The Nourished Nervous System
An exploration of stress, the nervous system, and resilience through the lenses of Ayurveda, Somatic Practice, Herbs, Neural Plasticity and much more!
The Nourished Nervous System
Latest Episodes
Making Space: Why I’m Taking a Podcast Sabbatical
This is my final episode before taking a break from the podcast. It’s not a goodbye. It’s a pause, and I want to tell you honestly how I got here.What I share in this episode:How the podcast began. The idea was ...
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Is It Information or Is It the Answer? Feminine Wisdom, Ayurveda & Living Unbound with Serena Arora
Today’s guest is Serena Arora — Ayurvedic health practitioner, yoga therapist, author of Unbound, and founder of Peace Retreat Costa Rica. Serena grew up straddling three worlds — Indian on her father’s side, Chinese on her mother’s si...
Slow Medicine as Homecoming: Earth Medicine, Inner Authority & the Seasons of Healing with Beana Bern
Today's guest is Beana, founder of Rootstock — a land-based healing center on 2,000 feet of north-facing hillside in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom, 20 miles from the Canadian border. For eight years, Beana has been building what she describes as ...
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The Drying Tide: Rasa Dhatu, the Interstitium & What's Really Happening to Your Skin & Joints in Perimenopause
I'm recording this on a rainy fall day in Maine, watching the leaves turn, and finally getting into something I've been sitting with for a while — the deep connection between rasa dhatu, the interstitium, and what is actually happening to our s...
Fear Is the Root of Everything: Pathological Neural Networks & Psychosomatic Healing with Andrei Efremov
Today's guest is Andrei Efremov — psychosomatics researcher, author, and founder of the Efremov Method. Originally trained in medicine, psychiatry, and psychotherapy, he now focuses on the neuroscience of fear and the body. His peer-reviewed wo...
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