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 352 episodes available.

Functional Spirituality episodes:

April 15, 2022 How to LET IT GO
“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.

chapter markers
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
21:27 Subscribe to the podcast

Links mentioned:
Therapeutic Embodiment Facilitator Training

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
April 13, 2022 Guided meditation: Pure presence
Today's meditation is about pure presence.
Settle in and notice what it feels like to surrender resistance

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
20min
April 08, 2022 The attitude of meditation
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

Links Mentioned:
The three attitudes of meditation
What is your Presencing tool?
Guided meditation: A 5 minute drop in
The Therapeutic Embodiment Facilitator Training

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
34min
April 05, 2022 Guided meditation: Curiosity and music
Ease into stillness with curiosity and enjoy a guided sound meditation to connect to your body, ground, release and relax.

Links:
Our new Embodiement Facilitator Training

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
13min
March 29, 2022 Guided meditation: 5 minute tension release
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.

Our new facilitator training:
https://functionalspirituality.thinkific.com/bundles/therapeutic-embodiment

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
6min
March 24, 2022 4 ingredients for a successful business
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.

chapter markers
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

Links mentioned:
The Therapeutic Embodiment Facilitator Training

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
26min
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

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
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

FAQs about Functional Spirituality:

How many episodes does Functional Spirituality have?

The podcast currently has 352 episodes available.

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