Functional Spirituality: Recent Episodes
Ava Irani
Hi, my name is Ava and I’m delighted to offer you “Functional Spirituality”.
I invite you to integrate critical thinking into your heart, mystical and faith-based practices. I use an academic approach to investigate the roots of yoga and spirituality. I aim to reduce the dogma that has rendered so many schools and practices ineffective - and strange AF.
Spirituality has a history of disempowering the individual, worshiping the guru or priest, without question. In this podcast, I aim to elevate the conversation around spirituality.
I want to EMPOWER the meditator and yogi, and debunk the idea that the ‘ancient gurus’ had it all right. This places the power back in our hands, to live directly from our own experience.
I hope you enjoy this collection of guided meditations, retreat talks and conversations.
For Q&A questions, topic suggestions email Ava at functionalspiritualityretreat@gmail.com Follow Functional Spirituality at @functionalspirituality and follow our Yoga Studio at @spandaschool
Sometimes the most meaningful conversations are the ones that aren't planned. In this special episode, Ava is joined by her close friend, entrepreneur, and KX Pilates studio owner Kylie Falconer for an unscripted conversation recorded during a Functional Spirituality retreat in Broome. Together, they explore what it really looks like to build a life that supports both ambition and wellbeing. From entrepreneurship and burnout to nervous system regulation, people-pleasing, motherhood, and designing a life with intention, this conversation offers an honest look behind the scenes of two women navigating business, spirituality, and personal growth. Ava also shares the deeper vision behind Spanda, the lessons she's learned as a leader, and why she believes the modern spirituality industry often leaves people inspired—but without a clear, functional path forward. If you've ever wondered what these conversations sound like off the stage and outside the classroom, this one's for you. Sign up to our list to hear whats on offer and receive the video practice for free, here. Chapter Markers00:00 Welcome + introducing Kylie Falconer01:10 Why Kylie came on the Broome retreat05:00 Building a business without burning out10:20 Daily practices for resilience and nervous system regulation14:30 People-pleasing, leadership, and asking for what you need18:30 Designing a life that creates spaciousness22:30 The vision behind Spanda26:30 What Ava believes is missing from the modern spirituality industry Increasing accessibility to functional healing + non-dual spiritual oneness:www.functionalspirituality.com Free resources:Newsletter sign-upA monthly update from Ava on new offerings and the energy of the month. Free Training – The 3-Part Method of Functional SpiritualityLearn the clear, practical framework for deep healing, emotional regulation, and spiritual integration. Connect on SocialsWhere you can hear from us in daily life.Personal account & Functional Spirituality: @functionalspiritualityStudio: @spandaschool
What does it actually mean to "tune into the frequency of abundance"? In this episode, Ava unpacks one of the most repeated phrases in manifesting culture and grounds it in nervous system science and practical strategy. Drawing on 15+ years of personal practice, she breaks down the two real pillars of manifesting money: the yin of embodied visioning and nervous system calibration, and the yang of aligned, exploratory action. If money feels charged, overwhelming, or just out of reach, this episode offers a grounded, functional framework for understanding why, and what to actually do about it.
Chapter Markers
00:00 Welcome + episode intro
01:00 Revisiting the four-part manifesting series
03:00 Why surface culture makes our efforts less effective
05:00 Why money and manifesting are so intertwined
06:00 Ava's personal history with manifestation practice
08:00 What does "tuning into the frequency of abundance" actually mean?
11:00 The yin and yang of manifesting money
13:00 Why money is nervous-system charged: shame, scarcity, family scripts
15:00 Journaling, visioning, and embodied dreaming as practice
17:00 Aligned action: why strategy is part of manifestation
20:00 The reticular activating system (RAS) explained
Increasing accessibility to functional healing + non-dual spiritual oneness:
www.functionalspirituality.com
Free resources:
Newsletter sign-up:
A monthly update for me on new offers and the energy of the month.
Free training - 3 part method of Functional Spirituality:
Learn the clear, practical framework for deep healing, emotional regulation, and spiritual integration.
Connect on Socials
Where you can hear from us in daily life
Personal account & Functional Spirituality: @functionalspirituality
Studio: @spandaschool
Lavandula Botanicals: @lavandula.botanicals
Gift yourself 15 minutes of your day and join Ava in this healing practice cultivating the energy of gratitude. Gratitude can be a healing tool as it helps us connect back to the feelings of joy, love, openness and presence.
If you enjoy this audio you can save the link somewhere in your phone, or make a playlist for it on your Spotify so you have access to this practice with one click"
Increasing accessibility to functional healing + non-dual spiritual oneness:
www.functionalspirituality.com
Free resources:
Newsletter sign-up:
A monthly update for me on new offers and the energy of the month.
Community meditation:
Join the Functional Spirituality Group and enjoy a free resource for meditators and yogis to connect to and enjoy a like-minded community.
Free training - 3 part method of Functional Spirituality:
Learn the clear, practical framework for deep healing, emotional regulation, and spiritual integration.
Connect on Socials
Where you can hear from us in daily life
Personal account & Functional Spirituality: @functionalspirituality
Studio: @spandaschool
"Gratitude arises from paying attention, from being awake in the presence of everything that lives within and without and beside us." — David Whyte
Join Kate in this gentle guided meditation, where gratitude becomes a doorway to ease and presence. As you breathe in gratitude, feel it soften your mind, relax your body, and open your heart to peace.
Whether you're setting an intention for the day or unwinding in quiet reflection, this practice will help you cultivate deep appreciation and effortless presence.
If you enjoy this audio you can save the link somewhere in your phone, or make a playlist for it so you have access to this practice with one click.
Increasing accessibility to functional healing + non-dual spiritual oneness.
www.functionalspirituality.com
Free resources:
Newsletter sign up:
A monthly update for me on new offers and the energy of the month.
Community meditation:
Join the Functional Spirituality Group and enjoy a free resource for meditators and yogis to connect to and enjoy a like-minded community.
Free workshop: Holding Safer Spaces
A free workshop that replaces the old, dogmatic, unsustainable paradigm of healing that burns out our community. Explore how to deepen your presence in both personal and professional spheres. A new, simpler and functional approach to being trauma-informed
Connect on Socials
Where you can hear from us in daily life
Functional Spirituality & Personal account:@functionalspirituality
Studio: @spandaschool
In this episode, Ava Irani shares practical reflections for facilitators within the Functional Spirituality community on how to hold space in a grounded, clear, and non-over-responsible way. The focus is on supporting others without over-identifying as the “teacher” or taking ownership of participants’ experiences.
She explores what effective facilitation actually requires, including staying regulated, present, and anchored while group processes unfold. Rather than managing or fixing what arises, the emphasis is on creating a steady space where people can meet their own experience directly. The episode also touches on navigating group dynamics, knowing when to step in or step back, and maintaining clarity when emotional material arises, with facilitation framed as presence over performance.
Increasing accessibility to functional healing + non-dual spiritual oneness:
www.functionalspirituality.com
Free resources:
Newsletter sign-up:
A monthly update for me on new offers and the energy of the month.
Free training - 3 part method of Functional Spirituality:
Learn the clear, practical framework for deep healing, emotional regulation, and spiritual integration.
Connect on Socials
Where you can hear from us in daily life
Personal account & Functional Spirituality: @functionalspirituality
Studio: @spandaschool
Lavandula Botanicals: @lavandula.botanicals
In this episode, Ava Irani explores the idea of success through a functional spirituality lens, questioning cultural definitions of achievement, status, and worth. She reframes success as something fluid and subjective, shaped by nervous system state, alignment, and personal values rather than external benchmarks.
She shares her own evolving relationship with success, from early ambition and large-scale building phases to a current emphasis on simplicity, coherence, and inner alignment. The episode also includes a transparent reflection on privilege and unchosen factors, alongside the role of discipline, apprenticeship, and long-term practice in shaping her path.
Increasing accessibility to functional healing + non-dual spiritual oneness:
www.functionalspirituality.com
Free resources:
Newsletter sign-up:
A monthly update for me on new offers and the energy of the month.
Free training - 3 part method of Functional Spirituality:
Learn the clear, practical framework for deep healing, emotional regulation, and spiritual integration.
Connect on Socials
Where you can hear from us in daily life
Personal account & Functional Spirituality: @functionalspirituality
Studio: @spandaschool
Lavandula Botanicals: @lavandula.botanicals
In this episode, Ava Irani unpacks the complex and often unconscious relationship many of us have with social media. While it’s easy to default to “I hate social media,” she challenges this narrative, inviting us to look deeper at how we engage with these platforms and the power we actually have within that relationship.
Through a functional spirituality lens, Ava explores how social media is designed to hijack our attention, amplify emotional triggers (especially fear), and keep us in cycles of seeking rather than satisfaction. Yet, despite its pitfalls, it also holds genuine potential for creativity, connection, expression, and joy.
Rather than positioning ourselves as victims of the algorithm, this episode encourages a shift toward awareness, intentionality, and self-responsibility. By understanding our own patterns, desires, and nervous system responses, we can redefine our experience, transforming social media from something that drains us into something we consciously shape and even enjoy.
Increasing accessibility to functional healing + non-dual spiritual oneness:
www.functionalspirituality.com
Free resources:
Newsletter sign-up:
A monthly update for me on new offers and the energy of the month.
Free training - 3 part method of Functional Spirituality:
Learn the clear, practical framework for deep healing, emotional regulation, and spiritual integration.
Connect on Socials
Where you can hear from us in daily life
Personal account & Functional Spirituality: @functionalspirituality
Studio: @spandaschool
Lavandula Botanicals: @lavandula.botanicals
In this episode, Ava Arani is joined by Ryan Hassan from The Centre for Healing for a grounded conversation on what happens when a core wound becomes active and how it can be met with compassion rather than self judgment. Ava shares a recent retreat experience in India where she noticed a persistent unsettled feeling that she first assumed was guilt, but later recognised as “not enoughness.” Through the lens of Internal Family Systems and the book No Bad Parts, they explore protector and exile parts, why there are no bad parts within us, and how healing can happen through contact, kindness, and the right kind of inner support. They also discuss why meditation can feel hard to commit to, how guided practice reduces resistance, and what trauma informed meditation looks like when the intention is healing rather than chasing transcendence.
Increasing accessibility to functional healing + non-dual spiritual oneness:
www.functionalspirituality.com
Free resources:
Newsletter sign-up:
A monthly update for me on new offers and the energy of the month.
Community meditation:
Join the Functional Spirituality Group and enjoy a free resource for meditators and yogis to connect to and enjoy a like-minded community.
Free training - 3 part method of Functional Spirituality:
Learn the clear, practical framework for deep healing, emotional regulation, and spiritual integration.
Connect on Socials
Where you can hear from us in daily life
Personal account & Functional Spirituality: @functionalspirituality
Studio: @spandaschool
Lavandula Botanicals: @lavandula.botanicals
Relax and let Ava softly guide you into a felt sense of love, safety, and ease within your body. Through slow, steady breaths, you are invited to soften, open the heart, and reconnect with the body as a place of warmth and belonging.
This is a nourishing self love meditation with music that supports nervous system settling, embodiment, and gentle integration. A space to rest, receive, and meet your body with kindness, pleasure, and care.
Allow each breath to bring you closer to peace, presence, and a deeper relationship with your inner space.
If you enjoy this audio you can save the link somewhere in your phone, or make a playlist for it so you have access to this practice with one click.
Increasing accessibility to functional healing + non-dual spiritual oneness:
www.functionalspirituality.com
Free resources:
Newsletter sign-up:
A monthly update for me on new offers and the energy of the month.
Community meditation:
Join the Functional Spirituality Group and enjoy a free resource for meditators and yogis to connect to and enjoy a like-minded community.
Free training - 3 part method of Functional Spirituality:
Learn the clear, practical framework for deep healing, emotional regulation, and spiritual integration.
Connect on Socials
Where you can hear from us in daily life
Personal account & Functional Spirituality: @functionalspirituality
Studio: @spandaschool
Lavandula Botanicals: @lavandula.botanicals
In this conversational episode, Emma and Ava explore what it really means to “drop in” before any meaningful work, practice, or conversation. They unpack how embodiment shifts us from surface-level survival mode into deeper presence, clarity, and connection. Ava shares the moment she knew silent retreats would be her life’s work, and how her teaching evolved over time, from transcendence-focused awakening practices toward a more balanced approach that includes nervous system education, trauma awareness, and functional integration.
Together, they speak candidly about burnout, the dangers of “spiritual perfection” promises, and why some tools help in one season of life but fall short in another.
The episode also highlights the power of community and emotional safety, how being with others in a regulated, intentional space can create profound healing and belonging.
Chapter markers:
- The “drop in” and why it changes everything [00:00]
- How Ava knew silent retreats were her path [00:10]
- Awakening practices vs nervous system healing [00:18]
- Burnout: what happened and what it taught her [00:27]
- The “spiritual perfection” trap and one-size-fits-all promises [00:38]
- Is Ava “channeling,” or is it skill + environment + group energy? [00:52]
- Community, emotional safety, and why “sangha” matters [01:03]
- Yin vs yang in business and living in regenerative mode [01:14]
Increasing accessibility to functional healing + non-dual spiritual oneness:
www.functionalspirituality.com
Free resources:
Newsletter sign-up:
A monthly update for me on new offers and the energy of the month.
Community meditation:
Join the Functional Spirituality Group and enjoy a free resource for meditators and yogis to connect to and enjoy a like-minded community.
Free training - 3 part method of Functional Spirituality:
Learn the clear, practical framework for deep healing, emotional regulation, and spiritual integration.
Connect on Socials
Where you can hear from us in daily life
Personal account & Functional Spirituality: @functionalspirituality
Studio: @spandaschool
Lavandula Botanicals: @lavandula.botanicals
In this guided meditation, Ava invites you to slow down, feel into the body, and let effort soften.
As the nervous system unwinds, space opens for a grounded sense of joy, appreciation and connection to emerge on its own.
If you enjoy this audio you can save the link somewhere in your phone, or make a playlist for it so you have access to this practice with one click.
Increasing accessibility to functional healing + non-dual spiritual oneness:
www.functionalspirituality.com
Free resources:
Newsletter sign-up:
A monthly update for me on new offers and the energy of the month.
Community meditation:
Join the Functional Spirituality Group and enjoy a free resource for meditators and yogis to connect to and enjoy a like-minded community.
Free training - 3 part method of Functional Spirituality:
Learn the clear, practical framework for deep healing, emotional regulation, and spiritual integration.
Connect on Socials
Where you can hear from us in daily life
Personal account & Functional Spirituality: @functionalspirituality
Studio: @spandaschool
Lavandula Botanicals: @lavandula.botanicals
Many people think healing means fixing themselves, but real change often begins when a “protector” part finally feels met.
In this episode, Ava shares a personal IFS (Internal Family Systems) breakthrough from a retreat in India: instead of feeling guilt about time away from family, an old survival pattern surfaced: pressure, urgency, and the fear of falling behind. Through the lens of IFS, she explores how protectors work to keep deeper pain out of awareness, and how healing happens through contact, attunement, and relationship rather than force or self-improvement.
If you’re navigating anxiety, overdoing, or inner pressure, this conversation offers a grounded way to understand what’s happening inside and a compassionate pathway toward more space, safety, and inner freedom.
Listen in and share how this lands for you. Whether it resonates or challenges you, reflections are welcome.
Chapter markers:
- 00:00 Introduction to healing and inner freedom
- 09:00 IFS overview: protector parts, exiles, and the shift from fixing to meeting
- 14:30 “Healing is contact” attunement, nervous system resourcing, and compassion
- 22:00 What changes when the protector softens
Increasing accessibility to functional healing + non-dual spiritual oneness:
www.functionalspirituality.com
Free resources:
Newsletter sign-up:
A monthly update for me on new offers and the energy of the month.
Community meditation:
Join the Functional Spirituality Group and enjoy a free resource for meditators and yogis to connect to and enjoy a like-minded community.
Free training - 3 part method of Functional Spirituality:
Learn the clear, practical framework for deep healing, emotional regulation, and spiritual integration.
Connect on Socials
Where you can hear from us in daily life
Personal account & Functional Spirituality: @functionalspirituality
Studio: @spandaschool
Lavandula Botanicals: @lavandula.botanicals
This is a gentle guided meditation to support grounding, softening, and inner clarity.
Through a slow body scan, breath, and loving inner attention, Ava guides you to empty accumulated tension and reconnect with your inner space. This practice supports nervous system regulation and integration, allowing presence and ease to arise naturally.
A guided meditation with music. Ideal for mornings or moments when you want to return to yourself.
If you enjoy this audio you can save the link somewhere in your phone, or make a playlist for it so you have access to this practice with one click.
Increasing accessibility to functional healing + non-dual spiritual oneness:
www.functionalspirituality.com
Free resources:
Newsletter sign-up:
A monthly update for me on new offers and the energy of the month.
Community meditation:
Join the Functional Spirituality Group and enjoy a free resource for meditators and yogis to connect to and enjoy a like-minded community.
Free training - 3 part method of Functional Spirituality:
Learn the clear, practical framework for deep healing, emotional regulation, and spiritual integration.
Connect on Socials
Where you can hear from us in daily life
Personal account & Functional Spirituality: @functionalspirituality
Studio: @spandaschool
Lavandula Botanicals: @lavandula.botanicals
Take some time today to replenish yourself.
Amidst the chaos on the surface of the planet, in our thoughts, emotions, and body, we often meet life with subtle resistance. Beneath this effort, there is a deep stillness that remains untouched.
This guided meditation invites you to soften inner resistance and gently meet the moment as it is. Ground yourself in the quiet space of the Heart, where presence, safety, and ease naturally reside.
If you enjoy this audio you can save the link somewhere in your phone, or make a playlist for it so you have access to this practice with one click.
Increasing accessibility to functional healing + non-dual spiritual oneness:
www.functionalspirituality.com
Free resources:
Newsletter sign-up:
A monthly update for me on new offers and the energy of the month.
Community meditation:
Join the Functional Spirituality Group and enjoy a free resource for meditators and yogis to connect to and enjoy a like-minded community.
Free training - 3 part method of Functional Spirituality:
Learn the clear, practical framework for deep healing, emotional regulation, and spiritual integration.
Connect on Socials
Where you can hear from us in daily life
Personal account & Functional Spirituality: @functionalspirituality
Studio: @spandaschool
Lavandula Botanicals: @lavandula.botanicals
This guided awakening meditation draws on Hridaya meditation and the self enquiry teachings of Ramana Maharshi.
Through gentle heart based attention and simple enquiry, awareness is invited to turn back toward its source, allowing thoughts and identities to soften naturally.
