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Today, Erin and Sasha continue our Chakra series with Anahata, meaning “eternal unstruck sound.” Anahata is the fourth chakra, located at the heart, which is the seat of love and compassion. It is also the location of Vishnu Granthi (the knot of Vishnu). Its element is air, color is green, planet is Venus, and Ishta Devata is Lakshmi. Having neurons and brain cells, the heart holds the highest level of electromagnetic energy, inspiration, devotion, timelessness, and joy without reason. When Anahata is in a knot, there is attachment, neediness, longing, co-dependency, and a “me and mine” mentality. 

Vishnu Granthi converts once Anahata is developed and stable, and then there is an energy of immense clairvoyance, deep compassion, transcendence of fear, greater kundalini rising, experience of pleasure, and authentic connection. Lakshmi lives here, the goddess of Abundance and Prosperity. Abundance is a state, and in this state, all lack disappears. Anahata’s base value of Peace (Shanti) converts to Bliss (Ananda) and then into Compassion, which is really just pain held in love. The feeling of Grace, or knowing you are held in Love, only arises when Anahata is open and online. It is not only about having an abundance mindset of gratitude, but an abundant heart, and with the help of a strong spine; an open, ever softening heart. 

So even when we experience personal pain, grief, sorrow, and despair, it makes us better people. When we go into deeper states within our heart, pain is not our enemy. It becomes maturity and compassion. Sensitivity is not weakness, it is our superpower. We must train it, not suppress it. Let the tears come, let them flow, and be grateful for them. This allows the heart to stay safe as it expands. And remember, where there is gratitude, there is Lakshmi, abundance and prosperity. 

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This episode originally aired in 2025 and, as one of our most-loved conversations, we're sharing it again with you today.

Today Erin and Sasha continue the exploration of the chakras with Manipura - the third of the seven chakras - which translates  as “the shining sacred jewel.” It is associated with the Fire element, the planet Mars, the color Yellow, and the “Ishta Devata” Hanuman. It is located just above the navel and below the sternum, at our solar plexus — also called the celiac plexus — which is a complex system of radiating nerves and ganglia. It is found in the pit of the stomach in front of the aorta. It is part of the sympathetic nervous system and plays an important role in the functioning of the stomach, kidneys, liver, and adrenal glands. 

This chakra brings Prana to the digestive system, also known as our second brain. From a Western perspective, this is known and expressed as the gut-brain axis (or GBA) - the network of nerves and biochemical signals that connect the brain and the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. It's a two-way communication system that helps maintain homeostasis. The vagus nerve is one of the main nerves that connects the brain and gut, sending signals in both directions. 

From a clinical perspective, the GBA can impact disorders like irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), mood disorders, anxiety, depression, and memory loss. The GBA can also be linked to conditions like autism, obesity, schizophrenia, Parkinson's disease, and Alzheimer's disease. 

The Manipura chakra is directly linked to our sense of self, self-esteem, sense of purpose, the seat of clear decisive action, vision, dynamic action, assertiveness, discipline, determination, passion, deepest willingness to go beyond, strong will power, courage, resilience, and vitality. When balanced, there is energy and insight, will power and and follow-through, self-reliance, vitality and health. It can only be as balanced as the first 2 chakras. When imbalanced, there is a state of self-doubt, fear, insecurity, wanting, anger, blame, victimhood, depression, and lethargy. 

Positive affirmations, yoga postures that engage the core such as bow pose, cobra pose, or revolved triangle pose, and kapalabhati pranayama (or breath of fire) help strengthen Manipura when it is weak. We also get into ways of balancing an overactive Manipura, as Pitta-type individuals are prone to over exercising, overworking, and burnout. We hope today’s conversation illuminates the ways in which we can reclaim and maintain our personal power, and that it is not as much a process of creating it, as it is discovering that which has always been there and removing what blocks us from experiencing it. 

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This episode originally aired in 2025 and, as one of our most-loved conversations, we're sharing it again with you today.

Today, Sasha and Erin got to chat in-person to deep dive into the second chakra, Svadhistana, located at the sacrum above the Muladhara, which abides in the tail bone or coccyx. The sacrum is a large, triangular bone at the base of the spine that connects to the pelvis and is made up of five fused vertebrae, numbered S-1 to S-5. 

