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True to Yourself: your soulful companion for the journey home to yourself.
True to Yourself with Ananta Ripa Ajmera is a practical spiritual path home for anyone navigating anxiety, burnout, insomnia, heartbreak, or disconnection from purpose — because the hero's journey we're all on was never about reaching a place, but remembering who we truly are and living true to that self in how we eat, love, rest, and rise. Drawing on 15 years of lineage-based monastic study in Ayurveda, Yoga, Vedanta, and Divine Feminine wisdom, alongside today's most advanced integrative and energy healing practices — work embraced by Dr. Deepak Chopra and Dr. Frank Lipman, and shared at Stanford School of Medicine, NYU, and UNICEF — Ananta guides listeners through the same 9-step chakra healing journey mapped in her bestselling, 8-time award-winning book, The Way of the Goddess (bit.ly/goddess-way).
Each week explores one chakra through:
* Ritual — Ayurvedic practices for energy, digestion, immunity, and fertility
* Reflection — lessons and archetypes for your Divine Feminine Hero's Journey
* Release — healing anxiety, insomnia, trauma patterns, narcissistic abuse, and codependent cycles at the root
Nine chakras. Nine weeks. One continuous spiral home to yourself.
New episodes weekly.
Press play and remember who you are.
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Episodes
46 episodes
046: 5 Signs You're Absorbing Everyone Else's Emotions (and What To Do About It) | Sacral Chakra Reflection
Do you walk into a room and instantly feel everyone else's energy — but struggle to name your own? Do you feel responsible for other people's emotions, happiness, or healing? If you've ever searched "empath meaning," looked up the codependency ...
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045: How to Release Anxiety and Feel Safe in Your Body: Guided Visualization | Root Chakra Release
Do you ever feel like you're carrying fear, anxiety, or exhaustion that isn't entirely yours — patterns that feel older than your own life? In this guided grounding visualization, we complete our three-part Root Chakra series with Release: the ...
044: Grounding Exercises for Anxiety: Ayurvedic Rituals to Feel Stable & Safe | Root Chakra Ritual
If anxiety relief, genuine nervous system regulation, and a truly settled sense of safety feel just out of reach — no matter how much you understand about why you feel this way — this episode is for you.Most grounding exercises for anxi...
043: 5 Signs You're Living in Survival Mode (and What To Do About It) | Root Chakra Reflection
Feeling exhausted even when you sleep enough? Anxious for no clear reason? Like you never quite feel at home in your own life? These could be signs of a root chakra imbalance — and in this episode, we break down exactly what that means and how ...
042: How to Spiritually Heal the Narcissism–Codependency Cycle Through the True Meaning of Namaste
What if the most intractable problems in healing — narcissism and codependency, the trauma bond, the cycle of giving too much and receiving too little — could be resolved not by changing the other person, but by clearing your own inner world?
041: How to Defeat Your Inner Demons After Narcissistic Abuse: Wisdom from the Bhagavad Gita
What if healing from narcissistic abuse wasn't about defeating another person—but about overcoming the unconscious wounds, fears, and shadows within yourself that keep you trapped in the cycle?What if every obstacle on your healing journ...
040: Human Design Types, Ayurveda & Living Your Dharma: What Your Unique Blueprint Reveals About Your Soul's Purpose with DayLuna
Have you ever wondered why certain ways of working, deciding, and showing up feel completely natural — while others leave you exhausted, disconnected, and somehow less like yourself?That is precisely the question Human Design was create...
039: Spiritual Growth, Feminine Archetypes & the Power of Integrity: How I Healed My Karmic Cycle by Becoming What I Wished I'd Had
Have you ever found yourself awakening spiritually — doing the healing work, pursuing holistic healing — and still sensing that something at the root of your patterns hasn't fully shifted?This episode is about what that root is. And how...
038: Spiritual Awakening Across Faiths: A Muslim Woman's Hero's Journey Through Integrity, Self-Love & the Power of Rejuvenation
Did you know that the inner jihad of Islam and the warrior goddess Durga of the Vedic spiritual tradition are describing the exact same battle? In this episode, Ananta Ripa Ajmera sits down with Fatima Naseem — a coach, consultant, and graduate...
037: Spiritual Awakening, Ayurveda Oil & the Power of Rejuvenation: How to Grow Younger as You Get Older
Did you know that in Ayurveda, growing younger as you get older isn't a metaphor — it's a science? In this episode, Ananta Ripa Ajmera shares what spiritual awakening actually feels like on the other side of deep healing work, and introduces Ra...
