Episode 23: Ayurveda and Chronic Disease

Learn about the underlying causes of chronic diseases and how Ayurvedic diet, lifestyle and herbal supplements can help you improve your wellbeing.

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Episode 22: War No More--Healing the Male Wound

“Heroism is an essential quality of the masculine: It’s what makes men strong and it’s what makes men immensely vulnerable abuse or exploitation. Every man has the heart of a hero and wants to take that hero’s journey and wants to fight, wants to sacrifice his life and even his body on behalf of protecting, serving, helping others. That’s the hero’s journey. And for the last four thousand years this genuine aspiration has been callously exploited.”

When the warrior distorts into the techno-killer, can the Mother of Compassion manifest?  How can the unique gifts of men be freed to serve the Mother’s awakening? For men and all who love them!

You will learn:

• The four wounds of the masculine

• The five qualities of the warrior described in Bhagavad Gita

• The difference between a warrior and a soldier

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Episode 21: Nourishing Life--Food and Spirituality

“ To connect with the Mother is to honour food, for food comes from the mother.”

Food is our most basic need. In a time of anorexic supermodels and super-sized fast food, how can you reconnect to the sacredness of genuine nourishment? 

• How have we related to food in the different ages?

• Our hunter gatherer brain in the supermarket

• Why do we eat?

• What are the two kinds of malnutrition?

• How is our food prepared?

• Where and how are we eating?

• Elevating the sparks

• The most important fire sacrifice is the one we do three times a day.

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Episode 20: Isha Upanishad

Just as a bad smell in a piece of sandal, arising from moisture, is overcome by true fragrance when the sandal piece is rubbed, so indeed, will all the variety of the world disappear at the perception of the one truly existent Self.

Shankaracharya

Explore Isha Upanishad with Ma and discover the meaning of soham asmi.

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Episode 19: Earth in Crisis--Meeting the Challenge

Is there an unfolding spirituality that offers hope for the current crisis?

 “When I go out into the forest I don’t just see trees, I see naiads sitting by the river, I see draiads sitting in the trees, I don’t necessarily see their physical forms, but I’m very aware of these beings; I see flower fairies, little balls of light jumping around between the flowers. On the whole, as rational people, we’ve lost the ability to have this animistic view, to see the subtle  beings that inhabit our forests, our lakes, our rivers. And then we go there and we have matter and Spirit separated and this is just matter, so it’s less.”

You will learn:

• How we got into this crisis

• How your world view affects the way you treat the earth

• What is the theandro-cosmic view of the Vedas?

• How an ancient Vedic hymn can help us meet the challenge we face.

• How you can help.

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Episode 18: Ayurveda for Parkinson's Disease

Parkinson’s disease is the second most common neurodegenerative condition after Alzheimer’s. Learn how Ayurveda can help you or your loved ones with this condition.

You will learn:

• How Ayurveda sees Parkinson’s

• Ayurvedic diet support for Parkinson’s

• Ayurvedic lifestyle support for Parkinson’s

• The best way to use Ayurvedic herbal supplements for Parkinson’s

  Learn more about Ayurvedic nutrition here.

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Episode 17: The Emerging Feminine

What are the qualities that characterize the coming age of the awakening feminine?

How can you cultivate the heart of compassion in our high-tech world?

“So we’re going to have a look at: what are the some of the specific qualities that are going to be manifesting that make up what we call the emerging feminine. And really what these qualities are has been put forth in a very ancient hymn. This hymn is called the Devi Sukta and it’s a hymn praising the special qualities of the Divine Mother. So I’m just going to sing an excerpt of the hymn and talk about the particular qualities that are selected that I’m going to sing of. '“

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Episode 16: What is Vedanta?

What is Vedanta? What are the Upanishads? How can this perennial wisdom help you?

“ More important than the discovery of computers, more astonishing than space travel, is the discovery made in the Axial Age—the discovery of interior life and the potential to travel in inner space.”

You will learn:

• What are the Upanishads

• How do they relate to the Vedas

• What is the meaning of Brahman and Atman

• What are the mahavakyas—the Great Sayings

  This talk prepares us to explore the Upanishads with Alakananda Ma

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Episode 15: What is Love?

There are many levels of meaning to the word love.  How can you express and experience love in its highest dimension?

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Episode 14: Preparing for Fall

How can you best prepare for fall?

“With climate change, the seasons are falling into disorder, it’s hard to know what to expect. Oberon and Titania have quarreled. Masculine and feminine are at war. In our over-masculine lust for conquest of earth’s resources and our burning of fossil fuels, we are destroying the climate.”

• What do the texts of Ayurveda advise for this time of year?

• How can you adapt this guidance to your lifestyle?

• How does climate change affect seasonal changes?

