This is a gentle guided meditation to support grounding, softening, and inner clarity.

Through a slow body scan, breath, and loving inner attention, Ava guides you to empty accumulated tension and reconnect with your inner space. This practice supports nervous system regulation and integration, allowing presence and ease to arise naturally.

A guided meditation with music. Ideal for mornings or moments when you want to return to yourself.

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Take some time today to replenish yourself.

Amidst the chaos on the surface of the planet, in our thoughts, emotions, and body, we often meet life with subtle resistance. Beneath this effort, there is a deep stillness that remains untouched.

This guided meditation invites you to soften inner resistance and gently meet the moment as it is. Ground yourself in the quiet space of the Heart, where presence, safety, and ease naturally reside.

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This guided awakening meditation draws on Hridaya meditation and the self enquiry teachings of Ramana Maharshi.

Through gentle heart based attention and simple enquiry, awareness is invited to turn back toward its source, allowing thoughts and identities to soften naturally.

This is an embodied, nervous system led approach to awakening that supports integration, safety, and lived clarity rather than striving or peak experiences.

An invitation to rest as what you already are, and to let awakening unfold in a grounded, sustainable way.

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So many people step into a yoga class expecting an ancient practice, yet most modern vinyasa is actually a recent aesthetic invention.

In this episode, Ava unpacks the toxic patterns shaping the modern yoga industry, why students often hand their authority over without realising it, and what a body led, trauma-informed practice looks and feels like in comparison.

If you love yoga, teach yoga, or care about spiritual integrity, this conversation offers clarity, context and a deeper understanding of what you are truly practicing.

Listen in and share how this information lands for you. Whether you agree or disagree, we welcome your reflections.

Relevant links:

Podcast episode: 4 stages of spiritual seeking

Functional Flow Yoga Teacher Training

Chapter markers:

00:00 Introduction to the topic 01:43 Setting the context for this conversation 07:00 Why Ava is positioned to speak on these topics 12:10 What modern vinyasa actually is and the goals behind it 15:44 The core issues within this style of practice 20:45 A body led, trauma-informed approach compared with the medicalised yoga model 26:16 The origins of Hatha Yoga and a summary of key points 30:50 Invitation to share your thoughts

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Have you ever felt something is “off” in the coaching or wellness industry? In this episode, Ava unpacks the invisible pyramid shaping these spaces and why so many of us feel uneasy inside them. We explore skill bypassing, surface culture, cognitive dissonance and what real integrity looks like in practice.

A grounded, necessary conversation for anyone devoted to integrity, embodiment and real service.

Chapter markers

00:00 Introduction 02:17 The invisible pyramid 03:37 Bypassing the skill 05:06 Marketing mechanisms 06:40 The surface culture 07:51 Responsibility at the top 11:20 Cognitive dissonance 14:25 A way forward 19:30 Slower businesses, bigger impact 22:00 Integrity

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In this episode, Ava explores the term privilege: how it’s been shaped, stretched, and sometimes misunderstood in today’s world.

With honesty and depth, she opens a compassionate conversation about how we can move toward greater understanding, healing, and collective repair.

We’d love to hear what this topic stirs or awakens in you!

Chapter markers:

00:00 – Introduction to the topic

02:42 – Why is privilege a non-sense term

03:50 - Privilege vs advantage

09:00 – Healing, repair, growth and dismantling unhealthy systems

12:09 - Functionality and intention

14:30 - Approaches that do not include you feeling shame, blame and guilt

16:55 - Recap

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In this episode, Ava explores a listener’s question: “How do I deal with the terrifying fear of a loved one dying?”

Moments of birth and death often stir deep reflections about our own mortality. This conversation offers insight and comfort for anyone who is grieving a loss or living in fear of losing someone they love.

A gentle exploration of loss, death, and the path toward meeting them with greater awareness, compassion, and freedom from unnecessary fear and suffering.

Chapter markers:

00:00 – Introduction to the topic and update about Honey

04:30 – The power of death and how it pulls on fear and love

05:30 – What we need to accept: coming to terms with life and death

07:12 – How modern life distracts us from our mortality

08:42 – Grief as a reflection of love

09:58 – Key questions to ask yourself: grief vs. suffering

11:15 – Ava shares what she is learning to accept as Honey nears the end of her life

17:10 – What happens when we don’t fully allow ourselves to grieve

18:10 – Closing reflections and invitation to share your thoughts

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Life constantly asks us to show up, give, and move forward. But to truly meet the world with fullness, we also need moments to return to ourselves. Without that inward pause, our energy scatters and we lose touch with balance, joy, and wellbeing.

This meditation is an invitation to slow down, hold yourself gently, and reconnect with your inner-strength.

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