The Simple Ayurveda Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

Your body is your soul's home. It's your vessel. 

Overeating past the point of fullness is considered a "crime against wisdom" in Ayurveda as it taxes agni.

Let's explore creative expression as a remedy for information overload. 

Learn More About:

• Ayurvedic psychology
• Various forms of creative expression
• Creativity for creativity's sake
• Simple tips for metabolizing information
• Claiming self-responsibility for what you consume

Resources:

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(Free Dharma Heart Space Workshop Jan. 25th, 2026. Link sent out in newsletter.)

Ayurveda Encompassed: Take your understanding of Ayurveda to a new level and step into a more expansive version of yourself. Join Angela in a high-level small group mentorship with personalized support and resources. For wellness practitioners and Ayurveda enthusiasts. Next cohort February 2026. 

Free 3-Part Series on Ancient Wisdom + Modern Nuance: German New Medicine, Trauma-Informed Ayurveda and Navigating the Liminal Space


The Simple Ayurveda health certification program walks you step-by-step through a year-long process of integrating Ayurveda into every aspect of your life so that you are confident in your authentic abilities to share Ayurveda with your community- whether that's your family or clients. Apply here. It is a small group with personalized instruction and individual mentorship led directly by Angela. 
Next cohort starts September 2026.

The dance between masculine and feminine teaches us how to listen deeply and then take action based on the insight received.

Learn More About:

• An explanation from Vastu on why the feminine requires more awareness
• Examples of how to cultivate more attention toward the subtle
• Structures and systems make space for feminine flow
• Simple ways to start building a more sustainable business
• Time blocking for each of the doshas
• Working with seasonal alignment

Resources:

Join the Simple Ayurveda newsletter

(Free Dharma Heart Space Workshop Jan. 25th, 2026. Link sent out in newsletter.)

Ayurveda Encompassed: Take your understanding of Ayurveda to a new level and step into a more expansive version of yourself. Join Angela in a high-level small group mentorship with personalized support and resources. For wellness practitioners and Ayurveda enthusiasts. Next cohort February 2026. 

Free 3-Part Series on Ancient Wisdom + Modern Nuance: German New Medicine, Trauma-Informed Ayurveda and Navigating the Liminal Space


The Simple Ayurveda health certification program walks you step-by-step through a year-long process of integrating Ayurveda into every aspect of your life so that you are confident in your authentic abilities to share Ayurveda with your community- whether that's your family or clients. Apply here. It is a small group with personalized instruction and individual mentorship led directly by Angela. 
Next cohort starts September 2026.

Join the discussion of topics sent in by listeners.

Learn more about:

• Cultivating an easy daily rhythm during summer
• Flowing with the monthly rhythm of the moon
• Types of headaches according to Ayurveda
• Menopause as an initiation
• Getting back into self-care when you've fallen off
• How to eat for vata-pitta in the summer months

Have a question you'd like featured on the podcast? Email angela@simpleayurveda or send a DM on Instagram @angela.perger.

Email a screenshot of your review for The Simple Ayurveda Guide to Yoga Nidra.

Resources:


The Simple Ayurveda health certification program walks you step-by-step through a year-long process of integrating Ayurveda into every aspect of your life so that you are confident in your authentic abilities to share Ayurveda with your community- whether that's your family or clients. Apply here. It is a small group with personalized instruction and individual mentorship led directly by Angela. 


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Join Angela in this solo episode: Spring Q&A.

In this episode, Angela shares in a casual Q&A session, responding to listener questions that were went in via email and social media. She loves having the ongoing dialogue to figure in the application of the essence of Ayurveda and what the teachings say to real, everyday, modern life! If you have any questions you'd like to receive Angela's feedback on, please email her at angela@simpleayurveda.com or send her a message on Instagram at @simple_ayurveda.

Learn more about:
• oil pulling for beginners
• balancing Kapha and Vata in the Spring
• safe Ayurvedic practices for pregnancy, birth and postpartum
• Omicron variant triggering inflammation and autoimmune symptoms

You can access this week's episode on iTunes, Spotify + Stitcher. Looking forward to hearing how this resonates with you 🙏🏻💫

Learn more about Angela and her work:
Website: https://simpleayurveda.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/simple_ayurveda
Ayurveda Health Counselor Program: https://simpleayurvedaschool.teachable.com/p/ahc 

Join The Simple Ayurveda Collective: an affordable ongoing support system that offers Ayurveda broken down into bit-sized pieces so that you are fully able to understand and incorporate this amazing ancient science into your own life.

Receive access to video lessons with new content each month, private support group OFF of Facebook, seasonal suggestions, simple recipes, and more!

Learn more: www.simpleayurveda.com/membership

A new episode of The Simple Ayurveda Podcast is now live! Join Angela and guest Justine Lemos in this episode: A Feminine Approach to Ayurveda.

