Ari P Podcast

Yogi Aaron has guided students for over 30 years to realise their inner strength and cultivate indomitable will so they can discover their truest selves and live their best lives. In his biographical documentary, he shares his inspiring story and the unique doors he had to walk through to fully embrace and live his purpose — from growing up in the wilds of Northern Canada with a new-age mom to attending an all-male boarding school to building a successful yoga career which included starting a global naked men's yoga movement, opening a retreat center in Costa Rica, and developing his own yoga methodology to help people heal from pain — Yogi Aaron's life journey and lessons learned highlight the essential steps to living an abundant, successful, and happy life.

Do you think you don’t have access to your intuition?

Then this episode is for you.

I speak to the reasons why you tell yourself you can’t hear your intuition, and also about what seeing psychics can do to our energy overall.

SHOWNOTES [LINKS TO PREVIOUS EPISODES MENTIONED]:

EPISODE 2: COMPASSION AS A HIGHWAY TO ACCESSING YOUR INTUITION …

Feeling Overwhelmed or panicked?

Struggling with making decisions?

Lov Maté is an Organic Coffee Alternative that includes only four ingredients:

Yerba Maté, Cacao, Maca and Guarana

It’s an Instant powder which can be made hot or cold.

This conversation with Sanae is about this incredible product, and also … mostly about intuition, and how intuition plays an important part in building a business.

Ann is a SuperWoman Warrior.

Please take a moment to listen to her story.

I love Ann’s approach. It’s simple yet effective, and occurs in three stages.

In this episode, we talk about:

1. EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) - including how to, where to, and when to.
2. Releasing Emotions through awareness and focus.
3. How YIN Yoga has an affect on the emotional body and how Ann’s process is similar from an energetic POV.
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When Ann was 19, she woke one morning to find her mother dead in her bathroom.

Twenty years later the tears from that trauma were still just under the surface. Ann found a simple technique that helped her release these emotions - but she went further and can now put her awareness inside her body - and has changed the bone structure of her skull and grown ½ an inch at age 55. Ann has found that seeking out our truth, what we truly feel, and accepting those feelings, is the key to inner peace.

Why your emotional health is dependent on how you feel physicallygenerations ago can continue to shape our experience in the present. 

Generational trauma, also called intergenerational trauma and transgenerational trauma, is passed down through generations in families through genetic changes to a person's DNA after they experience trauma. 

I didn’t mean to get so heavy within the first few lines of this page, but it’s a reality that is often overlooked when going down a path of self-discovery. It’s never really just about you. 

If you want to create a life of peace, tranquility and harmony, then there are a few things you’re going to work through on your way there. 

Whilst most spiritual new age folks will tell you to meditate and journal, and all will come right, I’m here to say - yes that, AND a whole bunch of nervous system regulation, somatic movement therapy and neuro-change to go with. It takes more than only a meditation practice to create a life of ease, plenty and purpose.

It takes YOU, all four parts of YOU - ticking along smoothly.

And the four parts I’m referring to are the emotional. Physical. Mental and spiritual.

In this episode we explore many of the ways in which we can create lasting change in the mind, body, heart and spirit. 

What we talk about:

• Generational trauma and inter-generational trauma
• What your lineage has to do with your spiritual development and why it’s never really just about you
• Understanding your default patterns and behaviours
• Examples of where you de-fragment in your everyday life, and what that actually means
• The power of unifying all parts of yourself across your life
• How your subconscious mind can be in competition or conflict with your conscious desires
• Why you need more than just meditation and journalling for real change
• Neurolinguistic programming (NLP) - what it is, and how to use it for powerful change
• Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) and how it’s different to other modalities like NLP
• The value of energy practices like Reiki, holistic and complementary therapies, alternative therapies, as well as physical practices like breath work, yoga, and nutrition
• Why it’s vital to do what works for YOU, and not what someone told you worked for them
• Why your emotional health is dependant on how you feel physically
• What I do to start the process of figuring out what really is the best practice for me in the moment, including questions to sit with

Mentions & Resources:

I recently shared a reel on Instagram on an oral hygiene practice I love and boy did it cause a stir! I got so many messages asking about it, many wondering why, as someone who normally shares spiritual and energetic teachings,  I was suddenly sharing about oral health.

Well, the short answer is: It’s all connected. All of it. Any ritual or practice that supports the physical body has an effect on our mental, spiritual, and emotional lives.

How many times have you neglected your physical health in favour of cultivating transcendence? How many times have you negated your emotions because ‘the show must go on’. How many times have you meditated, cleansed, saved, smoked, only to realise the money mind is in still full swing.

It takes a certain amount of audacity to realign and defragment from an un-useful way of being.

Let’s explore this together.

