Energy Works

What if the very thing you've been trying to avoid is the thing that would make you feel more alive? In this episode, Blaine explores tapas, one of the Niyamas from Patanjali's Yoga Sutras. Often translated as discipline or inner fire, tapas is the willingness to choose growth over comfort, even when the easier option is to walk away. A year earlier, Blaine had signed up for a duathlon. As race da...

Tune into the newest episode of our Energy Works Podcast, where science meets spirit to help you heal, energize, and thrive. In this episode, Lauren and Blaine explore how commitment has the power to transform every area of life, especially when it comes to self-care, leadership, and personal growth. They discuss the Earth element in Energy Medicine Yoga and how many caregivers, healers, and...

Tune into the newest episode of our Energy Works Podcast, where science meets spirit to help you heal, energize, and thrive. In this episode, Lauren explores anger as the emotion associated with spring and how it can be transformed into healthy, purposeful action. She reflects on the heightened anger and outrage many people are experiencing today, noting that anger can be an important response to...

Tune into the newest episode of our Energy Works Podcast, where science meets spirit to help you heal, energize, and thrive. Why can someone you love still create a stress response in your body? In this episode, Blaine shares what happened during a recent visit with her brother and the familiar tightness that showed up in her chest almost immediately. The experience led her into a conversation abo...

Tune into the newest episode of our Energy Works Podcast, where science meets spirit to help you heal, energize, and thrive. In this third follow-up episode on play, Lauren and Blaine revisit the tension between purposeful activities and genuine play, and whether the two can coexist. Blaine also shares what happened after the last episode stirred up some defensiveness for her. What started as...

Tune into the newest episode of our Energy Works Podcast, where science meets spirit to help you heal, energize, and thrive. Slowing down sounds easy until you realize how hard it is to get your mind and body in the same place at the same time. In this episode, Blaine shares how “The Art of Slowing Down” grew from a local Energy Medicine Yoga workshop at a Colorado rec center into a session f...

Tune into the newest episode of our Energy Works Podcast, where science meets spirit to help you heal, energize, and thrive. In this follow-up episode on play, Lauren and Blaine dive into why "play" is so surprisingly hard to define. Drawing on research, they explore a definition of play as voluntary, time-freeing, improvisational, and apparently purposeless. They then contrast it with activi...

Tune into the newest episode of our Energy Works Podcast, where science meets spirit to help you heal, energize, and thrive. Blaine and Lauren mark a major milestone, the 100th episode of the Energy Works podcast! They take a moment to reflect on what this journey has meant to them, and to thank listeners around the world for their comments, emails, and steadfast support of this niche-but-glo...

Tune into the newest episode of our Energy Works Podcast, where science meets spirit to help you heal, energize, and thrive. What does it take to reach 90 feeling good and still not know exactly why? In this Big Ideas episode, Lauren sits down with Pat Gordon, who is approaching 90 and living vibrantly in independent senior housing. Pat isn't a biohacker or wellness guru, he's a former Nikon...

Tune into the newest episode of our Energy Works Podcast, where science meets spirit to help you heal, energize, and thrive. What happens when you hold everything in? In this solo episode, Blaine reflects on a personal story that reveals the hidden cost of “holding things in.” After her partner learns a close friend underwent major heart surgery without telling him, Blaine explores how suppre...

Tune into the newest episode of our Energy Works Podcast, where science meets spirit to help you heal, energize, and thrive. Feeling burned out or stuck in routine? In this solo episode, Lauren explores how retreats act as powerful nervous system resets, helping you step out of daily patterns, restore energy, and reconnect to joy, play, and perspective. Through stories from Breitenbush H...

Tune into the newest episode of our Energy Works Podcast, where science meets spirit to help you heal, energize, and thrive. What if play is the missing key to healing, better sleep, and longevity? In this solo episode, Lauren explores how play supports neuroplasticity, enhances creativity, and improves both physical and emotional well-being. Drawing on research, she shares how top innovators...

Tune into the newest episode of our Energy Works Podcast, where science meets spirit to help you heal, energize, and thrive. Blaine and Lauren have fun with a Vanity Fair wellness spoof article that hits a little too close to home. The article is packed with longevity hacks, including supplements, red light therapy, and biohacking routines. What starts as humor turns into a deeper conversatio...

