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In the final episode of 2025, we’re closing the year with a special Q&A, featuring questions submitted by my current clients. We explore everything from the truth about ghee and inflammation, to navigating the emotional weight of the world, to finding your way out of procrastination patterns.

In this episode, we cover:

• Is ghee inflammatory?
We look at what modern sources say, where confusion often arises, how ghee behaves in the body according to Ayurveda, the role of butyrate in gut health, and what the classical texts tell us about using ghee therapeutically.

• How to feel harmony in a world that feels harsh.
We explore the lens of Kali Yuga, the deeper perspective of yogic philosophy, how to hold both agency and surrender, and the two practices that can keep you rooted when the world feels overwhelming: rhythm and prayer.

• “I keep procrastinating. What do I do?”
A practical Ayurvedic take on procrastination. We differentiate between tamasic (inert) procrastination and rajasic (busy but avoidant) procrastination — and how to shift each one using sattva, rajas, or both.

End-of-Year Offering: Ayurvedic Holiday Support Sessions

For the month of December, I’m opening up something I rarely offer — single one-on-one sessions to support you through the holiday season.

These 60-minute focused sessions can support you with:

• digestion and food rhythm while traveling or hosting
• stress, sensory load, and overwhelm
• emotional tenderness that often arises this time of year

We choose 1–2 priorities and build a simple, personalized support system so you can enter the new year feeling grounded, nourished, and clear.

→ Book your session here.

Resources Mentioned in this episode:

• WebMD nutritional overview of ghee
• Research on the anti-inflammatory effects of butyrate: Canani RB, Costanzo MD, Leone L, Pedata M, Meli R, Calignano A. Potential beneficial effects of butyrate in intestinal and extraintestinal diseases. World J Gastroenterol. 2011 Mar 28;17(12):1519-28. doi: 10.3748/wjg.v17.i12.1519. PMID: 21472114; PMCID: PMC3070119.
• Charaka Samhita passages on ghee (ghṛta)
• Simple Ayurveda Podcast ep 169: Time from a Vedic Perspective: A Deep Dive into the Yugas.

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What if the power you’re chasing is already yours, but buried under constant striving? We take a clear-eyed look at women’s empowerment through the Ayurvedic lens and ask the braver question: what changes when we stop gripping outcomes and start trusting right action paired with real rest. The answer is not passivity—it’s stronger agency, steadier hormones, and choices that match our true capacity.

I share a pivotal story about learning surrender during my son’s hospital stay and how that moment reframed my idea of strength. From there, we unpack the patterns Ayurveda often reveals in driven women: pitta pushing for control and vata fueling fear, leading to overplanning, rigid timelines, mental dryness, and joy that depends on external wins. We connect these patterns to fertility and reproductive health, exploring why softening resistance can free prana, support the sacral center, and bring back creativity and libido.

You’ll hear practical ways to live this balance. We talk about designing weeks for the energy you actually have, not the energy you wish you had. We explore oiling the system—sleep, nourishment, gentle movement—as soma to stabilize agni, your inner fire. We practice allowing other people to be as they are to end the hidden battles that drain you. And we lean into trusted guidance—from teachers to the quiet intelligence of your own body. Along the way, the Gita’s teaching lands with fresh clarity: you have the right to action, not to the fruits of action. That single shift calms the timeline and makes space for mystery.

If empowerment without surrender breeds anxiety, empowerment with surrender breeds grounded confidence. From that place, decisions feel clean, boundaries land with grace, and timelines soften without losing momentum. Press play to reclaim a form of power that nourishes you back. If this conversation speaks to you, subscribe, leave a review, and share it with a woman who could use a little less fight and a lot more flow.

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Episode 21 – Ghee: The Ayurvedic Elixir That Carries Prayer, Calms the Nerves, and Feeds Creation

In this episode of Lean on Ayurveda, we explore one of the most sacred and time-honoured substances in the Ayurvedic tradition — ghee.

