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Root & Rise with LucyEp. #17 Lis Roscoe: Strength in ForgivenessLis Roscoe is the most beautiful alchemy of compassion, humility, & humour. She is the definition of soft heart & strong back. She is a yoga teacher who also offers Ayurvedic massage, but her number one role is Mummy to her nearly 7-year-old daughter Amaryllis.
In this episode Lis shares all about her wonderful retreats with her company &Sister (co-Founded with her sister Nats), her experiences & lessons from India & her Ayurvedic teacher there, but the real heart of this conversation comes towards the second half where Lis bravely opens up about her divorce from Amaryllis’s Father. Sharing her journey of heartbreak, be...2020-10-2600 min
This Conscious LifeThe Sweet Spot – the primal importance of sweetness in our livesExploring the power of sweetness – from the primal roots with our mother’s milk, to the ways in which we crave sweetness when life might begin to feel that bit more bitter. In this episode, wellbeing author Emine Rushton, explores why sweetness remains a powerful, primal craving for so many of us, and explores how lack of kindness – most crucially to ourselves – might manifest in ever-more powerful cravings. Nourishment – of the spirit, the heart, the mind, the body – are far more complex than the nutritional profile of our food, and often, with life’s busy-ness and demands, we can lose sight of this...2019-11-1834 minThis Conscious LifeBliss and Blessing, over blindly doing – how to find your way back to you, by defining your non-negotiablesSometimes we are forced to make space in our lives because we could not sustain the lives we lived before. But sometimes, we make space, unsure of where to go next – trusting that once the space is made, the right thing will come into its place. In this intuitive & personal episode, wellbeing author, Eminé Rushton, reflects on her own choices & decisions, and where they have led her – and also asks us all to consider the reasons for the decisions we make – and whether or not we make them because we are too scared to maintain space, silence & stillness in our lives...2019-11-0438 minThis Conscious LifeThe Clearing – How to FEEL your way into a more natural, more gentle, and more aligned way of livingWellbeing author, earth mama & nature lover, Eminé Rushton, awoke in spring of this year, with six words in her mind: “We’ll meet you at The Clearing.”
She wasn’t sure what they meant, or why they had come to her. In this episode, Eminé explores the importance of giving ourselves the space to reflect, clear and ultimately FEEL our way around our lives – without fearing that we have to rigidly plan every small thing in order to be successful. She also talks very candidly about her own creative process – with its own shortcomings and pitfalls – which l...2019-10-0732 minThis Conscious LifeAutumn’s Harvest – how to nourish the landscape of your life, and reap the rewards of your own loving workWhat does Autumn signify? A time of shedding and lightening – a time when we can leave behind the burdens of things that are no longer helpful, and when we can get a true, honest insight into who we are, beneath it all. In this episode, Ayurvedic consultant and wellbeing author, Eminé Rushton, guides us through Autumn’s unique energy, with holistic advice to guide us on our way. Filled with soulful reflections on the significance of this time of year – to help you with your own reflections and inner questions – and practical advice to bolster our health, immunity and spirtual wel...2019-09-3029 minThis Conscious LifeUnconditional Living – the importance of doing what feels right, in a world that feels wrongCo-founder of This Conscious Life, and co-author of SATTVA: The Ayurvedic Way to Live Well, Eminé Rushton considers the biggest lesson she’s learned from her youngest daughter – in embodying all that you are, freely and lovingly, without condition. In this episode, Eminé explores what a life with less fear, and more love, feels like – and how we can build a better future for ourselves, by removing our choices from expectation-rooted ego, and focusing on unconditional & good intentions instead.
Part of the poem, Ulysses, by Alfred Lord Tennyson, is shared at the end – food for the spirit, to...2019-09-0227 minThis Conscious LifeThe problem with Happy Endings – and how we can begin to seek true contentment in the simplest ways, right here, right nowIn this short ‘story’, Paul Rushton explores what our quest for the happy ending might teach us about our selves, and shares his own learnings on happiness – how, so often, we set ourself up to fall or fail. He explains that bliss, or ‘ananda’ is our natural state and our natural birthright. By bringing our attention to the things that distract us from this ‘bliss’ and happiness, we begin to see how we are fabricating obstacles to this natural, gentle path. By celebrating Sattva – the truth of life, and truthful, conscious living – we remind ourselves that we are here, alive, and can thriv...2019-08-1921 minThis Conscious LifeSelf-Care in Summer – balancing your fire, quelling your temper and making calm & cool choices every dayIn this episode, Eminé takes a deep dive into summer – a time of heightened pitta – and through her own experience of struggling with symptoms of excess pitta, such as skin upset, hormonal imbalance, heat rashes and a hot temper (among many other typically pitta symptoms), she learned the crucial importance of working to better balance her own body, mind and spirit, in this season of heat and fire. Looking at how we can gently adapt every part of our lives to bring in calmer, slower, cooler energy, which naturally balances the freneticsm and heightened energy of summer.
