How can you awaken your superpowers and heal? The lovely Ananta Ripa Ajmera, acclaimed writer and teacher of Yoga, Ayurveda and the author of the excellent new book The Way of the Goddess: Daily Rituals to Awaken Your Inner Warrior and Discover Your True Self shares how she tapped into the powerful Goddess traditions from the Indian subcontinent to self-actualize and overcome a disordered relationship with food and nourishment and the trauma she suffered from earlier in life.
This episode is the latest in a series of podcasts that explore the notion of what a spiritually-informed, "5D" approach to weight release---body, mind and Soul---looks like from a variety of perspectives.
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SHOW NOTES
00:00 Introduction
02:30 What Inspired THE WAY OF THE GODDESS
03:30 Overcoming anorexia
04:45 Discovering Aruveda within the Goddess tradition
05:15 Processing childhood trauma
06:00 Diet and lifestyle changes not enough
07:10 Solar plexus as center of power for digesting food and human experience
08:45 Addressing the "empath" audience, spiritually sensitive people
10:45 Drawn toward spirituality, Ayurveda, Yoga and Vedanta
12:15 Connection between being an empath and eating disorders
13:30 Archetype of the goddess with weapons
15:30 Turning healing inwards
16:45 Introduction to Ayurveda, the "sister science" of Yoga
17:30 Health equals balance; disease equals imbalance
18:10 Dietary recommendations from Aryuveda
19:00 Eating seasonally
21:00 Reestablishing a healthy relationship to food/nutrition through Aryuveda
21:30 The body as a temple for the divine within
22:45 Avoiding incompatible food combinations
23:45 Eliminating the worst 30% of food choices
24:40 Farmers markets as sources of "real" food
25:30 Vegetarianism and veganism
27:00 Bhagavad Gita: the story of Arjuna as every man and every woman
28:45 The fire and transformation of spiritual surrendering
30:45 Awakening the guru within
32:00 Significance of the friend and "charioteer"
34:00 Identifying and aiming for spiritual wealth
35:10 Membership community, self-publishing course, "conscious conversations" webinar series
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You can learn more about Ananta Ripa Ajmera here:
Ananta's Website: https://www.theancientway.co/
Ananta's True to Yourself Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-to-yourself/id1578935830
