Akasha Uma

This is a Yoga Nidra meditation for women who want to start learning how to stay with the body, even when something unpleasant arises.Most of us were never taught how to fully feel. How to be in the body and stay there. This practice is one small step in building that capacity. Yoga Nidra is a guided meditation practice that works with the body's natural ability to process sensation, feeling and emotion. Each time you practice, you give your body a little more experience of staying. Over time, that builds trust. Trust that the body can hold what arises.I'm Nancy, Akashic Records practitioner and Yoga Nidra teacher. Listen to the Akasha Uma Podcast on Spotify and Apple Podcasts: search Akasha Uma.Start with episode 25: Twenty years of spiritual growth. Still exhausted. Here's why.This Yoga Nidra is also on Youtube.You can find me on Instagram: akasha.umaTopics: Yoga Nidra, Yoga Nidra meditation, guided meditation, nervous system, embodiment, somatic healing, self-discovery, women's spirituality, stress relief, relaxation, healing meditation.Music: Chris Collins - indiemusicbox.com

You lie down. You press play. That's it.In this episode I explain what Yoga Nidra is. Why it matters and what it can actually do. I share my own experience of the practice, what builds over time, and how it connects to the Akashic Records work I do.If you've been curious about Yoga Nidra this is a good place to start.I made a yoga nidra 'Staying With The Body'.You can find it on Youtube and on the podcast.Related episodes:1. What are the Akashic Records?⁠4. What actually happens in an Akashic Records reading and clearing.⁠⁠19. Not everyone is ready for an Akashic Records clearing25. Twenty years of spiritual growth. Still exhausted. Here’s why.28. I became a certified Yoga Nidra teacher. And I didn’t plan any of itYou can also find me on Instagram: ⁠akasha.uma⁠Topics covered: Yoga Nidra, non-sleep deep rest, NSDR, nervous system, Akashic Records, spiritual growth, embodiment, healing, women's spirituality, burnout.

Any conversation about the crown chakra is limited. It has to be experienced.In this episode I cover what the crown chakra actually is, what throws it out of balance, and something we have to talk about: the void stage. That moment when the connection goes quiet and you think something has gone wrong.Check out the whole series on the 7 primary chakra’s. Links below.Topics covered: crown chakra, Sahasrara, spiritual awakening, spiritual growth, intuition, higher consciousness, meditation, Akashic Records, women's spirituality, self-discovery, healing, nervous system, embodiment.11. ⁠Root chakra: why you can't go higher without going deeper first.⁠⁠14. Sacral chakra: wanting things is not the problem.⁠⁠17. Solar plexus chakra: you either collapse or control.⁠⁠20. Heart chakra: it's not about more love and light.⁠23. Throat chakra: are you speaking your truth or avoiding it?26. Third eye chakra: you knew. And then you talked yourself out of itYou can also find me on Instagram: ⁠akasha.uma⁠

I became a certified Yoga Nidra teacher. And I want to share how this came to be. And surprise, surprise: it involves the body. It’s about the gap I noticed, the promise I made to myself after five burnouts, and what happens when you actually follow the body instead of just talking about it.I also share how Yoga Nidra and Akashic Records work together. And why for me, having both finally makes the whole thing make sense.Topics covered: Yoga Nidra, Yoga Nidra teacher, Akashic Records, spiritual growth, burnout, embodiment, nervous system, body wisdom, self-discovery, women's spirituality, healing, patterns, soul purpose.Related episodes:1. What are the Akashic Records?⁠4. What actually happens in an Akashic Records reading and clearing.⁠⁠19. Not everyone is ready for an Akashic Records clearingYou can also find me on Instagram: ⁠akasha.uma⁠

What if the pattern that keeps showing up, the dynamic that repeats, the thing you've worked on for years and it's still there, what if none of it is random?In this episode I share what I believe is at the root of a lot of spiritual exhaustion. And why understanding this one thing changes everything about how you approach the hard stuff in your life.Topics covered: soul purpose, soul journey, energetic stagnation, light body, past lives, ancestral healing, Akashic Records, spiritual growth, spiritual awakening, patterns, self-discovery, women's spirituality, healing.Related episodes:1. What are the Akashic Records?⁠4. What actually happens in an Akashic Records reading and clearing.⁠⁠19. Not everyone is ready for an Akashic Records clearingYou can also find me on Instagram: ⁠akasha.uma⁠

Most people don't have trouble accessing their intuition. They have trouble trusting it.There's a difference. And it changes everything about how you work with the third eye chakra.In this episode I explore what actually destabilizes this center, why illusion is more practical than it sounds, and why the third eye needs a solid foundation before it can see clearly.Topics covered: third eye chakra, intuition, illusion, pattern recognition, spiritual growth, self-discovery, embodiment, women's spirituality, Akashic Records, healing, psychic abilities.Related episodes:1. What are the Akashic Records?⁠4. What actually happens in an Akashic Records reading and clearing.⁠11. ⁠Root chakra: why you can't go higher without going deeper first.⁠14. Sacral chakra: wanting things is not the problem.⁠17. Solar plexus chakra: you either collapse or control.⁠⁠19. Not everyone is ready for an Akashic Records clearing⁠20. Heart chakra: it's not about more love and light.⁠23. Throat chakra: are you speaking your truth or avoiding it?You can also find me on Instagram: ⁠akasha.uma⁠

In this episode I share my own origin story. How five burnouts, chronic migraine, and one moment standing in my kitchen finally showed me what I had been missing for 20 years on my spiritual journey.I talk about growing up lonely, learning that being good was how you earned love, and how those patterns didn't disappear when I found spirituality. They just found more sophisticated clothing.This episode is for the woman who has been doing the inner work for years and still feels stuck. Who has all the knowledge but can't understand why it hasn't landed. Who is living more in her head than in her body, and doesn't fully realize it yet.What I share in this episode is not a success story. It's an honest look at how survival patterns follow us even into the places we thought were safe.Topics covered: spiritual burnout, body awareness, living in your head, survival patterns in spirituality, the good girl pattern, nervous system, embodiment, Akashic Records.Related episodes:1. What are the Akashic Records?⁠4. What actually happens in an Akashic Records reading and clearing.⁠7. The light body: why you feel stuck even when you’re doing everything right15. You’re so strong. You’re so spiritual. Why haven’t you figured it out yet?16. 18 years with a spiritual mentor and I slowly stopped trusting myself⁠19. Not everyone is ready for an Akashic Records clearingYou can also find me on Instagram: ⁠akasha.uma⁠

In this episode I talk about why the body is such an important part of the spiritual path, especially for women. I also share how it took me five burnouts before I finally started listening to the wisdom of my own body.Related episodes:1. What are the Akashic Records?⁠4. What actually happens in an Akashic Records reading and clearing8. How chronic migraine became my greatest teacher15. You’re so strong. You’re so spiritual. Why haven’t you figured it out yet?16. 18 years with a spiritual mentor and I slowly stopped trusting myself19. Not everyone is ready for an Akashic Records clearingYou can also find me on Instagram: ⁠akasha.uma⁠

Most of us think we're being honest. But there's the yes that should have been a no. The over-explaining that goes on a little too long. The truth you quietly reshaped before it left your mouth.In this episode I explore the throat chakra and the one thing that destabilizes it most. Not the obvious dishonesty. The subtle kind that's so normalized you don't even notice it anymore.Topics covered: throat chakra, authenticity, truth, boundaries, people pleasing, self-expression, spiritual growth, self-discovery, embodiment, women's spirituality, Akashic Records.Related episodes:⁠1. What are the Akashic Records?⁠⁠4. What actually happens in an Akashic Records reading and clearing⁠7. The light body: why you feel stuck even when you're doing everything right⁠11. Root chakra: why you can't go higher without going deeper first14. Sacral chakra: wanting things is not the problem17. Solar plexus chakra: you either collapse or control19. Not everyone is ready for an Akashic Records clearing20. Heart chakra: it's not about more love and lightYou can also find me on Instagram: ⁠akasha.uma