Now that we know where it lives, lets talk about what it means. Svadhistana translates as “the seat of taste/desire.” “Swa means taste, and “Stana” means abode or seat. It represents the Water element, relates to the physical reproductive organs and brings Prana to the reproductive system. This is where our desire comes from - for enjoyment, pleasure, sexuality, creativity and flow. 

Desire is a fascinating thing. And an important thing at that, as far our basic evolution and survival go. But craving and aversion, become a relentless assault on the present moment if we fail to understand and master the nature of it. Aversion is essentially Anxiety, Resentment, Regret, All Addiction, Self-Hatred, all sense of Lack, the gap between who you are and who you want to be, what you have and what you want to have.

Desire is not the actual problem. Because we aren’t actually looking for a “thing.” We are looking for “the experience of the thing, the feeling of the thing.” That is the first level of balancing this chakra, or subtle energy center: Distinguishing what it is we ultimately truly Desire. 

In Ayurveda, it is important to not suppress Desire. In Yoga, it is important to refine the experiencer, or the one experiencing Desire, so that the Desire becomes refined. As our Ayurvedic habits and Yoga practice deepens, toxic habits fall away, including toxic desires. And this is because as our human system becomes balanced, the tendencies of imbalance heal into harmonious tendencies. This is a whole nother level of healing.

When our Svadhistana is balanced, there is an energy of abundance, and understanding of timing. When imbalanced, there is guilt, self-hatred, a state of wanting or lack, self-harming, drama, holding of childhood issues, traumas, and sexual scarring, and a tamasic level of desire to relate but an inability to relate to anyone. Since our present relationships are all informed by our past, we must free ourselves from incorrect, unrefined information in our system. We must clean this chakra by learning how to activate it. Otherwise, Fear will show up to sabotage what it is we truly want. 

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This episode originally aired in 2025 and, as one of our most-loved conversations, we're sharing it again with you today.

Today, we spend more time on the fourth kosha, Vigyanamaya Kosha. The word “Vigyana” means “knowing.” This layer is true intellect, intuition, wisdom, and higher awareness. Within this layer, one experiences union of Spirit, realizing they are a spiritual being having a human experience. 

We also delve into the fifth layer, the Anandamaya Kosha. “Ananda” means “bliss,” so this is our Bliss Body. Love, peace, joy, connection, and bliss are all a constant experience here, without any reason, and it’s beyond just an emotion. Bliss is the experience we gain from connecting to the Atman (true self) without masks, opinions, ideas, or identities. 

We begin exploring another part of the subtle anatomy, known as Chakras. Chakras are energy vortexes in the subtle/energetic body, located along the sushumna nadi, starting from the base of the spine, or tail bone, all the way up through the crown of the head. The first is Muladhara, which we felt required its own episode, as the strength of the rest of the chakras rest upon this foundation.

Muladhara translates as the root, whose energy flows to the rest of the chakras and sets the tone for our sense of self. Herein lies infinite potential but also fear, since all Fear is essentially about the Unknown, and the Unknown is also the Infinite Potential. A lot of our limitations are self-imposed, acquired through conditioning, so the muladhara represents the possibility of liberation when we realize we have the choice to change and evolve. 

Daily practices and routines, often the simple ones we mention in today's conversation, help strengthen our inner stability. Disciplines, like yoga asana, anchor us so that experiences don’t lead us off path and away from our true self. A huge part of our inner work is with this chakra. Cultivating a base experience of Trust over Fear. This chakra represents the Earth element, and we hope you feel its grounding energy through this teaching. 

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This episode originally aired in 2023 and, as one of our most-loved conversations, we're sharing it again with you today.

Today’s conversation concludes our 3 part series on the sub-doshas, specifically Kapha, the dosha of Earth and Water.

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This episode originally aired in 2023 and, as one of our most-loved conversations, we're sharing it again with you today.

Sasha and Erin continue the conversation on "subdoshas," the entities that are responsible for overseeing specific actions, organs and/or emotions.  We review the fundamental language of Ayurveda, including the pancha-mahabhutas, or 5 great elements, how they combine to form the 3 doshas, and give some extra love to Pitta, the dosha of Fire and Water, by introducing her 5 subdoshas. 

