A DIVOted Talk on Empathy, Perception & the Practice of Seeing Clearly
💬 Quote from the Episode
“They are products of their environment — just like the people they judge are products of theirs.”
🌐 Description
In this introspective DIVOted Talk, Nicholas Wade Kimps explores empathy, judgment, and perception through the lenses of yoga philosophy and Ayurveda. Unpacking modern cultural dissonance, he reflects on how conditioning, imagination, and belief systems create the worlds we defend — and how awareness itself becomes an act of forgiveness.
📌 Show Notes
What if we could see clearly without needing to agree?
Nicholas dives into the tension between awareness and judgment, weaving Ayurvedic psychology, yogic philosophy, and modern reflection. He unpacks how our imagined worlds — built to protect us from pain — often become the walls that separate us from each other.
Through the principle of svādhyāya (self-study), he shows how forgiveness can arise naturally when we see clearly. Understanding someone’s conditioning doesn’t mean agreement — it means freedom from the need to fight it. This episode is a gentle invitation to look again, listen deeper, and find yourself within the stories you resist.
🔑 Highlights
🪞 Perception vs Reality — how conditioning shapes what we see
💔 Forgiveness as Awareness — seeing without shaming
🌿 Ayurvedic Insight — environment and time as teachers
🧘 Yoga & Svādhyāya — turning the lens inward
🔥 Imagination as Armor — protection vs prison
💬 Empathy in Action — context over condemnation
💭 Reflection Prompt
Where in your life could understanding someone’s environment soften your judgment without compromising your truth?
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A DIVOted Talk on Self-Forgiveness, Perspective & the Practice of Non-Attachment
💬 Quote from the Episode:
“Remember who you were isn’t who you are now — and you don’t have to keep looking back to that person to judge who you’ve become.”
🔍Description:
In this introspective DIVOted Talk, Nicholas Wade Kimps explores healing the echo of old beliefs through Ayurveda and yoga philosophy. Reflecting on growth, forgiveness, and self-awareness, he shares how movement and mindfulness help integrate past versions of ourselves into present wholeness. A powerful conversation on non-attachment and grace for the modern seeker.
📌 Show Notes:
What happens when your past self resurfaces in your memories — and you realize they were both right and wrong?
In this heart-centered episode, Nicholas Wade Kimps reflects on an old Facebook post and how the truths we once believed evolve through experience. Through the lens of yoga and Ayurveda, he examines how we can “take what we like and leave the rest” without judgment, learning to honor each version of ourselves that helped us get here.
You’ll hear insightful reflections on how beliefs form from environment and trauma, how our attachment to “being right” can block growth, and why healing requires integration, not erasure. Nicholas weaves together personal stories with yogic principles of non-attachment and Ayurvedic wisdom about balance and change — reminding listeners that grace and growth are mutual teachers.
A gentle invitation to forgive yourself, revisit your own “younger posts,” and celebrate the evolution of your awareness.
🔑 Highlights:
🪞 Self-Study (Svādhyāya): Using old memories as mirrors for awareness
🌿 Ayurvedic Perspective: Growth and grace as functions of alignment, not perfection
🔄 Integration over Erasure: Healing by honoring past selves as teachers
💫 Non-Attachment in Action: Demanding without being attached to outcomes
🧠 Mind, Body & Spirit: Recognizing how each seeks tethering during stress or change
🔥 Embodied Philosophy: How movement reveals truths the mind can’t see
💬 Reflection Prompt:
What part of your past self still needs your forgiveness — and what lesson might that version be trying to teach you today?
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💬 Quote from the Episode:
“Jerry-rigging is a function of survival—because sometimes you just have to get it done, or make it work, until you can truly fix it.”
🌐 Description:
In this thought-provoking DIVOted Talk, Nicholas Wade Kimps explores the metaphor of jerry-rigging life—how temporary fixes, coping mechanisms, and patchwork routines often reveal deeper truths about survival, wellness, and awareness. Rooted in yoga philosophy and Ayurveda, this episode invites reflection on when adaptation serves growth—and when it holds us back.
📌 Show Notes:
How often do you jerry-rig your life—just to keep it together?
In this reflective episode, Nicholas Wade Kimps dives into the art of “making do” through the lens of yoga, Ayurveda, and everyday life. From duct-taped mirrors to stacked yoga blocks, he explores how our makeshift solutions—both physical and emotional—mirror the deeper systems within us. Are we creating structure or merely holding things together until they fall apart?
