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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 Feb 19, 2021
Friday Feb 19, 2021
Sink in and enjoy a guided meditation to nourish the mind and help bring about relaxation and trust to some future events. Trust what arises, thank you.
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Friday Feb 19, 2021
Friday Feb 19, 2021
There's No Such Thing as Traditional Yoga.
Its true. Its good to question, but does this statement have any place in our discussion of What is Yoga? Listen to find out, and let us know what you think. You can search us on Facebook at Functional Spirituality to join our discussion group.
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Friday Feb 12, 2021
Friday Feb 12, 2021
Join Ava for a guided meditation using this Sufi inspired technique from the Hridaya Yoga system. This is a favourite! Using the heart as a tool for meditation and sublimation.
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Saturday Feb 06, 2021
Saturday Feb 06, 2021
Welcome to your weekly drop in! Commit to yourself to join our weekly meditation, either Live on Zoom or on the recordings posted each week. Do you enjoy these meditations? Let us know by searching our Facebook group or Instagram page. We welcome your feedback.
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Tuesday Feb 02, 2021
Tuesday Feb 02, 2021
Yoga has always been fluid. There has been inconsistency and competition between its different branches and sometimes within the branches themselves. Continuing on from Part 1, Ava explains how yoga easily lends itself to dogma and egoic attachments. She explains more about her journey with yoga and what the secret ingredient is that has completely refined her practice.
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Friday Jan 29, 2021
Friday Jan 29, 2021
The Invitation from the teachings of Mooji is a simple and potent awakening technique. It helps us to reveal our true nature: formless Being. The meditation starts with Ava leading a gentle relaxation and drop-in, before going further into the Self-Enquiry.
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Thursday Jan 28, 2021
Thursday Jan 28, 2021
Yoga is a loaded topic. In this series called "What is Yoga", Ava debunks the unhelpful assumptions that yoga is inherently good and coherent. Actually, yoga is fluid and riddled with pitfalls. We would gain more by looking into the history of yoga more then solely relying on the ideology of one yoga system.
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Wednesday Jan 20, 2021
Wednesday Jan 20, 2021
A gently guided relaxation meditation to bring you into the body and into an attitude of allowing. You are invited to use the heart space as a doorway for trusting life and connecting to the background of Being and the present moment.
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Thursday Dec 31, 2020
Thursday Dec 31, 2020
Join Ava Irani for this guided meditation WITH music. You are invited to drop into your body, your centre and your presence. What is your "Truth"? Truth is that which does not change, and this intimate reality can be discovered within your own being.
Happy New Year beautiful people :)
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Tuesday Dec 29, 2020
Tuesday Dec 29, 2020
Join Ava Irani for this guided meditation with music. Lightly guided with lots of space, you are invited to drop into your body, your centre and your presence. The perfect way to find inner connection and unravel the tensions of 2020.
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