DocDusty: This One Beautiful Life

What if telling the truth did not require controlling how it is received? In this episode of More Than Asanas, we explore the Throat Chakra through the element of space and the practice of speaking. We look at silence, people-pleasing, overexplaining, boundaries, listening, authenticity, and the ways the body learns to swallow truth when expression once felt unsafe. Through yoga philosophy, nervou...

What if courage is not about being fearless, confident, or completely certain—but being willing to act without knowing exactly how everything will turn out? In this episode of More Than Asanas, we explore the Solar Plexus Chakra through the element of fire and the practice of action. We look at perfectionism, overfunctioning, collapse, anger, boundaries, and the ways pride can sometimes disguise i...

What happens when we give away our power in the name of love, peace, understanding, or belonging? In this DocDusty Reflection, we explore the relationship between fear, control, and agency—and the uncomfortable truth that reclaiming our power does not always feel empowering. Sometimes it feels like guilt, uncertainty, grief, or the fear of disappointing someone we love. Through personal reflection...

What does it mean to love without leaving yourself? In this episode of More Than Asanas, The Body As A Map, we explore the Heart Chakra through the element of air and the practice of connection. We look at attachment, guardedness, codependency, grief, receiving love, boundaries, and the ways relationships reveal where our healing is still mostly theoretical. Through yoga philosophy, nervous system...

What if you could feel an emotion without becoming the emotion? In this episode of More Than Asanas, The Body As A Map, we explore the Sacral Chakra through the element of water and the practice of feeling. We look at emotional avoidance, numbness, shame, pleasure, rigidity, and the many ways we learn to leave ourselves when feeling becomes uncomfortable. Through yoga philosophy, nervous system sc...

More Than Asans Series: Who Owns Yoga? Cultural Appreciation, Appropriation, and What Happens When Wisdom Becomes a Product What does it really mean to honor a tradition? In this episode of More Than Asanas , we explore the complicated space between cultural appreciation and appropriation, preservation and gatekeeping, translation and dilution, accessibility and commercialization. Through the hist...

What does it mean to feel safe—not just to be safe? In this episode of More Than Asanas, we explore the Root Chakra through the element of earth and the practice of staying. We look at hypervigilance, control, and the ways the body can continue preparing for danger even when the present moment is quiet. Through yoga philosophy, nervous system science, and grounding practices, this episode explores...

Where Energy Flows, Life Grows Every thought, relationship, habit, and dream begins with one simple question: Where is your attention? In this guided meditation, I invite you to pause, reconnect with yourself, and gently explore where your energy has been flowing. Blending neuroscience, yoga philosophy, and mindfulness, this practice reminds us that what we consistently focus on begins to grow—not...

What if the body has always been trying to tell us a story? In this introductory episode within the More Than Asanas Series, we explore the chakra system not as a diagnosis or a prescription, but as an ancient map of the human experience. Moving through seven essential questions—Can I stay? Can I feel? Can I act? Can I connect? Can I speak? Can I see? Can I surrender?—we begin a journey through th...

What if romantic relationships are one of our greatest yoga practices? In this episode of More Than Asanas , we explore love through the lens of yoga philosophy—from attachment and authenticity to uncertainty, self-study, and surrender. A reflection on learning to love deeply without gripping, to stay open without disappearing, and to remain connected to another person without abandoning ourselves...

Why do we find ourselves living the same stories—choosing similar relationships, reacting in familiar ways, or facing the same lessons again and again? In this episode of More Than Asanas , we explore two profound yogic concepts— saṃskāra (mental impressions) and vāsanā (deep-rooted tendencies)—and connects them with modern neuroscience, trauma, and neuroplasticity. Together, we'll explore how our...

More Than Asanas is a series exploring the intersection of yoga philosophy, modern medicine, neuroscience, and the human experience—revealing how ancient wisdom can help us navigate modern life.   Why do we stay in relationships that hurt us? Why do we chase achievements that never feel like enough? Why does anxiety convince us that certainty equals safety? More than two thousand years ago, yoga o...

