Born to be FREE with Sharada Devi

Return to Inner Wholeness with Elisa Maran | Ep 28


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This episode is an invitation into the quiet, often overlooked space where burnout lives, where our service to others begins to cost us our connection to ourselves.

In this intimate and heart-opening conversation, I sit with my beloved sister, Elisa Maran: Ayurveda practitioner, herbalist, mother, and former humanitarian aid worker.

We met seven years ago in Sicily during a Vedānta immersion with my revered teacher. She offered me one of the most soul-soothing massages I’ve ever received. Her presence, her hands, her touch... I knew in that moment she was carrying something sacred. Since then, we’ve walked side by side through many seasons, through cycles of grief, joy, birth, and becoming.

Elisa’s path has not been linear.

She’s worked in child protection across Nepal, India, and Thailand. She’s lived in tribal villages, studied Sanskrit, practiced permaculture, and walked barefoot back into the embrace of Mother Earth.

But the turning point came when she realized she could no longer live in a way that disregarded her body’s truth.

Even with her knowledge of Ayurveda, she was still treating herself like a machine…something to fix, to keep going.

And it was in the breakdown that the breakthrough came.

In this conversation, we speak about the cost of giving from an empty cup.

About the nervous system on constant alert.

About the guilt that follows pleasure.

And about the sacred disarmament that begins when we finally start mothering ourselves.

Ayurveda, here, is not a lifestyle trend.

It is a return to the original temple. It’s about listening. Slowing down. Feeling again. It’s the language of oil, earth, ritual, and repair.

And I’m so honored to share that Elisa is one of the guest teachers in The Muse: The Golden Womb, our trauma-informed sacred sexuality coaching certification. In this upcoming cycle, she returns to offer what we lovingly call the “Witch’s Corner,” a deep dive into the sacred art of herbalism, embodied Ayurveda, plant rituals, and pleasure-based nourishment. She’ll guide us in making tinctures, oils, and ancestral medicine that awaken our hands and our hearts.

It’s the kind of education I wish every woman received…

how to remember your power through your senses, your cycle, and your touch.

This episode is a blessing for the woman who is tired of being the strong one. For the ones whose systems are whispering slow down. For the healers, the givers, the quiet warriors who’ve been holding so much for so long.

If you’re longing to feel whole again, to melt the armor, to come back into joy…

not as performance but as prayer, this is for you.

Come sit with us.

Something tender is waiting to be remembered.

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KEYNOTES:

-Elisa's Background and Journey, humanitarian works

-Early interest in healing and nature & studied Oriental Languages

-Ayurveda: "science of life" from Vedic tradition

-Holistic approach to optimal living through diet, lifestyle, and understanding body-mind connection

-Individual constitution and seasonal practices

-Elisa experienced burnout from constant crisis response

-Shifted focus to more sustainable, nature-connected lifestyle

-Importance of honoring cyclical nature of women's bodies and lives

-Upcoming Muse to Golden Womb Program : trauma-informed coaching certification

-"Witch Corner"

-Safe container crucial for healing shame and trauma

-Melting "armor" to experience pleasure and joy again

-Reconnecting with nature and plant medicines as empowerment

-Choosing wholeness over societal programming towards failure

-Elisa developing small retreat center in Sicily

-Devi School Free Offerings & many more..

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ABOUT Elisa Maran

Elisa is an Ayurvedic Practitioner, Deep Ecology Facilitator, Yin Yoga Teacher and Permaculture lover.

Elisa is an intuitive and self-educated herbalist. She loves to grow herbs and pick wild medical plants to prepare medicated oils for her Ayurvedic Treatments, herbal teas and other natural remedies. She is a Vedanta student. The search for truth within has been a golden thread in her life since a very young age.

She met Be Woman Project in 2018 when she started her journey of discovery of the sacred feminine, falling in love with it. She loves to apply a nature based approach in her facilitation work, Devi Circles and personal practices. Elisa has a background in human rights protection in post-conflict situations, Environmental protection, Trauma Release, Languages and Cultures of South Asia. She studied and lived in Europe and South Asia.

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