Functional Spirituality

A simple meditation, with gentle invitations to let your inner space be the centre of attention.   Follow Functional Spirituality at @functionalspirituality and follow our Yoga Studio at @spandaschool https://linktr.ee/functionalspirituality  

Gentle guided meditation with music. Relax and let Ava gently guide you in connecting with love and peace, your most essential layer, using each breath to relax and love your whole body. A beautiful self-love meditation full of pleasure and ease.   Follow Functional Spirituality at @functionalspirituality and follow our Yoga Studio at @spandaschool https://linktr.ee/functionalspirituality

Join Ava in letting go of any effort in your day. Become present to how the breath moves through the body and what sensations may be present, replacing any tension in the body with a soft smiling energy. Follow Functional Spirituality at @functionalspirituality and follow our Yoga Studio at @spandaschool https://linktr.ee/functionalspirituality

How much do you rely on your intuition? Intuition is a word used to describe many different things. Join Ava as she breaks down all things inner space and shares why you shouldn’t be taking messages from your intuition as absolute claims and instructions.   Follow Functional Spirituality at @functionalspirituality and follow our Yoga Studio at @spandaschool https://linktr.ee/functionalspirituality...

Even though yoga has historically been defined as both a path to eliminate suffering and also the goal itself of liberation. In practice, it regularly doesn’t fulfil this definition, but this doesn’t have to be the case. Join Ava in unpacking why we are easily captivated by charisma and guru culture and what that does to our practice.    Follow Functional Spirituality at @functionalspirituality an...

Join Ava for a more spacious, minimally guided meditation that gives you time to arrive into the body. Allow the body to gently resolve itself as you practice patience and compassion with simple and effective techniques. Follow Functional Spirituality at @functionalspirituality and follow our Yoga Studio at @spandaschool https://linktr.ee/functionalspirituality

Set up your whole day with a connection to your body, trusting its messages and processes. Join Ava in a lightly guided meditation with plenty of space to really connect to the sensations of your body.    Follow Functional Spirituality at @functionalspirituality and follow our Yoga Studio at @spandaschool https://linktr.ee/functionalspirituality  

This series was created to help unpack and clarify the biggest obstacles that I have seen in our healing practices and our spiritual practices. if you haven’t already listened, I invite you to go back to the first episode of this de-conditioning series. In this episode of our de-conditioning series, we look at two ways that our healing techniques work. We often confuse these techniques and don’t k...

Join Ava in this simple and spacious guided meditation with music. The heart is a doorway into the infinity of your being, the ultimate tool for the revelation of yourself. The more you relax in today's meditation, the more you can feel Follow Functional Spirituality at @functionalspirituality and follow our Yoga Studio at @spandaschool https://linktr.ee/functionalspirituality  

Join Ava for a short 3-minute embodiment practice, perfect for any time of day!  drop in and use embodiment as your daily healing practice.   Follow Functional Spirituality at @functionalspirituality and follow our Yoga Studio at @spandaschool https://linktr.ee/functionalspirituality

Join Ava for a more spacious, minimally guided meditation that gives you time to arrive into the body. Allow the body to gently resolve itself as you melt into stillness. Follow Functional Spirituality at @functionalspirituality and follow our Yoga Studio at @spandaschool https://linktr.ee/functionalspirituality  

Join Ava in unpacking the confusion and lack of functionality in our daily spiritual practices. Energy-body vagueness is an obstacle that uses dogmatic practices, keeping us on the surface and distracting us from proper de-conditioning and healing.    Follow Functional Spirituality at @functionalspirituality and follow our Yoga Studio at @spandaschool https://linktr.ee/functionalspirituality  

Find the relaxation you’ve been seeking with today's guided meditation. Arriving into the body with gentle presence, feel how your breath expands the ribs, the heart and the lungs. Using relaxation to allow everything to be as it is. Follow Functional Spirituality at @functionalspirituality and follow our Yoga Studio at @spandaschool https://linktr.ee/functionalspirituality

Would you choose a life of suffering or a life of flow and acceptance? Our experiences in life are completely dependent on our attitudes and conditioning.  With so much confusion surrounding the topic of healing in spirituality, join Ava in continuing our conversation about complex and developmental trauma and the role of de-conditioning. Did you miss part 1? Look back and find "De-conditioning ac...

Enjoy our most popular episode on the Functional Spirituality podcast! Allow this soothing deep sleep meditation to send a message of comfort and safety to your nervous system. Invite a deeper sense of calmness into every cell in your body as you settle your body into a deep state of relaxation. Do you have requests or favourite meditations you'd like to more of? Let us know! We are @functionalspi...

Would you choose a life of suffering or a life of flow and acceptance? Our experiences in life are completely dependent on our attitudes and conditioning. 
With so much confusion surrounding the topic of healing in spirituality, join Ava in learning about complex and developmental trauma and the role of de-conditioning.   Follow Functional Spirituality at @functionalspirituality and follow our Yog...

Ease into stillness with curiosity and enjoy a guided sound meditation to connect to your body, ground, release and relax. Follow Functional Spirituality at @functionalspirituality and follow our Yoga Studio at @spandaschool https://linktr.ee/functionalspirituality  

Welcome to another guided meditation with Ava. In today's practice, we will be exploring the sensations of relaxation and joy. dropping in as normal, being present to what’s here, whilst we invite our awareness to explore the sensations and ease within joy and relaxation.   Follow Functional Spirituality at @functionalspirituality and follow our Yoga Studio at @spandaschool https://linktr.ee/funct...

In this episode, Ava gives a life update as well as an interesting story about how she discovered and started to resolve a core psychological wound nesting in her personality's centre Follow Functional Spirituality at @functionalspirituality and follow our Yoga Studio at @spandaschool https://linktr.ee/functionalspirituality  

Join Ava in cultivating space and compassion for self, as she guides you in connecting to the different emotional centres within. Fill your body with awareness and feel what’s present whilst resting in pure listening. Follow Functional Spirituality at @functionalspirituality and follow our Yoga Studio at @spandaschool https://linktr.ee/functionalspirituality  

Today's meditation will cover two areas. We will start with cultivating space for curiosity whilst allowing time to arrive, then we will gently move into cultivating peacefulness. Join Ava and let your body rest in stillness as your attention starts to melt inward. Follow Functional Spirituality at @functionalspirituality and follow our Yoga Studio at @spandaschool https://linktr.ee/functionalspir...

Join Ava in letting go of any effort in your day. Letting there be a listening, become present to how the breath moves through the body and what sensations may be present, replacing any tension in the body with a soft smiling energy. Follow Functional Spirituality at @functionalspirituality and follow our Yoga Studio at @spandaschool https://linktr.ee/functionalspirituality  

A short, simple and gentle practice for your daily dose of meditation. In this episode, join Ava as she softly guides us to use our breath to ease into our practice. Follow Functional Spirituality at @functionalspirituality and follow our Yoga Studio at @spandaschool https://linktr.ee/functionalspirituality  

The breath is an anchor in meditation and a great tool for self-realisation, there is so much the breath offers us and yet it is so simple to utilise. In today's episode, join Ava and learn how to use the breath in your meditation practice Follow Functional Spirituality at @functionalspirituality and follow our Yoga Studio at @spandaschool https://linktr.ee/functionalspirituality  

Join Ava for a guided meditation exploring the attitudes of meditation. Take some time to slow down and notice how the mind unwinds. Do you enjoy these meditations? Let us know by searching our Facebook group or Instagram page. We welcome your feedback. Follow Functional Spirituality at @functionalspirituality and follow our Yoga Studio at @spandaschool https://linktr.ee/functionalspirituality