Nicholas connects the metaphor to Ayurveda’s call for systemic clarity and yoga’s invitation to awareness: noticing what’s essential versus what’s improvised. Whether it’s patching over burnout, overworking in the name of survival, or stacking temporary solutions, this DIVOted Talk invites listeners to step back and ask: What am I maintaining—and what am I truly mending?
🔑 Highlights:
🧰 The Survival Reflex: Why jerry-rigging can be both resourceful and revealing
🪞 Patchwork Living: Duct-taped mirrors and improvised systems as metaphors for self-maintenance
🌿 Ayurveda & Simplicity: Returning to the essentials—what the body and mind actually need
🔥 Yoga as Refinement: Practice as the act of replacing survival mechanisms with awareness
🧠 Therapeutic Removal: Letting go of fixes that no longer serve mind, body, or spirit
⚖️ Temporary vs. True Alignment: Knowing when the “quick fix” has become a quiet crutch
💬 Reflection Prompt:
Where in your life are you jerry-rigging—holding something together out of habit instead of healing it with intention?
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Quote from Episode:
“Our lives are our own. They’re not meant to be journeyed alone, but they can be—and sometimes they are.”
Description:
Nicholas Wade Kimps unpacks the idea of life as a “highly individualized curriculum,” weaving yoga philosophy, Ayurveda, and self-study into a conversation on destiny, suffering, and the mystery of becoming.
Show Notes:
In this episode, Nicholas Wade Kimps reflects on the deep truth that life unfolds as a curriculum designed uniquely for each of us. Drawing from A Course in Miracles, yoga philosophy, and Ayurvedic thought, he explores why some lessons repeat until we finally learn them, and why glimpses of our potential may feel both inspiring and impossibly far away.
Through humor, candor, and grounded insight, Nicholas highlights how frustration, comparison, and societal narratives can distort our sense of purpose. Yet, he reminds us that the obstacles on our path may in fact be the very assets that prepare us for our destiny. Life is not about mimicking others’ journeys—it’s about honoring the curriculum only you can live.
This is a meditation on patience, authenticity, and the courage to remove the masks we wear. Above all, Nicholas invites us into svādhyāya—self-study—as the key to digesting our experiences and aligning with the greater orchestration that called us here in the first place.
🔑 Highlights:
📚 Life as Curriculum: Why lessons repeat until we embody them fully.
🧘 Yoga Philosophy: Svādhyāya (self-study) as the bridge to clarity and purpose.
🌱 Ayurvedic Perspective: The individual path as a balance of prakṛti, vikṛti, and karma.
🎮 Pop Culture Metaphors: From Mario Kart game-overs to channeled wisdom traditions.
🎭 Authenticity vs. Masks: Why trying to live someone else’s life rarely works.
🔮 Mystery & Destiny: Trusting that even obstacles may be preparation for what’s to come.
💬 Reflection Prompt:
What lesson keeps repeating in your life—and how might it be part of your individualized curriculum rather than just a setback?
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— 🧡 DIVO Wellness — Movement is the Way
Quote from Episode:
“You are here for a reason and if you weren’t meant to be here, you wouldn’t exist.”
Description:
Nicholas Wade Kimps explores faith, fairness, and the unseen orchestration of life through the lens of Ayurveda and yoga philosophy. This DIVOted Talks episode unpacks societal masks, divergent forces, and the healing power of seeing yourself clearly.
Show Notes:
In this reflective episode, Nicholas Wade Kimps weaves together Jewish New Year blessings, social commentary, and yogic wisdom to explore how life’s forces shape us. With references from Jupiter Ascending to yoga sutras, he examines how privilege, suffering, and perspective influence our ability to see both the forest and the trees.
Nicholas invites listeners to reflect on masks—those worn by individuals and societies—and how Ayurveda and yoga help us dance with divergent and convergent forces rather than collapse under them. He speaks candidly about victimhood, superiority, and the pressures of modern life, grounding it in the reminder that existence itself is purpose.
At its core, this episode is a call to self-study, compassion, and courage. By meditating deeply and processing what lies beneath the mask, we step into the flow of wellness, community, and truth.
🔑 Highlights:
🍯 Faith & Fairness: Reflections on religion, morality, and the myth of superiority.
