Scientists have linked many of today’s most common health issues, from digestive problems to chronic back pain, to stress and nervous system dysregulation. In this episode, Katie shares how our nervous system functions, what happens when it gets stuck in a stress state, and how we can begin to regulate our nervous systems and release years of stress!

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In this episode about the nervous system, you’ll hear:

~ An invitation to our free mini-course about Women’s Wisdom and Ayurveda for Women!

~ What is prana?

~ What is your body’s valve system?

~ Functions of the nervous system

~ Ayurvedic and Tantric perspectives of the nervous system

~ How past experiences distort your perception of reality

~ What are the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems?

~ The root of many digestive issues

~ What happens to our body under stress?

~ The gift of pain

~ Signs that your nervous system is dysregulated

~ Movement practices to regulate your nervous system

~ The Vedic concept of Yantra

Other resources related to this episode:

~ Learn more about Ayurveda School

~ 2025 Chakra Yoga Nidra Workshop: Study with Katie and other luminary teachers this fall in the Bahamas!

~ 2026 Chakra Yoga Nidra Retreat: Deep dive into the chakras with Katie as your guide in the beautiful Bahamas in spring 2026!

~ Follow us on Instagram and Facebook

~ Katie’s latest book, Glow-Worthy

Get the full show notes here: www.TheShaktiSchool.com/podcast/

Here at The Shakti School we meditate a bit differently. In this episode, Katie shares seven important steps to establishing a feminine-form meditation practice that honors your unique, embodied experience and spirit. Whether you’re brand new to meditation or have an established meditation practice, learn how to take your practice to the next level. Listen till the end to hear a guided meditation for anxiety!

Want to meditate LIVE with Katie every month? Click here to learn more about our Spirit Sessions membership.

In this episode about deepening your meditation practice, you’ll hear:

~ Get our free mini-course about Women’s Wisdom and Ayurveda for Women!

~ What is feminine form meditation?

~ Why your mind is not the enemy

~ 7 steps to establishing a meditation practice

~ The benefits of meditation

~ Effects of meditation on the brain

~ Science-backed ways to rewire your brain

~ Why so many of us lack meaning and connection in our lives

~ The ancient concept of Laya Yoga

~ A guided Laya Yoga meditation

~ Anxiety is not a feeling

~ When you should NOT meditate

~ The ancient breathing technique of Sama Vritti

~ A guided meditation practice for anxiety

Other resources related to this episode:

~ Learn more about our Ayurveda School

~ 2025 Chakra Yoga Nidra Workshop: Study with Katie and other luminary teachers this fall in the Bahamas!

~ 2026 Chakra Yoga Nidra Retreat: Deep dive into the chakras with Katie as your guide in the beautiful Bahamas in spring 2026!

~ Follow us on Instagram and Facebook

~ Katie’s latest book, Glow-Worthy

Get the full show notes here: www.TheShaktiSchool.com/podcast/

Do you want to create more healthy relationships with your partner, family, co-workers and friends? In today’s episode, Katie shares a powerful framework for understanding your patterns in relationships, the Drama Triangle. It’s time to shine a light on the unconscious patterns that are sabotaging your relationships so you can get out of the Drama Triangle!

Ayurveda School is in session! Click here to learn more and start studying Ayurveda today!

In this episode about the Drama Triangle, you’ll hear:

~ An invitation to study with us in Ayurveda School!

~ What is the Drama Triangle?

~ Psychiatrist Stephen Karpman

~ Are there really so many narcissists?

~ The danger of labeling and “othering” people

~ Dissolving the labels you’ve given yourself

~ Characteristics of our inner victim, perpetrator and rescuer

~ Carl Jung's theory of projection

~ How to identify when you’re projecting

~ The Vedic concept of Samsara

~ How to recognise when you’re playing the victim, perpetrator or rescuer in your relationship

~ Examples of common dysfunctional relationship patterns

~ How to break free from the Drama Triangle

~ The Jungian concept of self-integration

~ How to develop more mature, healthy relationships

~ Awareness as a digestive enzyme

~ Taking radical responsibility for our feelings

~ Get our free mini-course about Women’s Wisdom and Ayurveda for Women!

Other resources mentioned in this episode:

~ 2025 Chakra Yoga Nidra Workshop: Study with Katie and other luminary teachers this fall in the Bahamas!

~ 2026 Chakra Yoga Nidra Retreat: Deep dive into the chakras with Katie as your guide in the beautiful Bahamas!

~ Sign up for our newsletter on our website

~ Follow us on Instagram and Facebook

~ Katie’s latest book, Glow-Worthy

Get the full show notes here: www.TheShaktiSchool.com/podcast/

Today Katie is joined by Buddhist journalist and New York Times bestseller, Katy Butler. Her books examine how our culture has over-medicalized death and lost touch with its sacredness. In this episode, Katy and Katie candidly discuss the topics others often avoid including food addictions, death and finding your voice in the bedroom!

If you’re ready to deepen your spiritual practice we invite you to join the 2025 class of our Divine Feminine Ayurveda School. Doors close soon, so click here to learn more and enroll today!

