087 Embracing the Journey: Healing and Transformation with Azra Ladora

Welcome to The Scrumptious Woman! I’m thrilled to welcome Azra Ladora, a wonderful blend of a truth seeker, mother, and medicine woman, where neuroscience, spirituality, and Ayurvedic medicine converge. Join us as we explore Azra's fascinating journey of transformation and healing.

Summary: Azra Ladora shares her incredible story of overcoming abuse and finding her true path through various healing modalities. Her journey from chaos to clarity involved yoga, meditation, psychotherapy, and a deep dive into the subconscious mind. Azra discusses the pivotal moments that led her to embrace Vedic meditation and Ayurveda, and how these practices have shaped her life and work.

Key Takeaways:

1. Transformative Power of Healing: Azra’s journey highlights the importance of recognising the need for change and taking steps towards healing, even in the midst of chaos.
2. Vedic Meditation and Ayurveda: Discover how these ancient practices can purify the nervous system, balance the body, and connect you to your soul’s mission.
3. Holistic Approach: Healing isn't just about one aspect; it involves taking care of the body, mind, and spirit. Azra’s fusion of different modalities creates a comprehensive approach to wellness.
4. Emotional Intelligence: Understanding and processing emotions is crucial in releasing trauma and fostering personal growth.
5. Motherhood and Healing: Azra shares how her healing journey has positively impacted her children, teaching them self-trust and intuition.
6. Continual Journey: Healing is an ongoing process. Azra’s story encourages us to show ourselves grace and embrace the journey of self-discovery and growth.

Join us for this enlightening conversation that delves into the depths of emotional and spiritual healing, and learn how you can apply these insights to your own life.

Thank you for tuning in! If Azra’s story resonated with you, or if you have any questions, feel free to reach out and connect with her through the links below. Until next time, keep embracing your journey to wholeness.

Azra's Links:

• Azra Ladora Instagram
• Conscious Women Collective Facebook Group
• Azra Ladora Linktree

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Transcript

The Scrumptious Woman EP87

[00:00:00] Juliette Karaman: Welcome to the scrumptious woman. I have with me Azra Ladora, a fabulous woman. So she's a mixture between a mother, a truth seeker. I love that. I had to like double check my notes because I loved how you wrote it. A truth seeker, mother, medicine woman, and really where neuro science and spirituality and Ayurvedic medicine come together.

[00:00:31] Juliette Karaman: Did I say that right? Yes. Welcome. And I'd love you to explain in your own words. It's Yeah, it sounds amazing. But what is it that brought you here? How? Because there's a lot of truth seek and a lot of magic woman in you, right? And with the signs intermix, what brought you here?

[00:00:50] Juliette Karaman: How did you get to do what you're doing now? 

[00:00:54] Azra Ladora: I'm one of them. And I think this goes to so many women that I connect with. It's like the experience of the contrast and going through a time in my life where it was really painful, not knowing how I ended up in such a mess. I was subject to abuse.

[00:01:16] Azra Ladora: for about five years and it started with emotional, psychological, eventually went into physical and I decided to break free eventually. 

[00:01:28] Juliette Karaman: Yes. Congratulating you because it's not that easy, right? We don't see it when we're right in the middle of it. 

[00:01:36] Azra Ladora: That's it. That's it. And you're just, in this sort of chaos and mess and emotionally unstable and everything is just happening and you don't know how you end up in the way you've ended up.

[00:01:50] Azra Ladora: So my wake up call was, I remember having this very specific thought and now that I look back, it was also a feeling and I would say it was a moment of soul speaking through me. And that thought was, There's got to be more to me. It's got to be more to life. This can't be it. 

[00:02:13] Juliette Karaman: So really like almost like that dark night of the soul, right?

[00:02:18] Juliette Karaman: That almost hitting like rock bottom. I see a lot of us had to almost get to that point. 

[00:02:25] Azra Ladora: Yes. And it's amazing, isn't it? It's like we speak about these things now, we look back on them and we can zoom out and have a sort of more universal and spiritual and emotional and all the levels that we are in a multi dimensional, beings that we are, we can look zoom out and see.