This is an embodied, nervous system led approach to awakening that supports integration, safety, and lived clarity rather than striving or peak experiences.
An invitation to rest as what you already are, and to let awakening unfold in a grounded, sustainable way.
If you enjoy this audio you can save the link somewhere in your phone, or make a playlist for it so you have access to this practice with one click.
Increasing accessibility to functional healing + non-dual spiritual oneness:
www.functionalspirituality.com
Free resources:
Newsletter sign-up:
A monthly update for me on new offers and the energy of the month.
Community meditation:
Join the Functional Spirituality Group and enjoy a free resource for meditators and yogis to connect to and enjoy a like-minded community.
Free training - 3 part method of Functional Spirituality:
Learn the clear, practical framework for deep healing, emotional regulation, and spiritual integration.
Connect on Socials
Where you can hear from us in daily life
Personal account & Functional Spirituality: @functionalspirituality
Studio: @spandaschool
Lavandula Botanicals: @lavandula.botanicals
So many people step into a yoga class expecting an ancient practice, yet most modern vinyasa is actually a recent aesthetic invention.
In this episode, Ava unpacks the toxic patterns shaping the modern yoga industry, why students often hand their authority over without realising it, and what a body led, trauma-informed practice looks and feels like in comparison.
If you love yoga, teach yoga, or care about spiritual integrity, this conversation offers clarity, context and a deeper understanding of what you are truly practicing.
Listen in and share how this information lands for you. Whether you agree or disagree, we welcome your reflections.
Relevant links:
Podcast episode: 4 stages of spiritual seeking
Functional Flow Yoga Teacher Training
Chapter markers:
00:00 Introduction to the topic
01:43 Setting the context for this conversation
07:00 Why Ava is positioned to speak on these topics
12:10 What modern vinyasa actually is and the goals behind it
15:44 The core issues within this style of practice
20:45 A body led, trauma-informed approach compared with the medicalised yoga model
26:16 The origins of Hatha Yoga and a summary of key points
30:50 Invitation to share your thoughts
Increasing accessibility to functional healing + non-dual spiritual oneness:
www.functionalspirituality.com
Free resources:
Newsletter sign-up:
A monthly update for me on new offers and the energy of the month.
Community meditation:
Join the Functional Spirituality Group and enjoy a free resource for meditators and yogis to connect to and enjoy a like-minded community.
Free training - 3 part method of Functional Spirituality:
Learn the clear, practical framework for deep healing, emotional regulation, and spiritual integration.
Connect on Socials
Where you can hear from us in daily life
Personal account & Functional Spirituality: @functionalspirituality
Studio: @spandaschool
Lavandula Botanicals: @lavandula.botanicals
Have you ever felt something is “off” in the coaching or wellness industry? In this episode, Ava unpacks the invisible pyramid shaping these spaces and why so many of us feel uneasy inside them. We explore skill bypassing, surface culture, cognitive dissonance and what real integrity looks like in practice.
A grounded, necessary conversation for anyone devoted to integrity, embodiment and real service.
Chapter markers
00:00 Introduction
02:17 The invisible pyramid
03:37 Bypassing the skill
05:06 Marketing mechanisms
06:40 The surface culture
07:51 Responsibility at the top
11:20 Cognitive dissonance
14:25 A way forward
19:30 Slower businesses, bigger impact
22:00 Integrity
Increasing accessibility to functional healing + non-dual spiritual oneness:
www.functionalspirituality.com
Free resources:
Newsletter sign-up:
A monthly update for me on new offers and the energy of the month.
Community meditation:
Join the Functional Spirituality Group and enjoy a free resource for meditators and yogis to connect to and enjoy a like-minded community.
Free training - 3 part method of Functional Spirituality:
Learn the clear, practical framework for deep healing, emotional regulation, and spiritual integration.
Connect on Socials
Where you can hear from us in daily life
Personal account & Functional Spirituality: @functionalspirituality
Studio: @spandaschool
Lavandula Botanicals: @lavandula.botanicals
In this episode, Ava explores the term privilege: how it’s been shaped, stretched, and sometimes misunderstood in today’s world.
With honesty and depth, she opens a compassionate conversation about how we can move toward greater understanding, healing, and collective repair.
A philosophical nonsense term is an expression or idea that sounds profound but lacks substantive meaning, coherence, or verifiable content. We’d love to hear what this topic stirs or awakens in you!
Chapter markers:
00:00 – Introduction to the topic
02:42 – Why is privilege a non-sense term
03:50 - Privilege vs advantage
09:00 – Healing, repair, growth and dismantling unhealthy systems
12:09 - Functionality and intention
14:30 - Approaches that do not include you feeling shame, blame and guilt
16:55 - Recap
Increasing accessibility to functional healing + non-dual spiritual oneness:
www.functionalspirituality.com
Free resources:
Newsletter sign-up:
A monthly update for me on new offers and the energy of the month.
Community meditation:
Join the Functional Spirituality Group and enjoy a free resource for meditators and yogis to connect to and enjoy a like-minded community.
Free training - 3 part method of Functional Spirituality:
Learn the clear, practical framework for deep healing, emotional regulation, and spiritual integration.
Connect on Socials
Where you can hear from us in daily life
Personal account & Functional Spirituality: @functionalspirituality
Studio: @spandaschool
Lavandula Botanicals: @lavandula.botanicals
In this episode, Ava explores a listener’s question: “How do I deal with the terrifying fear of a loved one dying?”
Moments of birth and death often stir deep reflections about our own mortality. This conversation offers insight and comfort for anyone who is grieving a loss or living in fear of losing someone they love.
A gentle exploration of loss, death, and the path toward meeting them with greater awareness, compassion, and freedom from unnecessary fear and suffering.
Chapter markers:
00:00 – Introduction to the topic and update about Honey
04:30 – The power of death and how it pulls on fear and love
05:30 – What we need to accept: coming to terms with life and death
07:12 – How modern life distracts us from our mortality
08:42 – Grief as a reflection of love
09:58 – Key questions to ask yourself: grief vs. suffering
11:15 – Ava shares what she is learning to accept as Honey nears the end of her life
17:10 – What happens when we don’t fully allow ourselves to grieve
18:10 – Closing reflections and invitation to share your thoughts
Increasing accessibility to functional healing + non-dual spiritual oneness:
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A monthly update for me on new offers and the energy of the month.
Community meditation:
Join the Functional Spirituality Group and enjoy a free resource for meditators and yogis to connect to and enjoy a like-minded community.
Free training - 3 part method of Functional Spirituality:
Learn the clear, practical framework for deep healing, emotional regulation, and spiritual integration.
Connect on Socials
Where you can hear from us in daily life
Personal account & Functional Spirituality: @functionalspirituality
Studio: @spandaschool
Life constantly asks us to show up, give, and move forward. But to truly meet the world with fullness, we also need moments to return to ourselves. Without that inward pause, our energy scatters and we lose touch with balance, joy, and wellbeing.
This meditation is an invitation to slow down, hold yourself gently, and reconnect with your inner-strength.
If you enjoy this audio you can save the link somewhere in your phone, or make a playlist for it so you have access to this practice with one click.
Increasing accessibility to functional healing + non-dual spiritual oneness:
www.functionalspirituality.com
Free resources:
Newsletter sign-up:
A monthly update for me on new offers and the energy of the month.
Community meditation:
Join the Functional Spirituality Group and enjoy a free resource for meditators and yogis to connect to and enjoy a like-minded community.
Free training - 3 part method of Functional Spirituality:
Learn the clear, practical framework for deep healing, emotional regulation, and spiritual integration.
Connect on Socials
Where you can hear from us in daily life
Personal account & Functional Spirituality: @functionalspirituality
Studio: @spandaschool
In this episode, Ava opens up about some “real-life material” she’s currently moving through: a deep sadness rooted in an unmet childhood need. She shares her process honestly, in the hope that it may resonate with you and spark reflection on your own journey. We’d love to hear how this exploration touches you and the ways it shows up in your life.
Relevant links:
Guided meditations from Functional Spirituality
Chapter markers:
00:00 Introduction and update from Ava’s life
03:30 ‘I’m not good enough’
6:30 A deep need for connection that hasn’t been met
9:00 Achieving the sense of enoughness and worthiness
10:40 Integrating the sadness
11:30 Attuning to the unmet needs as adults
12:47 What to do now?
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A monthly update for me on new offers and the energy of the month.
Community meditation:
Join the Functional Spirituality Group and enjoy a free resource for meditators and yogis to connect to and enjoy a like-minded community.
Free training - 3 part method of Functional Spirituality:
Learn the clear, practical framework for deep healing, emotional regulation, and spiritual integration.
Connect on Socials
Where you can hear from us in daily life
Personal account & Functional Spirituality: @functionalspirituality
Studio: @spandaschool
Lavandula Botanicals: @lavandula.botanicals
Living on the surface of language and concepts doesn’t truly serve us. To grow spiritually, we need to dive deeper — avoiding assumptions and quick conclusions. In this episode, Ava unpacks the confusion around what it really means to be an “awake teacher” and explores a functional approach to spirituality that invites thoughtful reflection.
Tune in to deepen your understanding and shift how you relate to spirituality.
Chapter markers:
00:30 Introduction
01:24 What is an awake teacher?
03:51 Why I avoid the term awake
07:06 My problem with these terms
09:31 The problem is not the explanations
10:09 The rationalisation of inappropriate behaviour
12:03 Can’t I just loosen up?
13:12 Healthy scepticism
14:38 Why are people doing this
15:42 Is it wrong to praise teachers?
18:09 Conclusion
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Community meditation:
Join the Functional Spirituality Group and enjoy a free resource for meditators and yogis to connect to and enjoy a like-minded community.
Free training - 3 part method of Functional Spirituality:
Learn the clear, practical framework for deep healing, emotional regulation, and spiritual integration.
Connect on Socials
Where you can hear from us in daily life
Personal account & Functional Spirituality: @functionalspirituality
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Ease into the evening with this gentle 10-minute bedtime meditation. Ava guides you into a calm, relaxed state so you can co-regulate and attune with your child as they settle to sleep. This simple, heartfelt practice invites connection, presence, and safety — a beautiful way to end the day, together.
Play this recording to create a regulating, heart-opening and healing routine to support your child to go to sleep. Maybe they will continue the practice of meditation before bed into adulthood.
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What’s the real difference between moving through life with intention… and gripping on with control?
In this episode, we explore how intention keeps us aligned and connected to our heart, while control often comes from unconscious pressure and fixation.
When we’re out of touch with our true intention, motivation naturally fades — but when we’re in alignment, motivation flows effortlessly.
Tune in to discover how to recognise the energy of control vs. intention, reconnect with your heart, and move forward with more ease and clarity.
Chapter markers
00:15 Introduction
00:35 What’s the difference between intention and control
01:10 Intention
03:28 Control
07:00 Awareness
09:00 Expressions of control
10:00 Functional modalities
11:35 Meditation example
14:41 Conclusion
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We are re-sharing this episode where Ava discusses what trauma is and what happens to our body when we experience a traumatic event.
Listen in to understand the mechanics of a healing process and the different ways of meeting traumatic material.
Relevant links:
Free resources
Join our Therapeutic Embodiment trainings waitlist
Chapter markers:
00:00 A bit about Ava and Functional Spirituality podcast
01:43 Intro to today’s topic
04:05 Understanding the mechanics of a healing practice
05:24 What is trauma?
07:40 What happens when we experience a traumatic event?
11:06 What does healing from a traumatic event mean?
15:46 The idea of catharsis
19:50 Ways of meeting traumatic material
22:56 Disclaimer
23:25 Part 1 of the Functional Spirituality Method, free resources and upcoming trainings (please note this is a repurposed episode, the training dates are from previous years)
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As we get ready to begin our Therapeutic Embodiment training, Ava shares about what TE is, what happens inside a session and why this heartful approach involves a new paradigm for healing complex trauma.
Therapeutic Embodiment works with the stress that builds up in our nervous system, using somatic principles and interoceptive reflection to help us reconnect, restore capacity, and heal.
If you’re curious to go deeper, listen to this episode and follow this link to find all the details and join us in the training!
Course starts: 13th July 2025.
Relevant links:
Free workshop: The trauma healing breakthrough
Chapter markers:
00:00 Introduction to the topic, what is a TE session?
01:00 Complex trauma and the new paradigm of healing
03:00 TE practice vs yin yoga
04:48 Duration of this practice and how it can be woven into other modalities
5:43 What does a TE consist of?
7:52 Our society lives on the surface
11:20 Have you listened to our latest free online workshop?
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Today’s topic is applicable to everybody, not just mothers or parents.
We often find ourselves complaining about life and unconsciously hoping that complaining will help us get our needs met. In reality, complaining signals our bodies and the people around us stress and resistance. This is not sustainable for ourselves and our relationships.
Listen in to hear Ava share insights from her life and how reframing things positively has supported her recently.
The intention of this episode is to inspire you to cultivate optimism in a healthy way. We recommend you to listen back to this podcast in a month or two to track and observe your progress.
Chapter markers:
00:00 Introduction to the topic and update from Ava
02:20 How the silent retreats have supported Ava during an important transition in her life
4:09 What is positively benefiting Ava and her relationships?
5:52 How does complaining affect our body and relationships?
8:45 An example where we can reframe our reality in a positive way and still being truthful to ourselves
14:00 Complaining as a strategy to try to get your needs met
15:48 Ava’s super power
17:00 Thank you for listening, if you have any topic ideas for this podcast please let us know by sending us an email: functionalspiritualityretreat@gmail.com
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In this episode, Ava explores a question that’s been landing in her inbox more and more: Why are so many people turning to Christianity?
After hearing from at least five people in the last month alone, Ava takes a deeper look—sharing her own reflections, insights from recent conversations with those embracing Christianity, and stories from people who’ve stepped away from it.
She also unpacks why this topic can feel so charged and triggering, even in spiritual communities, and what this growing interest might reveal about our cultural and personal landscapes.
Relevant links:
Four stages of spiritual seeking
Free resources page
Chapter markers:
00:00 Introduction to the topic and disclaimer
02:43 Ava’s experience with religion
06:08 What are some of the things that feel 'disturbing’ for us when we talk about religion
11:00 Why Christianity?
16:14 Why are people turning towards it?
19:00 Conclusion
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In this episode, Ava shares a personal glimpse into her journey and how the 3-Part Method of Functional Spirituality was born. What makes this approach so unique and effective? Tune in to discover the foundations that set Functional Spirituality apart.
Relevant links:
The new paradigm of healing
Free resources page
Chapter markers:
00:00 Introduction to the topic
02:00 Ava’s story: Bikram yoga, Agama and Hridaya schools.
10:45 The origin story of the 3 part method.
14:20 The three intentions that we may have in our spiritual practice.
20:00 The difference between Awakening and Deconditioning tools.
23:30 The importance of intention.
26:08 Conclusion
28:18 Thank you for listening, if you have any questions and comments please let us know.
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Gift yourself 15 minutes of your day and join Ava in this healing practice cultivating the energy of gratitude. Gratitude can be a healing tool as it helps us connect back to the feelings of joy, love, openness and presence.
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Enjoy our most popular guided meditation on the Functional Spirituality podcast!
Allow this soothing deep sleep meditation to send a message of comfort and safety to your nervous system. Invite a deeper sense of calmness into every cell in your body as you settle your body into a deep state of relaxation.
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In this episode, Ava shares the powerful and raw story of her second daughter Leila’s birth on May 9th of this year.
While deeply beautiful and transformative, this birth story includes graphic details, so please listen with care.
Ava opens up about the intensity, the magic, and the awe of bringing Leila into this world, offering an intimate glimpse into one of the most profound moments of her life.
Relevant links and resources:
Our intense birth story
Chapter markers:
00:00 Introduction to the topic and warning
03:00 When labor began
07:55 When things started to escalate
17:50 When the baby is about to come out
25:00 Moments after birth
28:00 When things went ‘crazy’
37:00 How she is feeling now
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In this powerful and heartfelt conversation, Priya, Ava, and Anaid dive deep into the roots of our toxic culture. Together, they explore the roles that disconnection, collective trauma, and survival-driven conditioning play in shaping the way we live and relate.
Is our detachment from nature part of the problem? Could it be that our nervous systems — biologically wired for survival — are still operating in modes of protection, fueling cycles of fear and burnout? Or is there a missing piece we’ve yet to uncover?
Relevant links and resources:
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
The Molecule of More by Daniel Z. Lieberman and Michael E. Long
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In this episode, Ava answers a listener's question: "What is Kundalini?"
She takes you on a journey from the Sanskrit origins of the word to its cultural context in India and the modern science surrounding it. Ava also shares her personal experiences with Kundalini and explores why it fascinates so many people.
Relevant links and resources:
Roots of Yoga - James Mallinson & Mark Singleton
Chapter markers:
00:00 Introduction to Functional Spirituality Podcast
03:30 Introduction to Kundalini
8:55 Is there any science behind Kundalini?
13:44 What is Kundalini
18:25 Why are people obsessed with Kundalini?
22:20 What happens inside of our bodies when we experience Kundalini awakening?
26:00 Ava’s experience
29:44 Thank you for listening
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Welcome back to our guided meditations. In this meditation, Anaid gently invites you to return to yourself with presence and care.
This is your sacred pause, a moment to simply be… and rest.
With curiosity, we explore the inner landscape, allowing tension to melt and awareness to ground fully in the present moment.
From this place of stillness, we journey inward to meet what lives at the core of your essence.
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Welcome to this spacious guided meditation to relax your body and explore joy.
Take a deep breath, settle into stillness, and allow a sense of peacefulness and gratitude to gently flow through you.
This meditation invites you to soften, open your heart, and reconnect with the simple, radiant joy within.
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"Gratitude arises from paying attention, from being awake in the presence of everything that lives within and without and beside us." — David Whyte
Join Kate in this gentle guided meditation, where gratitude becomes a doorway to ease and presence. As you breathe in gratitude, feel it soften your mind, relax your body, and open your heart to peace.
Whether you're setting an intention for the day or unwinding in quiet reflection, this practice will help you cultivate deep appreciation and effortless presence.
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Join Ava in this soothing meditation. We begin with a grounding practice, softening the tissues and melting tension away. We then gently tune into the heart space—the middle. Using a light RAIN technique, inspired by Tara Brach, this meditation guides you to recognise, allow, investigate, and nurture what is alive within you.
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Need a quick reset? This short yet powerful guided meditation, led by Ava, will help you relax, clear your mind, and find a sense of calm in just five minutes. Perfect for a midday pause or a gentle start to your day.