🎬 Pop Culture Philosophy: Jupiter Ascending, Dr. Strange, and the metaphor of dancing with forces.
🧘 Yoga Sutras: Understanding yogas chitta vritti nirodhah—stilling the mind’s fluctuations.
🌱 Ayurvedic Insight: Life’s harmony lies in balancing divergent and convergent forces.
🎭 Masks We Wear: Seeing beyond false faces in society and within ourselves.
🔥 Existence as Purpose: Remembering that being here is proof of meaning.
💔 Respect for Struggle: Honoring those who make hard choices while carrying hidden burdens.
💬 Reflection Prompt:
What masks might you still be wearing—and how could meditation or self-study help you remove them so others can truly see you?
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— 🧡 DIVO Wellness — Movement is the Way
Quote from Episode:
“Whatever you fill yourself with is what’s going to come out when you’re under stress.”
Description:
Nicholas Wade Kimps reflects on Pride, community, and the Ayurvedic wisdom of processing life fully. This DIVOted Talks episode explores safe spaces, unprocessed emotions, and why digestion—of food, feelings, and experiences—shapes wellness and balance.
Show Notes:
Fresh from sponsoring and celebrating Pride in North Carolina, Nicholas Wade Kimps shares how community, joy, and expression intersect with the Ayurvedic concept of digestion. From late nights and excess pralāpa (excessive talking) to the intimacy of safe friendships, he reflects on how what we “take in”—whether food, emotions, or cultural friction—requires proper processing to keep doshas balanced.
Nicholas doesn’t shy away from hard truths: the tension of living openly in a world still shaped by systemic racism, moral superiority, and willful ignorance. Through both story and philosophy, he reminds us that the real work of yoga and Ayurveda is to notice what fills us, digest what we can, and clear what we can’t.
This episode invites us to respect differences, seek safe spaces of belonging, and remember that in a world of too much, true wellness means cultivating the ability to digest not just our meals, but our emotions, histories, and collective patterns.
🔑 Highlights:
🏳️🌈 Pride & Presence: How showing up in community offers healing and intimacy.
🗣️ Pralāpa in Ayurveda: The toll of excessive talking and expression on vāta balance.
🧘 Safe Spaces Matter: Why every constitution (doṣa) needs places for safety and recharge.
🔥 Digestion Beyond Food: Thoughts, feelings, and emotions must be processed too—or they linger as ama.
🪷 Respect vs. Superiority: Why moral subjugation and systemic denial create harm that eventually surfaces.
🌍 Interconnection: Living in harmony requires recognizing both individual and collective digestion of life.
💬 Reflection Prompt:
Where in your life are you holding onto unprocessed experiences—and how could you create a safe space to finally digest them?
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— 🧡 DIVO Wellness — Movement is the Way
Quote from Episode:
"Whatever you fill yourself with is what’s going to come out when you’re under stress.”
Description:
Nicholas Wade Kimps unpacks how frustration, unprocessed emotions, and hidden patterns impact wellness. Through Ayurveda and yoga philosophy, this episode explores doshas, digestion, and why movement and mindful living help transform what we carry into medicine.
Some days feel heavy, cranky, and rife with agitation—and Nicholas Wade Kimps doesn’t shy away from naming that truth. In this DIVOted Talks episode, he shares how frustration and unprocessed emotions build up in our bodies like undigested food, eventually spilling over into stress, illness, or conflict. Ayurveda calls this ama—residue that, when left unresolved, becomes fertile ground for imbalance.
Show Notes:
Nicholas explores how kavaguṇyas (defective spaces) can hold onto this residue, why removing excess dosha is essential, and how practices like dinacharya (daily rhythm) and pañcakarma (Ayurvedic cleansing) restore harmony. Through storytelling and yoga philosophy, he connects the dots between what we consume—whether food, thoughts, or emotions—and how it expresses when we’re under pressure.
This episode is both practical and philosophical: a reminder that movement is medicine, digestion is multidimensional, and that true wellness means noticing what we’ve packed into our inner boxes and choosing what to finally set down.
🔑 Highlights:
😤 Cranky Days as Teachers: Why frustration points to something deeper than surface-level irritations.
🌬️ Interconnection & Energy: How life resists isolation and constantly reflects back what we’re carrying.
