Daily life through the lens of Ayurveda - Wisdom with Chasca Summerville

Your Body Is Telling Your Life Story – Body Reading with Abbie Galvin

Your Body Is Telling Your Life Story – Body Reading with Abbie Galvin In this episode, Abbie Galvin explores body reading as a way of seeing and being seen — a reflective process that reveals patterns in how we hold ourselves, move in the world, and relate to others. Abbie shares her perspective on body reading and how the body reflects lived experience. She discusses the evolution of her practice, her approach to teaching, and running her school in New York. She speaks about the real meaning of community, how a studio space can function as a space for inquiry and support, and the values that shape how she works with students. We explore how she approaches teaching beyond technique — meeting students where they are, encouraging curiosity rather than correction, and fostering genuine relationships instead of performance. Abbie also reflects on the role of home practice and daily awareness, and how personal experience continues to inform her understanding of her own personal nature and great nature itself. In this episode: • What body reading reveals about lived experience • Abbie’s approach to teaching and working with students • Running a studio in New York and cultivating genuine community • Creating learning environments rooted in inquiry and support • The role of home practice and daily awareness • Teaching beyond mechanics toward deeper awareness This conversation invites you to consider the body as a living record of experience — and how a reflective and thoughtful practising and teaching can support enhance our relationships and accelerate our personal evolution.

When Lightning Strikes: Mitch Hunter Shares His Personal Story of a Transformative Kundalini Awakening

In this episode, Mitch Hunter opens up about his remarkable spiritual journey, from early childhood experiences with the supernatural to discovering meditation as a coping mechanism. He shares how his path led him deep into academia before an unexpected and profoundly transformative Kundalini awakening at Ramana Maharshi’s ashram in India. Mitch describes the gradual unfolding of awareness that ultimately erupted into a violent yet liberating transformation - a moment that reshaped his understanding of consciousness life itself.

Reclaiming our relationship with food using Ayurveda with Myra Lewin from Hale Pule

Myra Lewin is an Ayurveda practitioner and Master Yogini with more than 100,000 hours of Yoga teaching experience spanning 30+ years of practice. In 1999 Myra founded Hale Pule Ayurveda and Yoga, a center for education and healing. Today Myra guides thousands of students blossoming into Ayurveda counselors and advisors and guides clients 1:1 through health consultations and energy healings. Myra oversees Agni Therapy, Hale Pule’s foundational program that instills balance and vitality into modern life with the principles of Ayurveda and Yoga. In this episode we discuss our lost connection to our food sources and how we can heal our bodies, minds and lives by repairing this relationship, utilising the wisdom of Ayurveda. Show Notes: ✨Myra spoke about her personal experience with finding Ayurveda and how it transformed her life. ✨How the Industrial Revolution transformed our eating habits and our relationship to food ✨How food is our primary relationship that sets the foundation for all other relationships ✨ How what we eat is in a very practical sense who we become ✨ How bringing consciousness into our relationship with food is a form of spiritual practice ✨How our modern relationship to food has resulted in a general loss of connection to who we are and how to look after ourselves. ✨ How being connected to our food sources brings us closer to nature herself. ✨ Food as a form of ritual or spiritual practice that offers us an opportunity to deepen our connection to our true Self.

Meditation - Wisdom with Mitch Hunter

In this episode Ritual's founder, Rose Lamont, talks with Mitch Hunter, a physiotherapist, lecturer at Griffith University, and yoga and meditation teacher about his personal journey into meditation and its profound effect on his work and life. Key Conversation Points: - How meditation techniques help with physiotherapy - Developing an internal stability - The mind-body connection  - Seeking out a genuine, ethical teacher - Being present in the moment Mitch is a university lecturer and yoga and meditation teacher. He has witnessed a profound self development over his 20 years of practice and is passionate about sharing the gifts of self enquiry with others. He focuses on somatosensory retraining in order to explore the cognitive and emotional links between the brain and the body, identify miscommunications, and restore a healthy relationship between the two.

Embracing Change - Wisdom with Jonathan MacDonald

In this episode Ritual's founder, Rose Lamont, talks with Jonathan MacDonald, an award-winning, bestselling author and keynote speaker on the topics of change, digital transformation, and mindset. Key Conversation Points: - Jonathan’s books: Powered By Change and The Rise of Advanced Thought - The paradox of constant change - Finding a safe haven in public speaking - Physics, shifting paradigms, neurology - SELF: personal, ethical, AI Jonathan MacDonald is one of the world's most in-demand and internationally renowned strategic change-makers, unlocking success for individuals and businesses who are shaping the future. He is an entrepreneur, investor, though-leader, author, and black belt martial artist.