Most women don't think of themselves as people pleasers. They think of themselves as kind, easy to be around, good with people.But there's a moment. A tiny contraction in the body. Right before the mouth says yes.In this episode I explore what's actually happening in that moment, and why it's quietly one of the most exhausting things we do.Topics covered: people pleasing, self-abandonment, boundaries, nervous system, burnout, embodiment, spiritual growth, self-discovery, body awareness, women's spirituality.Related episodes:1. What are the Akashic Records?⁠4. What actually happens in an Akashic Records reading and clearing⁠7. The light body: why you feel stuck even when you're doing everything right⁠⁠11. Root chakra: why you can't go higher without going deeper first⁠⁠14. Sacral chakra: wanting things is not the problem⁠15. You're so strong. You're so spiritual. Why haven't you figured it out yet?⁠⁠17. Solar plexus chakra: you either collapse or control⁠⁠19. Not everyone is ready for an Akashic Records clearing.⁠⁠⁠20. Heart chakra: it's not about more love and light⁠You can also find me on Instagram: ⁠akasha.uma⁠

At some point on the spiritual journey something shifts. The practices that once felt freeing start to feel like pressure. The language that once brought relief starts to sound like another set of rules.In this episode I share what I noticed when I finally looked at how I was practicing spirituality and what I found uncomfortable about it.Topics covered: spiritual growth, spiritual awakening, self-discovery, embodiment, burnout, spirituality and ego, women's spirituality, patterns, healing.Related episodes:⁠⁠1. What are the Akashic Records?⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠4. What actually happens in an Akashic Records reading and clearing⁠⁠8. How chronic migraine became my biggest teacher12. Why spiritual growth quietly turns into spiritual superiority13. Why chasing your soul purpose is keeping you stuck⁠⁠⁠15. You're so strong. You're so spiritual. Why haven't you figured it out yet?⁠⁠⁠16. 18 years with a spiritual mentor and I slowly stopped trusting myself19. Not everyone is ready for an Akashic Records clearingYou can also find me on Instagram: ⁠akasha.uma

Most heart chakra content talks about love, compassion and opening up.This episode goes somewhere different.Because the main energy that destabilizes the heart chakra isn't a lack of love. It's grief. The kind that was never allowed to be felt.In this episode I explore what the heart chakra is actually about and what it takes to bring it back into balance.Topics covered: heart chakra, grief, self-love, self-acceptance, boundaries, embodiment, spiritual growth, spiritual awakening, Akashic Records, women's spirituality, healing.Related episodes:⁠⁠1. What are the Akashic Records?⁠⁠⁠⁠4. What actually happens in an Akashic Records reading and clearing⁠7. The light body: why you feel stuck even when you're doing everything right⁠⁠11. Root chakra: why you can't go higher without going deeper first⁠14. Sacral chakra: wanting things is not the problem⁠17. Solar plexus chakra: you either collapse or control⁠19. Not everyone is ready for an Akashic Records clearingYou can also find me on Instagram: akasha.uma

An Akashic Records clearing is not a quick fix. It's not there to bypass your feelings or remove the hard stuff so you don't have to feel it.It's deep energetic work. And it works best when the timing is right.In this episode I share the signs that tell you when you're ready for this kind of work and what readiness actually means.Topics covered: Akashic Records, Akashic Records clearing, energetic healing, spiritual growth, self-discovery, embodiment, nervous system, women's spirituality, healing, spiritual awakening.Relevant episodes:1. What are the Akashic Records?4. What actually happens in an Akashic Records reading and clearing7. The light body: why you feel stuck even when you're doing everything right18. Witch wounding: how past persecution still lives in the bodyYou can also find me on Instagram: akasha.uma

