The EMBODIED Ayurveda Podcast

Niv guides you through 30-minutes of an advanced Pranayama and Meditation practice. Incorporating Nadi Shodhana and Ajapa-Japa.

“The constant repetition of a mantra is known as japa. Japa becomes ajapa (spontaneous) japa when the mantra automatically repeats itself without conscious effort. It is said that ajapa japa comes from the heart, whereas japa comes from the mouth. Ajapa japa is a complete sadhana in itself which can take an aspirant from the most elementary level of body and environmental awareness to the highest stages of meditation.”

Today’s guided practice requires that you have some prior experience with Pranayama and Meditation. If you’re just starting out, we recommend following some of Niv's other guided practices instead.

Niv Rajendra is an expert health and longevity coach, Ayurvedic Practitioner and founder of the EMBODIED Ayurveda Programs. She offers an unmatched alternative to artists, visionaries and rebels seeking a life of full-bodied vitality and empowers them to live their most healthful and joyful lives for the long run. Niv's clients claim that working with her has helped them replenish their entire system: emotionally, spiritually, physically, and relationally.

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Niv helps you to drop into the quiet space of your heart-center/Anahata Chakra through this powerful meditation practice. Here you experience the innate wisdom and bliss that resides within. The practice includes breathing, visualizing and chanting.

Niv Rajendra is an expert health and spiritual coach, Ayurvedic Practitioner and founder of the EMBODIED Ayurveda Programs. She offers an unmatched alternative to artists, visionaries and rebels seeking a life of full-bodied vitality and empowers them to live their most healthful and joyful lives for the long run. Niv's clients claim that working with her has helped them replenish their entire system: emotionally, spiritually, physically, and relationally.

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Niv guides you through 30 minutes of a traditional Pranayama practice, integrating Ujjayi pranayama, mental visualization and So-Ham inner chanting for a potent nervous system reset. And as an on-going training to help you cultivate presence of mind.

Niv Rajendra is an expert health and longevity coach, Ayurvedic Practitioner and founder of the EMBODIED Ayurveda Programs. She offers an unmatched alternative to artists, visionaries and rebels seeking a life of full-bodied vitality and empowers them to live their most energized, healthful and joyful lives for the long run. Niv's clients claim that working with her has helped them replenish their entire system: emotionally, spiritually, physically, and relationally.

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A contemplative reading of Friedrich Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra, by Niv Rajendra.

"There is nothing quite like Thus Spoke Zarathustra in world literature. It is sublime and compelling, written in a state of high inspiration. At times in his life Nietzsche appears to be debating and even carrying the cultural evolution of an entire civilization within him. His writing is driven by an elemental force of nature and spirit that seems to transcend even his own capacity to comprehend what is coming through him. He was a vessel of more than he knew, and it is requiring the work of many others since his death to discern and unfold what erupted in his soul." - Richard Tarnus on Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Niv Rajendra is a spiritual health coach, Ayurvedic Practitioner and founder of the EMBODIED Ayurveda Programs. She offers an unmatched alternative to artists, visionaries and rebels seeking a life of extra-ordinary vitality and empowers them to live their most easeful and joyful lives for the long run. Niv's clients claim that working with her has helped them replenish their entire system: emotionally, spiritually, physically, and relationally.

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Niv guides you through 8 minutes of call and response chanting as you bathe your devotional awareness in the frequencies of Durga and Kaali. Think of Durga as the all encompassing avatar of Cosmic Shakti, the Ultimate Reality of Nature. And Kaali as the transcendental knowledge that liberates your mind.Om Maata Kaali, Kaali Durge Maa!Jai Maa.As you attune to their vibrational codes through singing their names aloud (with rapture!!), you naturally align your mind and body to your own highest creativity and inner-illumination. This is a powerful kind of spiritual food.Chanting begins at 5:58 Niv Rajendra is a spiritual health coach, Ayurvedic Practitioner and founder of the EMBODIED Ayurveda Programs. She offers an unmatched alternative to artists, visionaries and rebels seeking a life of extra-ordinary vitality and empowers them to live their most easeful and joyful lives for the long run. Niv's clients claim that working with her has helped them replenish their entire system: emotionally, spiritually, physically, and relationally. ✧ Read the health results possible for you based on previous client ROIs ⁠https://nivrajendra.com⁠✧ Apply to partner with Niv for 2026 https://nivrajendra.com/embodied-ayur...✧ Instagram: @yourhealthcompass✧ Facebook: Niv Rajendra

As you attune to their vibrational codes through singing their names aloud, you naturally align your mind and body closer to their wisdom. This is a powerful kind of spiritual food.

Niv guides you through a gentle 15-minute Pranayama practice perfect for your everyday morning. This practice helps expand your inner life force, balance the energetic polarities within and soften your mind to embrace the ebbs and flows of life.

The intention today: release your inner-critic and yield to the polarities of life.

Practiced daily and consistently, is sure to change your life.

Pranayama is an ancient Yogic practice that helps to expand and harmonize the vital life force with you, through working with your breath, so that you can activate self-repair, mental mastery, internal regulation and detoxification, naturally from within.

Niv Rajendra is an expert health and longevity coach, Ayurvedic Practitioner and founder of the EMBODIED Ayurveda Programs. She offers an unmatched alternative to artists, visionaries and rebels seeking a life of extra-ordinary vitality and empowers them to live their most energized, easeful and joyful lives for the long run. Niv's clients claim that working with her has helped them replenish their entire system: emotionally, spiritually, physically, and relationally.