In this conversation, Angela and Justine go deep, discussing some big questions around the Feminine Path of Ayurveda, Tantra & Yoga. It is a beautiful and powerful conversation!

In this episode, learn more about:
• what the Divine Feminine and Divine Masculine are, and honoring both sides of duality
• what integrating the Divine Feminine aspect into daily life looks like
• an exploration of the senses and the sensual
• releasing resistance and shifting into total acceptance
• intuition vs. ego
• an in-depth definition of tantra
and more!!

Meet Justine Lemos, PhD. She's here to guide you into manifesting your most Radiant Self; nutrition, self-care, relationships, beauty, intuition and bliss. The toolkit for that transformation includes understanding your Ayurvedic blueprint (mind-body type), Vedic Astrology, meditation, mantra, mudra, yoga & more. She loves to harness ancient wisdom-systems to make them applicable to our modern lives; igniting the special magic of a soul aligned with its true purpose.

Justine's an author, teacher, dancer, mother, speaker and founder of #notacult (a long-term conceptual art piece) and The Bliss Academy (an online wisdom archive) and at One Yoga. She'd love for you to check out her shows on Gaia TV: Thrive: Self Healing with Ayurveda or my programs with New World Ayurveda & Dr. Paul Dugliss. She has studied & performed classical Indian dance for 23 years with her Guru, Ranjanaa Devi, and is an Ayurvedic practitioner, Vedic Astrologer, student of Tantrik Yogas and a mystical reader of signs, symbols and omens. She is administrative faculty at Western Yoga College where she offers 200 and 300 hour Yoga Teacher Trainings. She is also a provisional instructor of Kundalini Awakening Process guided by Tao Semko. Justine holds a PhD in Cultural Anthropology with a focus on the study of embodiment in South Asian cultures.

Connect with Justine
website - https://justinelemos.com
Instagram - https://instagram.com/justinelemosphd

Learn more about Angela and her work:
Website: https://simpleayurveda.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/simple_ayurveda
Ayurveda Health Counselor Program: https://simpleayurvedaschool.teachable.com/p/ahc 

Join The Simple Ayurveda Collective: an affordable ongoing support system that offers Ayurveda broken down into bit-sized pieces so that you are fully able to understand and incorporate this amazing ancient science into your own life.

Learn more: www.simpleayurveda.com/membership

Join Angela in this solo episode: The Five Elements: FIRE.

Angela shares insight from the Ayurvedic perspective around the fire element. This is the third episode of a series on The Five Elements. For the first half of 2022, Angela is going through all five elements in the Simple Ayurveda Collective, so if you'd like to study along and explore within your own life, be sure to join!

In this episode, learn more about:
• fire as it correlates with Pitta dosha
• spaces within the physical body associated with fire
• ways in which having too much or not enough fire affects our mentality and physicality

References Mentioned:
Ayurveda and Panchakarma by Dr. Sunil V. Joshi — https://www.amazon.com/Ayurveda-Panchakarma-Science-Healing-Rejuvenation/dp/0914955373

Learn more about Angela and her work:
Website: https://simpleayurveda.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/simple_ayurveda

Join The Simple Ayurveda Collective: an affordable ongoing support system that offers Ayurveda broken down into bit-sized pieces so that you are fully able to understand and incorporate this amazing ancient science into your own life.

Receive access to video lessons with new content each month, private support group OFF of Facebook, seasonal suggestions, simple recipes, and more!

Learn more: www.simpleayurveda.com/membership

Join Angela and guest Selina Van Orden in this episode: Traditional Ghee for Modern Life.

In this conversation, Angela and Selina discuss the magic of ghruta (aka ghee) in Ayurvedic medicine. Selina shares the differences between traditional ghee and simple ghee made in the kitchen. She also discusses her presentations to the House of Parliament on how to bring Ayurveda and modern science together for the betterment of all involved.

Selina qualified at the College of Ayurveda in the UK, after over five years of study. She did clinical training in Karnataka, India, working in a hospital and panca karma clinic; and at a clinic in Maharastra, under the tutelage of a renowned Ayurvedic Master. She is also apprentice to a Doctor of Ayurvedic and Western biomedicine in California.

As a member of the Ayurvedic Practitioners Association (APA), and passionate about making Ayurveda accessible to the mainstream, Selina has talked in in the British Houses of Parliament and European Parliament in Brussels, on how we might integrate Ayurveda into the modern Western medical system.

Selina is the advisor and in-house Ayurvedic doctor for Pior Living, where she has a column called Ask Selina, where people write in with their wellness questions.