036: Intergenerational Trauma, Forgiveness & the Body: How I Stopped Recreating the Past and Became the Author of My Own Life's Script
Have you ever felt like you keep recreating the same painful dynamic — the same trauma bond relationship, the same loss of self, the same cycle — no matter how much inner work you do?This is the episode that finally explains why. And mo...
035: From Mental Abuse to Liberation: What Narcissistic Gaslighting Does to Your Body — and How to Clear It
Have you ever searched "narcissistic signs," worked through a mental abuse checklist, or looked up narcissistic characteristics — and felt the strange, disorienting relief of finally seeing it clearly?This episode is for you.In ...
034: Empath Meaning, Narcissistic Abuse & Why Your Intuition's Health Depends on Healing What Your Body Stores
If you identify as an empath, you likely already know that your intuition is one of your greatest gifts. But what happens when narcissistic abuse — or years of gaslighting and manipulation — quietly dismantles your ability to trust it?I...
033: Empath Meaning Explained: Cord Cutting Ceremonies, Spiritual Protection & Energy Healing Techniques
What is an empath? If you've ever felt overwhelmed by other people's emotions or drained after social interactions, you might be an empath. This episode is your complete guide to understanding empath signs and protecting your sensitive energy.<...
032: What Is Manifesting for Empaths? Intuition, Techniques & Law of Attraction Guide with Emma Mumford
What is manifesting and how does it work for empaths? Discover manifesting techniques, the law of attraction, and how empaths can use their intuition to manifest without stress or burnout.In this episode, I'm joined by Emma Mumfor...
031: Throat Chakra Healing: How to Overcome Fear of Rejection and Stop People Pleasing
Discover powerful throat chakra healing techniques to overcome fear of rejection and stop people pleasing behavior. Learn how spiritual practice through silence can heal throat chakra blocked symptoms and unlock your authentic voice.I...
030: Suicide Prevention Through Stories: How One Mother Transformed Grief into a Mission to Help Change Lives with Sally Raymond
What are the warning signs about suicide that even loving, attentive parents miss?At 82 years young, psychotherapist Sally Raymond shares her extraordinary journey from devastating loss to life-saving mission. After losing her bri...
029: The Purest Love: Daily Mantra for Self-Love & Forgiveness with Ananta Ripa Ajmera
Discover the purest love—self-love—and learn how to love yourself through ancient wisdom and daily practice. In this episode, host Ananta shares powerful affirmations for self-love, including the mantra "I love myself unconditionally," and teac...
028: From Emotional Numbness to Heart Chakra Healing with Cheryl Montanez
Struggling with emotional numbness or a closed heart chakra? In this powerful episode, Cheryl shares her journey from feeling emotionally numb to opening her heart chakra and rediscovering herself at 50.After leaving a 22-year relationsh...
027: High Functioning Depression Signs: Understanding Perfectly Hidden Depression with Dr. Margaret Rutherford
Do you recognize the signs of high functioning depression in yourself or someone you love? In this powerful episode of True to Yourself, we dive deep into the hidden world of high functioning depression with renowned psychotherapist Dr. Margare...
026: How to Control Anger Issues for Healthier Relationships with Ananta Ripa Ajmera
Many people want to know how to control anger issues as a self transformation project goal for finding the inner peace they seek and to have healthier relationships. For those of us who are empaths, we may not feel comfortable even ackn...
025: Awakening Spiritually: 3 Signs It's Happening in Your Life with Ananta Ripa Ajmera
How do you know you are awakening spiritually? There are 3 main signs I feel are critical to gauge how much you are progressing on your spiritual growth journey. Learn what these are, and how to cultivate them on an ongoing basis as part of you...
024: Goddess Fertility Wisdom: Build Immunity System Health & Bloom Fertility with Ananta Ripa Ajmera
Did you know that there is a strong connection between how to build immunity system health and bloom fertility in both men and women, according to ancient goddess fertility wisdom from the holistic health tradition of Ayurveda? <...
023: A Powerful Breathing Exercise to Relieve Anxiety with Ananta Ripa Ajmera
Learn a powerful breathing exercise to relieve anxiety to support you with the sacral chakra healing journey. This is also a wonderful sleep promoting breathing exercise. It is an ideal breathing exercise for singing, as well. There has been
022: The Sacral Chakra Healing Journey when in Emotional Pain with Ananta Ripa Ajmera
If you are ready to rise from the ashes of trauma and to stop being in emotional pain, this episode on the sacral chakra healing journey holds a sacred key to your spiritual liberation. Join me as I share the sacral chakra healing ...