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Hi, my name is Ava and I’m delighted to offer you “Functional Spirituality”, a free resource of talks, trainings and guided meditations. I use an academic approach to invite critical thinking into energetic, mystical and heart-based practices. Spirituality has a history of disempowering the individual and worshiping the guru or priest, without question. In this podcast, I aim to reduce the dogma that has rendered so many schools and practices ineffective - (and strange AF) - and to elevate the conversation around spirituality. I want to EMPOWER the meditator and yogi, to place the power back in our hands, to live directly from our own experience. I hope you enjoy! For Q&A questions, topic suggestions email Ava at functionalspiritualityretreat@gmail.com Visit www.functionalspirituality.com Follow us @FunctionalSpirituality or @avairani_ and our Yoga Studio at @spandaschool
Episodes
Friday Mar 25, 2022
Friday Mar 25, 2022
In this week's episode, Ava shares the 4 ingredients for a successful business.
Trying to push to get ahead represents the fear and survival complexes that are entrenched in our society and embedded in our conditioning.
Learn what steps you need to take to nurture yourself and your business.
chapter markers
00:00 Introduction
01:00 Free workshop: Confident leader
01:30 The aspects of business
04:23 Ingredients for a successful business
05:15 Resilience
07:46 Attunement
09:38 Relational Skills
11:05 Mindset work
12:00 Opportunity
15:02 Faulty frameworks
15:57 Recap
17:25 What to do if you don’t have all the ingredients?
20:19 What’s one step you can take from this? Let us know
21:00 Therapeutic Embodiment Training
25:02 Thank you for tuning in
Links mentioned:
The Therapeutic Embodiment Facilitator Training
Increasing accessibility to functional healing + non-dual spiritual oneness.
www.functionalspirituality.com
Free resources:
A monthly update for me on new offers and the energy of the month.
Join the Functional Spirituality Group and enjoy a free resource for meditators and yogis to connect to and enjoy a like-minded community.
Free workshop: Healing complex trauma:
A free workshop on how to optimise your spiritual practice and your daily life by understanding complex trauma.
Connect on Socials
Where you can hear from us in daily life
Personal account: @avairani_
Functional Spirituality: @functionalspirituality
Studio: @spandaschool
Wednesday Mar 23, 2022
Wednesday Mar 23, 2022
Use this guided meditation to activate the parasympathetic nervous system.
When the nervous system is in the parasympathetic nervous system state, the body is able to function normally, as well as repair and regenerate.
In modern culture, our busy lifestyle often makes it difficult to flip back to the parasympathetic state once the sympathetic has been activated, making it easy to experience chronic over activation of the fight or flight nervous system.
Increasing accessibility to functional healing + non-dual spiritual oneness.
www.functionalspirituality.com
Free resources:
A monthly update for me on new offers and the energy of the month.
Join the Functional Spirituality Group and enjoy a free resource for meditators and yogis to connect to and enjoy a like-minded community.
Free workshop: Healing complex trauma:
A free workshop on how to optimise your spiritual practice and your daily life by understanding complex trauma.
Connect on Socials
Where you can hear from us in daily life
Personal account: @avairani_
Functional Spirituality: @functionalspirituality
Studio: @spandaschool
Wednesday Mar 16, 2022
Wednesday Mar 16, 2022
This week's meditation invites seekers to explore what the word "I" refers to, and draws awareness back to its infinite Self-source.
Increasing accessibility to functional healing + non-dual spiritual oneness.
www.functionalspirituality.com
Free resources:
A monthly update for me on new offers and the energy of the month.
Join the Functional Spirituality Group and enjoy a free resource for meditators and yogis to connect to and enjoy a like-minded community.
Free workshop: Healing complex trauma:
A free workshop on how to optimise your spiritual practice and your daily life by understanding complex trauma.
Connect on Socials
Where you can hear from us in daily life
Personal account: @avairani_
Functional Spirituality: @functionalspirituality
Studio: @spandaschool
Monday Mar 14, 2022
Monday Mar 14, 2022
In this week's episode, Ava and Chantelle from Embodied Awakening Academy have a Q&A style debate.
They cover subjects such as twin flames, Classical vs Neo-Tantra, open relationships and their different approaches to teaching.
Chapter markers:
00:00 Introduction
02:00 Twin flames
19:37 Classical Tantra vs neo tantra
29:47 How to feel safe in an open relationship
42:10 Pros and cons of our contrasting teaching styles
57:21 How to work with Chantelle
59:50 Wholeness experience
01:04:13 Closing notes
Links mentioned:
Increasing accessibility to functional healing + non-dual spiritual oneness.
www.functionalspirituality.com
Free resources:
A monthly update for me on new offers and the energy of the month.
Join the Functional Spirituality Group and enjoy a free resource for meditators and yogis to connect to and enjoy a like-minded community.
Free workshop: Healing complex trauma:
A free workshop on how to optimise your spiritual practice and your daily life by understanding complex trauma.
Connect on Socials
Where you can hear from us in daily life
Personal account: @avairani_
Functional Spirituality: @functionalspirituality
Studio: @spandaschool
Friday Mar 11, 2022
Friday Mar 11, 2022
What’s the difference between intention and control?
Any moment you’re not connected to your intention and alignment you’re going to lack motivation. Motivation comes naturally when’s there’s a sense of alignment.
Control is like a fixation, an unconscious pressure towards something, an intention is an awareness of something we feel called to.
Intention connects us to our heart, but also being connected to our heart reveals our intention.
chapter markers
00:15 Introduction
00:35 What’s the difference between intention and control
01:10 Intention
03:28 Control
07:00 Awareness
09:00 Expressions of control
10:00 Functional modalities
11:35 Meditation example
14:41 Conclusion
Increasing accessibility to functional healing + non-dual spiritual oneness.
www.functionalspirituality.com
Free resources:
A monthly update for me on new offers and the energy of the month.
