The Mind Bod Adventure Pod

22/10/2025

We chase healing in all directions: therapy, breathwork, cold plunges, maybe a lil microdosing… but what if all your nervous system is asking for is a safe place to land?

This week, psychiatrist and neuroscientist Dr. David Rabin joins us to talk about how safety is the foundation of healing. His research explores how vibration, touch, and rhythm can retrain the body for calm. He’s the creator of Apollo Neuro, a wearable (and app) that uses subtle vibrations to signal safety to the nervous system and help the body unlearn chronic stress.

We talk about:

* How trauma is the body’s stress response that never shuts off
* Why safety (not control) is the real foundation of healing
* Why top-down thinking can’t fix bottom-up stress
* How tech can help retrain the body

Watch it here ->

How sound, touch, and tech help the body to land.

10/10/2025

“Freedom of attention is a fundamental right. It’s a natural resource… and it’s being exploited.” - Jay Vidyarthi

How do we stay aware in a world designed to steal our attention?

This week, we sit down with Jay Vidyarthi — designer, tech founder, meditation teacher, and author of “Reclaim Your Mind: Seven Strategies to Enjoy Tech Mindfully” — to explore what it means to live mindfully with technology instead of fighting against it.

We look at how our phones, apps, and algorithms are constantly training our nervous systems, and how awareness itself can change the relationship. Jay calls this attention activism: a way of reclaiming choice and joy in a tech-infused world.

We talk about the invisible pull of notifications and how to stay present in real time, what false urgency does to our nervous systems, and so much more! Then Jay guides us through a real-time experiment to feel the physical and psychological pull of our devices.

Know someone who loves tech but wants their mind back?! 🤪 Share this episode:

What happens when awareness meets the algorithm?

23/09/2025

When it comes to “getting to know ourselves,” we talk about mindfulness, creativity, career… basically everything except s*x. But as Dr. Juliana Hauser argues, s*xuality might be the most direct doorway into who we really are. In this episode, she takes us past the performance of “being s*xy” into the raw territory of authenticity, agency, and connection.

In this Episode, We talk about:

* Why so many of us are trapped in “performative s*xy” mode
* How to tell the difference between a “yuck” and a “yum” in your body
* How s*xuality is central to self-awareness, agency, and connection
* How shame and culture block authentic s*xual expression and what it takes to unlearn them

Talking about s*x can feel taboo, but Dr. Juliana makes it curious, light, and doable. This episode is an invitation to stop performing, start listening, and discover that your body already knows more than you think.

Read the full post and watch the episode here ->

Go beyond performative s*xy into your body’s yucks and yums.

03/09/2025

What’s the biggest mistake you’ve made as a creative? Chelene Knight answers without hesitation: “I think the biggest mistake was just not being me.”

This week, we sit down with acclaimed poet, novelist, memoirist, and Tasha’s own writing mentor, Chelene Knight, to talk about what it means to build a creative life. Not the tidy, “professionalized” version, but the messy, alive, human one that actually feels good.

Chelene’s most recent book, Safekeeping: A Writer’s Guided Journal for Launching a Book with Love, is part guided journal, part treasure map through the writing life. It also, as she puts it, “contains all of my mistakes as a writer and all the things that I’ve learned.” Listening to her is like being handed a permission slip to go slower, trust yourself, reread the same book forever, throw out the pressure to finish, snack on a single poem and call it a meal.

Read the full post and join us for a simple, but radical listening exercise guided by Chelene, here:

Watch now | How slowing down with poetry turns reading into meditation

20/08/2025

This week’s episode is an exciting one, friends!

Stephen Porges is the visionary scientist who gave us polyvagal theory—a framework that’s reshaped how the world understands trauma, safety, and human connection. His work has influenced everyone from therapists to meditation teachers to parents trying to soothe a colicky baby. And now he’s here with us, alongside his brilliant co-author Karen Onderko, to talk about their new book and the Safe and Sound Protocol.

This episode is part science, part storytelling, and part live experiment. It’s one of those conversations we’ll be talking about for a long time. It’s science, but it’s also about how to be human together. How to tune our bodies toward safety and open the doors to connection.

✨ Know someone who’s been geeking out on the nervous system, or just trying to figure out how to feel safe in their own skin? Share this episode with them!

https://www.mindbodpod.com/p/stephen-porges-karen-onderko-polyvagal-safe-and-sound-protocol

Polyvagal Institute

Watch now | From trauma to play: Discovering the nervous system’s secret routes to safety

09/07/2025

This week on the Pod, we’re joined by the luminous Sherri Mitchell: Indigenous rights attorney, activist, ceremonial leader, and the author of “Sacred Instructions”.

We dive into the birth canal of this moment — a world in transition, contracting and expanding as it labors to bring something new into being. Sherri doesn’t shy away from the pain, confusion, or cultural clusterf*ck of our times and she also doesn’t wallow. Instead, she offers radical clarity, vision, and a deeply embodied path forward.

