My guest this week is Acharya Shunya, author of the recent book, Roar Like a Goddess: Every Woman’s Guide to Becoming Unapologetically Powerful, Prosperous, and Peaceful (affiliate link). We had a great conversation about the divine feminine, finding your authentic voice, and living wholeheartedly and without apology.

Topics we discussed included:

• Owning your authentic voice
• How we respond to those who don’t doubt their voice
• The ultimate divine reality as being beyond gender
• Being one with the divine
• The consciousness within you that is the same as the consciousness that pervades all
• How one arrives at deep spiritual insights, sometimes through knowledge alone
• Waking up from spiritual forgetfulness
• The importance of starting meditation only when ready to
• Recognizing in others their enactment of exactly who they are
• Embracing ourselves in a way that others recognize as true
• Jung’s concept of the shadow as originating in the Vedas
• Acharya’s podcast Shadow to Self
• The concept of enlightened vulnerability
• Ways of living that feel like working with life and not against it
• Connecting with the rising sun, the phases of the moon, and the groundedness of Mother Earth
  • Sun as divine masculine
  • Moon as divine mother
  • Earth as you

Acharya Shunya is an internationally renowned and award-winning spiritual teacher.

The first female head of her 2000-year-old Indian Vedic spiritual lineage, Shunya is a classically trained master of Yoga and Ayurveda and leader of the divine feminine path to soul ascendence.

She is president of the Awakened Self Foundation, founder of the nonprofit Vedika Global, and author of Ayurveda Lifestyle Wisdom and Sovereign Self. She resides in Northern California.

Find Acharya online at her website, on the Awakened Self website, and on Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook.