Speaking
Ananta Ripa Ajmera—10-time award-winning author and director of The Ancient Way (honored in 2026 by Global Health & Pharma as Best Healing & Wellness Practitioners Spiritual Community)—addresses the crisis of abuse of power in yoga and wellness through transformational keynotes and workshops rooted in ancient Indian wisdom.
Her talks empower audiences to recognize manipulation, establish sacred boundaries, heal from spiritual trauma, and reclaim their sovereignty. Whether your organization serves survivors, wellness professionals, or spiritual seekers, Ananta delivers evidence-based practices that protect, heal, and liberate.
99% of participants from Stanford Medical School, UNICEF, and California probation departments recommend her work, with 95% reporting enhanced wellbeing and performance.
Listen to Ananta Speak
You can get an idea of how Ananta speaks by watching her interview with Dr. Deepak Chopra on her most recent book, The Way of the Goddess.
Speaking Topics
Reclaiming Your Power: Healing from Spiritual Abuse in Wellness Communities
As abuse of power becomes more visible in yoga, wellness, and spiritual spaces, this talk provides essential tools for protection and healing. Drawing from her family lineage as an Ayurvedic healer and personal journey of transforming trauma into purpose, Ananta teaches how to identify red flags, establish boundaries, process betrayal, and rebuild trust—in yourself and community.
Perfect for: Yoga studios, wellness conferences, trauma-informed training programs, survivor support organizations, and any community committed to ethical spiritual practice.
Recognize signs of manipulation, gaslighting, and spiritual bypassing
Establish healthy boundaries without guilt or shame
Heal from betrayal by teachers, leaders, or community
Create trauma-informed, empowering spaces as a teacher or leader
Restore trust in your intuition and spiritual path
Medicinal Storytelling Circle: Celebrating the Eternal Victory of Light Over Darkness
The stories we tell ourselves shape the lives we live. In this sacred circle, you'll experience the healing power of ancient goddess myths as mirrors for modern transformation. Through guided reflection, group sharing, and witnessing, you'll release old patterns, reclaim forgotten parts of yourself, and speak new intentions into life. This is integration medicine—a space to process, celebrate your growth, and claim the hero's journey that's waiting for you.
Perfect for those who:
Are ready to rewrite their story
Need integration after deep work
Want to be witnessed in community as they step into a new chapter
Awaken Your Divine Feminine Powers: Ayurvedic Yoga to Activate Your Chakras
Step into your power through the sacred union of Ayurvedic wisdom and embodied movement. This transformational practice guides you through the 9 chakras and their corresponding goddess archetypes—from grounding at your root to radiating from your crown and beyond. Each pose, movement, and mantra is designed to activate dormant energy, release stored emotions, and reconnect you with the spiritual superpowers you were born with. You'll leave feeling aligned, empowered, and ready to walk through life as the embodied leader you're meant to be.
Perfect for those who:
Feel disconnected from their body
Struggle to access their inner strength
Ae ready to reclaim the feminine power that's been suppressed within
Food as Love: Ayurvedic Cooking for Community & Soul Connection
2-2.5 hours
Nourish yourself and your community with the healing power of food. In this hands-on workshop, you'll learn how to cook simple, seasonal Ayurvedic recipes that empower you to nourish body, mind, soul and spirit through the art of sacred eating. Discover how the kitchen becomes a temple, cooking becomes devotion, and food becomes medicine that builds ojas—your vital life force. Through goddess myths, medicinal spices, and practical dosha-balancing techniques, you'll take home recipes and rituals that transform everyday nourishment into an act of self-love and service.
Perfect for those who:
Struggle with knowing what to eat for their body
Want to nourish others without depleting themselves
Seek to heal their relationship with food through ancient wisdom.
Awaken Your Peaceful Inner Warrior
Drawing from her own journey and experiences with both light and darkness, Ananta will empower empaths to overcome narcissistic abuse.
Learn essential practices to trust yourself in the face of gaslighting
Discover how to identify narcissists sooner than before
Gain the ability to define and maintain healthy boundaries
Includes trauma-informed practices approved for Yoga Alliance Continuing Education credits.
Spiritual Warrior Intensive: Become the Hero of Your Own Journey
Half-day (4 hours)
This is the deep dive. A soul-level initiation for those ready to face what's been hidden, reclaim their power, and rise as the embodied leaders their lives are calling forth. Rooted in trauma-informed care, ancient Indian goddess wisdom, and modern psychology, you'll journey through:
A Divine Feminine Hero's Journey & 9 Goddess Archetypes: Understanding where you are on the path and what powers await you within
Ayurvedic Yoga & Chakra Activation: Embodied movement to release stored trauma and activate your energy centers
Shadow Work & Emotional Alchemy: Guided journaling to meet your shadow self with compassion
Ayurvedic Psychology: Learning how emotions live in your body and how to process them with ancient wisdom
Medicinal Storytelling: Authoring your own life's script in community, no matter what you've been through
Transformation & Integration Rituals: Daily practices to continue your transformation beyond the immersion
Perfect for those who:
Have done therapy but still feel stuck
Are ready for soul-deep transformation
Know it's time to break free from intergenerational patterns
Organizations Ananta Has Served
MUNTU MBONSI, TRAINING SPECIALIST, Alameda County Juvenile Probation Department
“… What Ananta’s training allowed our staff was to be fed consistently. Over time, I think that helped their humanity grow and expand, because they were receiving tools for a higher personal quality of life. They are givers. They give a lot and they’re on guard, frontline a lot. As they saw the practices, tried the practices, got a chance to do it, they felt more fellowship, more family, and more of their natural personality came through versus their professional personality, which was awesome.”
PETER WASOWSKI, CEO, Vasper System used by Navy SEALSs, NASA, Olympic Athletes
“Ananta’s talk was extremely well presented. It was apparent you came from a beautiful space of love, sharing, and respect for your audience. I learned that food can be nourishing on a spiritual and physical plane when consumed communally, with conscience, focus, and above all, slowly… it transformed my experience of eating.”
CONTACT US
CONTACT US
You can request Ananta to speak at your organization by filling out the form below, or email her team at info@theancientway.co.
