For The Life Of Me

In this episode @SriMati connects with her great friend Tracee Stanley to share wisdom from Tracee's new book Radiant Rest. They discuss the live giving energy of Yoga Nidra and explore spirituality as the ultimate activism. 

What does it mean to be awake? Yoga Nidra is known as the Yoga of Sleep. It is a lucid practice that requires no previous experience and demands no asanas. It is simple, deep, and easy to assimilate into a busy life. This beautiful, guided practice informs all aspects of life and helps us to dismantle constructs and decolonize the mind. It is the practice that we all deserve. It is a practice of self-healing. 

In this episode @SriMati reflects on time spent as the student of gurus in order to explore how we see ourselves in relation to others.

We are all seeking love, connection and meaning and we are all informed by our individual experience. So why are we so quick to cancel a person when their belief systems differ from our own? 

How do we manage disagreements with loved ones and spiritual teachers in a space of loving neutrality?

How do we stay in a frequency of respect and compassion, able to share space with those who act differently to us? 

And how do we respect that every life form is divine and understand that the sun is shining on all creation, without edit. 

"Our fractal of the mirror is just one perspective. There are many, many others."

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In this episode @SriMati offers tips, tools and a guided meditation to help us become radiant and positive lights in these tender, challenging times.

How can we show up for the people who matter most to us and how can we summon the courage to face our own mortality, understanding that doing so will vastly expand our experience of this lifetime?

In modern western society we deny death and are therefore ill equipped to process it when it comes. But rather than treat this transition as a tragedy Julia offers up another perspective, one in which we can release the suffering, respect the divine birth into other realms and create ceremony and communion to lovingly support that passage.

In another inspirational episode @SriMati responds directly to a question from listener Tracey on creativity. How does the doyenne of plant based not-cheese manage multiple creative outlets, a brand new intentional food business and a large, active family?

Recorded during Navratri, in reverence to and devotion of the goddess, Julie explores feminine energy as the eternal creator. This is the frequency that will continue to create for all eternity and the more unified we are with it, the more prolific we will be.

If we feel into ourselves as a sphere of radiant energy, always moving and always emanating, we can spontaneously turn our attention towards expression, experiencing joyful vitality instead of restless anxiety and letting go of our preoccupation with linear processes, invented goals and dreaded to-do lists.

What is more beautiful than a being that knows itself? In this uplifting and inspiring episode @SriMati investigates her deeply held belief that you are the one you’ve been waiting for.

In this epoch dominated by patriarchal, intellectual societies we are forever trying to reach a consensus on what is right and what is wrong. Yet if we examine creation through the lens of Ayurveda we understand that we are each unique. There is not another one of us in the entire multiverse. Therefore how could we possibly know what is right for anyone else?

Julie’s life mission is to help us expand into the understanding that if we don’t receive ourselves as divine, then no one else is going to do it for us. No one! So it’s time to get real with who we are, take responsibility for our own divine blueprint and step joyfully into our fullest life experience.

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In this special holiday episode @SriMati and activist @tyler_yarrow_  give thanks for the Tongass region of Southeast Alaska, one of the last untouched forest wildernesses on the planet.

In this heart felt connection Tyler and Julie share their personal experience of the awe-inspiring beauty and near-incomprehensible vastness of this sacred region at a time when its environmental protections are being dismantled by the Trump administration via the disbanding of The Roadless Rule.

They discuss the life-giving communion of trees and the fright-giving tendencies of bears as Julie recollects her childhood in Anchorage and Tyler expands into her divine life blueprint of protector and guardian of these robust and vibrant ecosystems.

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Special musical credit for this episode goes to @TheBergamot for their track 'Make it Last'

In this episode @SriMati offers up a challenge to each of us to act and react in gratitude, even in times of uncertainty.

How can we learn to detach from our old habits and patterns of thinking and understand that we have the power to reframe our interactions so that we can create abundance, expansion and positivity?

When we listen to our body we are in communion, casting spells with our words and becoming conduits of force.

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In this post-election episode @SriMati reflects on the times in our lives when we get fixated on outcomes and offers a different perspective on how we can adapt to change, creating space for evolution and expansion.

During this monumental time of planetary transformation, we are being given the opportunity to return to the true heart resonance of each one of us. Each life form created in perfection, no life form better or worse than any other.

This is a process that is way beyond any political party, but if we remain asleep or in a slumber about what is, then we can't affect meaningful change.

So how do we exist in a state of being that is radiating love, regardless of anybody's ideas or preferences?

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Do you have the courage to step into all that you are?

In these trying and uncertain times @SriMati speaks on the vital truth of what it takes to own your own power. 

We have been programmed to believe that systems (financial, political, educational, correctional, medical) have the answers, and that some other being (political or otherwise) is going to arrive with the full awareness of how to solve personal, political and global issues?

But these systems are failing and we, as individuals, are free to choose to serve love, not fear. 

No one else is coming to save you. It is you and your community that will realize your true life mission.

So how can we step into the full force of our potential, even when the world seems to be eating its own tail?

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What is going on, from a spiritual perspective, when people throw stones from glass houses? Without personal judgement, Julie muses on what it is that gives us a sense of entitlement or superiority that leads us to act upon our judgements in the on-line realm and on social media?

There is an agenda that is seeking to divide us right now and Julie reminds us that we are multidimensional beings. Each of us has been many things in many places! This is why the spiritual truth of treating others as you hope to be treated yourself runs true.

The policing of comments and content has a dark energy and the notions of right or wrong, valid or invalid are human constructs with no relationship to divinity and no relevance in a multiverse containing billions of lifeforms.