[00:02:50] Azra Ladora: So many ways to it and how it becomes our medicine. But when we're in it and we're going through it, it's a it's a whole, like it's chaos. And so that thought and that feeling was my break free point. And all I knew that things had to change. It wasn't sustainable. And I also had two little ones, right?

[00:03:16] Azra Ladora: So it's that responsibility that you feel as a mother and that awareness that I did have in the moment. I thought if I'm like this, like how do I become the role model? How do I lead? Really need to pick myself up. And so it became a journey of starting from yoga, meditation.

[00:03:38] Azra Ladora: I did actually attend therapy for a year with a psychotherapist and kind of planted the seed of becoming fascinated with the mind. And what was it, all this sort of subconscious mind and everything else. And so everything just started. It's like a domino, right? Once we start, One, like we drop one, the rest starts to fall into place.

[00:04:04] Azra Ladora: And so it became a journey of buying, buying books, the secret, such a common denominator, right? The secret, I hear this so much and it's like amazing because it was one of the books I bought. I bought books from Osho, from, and I started. investigating myself. And I knew that I really needed to go through this journey of getting to know myself 

[00:04:34] Juliette Karaman: and 

[00:04:34] Azra Ladora: getting to the root cause of things.

[00:04:37] Juliette Karaman: It's and I love how you say that whatever tools you had at your disposal, and books are a really easy way and podcasts like now podcasts are so big, right? YouTube, whatever it is that you have that you're just like, Okay, I can change, I can, I know other people have done it, I'm going to look and see and find that evidence that other people have gotten out of the situation, a similar situation.

[00:05:03] Juliette Karaman: So I know that I'm not the only one. out there that's going through that. And that often is already really comforting, right? Where it's okay, I'm not the only one. And it's not my world is not so small that, I am the only one, but it's like, Oh, lots of other people go through this.

[00:05:18] Juliette Karaman: Good. Let's have a look what the body connection is, what the mind connection is. And then it is a domino effect, right? One thing it's like a path. I call it like, like the breadcrumbs. All of a sudden you see the bread. comes and they like start appearing and you're like, whoa, what am I doing next? And then there's a little breadcrumb.

[00:05:37] Juliette Karaman: You're like, okay, that's the next first step I'm going to take, because I don't know where the next step is going to be. 

[00:05:44] Azra Ladora: Yes. Yes. And I think what was really profound for me was I remember the year 2012, I was having a coffee with a mum. And we were just chatting away and she said, Oh, have you heard of Vedic meditation?

[00:05:57] Azra Ladora: I said, what's that? And so she spoke about it and I was like, okay I'm doing everything that I can. What have I got to lose? So I signed up. I didn't even look into it. It was two weeks. later I was on the course. 

[00:06:14] Juliette Karaman: Love it. And 

[00:06:15] Azra Ladora: what was really fascinating for me was when I went to learn this particular tool, technique, to 

[00:06:21] Juliette Karaman: call 

[00:06:22] Azra Ladora: it it was delivered with a ceremony.

[00:06:26] Azra Ladora: So I walked into a room and I, it was like a, there was a table there with candles and A teacher was standing there and they called it initiation. I didn't even know what that meant. But I remember being given at the end of the ceremony a sound mantra, they call them, frequency, and a white handkerchief, pure white, a rose, a flower, and an apple.

[00:06:54] Azra Ladora: And so he looked at me and said the white handkerchief represents the purification of the nervous system. I didn't know anything. I thought what, I didn't understand what that meant, but when we start to purify the nervous system and release the imprints from our bodies, from our past life experiences, life starts to blossom and he handed me the flower and then we start to feel fulfilled and he handed me the apple.

[00:07:25] Juliette Karaman: I love it. To quench your thirst or whatever, to bite into the apple of life. I love it. 

[00:07:32] Azra Ladora: So that was a really defining moment for me, like my path onto the next level of going into Ayurveda, which is interlinked with the system, very much about the body and purifying the body and taking care of the body and how, and the mind.

[00:07:51] Azra Ladora: And of course Being connected to our soul mission because it ultimately comes down to that, that our spirit is looking to express itself. 

[00:08:03] Juliette Karaman: And I love that where, so I also see and I, yeah, I'm sure a lot of our listeners who are listening to this have experience in this and recognize that moment that you said no to the abuse what was happening.

