When you create new neural pathways in your brain, it’s exhausting. It is easier for your brain to keep thinking in the same old way as that requires less energy. To think in a new way requires being resourced. Cultivating ojas is a path to accessing that foundation.

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• Ayurvedic psychology as it relates to adapting new habits and behavior patterns
• The link between ojas and being resourced
• Blind spots, widening your perspective and creating a vision for your life

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Simple Ayurveda Podcast episodes on ojas, tejas and prana (episodes 126, 127, 128)

To Be Magnetic

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Language has nuance. How we describe ourselves and our intentions carry vibrational resonance.

Join Angela in this solo episode about wholeness and integration.

Learn more about:

• Making room for the parts of ourselves that we have resistance to
• Honoring natural rhythms and cycles
• Yoga Nidra as a tool for rewiring limiting beliefs
• The importance of integration + simple tools to practice integration
• Releasing any gripping of specific protocols in order to tune into your own intuition

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Purna Nidra Yoga Nidra with Kaya

Song for Wholeness

Song for Integration

Join Angela in this conversation that explores navigating the liminal space with grace and ease.

Learn more about:

• Identifying liminal spaces in your life
• The relationship between deep rest and your digestion from the Ayurvedic perspective
• States of consciousness and their role in your healing
• Bridge practices to help you dance between states of consciousness
• Angela’s decision to take a break from podcasting after five years of consistent episodes

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Yoga Nidra + Ayurveda Resources in The Simple Ayurveda Collective

Join Angela and Richard in this conversation about simple practices that add up to a life of dharma. 

 
Learn more about:

• Morning routine
• Practices for stressful times
• Love as medicine
• The link between Shamanism and Ayurveda
• Suggestions for cultivating a healthy mindset
• Ram’s favorite places in India

Richard Masla founded the Ayurveda Health Retreat in 2001 and is a dedicated Yoga teacher and Ayurvedic educator. Since opening its doors, he has helped thousands of people seeking healthy living with knowledge from the Ayurveda. He began his Yoga and Ayurveda studies at age 17 and traveled to India at 20 with his spiritual teacher Swami Prabhupada. He has studied Ayurveda with several doctors in India and with Dr. Vasant Lad at the Ayurvedic Institute in New Mexico. He has traveled to India over 45 times. In 1994 he graduated Clayton College with a degree, Doctor of Naturopathy.

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The Simple Ayurveda Dharma Course: Inner and Outer Alignment in Daily Life Join Angela and special guest teachers in this inquiry of self exploration. Learn more about yourself through Ayurveda, Yoga, Jyotish and Human Design so that you feel more aligned with your unique expression in the world.

The Simple Ayurveda Collective offers a resource library of Ayurveda video lessons, journaling prompts, mudra and breathwork tutorials, recipes, guided practices and yoga classes; plus a supportive community chat off social media.  Join here.

Join Angela and Dr. John Douillard in this conversation about modern science and the ancient wisdom of Ayurveda. Angela asks Dr. Douillard questions sent in by listeners.
 
Learn more about an Ayurvedic take on:

• Bulletproof coffee
• The keto diet
• Red light therapy
• PUFAs
• Gut immunity
• Adrenal fatigue
• ADHD

Dr. John Douillard DC, CAP is author of seven Ayurvedic health books (including bestselling Eat Wheat and The 3-Season Diet) and numerous free eBooks, and The host of the Ayurveda Meets Modern Science podcast. He is also a former Director of Player Development for the New Jersey Nets NBA team, and creator of LifeSpa.com—where ancient Ayurvedic wisdom meets modern science.

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The Simple Ayurveda Dharma Course: Inner and Outer Alignment in Daily Life Join Angela and special guest teachers in this inquiry of self exploration. Learn more about yourself through Ayurveda, Yoga, Jyotish and Human Design so that you feel more aligned with your unique expression in the world.

The Simple Ayurveda Collective offers a resource library of Ayurveda video lessons, journaling prompts, mudra and breathwork tutorials, recipes, guided practices and yoga classes; plus a supportive community chat off social media.  Join here.

Join Angela in this solo episode: Dharma and Your Personal Expression in the World as she shares teachings from the ancient texts woven with personal examples.

Learn more about:

• The four inherent values
• The difference between Yoga and dharma
• Individual dharma and universal dharma
• Sadvritta: living true to yourself with Yoga and Ayurveda
• The mahagunas: Ayurvedic and Yogic psychology 
• Releasing guilt and shame around purpose
• Living your dharma in everyday life

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The Simple Ayurveda Dharma Course: Inner and Outer Alignment in Daily Life Join Angela and special guest teachers in this inquiry of self exploration. Learn more about yourself through Ayurveda, Yoga, Jyotish and Human Design so that you feel more aligned with your unique expression in the world.

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The Wheel of Healing with Ayurveda by Michelle S. Fondin

Join the Book Club in the Simple Ayurveda Collective or the Dharma Immersion

Free Yoga Nidra: Journey through the Dhatus

Poem: Clearing by Martha Postlewaite

The Bhagavad Gita: A Walkthrough for Westerners by Jack Hawley

Previous Episodes Mentioned:

108 | What is Human Design with Graciela Rasor?

122 | The Nine Energy Centers of Human Design with Graciela Rasor

50 | Navigating Life with Jyotish with Michael Manzella

169 | Time from a Vedic Perspective with Robin Stamp

243 | Remembering Who You Are with Tracee Stanley

51 | Dharma as the "D" Word

Join Angela as she shares her own personal reflections from this year, in hopes it inspires you to contemplate and reflect on your own year. We’re constantly in transition, and this is a beautiful time of year for reflecting on and celebrating how you've grown.

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• Intuition as a guidepost
• Choosing core values
• Aligning with what's most important to you
• Interoception
• Emotional valence and arousal
• Making meditation easy

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The Simple Ayurveda Dharma Course: Inner and Outer Alignment in Daily Life Join Angela and special guest teachers in this inquiry of self exploration. Learn more about yourself through Ayurveda, Yoga, Jyotish and Human Design so that you feel more aligned with your unique expression in the world.

Join Angela and Kaya in this conversation about the deep inner journey that is your spine.

Learn more about:

• The physical, subtle and causal spine
• How and where karma is held in the body
• The significance of the tailbone
• Supporting the natural curve of the spine
• How the spinal curve has changed over time
• Stretching versus releasing a muscle
• Ayurveda, the nervous system and the spine

Kaya is a trusted teacher guiding many of today’s yoga teachers and longtime practitioners. Students resonate with her authentic and mothering approach that is both mystical and practical. In her offerings, Kaya expertly weaves yogic practices, storytelling, sanskrit, philosophy, vedic astrology & ayurveda. Her therapeutic yoga, called SRY, treats the body as a sacred vehicle on a pilgrimage to the divine. She works gently with the spine as the central axis of healing, the subtle conduit of awakening and the mystical realm of the divine. Kaya lives in the US with her husband, a masterful Vedic Astrologer and their two children.

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Episode 58 | Deep Nourishment and the Nectar of Soma

Episode 121 | The Value of Storytelling in the Vedic Tradition

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The Simple Ayurveda health counselor program walks you step-by-step through a year-long process of integrating Ayurveda into every aspect of your life so that you are confident in your authentic abilities to share Ayurveda with your community- whether that's your family or clients. Apply here. It is a small group with personalized instruction led directly by Angela. 
 


The Simple Ayurveda Collective offers a resource library of Ayurveda video lessons, journaling prompts, mudra and breathwork tutorials, recipes, guided practices and yoga classes; plus a supportive community chat off social media.  Join here.