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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:

~Download on Kapha season

~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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• Turmeric moves through the blood, helping clear heat and stagnation
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🌀For the nervous system:
• Ashwagandha is grounding, stabilizing and supports the stress response
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• Brahmi is light and sattvic, clearing mental fog and supporting memory and focus
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We’re also honoring the universal, inner threads that are woven through this holiday and offer something that we can each lean into, no matter our personal stories: the archetype of the Divine Mother. The Inner Mother who lives in all of us.⁠
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Reconnecting with this archetype allows us to become better mothers to ourselves, more compassionate in how we show up for others, and to begin healing the ancestral cords we carry from the lineage of women who came before us.⁠
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Today we are honoring all of it. The love, the complexity and the becoming. Happy Mother’s Day from Katie & Team Shakti! 💐💚✨🌸 Spread the love with us - share a photo of your mom or your stories and make sure to tag us so that we can reshare it!
We are currently being overloaded with pollen over We are currently being overloaded with pollen over here on the East Coast and it’s got me thinking about how we can all navigate allergy season with a little more support…

Allergies are a typical imbalance associated with Kapha season in Ayurveda (late-winter/early spring in the Northern Hemisphere). 💐

Ayurveda understands that allergies are the result of an outer allergen aggravating one of the doshas. Spring seasonal allergies are usually more Kapha-related, since Kapha dominates the environment this time of year. 

An excess of Kapha dosha = sluggishness, mucous and water retention. (Read: classic allergy symptoms). 🤧

🐝 This is the formula for aiding your Kapha seasonal allergies: 
👉🏽 Heat things up + boost circulation + clear and CLEANSE your bodies’ pathways.

Allergies don’t have to be your destiny. Reducing the effects of allergies comes down to boosting agni + reducing ama +  supporting immunity. 

Save this for allergy rescue. And let us know what makes the biggest difference for you this time of year. 🫡🌸
“Tantra” means a methodology for expansion, a “Tantra” means a methodology for expansion, a tool for getting bigger, a means by which you open—not just big in the sense of loud or boisterous. It can actually be very quiet. 

And yet there’s this quality of something opening. 

When I learned about Tantra, something woke up in me. 

It was like this recognition of, oh my goodness, I have this opportunity in this life to change, to expand, to move out of some of the limitations of my mind and in the way I perceive my reality. 

We all have this particular way that we run our energy and that we perceive our reality. 

And the real aim of tantra, and what we focus on in our school, is to help you see which limitations are self-imposed - the ones that we actually can do something about.

Then, we work with energy, lifestyle, spiritual practices and physical practices to move beyond them. 

Tantra offers us a way in. It’s a philosophy, a way of understanding your mind, a psychology, an energetic anatomical map. And the way we teach and live it at The Shakti School, it all begins with cultivating self-trust and self-belonging. ⚡️

We dive into all of this and more in our free course, Women’s Wisdom and Ayurveda. And it’s yours to dive into starting right now. 

Just comment WISDOM below and I’ll send it to you. 🌹🌙

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