[00:08:18] Juliette Karaman: It was actually a moment that happened for you. So often we can go into the victim's Oh my God, look at what, I've got abused all my, during my relationship and look at how terrible life was, but you actually recognize it. It's okay, this is my wake up call. And from there on that domino just started, the domino effect just started and it just took you on this beautiful journey.

[00:08:42] Juliette Karaman: Wow. And I love that initiation. So Nervous system. I heard that you're like, the heck is that? What do you mean? It's a term that gets thrown around so much. You're nervous system this, you're nervous system that. It's my, nervous system, has been two of these words that get thrown around a lot the last probably five or seven years.

[00:09:04] Azra Ladora: Yes. Yes. And yet the, the great seers, great teachers of ascended masters knew about this back then. Isn't that amazing? And it almost feels like to me that this knowledge is coming to light under a new sort of filtration of teachings. And it's wonderful. It's beautiful that there's all these different modalities.

[00:09:30] Azra Ladora: that, that comes to that sort of same thing of the nervous system. But yes, like you said, I was clueless, absolutely 

[00:09:40] Juliette Karaman: clueless. And it's interesting, right? Because you look at all the teaching and a lot of the science now has been pulled into it and about the nervous system and yes, Stephen Porcus, and you have all these other incredible people that have really studied it in detail.

[00:09:55] Juliette Karaman: But like you say, you look at the yogis and you look at people. 1500, whatever, how many hundreds of years ago that we're actually teaching this and they might and, even if you look at drawings of trees and the roots and how that is our nervous system, we just haven't realized it's actually in our body as well.

[00:10:18] Azra Ladora: Yes, and I remember one of my teachers saying how the nervous system is the gateway to experiencing Source, God, Divine, in, in the human experience. And it it's like a confirmation, isn't it, how we are so multidimensional and how we are created in this perfect vessel.

[00:10:41] Azra Ladora: despite what happens to us, the experiences that we have regardless, we are connected, we are created in this perfect vessel to emanate that. And I genuinely believe that all the things that we go through are there to bring us home.

[00:11:02] Juliette Karaman: Yeah, and it's bring us home to ourselves in our bodies and in connection to Source, to God, to the universe, what your higher power, however you want to call it. And I know a lot of people get triggered when I say God no, don't believe in religions. This doesn't have to be religion, it could be spiritual, it could be your communion with yourself.

[00:11:27] Juliette Karaman: Whatever it is, just believing that there is something out there and that we are in different dimensions. Yeah, looking at the movie The Matrix, all of a sudden things do start making a bit of sense. And if you look at holographic pictures, it's 

[00:11:42] Azra Ladora: ah, yes. Yes. Yes, and how our brain and our bodies and like our nervous system, how it's all involved in the process and what we eat, how we look after ourselves and everything is just like a it's so powerful and it's a medicine in itself.

[00:12:01] Azra Ladora: For me, it's If I didn't go through all those things, I wouldn't have come home to all of this. Of course, we need to make the choice, right? That's where we take the radical responsibility. Otherwise, nothing happens if we don't. 

[00:12:14] Juliette Karaman: Completely. And I love this. So you went and then studied the whole science of the brain, body, and connecting it to spirituality.

[00:12:26] Juliette Karaman: How do you use this? with your clients and in your everyday life. 

[00:12:31] Azra Ladora: So it's like a, it's like a weaving of the practice of the sound frequency that I've learned and how that creates the coherence in the brain which really became so fascinating to me when I went on the retreats and we were meditating 30 people coming together and doing the same practice and it's so powerful.

[00:12:59] Azra Ladora: It was so settling, so like really bringing you down into the body. And I heard something called brainwave coherence at the time. And it's a weaving of bringing the biochemical Body, so what we eat, how we, what time we eat, how we take care of the vessel. And we all have different sort of body blueprints, if you want to call them.

[00:13:23] Azra Ladora: And which are, which is like the system where the elements You know the five elements, it's a bit like Chinese medicine, the reading of the elements and seeing, have I got more fire in me? Have I got more water in me? What is happening in the body, which all interconnects with how we respond to stress.

[00:13:42] Azra Ladora: So for an example, a fire type would be more wanting to control. An earth type would be one wanting to procrastinate because they feel heavy, they don't want to take the action. And so weaving this in with The the sound frequency practice that creates the coherence in the brain and the nervous system brings this medicine of healing and returning to wholeness.

[00:14:09] Azra Ladora: But what is really amazing is that we can't just focus on one thing. It's like, how do I say you can't just exercise or do the meditation or the nervous system regulation on its own and expect everything to just fall into place. It really is a journey, right? We have the emotional side of things, for an example, that come up.

[00:14:32] Azra Ladora: And so it's I call myself a fusion. I love that word because sometimes I don't know how I do what I do. I just bring these. Different teaching modalities infused with my intuition, and we take care of the body, we take care of the mind, and we take into account, of course the transformation what is it that you want to change?

[00:14:57] Azra Ladora: Why do you want to change? What is it that we want to change? I think there comes a great deal of wisdom when we can get clear on that. And sometimes that's not easy. That's why we go to mentors and we work with. With coaches and mentors, just be a guidance and assistance to us so we can come to that clarity and prepare our bodies, our minds, and take us as a whole on the journey.

[00:15:24] Azra Ladora: That is what my medicine's about and how I infuse it. 

[00:15:28] Juliette Karaman: I love it. And it's so true, right? Because if we think about an experience that we've had, every experience has four elements, I always call it. But the thing what loads it into our bodies and in our minds is the emotional component. What do we make it mean?

[00:15:48] Juliette Karaman: What meaning have we given, whatever it is, right? And it could be something as simple as oh, I walked outside when I was 12, my boobs were starting to grow, and I had a boy look at me and point at me. For some, that would just be like, big deal, not a, nothing happened. And for others, that would be like, Oh my God, he looked at me, my boobs are showing I was, too outgoing or, he's judging me.

[00:16:13] Juliette Karaman: And it's those mind fucks, right? And how do they then load into the body and create disease that we're not even aware of? But with either with sound frequency, or I use touch in the field as well, how we hold on to those energies in our field. And once we can. Get those to move, all of a sudden there's choice.

[00:16:38] Juliette Karaman: Energy flows easily and it's all of a sudden it's oh! I can now see what I might not have seen before, or my body can move in certain ways that I didn't realize it could. It's oh, there's freedom. There's coming back to home. There's coming back to me, to who I am. And then that is the whole frequency that changes.

[00:16:58] Juliette Karaman: And then everyone all of a sudden becomes attracted. The magnet goes on and all of a sudden you're visible. 

[00:17:05] Azra Ladora: Yes. Yes. And isn't it, as you were speaking, I was having a flashback of one of your spinal attunement sessions. The recent one that I experienced was very much for me in the heart area. Like I felt this expansion in the heart space and I'm sure the other women had different experiences.

[00:17:26] Azra Ladora: So that's amazing, isn't it? How our bodies know exactly what to do, what to release, what to let go of, when to let go of, providing we give it the right supportive guidance and nourishment and the medicine, whatever that looks like. So it could be that, we need to cry it out.

[00:17:48] Azra Ladora: We really need to get. tender and sit and really have a good cry. 

[00:17:55] Juliette Karaman: And that's how often it's the emotional part and a lot of it is emotional intelligence, right? It's can you listen to your body? Can you just actually love your body the way it is? And I have a whole program about this because there's so much body shame, right?

[00:18:10] Juliette Karaman: I used to be twice my size. I used to be 148 kilos. Massive, right? And for the longest time after that I lost half my body weight. I would just look at my body and I'd like still see it as a beached whale. It's like I actually couldn't see past all the faults that I would see with it. Wanting to change and wanting, and even when I was much thinner, I would still not, it still hadn't loaded in that actually it had changed.

[00:18:40] Juliette Karaman: And it's until you start really becoming aware of all those clues and allowing yourself to scream it out, to squeal it out, to dance it out, to, whatever, move it through us. Like an animal, when it gets frightened, it moves, it shakes. Yeah, it completes the trauma cycle, but us as humans, we get so stuck and it just, it gets blocked somewhere in the body.