Tune into the newest episode of our Energy Works Podcast, where science meets spirit to help you heal, energize, and thrive. In this solo episode, Lauren looks at spring as a natural point to check in with what you’ve begun and see what’s ready for your attention now. She introduces the Chinese Medicine concept of “disruptive forces,” focusing on wind as a key factor affecting both physical a...

Tune into the newest episode of our Energy Works Podcast, where science meets spirit to help you heal, energize, and thrive. In this episode, Blaine explores the connection between qi and blood in Traditional Chinese Medicine. This is a focused follow-up to her February 23, 2026 episode on the spleen energy. She explains how “qi moves blood, but blood carries qi,” highlighting why rich, nouri...

Tune into the newest episode of our Energy Works Podcast, where science meets spirit to help you heal, energize, and thrive. In this Big Ideas episode, Lauren welcomes author and intuition teacher Hilary McCann Crowley for an expansive conversation about what intuition really is and how it relates to consciousness. Hilary traces the word intuition back to its roots as an “inner tutor,” explai...

Tune into the newest episode of our Energy Works Podcast, where science meets spirit to help you heal, energize, and thrive. In this solo episode of Energy Works, Lauren shares how AI is reshaping authorship. From editors flagging her signature writing style as “AI-like” to learning her books, Energy Medicine Yoga and Energy Medicine Yoga Prescription, she reflects on creativity, ownership, and th...

Tune into the newest episode of our Energy Works Podcast, where science meets spirit to help you heal, energize, and thrive. After noticing “time blocking” highlighted in a popular time-management article, Lauren reflects on her ongoing struggle to protect open, unscheduled time. Blaine, who teaches time blocking to entrepreneurs inside the Conscious Business Builders Club, shares why she con...

Tune into the newest episode of our Energy Works Podcast, where science meets spirit to help you heal, energize, and thrive. In this solo episode, Lauren shares the story behind the first “Field Trip” she hosted through WhatWouldLouDo.com. This is a special project born of grief over her beloved puppy, Lou. Inspired in part by The Telepathy Tapes podcast and her exploration of near-death experienc...

Tune into the newest episode of our Energy Works Podcast, where science meets spirit to help you heal, energize, and thrive. In this solo episode, Blaine explains how, without strong digestion and assimilation, even the best foods can’t nourish you. She offers a clear look at how to connect spleen energy to today’s overwhelm: constant screens, low attention span, “tired but wired” sleep, and...

Tune into the newest episode of our Energy Works Podcast, where science meets spirit to help you heal, energize, and thrive. In this episode of Big Ideas, Lauren welcomes legendary yoga teacher, writer, and podcaster J. Brown for a candid, wide-ranging conversation on the state of modern yoga. The conversation celebrates J.’s remarkable milestone of 500 podcast episodes and reflects on his de...

Tune into the newest episode of our Energy Works Podcast, where science meets spirit to help you heal, energize, and thrive. In this solo episode, Lauren explores the often-overlooked power of boredom as a pathway to creativity, healing, and inner peace. Stepping away from constant digital stimulation, she reflects on how “doing nothing” allows the nervous system to settle and the mind to ope...

Tune into the newest episode of our Energy Works Podcast, where science meets spirit to help you heal, energize, and thrive. In this powerful episode of Big Ideas, Lauren welcomes Dr. Sara Allen, senior faculty member of Donna Eden’s Energy Medicine and a renowned energy healer, teacher, and intuitive. Dr. Allen shares her extraordinary ability to see and work with energy, offering rare insig...

Tune into the newest episode of our Energy Works Podcast, where science meets spirit to help you heal, energize, and thrive. In this episode, Lauren and Blaine dive deeper into the Five Element Theory, building on their previous conversation and exploring why this ancient system remains relevant today. Rooted in more than 5,000 years of wisdom, Five Element Theory offers insight into personal...

Tune into the newest episode of our Energy Works Podcast, where science meets spirit to help you heal, energize, and thrive. In this episode of Big Ideas, host Lauren welcomes Dr. John Douillard, renowned Ayurvedic physician, author, and founder of LifeSpa.com, for a deep exploration of ancient wisdom through a modern lens. Together, they unpack the science and soul of Ayurveda and its powerf...