What we talk about:

• Why physical health is so connected to spiritual practice
• The oral health reel that caused such a stir on IG
• How exactly build up of toxins in the body translates to spiritual and emotional issues
What first brought me to yoga, and why I actually got out of it
• The four fragments of you and how they’re connected
• What happens when we de-fragment
• What I’ve noticed in the spiritual and wellness industry over the past few years
• Our initiations and how they relate to the pieces of ourselves
• How I support people through their fragmentation in my mentoring business
• How to use cleansing practices for the whole of you - physical, spiritual, emotional, and mental

Mentions & Resources:

Kindness and patience are qualities that should not be understood as individual acts that we “do”, such as an “act of kindness” or “patience in the moment.” Eventually we awaken to the realisation that these are graces that reside within us, subtly reshaping an act of kindness into a person of kindness. But awakening requires reflection time as a way of recognising how often our life circumstances seem to set us up to rely upon these graces in order to sustain ourselves through difficult passages.

Let's explore what these can look like in your life, and how you can carve out some reflection space and time to recognise it for yourself through a practice of loving-kindness.

The Definition of loving-kindness is ‘tender and benevolent affection’.

Loving-kindness, also known as metta (in Pali), is derived from Buddhism and refers to a mental state of unselfish and unconditional kindness to all beings. Maitrī (Sanskrit; Pali: mettā) means benevolence, loving-kindness, friendliness, amity, good will, and active interest in others. It is the first of the four sublime states (Brahmaviharas) and one of the ten pāramīs of the Theravāda school of Buddhism. While loving-kindness involves the motivation for happiness, compassion involves the motivation to reduce suffering – not because we find it aversive and are trying to escape it, but we have the loving motivation to reduce or end it.

The metta prayer of loving-kindness is a prayer or mantra used as part of a loving-kindness meditation, or metta bhavana. This kind of meditation and use of a mantra is popular in the Buddhist tradition. The word, metta, comes from Pali and can be translated as “good will” or “loving kindness.” Loving-kindness meditation (sometimes called “metta” meditation) is a great way to cultivate our propensity for kindness. It involves mentally sending goodwill, kindness, and warmth towards others by silently repeating a series of mantras.

Quick Take | Loving-Kindness Meditation Benefits:

• Increase positive emotions.
• Grow overall wellbeing.
• Enhance emotional processes.
• Increase empathy.
• Improve social connection.
• Reduce Self Criticism.
• Increase compassion towards oneself and others.

May I be at ease in my body, feeling the ground beneath my seat and feet … May I be attentive and gentle toward my own discomfort and suffering … May I be attentive and grateful for my own joy and well-being … May I move towards others freely and with openness 

We cannot build our future world with the same rules that applied in the past because this is exactly what got us into the collective mess that we’re experiencing. You must find the link between your happiness and joy AND the happiness and joy of the planet.

What we talk about:

• Why we sometimes feel we can’t ‘get something’ from loving kindness and compassion
• loving kindness as a form of humbling mediative practice
• Where the term loving kindnesscomes from, and what it means
• The power of creating visions for yourself, and the collective
• How compassion pairs with loving kindness
• Live practice - Metta bhavana prayer
• How loving kindness supports our fragmented selves and in states of victimhood

Mentions & Resources:

This is a conversation I’ve had over and over recently.

We can so easily be deceived by our own eyes and mind if we aren’t conscious of the foundation underneath promises we make ourselves. In this episode I speak to launching confidently towards your greatest joy, alignment and peace.  

What we talk about:

• What alignment really is
• The challenge with the popular term ‘your best self’ 
• What happens when we look outside ourselves for answers
• How to live into the truth of our own lives
• Being the contradiction in any circumstance and having a strong connection to your intuition

Mentions:

Life is full of ups and downs and sometimes has a few sideways thrown in too. When things go wrong or don’t go as planned, or when something happens to throw us off balance and doubt ourselves it can be tough to deal with. After all, we all want things to go well and to end up as ‘winners’. But life will always throw challenges at us, and we can’t control everything. Nor should we try. It’s not what happens to you but what you do with what happens to you that makes the difference. Here are two easy ways that you can always come out on top.

1. Focus on Your Strengths

We’re a bunch of contradictions – sorry to break it to you. Sometimes happy, sometimes sad; sometimes hopeful, sometimes pessimistic; sometimes childish and sometimes mature. We also have a whole load of strengths and weaknesses that affect what we do and how we do it, but we tend to put more focus on our weaknesses and not our strengths.

A strength is something that you do consistently well– it’s something you’re just able to do, you’re hard-wired to do it well and you get an inherent satisfaction from doing it. It could be tackling and solving complex problems, empathising with people, having a lively imagination or being able to make the perfect omelette.

Focusing on what you do well rather than what you’re not so good at makes all kinds of sense. When you look at what you’re not good at you feel bad about yourself and your ability, but when you focus on and play to your strengths you’re guaranteed to get results, and can even eliminate any negative effect your weaknesses might have.

2. Set Things Up Ahead Of Time

Sure, there will be times when you can just head into something, do brilliantly at it and get the result you were hoping for (normally if you’re playing to your strengths), but other times you might blunder forwards, wing it and not get the result you wanted. Whatever challenges or opportunities you’re facing you’ll stand a much better chance of getting a great result if you set things up to succeed ahead of time.

So what exactly do you want to happen? What solution, outcome or result would be great? Get really clear on the outcome you want from what’s facing you and how it would feel to get the outcome you’re looking for. Then start breaking it down – what can you do to set things up so that your desired outcome happens? What needs to be put in place? What will help to make what you want to happen, happen? And to ensure the best outcome, what are you willing to do?

