Episode Details

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