Functional Spirituality

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, it’s not too late and this guided meditation is here 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 w...

Most conversations start off harmless and yet they have the potential to transform into arguments or debates. This is what it feels like to be triggered and when we put up our defences. The walls we construct feel tight, constricted, chaotic, and most of all not very nice. What can we do when this happens? Join Ava as she walks through the answers to these three following questions:  How can I sta...

Discover how to connect to your inner resource, the part of yourself that is beyond the body and timeless. Find out what draws you back to calm and peace inside Follow Functional Spirituality at @functionalspirituality and follow our Yoga Studio at @spandaschool https://linktr.ee/functionalspirituality  

During the silent retreats, retreaters are able to write ava questions each day to be answered in an evening Q&A session. In this episode, Ava answers a question from a past retreat and discusses which content should be bypassed during meditation and how to do so.  How do we know which content to bypass during meditation? [00:40] The answer [04:26] What content do we bypass?  [09:00]   Our mission...

Join Ava for a spacious, minimally guided meditation that gives you time to arrive into the body. Allow the body to gently resolve itself, as you practice relaxing through your whole experience.   Our mission is to increase the accessibility of functional healing and spirituality.   COMMUNITY MEDITATION ~Join the Functional Spirituality Group and enjoy a free resource for meditators and yogis to c...

An 8-minute guided meditation that is designed to help you relax tension in the body using your breath. Beginner friendly.   Our mission is to increase the accessibility of functional healing and spirituality.   COMMUNITY MEDITATION ~Join the Functional Spirituality Group and enjoy a free resource for meditators and yogis to connect to and enjoy a like-minded community. functionalspirituality HEAL...

This is a busy time of year for many of us, there’s so many things we have to do and so many things we need to do when it comes to taking care of ourselves and continuing our self-development journey. During this period, reflection is key. You don’t just set a goal and hope you get there. You have to take time to really contemplate what actions are needed to help you achieve your goal. In this wee...

Welcome to another guided meditation with Ava!  Drop into your body and into the present moment, using the breath to help you sink and relax every muscle of the body. Grounding into the heart and into the body. Use this spacious meditation to cultivate a safe space to let the thoughts and feelings unravel, without any resistance.   Follow Functional Spirituality at @functionalspirituality and foll...

In this episode, Ava continues the discussion from last weeks episode, this time diving into the difference between passion and fixation. Fixation isn’t good for our communities, it takes away freedoms, polarises the conversation and sensitises us to information. Fixation is a mechanism that protected you in the past that hasn’t been softened once the threat was removed and now it's ‘fixed’ in som...

Seeking time and space to connect to yourself? This guided meditation explores the 3 Part Method used in Functional Spirituality. Use this as a time to connect, feel and relax.  Functional Spirituality embraces, both, healing complex trauma and the yogic exploration of infinite Being. It explores deconditioning, cultivating and awakening through the lenses of functional movement, yoga philosophy,...

There is a lot of talk pushing for the sides, for who’s right and who’s wrong, but there’s not enough support for those left in the middle.   If you take a side, you need to know what this is doing to your community, your friends, those who you seek to serve and protect. Let’s unpack the issues that arise when we have polarised arguments.  If you are in the middle:  You don’t need to turn away, th...

Join Ava in exploring the stillness in the pauses, sensing what’s under the surface and offering it loving breath.   Follow Functional Spirituality at @functionalspirituality and follow our Yoga Studio at @spandaschool https://linktr.ee/functionalspirituality  

A gentle meditation with Music. Allow the breath to move in and out of the heart space, connecting to your middle unlocking this allowance and acceptance attitude.   Follow Functional Spirituality at @functionalspirituality and follow our Yoga Studio at @spandaschool https://linktr.ee/functionalspirituality  

Slow down, and connect inward to the beautiful sensations of breath, rest and peace that are calling you from the heart space. This meditation offers guidance for the attention to rest and find space, over light harmonious music. The meditation can be used before bed, but it is intended to train the attention to be alert while being relaxed, allowing everything to be as it is. Do not meditate with...

Offer yourself a loving space and join Ava in creating a safe space to process discomfort and challenges with self-compassion and acceptance. Follow Functional Spirituality at @functionalspirituality and follow our Yoga Studio at @spandaschool https://linktr.ee/functionalspirituality  

we are all on a spiritual path, we are all moving in some direction. But sometimes it’s hard to make real progress and feel connected to a path.    Join Ava as she describes the three main obstacles she has seen people come up against when they are trying to go deeper into their spiritual practice.   Follow Functional Spirituality at @functionalspirituality and follow our Yoga Studio at @spandasch...

Sink into stillness with intention and create space for connection and healing with this week's guided meditation for digestive system healing.   Follow Functional Spirituality at @functionalspirituality and follow our Yoga Studio at @spandaschool https://linktr.ee/functionalspirituality  

The acronym R.A.I.N. is a helpful mindfulness too. It can be a great tool for those times when you are caught up in a story or emotional overload, which can happen naturally when feeling overwhelmed or overly critical, and consumed with anxiety, fear or uncertainty. You can use RAIN in a difficult moment to cultivate a deeper connection and direct experience with the world. 

Welcome to this nurturing short moving meditation.   Follow Functional Spirituality at @functionalspirituality and follow our Yoga Studio at @spandaschool https://linktr.ee/functionalspirituality    

A spacious meditation all about love. Drop into the heart space, allowing the relaxation of love to radiate into every cell, using the love in your body for the purpose of relaxation.   Follow Functional Spirituality at @functionalspirituality and follow our Yoga Studio at @spandaschool https://linktr.ee/functionalspirituality  

We all have the ability and opportunity to cultivate gratitude. Join Ava in taking a few moments to focus on all that you have. Developing an “attitude of gratitude” is one of the simplest ways to improve your satisfaction with life.   Follow Functional Spirituality at @functionalspirituality and follow our Yoga Studio at @spandaschool https://linktr.ee/functionalspirituality  

Turn inward. Following the I feeling like a thread of intimacy, into your essence, connecting with your essential being.   Follow Functional Spirituality at @functionalspirituality and follow our Yoga Studio at @spandaschool https://linktr.ee/functionalspirituality  

Welcome to this short mid-day drop-in meditation. Let your mind soften and your heart open, as you connect to the joy of breathing and the joy of being in the present moment.   Follow Functional Spirituality at @functionalspirituality and follow our Yoga Studio at @spandaschool https://linktr.ee/functionalspirituality  

Follow each breath in and out of your heart space, connect to your inner smile, the peace at the centre of your being with this 15-minute meditation gracefully guided by Ava Irani.   Sign up link for the Free Workshop on the 20th of September! https://functionalspirituality.ck.page/freeworkshop Follow Functional Spirituality at @functionalspirituality and follow our Yoga Studio at @spandaschool ht...

Are your healing tools helping or hindering? More important than trying to tackle your healing work, remember that the place you’re coming from when you use your tools, is really important. Join Ava today as she discusses how to support yourself when you find yourself at the bottom of the wave. Sign up link for the Free Workshop on the 20th of September! https://functionalspirituality.ck.page/free...