ARIANNA PIENAAR

Consciousness & Mysticism, Practises & Tools for Clarity & Grace.

लोकाः समस्ताः सुखिनो भवन्तु

This episode of the podcast features yogi, mamma and studio owner Emma Maidment.

We talk about ways in which we can bring the teachings of Yoga into life as conscious parents and how Emma supports her 7-month old son to "keep the lights on", questioning the very mental-constructs and programs that were handed down to her by her parents. 

‘Our approach to parenting is how can we keep the lights on?’ 

We talk about Elimination Communication (listen in to find out what this is exactly) and how to enter Deep States of Knowing by tapping into your intuition.

For Emma what began as some major health challenges exacerbated by an underlying hormonal imbalance (PCO) lead to a life mission of empowering others to connect back to themselves and discover their innate power to not only heal but to live into their fullest potential for a happy and aligned life. Emma is here to remind you who you are and connect you back to your inner power.

Over the last few years, I have had the pleasure of working with my own Human Design in a way that has allowed me to enjoy life a little bit more, with freedom, ease and joy. at the forefront of it all, it's softened the MUSTS and SHOULDS to the point where i've allowed myself to twist and turn and find my own way of living in energetic harmony.

There have been times when it's been relieving (that AHHHH moment, the EXHALE), and then there have also been times of deep reflection and resistance because the narrative would have me believe that the way I do things is not the right way.

This conversation is a the entry for those of you who have been interested in what Human Design is, and how it can support you to live a life in complete energetic alignment with your soul.

This episode is the answer to a question I received to the following question on the gram

 ‘how can I protect my energy and repel bad energy?’  

What this question equates to energetically, is 'how you can still be empathetic towards others ’feeling without taking their emotions on as you own?'.

Working with energy isn’t a “gift”.

Everyone can do it.

Just like learning how to read words on a page, reading and working with energy is a skill that can be learned.

Here are some things I’ve learned along the way:

➡️ Working with energy as medicine doesn’t make you immune to life’s ups and downs. Your life will continue to unfold as it’s meant to and the only thing that will change is your response to it (big perk)

➡️ knowing how to work w energy won’t render your life perfect. You’ll still experience the full spectrum of emotions because you’re human (yep you can’t escape it), but ... it can help you when you feel wobbly and need a bit of extra support.

➡️ energy will flow wherever your attention goes so instead of trying to untangle the tangle, focus on the light and the untangled-ness as if it was already so.

➡️ energy will stagnate in areas which are clogged or overburdened with emotional / energetic baggage. It doesn’t stop flowing (ever) nor is it bad / negative energy. It just slows down to a very low vibration which can cause dis-ease / disease in your body if unattended to over a long period of time.

➡️ Working with energy is really about your relationship to power and not about POWER over others. It’s more about being able to maintain and direct your own power in in intentional ways.

➡️ Knowing how to contain and intentionally funnel your power will open you up to experience life and love and play and joy in a deeper and more connected way. The whole experience of being congruent and free flowing is nourishing and expansive and incredibly empowering.

IT IS LOVE ❤️ AND compassion & deep acceptance of all emotions and experiences just as they are. It’s equanimity at its most potent.

➡️ energy medicine isn’t a religious belief. It has absolutely nothing to do with religion. It’s more about science than religion actually. Its about unconditionally accepting yourself without holding any judgement.

➡️ energy in itself is neutral and is reactive to thoughts, actions and feelings you hold within your body.

The journey of learning how to work with your energy is unique for every single being. For me to witness it as an energy medicine mentor is thrilling and curious and so so interesting.

If you look through the lense of your wounded child, you will become possessed in finding all the faults of humanity. In this episode I talk about: * how important it is to recognise that there are two sides to every coin and that our feelings towards anything are merely the lens through which we bear witness to any given situation.
 * how first, you must recognise that there’s a problem or a ‘glitch in unit inner matrix’ otherwise you can’t heal it.
 * how shadow work is about looking at what seems out of balance so that we can bring it back to balance or at least in harmony with what is.
 * how all of this contributes to the speed at which change occurs (hint, it’s at the rate which you allow it)
 

The Solar Plexus Energy Centre is possibly that which draws people to this work of energy medicine and self healing first. Mostly because this centre governs our POWER and SELF-ESTEEM. The way we feel about ourselves. IN THIS episode I discuss how to reclaim you power (whatever that looks like for you) through unwinding the dynamics and power struggles in your communities and family circles. We talk about the spiritual aspects of this energy centre, and ways in which you can unravel from the emotional baggage that often comes when this centre is imbalanced.

We go deep in this episode, just as two mates would. 

We talk about about intentions, intuition, and how we as human beings avoid going within because of fear.

We talk about unhealed wounds and traumas and how global anger is being fuelled by our own triggers which inevitably take us off centre. 

We riff about Programming, lineages, beliefs and new ways of being.

and surprisingly, we dip our toe into Human Design, and I share how it’s helped me to live in my most natural state.

There are way too many topics included in this conversation for me to note them all down, so just take a listen and let me know your thoughts and musings.