Learn more about daily and seasonal routines at our Self-Care Workshop

Episode 13: Relationships in the New Paradigm

 How will relationships look in the Age of Aquarius? How can you cultivate this quality in your present relationships?

   “As we come into this new paradigm of the dawning age of Aquarius, it brings in a new level of consciousness in terms of our relationships. Our relationships enter into to the transpersonal level of consciousness.”

·      Learn how relationships unfold on four levels during the four ages

·      What does it take to have truly satisfying and meaningful relationships at this time in history?

·      What are some of the pitfalls that keep us from meaningful relationships?

Episode 12: Understanding Sacred Texts

Learn how you can get more out of reading scriptures and sacred texts though four levels of understanding.

·      The Kabbalistic approach to reading sacred texts

·      How the Christian Monastic Fathers taught lectio divina

·      How to read the Upanishads with different levels of understanding

·      Four ways to chant and pray

If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to leave us a 5 star review, and share it with a friend. For more enlightening discussions and practical wisdom on Ayurveda and spirituality, subscribe and join our facebook group, Alandi Ayurveda To allow us to continue sharing valuable content, consider donating to Alandi Ashram. Until next time, may you walk the path of Ayurveda with grace and embrace the light of spiritual wisdom in your journey.

Episode 11: Mysteries of the Human Heart

What does it mean to be gifted with the human heart? What are we really doing on this earth?

“I have come to understand that it is only in the Earth World, in the place where there is human sorrow and human suffering, that the deep teachings of patience, faithfulness and above all, compassion can be learnt.”

Ma teaches us about:

·      The extraordinary gift of the human heart

·      The real meaning of the symbol of the cross

·      How God receives a vulnerable heart

·      The hidden purpose of evolution

·      Divine imperfection and human perfection

If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to leave us a 5 star review, and share it with a friend. For more enlightening discussions and practical wisdom on Ayurveda and spirituality, subscribe and join our facebook group, Alandi Ayurveda To allow us to continue sharing valuable content, consider donating to Alandi Ashram. Until next time, may you walk the path of Ayurveda with grace and embrace the light of spiritual wisdom in your journey.

Episode 10: Navigating Your Menopause Journey

As young women, we are usually identified with our youth and beauty. How can we navigate our journey into elderhood?

“For most women, the arrival of pre-menopause is the first whisper of mortality. Yet on the other side of menopause, a new beauty and new power beckons.”

• The first time you skip 

•  The dreaded hot flashes  

• Managing hot flashes and night sweats

•   What happened to my figure?

•   Where did my brain go?

•   PMZ approaches

•   Crones are beautiful too

•    Finding your new brain

There’s so much more wisdom to share! Join our live virtual course Ayurveda for Menopause Starting September 4th (or take it afterwards as a self-paced course).

If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to leave us a 5 star review, and share it with a friend. For more enlightening discussions and practical wisdom on Ayurveda and spirituality, subscribe and join our facebook group, Alandi Ayurveda To allow us to continue sharing valuable content, consider donating to Alandi Ashram. Until next time, may you walk the path of Ayurveda with grace and embrace the light of spiritual wisdom in your journey.

Episode 9: Who is Lakshmi? Understanding Money and Abundance

How can we see money as an aspect of the mother? How will we relate to money in the Age of Aquarius?

“This financial system needs to crash because it’s rotten, because usury kills, because millions of people are dying from not enough to eat because of this system that we have.  But if it's simply a crash land with no parachute, so many people are going to suffer. How can we create a parachute? By beginning to bring in what is to come, by moving from competition to cooperation.”

You will learn:

·      How money is an aspect of Divine Mother

·      Our four main misconceptions about money

·      Why Mulla Nasruddin had to ‘eat his money’

·      How we can make the impending financial catastrophe less disastrous

·      How to to relate to wealth and money in Aquarian ways

·      How to find abundance  of heart

If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to leave us a 5 star review, and share it with a friend. For more enlightening discussions and practical wisdom on Ayurveda and spirituality, subscribe and join our facebook group, Alandi Ayurveda To allow us to continue sharing valuable content, consider donating to Alandi Ashram. Until next time, may you walk the path of Ayurveda with grace and embrace the light of spiritual wisdom in your journey.

Episode 8: What Are Flower Essences?

What are flower essences and how can they help you? How did Ayurvedic doctor Alakananda Ma became a flower essence maker? Hear the magical story.

“All the flowers are within you, but some are asleep. Flower essence therapy can awaken the sleeping flowers and transform your life.”

You will learn:

• What flower essences are

• How they are made

• How we discover their qualities

• How flower essences can help you

• How flower essences fit into Ayurveda

Receive a flower essence formula from Alakananda Ma!