🧪 Ama & Digestion: Understanding unprocessed mental, emotional, and physical residue in Ayurveda.
🔥 Agni & Processing: Why cultivating strong digestive fire helps metabolize food, feelings, and experiences.
🪷 Kavaguṇyas Explained: The “defective spaces” where imbalance takes root—and how to clear them.
🧘 Yoga & Ayurveda Together: From daily routines to pañcakarma, how these systems support balance.
📦 What We Carry: The metaphor of moving boxes—how baggage, often not ours, gets passed along until we choose to unpack it.
💬 Reflection Prompt:
What have you been “packing and carrying” that no longer belongs to you—and how might you begin to unpack it with compassion?
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Quote from Episode:
“Can you enjoy it for the sake of doing it? Can you just be a part of life without having to wonder if it could be something else?”
Description:
In this DIVOted Talks episode, Nicholas Wade Kimps explores the roller coaster of creativity, AI, Ayurveda, and yoga philosophy. Learn how to embrace life’s ups and downs, reframe anxiety, and root into self-study (svādhyāya) as medicine.
Show Notes:
Nicholas Wade Kimps takes us on a ride through the highs and lows of life’s seasons—where excitement, anxiety, and quiet moments all carry their own medicine. Using metaphors of roller coasters, AI creativity, and yoga philosophy, Nicholas reflects on how our upbringing and patterns often condition us to expect drama, making peace and stillness feel uncomfortable.
Drawing on Ayurveda and svādhyāya (self-study), he explores how trauma shapes our tendencies, why reframing is essential, and how yoga offers practical ways to unclog the channels of body, mind, and spirit. From reparenting practices to the simple power of intention-setting in yoga, Nicholas reminds us that movement, breath, and reflection can turn life’s messy unpredictability into embodied wisdom.
🔑 Highlights:
🎢 Roller Coaster Living: Seasons of life whip us around with gravity, speed, and pauses—but each phase holds meaning.
🤖 AI & Imagination: Creativity as medicine—transforming “gaseous thoughts” into tangible art through new tools.
🌀 Patterns from Trauma: How dramatic upbringings can condition us to equate chaos with meaning.
📚 Svādhyāya in Yoga: Self-study as a sacred path—learning through experience, reflection, and integration.
🧘 Movement as Medicine: How intention-setting in yoga practice reveals answers the mind alone can’t uncover.
💡 Reframing Anxiety: Seeing stillness and ease as gifts, not problems to fix.
🌱 Ayurveda & Resilience: Recognizing vikṛti (imbalance) and prakṛti (constitution) as guides for healing.
💬 Reflection Prompt:
Where do you mistake chaos or drama for meaning—and how might stillness reveal a deeper truth?
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— 🧡 DIVO Wellness — Movement is the Way
Quote from Episode:
“We can’t possibly know what’s coming. And so why do we try? Because we are led to believe that we can.”
Description:
A short yoga and mindfulness podcast on surrender, trust, and remembering that the universe’s timing often defies our control.
Show Notes:
In this playful yet profound reflection, Nicholas Wade Kimps shares how even a studio heater becomes a teacher in surrender. With humor and honesty, he points to the futility of control and the deeper practice of faith, trust, and childlike openness.
🌍 The Mystery of Timing: Why our attempts to anticipate outcomes often lead to stress.
🔥 The Heater as Teacher: When life doesn’t work as planned, what do we do?
🧘 Yoga’s Reminder: Loosen your grip, relax your mind, trust the flow.
🌱 Faith & Timing: Showing up is the medicine, even when outcomes shift.
👶 Childlike Presence: How curiosity protects us from cynicism and control.
Sometimes the best yoga lesson isn’t on the mat — it’s in letting go when the heater doesn’t turn on.
💬 Reflection prompt: Where in your life are you gripping too tightly — and how would loosening your hold shift the experience?
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— 🧡 DIVO Wellness — Movement is the Way
Quote from Episode:
“You can’t see big enough or understand big enough to know what is best for you in the context of that level of awareness. And that’s okay.”
Description:
A yoga and Ayurveda-inspired podcast on recognizing the greater forces shaping our lives, discovering doshic strengths, and finding freedom in flow instead of forcing outcomes.