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In this episode, Ava dives into a topic that has been percolating for a while—the philosophy of the "natural parent" and how deeply held beliefs shape not just our parenting but our entire reality.
This isn't just about parenting; it's about the way we form beliefs in natural health, medicine, and beyond—and how those beliefs interact with our nervous system and sense of self.
Chapter markers:
00:00 Introduction and why is a functional philosophy so important?
05:30 The natural parent fallacy
16:30 Some ideals of natural parenting don’t actually fit into the context anymore
19:13 Shifting from natural to functional
21:00 Practical ideas to support our refining of our perspective
27:24 Trusting yourself, trusting the world and the importance of having space to process our experience
29:51 Parenting is a practice not a philosophy or a set of rules
31:47 Conclusion & thank you for listening.
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In this meditation Ava gently leads us into the depths of our true nature. With simple yet profound pointers to Being—she helps you settle beyond the mind into the quiet presence of what already is. Allow yourself to soften, listen, and rest in the stillness at the core of your existence
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Welcome to a soothing guided meditation with Anaid.
We start the meditation by connecting with our breath and body. Slowly inviting the gentle power of the smiling energy technique to dissolve resistance and bring us fully into the present moment.
Allow yourself to soften, release, and embrace a state of presence.
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Take a deep breath and arrive in this moment with curiosity and kindness. In this guided meditation Anaid invites you to cultivate both aliveness and relaxation through the breath, gently grounding awareness into your heart space.
Explore the sensations and presence here with openness, allowing life to unfold naturally and effortlessly.
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In this meditation, we invite you to drop deeply into the center of your being, anchoring your attention in the heart space—the essence core of who you truly are. Join Ava as she gently guides you into this sacred space, where profound inner shifts and healing await.
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Take a moment to journey inward and explore the vast, ever-changing landscape within. This guided meditation with Kate uses breath awareness and invites curiosity and relaxation into your system, allowing tension to melt away.
As you breathe, allow your attention to settle on the stillness that exists between each inhale and exhale—a quiet, sacred pause where peace resides.
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Welcome to this meditation guided by Ava to gently ground your energy, relax your body and deepen your connection with what your system truly needs.
This practice invites you to create space for restoration and balance, nurturing your capacity for self-awareness and renewal.
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Ready to start the new year with intention?
Choosing a 'word of the year' helps bring focus and clarity to what we want to create in our lives.
Struggling to pick a word? No worries, we've repurposed this guided meditation to help you!
This isn’t about crossing another goal off your list, it’s about creating an intention to help guide your daily actions and cultivate the qualities you want more of this year.
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Join Ava in this 15 minute spacious guided meditation to experience and embody the presence of your being.
We start by gently moving the body and connecting to the awareness of the breath. Notice the effortless and limitless qualities of your being and connect to the embodied presence and how that feels in your own experience.
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The holiday season can be a stressful time for a lot of people, where self-care practices are placed second to social engagements and commitments. It is in fact also the perfect time for rest and reflection. A sacred time for journaling, evaluation and integration of the year.
In this (repurposed) episode Ava shares her favourite journal prompts to help you stay grounded and balanced during the holiday period. We invite you to do some contemplation so please have a journal and pen when you listen to this episode. Join our Facebook group and feel free to share with the community your answers to the journal prompts. We'd love to get ideas from you! Journal prompts: 1. What would balance look like to you?
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Is there anything I have planned that I am not looking forward to?
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Is there a boundary that I could set or a resource that I could call on to help me with the above?
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Is there anything else that I am dreading or worried about?
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Is there a resource that I could call on or are there a number of resources that I would like to call on to support me?
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What would these resources give me?
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Is there something that I can do to support myself knowing that this is what I need?
Chapter markers: 00:00 Introduction to the topic - have a pen and a journal with you!
00:51 The holiday season can be a time of stress for a lot of people.
02:21 This is the sacred time for rest and reflection.
03:27 How to find balance between social activities and solo, self- care.
04:24 Journal prompts.
6:34 Thank you for listening, wishing you a happy, joyful and easeful holiday season!
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The body, the breath and the earth are powerful anchors for our nervous system to rest, reset and ground. Join us in this recording of a previous Monday morning meditation.
Our free Monday online meditation will be back from January, stay tuned!
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In this episode, Ava and Anaid Anaid have a rich conversation about the important questions that come up for people (and parents) contemplating adding a child to their life.
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Chapter markers:
00:00 Introduction to the topic
04:56 Did you decide to have kids?
11: 34 What has been the hardest part of motherhood so far?
17:57 As a professional, entrepreneur and leader, how do you balance your work, motherhood and self-care/spirituality?
24:24 How do you feel about the current state of the world and the future for your kid(s)?
32:53 Kid’s mental health and technology
40:00 Have there been moments you wish you changed your mind?
44:31 Question: Is the sacrifice of self worth having a second child ? Will having kids cause me to lose my sense of self? I am not sure if I have the capacity and energy for kids.
01:00:15 How can I afford having a kid?
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In this episode, Ava and Stephanie have a conversation about conscious activism and the environment.
Tune in and listen to them as they discuss values and the importance of spiritual practice as a form of activism.
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Join Ava in this 23 minute lightly guided meditation with music. Take some time to slow down, unravel the body and find an inner state that offers you nourishment.
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Today’s episode is apart of a two part series, be sure to listen to the previous episode first!
Part 1 gave us the context and philosophy around pleasure to help us expand our understanding. In this episode we will explore different tools we can use to cultivate joy and pleasure in our lives when we don’t feel good.
If you listen to the end and decide to commit to a 7 day practice, feel free to join us in the Facebook group and share your experiences.
chapter markers
00:00 Did you listen to part 1?
00:45 Why theory is a tool
04:10 Cultivating a gratitude practice
7:15 The heart-space
08:56 Smiling energy
11:50 Journal prompt: What brings you pleasure?
13:47 Final notes
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This repurposed episode is inspired by a question that Ava received during a recent silent retreat.
The question was something along the lines of how can we cultivate peace and happiness in the body when we are experiencing chronic pain or health issues.
This 2 part series will explore the philosophy behind pleasure and also provide you with tools to cultivate your own pleasure during periods of discomfort and unease.
chapter markers
00:00 Introduction and catch up w/ Ava
03:35 Side notes on personal preferences and toxic positivity
10:34 Cultivating happiness and feeling joy inside the body
13:24 The philosophy of pleasure
18:07 The 3 levels of pleasure
22:51 Ending notes
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Join Anaid in this gentle, 12-minute meditation to relax and ground your senses in nature. Allow the nurturing energy of the earth and the warmth of your heartspace to expand, creating ripples of calm and connection within. Perfect for finding ease and presence, this meditation invites you to bathe in the healing embrace of heart and earth energy.
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Join Ava in this 15 minute grounding meditation. Slow down, connect to the body and feel the joy of the present moment. Sending breath and love to body parts and surrendering to the heart.
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In this final episode of our Mindwork series, Ava explains step by step how to create a self-suggestion tape.
This is one of the easiest ways we can create powerful change and integrate meditation and mind work into daily life.
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How does a self-suggestion tape work to access our subconscious mind?
What are autosuggestions and self-hypnosis?
In this episode, Ava explains more about how we can update our operating system of the subconscious mind.
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We see the world through a lens constructed by our past experiences.
In this episode, we revisit how our beliefs and map of reality always inform how we experience our life.
This lens that was formed without our permission or supervision... can it be changed?
Are we doomed to always see the world through old eyes?
Or can we refresh our vision and co-create our future with the wisdom of the past?
Hypnosis is the most common answer to this query.
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Mindwork Series Part 1: Brain and the mind
Mindwork series: Intro
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Everything we know is a story and all of our stories are constructed through a deeper framework called our 'Map of Reality'.
This underlying framework of beliefs, assumptions and understandings, provides us with the stability to move around and think about our world.
Find out how in this episode.
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Mindwork series: Intro
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Welcome to Part 1 of the Mindwork series.
In this episode Ava takes us through a very brief introduction to the different theories of the brain, as well as the most popular theory of mind.
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Working with the power of the mind is so interesting! But why?
Why are we so attracted to it, and what can this work afford us?
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Join Anaid in this spacious and grounding 30 minute practice.
We start with some gentle free movement to drop in the body and relax the tissues. Followed by a blissful heart- centered meditation to let go and connect to the present moment.
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Tune in to listen to Ava answer questions and clarify some aspects of her manifestation philosophy.
Discover the difference between manifesting personal and impersonal experiences and how our perception changes our experience.
If you liked our series The universe does not have your back please share it with friends and in your socials. We look forward to hearing your thoughts and questions on this topic and are more than happy to answer more questions in a follow up episode.
Relevant links:
The universe does not have your back - part 1
The universe does not have your back - part 2
The universe does not have your back - part 3
Chapter markers:
00:00 Recap from the Manifestation Series
03:00 Manifesting personal and impersonal experiences from a non-dual approach
5:25 Manifesting in our personal experience
07:20 How our perception changes our experience
12:00 Clarifying the confusion around ‘the universe not having your back’ and taking personal responsibility.
17:04 Thank you for listening.
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Welcome to part 3, the final episode of our Manifestation series.
Today Ava shares with you what works in the manifestation systems and practices, how they work and why she loves this practice. Our wish is to inspire you and help you to have a more clear and effective manifestation practice at home.
If you liked this episode please share with your friends and family. And as always, we look forward to hearing your thoughts, comments and questions about this episode.
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The universe does not have your back - Part 1
The universe does not have your back - Part 2
Chapter markers:
00:00 Introduction to the topic and invitation to listen (relisten) to part 1 and 2
01:38 Update from Ava and summary of part 1 and 2
05:02 Introduction to today’s topic
06:52 The three parts of manifestation that actually do make a difference
7:52 The subconscious mind and the condition of your nervous system
14:00 The power of clarity
18:13 The three Rs
19:31 The second part
24:55 Connecting to the universal potentiality
29:25 Ava’s house
32:49 Thank you for listening, if you liked this episode please share it with your friends. We look forward to hearing your thoughts on this.
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Welcome to part 2 of the manifestation series.
In this episode Ava shares with us the 4 most inefficient beliefs and practices around manifestation.
From a non-dual, awakening approach she discusses what doesn't make sense and what we need to be careful about the manifestation philosophies.
If you haven't listened to part 1, we recommend you to check it out here.
Chapter markers:
00:00 Introduction to the topic and summary from part 1 of the manifestation series
01:30 What not to do with manifestation?
03:30 The universe is neutral, it doesn’t have preferences nor attributes
4:54 Don’t believe that the universe is guiding you
07:07 The only thing that the universe ‘wants’ to do
9:30 A common misconception about the manifestation philosophies
10:37 Don’t adopt incoherent falsities
13:09 We recommend you to re-listen to this episode and part 1 before our final episode of the manifestation series which will be released in 1 week! - not 2 ;).
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Welcome to this mini series where Ava will talk about manifestation.
Manifestation is a tempting and attractive topic. There are many schools and practices around it. However, not all of these practices can be as effective as we wish them to be.
We can end up spending many years following the wrong practice and losing motivation.
In this series Ava shares with you what has worked and hasn’t worked for her in the last 10+ years of practicing manifestation.
Chapter markers:
00:00 Introduction to the topic
3:30 The imbalance in the culture of speediness
5:00 The intention of this podcast episode and Functional Spirituality
7:11 Ava’s current experience with manifestation and how she started this practice
9:33 A quick overview of the main practices around manifestation
15:08 Wasting years learning and following the wrong practice can lead to losing motivation
19:00 Thank you for listening, stay tuned for part 2 of this series which will be released next week!
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Listen to this spacious guided meditation with Anaid and use the breath to connect you with your essence in a simple and effortless way.
Allow your body to relax in the present moment. The breath awareness travels through the deeper layers of your being and softens any unnecessary tension.
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Have you ever wondered how your spiritual path can mature? Listen in to hear Ava share her personal experience as a spiritual seeker. This episode helps you to gain a deeper understanding of your own spiritual path.Recommended links:
- History of Hatha Yoga Course
- History of Hatha Yoga podcast episode
- “The Ancient and Modern Roots of Yoga” by Mark Singleton
Chapter markers:
00:00 Introduction
3:15 The four phases of a spiritual path
4:20 Ava’s spiritual journey
8:28 Phase II
14:59 Phase III and the importance of questioning
17:07 Becoming a teacher (phase IV)
20:40 Let us know about what you think of this episode
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Ava recorded this short update before she embarked on her 2 month holiday in Canada, Mexico and Peru. In this mini episode she also introduces us to the upcoming episode series - a compilation of episodes/series that have helped Ava build a successful and meaningful life. If you have listened to these episodes before, we highly recommend you to re-listen to them as you may gain a deeper and renewed perspective on the topic. Increasing accessibility to functional healing + non-dual spiritual oneness:
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This week we are repurposing one of our most favourite meditation practices!
Start your day with this grounding 5 minute consecration meditation.
Consecration is a spiritual practice for surrendering the personal will, and opening up to the universal energy of Life itself.
We invite you to take a few deep breaths, slowly letting go of personal struggle, and allowing ourselves to trust life. We offer a prayer to be a vessel for the highest good and let go of attachment to outcome. The perfect morning meditation practice!
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Join Ava in this 15 minute meditation. We commence with a relaxing practice, helping you to connect to the moment, feel grounded and supported. Then we contemplate on the word peace, and allow the peaceful energy to fill us up.
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In this episode Ava shares her advice to toddler parents. She discusses the challenges and reflects on what has helped her and Jasmine now that she is a toddler.
Relevant links and resources:
My most valuable work
Book: Hunt, gather, parent by Michaeleen Doucleff
Chapter markers:
00:00 Introduction to the topic
01:56 The difference between a challenge and a trauma
02:47 Ava’s experience with big challenges
04:30 The challenges of being a toddler parent
06:17 Parenting style trends
9:42 The yin and yang qualities of parenting
11:35 3 challenging experiences that became a source of connection
20:29 Ava’s take away: if something doesn’t feel good it’s something to look at
21:42 Update about her upcoming trip
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Join Anaid in a 20min grounding meditation and take a pause to relax your body. In this meditation we cultivate an attitude of loving curiosity to listen and observe our feelings, sensations and thoughts. Curiosity also helps us connect to the aliveness of the present moment in a deeper way. Increasing accessibility to functional healing + non-dual spiritual oneness.
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Some of the most common questions that students have asked Ava over the last 15 years of her teaching career are:
How many minutes per day do you practice yoga?
How do you have a daily yoga practice?
How can it become a habit, something that doesn’t require effort?
In this episode, Ava talks about her daily yoga practice and shares with us tips on how to maintain our practice on a daily basis.
Whether it is yoga, meditation or any other type of fitness/self-care ritual, this episode will provide you with the tools to manifest the daily practice of your dreams.
Relevant links and resources:
Manifestation series
1:1 mentoring page
Chapter markers:
00:00 Introduction to the topic
03:18 What are the benefits that you are seeking for in your practice? Do you want your daily practice to be rigid or fluid?
05:32 What does manifestation and journaling have to do with your daily practice?
06:42 Journal prompts
08:31 The importance of having moments of ‘yin’ and introspection, where you can find your alignment to set a goal.
11:04 Journal prompts (we recommend you to re-listen to this part of the episode with a pen and paper to write some notes).
12:10 Thank you for listening, we love receiving your feedback on our episodes so let us know how you go with your journal prompts and if you have any questions!
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Join Ava in this 15 minute meditation. This grounding practice will help you connect to the body, bring relaxation to your layers and allow a deeper connection to your middle. There is an opportunity to enquire how you are feeling and what you need.
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In this episode, Ava shares her advice for all first- time parents and those of young babies. This is the perfect episode to learn how to feel confident about being a parent.
Relevant links and resources:
Book: Post-natal depletion cure by Dr Oscar Serrallach
How I’m being a good mom
Chapter markers:
00:00 Ava introduces the topic and shares about the hardest times of being a parent
05:36 Post- natal depletion
08:23 As a new parent, it’s important to address these key areas to keep healthy
12:56 Ava’s biggest advice: advocate for yourself
22:26 Seeing parenting as an investment, as a project that’s going to give back to you
28:30 Last pieces of advice
29:55 Thank you for listening, don’t hesitate to contact us if you need further resources and support
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Soften unnecessary tension, fan gratitude energy to your whole being with this 15 minute guided meditation by Ava.
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Today we are repurposing one of our favourite episodes.
Listen to Ava talk about an important tool of her personal development journey: Nonviolent Communication (NVC).
Communication is not about following a book formula or exercises, it is about ultimately embodying the principles of NVC and integrating the humanity in our conversations.
Ava discusses how and when nonviolent communication changed her life and the way you can change yours too.
If you have any requests for upcoming podcasts we would love to hear from you!
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Free Resources
Shining the light on the Fawn Response: stop fawning
Therapeutic Embodiment Facilitator Training
Chapter markers:
00:00 Introduction to the topic
02:09 The first time Ava heard about Nonviolent Communication (NVC).
04:40 Practicing the formulas vs embodying the principles.
06:55 Intentions and principles of NVC.
8:30 The difference between NVC and fawning.
11:40 The ultimate skills of NVC and the importance of having our own healing practice.
14:23 Conclusion.
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Join Anaid in this guided cacao ceremony and meditation for abundance.
We start by grounding and relaxing the body to drink the cacao in ceremony and ritual.
During the meditation we share a common intention of connecting to the abundance available in the present moment. We seal off this practice with abundance affirmations.
A truly delightful self-care ritual!
Take your time to prepare a cup of cacao or any ritual drink or food you'd like to connect with. Come back to this audio when you are in a comfortable space and ready to start the meditation.
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Today Ava and Anaid have something very special to share: they are launching a new business together this week!
In this podcast episode Ava and Anaid talk about their new business, why they decided to become a partnership and what the main vision and goals are for this new venture.
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Website to be launched on Thursday 9th May!
Chapter markers:
00:00 Ava and Anaid introduce their new business
01:30 Context and background about this new journey and why Ava wanted to join
03:18 Anaid shares why she wanted to be in a partnership
06:16 What is ‘herbolaria de alta calidad’
08:52 Importance of having a background in herbalism and health science
10:00 Ava shares why she loves these products
12:00 The importance of sourcing essential oils in a sustainable way
14:11 We are launching this week! Stay tuned for more details, launch specials and giveaways by following us on @lavandulabotanicals.
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In this episode Ava introduces herbalist and yoga teacher Anaid who works behind the scenes as the OBM for Functional Spirituality.
Both Ava and Anaid share the key elements of their self-care practice and a little tease about what’s to come in May.
