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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
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Friday Aug 27, 2021
Friday Aug 27, 2021
Join Ava in letting go of any effort in your day. Become present to how the breath moves through the body and what sensations may be present, replacing any tension in the body with a soft smiling energy.
Follow Functional Spirituality at @functionalspirituality and follow our Yoga Studio at @spandaschool
https://linktr.ee/functionalspirituality
Wednesday Aug 25, 2021
Wednesday Aug 25, 2021
How much do you rely on your intuition?
Intuition is a word used to describe many different things. Join Ava as she breaks down all things inner space and shares why you shouldn’t be taking messages from your intuition as absolute claims and instructions.
Follow Functional Spirituality at @functionalspirituality and follow our Yoga Studio at @spandaschool
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Monday Aug 23, 2021
Monday Aug 23, 2021
Even though yoga has historically been defined as both a path to eliminate suffering and also the goal itself of liberation. In practice, it regularly doesn’t fulfil this definition, but this doesn’t have to be the case.
Join Ava in unpacking why we are easily captivated by charisma and guru culture and what that does to our practice.
Follow Functional Spirituality at @functionalspirituality and follow our Yoga Studio at @spandaschool
https://linktr.ee/functionalspirituality
Monday Aug 16, 2021
Monday Aug 16, 2021
Join Ava for a more spacious, minimally guided meditation that gives you time to arrive into the body. Allow the body to gently resolve itself as you practice patience and compassion with simple and effective techniques.
Follow Functional Spirituality at @functionalspirituality and follow our Yoga Studio at @spandaschool https://linktr.ee/functionalspirituality
Wednesday Aug 11, 2021
Wednesday Aug 11, 2021
Set up your whole day with a connection to your body, trusting its messages and processes. Join Ava in a lightly guided meditation with plenty of space to really connect to the sensations of your body.
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Tuesday Jul 27, 2021
Tuesday Jul 27, 2021
This series was created to help unpack and clarify the biggest obstacles that I have seen in our healing practices and our spiritual practices.
if you haven’t already listened, I invite you to go back to the first episode of this de-conditioning series.
In this episode of our de-conditioning series, we look at two ways that our healing techniques work. We often confuse these techniques and don’t know how to distinguish them. This makes our practices less efficient.
So join ava in unpacking how does the healing tool (practice) take you deeper? and when is it you taking your practice deeper?
Follow Functional Spirituality at @functionalspirituality and follow our Yoga Studio at @spandaschool
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Thursday Jul 22, 2021
Thursday Jul 22, 2021
Join Ava in this simple and spacious guided meditation with music. The heart is a doorway into the infinity of your being, the ultimate tool for the revelation of yourself. The more you relax in today's meditation, the more you can feel
Follow Functional Spirituality at @functionalspirituality and follow our Yoga Studio at @spandaschool
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Monday Jul 19, 2021
Monday Jul 19, 2021
Join Ava for a short 3-minute embodiment practice, perfect for any time of day!
drop in and use embodiment as your daily healing practice.
Follow Functional Spirituality at @functionalspirituality and follow our Yoga Studio at @spandaschool
Saturday Jul 17, 2021
Saturday Jul 17, 2021
Join Ava for a more spacious, minimally guided meditation that gives you time to arrive into the body. Allow the body to gently resolve itself as you melt into stillness.
Follow Functional Spirituality at @functionalspirituality and follow our Yoga Studio at @spandaschool
https://linktr.ee/functionalspirituality
Thursday Jul 15, 2021
Thursday Jul 15, 2021
Join Ava in unpacking the confusion and lack of functionality in our daily spiritual practices.
Energy-body vagueness is an obstacle that uses dogmatic practices, keeping us on the surface and distracting us from proper de-conditioning and healing.
Follow Functional Spirituality at @functionalspirituality and follow our Yoga Studio at @spandaschool
https://linktr.ee/functionalspirituality