We travel back to the Rig Veda, one of the oldest known texts in human history, where an entire hymn is devoted to this golden elixir. Through story, philosophy, and practice, we traces ghee’s divine lineage and the many layers of meaning it holds — as nourishment, medicine, and prayer.

From its origins as the union of Agni (fire) and Soma (nectar), ghee reminds us of the balance between transformation and rest, action and receptivity, doing and being.

You’ll learn:

• Why ghee is called “the tongue of the gods and the navel of immortality” in the Rig Veda
• How ghee acts as an anupan — a carrier that brings nourishment to the body’s deepest tissues
• The story of Prajapati and how ghee became a symbol of creation itself
• The connection between ghee and our nervous system, reproductive vitality, and emotional steadiness
• Simple, everyday ways to bring ghee into your life — in the kitchen, in self-care, and in ritual

I also share the tradition of making ghee on the full moon — a practice of aligning with the lunar cycle and reconnecting with nourishment as a sacred act.

Mentioned in this episode

• Rig Veda hymn to ghee
• Vital Veda's Dylan Smith article — "The lowdown on Ghee" - for further teachings
• The concept of Agni and Soma in Ayurveda
• Full moon ghee-making ritual

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A reflection for you:
Each time you stir a spoon of ghee into your soup or tea, ask yourself — How am I tending to my fire today? And how am I nourishing it?

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In this episode of Lean on Ayurveda, I share five fresh lessons that emerged from guiding our latest Community Fall Reset. Over 10 days together, we set aside caffeine, sugar, alcohol, and other agitating habits while nourishing ourselves with simple Ayurvedic practices—including a three-day kichari reset.

Whether you joined this reset, or you tend to do seasonal cleanses on your own, these reflections will help you integrate your experience—or inspire your next one.

Here’s what we explore together in this episode:

• Lesson 1: What happens when you truly see your relationship with caffeine (and why withdrawal symptoms are more than “mind over matter”).
• Lesson 2: Detoxing the senses and rethinking our relationship with screens and devices.
• Lesson 3: Remembering that “nature is as pitiless as it is beautiful”—and why not every difficult moment needs fixing.
• Lesson 4: How ritualizing even small acts of self-care (like oiling the skin) can change the way you live your life.
• Lesson 5: Why resets reduce cravings over time and how this helps you create a more intentional relationship with food and drink.

Along the way, I share participant experiences, Ayurvedic wisdom, and my own reflections on how powerful—even magical—these practices can be.

✨ Resources mentioned in this episode:

• This Is Your Mind on Plants by Michael Pollan
  – a brilliant exploration of how substances like caffeine shape our minds and bodies.
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As summer fades and we step into autumn, our immunity is tested by seasonal shifts, overstimulation, and busy modern lives. In Ayurveda, immunity isn’t just about herbs or supplements—it’s about how we move through thresholds, honor our rhythms, and give ourselves the space to digest life fully.

In this episode, I share:
🌿 Why thresholds—like waking, eating, menstruation, and seasonal changes—are powerful opportunities for strengthening immunity
🌿 The Ayurvedic understanding of immunity (vyadhi kshamatva) as “the body’s capacity for forgiveness”
🌿 Why supplements alone won’t make you resilient—and what will
🌿 Simple ways to create inner “down time” that restore your nervous system (without needing a retreat or vacation)
🌿 The principle of pacify before you purify—why it matters for every cleanse or reset
🌿 What makes the Fall Reset a unique, householder-friendly way to support digestion, immunity, and emotional balance
🌿 Why doing this work in community can amplify clarity, healing, and integration

✨ Join the Fall Reset (Sept 19–21)
Our next seasonal cleanse begins soon! This guided reset is rooted in Ayurveda but designed for real life. Together we’ll prepare, pause stimulants, practice a 3-day kitchari monodiet, rest our senses, and share reflections in community.

• Early Bird until Aug 31: €50 (regular €70)
• Enrollment closes Sept 14

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