The Simple Ayurveda Podcast

Have you ever wondered what's on an Ayurvedic intake form or what exactly a practitioner is looking for in your answers? In this episode Angela explains the details and why you might learn something about yourself just from looking at your own responses.   This episode comes from a training in the upcoming Simple Ayurveda Alignment Mentorship, a six-week guided group class with opportunity to add on a personalized 1:1 consultation. It will run as a live group beginning April 5th and running through May 17th, then offered as a self-paced course.   Angela would love to help support you on your Ayurvedic journey! She also has some amazing guest teachers who will be joining and providing support: • Justicia - 30 min body-alignment based yoga flow • Shivani - EFT practice • Sonja - yoga nidra on agni (supporting digestion)   Links to Visit: Ayurvedic Wellness Questionnaire: https://simpleayurveda.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Simple-Ayurveda-Wellness-Questionnaire.docx   Alignment Mentorship: https://simpleayur

Join Angela and guest Sonja Semion in this episode: The Power of Personal Narrative. To understand the stories that we tell about ourselves is to know how to reclaim our power, moving from victim to victor. Sonja Semion is a wisdom guide and a writer. Using the tools of Ayurveda, yoga, and intuitive emotional expression, she guides people to manage life transitions, make peace with their bodies, and fall in love with their purpose in life. Learn more about group and 1:1 work at SevaMama.com or on Instagram @thesevamama.   Sonja will be contributing a Yoga Nidra practice on Agni in the upcoming Simple Ayurveda Alignment Mentorship. Of course Agni is digestion, but it’s also the digestion of life which is all about how we process what is happening in our emotions and our feelings and how we see ourselves. Yoga Nidra is one of Angela’s favorite healing practices. Check out the Alignment Mentorship at simpleyurveda.com.

Tune in as Angela shares with us a simple guide to an Ayurvedic Cleanse. An Ayurvedic cleanse is very different from what we typically think of as a cleanse. Rather than starving the body, an Ayurvedic cleanse removes the food, drink, lifestyle actions, mental impressions and more that are causing dis-ease and instead focuses on nourishing the body, mind and spirit. This episode explains the traditional Ayurvedic approach and offers variations for modern-day life to meet you where you are at. In this episode, learn more about: • What a traditional Ayurvedic cleanse is• The purpose of simplifying• Different Ayurvedic cleanse variations• Importance of having a plan going into it & coming out of it Grab Angela's favorite Simple Kitchari Recipe and download the Free Cleanse Shopping List to get you started. We'd love to have you join us in March 2021 for a live group cleanse in The Simple Ayurveda Collective. All content will be available for future access. The Simple Ayurveda Collective is your resource hub

Join Angela and guest Shivani in this episode: Deeper Truths About Manifesting Your Dream Life. This conversation leads us through ways we can cultivate a deeper understanding of how manifestation works and how we can use our inner landscape to shape our outer landscapes, as well as how our thoughts, emotions and how we feel inside creates and feels and manifests how we feel in our bodies and how we feel in life. Shivani is a spiritual and mindset coach, helping people break through their belief systems and energetic blocks to live the life they truly desire. Being the founder of Dream Life Lounge, Shivani is on a mission to educate the masses on deeper spiritual aspects of our lives to align with the universal energy and find home within. Connect with her at @dreamlifelounge on Instagram or on her website at https://dreamlifelounge.com/ .

Prana is vital life force energy. It is the basis for thoughts and consciousness. It provides flexibility, creativity and the ability to communicate. It's all of the spiritual, life-affirming aspects of the air element from adaptability to spiritual growth. It governs respiration, digestion, circulation and excretion. This episode dives into practical ways to support prana in everyday life. In this episode, learn more about: - What Prana is and how to identify it within yourself - The 5 main ways Prana moves within the body - Ways to identify Prana imbalance + activities to create balance If you’d Like to go deeper and join us for live community support, the Simple Ayurveda Collective is your resource hub for diving into this topic and all things Ayurveda. https://simpleayurveda.com/membership/

Tejas is your radiance, confidence, courage and metabolic function. It's all of the spiritual, life-affirming aspects of the fire element from enthusiasm to inner transformation. Tejas creates warmth and clarity and dictates higher perception. This episode dives into practical ways to support tejas in everyday life. In this episode, learn more about: - What Tejas is and how to identify it within yourself - Ways Tejas can be cultivated - Specific simple things to balance Tejas each day If you’d Like to go deeper and join us for live community support, the Simple Ayurveda Collective is your resource hub for diving into this topic and all things Ayurveda. https://simpleayurveda.com/membership/

Ojas is nourishment, lubrication, juiciness and inner bliss. It's all of the spiritual, life-affirming aspects of the water element from the ability to let things roll off your back to inner contentment. Mind, body and soul are one, so that same ability to tap into flow is manifested through our immune system being able to roll with whatever is thrown your way. This episode dives into practical ways to support ojas in everyday life. In this episode, learn more about: - What Ojas is and how to identify it within yourself - Ways Ojas are both depleted and replenished - The importance of both detoxification and rejuvenation ...If you’d like to go deeper into Ojas with more specific ways you can support it & join us for live community support, the Simple Ayurveda Collective is your resource hub for diving into Ojas and all things Ayurveda. Sign up today at: https://simpleayurveda.com/membership/