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Niv walks you through fundamental insights on kumbhaka - breath retention: an essential component of advanced pranayama techniques - and then guides you through a systematic pranayama practice to help you integrate kumbhaka into your everyday life.This feels especially relevant at a time when "urgency energy" seems to have plagued everyone's response patterns and is making the world sick. It is time to meet the present moment with a lot more inner-stillness and wisdom. Kumbhaka helps you bypass thousands of years of fight or flight reactivity patterns and elevates you into a more refined and intentional state of consciousness. You actually live, feel and respond as you intend to, not just as you're used to.For deeper context, listen to my past videos on:Pranayama: https://youtu.be/5InoymEW2no?si=vLYvBXx_afaRAG5YPranayama with Guided Practice: https://youtu.be/eNLKY-HWlN8?si=l4YNJmqJjVA_YVgCThe 5 Sheaths: https://youtu.be/a-i_jr6Wkg8?si=pCawzJHYK1UDI5z5Niv Rajendra is an expert health and longevity coach, Ayurvedic Practitioner and founder of the EMBODIED Ayurveda Programs. She offers an unmatched alternative to artists, visionaries and rebels seeking a life of extra-ordinary and full-bodied vitality and empowers people to live their most energized, healthful and joyful lives for the long run. Niv's clients claim that working with her has helped them replenish their entire system: emotionally, spiritually, physically, and relationally. ✧ Read the health results possible for you based on previous client ROIshttps://nivrajendra.com/✧ Apply to partner with Niv for 2026https://nivrajendra.com/✧ Instagram: @yourhealthcompass✧ Facebook: Niv Rajendra

Niv dives deeper into the technology and power of your Heart Centre/Anahata Chakra as per ancient Yogic wisdom.

Your Heart Centre, or Anahata Chakra - is the fourth psychic energy centre going upwards from your root chakra.

Niv walks you through the precise functions and frequencies of Anahata Chakra. Mental skills and energetic streams of consciousness that your Heart Centre holds. Virtues that it connect you with. And simple Yogic and Ayurvedic practices that help you activate and unlock your heart's power.

Niv Rajendra is an expert health and longevity coach, Ayurvedic Practitioner and founder of the EMBODIED Ayurveda Programs. She offers an unmatched alternative to artists, visionaries and creatives seeking a life of extra-ordinary and full-bodied vitality and empowers people to live their most energized, healthful and joyful lives for the long run. Niv's clients claim that working with her has helped them replenish their entire system: emotionally, spiritually, physically, and relationally.

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Niv guides you through a gentle Pranayama sequence suitable for all contexts and experiences. She begins with 10 minutes of inner posture and breath awareness (Prana Nigraha), and then eases you into 30 minutes of Pranayama. This sequence is safe to practice daily on an empty stomach.

Pranayama is an ancient Yogic practice that helps to expand and harmonize the vital life force with you, through working with your breath, so that you can activate self-repair, mental mastery, internal regulation and detoxification, naturally from within.

She touches on: Deep Yogic Breath (Diaphragmatic Breath or Belly Breathing). This is the foundational exercise that all beginners should start with to create spaciousness and ease in their practice.

Ujjayi Pranayama (Victorious Breath or Ocean Sounding Breath). This is both tranquilizing and invigorating and improves focus.

Sama Vritti Pranayama (Equal Breath). This basic breath focuses on having your inhalations and exhalations the same length. It brings immediate equanimity to the mind and can be returned to throughout the day.

Nadi Sodhana Pranayama or Anuloma Viloma (Alternate Nostril Breathing). This intermediate practice involves breathing through one nostril at a time. It is a potent way to purify and balance your subtle energetic pathways.

Bhramari Pranayama (Buzzing Bee Breath). This breath uses sound and inner vibrations to tune the mind inwards and soothe the nervous system.

Ayurveda, Yoga and Tantra contain practices that help work with all your levels of existence, on all five planes, in all five bodies.

Niv Rajendra is an expert health and longevity coach, Ayurvedic Practitioner and founder of the EMBODIED Ayurveda Programs. She offers an unmatched alternative to artists, visionaries and creatives seeking a life of extra-ordinary and full-bodied vitality and empowers people to live their most energized, healthful and joyful lives for the long run.

Niv's clients claim that working with her has helped them replenish their entire system: emotionally, spiritually, physically, and relationally.

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Niv breaks down the ancient Yogic concept the FIVE BODIES.

How our existence as an individual entity can be categorized into five sheaths or energy bodies known as koshas, each more subtle than the other. And how and why your highest experience of radiance, creativity and health can only be achieved through knowing, purifying and harmonizing all five of these bodies.

To summarize:

The first layer is known as Annamaya kosha, the physical sheath, made up of food.

The second is Pranamaya kosha, the vital energy sheath, forming a fine network through which prana flows.

The third is Manomaya kosha, the mental sheath, which is a more concentrated and subtle form of energy that surrounds the Pranamaya kosha.

The fourth is Vijnanamaya kosha, the intuitive sheath, an extremely rarefied field of energy, which is closer to spirit than to matter, surrounding the mental sheath.

The fifth is Anandamaya kosha, the sheath of bliss, where prana-shakti is united with your supreme self.

Ayurveda, Yoga and Tantra contain practices that help work with all your levels of existence, on all five planes, in all five bodies.

Niv Rajendra is an expert health and longevity coach, Ayurvedic Practitioner and founder of the EMBODIED Ayurveda Programs. She offers an unmatched alternative to artists, visionaries and creatives seeking a life of extra-ordinary and full-bodied vitality and empowers people to live their most energized, healthful and joyful lives for the long run.

Niv's clients claim that working with her has helped them replenish their entire system: emotionally, spiritually, physically, and relationally.

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