We are all needed, and everyone that you meet is an aspect of 'god' energy. If you edit them, you may be missing something.

So, how can we use social media as a tool for good? And how can we learn to listen to and even respect those whose opinions are different to our own? Even if those views feel treacherous, dangerous or downright threatening?

The more mature you become the more you understand you know nothing. The most enlightened way to be is nonjudgemental, accepting and loving of each life form. Even if they are very different than you are. For us to get caught into ‘isms, boxes or attitudes of how people should think or feel is not celebrating diversity. It is not an openness.

In the second of a two part series on money (including a guided meditation around 18mins) Julie moves on from our relationship with money into our stewardship of it. How can we become responsible guardians of this powerful energy and use it in impactful, intentional ways? How can we step into a vibrant, healthy flow, recognizing our heroic probability?

In this current opening in the cosmos we are faced with an opportunity to redefine the energy of money, both for ourselves and in the realms of business, government and schools. The tension between ‘resume us’ and ‘real us’ creates illusions of self-worth that can be overcome. We can step away from judgement and gossip and use our Jedi spirit to transform what it means to be in a loving relationship with money, maybe even lots of money!

It's time to embark on a spiritual evolution that has the power to transform all life on the planet.  

Have the courage to look at what is and understand that you are a divine life form, no better and no worse than anyone else. In the eyes of creation, under the sun, we are all loved unconditionally. There is nothing you can do to make consciousness love you more. It simply is so.

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In this episode Julie speaks of the particular richness of her favorite month of the year and shares thoughts around the theme of devotion.

The fall sun may shine bright in the mountains of Malibu, but the winter sun holds the power of rejuvenation all over the world as Julie expands into her choice to celebrate the new year in September and October - a natural calling that rolls into the mysticism of Scorpio. She speaks of the divine goddess Durga (part of the Vedic lineage) and of the joy and reverence of stringing garlands for ourselves. Plus there's a story of the day the tigers came to tea!

In visceral contrast to what’s happening in the news right now, Julie muses on how we can receive ourselves in reverence during this juicy, sacred month. How can we truly feel that we are a divine being? And how can we use the mantra This, or Something Better...

"If you are open to devotion and always leaving room for something greater, blessings will arrive in the darkness.

"We all have the ability to directly connect to source, to the one breath that is breathing all life. Inherent within us is the blueprint for everything we need to actualize our most heroic probability."

"Remember to honor yourself, to be grateful to your life and not to miss it because you are too attached to the headlines."

Be connected to your true heart resonance."

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Money rules the world, but do we know how to handle it? How can we come to an awareness where we can work with money as an energy, examining its frequency within our individual energetic fields and bringing it into our lives in healthy and abundant ways?

In the first of two episodes on the subject, Julie takes an honest look at our personal relationship with money and at the shame, trauma and anxiety that so often shapes our interactions with it.

We don’t have to be poor of pocket to be pure of soul so it’s time to stop ‘kicking dirt’ around the subject and to stop judging others for making bank, especially if those others are working to reclaim this energy from the darker forces that so often control it.

We are universal creators, so if we worry we are praying for more of the same. But if we can learn to be present, to reject analysis of the past and projections of the future, we can sit in a place of abundance and possibility - regardless of the numbers in our bank balance.

“When you’re grateful for what is and feeling that acknowledgement you create an energy that brings you more of that match”

In this episode Julie sits down with her dear friend, the entrepreneur Doug Evans, having just exchanged gifts in an energetic shift designed to bring into communion their respective lands in the Mojave desert and the mountains of Malibu.

Doug’s extraordinary story runs through childhood delinquency into teenage enlistment before barreling out onto the streets of New York and, ultimately, into the worlds of design and business.

He talks of the preventable illnesses that ravaged his family, of his life-saving move into a wholefood, plant based lifestyle and of finding himself (minus his shorts!) facing up to the tanking of a headline-hogging, money-munching start-up at Burning Man.

Doug is a living lesson in survival, determination and heart. He’s that rare breed of entrepreneur who is honest, passionate and enthusiastic; endeavoring to bring business, spirituality and intentional practice together for the betterment of people and the planet.

When he isn’t floating in deep reflection in his desert hot springs, Doug is fully dedicated to his Sproutman mission for food equality, with the book and the data to back him up.

We love you, Doug!

In this episode, in her role as the founder of artisan plant-based cheese company @SriMudolife, Julie sits down with Flowmaster Chloe Stein (@chloecleancuisine) to talk about the intersection of business and spirituality and the challenges of running a commercial kitchen during a pandemic. They lay out SriMu’s ongoing mission to bring intentionally made offerings to your table and reveal the delicious new flavors that are already making their way to SriMu subscribers all over the US.

SriMu was the culmination of many years of exploration in creating plant-based cheese that began with Julie’s 2016 book This Cheese is Nuts. Her devotional offerings have never asked us to give up cheese. Instead she sought to make cheese better, without the use of animal products and with the health of our planet and our loved ones in mind. The result is ground-breaking, vegan, gluten free, dairy free, paleo and profoundly delicious.

So, after a year of creating this plant-based artisanal magic together in a global mission of activation, Julie and Chloe share exactly what it takes to get a sacred SriMu altar box to its destination and acknowledge the harsh truths of profit margins and shipping costs.

Plus, Julie shares a thirteen breaths meditation technique and discusses self-care during the ongoing pandemic, offering words of support to both individuals and small businesses.

“There is no perfection. There is only where you are, so we must consume foods that elevate the frequency of our body. Because everything that we do matters and at SriMu we Do Life - Not Cheese.”