Show Notes:
In this reflective episode, Nicholas Wade Kimps explores how forces beyond our awareness constantly shape who we are becoming. Drawing on yogic philosophy, Ayurveda, and personal insight, he examines the patterns that guide our growth and the importance of contextualizing our wants, needs, and rhythms.
Nicholas invites listeners to name their personal “kryptonite,” honor their unique dosha-driven strengths (Pitta, Vāta, Kapha), and lean into self-honesty as the path toward authentic becoming. At its core, this talk reminds us that the real yoga is not about forcing change but about aligning with the flow of life.
🔑 Key Themes:
🌌 Forces Beyond Us: Why we can’t always know which pressures are shaping our growth.
🔄 Flow vs. Forcing: Moving with patterns and rhythms instead of chasing validation through struggle.
💡 Superpowers & Kryptonite: How Ayurveda reveals both strengths and vulnerabilities of Pitta, Vāta, and Kapha.
🪞 Wants vs. Needs: Differentiating surface desires from deeper necessities for fulfillment.
🧘 Yoga’s Path of Becoming: From daily rhythm (dinācaryā) to Yamas, Niyamas, prāṇāyāma, and ultimately samādhi.
💬 Reflection Prompt:
What forces are you applying to yourself right now—and do they truly align with who you are becoming?
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Quote from Episode:
“Everything is a carve-out of the greater pattern. Each piece has importance in its container, but it’s still part of the whole.”
Description:
Nicholas Wade Kimps explores how micro and macro patterns—from daily habits to cosmic cycles—mirror the greater weave of life. Drawing on Ayurveda, yoga philosophy, and lived experience, he reveals how even life’s cutouts belong to a larger pattern that gives meaning and coherence.
Show Notes:
In this reflective episode, Nicholas Wade Kimps unpacks how patterns—whether simple, complex, micro, or cosmic—shape our lives in ways we often can’t perceive in the moment. From a handmade tablecloth with cutouts spelling DIVO to honeycomb textures and galactic orbits, he illustrates how fragments of meaning belong to greater unseen weaves.
Connecting these reflections with Vedic philosophy and Ayurveda, Nicholas explores how the repetition of guṇas and elemental qualities reveals coherence across scales of existence. The lesson? What looks chaotic, incomplete, or meaningless today might be part of a larger pattern slowly revealing itself.
🔑 Key Insights & Themes:
🧩 Micro & Macro Patterns: Why some cycles are instantly visible while others take lifetimes to reveal.
✂️ Cutouts with Meaning: How fragments and life’s small details hold value inside a larger tapestry.
🌌 Cosmic Weaving: Seeing daily habits, honeycombs, and galaxy turns as echoes of the same pattern.
🔥 Ayurvedic Insights: How Tejas, Pitta, and Agni are “the same yet different,” depending on their container.
🌱 Reassurance in Rhythm: Trusting that even when life feels off-course, you may be aligned with a bigger design.
💬 Reflection Prompt:
Where in your life do you see only a cutout—when in truth it may be part of a much greater pattern?
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— 🧡 DIVO Wellness — Movement is the Way
Quote from Episode:
“Not every muscle develops the same way from lifting the same weight. The forces required for growth are unique to who we are.”
Description:
In this DIVO-Ted Talk, Nicholas Wade Kimps blends fitness, yoga, Ayurveda, and personal reflection to explore why growth isn’t about grinding harder—but applying the right force, at the right time, in alignment with who we truly are.
Show Notes:
In this heartfelt episode, Nicholas Wade Kimps explores how growth depends not just on effort, but on applying the right forces in harmony with our true nature. Using fitness metaphors, yoga philosophy, and Ayurvedic wisdom, he reflects on why some forms of “grind” lead to burnout while others—when aligned—become medicine for body, mind, and spirit.
Nicholas shares candid stories: from how his own body adapts quickly to lifting weights, to the deep grief and perspective shifts following his mother’s passing. Through these lessons, he invites listeners to evaluate whether the pressures they place on themselves are truly shaping them—or simply exhausting them.
🔑 Key Themes & Insights:
🏋️ Force & Growth: Why not every weight—or workout—produces the same result for everyone.
🔄 Striving vs. Flow: How relentless grinding can either sharpen focus or just spin our wheels.
🪞 Self-Awareness First: Knowing what we truly want prevents wasted effort and burnout.
🌱 Ayurvedic Wisdom: Movement aligned with constitution, timing, and environment heals rather than harms.