Relevant links:
How to do a happenings diary
Guided meditation: Arriving into the now
Chapter markers:
00:00 Ava introduces Anaid
02:11 Anaid talks about her journey, how she found Spanda, the highlights and challenges of working for FS
05:15 Ava and Anaid talk about their experience working together
07:13 What does self care mean to Anaid and what does it look like?
11:24 Key elements self care practices
13:50 Self care vs discipline
16:00 Intention is clarity
18:30 Ava shares about her self care practice
22:00 Ritual, connecting to the senses and grounding to the moment
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In this guided meditation Ava gently guides you to use the breath to connect with your inner space.
A short, simple and gentle practice for your daily dose of meditation.
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In today’s episode Ava talks about an important piece of work for her, a journey that started about 10 years ago. Listen in to hear Ava talk about what healing and therapeutic embodiment is and how you can implement that in your daily life and offerings.
Relevant links:
Guided self reflection practice
Therapeutic Embodiment Facilitator Teacher Training
Therapeutic Embodiment Professional Development Course
Chapter markers:
00:00 Intro to the topic and initial experience with an embodiment practice
03:40 What is healing and complex trauma?
08:40 The two ways that healing modalities work
11:40 Connecting to the subtle sensations in the body is like a hack for your biology
13:23 Top down healing modalities
15:34 What is Therapeutic Embodiment (TE)
19:00 The Therapeutic Embodiment can be done in different settings but the core aspects remain the same
23:21 The TE training
25:11 We hope this has inspired you in your healing journey, get in touch with us if you have any questions about our upcoming TE training.
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In this spacious guided meditation with Ava we connect to the body and investigate the blocks to feeling compassion in everyday life. We cultivate an attitude of loving acceptance in all aspects of our being.
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In this inspiring episode Ava talks about setting goals. Cultivating is part 2 of the 3-part method of Functional Spirituality and is about moving towards a goal that you are interested in. How does motivation work? What is a goal? What is the root of a goal setting process? What are the obstacles to manifesting? Listen in to find out the answers to these questions. Relevant links:
Part 1 of the Manifestation Series
Chapter markers:
00:00 Intro to the topic
03:53 What is Cultivating?
06:11 What is the root of a goal setting practice?
08:36 The surface layer of our conscious mind vs today’s living
10:40 The deeper levels of our experience that drive our behaviors
12:02 One of the biggest obstacles to manifesting
15:18 Goals need to be alive: every goal is going to have it’s own steps, it’s a unique, evolving process
19:22 Episode recap & we look forward to hearing about your experience in intention revealing practice
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Mahashivratri, “The Great Night of Shiva” is a night of special spiritual significance. Shiva represents the transcendent aspect of reality according to non -dual shiva tantra teachings.
In this meditation we come into resonance with Shiva as we connect to the formless essential being that we are.
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00:00 Introduction to Shiva
03:25 Meditation
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This gentle guided meditation with music is a beautiful self-love meditation full of pleasure and ease.
Relax and let Ava gently guide you in connecting with love and peace, your most essential layer. Use each breath to soften and love your whole body.
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In this episode Ava discusses what trauma is and what happens to our body when we experience a traumatic event. She also shares with us her understanding of the mechanics of a healing process and the different ways of meeting traumatic material.
Relevant links:
Free resources
Free workshop
Therapeutic Embodiment Facilitator Training (coming soon!)
Chapter markers:
00:00 A bit about Ava and Functional Spirituality podcast
01:43 Intro to today’s topic
04:05 Understanding the mechanics of a healing practice
05:24 What is trauma?
07:40 What happens when we experience a traumatic event?
11:06 What does healing from a traumatic event mean?
15:46 The idea of catharsis
19:50 Ways of meeting traumatic material
22:56 Disclaimer
23:25 Part 1 of the Functional Spirituality Method, free resources and upcoming trainings.
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This beginner friendly, 8-minute guided meditation is designed to help you relax stress stored in the body.
Allow the breathe to help you release unnecessary tension and connect to a state of deep relaxation.
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This episode is inspired by a question often asked to Ava: ‘Should I go on a Silent Retreat?’
Listen in to hear Ava discuss the main challenges for attending a Silent Retreat as she explains the steps to build a self reflective capacity and increase the chances for a successful Silent Retreat. Ava also mentions the different types of retreat and what separates a Spanda Silent Retreat from other retreats.
Whether you think a Silent Retreat is your next step or not, we are always happy to hear from you and and assist you in building your spiritual practice.
Relevant links:
- What is the difference between Silent Retreat and a Vipassana Retreat?
Chapter markers:
00:00 Introduction to the topic.
2:30 Different types of retreat
5:20 Should I go on a Silent Retreat?
8:00 Steps to make before attending to a Silent Retreat
9:30 What makes a retreat challenging for a beginner?
13:05 What we do at Spanda Silent Retreat to support beginners with these challenges
15:40 Thank you for listening
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Welcome to this 35 minute meditation with Ava. In this meditation Ava begins with some body stretches and gently guides you into a state of relaxation and peace.
This meditation will help you relax the tensions of the body and connect to the sweetness of your middle, the heart space.
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In this episode Ava shares her recent experiences as a parent and openly discusses the difficulties that have played out over the last 13 months.
Ava also talks about what it really means to set boundaries and the journey of applying boundaries in her life, relationship and as a parent.
Whether you are a parent or not, this podcast is for you if you are interested in applying healthy boundaries in your life.
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Healthy vs Rigid Boundaries
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Chapter markers:
00:00 Intro
01:45 Ava’s most painful and challenging experience as a parent
2:40 What’s been happening over the last month in her life
4:30 Ava’s experience as ‘the working parent’
5:26 Having resources and choices to navigate the challenges of life vs experiencing hardship with little choices
8:15 Ava shares about a conflict that she’s experienced internally
12:42 The challenges about their current arrangement of caring for Jasmine 50/50
19:20 There can be many layers of our experience that prevent us from sensing exactly what we need
21:19 Boundaries are so important but also complicated
24:34 Steps to create boundaries and the highest value of Functional Spirituality Podcast
29.15 Thanks for listening
Join Ava and settle in, away from the mind and towards the body.
This is a body scan meditation with soothing background music to nourish, soften, let go and connect to stillness.
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Regardless of the type of relationship we're in, our interactions with others can sometimes bring out some of the darkest emotions. We can sometimes feel immense pain, and often experience the feeling of being trapped. We tend to label these relationships as ‘toxic’.
In this episode, Ava unpacks this ‘toxic’ label, reframing what it means to experience being trapped in a ‘toxic relationship’.
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Relevant links:
- Free Resources Page
Chapter markers:
00:00 Warning: Honey may be snoring in the background 🙂
01:05 Introduction to the topic
04:00 What happens in our brains when something hurts?
05:35 What is a toxic relationship?
8:50 How do I know that I am in a toxic relationship?
11:10 Ingredients to healing
12:00 Some relationships trigger our deepest wounds
15:00 Ava shares about her experience
16:26 What do we do now?
19:30 Let us know what you think of this episode
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Join Anaid in this effortless guided cacao ceremony meditation to relax your body, heal and connect with your true essence.
Take your time to prepare a cup of cacao or any ritual drink or food you'd like to connect with. Come back to this audio when you are in a comfortable space and ready to start the meditation.
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This week we are repurposing one of our favourite episodes from the Functional Spirituality archive.
'Boundaries' is a common topic in personal development and spirituality, but do we really know what healthy boundaries are? It is a skill that needs to be cultivated and ultimately becomes an art form in how we relate to our health, our happiness and each other.
Healthy boundaries help regulate our nervous system in a sustainable way.
What are the main ingredients of having Healthy Boundaries?
How can we develop this skill so our requests are not either too rigid or too loose?
Listen to this podcast to answer these questions.
If you want to receive the longer training on boundaries please click here.
Relevant episodes:
Two ways healing tools work
Chapter markers:
00:00 The importance of internal awareness and reflection in spirituality
2:45 Boundaries vs Spiritual Values
5:00 Relational dynamics and how they contribute to our health
7:00 What are healthy boundaries?
8:50 How do we build this skill?
12:55 Self awareness
14:15 Communication
19:00 Flexibility
20:30 Rigid boundaries vs Healthy Boundaries
24:58 We invite you to take some space to reflect on this topic.
26:00 Join our facebook group and subscribe to the Functional Spirituality podcast.
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Ready to start the new year with intention?
Choosing a 'word of the year' helps bring focus and clarity to what we want to create in our lives.
Struggling to pick a word? No worries, this guided meditation is here to help you!
This isn’t about crossing another goal off your list, it’s about creating an intention to help guide your daily actions and cultivate the qualities you want more of this year.
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Welcome to the first episode of the year. There is a collective energy directed towards setting new goals, dreaming big, re-inventing ourselves, having a fresh start. In this episode Ava shares with you some tips about how to create a morning routine. Is there a behavior change, a new routine, a practice, a new habit that you want to implement?
Listen in to hear Ava share her insights that will support you with habit forming.
Relevant links:
Anchoring a word for the year
How to create a self suggestion tape
Dreaming exercise:
Click here to see the journal prompts.
Chapter markers:
00:00 Intro
01:33 Habit forming is a practice and a skill that we can develop
4:46 Talking about an outcome is not enough, we need planning and consideration
9:47 Journal prompts
11:04 Telling someone about it
13:00 Thank you for listening, we hope you have a beautiful start to the year
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Start your day with energy and positivity with this 15 minute guided meditation by Ava.
Breathe and connect with the space in which the thoughts arise and explore the sensations of the smiling energy at the heart space.
The perfect opportunity to enquire how you are feeling and offering a loving and caring space for yourself.
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The holiday season can be a stressful time for a lot of people, where self-care practices are placed second to social engagements and commitments. It is in fact also the perfect time for rest and reflection. A sacred time for journaling, evaluation and integration of the year. In this (repurposed) episode Ava shares her favourite journal prompts to help you stay grounded and balanced during the holiday period. We invite you to do some contemplation so please have a journal and pen when you listen to this episode. Join our Facebook group and feel free to share with the community your answers to the journal prompts. We'd love to get ideas from you! Journal prompts: 1. What would balance look like to you?
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Is there anything I have planned that I am not looking forward to?
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Is there a boundary that I could set or a resource that I could call on to help me with the above?
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Is there anything else that I am dreading or worried about?
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Is there a resource that I could call on or are there a number of resources that I would like to call on to support me?
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What would these resources give me?
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Is there something that I can do to support myself knowing that this is what I need?
Chapter markers: 00:00 Introduction to the topic - have a pen and a journal with you!
00:51 The holiday season can be a time of stress for a lot of people.
02:21 This is the sacred time for rest and reflection.
03:27 How to find balance between social activities and solo, self- care.
04:24 Journal prompts.
6:34 Thank you for listening, wishing you a happy, joyful and easeful holiday season!
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Welcome to this 20 minute spacious guided meditation with soothing background music.
Follow each breath in and out of your heart space and replace unnecessary thoughts for smiling energy. Connect to the sensations of the inner smile and the peace at the center of your being.
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In this episode Ava answers a popular question from the retreat.
Listen in to hear Ava share 4 tips to help us maintain the feeling of being rested and having a regulated nervous system in the outside world after the retreat.
If you have any comments or thoughts please let us know in our Facebook group. We’d love to hear from you!
Relevant links:
Guided self- reflection practice
New year’s eve event
Chapter markers:
00:00 Intro and context
01:00 The question from retreat
2:00 Strategy #1: Have a self- reflection practice
6:00 Strategy #2: Exercise
6:52 #3: Rest
9:04 #4: Nourishment
11:20 Final strategy & recap
13:11 End of year event
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'The sensations in your body are an expression of the now'.
Join Ava for this spacious, minimally guided meditation that gives you time to arrive into the body.
Allow the body to gently resolve itself as you practice relaxation, compassion and gratitude with simple and effective techniques.
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Welcome to this personal share about Ava’s life and what’s been going on behind the scenes for her and her family.
Listen in to hear Ava talk about body image, how she is parenting, her relationship and home situation.
If you have any comments or thoughts please let us know in our Facebook group. We’d love to hear from you!
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Chapter markers:
00:00 Intro to the topic
02:12 The idea that Jasmine is always settled and her parents are calmed
3:00 Challenging periods over the last 12 months
05:20 The phases of uncertainty and the dilemma: do we need to act or trust?
6:44 Ava’s relationship with Jarred, her lack of sleep and sleep training Jasmine
14:15 The idea of ‘do I need to act or trust’?
16:13 Body image
18:20 How do Jarred and Ava work as a family and as parents?
21:23 Ava’s relationship advice
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This 20-minute meditation by Anaid guides you to gently move your body and connect to the sensations in your inner space. Allow the tension of the mind to melt down and give yourself the permission to arrive in a state of effortlessness and awareness.
The perfect meditation to start your day with clarity and relaxation!
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This episode is for anyone who is looking to take their practice a little bit more deeper.
If you need more support for your yoga, healing, meditation and spirituality practice, then we have a special offer for you: TFSR.
The Functional Spirituality Retreat is an online platform that presents, step by step, the teachings of Functional Spirituality: Deconditioning, Cultivating and Awakening.
Listen in to hear Ava talk about her personal journey in creating this offering and the value that this program has for you.
Chapter markers:
00:00 How The Functional Spirituality Retreat was first created
02:38 The question that has been playing on Ava’s mind
04:55 The value of this program
6:33 The main benefit of this program
9:33 The value of taking a pause and going self - paced
10:30 We will release this program in a few weeks time, join our waitlist to receive a discount for this program.
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Let go of the tension of your nervous system and wake up to the depth of your being.
We've repurposed this guided gratitude practice by Ava to help you cultivate resilience in your life and your relationships.
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Are your healing tools helping or hindering?
As we approach the end of mental health month in Australia, it's a good time to share with you this episode in which Ava discusses how to support yourself when you find yourself at the 'bottom of the wave'.
More important than trying to tackle your healing work is identifying the place you’re coming from when you use your tools - are you coming from a place of dysregulation or are you coming from a place of presence?
When you are at the bottom of the wave, you may gain a profound perspective by stepping back for a moment and connecting to Being.
Let us know your thoughts and join the podcast discussion in our Facebook group.
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Guided meditation: 5 minute consecration practice
Guided meditation: The joy of being
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Welcome to this awakening practice guided by Ava.
Empty out your thoughts in exchange for the recognition of ‘now’ and connect to the background of being. An opportunity to experience the formless, existence essence.
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Our manifestation series has been one of the most popular episodes in the podcast. Ava has received a lot of feedback and personal stories which have inspired her to refine her manifestation philosophy and create this follow up episode.
Tune in to listen to Ava answer questions and clarify some aspects of her manifestation philosophy.
Discover the difference between manifesting personal and impersonal experiences and how our perception changes our experience.
If you liked our series The universe does not have your back please share it with friends and in your socials. We look forward to hearing your thoughts and questions on this topic and are more than happy to answer more questions in a follow up episode.
Relevant links:
The universe does not have your back - part 1
The universe does not have your back - part 2
The universe does not have your back - part 3
Chapter markers:
00:00 Recap from the Manifestation Series
03:00 Manifesting personal and impersonal experiences from a non-dual approach.
5:25 Manifesting in our personal experience
07:20 How our perception changes our experience
12:00 Clarifying the confusion around ‘the universe not having your back’ and taking personal responsibility.
17:04 Thank you for listening.
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Welcome to this 16 minute guided meditation by Ava. This guided meditation brings the inspiration from Ramana Maharshi in his teaching on following the I feeling in meditation.
Paired with a Hridaya meditation, the meditation invites seekers to explore what the word "I" refers to, and draws awareness back to its infinite Self-source.
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Welcome to this 10 minute guided self-reflection practice.
Self-reflection is the single most important skill for our healing and cultivation work, it is about being present and tuning into our person.
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00:00 Introduction to this guided practice
01:40 Self-reflection practice
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This 15 minute guided meditation with music is an opportunity to settle into your body and connect to the experience of love, trust and pleasure.
'If we trust life, we love life. Everything feels good.
It feels like a flow and things do actually flow more.'
We recommend listening to the previous podcast that explains the 3 ways to cultivate trust: 3 ways to cultivate more Trust in your life
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Welcome to part 3, the final episode of our Manifestation series.
Today Ava shares with you what works in the manifestation systems and practices, how they work and why she loves this practice. Our wish is to inspire you and help you to have a more clear and effective manifestation practice at home.
If you liked this episode please share with your friends and family. And as always, we look forward to hearing your thoughts, comments and questions about this episode.
Relevant links:
The universe does not have your back - Part 1
The universe does not have your back - Part 2
Chapter markers:
00:00 Introduction to the topic and invitation to listen (relisten) to part 1 and 2
01:38 Update from Ava and summary of part 1 and 2
05:02 Introduction to today’s topic
06:52 The three parts of manifestation that actually do make a difference
7:52 The subconscious mind and the condition of your nervous system
14:00 The power of clarity
18:13 The three Rs
19:31 The second part
24:55 Connecting to the universal potentiality
29:25 Ava’s house
32:49 Thank you for listening, if you liked this episode please share it with your friends. We look forward to hearing your thoughts on this.
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Enjoy this 37 minute guided meditation guided by Ava.
This practice starts with a series of gentle stretches and has an emphasis on your body feeling comfortable. There is an invitation to make adjustments in your body at any time throughout the meditation.
Allow the full breaths to connect you to your experience and sense the intimacy and grounding as the heart opens to stillness.
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Welcome to part 2 of the manifestation series.
In this episode Ava shares with us the 4 most inefficient beliefs and practices around manifestation.
From a non-dual, awakening approach she discusses what doesn't make sense and what we need to be careful about the manifestation philosophies.
If you haven't listened to part 1, we recommend you to check it out here.
Chapter markers:
00:00 Introduction to the topic and summary from part 1 of the manifestation series
01:30 What not to do with manifestation?
03:30 The universe is neutral, it doesn’t have preferences nor attributes
4:54 Don’t believe that the universe is guiding you
07:07 The only thing that the universe ‘wants’ to do
9:30 A common misconception about the manifestation philosophies
10:37 Don’t adopt incoherent falsities
13:09 We recommend you to re-listen to this episode and part 1 before our final episode of the manifestation series which will be released in 2 weeks!
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Welcome to this mini series where Ava will talk about manifestation.
Manifestation is a tempting and attractive topic. There are many schools and practices around it. However, not all of these practices can be as effective as we wish them to be.
We can end up spending many years following the wrong practice and losing motivation.
In this series Ava shares with you what has worked and hasn’t worked for her in the last 10+ years of practicing manifestation.
