The Simple Ayurveda Podcast

• Finding Ayurveda through Transcendental Meditation
• Teaching wellness to her coworkers
• Starting her own sustainability and cost consultancy practice
• Bringing Ayurveda into the construction industry

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The Simple Ayurveda health certification program walks you step-by-step through a year-long process of integrating Ayurveda into every aspect of your life so that you are confident in your authentic abilities to share Ayurveda with your community- whether that's your family or clients. Apply here. It is a small group with personalized instruction led directly by Angela.

Mature relationships keep going past the initial spark and make it through conflict. Join Angela in this chat on growing into a mature relationship with Ayurveda, based on reflections of being in a long term partnership.

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• Surface level knowledge versus deep embodied knowing
• How perception evolves over time
• Ayurveda as a language for aliveness

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The Ayurveda Health Certification training program is back for September 2025! This program walks you step-by-step through a year-long process of integrating Ayurveda into every aspect of your life so that you are confident in your authentic abilities to share Ayurveda with your community- whether that's your family or clients. The 2025 cohort starts in September. Apply for the waitlist here. It is a small group with personalized instruction led directly by Angela.

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Angela answers a student question based on a passage from an ancient text on making money and selling as a healer or practitioner.

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• Zooming out on the timespan of humanity when looking at ancient passages
• Stepping out of martyrdom as a woman
• Considering hospitality
• Generosity in contrast to extractive practices

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Ayurveda Encompassed: Take your understanding of Ayurveda to a new level and step into a more expansive version of yourself. Join Angela in a high-level small group mentorship with personalized support and resources. For wellness practitioners and Ayurveda enthusiasts.

Free 3-Part Series on Ancient Wisdom + Modern Nuance: German New Medicine, Trauma-Informed Ayurveda and Navigating the Liminal Space

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Agni is life. Ojas is the container for agni. Ojas is key for feeling nourished and resilient.

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• Turning your focus toward what you want versus always looking for imbalance
• Specific sutras from the Vedas on ojas
• The two types of ojas and how they are formed
• Replenishing ojas

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Ayurveda Encompassed: Take your understanding of Ayurveda to a new level and step into a more expansive version of yourself. Join Angela in a high-level small group mentorship with personalized support and resources. For wellness practitioners and Ayurveda enthusiasts.

Free 3-Part Series on Ancient Wisdom + Modern Nuance: German New Medicine, Trauma-Informed Ayurveda and Navigating the Liminal Space

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What does the modern village look like? Join in this exploration.

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• Ojas as a community- cultivating nourishment through a modern tribe
• Letting go of old myths and stories to embrace the tapestry that is your eco-system
• Meeting different parts of yourself in different relationships
• Moving from people-pleasing and enmeshment into aligned relationships
• Planting the seed for what you desire and allowing for it to unfold in its own timing

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Ayurveda Encompassed: Take your understanding of Ayurveda to a new level and step into a more expansive version of yourself. Join Angela in a high-level small group mentorship with personalized support and resources. Ayurveda Encompassed is a seven-month deep dive journey for wellness practitioners, Ayurveda enthusiasts, avid Simple Ayurveda Podcast listeners and lifelong learners.

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The motherline is the blood and bones of who you are. Within your motherline is a deep well of wisdom. There's also an inherited history.

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• Weaving together the threads of somatic awareness, ojas, nourishment, emotional digestion and ancestral Ayurveda
• Ayurveda as the foundation and primordial heartbeat
• Listening for hints and following them deeper
• Spiraling inward
• Asking yourself the "right" questions to see the broader perspective

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Ayurveda Encompassed: Take your understanding of Ayurveda to a new level and step into a more expansive version of yourself. Join Angela in a high-level small group mentorship with personalized support and resources. For wellness practitioners and Ayurveda enthusiasts.

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Creativity needs space to unfold. Ojas and rest provide the foundation for creativity to ignite.

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• How daily tasks might require more masculine or feminine energy in order to group them
• Time blocking as a way to create more flow
• Simple tips for making time for more rest and creativity
• Surrender as the ultimate access point to creativity

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Sharing Ancestral Stories by the Fire: Light a candle at home and join our live online discussion on integrating the wisdom of Ayurveda with the wisdom of your lineage. Held Wednesday, March 26th 2025 in The Simple Ayurveda Collective. Recording posted afterward.

The Simple Ayurveda Collective offers a resource library of Ayurveda video lessons, journaling prompts, mudra, marma and breathwork tutorials, recipes, guided practices and yoga classes; plus a supportive community chat off social media. Join here.

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Understanding ourselves and our lineage while also honoring each other and sacred wisdom is the path forward.

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• The threads of wisdom alive in your blood and bones
• Personal stories of softness and receptiveness
• Weaving your own ancestral traditions into your Ayurvedic lifestyle

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Sharing Ancestral Stories by the Fire: Light a candle at home and join our live online discussion on integrating the wisdom of Ayurveda with the wisdom of your lineage. Held Wednesday, March 26th 2025 in The Simple Ayurveda Collective. Recording posted afterward.

The Simple Ayurveda Collective offers a resource library of Ayurveda video lessons, journaling prompts, mudra, marma and breathwork tutorials, recipes, guided practices and yoga classes; plus a supportive community chat off social media. Join here.

Free 3-Part Series on Ancient Wisdom + Modern Nuance: German New Medicine, Trauma-Informed Ayurveda and Navigating the Liminal Space

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The cycle of the year follows one big breath with equal parts inhale and exhale.

Part of living in flow with nature is honoring the exhale.

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• Pulsations within the greater pulsation

• Honoring the seasons that ask us to slow down

• Reverence for endings

• Taking space to allow for alignment

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The Simple Ayurveda Collective offers a resource library of Ayurveda video lessons, journaling prompts, mudra, marma and breathwork tutorials, recipes, guided practices and yoga classes; plus a supportive community chat off social media. Join here.

Dharma: Inner and Outer Alignment in Daily Life: Learn more about yourself with Ayurveda, Yoga and other tools so that you can practice radical self-acceptance and honor your own alignment. This self-paced class is available here.

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Nature is an endless source of support and wisdom.

When we cultivate a deep and loving relationship with nature it can help take off some of the pressure we put on human relationships.

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• Cultivating a personal relationship with nature
• Moving through "therapy talk" to the other side
• Expanding your village to include nonhumans
• How your dosha and birth chart might guide you to a particular aspect of nature

Resources:

The Simple Ayurveda Collective offers a resource library of Ayurveda video lessons, journaling prompts, mudra, marma and breathwork tutorials, recipes, guided practices and yoga classes; plus a supportive community chat off social media. Join here.

Free 3-Part Series on Ancient Wisdom + Modern Nuance: German New Medicine, Trauma-Informed Ayurveda and Navigating the Liminal Space

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