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 of 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. 🔗 theancientway.co · IG @ananta.one
Episodes
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 more importantly — how to stop.
In this deeply personal finale to a three-part series, Ananta Ripa Ajmera — 10-time award-winning bestselling auth...
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 Part 2 of this deeply personal three-part series, Ananta Ripa Ajmera — 10-time award-winning bestselling author, Ayurveda teacher, and founder of The Ancient Way &...
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?
In this deeply personal solo episode, Ananta Ripa Ajmera — 10-time award-winning bestselling author, founder of The Ancient Way, and host of True to Yourself ...
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.
Join Ananta Ripa Ajmera in conversation with George Lizos, author of Protect Your Light, as he shares powerful techniques for empath health and energetic well-being.
What you'll...
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 Mumford, the UK's leading law of attraction expert and author of Hurt Healing Healed. We dive deep into what empaths are, and why highly sensitive people need a different approach to manifesting.
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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.
In this episode, you'll learn:
- Throat Chakra Healing – Transform throat chakra blocked symptoms through the power of silence and deep reflection
- How to Stop People Pleasing &ndas...
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 brilliant 23-year-old son to suicide, Sally spent 28 years uncovering the truth about what she missed—and transforming that wisdom into hope for others.
In this episode, you'll discover:
<...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 teaches a simple hands-on-heart practice for forgiveness of yourself.
Topics include:
- Self-love affirmations and mantras for daily practice
- Learning how to love yours...
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 relationship, Cheryl spent years in emotional numbness, not realizing she needed to heal childhood trauma while helping everyone else. Learn the blocked heart chakra symptoms she experienced&m...
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. Margaret Rutherford, author of "Perfectly Hidden Depression."
Dr. Rutherford introduces her groundbreaking concept of "perfectly hidden depression" - a form of high functioning depres...
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 acknowledging that we ever get angry, or feel it's not acceptable to experience anger. But we can still experience resentments that build up from time to time when we give our all...
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 your emotional self care and to evolve and heal spiritually.
I share with you stories from ancient mythology, including that of an Indian goddess with many arms, and my ow...
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?
What the ancient holistic healing wisdom of Ayurveda reveals about extended fertility in particular is that it actually has a lot more to do with your overall immune system...
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 research conducted by the International Journal of Yoga to demonstrate how this is a great breathing exercise to help lungs.
The best part? You only need 30 seconds to pr...
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 journey I personally underwent, and how it empowered me in the face of wolves disguised in sheep’s clothing.
In this episode, we explore the practice of brahmacha...
Dive into a profound journey, wherein we will explore the depths of sadness and discover a transformative path that not only uplifts you emotionally, but also propels your spiritual evolution. I invite you to join me as I share my personal journey of channeling sadness into creativity and inner growth, tracing back to when I first learned how to do so in childhood.
Together, we’ll embark upon a soulful explorat...
This month here on the True to Yourself Podcast, we've been talking about getting spiritually grounded. This means being able to say yes to the experiences and relationships that support you and no to those that don't. Having this power means cultivating the courage to go inward, developing balance and grounded-ness from within. One of the most powerful ways I know of to cultivate stability is via grounding activiti...
I recently experienced the life-altering impact of a major car accident. But instead of taking painkillers prescribed in the ER, I delved deeper into my spiritual practices, finding solace and strength to be mentally and emotionally stable in the midst of trauma and adversity. Listen in to learn how you, too, can find inner peace that goes beyond temporary relief with simple and short Yogic and Ayurvedic rituals to ...
Discover the key to finding spiritual grounding amidst the chaos of our modern world. In a world filled with distractions, it's easy to lose sight of our inner light. But fear not, as I bring you the ancient mythological story of Goddess Shailputri to support you to reconnect with your true Self. Shailputri embodies the essence of stability, grounding, and strength within your very own root chakra. Through her story...
Welcome to a celebratory return to this show after over a year! In this episode, I open up and share the challenges I've personally faced since I recorded the last show. Join me as I reveal how I transformed these obstacles into powerful catalysts for growth, making each day a joyful celebration of the eternal victory of light over darkness.
Prepare to dive deep into the ancient wisdom of the Vedic spiritual ...
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