Chapter markers:
00:00 Introduction to the topic
3:30 The imbalance in the culture of speediness
5:00 The intention of this podcast episode and Functional Spirituality
7:11 Ava’s current experience with manifestation and how she started this practice
9:33 A quick overview of the main practices around manifestation
15:08 Wasting years learning and following the wrong practice can lead to losing motivation
19:00 Thank you for listening, stay tuned for part 2 of this series which will be released next week!
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Join Ava Irani for this guided meditation with music. Lightly guided with lots of space, you are invited to drop into your body, your centre and your presence. The perfect way to find inner connection and unravel the tensions before you start the week.
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Have you ever wondered how your spiritual path can mature?
Listen in to hear Ava share her personal experience as a spiritual seeker.
This episode helps you to gain a deeper understanding of your own spiritual path.
Recommended links:
- History of Hatha Yoga Course
- History of Hatha Yoga podcast episode
- “The Ancient and Modern Roots of Yoga” by Mark Singleton
Chapter markers:
00:00 Introduction
3:15 The four phases of a spiritual path
4:20 Ava’s spiritual journey
8:28 Phase II
14:59 Phase III and the importance of questioning
17:07 Becoming a teacher (phase IV)
20:40 Let us know about what you think of this episode
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Enjoy this 40minute meditation with Ava as she guides you to soften the layers of tensions of your body, mind and emotions.
Explore the present moment from a deep embodied awareness and feel the expansive effects of this powerful practice.
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A journaling exercise to up level at any time.
In this episode Ava shares tips, journal prompts and three ingredients that will help us integrate the retreat experience in our daily lives.
These journal prompts can also be applied when you want to go deeper into a practice and harness the effects after a powerful experience.
Relevant links:
- Silent Retreat dates
- Journal prompts
Chapter markers:
00:00 Introduction to the topic
2:10 The three ingredients that will help us integrate the retreat experience in our daily lives
3:20 The ‘I don’t have enough time’ mentality
8:08 The importance of having a journaling practice and working retrospectively
9:55 Willpower is a finite resource, so what do we need?
11:08 Journaling prompts
14:00 Creating a structure
17:07 Looking at our capacity
18:10 Thank you for listening and visit our podcast page to review the journal prompts
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The breath is an effortless tool for healing, presence and stillness.
In this meditation Ava guides you to use the breath to connect to the life-force energy and bring awareness and presence to your body.
The perfect short and gentle practice for your daily dose of meditation!
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The 100hr Yoga for Mental Health Teacher Training is back!
Join with our discount code: AVA50 and support students experiencing mental health challenges with compassion, confidence, and skill.
Visit this link for more details about the training.
Repurposed episode:
Ava and Deniz explore the importance of educating yoga teachers in mental health, as they answer these questions: Why do people come to yoga? When is cueing not mental health aware? What is the antidote to this?
About our guest: Deniz Aydoslu is a self-care coach, senior yoga and meditation teacher, somatic educator, and an expert in the therapeutic application of embodied movement systems for emotional health.
Relevant links:
- Somatic Yoga Teacher Training for Mental Health
- Book about yoga for depression and anxiety
Chapter markers:
00:00 Introduction
2:35 Who is Deniz Aydoslu?
8:30 The time when Ava and Deniz met
10:20 The importance of educating yoga teachers in mental health
13:00 Training offering & mental health in old-school yoga
17:00 What inspired Deniz to create this training?
18:45 When is cueing not mental health aware?
24:00 What is the antidote to this?
26:25 What is included in the training?
The energy of gratitude that expands through the heart allows us to open ourselves to receive more.
Give yourself the opportunity to relax, receive the universal energy of abundance and observe your life, mind and body transform.
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In this episode, Ava shares about one of the greatest gifts that she has received from having baby Jasmine.
After exploring the two most common parenting styles, she has come across a third way of parenting. An empowering approach that has helped her reframe the way she holds space for herself, Jasmine and others when they experience emotion.
Listen in to learn about Aware Parenting and how this can be helpful for both your parenting and relational journeys.
Chapter markers:
00:00 Introduction to the topic and context
02:39 The two most common parenting styles
4:40 When Jasmine was born and Ava’s observations on these approaches
8:58 The third way: Aware parenting
13:40 Crying in loving arms
16:13 How this helped Ava reframe the way she holds space for others
19:20 Why is this such a beneficial paradigm?
22:48 Have you tried this approach? Keen to hear your thoughts. Thank you for listening.
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Need some time to rest and relax?
Then listen to this meditation where Anaid guides you to use the breath to relax your body and mind.
Feel the invitation to rest in a deeper state of ease and joy.
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We live in a time where our environment is constantly changing and our society is living in survival mode. When stressed, our thinking mind acts with speed instead of depth, trying to get things done instead of acting intentionally. There is no time for consideration, discernment and deeper thinking. These are key ingredients for living functionally.
In this episode Ava talks about functionality and why it is her # 1 goal. Listen in to learn some tips and ideas about how you can be more functional in your life.
Relevant links:
RAIN technique meditation
Guided meditation: Using being for healing
Free workshops
Silent Retreat dates
Chapter markers:
00:00 Introduction to the topic, functionality as a biological desire
01:13 Understanding functionality in the context that we live in
4:20 The lack of intentionality in the survival paradigm
7:00 How the thinking mind works and sees the world
9:20 Living on the surface vs living intentionally
12:38 How to be more functional?
14:43 Thank you for listening and an update about our new free workshops and upcoming silent retreat dates.
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Join Ava in this 18- minute guided meditation with music and connect to the stillness and awareness within.
Use your breath to calm and nourish your body, transforming any resistance into trust.
Slowly arrive at a space of wisdom and inner strength.
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Intuition is more than a 'gut feeling', it is a feeling of alignment.
Join Ava as she explains what this 'feeling of alignment' is and how she applies intuition in her daily life, goals and business.
(Repurposed episode).
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Join Anaid in this relaxing 11-minute meditation to ground your awareness into the present moment. Use your breath and the heart space to relax your body into stillness and rest in the aliveness of your presence.
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Today’s topic is applicable to everybody, not just mothers or parents.
We often find ourselves complaining about life and unconsciously hoping that complaining will help us get our needs met. In reality, complaining signals our bodies and the people around us stress and resistance. This is not sustainable for ourselves and our relationships.
Listen in to hear Ava share insights from her life and how reframing things positively has supported her recently.
The intention of this episode is to inspire you to cultivate optimism in a healthy way. We recommend you to listen back to this podcast in a month or two to track and observe your progress.
Chapter markers:
00:00 Introduction to the topic and update from Ava
02:20 How the silent retreats have supported Ava during an important transition in her life
4:09 What is positively benefiting Ava and her relationships?
5:52 How does complaining affect our body and relationships?
8:45 An example where we can reframe our reality in a positive way and still being truthful to ourselves
14:00 Complaining as a strategy to try to get your needs met
15:48 Ava’s super power
17:00 Thank you for listening, if you have any topic ideas for this podcast please let us know by sending us an email: functionalspiritualityretreat@gmail.com
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Start your day with this grounding 5 minute consecration practice. Consecration is a spiritual practice for surrendering the personal will, and opening up to the universal energy of Life itself.
We invite you to take a few deep breaths, slowly letting go of personal struggle, and allowing ourselves to trust life. We offer a prayer to be a vessel for the highest good and let go of attachment to outcome. The perfect morning meditation practice!
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Story time! Ava shares a bit about her journey and the origin of the 3 part method. What makes Functional Spirituality so unique? Listen and find out.
Relevant links:
The new paradigm of healing
Free resources page
Chapter markers:
00:00 Introduction to the topic
02:00 Ava’s story: Bikram yoga, Agama and Hridaya schools.
10:45 The origin story of the 3 part method.
14:20 The three intentions that we may have in our spiritual practice.
20:00 The difference between Awakening and Deconditioning tools.
23:30 The importance of intention.
26:08 Conclusion
28:18 Thank you for listening, if you have any questions and comments please let us know.
Gift yourself 15 minutes of your day and join Ava in this healing practice cultivating the energy of gratitude. Gratitude can be a healing tool as it helps us connect back to the feelings of joy, love, openness and presence.
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In this episode Jarred chats about his experiences and offers insights into the 5 day labour and Jasmine’s birth. Jarred explains how not everything turned out how they had planned and opens up on the difficulties, challenges and learnings taken throughout the journey.
Relevant links:
Our intense birth story
Chapter markers:
00:00 Introduction to the topic
02:30 Jarred’s experience at the beginning of the labour.
5:45 What was Jarred scared of during this time?
7:20 Positive parts of this experience
10:46 Jarred’s experience during the 3rd, 4rd day of labor.
14:00 Ava and Jarred share how they experienced the pregnancy and labour differently.
16:00 Jarred’s advice for those who are planning their pregnancy and birth.
17:20 The hardest time for Jarred.
24:50 Jarred’s experience after the birth.
27:45 Ava and Jarred share about what has happened since the birth.
30:00 Thank you for listening if you have any questions for Jarred and Ava please let us know.
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Join Ava in this spacious guided meditation to slow down, relax and arrive to the present moment through your body and breath. Connect to the intimacy and stillness of your being.
We finalise this meditation with loving breaths and a gratitude practice.
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In this episode Ava talks about one of the favourite tools that she has come across in her personal development journey: Nonviolent Communication (NVC).
Communication is not about following a book formula or exercises, it is about ultimately embodying the principles of NVC and integrating the humanity in the our conversations.
Listen in to hear Ava discuss about how and when nonviolent communication actually changed her life and the way you can change yours too.
If you have any requests for upcoming podcasts we would love to hear from you!
Send us an email at functionalspiritualityretreat@gmail.com.
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Relevant links:
Free Resources
Shining the light on the Fawn Response: stop fawning
Therapeutic Embodiment Facilitator Training waitlist
Chapter markers:
00:00 Introduction to the topic
02:09 The first time Ava heard about Nonviolent Communication (NVC).
04:40 Practicing the formulas vs embodying the principles.
06:55 Intentions and principles of NVC.
8:30 The difference between NVC and fawning.
11:40 The ultimate skills of NVC and the importance of having our own healing practice.
14:23 Conclusion.
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Join Ava in this spacious guided meditation to connect to what is meaningful for you at the moment.
Use your breath to drop into your body, your center and your presence.
Give yourself the opportunity to enquire: How do I feel? What do I need?
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As we approach our next Awakening Silent Retreat in April, we are repurposing one of our favourite posts about Awakening.
Inspired by an email we received a few months ago that draws attention to how the word ‘awakening’ can be a very confusing topic for some people. Ava talks about the process behind Awakening and the importance of having a clear and simple explanation of exactly what it is, how the awakening techniques work and what you can expect along the way.
Ava encourages us to use our own discernment and create our own framework so we are not completely abnegating our thinking to a system or teachings outside of us.
Relevant links:
Awakening Silent Retreat in Margaret River (April 14th - 18th 2023).
Guided meditation: The Invitation by Mooji
Guided meditation: Inner smile into pure Being
What is an AWAKE teacher?
Chapter markers:
00:00 Introduction to the topic
6:08 Common misconceptions about awakening
8:25 What is awakening?
12:30 What is ‘the person’ according to non-dual traditions?
13:30 Non-dual awakening techniques
14:58 The difference between healing and being
16:15 The confusion that exists in some ‘awakeing’ teachers and teachings
21:40 How do I bring clarity in my spiritual path?
23:00 Summary about the three part method and the two formats of our Silent Retreats
24:26 Awakening Silent Retreat.
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Take some time to use your breath and awareness to soften the body and arrive into the present moment.
This spacious meditation guided by Anaid applies the energy of gratitude to bring healing and relaxation to your being. As you connect to the heart space, notice the transformative effect that gratitude can bring.
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This week we are repurposing one of our favourite episodes from the Functional Spirituality archive.
'Boundaries' is a common topic in personal development and spirituality, but do we really know what healthy boundaries are? It is a skill that needs to be cultivated and ultimately becomes an art form in how we relate to our health, our happiness and each other.
Healthy boundaries help regulate our nervous system in a sustainable way.
What are the main ingredients of having Healthy Boundaries?
How can we develop this skill so our requests are not either too rigid or too loose?
Listen to this podcast to answer these questions.
If you want to receive the longer training on boundaries please click here.
Relevant episodes:
Two ways healing tools work
Chapter markers:
00:00 The importance of internal awareness and reflection in spirituality
2:45 Boundaries vs Spiritual Values
5:00 Relational dynamics and how they contribute to our health
7:00 What are healthy boundaries?
8:50 How do we build this skill?
12:55 Self awareness
14:15 Communication
19:00 Flexibility
20:30 Rigid boundaries vs Healthy Boundaries
24:58 We invite you to take some space to reflect on this topic.
26:00 Join our facebook group and subscribe to the Functional Spirituality podcast.
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Gift yourself 15 minutes of your day to practice this guided meditation by Ava that will help you cultivate relaxation and joy.
Breathe and connect with the space in which the thoughts arise and explore the sensations of the smiling energy and the heart space.
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In order to heal, we need to hold a loving space for the discomfort, trigger or challenge that we are experiencing. How can we do this?
In this episode Ava shares one of her favorite techniques for dealing with difficult emotions. She also shares a special ingredient that not only helps the healing process but deeply reorganises our nervous system and conditions.
Join the podcast discussion and our weekly meditations in our Facebook group.
Relevant links:
Free Resources
Therapeutic Embodiment Training
Chapter markers:
00:00 Ava’s update
01:20 Introduction to the topic
02:00 RAIN technique
04:00 A special ingredient for healing
05:00 How to do the RAIN technique
09:36 How to apply the special ingredient for healing
16:20 Healing course starting in March
16:50 Conclusion
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Join Ava in this 15 minute spacious guided meditation to experience and embody the presence of your being.
We start by gently moving the body and connecting to the awareness of the breath. Notice the effortless and limitless qualities of your being and connect to the embodied presence and how that feels in your own experience.
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It is evident that our communities are burnout and there’s toxicity in the way we relate to ourselves and others. But why did we get to this point? How can we incorporate a new paradigm of healing?
Today’s episode is a republish of an episode shared earlier in 2022 about the new paradigm of healing.
Listen in to learn about the concept of yin and yang and how this duality is represented in our nervous system, our society and our attitude towards healing.
An important topic for our community, the healing professions and those experiencing illness and healing first hand.
Relevant links:
Free workshop series replay
Therapeutic Embodiment Training
Chapter markers:
00:00 Introduction to this podcast
03:00 The old paradigm of healing
04:20 Self- connection and the healing way of being
07:00 Therapeutic Embodiment Training
8:00 Nervous system and yin & yang
12:00 We live in a yang paradigm
14:00 The imbalance of the old paradigm
17:00 Healing is a yin condition
18:50 The new paradigm for healing
26:00 Join in the conversation on the Facebook page
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Join Anaid in this effortless guided cacao ceremony meditation to relax your body, heal and connect with your true essence.
Take your time to prepare a cup of cacao or any ritual drink or food you'd like to connect with. Come back to this audio when you are in a comfortable space and ready to start the meditation.
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Find a comfortable position and prepare yourself to relax and receive these deep sleep affirmations and suggestions by Anaid. This meditation works perfectly to reprogram the subconscious mind and relax your body into profound, restful sleep.
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In this episode Ava shares her healing journey and talks about spirituality, mental health and the new paradigm of healing. She explains how healing is about addressing the personal conditioning that lives in our psychological and physical self that creates suffering.
To learn more about the framework, skills and tools for healing join our new free workshop series here. Join our Facebook community and let us know how this resonates with you.
Relevant links:
New free workshop series on Jan 30th & 31st
Therapeutic Embodiment Facilitator Training
Chapter markers:
00:00 Introduction to the topic
01:00 Developmental and adolescent stages
4:28 Early twenties and managing her disconnection and depression with ‘healthy’ coping mechanisms
6:10 School in Thailand and the promises of spiritual traditions
12: 50 What is healing and suffering?
15:10 Ava’s mental health crisis in 2018
17:30 Spirituality, mental health and the new paradigm of healing
20:20 Recap on Ava’s healing journey: downward spiral, management period, upward spiral.
23:10 What created the upward spiral?
26:30 New Free workshop series coming on Jan 30th & 31st
28:30 Therapeutic embodiment facilitator training starts in March
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Slow down and sink into your body, soften your muscles and joints with your breath and gentle movement. Deepen your presence as you continue to inhabit your body.
Notice the subtle energy in our body while bringing loving attention to your body with this 18 minute guided meditation with music by Ava.
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Is meditation one of your new year’s resolutions? How can you incorporate more meditation into your schedule?
In this episode, Ava explains the key elements of meditation that help remove the obstacles for practicing.
Meditation is an activity, a craft that we work on and can get better at. At the beginning it may require some effort but eventually the practice becomes an absolute joy and is weaved effortlessly into your life.
If you want to deepen your practice we recommend you to register in the Start Meditation course, a 21 day journey that breaks down the ultimate keys for meditation in the simplest way possible. With expert support and step-by-step guidance, you will experience meditation in your daily life.
Relevant links:
- The two ways that healing tools work
- Start meditation course
Chapter markers:
00:00 Introduction to the topic
00:50 Meditation is a craft, a tool
1:30 The intention of this podcast
2:30 Elements to consider when you start practicing meditation
5:00 Setting the space
6:55 When to practice
8:50 Final tip: Choosing the tool that you want to use.
10:00 Creating the conditions that feel good and inspire you to do your practice
11:45 21 day Start Meditation course
12:45 Our FREE weekly meditations are starting in January 2023
13:30 Non-dual awakening techniques
14:58 The difference between healing and being
16:15 The confusion that exists in some ‘awakeing’ teachers and teachings
21:40 How do I bring clarity in my spiritual path?
23:00 Summary about the three part method and the two formats of our Silent Retreats
24:56 Therapeutic Embodiment Facilitator Training
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In this episode Ava shares the birth story of Jasmine, born on Christmas day 2022. She describes the timeline and details of this intense, highly inspiring and empowering journey of 100+ hrs of labor.
Chapter markers:
00:00 Introduction
7:30 Timeline of the birth and details of what happened
49:00 Conclusion
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Ready to start the new year with intention? Choosing a 'word of the year' helps bring focus and clarity to what we want to create in our lives.
Struggling to pick a word? No worries, this guided meditation is here to help you!
This isn’t about crossing another goal off your list, it’s about creating an intention to help guide your daily actions and cultivate the qualities you want more of this year.