Guided Practices- Boundaries: A Somatic Experiment Most of us were taught how to set boundaries with words—but not how to feel them. In this guided somatic meditation, we explore your personal boundaries through gentle movement, body awareness, breath, and visualization. Rather than building walls, you'll discover what healthy boundaries actually feel like: flexible, grounded, and responsive to yo...

More Than Asanas is a series exploring the intersection of yoga philosophy, modern medicine, neuroscience, and the human experience—revealing how ancient wisdom can help us navigate modern life. Episode 5: The Three Gunas – Why You Feel Like Different People on Different Days Some mornings you wake up motivated. Other days you can't get off the couch. Sometimes your mind won't stop racing, and occ...

More Than Asanas Series (Episode 4): The Four Paths of Yoga When most people hear the word yoga , they think of a yoga mat. But for thousands of years, yoga was never just about the body. It was a map for becoming fully human. In this episode, we explore the four traditional paths of yoga— Karma (action), Bhakti (devotion), Jñāna (wisdom), and Rāja (meditation) —and what they look like in modern l...

Guided Practices- Journey Through the Five Elements of Yoga —Earth, Water, Fire, Air, and Space—in this guided meditation designed to help you reconnect with yourself. Through breath, reflection, and gentle self-inquiry, you'll explore stability, acceptance, courage, freedom, and presence. Leave feeling grounded, centered, and reminded that everything you need has been within you all along

More Than Asanas is a series exploring the intersection of yoga philosophy, modern medicine, neuroscience, and the human experience—revealing how ancient wisdom can help us navigate modern life. Episode 3: From Pride to Courage What if pride isn't arrogance at all? What if it's protection? In this episode, we explore David Hawkins' distinction between pride and courage through the lens of trauma,...

More Than Asanas is a series exploring the intersection of yoga philosophy, modern medicine, neuroscience, and the human experience, revealing how ancient wisdom can help us navigate modern life.   Episode 2: Ancient Wisdom, Modern Brain For thousands of years, yoga has explored the mind, the breath, suffering, healing, and what it means to be human. Long before neuroscience could image the brain...

More Than Asanas: Episode 1 — What Is Yoga? More Than Asanas is a series exploring the intersection of yoga philosophy, modern medicine, neuroscience, and the human experience—revealing how ancient wisdom can help us navigate modern life. When most people hear the word yoga , they think about poses. But yoga was never meant to end at the edge of a mat. In this first episode of the More Than Asanas...

🌈 DocDusty Reflections: Pride, Humanity, and the Courage to Be Yourself What does Pride really mean? In this special Pride Month episode, we reflect on the people, stories, and lessons that have shaped her understanding of the LGBTQ+ community—not through politics, but through friendship, medicine, healing, and humanity. From caring for LGBTQ+ patients to witnessing a dear friend find the courage...

The Communication Series: Exploring the many languages of being human. We spend our lives learning how to speak, but very little time learning how to communicate. Through neuroscience, psychology, medicine, and lived experience, this series explores the many ways we connect—with ourselves, with others, and with the world around us. What if some of the greatest communication teachers on the planet...

What if these behaviors are not simply acts of self-destruction, but attempts to reconnect with a body, mind, and self that no longer feel safe to inhabit? In this episode, we explore the profound paradox of disembodiment—how trauma, stress, and overwhelm can cause us to disconnect from ourselves, and why many coping mechanisms are actually attempts to return. Through the lenses of neuropsychology...

The Communication Series: Exploring the many languages of being human. We spend our lives learning how to speak, but very little time learning how to communicate. Through neuroscience, psychology, medicine, and lived experience, this series explores the many ways we connect—with ourselves, with others, and with the world around us. Most people think communication happens through words. But words a...

The Communication Series: Exploring the many languages of being human. We spend our lives learning how to speak, but very little time learning how to communicate. Through neuroscience, psychology, medicine, and lived experience, this series explores the many ways we connect—with ourselves, with others, and with the world around us. A passing comment from one of my favorite yoga teachers sparked an...

The Communication Series: Exploring the many languages of being human. We spend our lives learning how to speak, but very little time learning how to communicate. Through neuroscience, psychology, medicine, and lived experience, this series explores the many ways we connect—with ourselves, with others, and with the world around us. Why do some conversations create connection while others lead to f...