• Guided meditation: Awareness of the breath
    Jan 19 2025

    Take a moment to journey inward and explore the vast, ever-changing landscape within. This guided meditation with Kate uses breath awareness and invites curiosity and relaxation into your system, allowing tension to melt away.

    As you breathe, allow your attention to settle on the stillness that exists between each inhale and exhale—a quiet, sacred pause where peace resides.

    If you enjoy this audio you can save the link somewhere in your phone, or make a playlist for it on your Spotify so you have access to this practice with one click".

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    20 mins
  • Guided meditation: Creating a regenerative state
    Jan 12 2025

    Welcome to this meditation guided by Ava to gently ground your energy, relax your body and deepen your connection with what your system truly needs.

    This practice invites you to create space for restoration and balance, nurturing your capacity for self-awareness and renewal.

    If you enjoy this audio you can save the link somewhere in your phone, or make a playlist for it so you have access to this practice with one click.

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    16 mins
  • Guided meditation: Anchoring a word for 2025
    Dec 29 2024

    Ready to start the new year with intention? Choosing a 'word of the year' helps bring focus and clarity to what we want to create in our lives.

    Struggling to pick a word? No worries, we've repurposed this guided meditation to help you!

    This isn’t about crossing another goal off your list, it’s about creating an intention to help guide your daily actions and cultivate the qualities you want more of this year.

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    24 mins
  • Guided meditation: Return to presence
    Dec 22 2024

    Join Ava in this 15 minute spacious guided meditation to experience and embody the presence of your being.

    We start by gently moving the body and connecting to the awareness of the breath. Notice the effortless and limitless qualities of your being and connect to the embodied presence and how that feels in your own experience.

    If you enjoy this audio you can save the link somewhere in your phone, or make a playlist for it on your Spotify so you have access to this practice with one click.

    To join our free weekly group meditations message us or visit @functionalspirituality

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    17 mins
  • Staying Balanced this Holiday
    Dec 15 2024

    The holiday season can be a stressful time for a lot of people, where self-care practices are placed second to social engagements and commitments. It is in fact also the perfect time for rest and reflection. A sacred time for journaling, evaluation and integration of the year.

    In this (repurposed) episode Ava shares her favourite journal prompts to help you stay grounded and balanced during the holiday period. We invite you to do some contemplation so please have a journal and pen when you listen to this episode. Join our Facebook group and feel free to share with the community your answers to the journal prompts. We'd love to get ideas from you! Journal prompts:

    1. What would balance look like to you?

    2. Is there anything I have planned that I am not looking forward to?

    3. Is there a boundary that I could set or a resource that I could call on to help me with the above?

    4. Is there anything else that I am dreading or worried about?

    5. Is there a resource that I could call on or are there a number of resources that I would like to call on to support me?

    6. What would these resources give me?

    7. Is there something that I can do to support myself knowing that this is what I need?

    Chapter markers:

    00:00 Introduction to the topic - have a pen and a journal with you!

    00:51 The holiday season can be a time of stress for a lot of people.

    02:21 This is the sacred time for rest and reflection.

    03:27 How to find balance between social activities and solo, self- care.

    04:24 Journal prompts.

    6:34 Thank you for listening, wishing you a happy, joyful and easeful holiday season!

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    8 mins
  • Guided meditation: Calming the nervous system
    Dec 8 2024

    The body, the breath and the earth are powerful anchors for our nervous system to rest, reset and ground. Join us in this recording of a previous Monday morning meditation.

    Our free Monday online meditation will be back from January, stay tuned!

    If you enjoy this audio you can save the link somewhere in your phone, or make a playlist for it so you have access to this practice with one click.

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    19 mins
  • Parenthood questions with Ava and Anaid
    Dec 1 2024

    In this episode, Ava and Anaid Anaid have a rich conversation about the important questions that come up for people (and parents) contemplating adding a child to their life.

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    Chapter markers:

    00:00 Introduction to the topic

    04:56 Did you decide to have kids?

    11: 34 What has been the hardest part of motherhood so far?

    17:57 As a professional, entrepreneur and leader, how do you balance your work, motherhood and self-care/spirituality?

    24:24 How do you feel about the current state of the world and the future for your kid(s)?

    32:53 Kid’s mental health and technology

    40:00 Have there been moments you wish you changed your mind?

    44:31 Question: Is the sacrifice of self worth having a second child ? Will having kids cause me to lose my sense of self? I am not sure if I have the capacity and energy for kids.

    01:00:15 How can I afford having a kid?

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    A free workshop that replaces the old, dogmatic, unsustainable paradigm of healing that burns out our community. Explore how to deepen your presence in both personal and professional spheres. A new, simpler and functional approach to being trauma-informed

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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • Conscious activism & the environment with Stephanie Poly
    Nov 24 2024

    In this episode, Ava and Stephanie have a conversation about conscious activism and the environment.

    Tune in and listen to them as they discuss values and the importance of spiritual practice as a form of activism.

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    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: Holding Safer Spaces

    A free workshop that replaces the old, dogmatic, unsustainable paradigm of healing that burns out our community. Explore how to deepen your presence in both personal and professional spheres. A new, simpler and functional approach to being trauma-informed

    Connect on Socials

    Where you can hear from us in daily life

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    51 mins