~ Why Tantrik Ayurveda is the missing component in the contemporary yoga movement in the West

~ How we can understand Life Force, Prana, Chi

~ Our subconscious soup of aging and why it’s totally FALSE!

~ How PMS, Menopause, Mental Aging are psychosocial constructs from the West

~ Life as pulsating sexuality

~ How to rebuild your essential vitality and youth through Yoga and Ayurveda

~ We become what we eat

~ The Westernization of healing vs healing more broadly

~ The diet plague

~ The relationship between toxins and fat

~ Nourishing vs extracting food

~ The smoothie dilemma

~ A story of elements

~ AND so much more! This is a jammed-packed session!

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Sister Sciences in the Vedic Tradition

Ayurveda is a complex and ancient system of well-being, and just as Western medicine is based on biology and other sciences that can take a lifetime to understand, Ayurveda has many foundational concepts and tenets that you can explore and deepen your understanding of for years and years.

For our purposes, there are some basic principles that we’ll start with, so you have a clearer grasp of Ayurveda’s view of the universe—both macro and micro—and our relationship to it and each other. These basic tenets of Ayurveda are really a jumping off point both for beginning to introduce Ayurvedic ideas into your everyday life and for further study, should you wish to do so, of the deeper philosophies of Ayurveda.

If you have a yoga practice, you can also look at this Ayurvedic foundation as a way to deepen that practice. The mat-based poses many of us would refer to as “yoga” encompass just the tip of the iceberg that is the broader Vedic tradition. A part of this breadth is Ayurveda, yoga’s forgotten, but incredibly important sister science.

Think of yoga and Ayurveda as two interrelated branches of the same massive tree of Vedic knowledge, each playing its own role in your journey towards health, happiness and vitality. While yoga typically deals with the use of techniques such as asana (postures), mantras (sacred transformational sounds), and pranayama (the management of energy), Ayurveda deals with reducing disease and healing the body and mind.

Yoga supports your health, and living an Ayurvedic lifestyle supports your spiritual journey. While yoga supports healing, it is the ancient art of Ayurveda that teaches us how to heal.

~Katie

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