This conversation is a balm, a fire, and a wake-up call. If you’ve been overwhelmed, heartbroken, or teetering on the edge of despair, listen in. It’s about metabolizing this moment into wisdom, vision, and action.

Know someone who’s been thinking hard about how to show up in these strange times? Share this with them too!

Find the episode here: https://www.mindbodpod.com/p/sherri-mitchell-how-to-dream-a-better-world

25/06/2025

This week on the pod, we’re joined by writer and teacher Sarah Selecky (Sarah Selecky Writing School) for a beautiful, funny, and surprisingly deep exploration of writing as a contemplative practice.

Sarah teaches writing as presence. As a way of being and noticing. She helps writers get out of their own way so that something real and alive can come through the page (or the google doc 😅).

She guides us through three simple exercises that can unlock creative flow. By the end, we were lol’ing, moved, and filled with the kind of wonder that has no agenda. Just a pen, a page, and the shimmer of real presence.

This is a great episode to write along with! Grab a notebook and come join us. Know someone who could use these exercises to shake some creative goodies loose? Pass it along!

Watch it here -> https://www.mindbodpod.com/p/sarah-selecky-writing-as-presence

10/06/2025

This week on the pod, we’re joined by Chan teacher and sociologist Rebecca Li for a luminous practice session in Silent Illumination, a deceptively simple, deeply transformative form of open awareness meditation.

Rebecca guides us through a full-body relaxation and easefully invites us into the “method of no method,” offering a living glimpse into this subtle and powerful practice. As we settle into presence together, she shares insights from her lineage, her own experience, and her new book Illumination.

This one is full of practical wisdom, unexpected laughter, and real-life Dharma. Whether you’re new to open awareness or have been sitting for decades, Rebecca’s gentle clarity and precision will meet you right where you are. 🫠

Watch it here -> https://www.mindbodpod.com/p/silent-illumination-how-to-meditate-rebecca-li

29/05/2025

We changed it up this week! Instead of a pod episode from Tasha’s couch, we joined Barb Schmidt & Michelle Maros on their podcast Life Happens.

Together, we have a soulful, down-to-earth conversation about what meditation really is. We cut through the myth and touch the living, breathing, messy practice of returning to the present.

Whether you’re brand new or returning to practice with fresh eyes, this one’s a gentle invitation to come home to your own presence.

Watch it here -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=zdFgd0eVt_PhH84E&v=H32JPUJ1YI8&feature=youtu.be

07/05/2025

This week, we’re in conversation with therapist and longtime Focusing teacher Serge Prengel about the transformative power of slowing down and listening from the body.

Serge is one of those rare people who seem to live from a deeper layer of presence. His work blends Focusing, Somatic Experiencing, Core Energetics, and Polyvagal Theory to support real, embodied change.

This one’s relational, tender, and surprisingly intimate. Drop in and tell us what moved in you: https://www.mindbodpod.com/p/focusing-a-practice-of-presence-and

22/04/2025

This week on the Mind Bod Adventure Pod, we get our somatic groove on with tapping wizard and trauma therapist Mirjam Paninski. Miriam guides us into the world of Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)—a deceptively simple practice where tapping acupressure points while speaking truth can open up big shifts in the body, mind, and heart.

It’s part therapy, part ritual, part emotional plumbing.

In this episode, we explore:

* Why EFT is becoming a popular trauma modality (and how it stacks up to EMDR)
* How tapping calms the nervous system and gives stored emotion somewhere to go
* Ancestral trauma (your body might be carrying Grandma’s fears!)
* What happens when you stop bracing and start releasing

Also: find out why EFT works so well with kids, how it can be used in war zones and post-shooting trauma support, and why tapping might be the pre-meditation dimmer switch you didn’t know you needed.

This one’s playful, poignant, and weirdly effective. Tap along with us and let us know how it lands in your nervous system!

Watch it here -> https://www.mindbodpod.com/p/releasing-trauma-eft-tapping-mirjam-paninski

15/04/2025

We got a makeover (+ we want your input)

Well, it only took us three years… but we finally had a photoshoot! Say hello to the official new look of The Mind Bod Adventure Pod 😎

We’re also launching a brand new bi-weekly segment of the pod: just the two of us, diving into real-life stuff and guiding short, potent practices you can do along with us.

It’s our wonky BFF energy meets insight and practice. A little messy, a little magical, and fully in the flow of life.

And here’s where you come in…

💌 What do you want us to talk about?

* Got a question about meditation, relationships, creativity, or the general chaos of being alive right now?

* A topic you wish someone would explore with curiosity and compassion (not just clickbait hot takes)?

* Something that’s lighting you up (or dragging you down) that you’d love to hear us riff on and practice with?

Drop a comment! 👇

We’re so glad you’re here. This show is an adventure, and so is building it with you.

Love,
Tasha & Jeff

Huge thanks to Aous Poules who snapped our silly, giggly, playful antics like a boss.