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The holiday season can be a stressful time for a lot of people, where self-care practices are placed second to social engagements and commitments. It is in fact also the perfect time for rest and reflection. A sacred time for journaling, evaluation and integration of the year. In this episode Ava shares her favourite journal prompts to help you stay grounded and balanced during the holiday period. Join our Facebook group and share with the community your answers to the journal prompts! Journal prompts: 1. What would balance look like to you?
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Is there anything I have planned that I am not looking forward to?
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Is there a boundary that I could set or a resource that I could call on to help me with the above?
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Is there anything else that I am dreading or worried about?
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Is there a resource that I could call on or are there a number of resources that I would like to call on to support me?
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What would these resources give me?
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Is there something that I can do to support myself knowing that this is what I need?
Chapter markers: 00:00 Introduction to the topic - have a pen and a journal with you!
00:51 The holiday season can be a time of stress for a lot of people.
02:21 This is the sacred time for rest and reflection.
03:27 How to find balance between social activities and solo, self- care.
04:24 Journal prompts.
6:34 Thank you for listening, wishing you a happy, joyful and easeful holiday season!
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Join Ava in this guided meditation where we explore the RAIN technique, one of our favourite deconditioning tools. In the second part of this meditation we deepen our practice using the smiling energy to connect us to the heart space, the adult part of our consciousness, our being.
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This week's topic is on Awakening; the third part of the three part method in Functional Spirituality.
Inspired by an email we received a couple of months ago that draws attention to how the word ‘awakening’ can be a very confusing topic for some people. Ava talks about the process behind Awakening and the importance of having a clear and simple explanation of exactly what it is, how the awakening techniques work and what you can expect along the way.
Ava encourages us to use our own discernment and create our own framework so we are not completely abnegating our thinking to a system or teachings outside of us.
Relevant links:
Guided meditation: The Invitation by Mooji
Guided meditation: Inner smile into pure Being
What is an AWAKE teacher?
Chapter markers:
00:00 Introduction to the topic
02:30 Today’s topic was inspired by an email we received a couple of months ago
6:08 Common misconceptions about awakening
8:25 What is awakening?
12:30 What is ‘the person’ according to non-dual traditions?
13:30 Non-dual awakening techniques
14:58 The difference between healing and being
16:15 The confusion that exists in some ‘awakeing’ teachers and teachings
21:40 How do I bring clarity in my spiritual path?
23:00 Summary about the three part method and the two formats of our Silent Retreats
24:56 Therapeutic Embodiment Facilitator Training
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Join Ava in this spacious guided meditation with music. Use your breath and relax yourself into a state of depth and presence.
We finalise this meditation with segment intending, a cultivating tool where you choose a segment of your life that is coming up and you visualise that situation working perfectly for you.
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Regardless of the type of relationship we're in, our interactions with others can sometimes bring out some of the darkest emotions. We can sometimes feel immense pain, and often experience the feeling of being trapped. We tend to label these relationships as ‘toxic’.
In this episode, Ava unpacks this ‘toxic’ label, reframing what it means to experience being trapped in a ‘toxic relationship’.
Although we had another podcast scheduled to be published this week, Ava decided to discuss something that has been present and meaningful for her in the last days.
Join the discussion in our Facebook group.
Relevant links:
- Free Resources Page
Chapter markers:
00:00 Warning: Honey may be snoring in the background 🙂
01:05 Introduction to the topic
04:00 What happens in our brains when something hurts?
05:35 What is a toxic relationship?
8:50 How do I know that I am in a toxic relationship?
11:10 Ingredients to healing
12:00 Some relationships trigger our deepest wounds
15:00 Ava shares about her experience
16:26 What do we do now?
19:30 Let us know what you think of this episode
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Join Anaid in this effortless guided cacao ceremony to honor the cacao and connect with this sacred medicine.
Take your time to prepare a cup of cacao or any ritual drink or food you'd like to connect with. Come back to this audio when you are in a comfortable space and ready to start the meditation.
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This episode is inspired by a question often asked to Ava: ‘Should I go on a Silent Retreat?’
Listen in to hear Ava discuss the main challenges for attending a Silent Retreat as she explains the steps to build a self reflective capacity and increase the chances for a successful Silent Retreat. Ava also mentions the different types of retreat and what separates a Spanda Silent Retreat from other retreats.
Whether you think a Silent Retreat is your next step or not, we are always happy to hear from you and and assist you in building your spiritual practice.
Relevant links:
- What is the difference between Silent Retreat and a Vipassana Retreat?
Chapter markers:
00:00 Introduction to the topic.
2:30 Different types of retreat
5:20 Should I go on a Silent Retreat?
8:00 Steps to make before attending to a Silent Retreat
9:30 What makes a retreat challenging for a beginner?
13:05 What we do at Spanda Silent Retreat to support beginners with these challenges
15:40 Thank you for listening
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A gentle, spacious meditation to ground you in the center of your being. Let yourself relax into the heart and surrender everything that is not your true nature.
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In this episode, Ava talks about healthy and rigid boundaries (special thanks to those who requested to hear more about this topic).
'Boundaries' is a common topic in personal development and spirituality, but do we really know what healthy boundaries are? It is a skill that needs to be cultivated and ultimately becomes an art form in how we relate to our health, our happiness and each other. Healthy boundaries help regulate our nervous system in a sustainable way.
What are the main ingredients of having Healthy Boundaries? How can we develop this skill so our requests are not either too rigid or too loose?
Listen to this podcast to answer these questions and receive the longer training on boundaries here.
Relevant episodes:
Two ways healing tools work
Chapter markers:
00:00 The importance of internal awareness and reflection in spirituality
2:45 Boundaries vs Spiritual Values
5:00 Relational dynamics and how they contribute to our health
7:00 What are healthy boundaries?
8:50 How do we build this skill?
12:55 Self awareness
14:15 Communication
19:00 Flexibility
20:30 Rigid boundaries vs Healthy Boundaries
24:58 We invite you to take some space to reflect on this topic.
26:00 Join our facebook group and subscribe to the Functional Spirituality podcast.
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Let your breath deepen and empty out anything that isn’t this present moment.
Listen inward and relax the unnecessary tensions in your body.
This meditation helps you feel your body, relax and return to stillness.
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Inspired by Ava’s friends who have asked questions about her baby’s ‘soul’. In this episode Ava elaborates further on why she does not believe that anyone has a soul.
With a degree in philosophy and a profound knowledge of non-duality, she explains that what we are in essence is very different to the common concept of the soul.
Join our Facebook community group and share with us what you believe the ‘soul’ is. We would love to hear your comments on this topic.
Relevant episodes:
- 4 stages of spiritual seeking
- ‘Being’ meditation
Chapter markers:
00:00 Introduction to the topic.
3:00 How spiritual concepts get conflated with physical reality.
4:00 The four stages of spiritual seeking and the importance of logic.
7:15 Ava’s job as a philosopher is to refine her thinking.
9:09 What is the soul?
12:08 The most up to date knowledge on personality.
15:00 Non- duality and Ava’s most profound meditation and spiritual experiences.
18:15 What am I essentially?
22:10 Personality, the nervous system and the soul.
27:00 Adopting beliefs in order to create otherness and belonging.
29:00 Using spirituality as a bandaid.
30:00 Today’s episode summary and the importance of refinement.
33:30 We would love to hear your comments of this episode.
Gift yourself some minutes to be present. Breathe and connect to the life that is here, right now.
Let your body, your emotions and thoughts ground and melt into the Now and notice the powerful shift that occurs.
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In this episode Ava talks about the process of birth and summarizes what she has discovered after going through a ‘rabbit hole’ of personal research over the last 3 months.
Listen in to know more about what she believes is the main driving factor for the birthing process to be more medicalized and how our reductionistic and superficial assumptions can affect the way we see and experience birthing.
Ava also shares the new philosophy and beliefs that she has adopted and answers the question 'What does natural birthing really require to become more functional?'
Chapter markers:
00:00 Introduction.
2:50 Reasons why birthing is more medicalized.
4:30 The contradiction between our biological processes and how our society operates.
7:00 Stress, healing and the conditions required for natural birth.
11:00 The reductionistic and superficial ideas in both medical and spiritual systems.
16:40 New workshop is coming up.
18:10 What does natural birthing really require to become more functional?
23:10 Thank you for listening, if you have any comments, questions and want to share your own experience about birth, join our Facebook group.
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A spacious guided meditation to ground your awareness into the body and invite an attitude of softening and allowing the moment to be as it is.
Use your breath and the heart space as a doorway for trusting life and connecting to the stillness of your Being
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In this episode Ava describes the fawn response and how it relates to developmental trauma. She explores the difference between fawning and being authentically caring.
Discover how powerful it is to understand how our behaviors can be unconsciously maladaptive and learn what to do to connect to a more authentic and grounded Self.
Relevant episodes:
- Therapeutic Embodiment Facilitator Training
Chapter markers:
00:00 Introduction to fawning
1:40 Fawning as a trauma response
5:00 When the fawn response becomes a maladaptive behavior
8:00 Equanimity or fawning?
12:00 What is the difference between fawning and being authentically caring?
18:15 Question from the Facebook group: does fawning cover feeling worried to trigger people when I am feeling great?
22:00 New module of fawning in our next Therapeutic Embodiment Facilitator Training
22:49 Thank you for listening
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Take 10 minutes of your day to ground in stillness and peace with this guided meditation.
Let go of any resistance to this moment and allow everything be as it is. Beyond the turmoil in our thoughts, emotions and body, lies a deep, stillness. Explore for yourself.
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Today’s episode is part two of the series of Jarred and Ava discussing their relationship.
Jarred answers questions from our listeners, and the couple reflect on their core values and the new paradigm of parenthood.
Another episode not to be missed. If you have any questions or comments, join the discussion on our Facebook group.
Relevant episodes:
- Ava and Jarred chat about their relationship part 1
- My Relationship with Jarred
Chapter markers:
00:00 Introduction and greetings from Broome, WA
3:05 What is the minimum effective dose?
4:30 What was your first impression when you met Ava?
7:45 What is Ava’s best quality?
9:00 How old will Jasmine have to be before you let her have a boyfriend?
14:00 Looking at life through parent glasses
17:40 What is it like living with Ava?
23:00 What is the biggest gift you have received from your relationship with Ava?
25:00 The new paradigm of parenting.
31:00 Jarred will be our special monthly guest to talk more about deeper processes that have been life changing for both.
32:00 Thank you for listening
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This is a 5 minute guided meditation with music to slow down and allow yourself to become more present in the heart.
A beautiful practice to listen any time of the day to connect inward and explore the stillness at the core of your being.
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In this week’s episode Jarred joins Ava to talk about their relationship and answer questions from our listeners. Listen in to hear Jarred reflect on his relationship with Ava, discuss his biggest fear about becoming a dad and share valuable wisdom around relationship and parenthood.
An episode not to be missed. If you have any questions or comments, join the discussion on our Facebook group.
Relevant episodes:
- My Relationship with Jarred
Chapter markers:
00:00 Introduction
00:35 Welcome Jarred and reflection about their relationship
4:10 Confusion, a challenge in most relationships
8:30 What’s in the way of a harmonious relationship?
10:50 Jarred answers: What is the most exciting thing about becoming a dad?
14:20 What is your biggest fear about stepping into parenthood?
19:20 Who is this ‘highest version of yourself’ that you do not want to fail against?
22:00 What has been the biggest challenge in your relationship with Ava?
25:15 What makes a relationship challenging?
31:15 Thank you for listening, join the conversation on our Facebook page and socials.
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Join Ava and Deniz and explore the importance of educating yoga teachers in mental health, as they answer these questions: Why do people come to yoga? When is cueing not mental health aware? What is the antidote to this?
About our guest: Deniz Aydoslu is a self-care coach, senior yoga and meditation teacher, somatic educator, and an expert in the therapeutic application of embodied movement systems for emotional health.
Relevant links:
- Somatic Yoga Teacher Training for Mental Health
- Book about yoga for depression and anxiety
Chapter markers:
00:00 Introduction
2:35 Who is Deniz Aydoslu?
8:30 The time when Ava and Deniz met
10:20 The importance of educating yoga teachers in mental health
13:00 Training offering & mental health in old-school yoga
17:00 What inspired Deniz to create this training?
18:45 When is cueing not mental health aware?
24:00 What is the antidote to this?
26:25 What is included in the training?
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Join Ava for a short 12-minute gentle meditation. Use your breath to soften your body and rest in stillness and presence.
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In this week's episode Ava shares her experience of her 10 year relationship with partner Jarred. She details how they met, the challenges and struggles they have navigated over the years and where they are at the present moment.
This episode provides a timeline and some context to their relationship before our next podcast where Jarred and Ava will be answering some questions from our listeners.
Chapter markers:
00:00 Introduction
0:55 Relationship as a spiritual practice
5:00 How they met
8:35 The intensity at the beginning of their relationship
11:50 Navigating long distance and other challenges
15:10 Being exposed to teachings didn’t mean that they were skilled
19:40 The benefit of stepping back and giving space
22:20 Where they are now
23:45 If you have any questions for them please comment below
24:20 Thank you for listening, subscribe to the podcast & follow us on socials.
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This week’s guided meditation is a Sufi inspired technique from Hridaya yoga. Join Ava in this simple yet powerful practice using the heart as a tool for meditation and sublimation, an all time favorite!
Breathe through the heart space and connect to the essence of your being.
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Welcome to this short meditation with music. Ground yourself into the effortlessness of the now.
Inhale to relax, exhale and ground into the now. Connect to the present moment through your heart space.
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Today’s topic was inspired by a conversation Ava had with one of her students and highlights the different phases we go through as spiritual seekers. It answers the question ‘how can our spiritual path mature?’
Listen in to hear Ava’s personal experience as a spiritual seeker and gain a deeper understanding in your own path.
Recommended links:
- History of Hatha Yoga Course
- History of Hatha Yoga podcast episode
- “The Ancient and Modern Roots of Yoga” by Mark Singleton
Chapter markers:
00:00 Introduction
3:15 The four phases of a spiritual path
4:20 Ava’s spiritual journey
8:28 Phase II
14:59 Phase III and the importance of questioning
17:07 Becoming a teacher (phase IV)
20:40 Let us know about what you think of this episode
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Enjoy this gentle, spacious meditation with music.
Tune inward and bring relaxation to your whole body. Explore and let go of resistance while cultivating the attitudes of allowing and acceptance.
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Welcome to this spacious guided meditation to relax your body and explore joy. Allow peacefulness and gratitude to pervade in your day.
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In this week's episode Ava has the BIGGEST news to share.
As she records this episode on day 2 of COVID, she also talks about her experience of cultivating pleasure during times of discomfort.
Listen in to know what this personal update is about.
Chapter markers
00:00 Ava talks about her experience of cultivating pleasure during times of pain.
1:30 Sharing important news!
5:15 Special thanks to all listeners.
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Today’s episode is apart of a two part series, be sure to listen to the previous episode first!
Part 1 gave us the context and philosophy around pleasure to help us expand our understanding. In this episode we will explore different tools we can use to cultivate joy and pleasure in our lives when we don’t feel good.
If you listen to the end and decide to commit to a 7 day practice, feel free to join us in the Facebook group and share your experiences.
chapter markers
00:00 Did you listen to part 1?
00:45 Why theory is a tool
04:10 Cultivating a gratitude practice
7:15 The heart-space
08:56 Smiling energy
11:50 Journal prompt: What brings you pleasure?
13:47 Final notes
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This week’s episode is inspired by a question that Ava received during a recent silent retreat.
The question was something along the lines of how can we cultivate peace and happiness in the body when we are experiencing chronic pain or health issues.
This 2 part series will explore the philosophy behind pleasure and also provide you with tools to cultivate your own pleasure during periods of discomfort and unease.
chapter markers
00:00 Introduction and catch up w/ Ava
03:35 Side notes on personal preferences and toxic positivity
10:34 Cultivating happiness and feeling joy inside the body
13:24 The philosophy of pleasure
18:07 The 3 levels of pleasure
22:51 Ending notes
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Experience a guided consecration practice, uncover the actor behind the actions and find a sense of ease emanate throughout your being in this 7-minute guided practice by Ava Irani.
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In this week’s free live meditation, Anaid guides us in a 15 minute spacious meditation to relax the body from tension and worry through the heart space.
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In this week’s episode, Ava shares her perspective on a new healing paradigm and the importance of shifting away from the 'yang' model towards a new attitude for healing and connection.
Listen in to learn about the concept of yin and yang and how this duality is represented in our nervous system, our society and our attitude towards healing.
An important topic for our community, the healing professions and those experiencing illness and healing first hand.
Chapter markers
00:00 Introduction to the topic
3:00 Nervous system and yin & yang
5:50 We live in a yang paradigm
07:45 The imbalance of the old paradigm
10:48 Healing is a yin condition
12:40 The new paradigm for healing
20:38 Join in the conversation on the Facebook page
20:48 Personal update from Ava
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Welcome to this short mid-day drop-in meditation.
Let your mind soften and your heart open, as you connect to the joy of breathing and the joy of being in the present moment.
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In this week’s episode, Ava shares tips on how to better support people when they’re sick. This is coming from Ava’s direct experience of dealing with a chronic illness and her various experiences with loved ones and the community. Listen in to learn tips on what’s helpful vs unhelpful and the importance of being trauma-informed when supporting someone.
chapter markers
00:00 introduction to the topic
02:07 Personal update from Ava
04:29 How to best support people who are dealing with sickness
09:28 Ava’s experience
14:44 What’s unhelpful when someone is unwell
25:12 Join in the conversation on the Facebook page
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Welcome back to part 2 on the health update and what has been transpiring over the last 6 weeks after being Injured by a healer. In a slow recovery
This week on the podcast, I want to speak on how we can get injured when doing a healing protocol.
Thank you for the well wishes, I’m currently in a slow recovery process.
Stay tuned for an upcoming episode where I will talk about we can support people when they’re sick.
Chapter Markers
00:00 Welcome back to part 2
02:33 How did I get this so wrong?
09:47 Malpractice
11:51 Industry of healers
16:30 Equi.lyfe
25:40 Thanks for listening, please subscribe!
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Relax and tune in to this guided meditation on Abundance.
The energy of receiving is the energy of abundance.
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After a big hiatus, Ava is back!
In this week’s episode, Ava speaks on her journey dealing with chronic digestion issues and shares all the gritty details about her first-hand experience with chronic illness.
Sometimes the impulse to help is fueled by a fear of helplessness. Listen til the end of the episode to hear Ava’s thoughts on how to be helpful during periods of healing and how she handled receiving generosity from the community.