Join the Functional Spirituality Group and enjoy a free resource for meditators and yogis to connect to and enjoy a like-minded community.
Free workshop: Healing complex trauma:
A free workshop on how to optimise your spiritual practice and your daily life by understanding complex trauma.
Connect on Socials
Where you can hear from us in daily life
Personal account: @avairani_
Functional Spirituality: @functionalspirituality
Studio: @spandaschool
Wednesday Mar 09, 2022
Wednesday Mar 09, 2022
Join Ava for a short 15 minute guided meditation and melt into a background of stillness, connecting to a peacefulness that exists under the surface.
Click here to learn more about our Free Workshop: Confident leader
Increasing accessibility to functional healing + non-dual spiritual oneness.
www.functionalspirituality.com
Free resources:
A monthly update for me on new offers and the energy of the month.
Join the Functional Spirituality Group and enjoy a free resource for meditators and yogis to connect to and enjoy a like-minded community.
Free workshop: Healing complex trauma:
A free workshop on how to optimise your spiritual practice and your daily life by understanding complex trauma.
Connect on Socials
Where you can hear from us in daily life
Personal account: @avairani_
Functional Spirituality: @functionalspirituality
Studio: @spandaschool
Wednesday Mar 02, 2022
Wednesday Mar 02, 2022
Living on the surface of our language and concepts doesn’t serve us. We need to be willing to think deeper, not to jump to conclusions or live in assumptions. That’s exactly what a functional approach to spirituality should be.
In this week’s episode, Ava unpacks the confusion around what an awake teacher even means.
00:30 Introduction
01:24 What is an awake teacher?
03:51 Why I avoid the term awake
07:06 My problem with these terms
09:31 The problem is not the explanations
10:09 The rationalisation of inappropriate behaviour
12:03 Can’t I just loosen up?
13:12 Healthy scepticism
14:38 Why are people doing this
15:42 Is it wrong to praise teachers?
18:09 Conclusion
Increasing accessibility to functional healing + non-dual spiritual oneness.
www.functionalspirituality.com
Free resources:
A monthly update for me on new offers and the energy of the month.
Join the Functional Spirituality Group and enjoy a free resource for meditators and yogis to connect to and enjoy a like-minded community.
Free workshop: Healing complex trauma:
A free workshop on how to optimise your spiritual practice and your daily life by understanding complex trauma.
Connect on Socials
Where you can hear from us in daily life
Personal account: @avairani_
Functional Spirituality: @functionalspirituality
Studio: @spandaschool
Tuesday Mar 01, 2022
Tuesday Mar 01, 2022
An experience in cultivating Trust. We recommend listening to the previous podcast that explains the 3 ways to cultivate trust.
If we trust life, we love life. Everything feels good.
It feels like a flow and things do actually flow more.
Links mentioned
3 ways to cultivate more Trust in your life
Increasing accessibility to functional healing + non-dual spiritual oneness.
www.functionalspirituality.com
Free resources:
A monthly update for me on new offers and the energy of the month.
Join the Functional Spirituality Group and enjoy a free resource for meditators and yogis to connect to and enjoy a like-minded community.
Free workshop: Healing complex trauma:
A free workshop on how to optimise your spiritual practice and your daily life by understanding complex trauma.
Connect on Socials
Where you can hear from us in daily life
Personal account: @avairani_
Functional Spirituality: @functionalspirituality
Studio: @spandaschool
Wednesday Feb 23, 2022
Wednesday Feb 23, 2022
Your being, your existence is love. Feel the love in your heart and notice its quality. Explore the universal energy that can be noticed in every cell of your body as Ava graciously guides you through this 15-minute meditation.
Increasing accessibility to functional healing + non-dual spiritual oneness.
www.functionalspirituality.com
Free resources:
A monthly update for me on new offers and the energy of the month.
Join the Functional Spirituality Group and enjoy a free resource for meditators and yogis to connect to and enjoy a like-minded community.
Free workshop: Healing complex trauma:
A free workshop on how to optimise your spiritual practice and your daily life by understanding complex trauma.
Connect on Socials
Where you can hear from us in daily life
Personal account: @avairani_
Functional Spirituality: @functionalspirituality
Studio: @spandaschool
Wednesday Feb 23, 2022
Wednesday Feb 23, 2022
If we trust life, we love life. Everything feels good.
It feels like a flow and things do actually flow more.
But how do we cultivate trust when the world isn't trustworthy? Or stable?
Or we feel hurt.
Or people hurt us, and circumstances are hard.
Is it still healthy to trust ?
chapter markers
00:10: Welcome back to the series
02:04 What is trust
05:26 Methods to cultivate trust
06:55: Enquiry
10:56 Cultivating
16:24 Awakening
19:44 Conclusion
Links mentioned:
Gratitude for resiliance part 1: Cultivating resiliance
De-conditioning part 4: Two ways healing tools work
Guided meditation: Gratitude practice
Guided meditation: Rain technique
Guided meditation: 3 part method
Increasing accessibility to functional healing + non-dual spiritual oneness.
www.functionalspirituality.com
Free resources:
A monthly update for me on new offers and the energy of the month.
Join the Functional Spirituality Group and enjoy a free resource for meditators and yogis to connect to and enjoy a like-minded community.
Free workshop: Healing complex trauma:
A free workshop on how to optimise your spiritual practice and your daily life by understanding complex trauma.
Connect on Socials
Where you can hear from us in daily life
Personal account: @avairani_
Functional Spirituality: @functionalspirituality
Studio: @spandaschool