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This episode originally aired in 2023 and, as one of our most-loved conversations, we're sharing it again with you today. 

Vata, nature's bio force of motion and circulation, plays a significant role in our mind/body system - specifically our digestive and emotional wellbeing. The subdoshas of Vata: Prana Vayu, Udana Vayu, Samana Vayu, Apana Vayu, and Vyana Vayu each have specific, significant roles in regulating our inner harmony. Chronic psychosomatic illnesses occur when Vata gets aggravated and left unchecked. We hope this conversation plants a deeper understanding of this dynamic dosha and offers practical tools for keeping your Vata balanced from the inside out.

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As we grow - whether in our career, our leadership, our inner evolution - the stakes inevitably rise. Pressure increases, expectations heighten, and mistakes become more visible. In this episode, Sasha and Erin explore how to meet higher stakes with steadiness, through an Ayurvedic lens that honors the cultivation, and protection, of ojas under stress.

They also dive into something essential that is often overlooked in high performance culture: the importance of pausing and creating buffers. Strategic pauses, integration periods, and intentional space are not signs of slowing down - they are what make sustainable growth possible. It is said that the latest way to get somewhere, is to go slowly.

This gives us perspective, an opportunity for recalibration and increase our capacity to hold more, without burnout or fragmentation.

The truth about expansion, is that it’s not linear. It requires rhythm: effort and rest, motion and stillness, engagement and withdrawal, intensity and integration. When we learn to build in these buffers, we don’t just handle pressure better: we grow to meet ourselves with more clarity, wisdom, and stability.

This episode is a sentimental finale to our first chapter in Austin. Finally rooted, finally flying.

Thank you for being here for every step of our evolution. We’ll see you in Season 9.

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There’s a moment on the Ayurvedic path when we realize that knowing our constitution isn’t enough.

We may know our Prakriti, our true nature. We may even know what foods are “good” or “bad” for us. And yet… we still feel off. Bloated. Inflamed. Heavy. Unsettled. Or simply not fully ourselves.

And this is where Ayurveda gently redirects us from who we are, to what is actually happening. From prakriti to vikruti.

Because the truth is, most of us are not eating for our constitution, we’re living in a state of Vikriti, or imbalance. And that imbalance is rarely simple. It’s layered. It’s dynamic. Often, it’s dual-doshic or even tridoshic- heat and heaviness, dryness and stagnation, intensity and depletion, all coexisting in the same body.

So the question becomes: Not just what should I eat? But what does my body need, right now, in this state?

In today’s episode, we’re exploring Ayurvedic nutrition through that lens. Not as a rigid food list, but as a living relationship. 

We explore why so many people stay stuck, even when they’re “eating healthy. And just as importantly, we’re shifting the conversation beyond food itself. Because in Ayurveda, healing doesn’t come from what we eat alone.

It comes from when we eat. How we eat. The state of our nervous system as we eat. The rhythm, the pace, the presence.

You can eat the most perfect diet for your dosha, and still create imbalance if the timing is off, if the quantity is too much, or if the body isn’t ready to receive.

There’s a classical idea in Ayurveda that the strength of the vessel determines what can be given. And in many ways, this episode is about strengthening that vessel. So that what you eat can actually nourish you.

If  you’ve been trying to “eat right” but still feel out of balance…

if you’ve been toggling between different food rules, unsure what applies to you…

or if you’re ready to understand Ayurvedic nutrition on a deeper, more intuitive level, this episode is for you. 

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There is a quiet intelligence moving through your body at all times, carrying nourishment, clearing waste, transmitting information, and sustaining life itself.

In Ayurveda, this movement is understood through the concept of srotas—the channels of the body.

Today, Sasha and Erin explore the five types of flow that can exist within the srotas: normal (or balanced), excessive, deficient, blocked, or flow-out.

Healing is not just about what you put into the body—it’s about how well everything is able to move, and be held. As is the vessel, so is what may be given. In other words: The strength of the vessel determines the blessing it can receive.

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