The Cosmic Channel Maria Amiouni

5 years later, Layla and I sit down again to discuss all the incredible changes and shifts that have taken place in her life. From motherhood, to nutrition and intuitive eating, Layla and I spoke about how important it is to eat according to the season of life that we are in.

Last time her and I spoke at the end of 2019, she was pregnant with her first baby. Now, mother of two, Layla talks about the postpartum blues, how important it is to be disciplined at home when it comes to food and how she chooses to nourish her daughters.

There’s so much information out there in terms of what foods to eat and not eat. However, one key thing Layla mentions in this episode is that we need to move beyond just labelling foods as good and bad.What works for one person will not work for another. What is healthy for one person might be poison for another.

Understanding what your body needs is a journey in itself hopefully this conversation can shed light on what you need.Layla is a holistic nutritionist who went down this career path due to health issues of her own at a young age, she works one on one with women all over the world to better their overall health, well being and also healing their relationship with food.

Check Layla’s website: laylaalnaif.com or IG: @Layla.alnaif to learn more about her different nutrition offerings.

It’s been over 2 years since my last podcast episode and so much has transpired since. Moving to Dubai, publishing a poetry book, feeling more at home within myself than ever before, I feel like I’m in a new season of my life.

As someone that takes leaps of faith and likes to explores uncharted territories, I've become a lot more comfortable with the unknown. Digging deeper into the body, psyche emotions, there's so many gems and treasures that I feel called to sharing with you.

In this season, I want to take you to places you might not want to explore on your own. We’ll be exploring patterns, belief systems, breaking free from our conditioning, reclaiming more of our worth and power, as well as shadow work and Human Design.

As I’ve grown a lot these last 2 years, I’m sure you have too. There might have been moments of discomfort, uncertainty, chaos, doubt, and fear. To move from one way of being to another is not an easy process, but so worth it once you come out the other side.

In this very exciting episode, I got to speak with the inspiring, elegant and graceful Amina Taha. She is someone I have truly looked up to on my yoga journey and I feel so lucky to have been able to attend her classes in person and get to meet her. She is as sweet in person as she appears online. Her dedication to her own practice, her students, and building her career from scratch is inspirational and motivating. We got to talk about her own journey with yoga and how it led her down the path to teach.  Although it was not necessarily something she originally thought of doing, it has become her dharma to spread the teachings of yoga. Together we discuss some important yogic lessons such as overcoming limiting beliefs, meditation, and finding the answers within our own physical bodies. Many of us can fall off the bandwagon and stop practicing. We can get bored or injured which sometimes throws us off. However, Amina has been able to overcome these obstacles by finding new ways of moving her body and including that in her practice and in her classes. She now adds many Pilates and bare exercises to her practice in order to keep the spark going. At the moment she has been very focused on building her application in order to share her love of yoga with the world. She has applied many of the lessons from the yoga practice in all aspects of her life such as motherhood and womanhood.   mariaamiouni.com @maria.amiouni @thecosmicchannel -- Edited, Mastered and Distributed by sonorouslab.com

If you ever lost your faith, or find yourself losing faith quickly, this episode is for you. In this solo conversation, I share with you one of the most significant events in my life that took me further away from my trust in a Higher Power. I experienced grief for the first time a day after I turned 18 years old. I decided then & there that since my prayers weren’t answered, there was no such thing as a Higher Power. I felt betrayed, disappointed and mostly angry. For the years after that, I stopped believing in anything. I stopped praying. I went into complete darkness and found myself making poor life decisions. There isn’t one way to reconnect to our faith. For me, it was through meditation and yoga. It was through calming down the noise in my mind. Through opening up my heart. For others, it may be through prayer or immersing oneself in nature. Throughout our lives we may have moments of doubt, of confusion, of loss, of grief. We may have moments where we fall from grace and lose faith. Falling from grace just means we have certain beliefs about God, the Universe, Source (whatever it is you call it), that are against us. We believe that because things aren’t happening the way we asked them to that they aren’t right.In this episode, I share with you how I’ve been using my faith in order to navigate the new experiences in my life. Each moment is an opportunity to gravitate higher towards Love or lower towards Fear.   mariaamiouni.com @maria.amiouni @thecosmicchannel -- Edited, Mastered and Distributed by sonorouslab.com

I am so grateful to be able to share this episode with Razane Jammal during Mental Health Awareness month. Some of you may already know Razane as the Lebanese British actor starring in roles like Paranormal on Netflix. But how well do we know someone based on what they do? Who is Razane Jammal behind the scenes? Who is she when she is not in front of the cameras?   Razane and I met during a women’s circle I hosted in London. As all of us are, she is a multi-faceted woman with many different layers. She may be known for her acting career and breaking barriers, but she’s also deeply spiritual, wise and connected to a world beyond this one. This was one of the deepest episodes I’ve ever recorded as we spoke about the loss of her mother, feeling lonely and depressed. Razane is bold and has paved her own way despite all the trials and tribulations that life threw at her. These experiences she was willing to share with us allowed Razane to strengthen her connection and faith with the Universe. In this episode, we discussed profound spiritual teachings and insights that helped her find herself after the loss of her beautiful mother. We hope this episode brings you comfort & inspires you to find home again within yourself no matter how far away you may have wandered.   mariaamiouni.com @maria.amiouni @thecosmicchannel @razanejammal -- Edited and Mixed By sonorouslab.com

Do you sometimes wish you were somewhere else? Do you find the present moment boring, annoying, unfulfilling? Do you keep on postponing what you should be doing today, thinking you’ll do it tomorrow? In this episode, I share with you how I have been managing my move from London to Dubai. It has been interesting navigating such a different chapter in my life and I’ve found it very important to remain grounded. It is easy for us to feel uprooted when our external world changes. Yet, it is even more important to feel centered regardless of what is happening outside of us. In order to keep moving forward and not fall back into our old patterns, we must choose to keep evolving and applying the lessons we have learned along the way.  I want to encourage you all to do the things that light you up more often and to no longer let the past keep you from following your mission on this planet Earth. This podcast has always been a reminder for me to keep planting seeds in empty pots. To reach higher heights, as a human being and as a soul.   mariaamiouni.com @maria.amiouni @thecosmicchannel -- Edited and Mixed By sonorouslab.com