Join Angela and guest Lopa van der Mersch in this episode: Why You Shouldn’t Outsource Your Spiritual Sovereignty. Many of us spend our lives seeking spiritual truth and fulfillment. But, for Lopa, that journey led her somewhere she never expected — a cult. Well, two cults to be precise. She might not have found all the answers she was looking for, but she did learn a tremendous amount about outsourcing your inner knowing, losing (and reclaiming) your voice, and finding your unshakable source of integrity within. Lopa van der Mersch is many things: Ayurvedic practitioner. Mother of two. Sustainability advocate. TEDx speaker. Recovering cult member. Her adventures have taken her around the world in search of health, spiritual fulfillment, and deep energy. 2 Years ago, she added a new chapter to her life story: Founder and CEO of Rasa, the adaptogenic coffee alternatives revolutionizing people’s relationship to their energy. Connect With Lopa: Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/lopalovesyou/ With Rasa: Websi

Join Angela Perger and guest Robin Stamp in this incredible episode as they journey through a deeper dive into astrology, karma and spiritual transformation. Robin shares with us the guidance our birth charts can offer, takes us through an overview of the planets and chakras, and how to bring them into balance, and more. He also answers the question: How much of life is predetermined or laid out in the birth chart vs what we have control over? Robin is a Spiritual Guide, Yogic Astrologer, and Teacher. Connect with him at www.instagram.com/universeembodied on Instagram and visit his website at www.UniverseEmbodied.com .

You are not your job or career. You are so much more. In this episode Angela talks about discerning between challenges and redirection, the tools that help understand your dharma and how dharmic living is rejuvenative.

Join Angela Perger and guest Graciela Rasor in this episode as they discuss Human Design more deeply! Graciela has already taken us through the basics of Human Design and the five energy types, and now she's going deeper with a crash course on the nine energy centers. The nine energy centers correlate loosely with the chakra system, and they can tell us so much about ourselves and our loved ones. Get ready to learn about what energies you're projecting strongly into the world and what areas you're most susceptible to conditioning in. Graciela Rasor is a spiritual guide with a sense of humor. An intuitive, energy healer and Human Design reader, she believes that all people -- not just the yogis and the raw vegans-- are entitled to a life that makes their soul happy. Graciela supports her clients in growing their authenticity, spirituality and purpose so they can cut out the conditioning that weighs them down and start living in a way that lights them up. Connect with Graciela: https://gracielarasor.com/ https:

Join Angela Perger and guest Kaya Mindlin in this episode as they discuss neither history nor myth, the value of Storytelling in the Vedic Tradition. Yoga Therapist, Vedic Counselor and Educator, Kaya Mindlin has taught the softer side of yoga for 20 years. Dedicated students and teachers resonate with her technical acumen, mothering bhava and ability to weave transformational teaching, storytelling, philosophy, mantra and gentle practice in a meaningful way. With thousands of hours of tutelage with masters in the Vedic tradition, Kaya integrates Yoga Therapy, Vedanta Philosophy, Tantra, Ayurveda, Vedic Astrology, and honoring feminine Divine. Her work is accessed in her Online Practice Studio, Private Vedic Counseling, Mantra Classes, Bhagavad Gita Program and Yoga Nidra trainings. Kaya is committed to re-establishing a value upholding yoga’s roots and promoting the aspects of yoga where accessibility meets depth. She lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband, Vedic Astrologer Michael Manzella and thei

Within this conversation, Angela and guest Natalie Brite discuss the power of whole self goal setting by using the Wheel of Life. Whole self goal setting with the Wheel of Life allows us to set goals with more meaning, purpose and intent, thus helping us to find more joy in our process of materializing our desires.   Natalie Brite is a Conscious Business + Leadership Mentor, educator, and creative located in Portland, Oregon - serving the world on a global level. Natalie’s Conscious Business Method supports forward thinking entrepreneurs + creative visionaries in starting, growing and sustaining an online business rooted in collectivism, reciprocity, and a triple bottom line impact. Natalie’s work is dedicated to empowering the new era of leaders to collectively bring forward a new standard for how we conduct business; a standard driven by authentic integrity and for the vision of creating a sustainable + thriving future for ourselves, society and the planet.

I’m sharing my word of the year for 2020 and how it manifested, as well as some reflections on collective discomfort and growth.

CW: Eating Disorders Chara Caruthers is back again on the podcast to talk about all things food and self love. Join Angela and Chara as they talk about bringing mindfulness back into cooking and eating like you love yourself. Chara shares her go-to favorite recipes and answers questions from our listeners. Chara Caruthers is a passionate and outspoken voice for the power of living your truth. An international teacher, speaker, advocate and mentor for women’s wellness, she has inspired and motivated a global community of women of all ages to live juicier and more connected lives by embracing the principles of yoga and Ayurveda. Chara’s lifelong love of food and fascination with applying it as medicine was the catalyst for her attraction to Ayurvedic cooking. It was also the beginning of an ongoing love affair with the idea of eating like you love yourself.

Simplicity is like Ayurveda, there is no arrival... just an ebb and flow that takes us back to ourselves. This episode shares simple tips for cultivating more simplicity and ease in everyday life.

Kathy Jo Staheli is back again on the podcast to share simple ways to flow in the rhythm of the day. Kathy Jo is a NAMA recognized Doctor of Ayurvedic Medicine.

This is an informal Q + A episode where I casually discuss the prompts that listeners send it.

Understanding and applying Ayurvedic concepts can help build a solid foundation for a deeper relationship with your mind, body and intuition.

This is the number one question sent into Simple Ayurveda. This episode breaks down the various Ayurvedic certifications, types of programs and gives you a starting point for your own research.   Learn more about the 600-hour Ayurveda Health Counselor Program taught by Professor Angela Perger, Ayurveda Practitioner with a Master of Science in Education and 20+ years of teaching experience!