You feel drawn to spirituality. You sense you have something to share. And at the same time there is this persistent fear around being seen.It's not weakness. It might be witch wounding.In this episode I explore what witch wounding is, how it shows up in the body and in daily life, and why healing it starts with safety rather than forcing yourself to be visible.Topics covered: witch wounding, past lives, Akashic Records, embodiment, nervous system, root chakra, sacral chakra, solar plexus, spiritual growth, women's spirituality, healing, self-discovery.Related episodes:⁠⁠⁠1. What are the Akashic Records?⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠4. What actually happens in an Akashic Records reading and clearing7. The light body: why you feel stuck even when you're doing everything right⁠⁠11. Root chakra: why you can't go higher without going deeper first⁠⁠14. Sacral chakra: wanting things is not the problem⁠⁠17. Solar plexus chakra: you either collapse or control⁠⁠19. Not everyone is ready for an Akashic Records clearing20. Heart chakra: it's not about more love and lightYou can also find me on Instagram: akasha.uma

The solar plexus chakra often gets skipped in spiritual work because it's associated with the ego. But avoiding it doesn't create balance. It creates a different kind of stuckness.In this episode I explore the solar plexus chakra, why shame is the main energy that destabilizes it, and what it actually looks like when this center is out of balance.Topics covered: solar plexus chakra, personal power, shame, ego, self-esteem, boundaries, spiritual growth, self-discovery, embodiment, Akashic Records, women's spirituality.Links to previous episodes:1. What are the Akashic Records?⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠4. What actually happens in an Akashic Records reading and clearing⁠7. The light body: why you feel stuck even when you're doing everything right⁠⁠⁠11. Root chakra: why you can't go higher without going deeper first⁠⁠14. Sacral chakra: wanting things is not the problem⁠⁠17. Solar plexus chakra: you either collapse or control⁠⁠19. Not everyone is ready for an Akashic Records clearing20. Heart chakra: it's not about more love and lightYou can also find me on Instagram: akasha.uma

Working with a spiritual mentor can be one of the most supportive things you do on your path. It can also quietly become the place where your old survival patterns find a new home.In this episode I share what I noticed after 18 years with the same mentor and the question I had to finally ask myself: do I feel free in this relationship or do I feel afraid?Topics covered: spiritual mentor, sovereignty, spiritual growth, self-discovery, embodiment, nervous system, burnout, women's spirituality, Akashic Records, healing, emotional responsibility.Related episodes:⁠1. What are the Akashic Records?⁠⁠⁠4. What actually happens in an Akashic Records reading and clearing⁠7. The light body: why you feel stuck even when you're doing everything right13. Why chasing your soulpurpose is keeping you stuck⁠⁠15. You're so strong. You're so spiritual. Why haven't you figured it out yet?⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠19. Not everyone is ready for an Akashic Records clearing.⁠⁠⁠You can also find me on Instagram: akasha.uma

Someone said something to me that was meant as a compliment. It felt like a punch.In this episode I explore what happens when women get praised for the very things that are costing them the most. And why spirituality can quietly become another place to be strong, perform, and get it right.Topics covered: spiritual burnout, perfectionism, burnout, spiritual growth, embodiment, nervous system, self-discovery, women's spirituality, healing, Akashic Records, body awareness.Listen some more:⁠⁠1. What are the Akashic Records?⁠⁠2. Where your soul came from and where it's going⁠⁠⁠4. What actually happens in an Akashic Records reading and clearing⁠⁠⁠7. The light body: why you feel stuck even when you're doing everything right⁠⁠13. Why chasing your soulpurpose is keeping you stuck⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠19. Not everyone is ready for an Akashic Records clearingFind me on Instagram: akasha.uma

Most of us learned somewhere along the way that wanting things was a problem. Too much desire. Too needy. Too much.In this episode I explore the sacral chakra and the one energy that destabilizes it most: guilt. Specifically guilt around desire, pleasure and allowing yourself to actually want things.Topics covered: sacral chakra, desire, guilt, pleasure, self-forgiveness, shadow work, embodiment, spiritual growth, self-discovery, women's spirituality, Akashic Records, healing.Other episodes:⁠⁠1. What are the Akashic Records?⁠⁠⁠⁠4. What actually happens in an Akashic Records reading and clearing7. The light body: why you feel stuck even when you're doing everything right⁠11. Root chakra: why you can't go higher without going deeper first⁠14. Sacral chakra: wanting things is not the problem⁠17. Solar plexus chakra: you either collapse or control⁠19. Not everyone is ready for an Akashic Records clearing⁠20. Heart chakra: it's not about more love and lightI'm also on Instagram: @akasha.uma