[00:19:09] Juliette Karaman: So we really do need to move it through and it's difficult. Just when you start seeing that, and then also there's been so many studies done with the heart coherence, that when all of a sudden you open up the heart, how much healing starts happening, right? I've been to lots of Dr. Joe Dispenza, who teaches parts of this really well retreats, and you're in the room with two, three, between two and three thousand other participants.

[00:19:38] Juliette Karaman: All focusing on the heart mind connection and onto love and you have these people in front of you that are actually really ill and you actually, you see them change. 

[00:19:50] Azra Ladora: Isn't that amazing? Yeah. The unity, I always feel like there's unity here, isn't there? It's this is where we can unite, we can connect, like the language of love is one, and it's the same for each and every one of us, and that vibrates as such a powerful, frequency.

[00:20:09] Azra Ladora: As you were saying that, I was having this flashback of when I was attending my retreats, weekend retreats. I did about 15 of them, and I don't know how I got the childcare, the resources and everything at the time, but. But you did. But I did. And so it happened. I spent quite a lot of months, like a few months, having this great feeling, this blockage right here.

[00:20:38] Azra Ladora: And I, I was in contact with my teacher and we were Talking about it. And it's I remember him saying to me, your heart center's looking to open. It's healing. And I actually went through this phase of crying a lot. Like I was really crying it out. And I'm so grateful for the support and for the understanding because we can easily misinterpret Things like, crying or feeling rubbish when something is moving or when we're come, going through that transition of moving that sort of murky, the mud underneath the pond, right?

[00:21:18] Azra Ladora: When it starts to come up, it creates that murky feeling in the water until it settles. So That support meant the world to me, but also that's when I really felt the opening of the heart and it's still ongoing. It's like a, it's a journey, right? It's are we really ever done? Do we ever really fully heal our nervous system and become this sort of perfect?

[00:21:44] Juliette Karaman: It's so funny, right? You and I were talking about this just as you came on. You're saying, Oh, this whole week I wasn't feeling well. And this is the third time that we were trying that I'm trying to get on to the show. And it's been this weekend. It will have been a year that I started this. And I think we're on episode 80 something.

[00:22:04] Juliette Karaman: So I'm like, wow. It's also like, Where does resistance show up? And where do you trust yourself? enough to say, Hey, I'm noticing that this is resistance. This is interference. It's stuff that's actually trying to, I don't take my power away because that just feels very disempowering or keep me small.

[00:22:28] Juliette Karaman: But that's just Oh, it's just, trying to get in the way. And it's no, I actually know that I need to be on this. And my medicine, my frequency needs to be heard by the world. 

[00:22:38] Azra Ladora: Yes, absolutely. It's like the old trying to get hold. Come to play, isn't it? And it's the way it's I don't believe that the old completely dies and it's all like it disappears and vanishes.

[00:22:52] Azra Ladora: I felt a slight sort of thing of Oh, I did think about it for one second. Do I postpone? And I was like no. I know like I really need to be here today and have this conversation, but there you go. It's we keep, we bring ourselves home again and again. And again, and we become more aware of it and we become more equipped with it and we reach out for support when we need to reach out for support and we keep going.

[00:23:23] Juliette Karaman: And that's it. So I started this. Oop. Dropping my headphones around. I started this podcast cause I just felt we all have codes. We all have vibrations and carry them with us and especially in our voices. I recognize that I have codes in my voice that people need to hear. And the invitation is to bring people on that also have the same thing so that somewhere in the world, picks up on that, and then actually that activates the Activates something in them.

[00:23:56] Juliette Karaman: Gosh, it'd be good if I could speak English or any language at this moment. It's just, but it's so interesting now that I look at it. I actually, today I have three guests. You and then two others and the other two are, Same thing. I'm like, I'm not sure I can make it. And I was like, this is really interesting.

[00:24:16] Juliette Karaman: I've had this for about a month or so where people are counseling like, okay okay what's changing? What needs to come forth here? And it's, Just bringing awareness to it, not judging it. Just, okay, is there something in my field that I'm not that, yeah, that I can just bring a bit more love and a bit more awareness, a bit more tenderness to.