💔 Loss as Teacher: How grief and unmet expectations reshape our understanding of success and meaning.
🧘 Practical Takeaway: The right movement, at the right time, with the right intention, becomes medicine.
💬 Reflection Prompt:
Where in your life are you applying force unnecessarily—and where might flow serve you better?
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— 🧡 DIVO Wellness — Movement is the Way
Quotes from Episode:
“You may not actually be bad at something—you just may be trying to do it in the wrong context. Through steady practice, you learn what you really need, instead of buying into someone else’s story.”
“Regular practice, consistent practice allows for a steadiness so that you can start to understand what you need.”
Description:
Nicholas Wade Kimps explores grief, marketing hype, and the hidden costs of chasing solutions outside yourself—contrasting distraction with the clarity of Ayurveda, yoga, and consistent practice.
Show Notes:
After losing his mother, Nicholas Wade Kimps went searching for a new identity, often investing in groups, books, and programs that promised transformation but left him drained or disillusioned. In this raw reflection, he unpacks how grief, marketing, and overstimulation can lead us to buy into other people’s stories rather than clarifying our own.
Through the lens of Ayurveda and yoga philosophy, Nicholas reframes resilience as digestion—learning to integrate only what truly nourishes. He explores how dopamine chasing, sales tactics, and the noise of “solutions” cloud our perception, while self-study and steady rhythm reveal what we genuinely need. Instead of being sold an external fix, we can reclaim clarity by practicing presence, honoring our nature, and aligning with our own story.
This episode is both cautionary and empowering—a reminder that wellness isn’t about accumulation, but about digestion, discernment, and steady practice.
🔑 Highlights:
🖤 Loss & Identity: How grief reshapes self-perception and fuels the search for external remedies.
💸 When Help Hurts: The pitfalls of expensive programs that sell stories rather than solutions.
📚 Books & Burdens: The subtle influence of what we collect, even if it goes unread.
🧘 Yoga & Ayurveda: Clarity as digestion—processing only what nourishes mind, body, and spirit.
🔥 Overstimulation Trap: How dopamine chasing and marketing hype intoxicate decision-making.
🌊 Need vs. Want: Shifting from being sold someone else’s fix to discerning your own solutions.
💬 Reflection Prompt:
Where in your life are you confusing a marketed “want” with your deeper, truer need?
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— 🧡 DIVO Wellness — Movement is the Way
Quote from Episode:
“Unrevealed until its season… something God alone can see.” — Hymn of Promise
Show Notes
In this reflective follow-up to Unrevealed Until Its Season, Nicholas Wade Kimps explores the cycles of life as a spiral of return. What feels like repeating the same lessons often carries us deeper, teaching rhythm and readiness in new ways. Drawing on yoga, Ayurveda, and lived studio experience, he shares how finding steadiness in practice and environment reveals who we truly are—beyond striving, chasing, or prematurely filling the spaces of life.
🍂 Seasons & Spiral: Life lessons repeat, but on deeper turns of the spiral, shaping growth rather than shame.
🥁 Finding Your Rhythm: Why meditation, stillness, and daily/seasonal routines reveal your true inner beat.
🏛️ Stability & Studio Life: From piecemeal work to building DIVO Wellness, Nicholas reflects on the stamina and grace required to create rhythm in business and self.
🎁 Purpose in Passing On: Not everything we acquire is meant for us—sometimes we’re the bridge for what moves on to others.
🌌 Trusting the Divine Spark: Yoga teaches the universe can be known inwardly; through practice, we touch the peace that helps us wait for what is ready to be revealed.
This episode is both a grounding meditation and a call to trust: when the seasons turn, the timing of life’s next phase will emerge with clarity.
💬 Reflection prompt: Where in your life are you trying to rush into the next phase before the space is truly ready?
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— 🧡 DIVO Wellness — Movement is the Way
Quote from Episode:
“In the cold and dead of winter, there’s a spring that waits to be unrevealed until it’s season. Something God alone can see.” — Hymn of Promise
Description:
Nicholas Wade Kimps reflects on patience, trust, and becoming through the wisdom of the Hymn of Promise, the Tao Te Ching, and Ayurveda. This episode explores why growth cannot be rushed, and how wellness practices help us embrace timing, nature, and self-worth.