The most common question people bring to the Akashic Records is: what is my soul purpose?In this episode I explore what happens when that question becomes a way to avoid what life is actually asking of you right now. I also share my own experience of pushing purpose too soon and what it cost me.Topics covered: soul purpose, Akashic Records, spiritual growth, spiritual awakening, self-discovery, embodiment, healing, women's spirituality, burnout, body awareness.Related episodes:⁠1. What are the Akashic Records?⁠⁠⁠4. What actually happens in an Akashic Records reading and clearing⁠⁠⁠7. The light body: why you feel stuck even when you're doing everything right⁠⁠⁠⁠15. You're so strong. You're so spiritual. Why haven't you figured it out yet?⁠⁠16. 18 years with a spiritual mentor and I slowly stopped trusting myself⁠⁠⁠19. Not everyone is ready for an Akashic Records clearing21. How is clinging to spirituality any different to clinging to anything else?Find me on Instagram: akasha.uma

The deeper you go on your spiritual path, the more you start seeing patterns. In yourself. And in everyone around you.That's where it gets tricky.In this episode I reflect on what happens when awareness quietly turns into judgment and why that's the moment your growth stalls.Topics covered: spiritual ego, spiritual growth, sovereignty, self-discovery, judgment, humility, Akashic Records, embodiment, women's spirituality, healing.Related episodes:⁠⁠1. What are the Akashic Records?⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠4. What actually happens in an Akashic Records reading and clearing⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠7. The light body: why you feel stuck even when you're doing everything right⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠15. You're so strong. You're so spiritual. Why haven't you figured it out yet?⁠⁠⁠⁠16. 18 years with a spiritual mentor and I slowly stopped trusting myself⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠19. Not everyone is ready for an Akashic Records clearing⁠⁠21. How is clinging to spirituality any different to clinging to anything else?Find me on Instagram: ⁠akasha.uma⁠

A lot of spiritual practice focuses on going up. Higher consciousness, higher dimensions, higher frequency.But if your foundation isn't stable, none of that lands.In this episode I explore the root chakra, why fear is the main energy that destabilizes it, and why this is the chakra most spiritual people skip and most need.Topics covered: root chakra, fear, grounding, nervous system, safety, spiritual growth, spiritual awakening, embodiment, self-discovery, women's spirituality, Akashic Records, healing.Links to previous episodes:Understanding the light bodyWhat are the Akashic Records?Akashic Records readings and clearingsFind me on Instagram: akasha.uma

It feels good to be seen. To have space held for you. To know your voice matters.But is it actually something we need? Or is something else going on?In this episode I explore the need to be seen and heard from a spiritual perspective and what those moments of feeling invisible are actually asking of us.Topics covered: being seen and heard, spiritual growth, self-discovery, soul contracts, embodiment, energetic responsibility, women's spirituality, Akashic Records, healing, spiritual awakening.Find me on Instagram: ⁠akasha.uma⁠

You've heard "feel the fear and do it anyway." But what does that actually look like in practice?In this episode I explore the queen archetype as a way to move from fear and self-doubt into sovereignty. I share what queen energy actually is, where it goes wrong, and how to start working with it in your daily life.Topics covered: queen archetype, sovereignty, fear, self-doubt, boundaries, personal power, spiritual growth, self-discovery, feminine energy, women's spirituality, Akashic Records.More about the Akashic Records.How to get information from your Akashic Records: readings and clearings.Find me on Instagram: ⁠akasha.uma⁠

I ignored the signs for months. Then everything collapsed.In this episode I share how chronic migraine brought my entire life to a halt and slowly became the thing that changed everything. Including the moment I stopped fighting it and started talking to it instead.Topics covered: chronic migraine, chronic illness, spiritual growth, burnout, acceptance, surrender, embodiment, body wisdom, self-discovery, women's spirituality, healing, nervous system.Episode on ⁠what the Akashic Records are⁠. And here's an episode on ⁠the work we can do in the Akashic Records: readings & clearings.⁠Find me on Instagram: ⁠akasha.uma⁠

