The Way of the Goddess (with Ananta Ripa Ajmera)

How can you awaken your superpowers and heal? The lovely Ananta Ripa Ajmera, acclaimed writer and teacher of Yoga, Ayurveda and the author of the excellent new book The Way of the Goddess: Daily Rituals to Awaken Your Inner Warrior and Discover Your True Self shares how she tapped into the powerful Goddess traditions from the Indian subcontinent to self-actualize and overcome a disordered relationship with food and nourishment and the trauma she suffered from earlier in life.

This episode is the latest in a series of podcasts that explore the notion of what a spiritually-informed, "5D" approach to weight release---body, mind and Soul---looks like from a variety of perspectives.

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SHOW NOTES

00:00 Introduction

02:30 What Inspired THE WAY OF THE GODDESS

03:30 Overcoming anorexia

04:45 Discovering Aruveda within the Goddess tradition

05:15 Processing childhood trauma

06:00 Diet and lifestyle changes not enough

07:10 Solar plexus as center of power for digesting food and human experience

08:45 Addressing the "empath" audience, spiritually sensitive people

10:45 Drawn toward spirituality, Ayurveda, Yoga and Vedanta

12:15 Connection between being an empath and eating disorders

13:30 Archetype of the goddess with weapons

15:30 Turning healing inwards

16:45 Introduction to Ayurveda, the "sister science" of Yoga

17:30 Health equals balance; disease equals imbalance

18:10 Dietary recommendations from Aryuveda

19:00 Eating seasonally

21:00 Reestablishing a healthy relationship to food/nutrition through Aryuveda

21:30 The body as a temple for the divine within

22:45 Avoiding incompatible food combinations

23:45 Eliminating the worst 30% of food choices

24:40 Farmers markets as sources of "real" food

25:30 Vegetarianism and veganism

27:00 Bhagavad Gita: the story of Arjuna as every man and every woman

28:45 The fire and transformation of spiritual surrendering

30:45 Awakening the guru within

32:00 Significance of the friend and "charioteer"

34:00 Identifying and aiming for spiritual wealth

35:10 Membership community, self-publishing course, "conscious conversations" webinar series

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You can learn more about Ananta Ripa Ajmera here:

Ananta's Website: https://www.theancientway.co/

Ananta's True to Yourself Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/true-to-yourself/id1578935830