Most spiritual practices go up and out. Higher frequencies. Higher timelines. Higher consciousness. And most of us were never told that's only one aspect of the journey.

If you've been doing the work and something still feels incomplete. If you keep going and the gap doesn't close. It might not be that you need more. It might be that the body has been left out.

For women especially, who have spent their whole lives operating in masculine energy, doing spirituality the same way just takes the imbalance further. And nobody tells you that's what's happening.

This episode is about the body. Why it matters. Why it keeps getting left out. And what changes when it's finally included.

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You can also find me on Instagram: ⁠akasha.uma⁠

Topics covered: divine feminine, embodiment, women's spirituality, spiritual bypassing, feminine energy, masculine energy, body wisdom, Akashic Records, Yoga Nidra, spiritual burnout, grounding, sovereignty.

We spend a lot of time clenching. Holding on. Bracing. Trying to make things happen and trying to keep things from falling apart. It's part of being human. Without noticing, we forget that underneath all of it there's a stillness that was never lost. 

This practice is an invitation to unclench. To loosen the grip. To open up into the calm that is always there, in the deepest layers of who you are.

Only listen to this when you're lying down. Not while driving or doing anything else.

Here's another Yoga Nidra:

30 Minute yoga Nidra: Staying With The Body

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Topics covered: Yoga Nidra, deep rest, nervous system, non-sleep deep rest, NSDR, relaxation, embodiment, letting go, stillness, women's spirituality, spiritual growth.

Music: Chris Collins - indiemusicbox.com

Surrender to your body's wisdom. Let go. Trust the process.

Easy to say. Nobody describes what it actually feels like when you're in it.

This episode does. The battle between what your body already knows and everything in you that doesn't want to go there yet. 

This is what surrender actually looks like from the inside.

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Topics covered: surrender, embodiment, ego, inner work, shadow work, spiritual growth, the body, patterns, women's spirituality.

Tired of your spiritual growth? Before you conclude something is wrong with you, consider this.

Old patterns don't discriminate. They latch onto where your energy goes. And if you pour your energy into spirituality, they go there too.

This episode takes the lightbody framework from episode 7 further. Because the stagnation that lives in your energetic body doesn't make exceptions for the things you consider sacred.

Episodes mentioned in this episode:

7. The light body: why you feel stuck even when you’re doing everything right

25. Twenty years of spiritual growth. Still exhausted. Here’s why.

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1. What are the Akashic Records?

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You can also find me on Instagram: ⁠akasha.uma⁠

Topics covered: spiritual burnout, lightbody, energetic stagnation, old patterns, etheric body, emotional body, mental body, embodiment, women's spirituality, Akashic Records.

Maybe you've tried Yoga Nidra and weren't sure you did it right. Maybe you keep meaning to start but don't know where to begin.

This episode is your practical guide. Everything you need to know before you lie down and press play.

I cover how to get comfortable, what to do if you fall asleep, how to handle a busy mind, what to do when you can't feel what the teacher is describing, and why there is no wrong way to do this.

I also walk you through ujjai pranayama, a simple breathing technique to help settle your mind before you begin.

Here's a 30 minute Yoga Nidra: Staying with the body

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Topics covered: Yoga Nidra, Yoga Nidra for beginners, how to practice Yoga Nidra, deep rest, non-sleep deep rest, NSDR, nervous system, ujjai pranayama, embodiment, body wisdom, rest, women's spirituality.

Nobody warns you about this part.

You start letting yourself feel instead of pushing away. And then you realize: the more you feel, the more you're given to feel. You opened a door. Now the whole flood wants to come through.

This episode is for the woman who is in that flood right now. 

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Topics covered: embodiment, feeling, loss, loneliness, spiritual growth, patterns, the body.

Everyone talks about transformation. Big shifts. Higher timelines. Your life is going to change in tremendous ways.

But the moment you didn't spiral. The moment something landed and then it was just... done. 

Those smaller moments. That's when the shifts happen.

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Topics covered: patterns, completion, energetic stagnation, body wisdom, relief, spiritual burnout, Akashic Records, self-trust, nervous system, women's spirituality.

This is a Yoga Nidra meditation for women who want to start learning how to stay with the body, even when something unpleasant arises.Most of us were never taught how to fully feel. How to be in the body and stay there. This practice is one small step in building that capacity.

Yoga Nidra is a guided meditation practice that works with the body's natural ability to process sensation, feeling and emotion. Each time you practice, you give your body a little more experience of staying. Over time, that builds trust. Trust that the body can hold what arises.

I'm Nancy, Akashic Records practitioner and Yoga Nidra teacher. Listen to the Akasha Uma Podcast on Spotify and Apple Podcasts: search Akasha Uma.

Start with episode 25: Twenty years of spiritual growth. Still exhausted. Here's why.

This Yoga Nidra is also on Youtube.

You can find me on Instagram: akasha.uma

Topics: Yoga Nidra, Yoga Nidra meditation, guided meditation, nervous system, embodiment, somatic healing, self-discovery, women's spirituality, stress relief, relaxation, healing meditation, NSDR, non sleep deep rest.

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You lie down. You press play. That's it.

In this episode I explain what Yoga Nidra is, what it does to your nervous system over time, and why it matters for your spiritual practice.

I share my own experience of the practice, what builds with regular use, and how it connects to the Akashic Records work I do.

If you've been curious about Yoga Nidra this is a good place to start.

I made a Yoga Nidra 'Staying With The Body'.

You can find it on Youtube and on the podcast.

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Topics covered: Yoga Nidra, non-sleep deep rest, NSDR, nervous system, nervous system regulation, Akashic Records, spiritual growth, embodiment, healing, women's spirituality, burnout, self-discovery.

Any conversation about the crown chakra is limited. It has to be experienced.

In this episode I cover what the crown chakra actually is, what throws it out of balance, and something we have to talk about: the void stage. That moment when the connection goes quiet and you think something has gone wrong.

Check out the whole series on the 7 primary chakra’s. Links below.

Topics covered: crown chakra, Sahasrara, spiritual awakening, spiritual growth, intuition, higher consciousness, meditation, Akashic Records, women's spirituality, self-discovery, healing, nervous system, embodiment.

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⁠14. Sacral chakra: wanting things is not the problem.⁠

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⁠20. Heart chakra: it's not about more love and light.⁠

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26. Third eye chakra: you knew. And then you talked yourself out of it

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