Alakananda Ma is a renowned Ayurvedic expert and graduate of a top London medical school. She is the principal of Alandi Ayurveda Gurukula, a unique apprenticeship style school in Boulder CO. Ma is a spiritual mother, teacher, flower essence maker and storyteller.

If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to leave us a 5 star review, and share it with a friend. For more enlightening discussions and practical wisdom on Ayurveda and spirituality, subscribe and join our facebook group, Alandi Ayurveda To allow us to continue sharing valuable content, consider donating to Alandi Ashram. Until next time, may you walk the path of Ayurveda with grace and embrace the light of spiritual wisdom in your journey.

Episode 7: Spirituality and Activism Part 2

Mending the World:  Can you pursue inner peace and act in the world?  Can you fight for a cause yet be free from enmity?  In critical times, can you find a path of engagement with heart?

“To be a spiritual activist we have to be able to put our heart into it. It’s what feeling, what emotional tone are we going to bring with us. We want to come into our activity, our world of activism bringing very specific feelings.”

In Part 2 learn how to bring spirituality and activism together in the world of feelings and the world of action.

Traumatized by wars and climate change? Find support with our self-paced course, Ayurveda and Trauma.

For more enlightening discussions and practical wisdom on Ayurveda and spirituality, subscribe and join our facebook group, Alandi Ayurveda To allow us to continue sharing valuable content, consider donating to Alandi Ashram. Until next time, may you walk the path of Ayurveda with grace and embrace the light of spiritual wisdom in your journey.

Episode 6: Spirituality and Activism Part 1

Mending the World:  Can you pursue inner peace and act in the world?  Can you fight for a cause yet be free from enmity?  In critical times, can you find a path of engagement with heart?

“So we really are looking for a new way. A way past this dichotomy. It’s a new way and it’s a very old way, because since ancient times spiritual paths have called us to this. It has been the story of our world that spiritual teachers have always been radical; and their first disciples have always been radical.”

In Part 1, learn how to bring spirituality and activism together in the spiritual and conceptual worlds.

Traumatized by wars and climate change? Find support with our self-paced course, Ayurveda and Trauma.

If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to leave us a 5 star review, and share it with a friend. For more enlightening discussions and practical wisdom on Ayurveda and spirituality, subscribe and join our facebook group, Alandi Ayurveda To allow us to continue sharing valuable content, consider donating to Alandi Ashram. Until next time, may you walk the path of Ayurveda with grace and embrace the light of spiritual wisdom in your journey.

Episode 5: Ayurveda and Anxiety

Ayurveda expert Alakananda Ma explains how Ayurveda sees anxiety and offers tips and guidance on how to manage your anxiety.

You will learn:

• The two kinds of anxiety, normal and free-floating

• The Ayurvedic view of anxiety

• How to manage normal anxiety

• How to support yourself if you have anxiety disorder

• Living in loving awareness

Dive deeper with our self-paced course Ayurveda and Trauma.

Alakananda Ma is a renowned Ayurvedic expert and graduate of a top London medical school. She is the principal of Alandi Ayurveda Gurukula, a unique apprenticeship style school in Boulder CO. Ma is a spiritual mother, teacher, flower essence maker and storyteller. 

If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to leave us a 5 star review, and share it with a friend. For more enlightening discussions and practical wisdom on Ayurveda and spirituality, subscribe and join our facebook group, Alandi Ayurveda To allow us to continue sharing valuable content, consider donating to Alandi Ashram. Until next time, may you walk the path of Ayurveda with grace and embrace the light of spiritual wisdom in your journey.

Episode 4: Yoga and Ayurveda

Yoga and Ayurveda are often referred to as ‘sister sciences,’ but how similar are they? Discover the common ground Yoga and Ayurveda share and the significant ways in which they differ.

• Learn about samkhya philosophy

• How do Yoga and Ayurveda approach the world of the senses

• What are via positiva and via negativa?

• How are Ayurveda and Tantra connected?

Coming soon: Ayurvedic Self-Care Workshop with Alakananda Ma

Join us for a hands-on Ayurvedic workshop where you'll learn how to incorporate ancient holistic practices into your daily routine. Alandi Ayurveda patients get a discounted price!

Alakananda Ma is a renowned Ayurvedic expert and graduate of a top London medical school. She is the principal of Alandi Ayurveda Gurukula, a unique apprenticeship style school in Boulder CO. Ma is a spiritual mother, teacher, flower essence maker and storyteller. 

If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to leave us a 5 star review, and share it with a friend. For more enlightening discussions and practical wisdom on Ayurveda and spirituality, subscribe and join our facebook group, Alandi Ayurveda To allow us to continue sharing valuable content, consider donating to Alandi Ashram. Until next time, may you walk the path of Ayurveda with grace and embrace the light of spiritual wisdom in your journey.