Ep29: Deva Arani on early challenges, embodiment, self-trust & compassion

Deva Arani’s life and work explores what it means to integrate profound experiences into our lives. A teacher of yoga and meditation for over two decades, she has walked the intertwined paths of somatic healing, contemplative practice, and sacred plant medicine—learning that insight alone is not what transforms us, but the way we come back into the body, into relationship, and into presence. She is the author of Integration Alchemy: The Real Ceremony Is Your Life, a book devoted to the art of integration-- and The Mother Ache, which explores healing early relational wounds through compassion, embodiment, and feminine wisdom. In our conversation together, we hear about Arani’s complex and painful childhood, and the embodied connections to nature and her body that helped resource her as she navigated these confusing foundational experiences. We also learn about her deep mediation experiences of non-duality and self-compassion, all of which set the stage for her first psychedelic encounter with ayahuasca in Peru many years ago.

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Arani's personal webiste: www.devaarani.com

Integration Alchemy: The Real Ceremony Is Your Life --- link: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Integration-Alchemy/Deva-Arani/9781591813675

The Mother Ache: Healing The Wounded Daughter Within --- link: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Mother-Ache/Deva-Arani/9781591813750

Music credit: Music by Mass X Audio from Pixabay

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