Have unanswered questions? Stay tuned for part 2!
chapter markers
00:00 Welcome back
03:41 What happened to me
05:23 SIBO
08:19 Starting my protocol with a healer
09:57 My detox experience
12:50 Silent retreat
13:57 Hospital Arooza
14:36 Speaking to a SIBO specialist
17:55 How to be helpful during periods of healing
26:22 Thank you for the love and for listening
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Enjoy our most popular guided meditation on the Functional Spirituality podcast!
Allow this soothing deep sleep meditation to send a message of comfort and safety to your nervous system. Invite a deeper sense of calmness into every cell in your body as you settle your body into a deep state of relaxation.
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Welcome to another guided meditation with Ava!
Drop your body into the present moment, using the breath to help you relax every muscle. Grounding into the heart and into the now.
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Allow your attention to turn inward and rest in the inner space of both the layers of your person and the stillness that effortlessly co-exists inside of you.
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Use this guided meditation to cultivate a space for slowness.
Take your time to feel into anything under the surface that’s waiting to be met by your awareness.
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Today’s practice is a short grounding meditation, take your time to adjust and drink in this moment.
Inhale to open and receive, exhale and ground into the body.
use your breath to fill you up and connect
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Do you ever feel like unresolved material is starting to have a snowball effect in your life?
This is the epidemic of trauma.
We ALL experience chronic attunement failures as a child, along with other environmental failures that sculpt our subconscious mind from a young age.
So what is an attunement failure and how do we heal the trauma it causes?
Join Ava in this week’s episode to unpack it all.
Chapter Markers
00:00 Recap on Avas healing journey
02:29 The root of your trauma
04:30 Developmental trauma
06:16 What is an attunement failure?
10:58 The importance of psycho-education
13:57 Internalised badness
21:40 Conclusion
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We start today's practice with a formal meditation practice, as well as investigating blocks to feeling compassion in everyday life.
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“You should just let it go”. Has anyone ever said that to you, or have you thought it yourself?
Can simply letting something go, really shift your perspective in such a way that it permanently transforms you?
Join Ava in this week's episode to learn the steps you can take to really let something go.
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00:00 Introduction
03:58 Patterns of the mind
07:21 A spiritual practice we can rely on
09:30 So how do we let go?
15:51 The practice
17:18 Conclusion
19:31 The Embodiment Facilitator Training
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Today's meditation is about pure presence.
Settle in and notice what it feels like to surrender resistance
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The topic today is about how the overarching attitude of meditation is actually great training for how we can respond to our lives and the attitudes we can cultivate.
Join Ava to learn how naturalness can expand your capacity to meet all of life.
Today’s topic is very much a meditative topic. A lot of the content will be pointing towards an inner significance.
Feel free to close your eyes and relax as much as you like.
Chapter Markers:
00:00 Drop-in meditation
01:35 Introduction to the topic
03:58 What is an attitude?
06:14 The conscious & subconscious mind
08:55 What we ultimately want
10:30 What is THE attitude?
11:30 What is naturalness?
15:40 How can I just allow everything to be as it is?
26:35 Softening your nervous system
29:07 Homework
31:00 Closing guided meditation
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Ease into stillness with curiosity and enjoy a guided sound meditation to connect to your body, ground, release and relax.
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A 5-minute guided meditation that is designed to help you relax tension in the body using your breath. Perfect for any time of the day.
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In this week's episode, Ava shares the 4 ingredients for a successful business.
Trying to push to get ahead represents the fear and survival complexes that are entrenched in our society and embedded in our conditioning.
Learn what steps you need to take to nurture yourself and your business.
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00:00 Introduction
01:00 Free workshop: Confident leader
01:30 The aspects of business
04:23 Ingredients for a successful business
05:15 Resilience
07:46 Attunement
09:38 Relational Skills
11:05 Mindset work
12:00 Opportunity
15:02 Faulty frameworks
15:57 Recap
17:25 What to do if you don’t have all the ingredients?
20:19 What’s one step you can take from this? Let us know
21:00 Therapeutic Embodiment Training
25:02 Thank you for tuning in
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Use this guided meditation to activate the parasympathetic nervous system.
When the nervous system is in the parasympathetic nervous system state, the body is able to function normally, as well as repair and regenerate.
In modern culture, our busy lifestyle often makes it difficult to flip back to the parasympathetic state once the sympathetic has been activated, making it easy to experience chronic over activation of the fight or flight nervous system.
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This week's meditation invites seekers to explore what the word "I" refers to, and draws awareness back to its infinite Self-source.
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In this week's episode, Ava and Chantelle from Embodied Awakening Academy have a Q&A style debate.
They cover subjects such as twin flames, Classical vs Neo-Tantra, open relationships and their different approaches to teaching.
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00:00 Introduction
02:00 Twin flames
19:37 Classical Tantra vs neo tantra
29:47 How to feel safe in an open relationship
42:10 Pros and cons of our contrasting teaching styles
57:21 How to work with Chantelle
59:50 Wholeness experience
01:04:13 Closing notes
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What’s the difference between intention and control?
Any moment you’re not connected to your intention and alignment you’re going to lack motivation. Motivation comes naturally when’s there’s a sense of alignment.
Control is like a fixation, an unconscious pressure towards something, an intention is an awareness of something we feel called to.
Intention connects us to our heart, but also being connected to our heart reveals our intention.
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00:15 Introduction
00:35 What’s the difference between intention and control
01:10 Intention
03:28 Control
07:00 Awareness
09:00 Expressions of control
10:00 Functional modalities
11:35 Meditation example
14:41 Conclusion
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Join Ava for a short 15 minute guided meditation and melt into a background of stillness, connecting to a peacefulness that exists under the surface.
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Living on the surface of our language and concepts doesn’t serve us. We need to be willing to think deeper, not to jump to conclusions or live in assumptions. That’s exactly what a functional approach to spirituality should be.
In this week’s episode, Ava unpacks the confusion around what an awake teacher even means.
00:30 Introduction 01:24 What is an awake teacher? 03:51 Why I avoid the term awake 07:06 My problem with these terms 09:31 The problem is not the explanations 10:09 The rationalisation of inappropriate behaviour 12:03 Can’t I just loosen up? 13:12 Healthy scepticism 14:38 Why are people doing this 15:42 Is it wrong to praise teachers? 18:09 Conclusion
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An experience in cultivating Trust. We recommend listening to the previous podcast that explains the 3 ways to cultivate trust.
If we trust life, we love life. Everything feels good. It feels like a flow and things do actually flow more.
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Your being, your existence is love. Feel the love in your heart and notice its quality. Explore the universal energy that can be noticed in every cell of your body as Ava graciously guides you through this 15-minute meditation.
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If we trust life, we love life. Everything feels good.
It feels like a flow and things do actually flow more.
But how do we cultivate trust when the world isn't trustworthy? Or stable?
Or we feel hurt.
Or people hurt us, and circumstances are hard.
Is it still healthy to trust ?
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00:10: Welcome back to the series 02:04 What is trust 05:26 Methods to cultivate trust 06:55: Enquiry 10:56 Cultivating 16:24 Awakening 19:44 Conclusion
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Gratitude for resiliance part 1: Cultivating resiliance De-conditioning part 4: Two ways healing tools work Guided meditation: Gratitude practice Guided meditation: Rain technique Guided meditation: 3 part method
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In this weeks episode, Ava offers a personal share about a reflection she had on the 4-day silent retreat that just passed.
As a collective, we’re getting more stressed and unhealthy. Join Ava as she reflects on her journey with healing and what it means to have the capacity to open up and allow the pain to be felt.
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00:11 Welcome back to the podcast 03:35 Retreat reflection
06:39 Collective pain
10:54 Rationality and feeling
15:14 6 ways I can heal the planet
18:48 How can I support you?
20:21 Share this episode with your community
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Slow down with grace.
In this guided meditation, Ava gently guides you to step back from thinking as you allow everything to be as it is.
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A short, simple and gentle practice for your daily dose of meditation.
In this guided meditation, Ava gently guides you to use the breath to connect with your inner space.
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In this weeks episode, Ava answers a question that was asked on retreat: ‘What is your advice in dealing with pain and other distractions during meditation? ‘
Physical and mental distractions, these obstacles are the reason we don’t meditate. In this episode, Ava provides options for those seeking to overcome these obstacles.
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00:10 Introduction
01:00 Curiosity in meditation
03:23 The biggest obstacle to meditation
04:12 Physical distraction
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07:33 What to do when feeling distracted
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Find relaxation and peacefulness at your core.
Use this meditation to explore the feeling of being enough inside the inner space and the sensations of embodiment.
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Our threshold of awareness is getting lower as we regress into the trauma that's being triggered at this time.
In this episode, Ava explains how identifying false triggers can create an opportunity for transformation.
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00:00 How to subscribe
01:30 Our current series
02:46 My Facebook post
03:36 False refuge
05:40 We are taking refuge in a historical tendency
07:43 Why do we need refuge
09:20 Compliance vs conspiracy
14:03 False refuge in compliance
17:42 False refuge in conspiracy
21:56 Invitation to reflect on communication
23:31 Conclusion
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Enjoy this short drop-in meditation with music.
Become aware of the breath moving through the body and the sensations that may be present, replacing any tension in the body with a soft smiling energy.
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Why are we experiencing a downward spiral?
In this episode, Ava reflects on why we are experiencing so much dysfunction.
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00:10 Introduction
04:37 Announcement
07:10 Questioning leadership
10:04 The fear narrative
11:43 Objective perspective
14:30 Reflections on society
28:30 Conclusion
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The body, the breath and the earth are powerful anchors for our nervous system to rest, reset and ground. Join us in this recording of our Monday morning meditation.
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Ava runs a yoga centre in Western Australia which is now under strict mandates to not allow access to unvaccinated people.
In this episodes, Ava explains how she navigates challenging situations like this as well as her own vaccination status.
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00:12 Winter is coming 02:51 Beyond the hardship and isolation of winter 04:40 Avas vaccination status 09:07 Powerful narratives 13:05 What’s to come 15:15 Avas stance on vaccinations 17:40 Avas break from teaching + studio updates 18:37 When winter ends 21:36 Conclusion
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When you’re at the bottom of the wave
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Use this guided meditation to connect with your whole life as it truly is right now, without picking apart any parts of your experience, let the breath settle you into the connection between mind and body.
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In this weeks episode, Ava shares some insights from a recent cacao ceremony.
Use this episode to unpack why you personally try to distract yourself and fulfil urges, discover the deeper issue of why your attachments exist with prompts for reflection at the end of the episode.
Did you enjoy this story sharing episode? Let us know your thoughts!
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00:15 Introduction
01:10 Cacao ceremony reflection
05:00 The deeper issue
11:27 Steps to healing
14:52 Prompts for reflection
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Ready to start the new year with intention?
Choosing a Word of the Year helps bring focus and clarity to what we want to create in our lives.
Struggling to pick a word? No worries, it’s not too late and this guided meditation is here to help you!
This isn’t about crossing another goal off your list, it’s about creating an intention to help guide your daily actions and cultivate the qualities you want more of this year.
Ways I can support you for free:
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HEALING COMPLEX TRAUMA ~ A free workshop on how to optimise your spiritual practice and your daily life by understanding complex trauma.
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where you can hear from me in daily life, what Im up to, reading, working on, who I am playing with etc.
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Most conversations start off harmless and yet they have the potential to transform into arguments or debates. This is what it feels like to be triggered and when we put up our defences. The walls we construct feel tight, constricted, chaotic, and most of all not very nice.
What can we do when this happens? Join Ava as she walks through the answers to these three following questions:
How can I stay present in the moment?
How do I develop the intelligence to consider different dynamics that are at play?
How do I cultivate the freedom to act in alignment with these intentions?
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Check-in and catch up with Ava [00:00]
Introduction into podcast topic [02:00]
Reflecting on past conversations [05:55]
What are your options during a triggering conversation? [07:00]
Conclusion [14:20]
Start Meditation course [15:00]
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COMMUNITY MEDITATION
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HEALING COMPLEX TRAUMA ~ If you didn’t know, Ava offered a free workshop on healing complex trauma. it lives on our website, I’ll link it below :) it’s such a great resource!
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Discover how to connect to your inner resource, the part of yourself that is beyond the body and timeless. Find out what draws you back to calm and peace inside
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During the silent retreats, retreaters are able to write ava questions each day to be answered in an evening Q&A session.
In this episode, Ava answers a question from a past retreat and discusses which content should be bypassed during meditation and how to do so.
How do we know which content to bypass during meditation? [00:40] The answer [04:26] What content do we bypass? [09:00]
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COMMUNITY MEDITATION
~Join the Functional Spirituality Group and enjoy a free resource for meditators and yogis to connect to and enjoy a like-minded community.
https://functionalspirituality.com/free-meditation/
HEALING COMPLEX TRAUMA ~ If you didn’t know, Ava offered a free workshop on healing complex trauma. it lives on our website, I’ll link it below :) it’s such a great resource!
healing-complex-trauma-worksho
OTHER RESOURCES
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Join Ava for a spacious, minimally guided meditation that gives you time to arrive into the body. Allow the body to gently resolve itself, as you practice relaxing through your whole experience.
Our mission is to increase the accessibility of functional healing and spirituality.
COMMUNITY MEDITATION
~Join the Functional Spirituality Group and enjoy a free resource for meditators and yogis to connect to and enjoy a like-minded community.
functionalspirituality
HEALING COMPLEX TRAUMA ~ If you didn’t know, Ava offered a free workshop on healing complex trauma. it lives on our website, I’ll link it below :) it’s such a great resource!
healing-complex-trauma-workshop
OTHER RESOURCES
~Reach out if you’d like the link to some of our free resources ~Follow Functional Spirituality at @functionalspirituality ~ and follow our Yoga Studio at @spandaschool
An 8-minute guided meditation that is designed to help you relax tension in the body using your breath. Beginner friendly.
Our mission is to increase the accessibility of functional healing and spirituality.
COMMUNITY MEDITATION
~Join the Functional Spirituality Group and enjoy a free resource for meditators and yogis to connect to and enjoy a like-minded community.
functionalspirituality
HEALING COMPLEX TRAUMA ~ If you didn’t know, Ava offered a free workshop on healing complex trauma. it lives on our website, I’ll link it below :) it’s such a great resource!
healing-complex-trauma-workshop
OTHER RESOURCES
~Reach out if you’d like the link to some of our free resources ~Follow Functional Spirituality at @functionalspirituality ~ and follow our Yoga Studio at @spandaschool
This is a busy time of year for many of us, there’s so many things we have to do and so many things we need to do when it comes to taking care of ourselves and continuing our self-development journey. During this period, reflection is key.
You don’t just set a goal and hope you get there. You have to take time to really contemplate what actions are needed to help you achieve your goal. In this week’s episode, learn how to support yourself with structure and planning.
Ava shares how to connect to the year that’s past and the year to come. Using these three simple steps.
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Review the year
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Reflect on the year
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Dream into the future / forward reflection
Timestamps:
Silent retreat reflection: 00:30
The momentum of this time of year: 01:00
Review the year: 03:55
Reflect on the year: 05:00
Forward reflection: 06:00
Our mission is to increase the accessibility of functional healing and spirituality.
COMMUNITY MEDITATION
~Join the Functional Spirituality Group and enjoy a free resource for meditators and yogis to connect to and enjoy like-minded community.
functionalspirituality
HEALING COMPLEX TRAUMA
~ If you didn’t know, Ava offered a free workshop on healing complex trauma.
it lives on our website, I’ll link it below :) it’s such a great resource!
healing-complex-trauma-workshop
OTHER RESOURCES
~Reach out if you’d like the link to some of our free resources
~Follow Functional Spirituality at @functionalspirituality
~ and follow our Yoga Studio at @spandaschool
Welcome to another guided meditation with Ava!
Drop into your body and into the present moment, using the breath to help you sink and relax every muscle of the body. Grounding into the heart and into the body.
Use this spacious meditation to cultivate a safe space to let the thoughts and feelings unravel, without any resistance.
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In this episode, Ava continues the discussion from last weeks episode, this time diving into the difference between passion and fixation.
Fixation isn’t good for our communities, it takes away freedoms, polarises the conversation and sensitises us to information. Fixation is a mechanism that protected you in the past that hasn’t been softened once the threat was removed and now it's ‘fixed’ in some way.
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Seeking time and space to connect to yourself? This guided meditation explores the 3 Part Method used in Functional Spirituality. Use this as a time to connect, feel and relax.
Functional Spirituality embraces, both, healing complex trauma and the yogic exploration of infinite Being.
It explores deconditioning, cultivating and awakening through the lenses of functional movement, yoga philosophy, non-dual tantra and the leading science of trauma resolution.
When grounded in an embodiment practice, awakening to infinite awareness acts as a tool for self-discovery, profound connection and stability in Being.
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There is a lot of talk pushing for the sides, for who’s right and who’s wrong, but there’s not enough support for those left in the middle.
If you take a side, you need to know what this is doing to your community, your friends, those who you seek to serve and protect.
Let’s unpack the issues that arise when we have polarised arguments.
If you are in the middle:
You don’t need to turn away, this isn’t going to be space to discuss either side or the stories involved, but a space to offer support and tools to help you find your way.
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Join Ava in exploring the stillness in the pauses, sensing what’s under the surface and offering it loving breath.
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A gentle meditation with Music. Allow the breath to move in and out of the heart space, connecting to your middle unlocking this allowance and acceptance attitude.
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Slow down, and connect inward to the beautiful sensations of breath, rest and peace that are calling you from the heart space.
This meditation offers guidance for the attention to rest and find space, over light harmonious music.
The meditation can be used before bed, but it is intended to train the attention to be alert while being relaxed, allowing everything to be as it is. Do not meditate with your eyes closed while driving. Follow Functional Spirituality at @functionalspirituality and follow our Yoga Studio at @spandaschool https://linktr.ee/functionalspirituality
Offer yourself a loving space and join Ava in creating a safe space to process discomfort and challenges with self-compassion and acceptance.
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we are all on a spiritual path, we are all moving in some direction. But sometimes it’s hard to make real progress and feel connected to a path.
Join Ava as she describes the three main obstacles she has seen people come up against when they are trying to go deeper into their spiritual practice.
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Sink into stillness with intention and create space for connection and healing with this week's guided meditation for digestive system healing.
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The acronym R.A.I.N. is a helpful mindfulness too. It can be a great tool for those times when you are caught up in a story or emotional overload, which can happen naturally when feeling overwhelmed or overly critical, and consumed with anxiety, fear or uncertainty.
You can use RAIN in a difficult moment to cultivate a deeper connection and direct experience with the world.
