The EMBODIED Ayurveda Podcast

Niv helps you to drop into the quiet space of your heart-center/Anahata Chakra through this powerful meditation practice. Here you experience the innate wisdom and bliss that resides within. The practice includes breathing, visualizing and chanting. Niv Rajendra is an expert health and spiritual coach, Ayurvedic Practitioner and founder of the EMBODIED Ayurveda Programs. She offers an unmatched al...

Niv guides you through 30 minutes of a traditional Pranayama practice, integrating Ujjayi pranayama, mental visualization and So-Ham inner chanting for a potent nervous system reset. And as an on-going training to help you cultivate presence of mind. Niv Rajendra is an expert health and longevity coach, Ayurvedic Practitioner and founder of the EMBODIED Ayurveda Programs. She offers an unmatched a...

A contemplative reading of Friedrich Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra, by Niv Rajendra. "There is nothing quite like  Thus Spoke Zarathustra  in world literature. It is sublime and compelling, written in a state of high inspiration. At times in his life Nietzsche appears to be debating and even carrying the cultural evolution of an entire civilization within him. His writing is driven b...

Niv guides you through 8 minutes of call and response chanting as you bathe your devotional awareness in the frequencies of Durga and Kaali. Think of Durga as the all encompassing avatar of Cosmic Shakti, the Ultimate Reality of Nature. And Kaali as the transcendental knowledge that liberates your mind. Om Maata Kaali, Kaali Durge Maa! Jai Maa. As you attune to their vibrational codes through sing...

Niv guides you through a gentle 15-minute Pranayama practice perfect for your everyday morning. This practice helps expand your inner life force, balance the energetic polarities within and soften your mind to embrace the ebbs and flows of life. The intention today: release your inner-critic and yield to the polarities of life. Practiced daily and consistently, is sure to change your life. Pranaya...

Niv walks you through fundamental insights on kumbhaka - breath retention: an essential component of advanced pranayama techniques - and then guides you through a systematic pranayama practice to help you integrate kumbhaka into your everyday life. This feels especially relevant at a time when "urgency energy" seems to have plagued everyone's response patterns and is making the world...

Niv dives deeper into the technology and power of your Heart Centre/Anahata Chakra as per ancient Yogic wisdom. Your Heart Centre, or Anahata Chakra - is the fourth psychic energy centre going upwards from your root chakra. Niv walks you through the precise functions and frequencies of Anahata Chakra. Mental skills and energetic streams of consciousness that your Heart Centre holds. Virtues that i...

Niv guides you through a gentle Pranayama sequence suitable for all contexts and experiences. She begins with 10 minutes of inner posture and breath awareness (Prana Nigraha), and then eases you into 30 minutes of Pranayama. This sequence is safe to practice daily on an empty stomach. Pranayama is an ancient Yogic practice that helps to expand and harmonize the vital life force with you, through w...

Niv breaks down the ancient Yogic concept the FIVE BODIES. How our existence as an individual entity can be categorized into five sheaths or energy bodies known as koshas, each more subtle than the other. And how and why your highest experience of radiance, creativity and health can only be achieved through knowing, purifying and harmonizing all five of these bodies. To summarize: The first layer...

It is only through duality that we can rest in union. Mystics, healers and poets from across the world have been wrestling with this truth since the beginning of time. What they have come to teach us is that the reconciliation of opposites is at the core of experiencing life in a way that is actually healthful and liberated and spiritually uplifted. How can you apply this acceptance of polarity as...

Listen in as Niv Rajendra, expert health and longevity coach, walks you through three fool-proof ways to awaken and heal, practiced and instructed by mystics from the Ayurvedic and Yogic traditions. These are tools that are accessible to you within the realities of your everyday life, here and now. She draws from her own lived experience as well as professional insights through her 7+ years of cli...

Niv Rajendra is an expert health and longevity coach, Ayurvedic Practitioner and founder of the EMBODIED Ayurveda Programs. She offers an unmatched alternative to artists, visionaries and creatives seeking a life of extra-ordinary and full-bodied vitality and empowers people to live their most energized, healthful and joyful lives for the LONG RUN. Niv's clients claim that working with her has...

Clearing up where Pranayama is different from generalized breathwork and why it has been unmatched in helping me and my clients achieve extra-ordinary upgrades in mental clarity, inner restfulness and peak performance. I am Niv, a health and longevity manager for influential artists, trailblazers, performers and leaders. I work 1:1 with clients long-term via a tailored Ayurvedic and Pranayama part...