Show Notes:
In this moving reflection, Nicholas Wade Kimps revisits one of his favorite hymns, Hymn of Promise, as a reminder that life’s unfolding has its own season. With honesty and vulnerability, he shares the tension of trying to “make things happen” with his studio, and the peace that arises when we let go of forcing outcomes and instead trust in the rhythms of becoming.
Drawing from the Tao Te Ching, yoga philosophy, and Ayurvedic wisdom, Nicholas explores how striving drains energy, while presence and practice create space for actualization. Seeds do not stress over becoming trees—they grow in their own time, shaped by environment, rhythm, and grace. In the same way, we actualize not by chasing validation, but by recognizing the quiet success already present in each step we take.
This episode offers both a grounding meditation and a practical invitation: patience is not passivity—it is a radical trust in life’s natural timing.
🔑 Highlights:
• 🌱 Seeds & Becoming: You are already everything you’re meant to be—growth is inevitable, not forced.
• 🕊️ Goalposts & Grace: Redefining success as presence, not chasing moving targets.
• 📖 Wisdom Traditions: How hymns, Taoist philosophy, and Ayurveda all affirm nature’s timing.
• 🌳 Environment & Actualization: Like seeds, we grow differently depending on soil, support, and setting.
• 🔎 Reframing Success: From outcome-chasing to honoring daily showing-up as true progress.
• 🌞 Patience as Power: Trusting the unseen season, knowing it is already in motion.
💬 Reflection Prompt:
Where in your life are you rushing the season—and what would it feel like to trust the timing instead?
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— 🧡 DIVO Wellness — Movement is the Way
Quote from Episode:
“You may not actually be bad at something. You just may be trying to do it in the wrong context. You may be trying to force yourself into something that you’re not ready to do yet. Or maybe you just need to build the chops for it in the first place.”
Description:
Nicholas Wade Kimps explores how set and setting shape productivity and peace—showing how Ayurveda, yoga philosophy, and daily dinacharya create rhythm, reduce mental clutter, and turn life’s unpredictability into flow.
Show Notes:
In this reflective episode, Nicholas Wade Kimps shares how skipping a conference created unexpected space—and with it, ease, clarity, and a surge of meaningful progress. From covering an eyesore wall with curtains to deep-cleaning the house, he shows how context changes everything: certain tasks feel heavy when we’re overbooked, and effortless when we have the right conditions.
Drawing on Ayurveda and yoga philosophy, Nicholas connects set and setting to dinacharya (daily routine), nervous-system steadiness, and sustainable wellness. When we streamline inputs and create rhythm, the mind’s fluctuations settle, “movement is medicine” feels true in practice, and productivity stops feeling like a grind. The result: fewer crashes, more flow, and the humility to realize that ability often depends on context—not character.
🔑 Highlights:
🪞 Context Matters: The same task can be impossible in one setting and effortless in another.
🧘 Ayurveda & Yoga Rhythm: Daily dinacharya stabilizes energy, focuses attention, and supports wellness.
🏡 Outer Space, Inner Space: Home clutter mirrors mind clutter; clearing either lightens the other.
🛠️ Design Your Set & Setting: Separate “creator/teacher/admin” modes to protect depth and flow.
🌊 From Turbulence to Tide: Predictable rhythms turn surprises into manageable ripples.
📈 Progress > Perfection: Even a millimeter forward is movement—keep iterating, keep showing up.
💬 Reflection Prompt:
Where could a small change in set (mindset, role, energy) or setting (time, place, tools) unlock more ease and flow this week?
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— 🧡 DIVO Wellness — Movement is the Way
Quote from Episode:
“Your experience is valid.”
Show Notes
In this thoughtful talk, Nicholas Wade Kimps explores the Vedic idea that every human experience holds validity—even when detached from shared logic or consensus reality. Through stories ranging from psychotic episodes on the street to care partners navigating Parkinson’s, he highlights how honoring experience can shift relationships and soften judgment.
🌍 Experience as Knowledge: How Indic philosophy accepts lived experience as a valid source of knowledge.
💔 Compassion in Action: Lessons from teaching Parkinson’s classes and the hidden dynamics between spouses and peers.
🪞 Beliefs as Repeated Thoughts: Why our interpretations shape the reality we live into.
👁️ Multiple Perspectives: From police reports to philosophy, truth often emerges in the overlap of many experiences.