[00:24:38] Juliette Karaman: It's yeah it's a journey. It will continue to be a journey. 

[00:24:43] Azra Ladora: Yes. And I think that comes, we need to show ourselves grace. 

[00:24:49] Juliette Karaman: It's one of the things I say is would you be friends with someone who talks to you the way that you talk to yourself?

[00:24:56] Azra Ladora: Oh, I got chills when you said that. That was like very, whoo. Yes and I, and that has been hands on my heart. That's been one of the most challenging aspects of my journey is the noises up here which now I'm like, ah no. Like I I'm very equipped with it, much more aware of it.

[00:25:15] Azra Ladora: But when we do spiral, when we do, get caught up, can we have grace for ourselves? Because this journey is a huge unlearning process and it's not always easy.

[00:25:29] Juliette Karaman: If it were easy, everyone would do it, right? But, yeah. How does it, so you've got two sons, right? Yes. How has this journey affected them and what's rubbed off on them? 

[00:25:43] Azra Ladora: Oh wow, that's a very powerful question. It's there's, when I look back now at my motherhood journey, I can very clearly see that, Not only it's rubbed off to them, but they as the souls as the people, the children that came, I'm, they've also been teachers to me 

[00:26:03] Azra Ladora: In so many ways.

[00:26:06] Azra Ladora: But yes, when I look at my boys, both are very intuitive. You can't lie to them. It's you can't mess with them. They just know. They're very intuitive, very tuned in. And what I see in my my youngest we've gone through quite a bit of a journey past few years, is that there is this more self trust in them that I didn't have.

[00:26:33] Azra Ladora: And that is very wonderful to witness. They trust themselves. They know. And critical singers, for sure. Especially my youngest. Asks questions, which I think is very important. very powerful something that I often held myself back when I was little because I was too much. 

[00:26:59] Juliette Karaman: Who's heard that right?

[00:27:01] Azra Ladora: Yeah. I was too much. I knew too much. I wanted to know too much. It was all too much. And so it's lovely to break that pattern, right? And give them the space and the freedom to be themselves and he's seen me go on retreats, meditate, cry, do my practices, and so it's they've bathed in the consciousness and the frequency of my transformation, which is how we, we create the new, we pave the new, right?

[00:27:31] Azra Ladora: Because they are the future generation. Completely. Azra. 

[00:27:37] Juliette Karaman: Can you let our listeners know how they can get in contact with you? What do you do courses? Do you do one on one consultations? How can people work with you or how can they be in your world a little bit more? 

[00:27:50] Azra Ladora: So I do one on one consultations. I have my 90 minute rich body consultations that can Get in touch with me to book those.

[00:27:58] Azra Ladora: I open slots. Sometimes I have a break from them. I'm mainly on Instagram, Facebook. Facebook, I have a private community, the Conscious Women Collective, which I started a few months ago. And yes, there's my link tree on my bio, which which They can get updates on what I'm doing next. So yes, it's like I'm about to launch a liver revival, like a cleanse challenge that I'm feeling into.

[00:28:28] Azra Ladora: I, the liver journey is a whole other story, but I'm always tapping into what next, what can I bring next? And so Linktree, Facebook, Instagram. 

[00:28:39] Juliette Karaman: Love it. You actually also take people on a physical journey with what to eat, what to take out of their diet, and bring everything in, if I'm understanding with the liver cleanse. 

[00:28:52] Azra Ladora: Yes. It's the liver cleanse is more to help with the liver. Like it's more showing extra love to the liver and devising the foods and the sort of the medicine that's gonna, that's going to help with that. But yes, it's, my work is very much personalized.

[00:29:08] Azra Ladora: Absolutely. 

[00:29:09] Juliette Karaman: Love it. So everything will be in the show notes, so do have a look there and follow Azra and maybe become part of her community. And as always, please share this with any friends, any family, anyone that you just think, oh, they would get a little nugget out of this. Azra, it's been an absolute pleasure, my darling.

[00:29:31] Juliette Karaman: Thank you so much for coming on. 

[00:29:33] Azra Ladora: That pleasure is mine, Juliet. Thank you so much for this space, for what you have created, and yeah, it was an absolute honor to be here. Thank you. Thank you.