In this episode, learn more about:
• How Selina first came to Ayurveda
• What ghruta is and the traditional process for how it's made
• The powerful simplicity of traditional and simple ghee
• Selina's presentations to the British and European Houses of Parliament
• Setting intention when taking traditional and simple ghee

Connect with Selina:
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/piorliving and https://www.instagram.com/_atyourbest
Website - https://piorliving.com
Ask Selina - https://piorliving.com/ask-selina

Learn more about Angela and her work:
Website: https://simpleayurveda.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/simple_ayurveda and https://www.instagram.com/simpleayurvedapodcast

Join The Simple Ayurveda Collective: an affordable ongoing support system that offers Ayurveda broken down into bit-sized pieces so that you are fully able to understand and incorporate this amazing ancient science into your own life.

Receive access to video lessons with new content each month, private support group OFF of Facebook, seasonal suggestions, simple recipes, and more!

Learn more: www.simpleayurveda.com/membership

Join Angela in this solo episode: You are the Gatekeeper.

In this episode, Angela shares about how you are the gatekeeper of your home, time, money and energy. Hopefully as you listen, this will be empowering for you to shift your focus on what's most important, to consider what your priorities are, to consider where your energy is going in your daily life, and to see if there is any dis-integration between what your priorities are and what you actually do with your energy!

Learn more about:
• considering your priorities, and writing them down
• practicing letting go
• money is energy
• yoga and Ayurveda as tools to help

Money Tracking App Mentioned:
YNAB

Learn more about Angela and her work:
Website: https://simpleayurveda.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/simple_ayurveda and https://www.instagram.com/simpleayurvedapodcast

Join The Simple Ayurveda Collective: an affordable ongoing support system that offers Ayurveda broken down into bit-sized pieces so that you are fully able to understand and incorporate this amazing ancient science into your own life.

Receive access to video lessons with new content each month, private support group OFF of Facebook, seasonal suggestions, simple recipes, and more!

Learn more: www.simpleayurveda.com/membership

Join Angela and guest Dr. Dilip Jeste in this episode: The Science of Wisdom.

Dr. Dilip Jeste is distinguished professor of Neuroscience and has been studying wisdom for decades. In this conversation, he shares with us the scientific and spiritual roots of wisdom as they show up in different texts across all different backgrounds. Tune into this great discussion of what wisdom is and how to become wiser.

Learn more about:
• the definition and main components of wisdom
• Dr. Jeste's research process
• why we should care about wisdom
• how to cultivate more wisdom in our lives
• the connection between wisdom and aging
• evidence-based strategies to increase empathy and compassion

Dr. Dilip Jeste, MD, is the Senior Associate Dean for Healthy Aging and Senior Care, and Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Neurosciences at University of California San Diego. He is a geriatric neuropsychiatrist specializing in successful aging and the science of wisdom. He has published 750+ peer-reviewed journals articles, 160+ book chapters, and 14 books. He is past president of the American Psychiatric Association, and a member of the National Academy of Medicine. His work has been featured in Time, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, The London Times, BBC, NPR, and other national and international media outlets.

Connect with Dr. Dilip Jeste:

• Purchase Dr. Jeste's Book, Wiser: The Scientific Roots of Wisdom, Compassion, and What Makes Us Good - https://wiserthebook.com/
• Website - www.dilipjestemd.com
• Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/ucsd.healthy.aging
• Twitter - https://twitter.com/UCSDHealthAging

Learn more about Angela and her work:
Website: https://simpleayurveda.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/simple_ayurveda and https://www.instagram.com/simpleayurvedapodcast

Join The Simple Ayurveda Collective: an affordable ongoing support system that offers Ayurveda broken down into bit-sized pieces so that you are fully able to understand and incorporate this amazing ancient science into your own life.

Learn more: www.simpleayurveda.com/membership

Join Angela in this solo episode: The Five Elements: AIR.

Angela shares insight from the Ayurvedic perspective around the air element. This is the second episode of a series on The Five Elements. For the first half of 2022, Angela is going through all five elements in the Simple Ayurveda Collective, so if you'd like to study along and explore within your own life, be sure to join!

In this episode, learn more about:
• a quick review of the background on Ayurveda and the view of The Five Elements
• air as it correlates with Vata dosha
• spaces within the physical body associated with air
• inquiry prompts to support you looking more deeply into how air affects you

References Mentioned:
Ayurveda and Panchakarma by Dr. Sunil V. Joshi — https://www.amazon.com/Ayurveda-Panchakarma-Science-Healing-Rejuvenation/dp/0914955373

Learn more about Angela and her work:
Website: https://simpleayurveda.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/simple_ayurveda and https://www.instagram.com/simpleayurvedapodcast


Join The Simple Ayurveda Collective: an affordable ongoing support system that offers Ayurveda broken down into bit-sized pieces so that you are fully able to understand and incorporate this amazing ancient science into your own life.

Receive access to video lessons with new content each month, private support group OFF of Facebook, seasonal suggestions, simple recipes, and more!

Learn more: www.simpleayurveda.com/membership