Do you ever feel like there just isn’t enough time in the day to accomplish everything? Imagine if you could master time — increase your focus, amplify your energy, and feel rested even on high-intensity days. Through Pranayama, specifically the powerful Nadi Shodhana (alternate nostril breathing) technique, you can tap into your body’s natural vitality and unlock a new level of productivity. ✨ I...

Niv Rajendra is a health and longevity coach, helping high-profile artists and CEO's enhance energy levels, creative edge and peak performance through tailored Ayurvedic and Pranayama integrations. As a high-performing artist or CEO, the drive to succeed can often pull you away from the people who matter most. But what if you could sustain your passion, grow your career, and still have energy left...

Struggling with anxiety, mental fatigue or exhaustion? [This episode has been extracted from an IG LIVE] And you’ve been seeing therapists and counsellors for years. Journaling. Doing the gratitude practice. Doing the mindset work. Working out. And yet you’re feeling stuck and not really experiencing the full bodied energy and mental motivation and lightness you know is for you? Or you’ve been see...

Master the exquisite art of detoxing. THIS is how you actualise a high-frequency life for you, your clients and your loved ones. Listen in to learn what it is, what it is NOT, what exactly you get to help others heal through when you’ve mastered this, and why you can’t put this off any longer. This is such a brilliant skill that you get to master within the EMBODIED Ayurveda Certification Program....

This episode has been extracted from an IG Live titled "Are you TRULY healthy, The Ayurvedic Edition." I keep talking about “dis-ease” and “health” but I can’t take it for granted that you really know what I mean when I say that. So I’ve broken down this absolutely stunning definition of health in Ayurvedic texts for you - so you have a FULL and COMPREHENSIVE sense of what it is and CAN...

This episode has been extracted from an IG LIVE on the topic: HOW TO HELP HEAL YOUR AND YOUR CLIENT’S ERRATIC, INCONSISTENT OR CRITICAL RELATIONSHIPS WITH FOOD! I am joined here by Sarah, who shares powerful insights on how to tend to the ROOTS of disordered eating. Listen in to learn: 🔪 The KEY reframe that has supported Sarah and all her clients in shifting out of CHRONIC eating disorders. 🔪 W...

This episode is extracted from an IG Live titled "Using Ayurveda to Treat the Untreatable." You know those issues that just seem to STICK to people, no matter what help they seek or what they try? Whether its chronic ADHD or anxiety, menstrual/hormonal dysregulation, irritable bowel syndrome, fluctuating appetite or acne. Well its exactly those debilitating issues you get to help others...

Feel confidence, authority and coherence in guiding your clients through divine ancient healing wisdom. Own your position as an embodied health practitioner in your community and get known for the transformative quality of your work. This is EMBODIED Ayurveda. Ayurveda is one of the world’s oldest holistic healing systems. It originated over 5000 years ago, and is even more relevant today than eve...

Feel confidence, authority and coherence in guiding your clients through divine ancient healing wisdom. Own your position as an embodied health practitioner in your community and get known for the transformative quality of your work. This is EMBODIED Ayurveda. Ayurveda is one of the world’s oldest holistic healing systems. It originated over 5000 years ago, and is even more relevant today than eve...

You cannot afford these any longer. Feel confidence, authority and coherence in guiding your clients through divine ancient healing wisdom. Own your position as an embodied health practitioner in your community and get known for the transformative quality of your work. This is EMBODIED Ayurveda. Ayurveda is one of the world’s oldest holistic healing systems. It originated over 5000 years ago, and...

When practiced and taught correctly, the wisdom of Ayurveda leaves no stone unturned. Nutrition, neuroscience, fitness, plant medicine and mindset is ALL tended to. EVERY aspect of mind-body-spirit wellness is integrated within this ancient medicinal life-science. This work is unparalleled. In today's episode, we speak to a seasoned life coach, Suchitra Rajendra, on 1. Key powerful contemporar...

Ayurveda is a five thousand year old system of healing with origins in the Vedic culture of ancient India. The Sanskrit word Ayurveda is derived from the root words ayuh, meaning “life” or “longevity,” and veda, meaning “science” or “sacred knowledge.” Ayurveda therefore translates as, "the sacred knowledge of life.” Today Niv dives into 1. Three reasons and associated ways for you to infuse Prana...