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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 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
Friday Feb 18, 2022
Friday Feb 18, 2022
In this weeks episode, Ava offers a personal share about a reflection she had on the 4-day silent retreat that just passed.
As a collective, we’re getting more stressed and unhealthy. Join Ava as she reflects on her journey with healing and what it means to have the capacity to open up and allow the pain to be felt.
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00:11 Welcome back to the podcast
03:35 Retreat reflection
06:39 Collective pain
10:54 Rationality and feeling
15:14 6 ways I can heal the planet
18:48 How can I support you?
20:21 Share this episode with your community
21:11 Subscribe
Links mentioned:
links, resources or courses 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
Wednesday Feb 16, 2022
Wednesday Feb 16, 2022
Slow down with grace.
In this guided meditation, Ava gently guides you to step back from thinking as you allow everything to be as it is.
Free ways I can support you:
NEWSLETTER
~ A monthly update for me on new offers and the energy of the month.
https://functionalspirituality.ck.page/subscribe
COMMUNITY MEDITATION
~Join the Functional Spirituality Group and enjoy a free resource for meditators and yogis to connect to and enjoy a like-minded community.
functionalspirituality
HEALING COMPLEX TRAUMA
~ A free workshop on how to optimise your spiritual practice and your daily life by understanding complex trauma.
healing-complex-trauma-workshop
SOCIAL MEDIA
where you can hear from me in daily life, what Im up to, reading, working on, who I am playing with etc.
~ Follow my personal account @avairani_
~Follow Functional Spirituality @functionalspirituality
~ and follow our Yoga Studio @spandaschool
Our mission is to increase the accessibility of functional healing and spirituality.
Friday Feb 11, 2022
Friday Feb 11, 2022
A short, simple and gentle practice for your daily dose of meditation.
In this guided meditation, Ava gently guides you to use the breath to connect with your inner space.
Links mentioned:
www.functionalspirituality.com
Connect with us with the free resources below:
Newsletter: (link in the title here)
A monthly update for me on new offers and the energy of the month.
https://functionalspirituality.ck.page/subscribe
Community meditation (link in the title here)
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 (link in the title here)
A free workshop on how to optimise your spiritual practice and your daily life by understanding complex trauma.
Healing-complex-trauma-workshop
Social Media
where you can hear from me in daily life, what Im up to, reading, working on, who I am playing with etc.
Personal account: @avairani_
Functional Spirituality: @functionalspirituality
Studio: @spandaschool
Our mission is to increase the accessibility of functional healing and spirituality.
Wednesday Feb 09, 2022
Wednesday Feb 09, 2022
In this weeks episode, Ava answers a question that was asked on retreat: ‘What is your advice in dealing with pain and other distractions during meditation? ‘
Physical and mental distractions, these obstacles are the reason we don’t meditate. In this episode, Ava provides options for those seeking to overcome these obstacles.
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00:10 Introduction
01:00 Curiosity in meditation
03:23 The biggest obstacle to meditation
04:12 Physical distraction
05:04 Mental distraction
07:33 What to do when feeling distracted
Free ways I can support you:
Newsletter:
A monthly update for me on new offers and the energy of the month.
https://functionalspirituality.ck.page/subscribe
Community meditation
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.
Healing-complex-trauma-workshop
Social Media
where you can hear from me in daily life, what Im up to, reading, working on, who I am playing with etc.
~ Follow my personal account @avairani_
~ Follow Functional Spirituality @functionalspirituality
~ Follow our Yoga Studio @spandaschool
Our mission is to increase the accessibility of functional healing and spirituality.