Welcome to this nurturing short moving meditation.
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A spacious meditation all about love. Drop into the heart space, allowing the relaxation of love to radiate into every cell, using the love in your body for the purpose of relaxation.
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We all have the ability and opportunity to cultivate gratitude. Join Ava in taking a few moments to focus on all that you have. Developing an “attitude of gratitude” is one of the simplest ways to improve your satisfaction with life.
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Turn inward. Following the I feeling like a thread of intimacy, into your essence, connecting with your essential being.
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Welcome to this short mid-day drop-in meditation. Let your mind soften and your heart open, as you connect to the joy of breathing and the joy of being in the present moment.
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Follow each breath in and out of your heart space, connect to your inner smile, the peace at the centre of your being with this 15-minute meditation gracefully guided by Ava Irani.
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Are your healing tools helping or hindering?
More important than trying to tackle your healing work, remember that the place you’re coming from when you use your tools, is really important.
Join Ava today as she discusses how to support yourself when you find yourself at the bottom of the wave.
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A simple meditation, with gentle invitations to let your inner space be the centre of attention.
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Gentle guided meditation with music. Relax and let Ava gently guide you in connecting with love and peace, your most essential layer, using each breath to relax and love your whole body. A beautiful self-love meditation full of pleasure and ease.
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Join Ava in letting go of any effort in your day. Become present to how the breath moves through the body and what sensations may be present, replacing any tension in the body with a soft smiling energy.
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How much do you rely on your intuition?
Intuition is a word used to describe many different things. Join Ava as she breaks down all things inner space and shares why you shouldn’t be taking messages from your intuition as absolute claims and instructions.
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Even though yoga has historically been defined as both a path to eliminate suffering and also the goal itself of liberation. In practice, it regularly doesn’t fulfil this definition, but this doesn’t have to be the case.
Join Ava in unpacking why we are easily captivated by charisma and guru culture and what that does to our practice.
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Join Ava for a more spacious, minimally guided meditation that gives you time to arrive into the body. Allow the body to gently resolve itself as you practice patience and compassion with simple and effective techniques.
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Set up your whole day with a connection to your body, trusting its messages and processes. Join Ava in a lightly guided meditation with plenty of space to really connect to the sensations of your body.
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This series was created to help unpack and clarify the biggest obstacles that I have seen in our healing practices and our spiritual practices. if you haven’t already listened, I invite you to go back to the first episode of this de-conditioning series.
In this episode of our de-conditioning series, we look at two ways that our healing techniques work. We often confuse these techniques and don’t know how to distinguish them. This makes our practices less efficient. So join ava in unpacking how does the healing tool (practice) take you deeper? and when is it you taking your practice deeper?
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Join Ava in this simple and spacious guided meditation with music. The heart is a doorway into the infinity of your being, the ultimate tool for the revelation of yourself. The more you relax in today's meditation, the more you can feel
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Join Ava for a short 3-minute embodiment practice, perfect for any time of day! drop in and use embodiment as your daily healing practice.
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Join Ava for a more spacious, minimally guided meditation that gives you time to arrive into the body. Allow the body to gently resolve itself as you melt into stillness.
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Join Ava in unpacking the confusion and lack of functionality in our daily spiritual practices.
Energy-body vagueness is an obstacle that uses dogmatic practices, keeping us on the surface and distracting us from proper de-conditioning and healing.
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Find the relaxation you’ve been seeking with today's guided meditation. Arriving into the body with gentle presence, feel how your breath expands the ribs, the heart and the lungs. Using relaxation to allow everything to be as it is.
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Would you choose a life of suffering or a life of flow and acceptance? Our experiences in life are completely dependent on our attitudes and conditioning.
With so much confusion surrounding the topic of healing in spirituality, join Ava in continuing our conversation about complex and developmental trauma and the role of de-conditioning.
Did you miss part 1? Look back and find "De-conditioning actually resolve your suffering part 1" to catch up!
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Allow this soothing deep sleep meditation to send a message of comfort and safety to your nervous system. Invite a deeper sense of calmness into every cell in your body as you settle your body into a deep state of relaxation.
Do you have requests or favourite meditations you'd like to more of? Let us know! We are @functionalspirituality on social media platforms or say hello in the Facebook group.
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Would you choose a life of suffering or a life of flow and acceptance? Our experiences in life are completely dependent on our attitudes and conditioning. With so much confusion surrounding the topic of healing in spirituality, join Ava in learning about complex and developmental trauma and the role of de-conditioning.
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Ease into stillness with curiosity and enjoy a guided sound meditation to connect to your body, ground, release and relax.
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Welcome to another guided meditation with Ava. In today's practice, we will be exploring the sensations of relaxation and joy. dropping in as normal, being present to what’s here, whilst we invite our awareness to explore the sensations and ease within joy and relaxation.
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In this episode, Ava gives a life update as well as an interesting story about how she discovered and started to resolve a core psychological wound nesting in her personality's centre
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Join Ava in cultivating space and compassion for self, as she guides you in connecting to the different emotional centres within. Fill your body with awareness and feel what’s present whilst resting in pure listening.
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Today's meditation will cover two areas. We will start with cultivating space for curiosity whilst allowing time to arrive, then we will gently move into cultivating peacefulness. Join Ava and let your body rest in stillness as your attention starts to melt inward.
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Join Ava in letting go of any effort in your day. Letting there be a listening, become present to how the breath moves through the body and what sensations may be present, replacing any tension in the body with a soft smiling energy.
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A short, simple and gentle practice for your daily dose of meditation. In this episode, join Ava as she softly guides us to use our breath to ease into our practice.
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The breath is an anchor in meditation and a great tool for self-realisation, there is so much the breath offers us and yet it is so simple to utilise. In today's episode, join Ava and learn how to use the breath in your meditation practice
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Join Ava for a guided meditation exploring the attitudes of meditation. Take some time to slow down and notice how the mind unwinds. Do you enjoy these meditations? Let us know by searching our Facebook group or Instagram page. We welcome your feedback.
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The Heart and Stillness are one and the same! Stillness is our essential existence but also a well-spring of nourishment for our individual self. Drink up.
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Our lives our so complex but even more complex is our conditioning. Where they meet... well... its complex! Holding space for yourself is a practice of finding resolution, healing and deeper connection inward so you can thrive outward. Living a life of disconnection isn't sustainable and leads to unnecessary suffering and disease. This practice is so simple and so powerful. Let us know what you think!
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In this episode, Ava explains where she's been for the last month, and a bit more about the challenges of the last few years. Connect with us on socials and let us know what parts of her story resonate @FunctionalSpirituality
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Welcome to another morning meditation, sit down and relax while Ava takes you through the perfect motions to start your day.
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Every day we are called to show up, take action, work towards outcomes and achieve the tasks of the day. We want to show up fully in life, taking up more space in the world, but this needs to be balanced with holding space for ourselves. If we don't ground inward, we loose balance, health, joy and harmony. Commit to take some to nourish yourself and connect to your center.
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Join Ava for a lightly guided meditation with music. Take some time to slow down, unravel the body and find an inner position that offers you nourishment.
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Join Ava for a more spacious, minimally guided meditation that gives you time to arrive into the body. Allow the body to gently resolve itself as you practice patience and compassion with simple and effective techniques.
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Join Ava and settle in, away from the mind and towards the body - your one true home. A body scan meditation to become a delightful being, have a wonderful day.
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The energy of receiving is the energy of abundance. Relax and tune in to this guided meditation.
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Sexuality is alluring, healing, shameful, confusing, rich, interesting - but could it be sacred? Hear part 1 of Ava's journey with sexuality and spirituality.
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Take 20 minutes just for yourself, to arrive in the Now. Your body, your emotions, your thoughts - all your layers can only be grounded by one thing - the Now. Treat yourself to presence.
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Join Ava for one of her favourite meditations as she draws you into the heart-space and releases you from the mind.
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Sink in and enjoy a guided meditation to nourish the mind and help bring about relaxation and trust to some future events. Trust what arises, thank you.
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There's No Such Thing as Traditional Yoga.
Its true. Its good to question, but does this statement have any place in our discussion of What is Yoga? Listen to find out, and let us know what you think. You can search us on Facebook at Functional Spirituality to join our discussion group.
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Join Ava for a guided meditation using this Sufi inspired technique from the Hridaya Yoga system. This is a favourite! Using the heart as a tool for meditation and sublimation.
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Welcome to your weekly drop in! Commit to yourself to join our weekly meditation, either Live on Zoom or on the recordings posted each week. Do you enjoy these meditations? Let us know by searching our Facebook group or Instagram page. We welcome your feedback. Follow Functional Spirituality at @functionalspirituality and follow our Yoga Studio at @spandaschool https://linktr.ee/functionalspirituality
Yoga has always been fluid. There has been inconsistency and competition between its different branches and sometimes within the branches themselves. Continuing on from Part 1, Ava explains how yoga easily lends itself to dogma and egoic attachments. She explains more about her journey with yoga and what the secret ingredient is that has completely refined her practice.
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The Invitation from the teachings of Mooji is a simple and potent awakening technique. It helps us to reveal our true nature: formless Being. The meditation starts with Ava leading a gentle relaxation and drop-in, before going further into the Self-Enquiry.
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Yoga is a loaded topic. In this series called "What is Yoga", Ava debunks the unhelpful assumptions that yoga is inherently good and coherent. Actually, yoga is fluid and riddled with pitfalls. We would gain more by looking into the history of yoga more then solely relying on the ideology of one yoga system.
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A gently guided relaxation meditation to bring you into the body and into an attitude of allowing. You are invited to use the heart space as a doorway for trusting life and connecting to the background of Being and the present moment.
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Join Ava Irani for this guided meditation WITH music. You are invited to drop into your body, your centre and your presence. What is your "Truth"? Truth is that which does not change, and this intimate reality can be discovered within your own being.
Happy New Year beautiful people :)
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Join Ava Irani for this guided meditation with music. Lightly guided with lots of space, you are invited to drop into your body, your centre and your presence. The perfect way to find inner connection and unravel the tensions of 2020.
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This guided meditation brings the inspiration from Ramana Maharshi in his teaching on following the I feeling in meditation. Paired with a Hridaya meditation, the meditation invites seekers to explore what the word "I" refers to, and draws awareness back to its infinite Self-source.
If you want to learn more about a functional approach to yoga, meditation and spirituality, you may want to consider The Functional Spirituality Retreat, which is a 6-month mentoring program with Ava.
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The heart is a doorway into the infinity of your being, the ultimate tool for the revelation of yourself. Learn the science behind Heart Math Institute along with 3 useful tools for accessing the profound power of the heart space in this 40-minute podcast.
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Follow your breath in and out of your heart space, connect to the stillness, the love and the peace at the centre of your being with this 15-minute meditation gracefully guided by Ava Irani.
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Your being, your existence is love. Feel the love in your heart and notice its quality. Explore the universal energy that can be noticed in every cell of your body as Ava graciously guides you through this 15-minute meditation.
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Soften unnecessary tension, fan gratitude energy to your whole being with this 15 minute guided meditation by Ava.
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Discover how gratitude helps us move through challenging situations and how gratitude helps us return to 0 by enabling us to see the tension from a place of compassion. Learn the difference between cultivating positive emotions and spiritual bypassing as Ava guides you through.
More than ever it's important to cultivate resilience, our ability to overcome & endure difficult situations. In this fascinating podcast, Ava explores the idea of how we can increase our capacity to experience life through gratitude for resilience.
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Presence will continue to deepen if we keep inhabiting our body, notice the subtle energy in our body while bringing loving attention to all parts of our body with this 18 minute half guided and half silent meditation by Ava.
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Discover one of the most important tools in your spiritual practice, how to connect to your inner resource, the part of yourself that is beyond the body and timeless. Find out what draws you back to calm and peace inside with this simple yet profound insight.
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Let your practice be simple and present. Feel how awareness sinks down to the depth of your being. Restore yourself by calming the body. Notice the awareness behind your eyes, uniquely conscious, you are the seer.
Join Ava for this 40-minute meditation focusing on presence. Release tension and allow yourself to empty from the crown of the head down to the feet. Empty the thoughts, the stories, the fears and discover more stillness and presence.
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Connect to the inner space, honour any movement the body might be asking for, take a deep breath and relax to this 40 minute guided meditation by Ava Irani.
Hear Ava's personal story on the unexpected impact heart circling had in her life and discover how group relational healing developed by Tej Steiner can deepen the quality of relationships in your life. A delicious way to expand the depth of your heart, family & community.
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Experience a guided consecration practice, uncover the actor behind the actions and find a sense of ease emanate throughout your being in this 7 minute guided practice by Ava Irani.
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Deepen your connection to the universal aspect of yourself, empty yourself of excess baggage and learn more about the powerful benefits of consecration practice.
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Discover the Yogi Secret weapon, learn about consecration and the life-changing benefits as Ava retells a fascinating story from the Bhagavad Gita.
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Explore your inner space, clear out and soften your morning as Ava gently guides you through this cleansing meditation. Allow yourself to be revitalised by moving your presence downward and inward.
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Learn the powerful benefits of creating a happenings diary before sleep. Consciously reprogram parts of your mind for improved clarity and alignment. This has been a life-changing practice and I'm excited to share it with you here.
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Allow this soothing deep sleep meditation to send a message of comfort and safety to your nervous system. Invite a deeper sense of calmness into every cell in your body as you settle your body into a deep state of relaxation.
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Gratitude doesn't just change our biochemistry. It doesn't just change and expand our perspective. Gratitude connects us to universal energy. A daily practice of meditation and training our sensitivity to the energy body has both healing effects for the body, and relational healing for how we show up in the world.
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Join Ava for this 4-minute drop-in meditation, take a short break out to empty yourself of tensions. Your very own Being, is the emptiness, rest and completion you seek.
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Consecration is a spiritual practice for surrendering the personal will, and opening up to the universal energy of Life itself. It is normal to feel overwhelmed by the stories about our life, and the continuous expectations on us from the outside and from the inside. We feel pressure to perform, yet we are actually at the mercy of the flow of life. In reality, it's life that is orchestrating everything. Consecration is a practice of letting go of the personal struggle, and trusting life first, praying to be a vessel for the highest good, letting go of attachment to outcome, before we layer in our personal activities.
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Find a comfortable position and get ready to relax and receive. Guided relaxations and self suggestions work together perfectly to reprogram the subconscious mind.
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The long-awaited episode! In this session, Ava explains step by step how to create a self-suggestion tape. This is one of the easiest ways we can create powerful change and integrate meditation and mind work into daily life. Connect with us and ask questions in the Functional Spirituality Facebook group - it's free, and a resource for you to go deeper into this work.
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Take some time today to replenish yourself. Amongst the chaos on the surface of the planet, in our thoughts, in our emotions and body, there lies a deep stillness. Ground yourself in the stillness of your Heart.
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How does a self-suggestion tape work to access our subconscious mind? What are autosuggestions and self-hypnosis? In this episode, Ava explains more about how we can update our operating system of the subconscious mind.
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In this episode, Ava and Roger discuss elements of a functional spiritual practice. They speak on the place of non-dual direct paths within the context of a spirituality that is grounded in daily lived experience. Roger Castillo ~ Being Lived
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Enjoy this guided meditation with bird sounds. Connect to your body, ground, release and relax. After a big day of work, a life filled with thoughts, it's so important to create a space for your spiritual practice.
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We see the world through a lens constructed by our past experiences. In this episode, we revisit how our beliefs and map of reality always inform how we experience our reality. But this lens that was formed without our permission or supervision... can it be changed? Are we doomed to always see the world through old eyes? Or can we refresh our vision and co-create our future with the wisdom of the past? Hypnosis is the most common answer to this query.
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Do you ever feel like your emotions hijack you? Perhaps your nervous system is seeking a resolution. Healing unprocessed emotions and trauma in our system starts with presence. Turn inward, find the strength and potency of your inner space, and enjoy this guided meditation to bring you back into wholeness and balance.
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In this episode, Ava and Stephanie have a conversation about conscious activism and the environment. They discuss values and the importance of spiritual practice alongside and as a form of activism. Listen and find out when you can join Stephanie and connect with like-minded people in an online 'Climate Circle' she is hosting soon!
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Everything we know is a story. And all of our stories are constructed through a deeper framework called our 'Map of Reality'. This underlying framework of beliefs, assumptions and understandings, provides us with the stability to move around and think about our world. Find out how in this episode.
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In Part 1 of this series, I take us through a very brief introduction to the different theories of the brain, as well as the most popular theory of mind.
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Working with the power of the mind is so interesting! But why? Why are we so attracted to it, and what can this work afford us?
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Enjoy this guided meditation/talk about the attitudes of meditation. Meditation is different, opposite even, from concentration. In the same way that we can speak about concentration techniques, we can speak about meditation attitudes.
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A guided meditation for the students of Murdoch Uni during the strange time of March 2020.
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What has the spiritual path granted me? Thank you for the feedback and response for the first episode! Apparently, it was a bit surface level and you have some questions. Here are some answers for you, some depth, and a little bit more about my story and how I got here.
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Enjoy a guided sound meditation to connect to your body, ground, release and relax. After a big day of work, a life filled with thoughts, it's so important to create a space for your spiritual practice.
Deep gratitude for the incredible healing sounds of zither and flute by Matt Hatch.
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Guided relaxation is one of the easiest entry points into meditation. Enjoy this guided relaxation, with the healing sounds of a crystal bowl and chime by Claire.
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Take a pause, and fill your cup. Freedom lies within you. Check-in, breathe and relax. Freedom is a practice and we can master it together.
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I will be sharing a lot of ideas on this show. Isn't it important to check out what my intentions are? Everything I share will just be more stories, more food for the mind unless we're on the same page.
In this episode, I share with you the foundational teaching, from which all of our practice is born from. This is what we're talking about. This is what we're aiming for. It may resonate with you, it may not. But what's most important is that you know the context from which I'm speaking.
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Slow down, and connect inward to the beautiful sensations of breath, rest and peace that are calling you from the heart space.
This meditation offers guidance for the attention to rest and find space, over light harmonious music.
The meditation can be used before bed, but it is intended to train the attention to be alert while being relaxed, allowing everything to be as it is.
Do not meditate with your eyes closed while driving.
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In this episode, I explain my journey through a variety of spirituality practices; why so many things never worked or provided results. I get you juiced up to dig deeper into your own motivations, and how intention can be the secret sauce. I explain how a functional approach should affect the way we function and show up in our daily life. Follow Functional Spirituality at @functionalspirituality and follow our Yoga Studio at @spandaschool https://linktr.ee/functionalspirituality