2019-07-0755 minThis Conscious LifeThe Gentle Period – achieving menstrual harmony with AyurvedaIn Ayurveda, our menstrual cycle provides us with a uniquely valuable insight into the workings of our female body. In this episode, Eminé Rushton takes a look at how each part of our menstrual cycle is defined by a different dosha – which gives each part its own natural characteristics and sensations – and how each dosha type presents with a different set of pre- post- and menstrual symptoms and experiences. By looking to balance the body with diet, lifestyle and spiritual practices, we can look to create a truly gentle period, and a harmonised menstrual cycle.
I mention shatav...2019-06-1746 minThis Conscious LifeHow Herbs Heal Us – with Ayurvedic practitioner and master herbalist Sebastian PoleIn this episode, host and Ayurvedic Consultant, Eminé Rushton, introduces us to Sebastian Pole – co-founder of Pukka. Sebastian is incomparably knowledgeable about plants – and is a trained practitioner in Ayurveda, Traditional Chinese Medicine and Western Herbalism, and to this day, still runs a herbal clinic in his hometown of Bath. Meeting in Sebastian’s lush and fascinating herb garden, Sebastian shares his own story – how he became interested in herbs, his years of travel and study in India, how he came to create Pukka, and his life-long devotion to the growing, sharing and education around herbs. Discussing everything from herbs to he...2019-05-2745 minThis Conscious LifeSattva – remembering how to thrive as a human being by embracing the truth, light and goodness of natureIn this episode, our host, Ayurvedic Consultant and author, Eminé Rushton, introduces us to the paradigm-shifting book she has written with her husband Paul – Sattva: The Ayurvedic Way to Live Well: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sattva-Ayurvedic-Way-Live-Well/dp/1788172248
Sat means truth in Sanskrit – and Sattva is purest truth, and purest consciousness. It is a primal universal energy that guides us to kindness, goodness, gentleness, harmony, bliss, purity and clarity. When we live Sattva, we find that our lives flow, that we trust our feelings more, that we stop fighting and playing the pre-conditioned game: that we align with un...2019-05-1353 minThis Conscious LifeAyurveda for an Awakened Spring – how to gently clear the body, and clarify the mindIn this solo episode, Eminé Rushton explores what happens to our bodies and minds in Spring – and how, with a little preparation and natural intuition, we can support our bodies to be at their healthiest and most vital during this beautiful ‘King of the Seasons.’ From seasonal foods to lifestyle practices, Eminé looks to nature for naturally balancing and bolsterning advice and goodness, and explains that the common spring colds and allergies are just symptoms of imbalances, that can more often be very easily remedied – by making seasonal adjustments to our daily lives.
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2019-05-0638 minThis Conscious LifeWomen’s Stories, Women’s Bodies – getting to the root of who we are, with Emma CannonEmma Cannon is a hugely respected Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioner and women’s fertility expert. In this episode, we talk candidly about the stories we tell (and enforce on our selves) and the myriad ways in which we suppress our emotions, but how they will, ultimately, always make themselves known. Talking about finding our truth, owning our emotions, seeking healthier outlets for all that we feel, and honouring all of the passages of our lives, this is a deeply insightful, rich and honest conversation – woman to woman.
About Emma Cannon
Emma Cannon is a fertility and w...2019-04-291h 01This Conscious LifeAn Introduction to Ayurveda – and How This ‘Science of Life’ Helps us Make Sense of Our SelvesIn this episode, host and Ayurvedic Consultant, Eminé Rushton, guides us into the gentle, natural science of Ayurveda. Learn about this supportive holistic system of natural healthcare, which looks at every part of our living experience – from the food we eat, to the hours we sleep, the environments we live & work in, to the emotions we experience as we move from one situation to the next. Ayurveda reveals the often missing link between our selves and nature – and shows us that to be truly healthy, we must consciously realign our selves wholly, with natural cycles, seasons, rhythms and choices.
E...2019-04-1244 minThis Conscious LifeSPRING – A Time of New BeginningsIn this first episode of This Conscious Life, we celebrate the magic of new beginnings, and the vibrant, vital energy of Spring.
Hosts Eminé and Paul Rushton share their journey from city-dwelling, job-juggling and deeply depleted new parents, to a much slower, gentler and responsive way of living – rooted in Ayurveda, and guided by supportive seasonal changes.
Eminé talks about identifying her drivers – and awakening to the fact that it was not a traditional model of success that they sought – neither wealth, nor status – but a return to natural, humble, beautiful life, where both her and Paul felt...2019-04-1237 min