CW: Abuse against women and childhood abuse are mentioned in this episode which may be triggering for some listeners.

In this episode with Katy Butler, you’ll hear:

~ An invitation to our Feminine-Form Ayurveda School!

~ How Katy overcame her food addiction

~ How to start shedding shame

~ Katy Butlers’s experiences studying with Thich Nhat Hanh

~ The importance of telling your story

~ How Katy Butler found her journalistic voice

~ The five Buddhist remembrances

~ Lessons learned from watching a loved one die

~ What is a good death?

~ The Ars Moriendi (The Art of Dying)

~ Bringing homegrown ritual into your life and death

~ Finding your voice in the bedroom

~ How Katy keeps her relationship steamy in her 70s

~ Get our free mini-course about Women’s Wisdom and Ayurveda!

Other resources mentioned in this episode:

~ Learn more about our Ayurveda School

~ Connect with Katy Butler on her website and Facebook

~ Katy’s first book, Knocking on Heaven’s Door

~ Katy’s latest book, The Art of Dying Well

~ Read Katy Butler’s article in Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, Not Empty, Not Full

~ The Hite Report: A National Study of Female Sexuality

~ Our Spirit Sessions Membership

~ Follow The Shakti School on Instagram and Facebook

Today on the podcast Katie is joined by dear friend and founder of Uplifted Yoga, Brett Larkin! This episode is a total lovefest as Brett and Katie share why tapping into our feminine energy is so difficult for many of us. Tune in to learn practical ways to amplify your feminine energy so you can experience more pleasure, increase your productivity and move through life with more ease!

Want to spend a full year working deeply with your feminine energy? The 2025 class of our Divine Feminine Ayurveda School has begun! Click here to learn more and start studying today!

In this episode about feminine energy, you’ll hear:

~ An invitation to study with us in Ayurveda School!

~ What is feminine energy?

~ Brett Larkin’s favorite life mantra

~ The first ‘rule’ of working with feminine energy

~ Double goddess power

~ Why the feminine doesn’t like to be defined

~ The feminine form of Guru

~ How the science of Ayurveda helps us navigate our inner duality

~ Working with the energetic currents of manifestation and liberation

~ A forgotten key to increasing your productivity

~ Creating different textures of energy

~ Practical ways to honor the feminine in your daily life and work

~ Yoga as a trauma release methodology

~ The Ayurvedic concept of Bhuta Shuddhi

~ Get our free mini-course about Women’s Wisdom and Ayurveda!

Other resources mentioned in this episode:

~ Learn more about our Divine Feminine Ayurveda School

~ Follow Brett Larkin on Instagram

~ Listen to Brett’s podcast, The Uplifted Yoga Podcast

~ Get Brett’s free Somatic Yoga Workshop

~ Brett’s latest book, Yoga Life

~ Follow The Shakti School on Instagram and Facebook

~ Katie’s latest book, Glow-Worthy

Get the full show notes here: www.TheShaktiSchool.com/podcast/

We all put up walls and armor ourselves when we get hurt. This armor is often necessary to get through the day and show up for our work. However, sometimes the strategies we use to cover up our wounds hold us back in life. In today’s episode, Katie and Cat share why the wound is the way to true health and self-growth. Learn how to begin releasing your armor to uncover your true self!

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This session was hosted by a dear friend of The Shakti School, Cat Pinfold, and was originally released on her podcast, The Spark Inside.

In this episode about the wound is the way, you’ll hear:

~ An invitation to study with us in Ayurveda School!

~ The unconscious, destructive ways we cover up our wounds

~ Wallowing in discomfort vs. building walls

~ How to identify the ways you armor yourself

~ Finding a place of non-judgment

~ The important role of the ego

~ Ways to balance the ego

~ Why the wound is the way to spiritual growth

~ Opening to pain without being consumed by it

~ Ayurvedic and Tantric practices to shed your armor

~ How to become more you

~ Get our free mini-course about Women’s Wisdom and Ayurveda!

Other resources mentioned in this episode:

~ Follow Cat on Instagram

~ Learn more about our Divine Feminine Ayurveda School

~ Follow The Shakti School on Instagram and Facebook

~ Katie’s latest book, Glow-Worthy

Get the full show notes here: www.TheShaktiSchool.com/podcast/

What is reparenting and how can you begin this inner work? According to Ayurveda, we are all dualistic creatures who have both feminine and masculine energies within us. Unfortunately, most of us have inherited unhelpful, immature parental archetypes. In this episode, Katie shares what the immature and mature forms of the inner mother and inner father look like in each of us and how they affect our relationships. Then she leads you through a grounding guided meditation so you can start maturing your inner voice and reparenting yourself today!

Ayurveda School is now in session! You can start today and get immediate access to our first two classes. Click here to learn more and register!

Today’s podcast is a recording from a session hosted by a dear friend of The Shakti School, Cynthia Amaro.

In this episode about reparenting, you’ll hear:

~ An invitation to join us in Ayurveda School today!

~ Why most of us need inner reparenting

~ How to balance your feminine and masculine energies

~ Signs that you have an immature inner father or mother

~ Do I need to be in my masculine to get stuff done?

