Functional Spirituality

By Ava Irani

Hi, my name is Ava and I’m delighted to offer you “Functional Spirituality”, a free resource of talks, trainings and guided meditations.

I use an academic approach to invite critical thinking into en... more

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The podcast currently has 336 episodes available.

Functional Spirituality episodes:

March 22, 2022 Guided meditation: Settling the NS into Stillness
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.

Increasing accessibility to functional healing + non-dual spiritual oneness.
www.functionalspirituality.com

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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 workshop: Healing complex trauma:
A free workshop on how to optimise your spiritual practice and your daily life by understanding complex trauma.

Connect on Socials
Where you can hear from us in daily life
Personal account: @avairani_
Functional Spirituality: @functionalspirituality
Studio: @spandaschool

...more
31min
March 15, 2022 Guided meditation: What remains is I
This week's meditation invites seekers to explore what the word "I" refers to, and draws awareness back to its infinite Self-source.

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: Healing complex trauma:
A free workshop on how to optimise your spiritual practice and your daily life by understanding complex trauma.

Connect on Socials
Where you can hear from us in daily life
Personal account: @avairani_
Functional Spirituality: @functionalspirituality
Studio: @spandaschool

...more
11min
March 14, 2022Q&A with Chantelle Raven & Ava
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.

Chapter markers:
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

Links mentioned:
Wholeness experience
Embodied awakening academy
Chantelle's podcast
Chantelle’s Instagram

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: Healing complex trauma:
A free workshop on how to optimise your spiritual practice and your daily life by understanding complex trauma.

Connect on Socials
Where you can hear from us in daily life
Personal account: @avairani_
Functional Spirituality: @functionalspirituality
Studio: @spandaschool
...more
1h 7min
March 11, 2022 Intention vs control
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.

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

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: Healing complex trauma:
A free workshop on how to optimise your spiritual practice and your daily life by understanding complex trauma.

Connect on Socials
Where you can hear from us in daily life
Personal account: @avairani_
Functional Spirituality: @functionalspirituality
Studio: @spandaschool

...more
18min
March 09, 2022 Guided meditation: Using Being for healing
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.

Click here to learn more about our Free Workshop: Confident leader

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: Healing complex trauma:
A free workshop on how to optimise your spiritual practice and your daily life by understanding complex trauma.

Connect on Socials
Where you can hear from us in daily life
Personal account: @avairani_
Functional Spirituality: @functionalspirituality
Studio: @spandaschool

...more
16min
March 01, 2022 What is an AWAKE teacher?
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

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: Healing complex trauma:
A free workshop on how to optimise your spiritual practice and your daily life by understanding complex trauma.

Connect on Socials
Where you can hear from us in daily life
Personal account: @avairani_
Functional Spirituality: @functionalspirituality
Studio: @spandaschool

...more
21min
February 28, 2022 Guided meditation: Cultivating trust
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.

Links mentioned
3 ways to cultivate more Trust in your life

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: Healing complex trauma:
A free workshop on how to optimise your spiritual practice and your daily life by understanding complex trauma.

Connect on Socials
Where you can hear from us in daily life
Personal account: @avairani_
Functional Spirituality: @functionalspirituality
Studio: @spandaschool

...more
16min
February 22, 2022 Guided meditation: Love
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.

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: Healing complex trauma:
A free workshop on how to optimise your spiritual practice and your daily life by understanding complex trauma.

Connect on Socials
Where you can hear from us in daily life
Personal account: @avairani_
Functional Spirituality: @functionalspirituality
Studio: @spandaschool

...more
19min
February 22, 2022 3 ways to cultivate more Trust in your life
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 ?

chapter markers
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

Links mentioned:
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

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: Healing complex trauma:
A free workshop on how to optimise your spiritual practice and your daily life by understanding complex trauma.

Connect on Socials
Where you can hear from us in daily life
Personal account: @avairani_
Functional Spirituality: @functionalspirituality
Studio: @spandaschool

...more
23min
February 17, 2022 Reflection from retreat: How do I heal the planet?
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.

chapter markers
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
21:11 Subscribe

Links mentioned:
links, resources or courses mentioned

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: Healing complex trauma:
A free workshop on how to optimise your spiritual practice and your daily life by understanding complex trauma.

Connect on Socials
Where you can hear from us in daily life
Personal account: @avairani_
Functional Spirituality: @functionalspirituality
Studio: @spandaschool

...more
22min

FAQs about Functional Spirituality:

How many episodes does Functional Spirituality have?

The podcast currently has 336 episodes available.

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