You're doing the work. You're showing up. And something still feels like it's not moving.In this episode I explain what the light body is, how energetic stagnation builds up in the different layers of the light body, and why this is often what's underneath that persistent feeling of being stuck.Topics covered: light body, energetic bodies, energetic stagnation, Akashic Records, spiritual growth, self-discovery, embodiment, nervous system, healing, women's spirituality, chakras, grounding.Episode 4: Akashic Records readings & clearingsEpisode 1: What are the Akashic Records?Find me on Instagram: ⁠akasha.uma⁠

The spiritual journey gets talked about in terms of expansion, growth and higher frequencies.What gets talked about less is the grief. The relationships that end. The identities that fall away. The losses that nobody warned you about.In this episode I make space for that part of the journey.Topics covered: spiritual growth, spiritual awakening, grief, letting go, self-discovery, relationships, spiritual journey, women's spirituality, healing, embodiment.In episode 4: Akashic Records readings and clearings I talk about energetic stagnation.Episode on ⁠what the Akashic Records are⁠. Find me on Instagram: ⁠akasha.uma⁠

What if you could ask the Akashic Records directly what they want humanity to know right now?In this episode I did exactly that. These are the 12 teachings that came through.Topics covered: Akashic Records, spiritual growth, spiritual awakening, divine order, soul purpose, self-discovery, surrender, healing, women's spirituality, trust, inner guidance.Learn more about the Akashic Records in episode 1: What are the Akashic Records? And episode 4: Akashic Records readings & healing is about how you can get guidance from the Akashic Records.Find me on Instagram: ⁠akasha.uma⁠

Curious about Akashic Records but not sure what a reading or clearing actually involves?In this episode I walk you through both. What happens, what to expect, what your guides can and can't do, and why the last step of any clearing always belongs to you.Topics covered: Akashic Records, Akashic Records reading, Akashic Records clearing, energetic healing, spiritual growth, soul evolution, self-discovery, women's spirituality, healing, past lives, soul contracts.For more on what the Akashic Records are, listen to episode 1. An overview of the soul's journey is covered in episode 2.Find me on Instagram: ⁠akasha.uma⁠

There's always a door. You know it leads somewhere true. And there's always a lion in front of it.In this episode I explore why the next step on our path so often feels like danger, and what happens when we walk through anyway.Topics covered: fear, surrender, spiritual growth, spiritual awakening, letting go, self-discovery, inner guidance, women's spirituality, healing, soul evolution.Thanks for listening!Episode on ⁠what the Akashic Records are⁠. And here's an episode on ⁠the work we can do in the Akashic Records: readings & clearings.⁠Find me on Instagram: ⁠akasha.uma⁠

Before you incarnated, your soul made choices. About what to experience, what to clear, what to remember.In this episode I share my perspective on the soul's journey from Source into human form and back again, and how this connects to what the Akashic Records can see about your path.Topics covered: soul journey, Akashic Records, soul evolution, past lives, spiritual growth, spiritual awakening, source energy, self-discovery, women's spirituality, healing.And I share how this connects to what I talked about in episode 1 — the big picture perspective the Akashic Records have of the soul.And here's an episode on ⁠the work we can do in the Akashic Records: readings & clearings.⁠Find me on Instagram: ⁠akasha.uma⁠

You may have heard of the Akashic Records but aren't quite sure what they actually are or how they work.In this first episode I explain what the Akashic Records are, who the guides are that assist us there, and what kind of work is possible inside them.Topics covered: Akashic Records, Akashic Records explained, soul journey, past lives, spiritual growth, spiritual awakening, energetic healing, self-discovery, women's spirituality, soul evolution, intuition.How to get information from your Akashic Records: readings and clearings.And here's an episode on ⁠the light body.You can also find me on Instagram: akasha.uma