~ How reparenting can improve your relationships

~ Rewiring the templates of father and mother we develop in childhood

~ Overcoming perfectionism, addiction, and overindulgence

~ Katie’s #1 Ayurvedic lifestyle practice

~ What is feminine-form meditation?

~ A guided meditation to start reparenting yourself

~ Get our free mini-course about Women’s Wisdom and Ayurveda!

Other resources mentioned in this episode:

~ Follow Cynthia on Instagram

~ Learn more about our Divine Feminine Ayurveda School

~ Follow The Shakti School on Instagram and Facebook

~ Katie’s latest book, Glow-Worthy

Get the full show notes here: www.TheShaktiSchool.com/podcast/

In most nature-based cultures and spiritual traditions, January is a time for deep internal reflection, not New Year's celebrations. Winter magic is about opening our hearts to an important truth that we often avoid, the truth that everything we love, including our own bodies, will one day be lost. In today’s solocast, Katie shares how to move through your fear of loss, open to winter magic and live your life with dignity.

We invite you, dear listener, to join us for a year of deep inner work. Our Divine Feminine Ayurveda School kicked off this week, but there’s still time to enroll! Click here to learn more and register!

In this episode about winter magic, death and dignity, you’ll hear:

~ Enroll in our Ayurveda School today!

~ Why Katie is thinking a lot about death

~ The energetics of winter magic

~ Buddha's invitation to his students

~ How to cultivate dignity

~ Accepting what we can and cannot control

~ Opening to fear and sadness

~ Soul lies and soul truths

~ Consequences of not following our intuition

~ The true source of self-worth and self-esteem

~ Why we often abandon ourselves

~ How to stand in your power in relationships

~ Katie’s favorite poem: Wild Geese by Mary Oliver

~ Get our free mini-course about Women’s Wisdom and Ayurveda for Women!

Other resources mentioned in this episode:

~ Email us at [email protected]

~ Follow us on Instagram and Facebook

~ Katie’s latest book, Glow-Worthy

Get the full show notes here: www.TheShaktiSchool.com/podcast/

Here at The Shakti School we practice and teach Ayurveda a bit differently than other schools. Today on the pod, Kaite shares why it’s so important to balance the feminine and masculine approach when studying Ayurveda for women. Learn how feminine-form Ayurveda can help you unravel years of cultural conditioning, reclaim your feminine energy and rediscover how unique, beautiful and worthy you are!

Our year-long Divine Feminine Ayurveda School kicks off in just 5 days! Click here to learn more and enroll now!

In this episode about Ayurveda for women, you’ll hear:

~ Enroll in our Ayurvedic Wellness Coach Certification Program before January 15th!

~ Download our free Feminine-Form Ayurveda Practices E-Book here!

~ What is feminine-form Ayurveda for women?

~ The importance of adapting Ayurvedic teachings to the time, people and place

~ The Ayurvedic definition of health

~ Your true essence according to Ayurveda

~ The thing that’s missing from most Ayurveda education

~ The source of most people’s suffering

~ Building self-love through Ayurvedic practices

~ How to start shadow work

~ What is self-abandonment?

~ The five elements of nature

~ Emotions are associated with each element

~ What’s your dosha?

~ The shadow side of each dosha

~ Awakening the life-affirming aspects of your dosha to fulfill your destiny

~ Check out our free mini-course about Women’s Wisdom and Ayurveda for Women!

Other resources mentioned in this episode:

~ Click here to book a free call with one of our coaches and see if Ayurveda School is right for you!

~ Email us: [email protected]

~ Katie’s teachers Cristal Mortensen and Tara Brach

~ Poem by Jeff Foster, The Inner Mother

~ Follow The Shakti School on Instagram and Facebook

Get the full show notes here: www.TheShaktiSchool.com/podcast/

Today’s episode is a sneak peek into the spiritual business training included in The Shakti School’s premier Ayurveda Wellness Coach certification course! So many of us, regardless of our economic background, experience shame and hang-ups around money that hold us back from financial abundance. Tune in to hear Katie share the inner work that helped her go from a broke yoga teacher to an abundant spiritual business owner!

Our Divine Feminine Ayurveda School starts in just 12 days! Click here to learn more and register before it’s too late!

In this episode about money and spiritual business, you’ll hear:

~ Time is running out to enroll in our Ayurvedic Wellness Coach Certification Program!

~ Why you may be self-sabotaging in your finances

~ Letting go of shame around money

~ The Tantric concept of Spanda

~ Why you’re worthy of owning a successful spiritual business

~ The primary reason people will (or won’t) want to work with you

~ The Vedic concept of Adhikara

~ How to share Ayurveda in a way others can understand

~ Common fears that prevent women from starting a spiritual business

~ What is certification-itus?

~ Check out our free mini-course about Women’s Wisdom and Ayurveda!

Other resources mentioned in this episode:

~ Katie’s latest book, Glow-Worthy

~ Learn more about Ayurveda School here!

~ Follow The Shakti School on Instagram and Facebook

Get the full show notes here: www.TheShaktiSchool.com/podcast/