🕊️ Practical Grace: Learning to hold space for others without policing or invalidating their journey.
This episode is a reminder that in a divided and often chaotic world, your perspective matters. Everyone’s experience carries worth, and the heart of compassion begins with allowing that truth to stand.
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💬 Reflection prompt: Where in your life could you allow someone else’s experience to simply be valid—even if you don’t agree with it?
— 🧡 DIVO Wellness — Movement is the Way
Quote from Episode:
“Nothing except for life-threatening situations has to be completed today.”
Show Notes:
In this reflective talk, Nicholas Wade Kimps shares how shifting plans—like staying home instead of attending a conference—can open unexpected space for meaningful progress. Drawing from yoga, Ayurveda, and business ownership, he unpacks how different states of consciousness and “sets and settings” influence our ability to create, deliver, and replenish.
🧘 Set & Setting: How environment, energy, and mindset determine what’s possible in each moment.
🔄 Intersecting Roles: The Venn diagram of business owner, teacher, salesperson, and creative—and how overlap both empowers and drains.
🪜 Yoga’s Sequential Wisdom: Why Patanjali’s step-by-step eight limbs mirror the need for progressive transitions in daily work and life.
⚡ Do-or-Die vs. Everyday Flow: Recognizing when true urgency exists versus when we self-impose pressure.
🌱 Practical Reframe: Letting productivity align with the moment rather than forcing outcomes against resistance.
This episode is a reminder that productivity isn’t just about output—it’s about respecting the rhythm of life, knowing when to teach, when to create, and when to simply replenish.
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💬 Share with us: How do you create the right set and setting for your growth?
— 🧡 DIVO Wellness — Movement is the Way
Quote from Episode:
“If you came to this because you weren’t feeling well, it’s okay. And those around you may not understand, but maybe you need to find the people who do.”
Show Notes:
In this reflective talk, Nicholas Wade Kimps reminds us that it’s okay to feel—sadness, frustration, fatigue—and that the real work often lies not in suppressing those states, but in discerning which relationships help transform them into fuel and which simply create more, sometimes heavy, residue.
💔 Toxicity Reframed: Drawing from Ayurveda’s concept of āma (toxic metabolic waste), Nicholas invites us to see certain relationships as poor “digestive combinations” that can poison our energy.
🔥 Agni as Transformation: Just as digestive fire metabolizes food, Agni at the subtle and social levels transforms pain, conflict, and dissonance into clarity, courage, and connection.
🌍 Micro to Macro Ecosystems: From individual partnerships to cultures and communities, Nicholas parallels digestion with the metabolism of society—emphasizing that some bonds burn clean, others leave residue.
🌱 Fostering Fire in Connection: Honesty, reflection, and transparency become the relational “pachanas”—the catalysts that integrate and heal rather than separate and freeze us out.
This is a reminder that your feelings are valid, your experience is real, and that the people and structures you surround yourself with shape the alchemy of your life. Sometimes the medicine is as simple as finding the fire where transformation can happen.
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🎧 Listen also to Ayurveda Digested with Nicholas and BridgeO for deeper Sankhya and Ayurveda reflections
💬 Share with us: Which relationships in your life fuel your Agni—and which create āma?
— 🧡 DIVO Wellness — Movement is the Way
Quote from Episode:
“Survival is built into our system. Thriving, however, is a choice.”
Show Notes:
In this episode, Nicholas Wade Kimps explores the subtle but powerful distinctions between resistance, resilience, and restraint—and how all three create a trinity of strength across body, mind, and spirit.
🏋️ Resistance Training: building strength by meeting forces directly, physically or mentally
🌱 Resilience: the reserves that let us rise again and again despite hardship
🛑 Restraint: the discipline to pause, to withhold, to act (or not act) in alignment with truth
From modern principles like SAID (Specific Adaptation to Imposed Demands) to ancient yogic titration, Nicholas shows how conditioning shapes our capacity to face life’s challenges. Whether it’s building calluses on the hands, softening mental blows, or preserving spiritual devotion, the practices of resistance, resilience, and restraint all prepare us to live with less suffering.
Nicholas closes with the reminder that while survival is instinctual, thriving requires choice—a conscious act of participation in life’s greater design.
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💬 DM us: Which of the three—resistance, resilience, or restraint—feels most alive for you right now?
— 🧡 DIVO Wellness — Movement is the Way
