In Your Bones™ with Vivian Doan

As we step into Lunar New Year, Vivian explores why tone, language, and expectation are not just cultural traditions — they are neurological design. In this Season One finale of In Your Bones , she bridges Vietnamese Tết traditions with modern neuroscience, explaining how the Reticular Activating System (RAS), predictive processing, and brain-body signaling shape posture, pain, and perception. If...

Being diagnosed with scoliosis as a teenager can change how you see your body, and yourself, overnight. In this episode of In Your Bones™ , Vivian is joined by Thea, a longtime SCOLIOFITNESS client who began working with her at just 13 years old. Now 18, Thea reflects on her journey through diagnosis, bracing, physio, and what it really took to rebuild trust in her body. This conversation goes far...

Ever feel like life is moving faster than you can keep up with? Like time’s flying, your days blur together, and before you know it — another month’s gone? In this episode of In Your Bones™ , Vivian explores the neuroscience and embodiment of slowing down time — through presence, gratitude, and novelty. Learn how to rewire your brain to experience life more fully, reduce stress, and regulate your...

In this special meditative episode of In Your Bones™ , Vivian guides you through a walking practice designed to help you drop out of your head and back into your body. This isn't about "going for a walk." This is about walking with intention. Whether you're walking through the woods, around your block, or just pacing your backyard — this practice helps you regulate your nervous...

We’ve all been there — that bloated, uncomfortable feeling after a meal. But what if it’s not actually about what you ate... and more about how and when you ate it? In this episode of In Your Bones™ , Vivian shares how years of chasing supplements and biohacks led her back to the wisdom she grew up with — warm food, slow meals, and mindful eating. From her Vietnamese roots to the latest neuroscien...

You've been told "it's all in your head" — and honestly? It is. Just not the way most people think it is.  In this episode, Vivian introduces the Threat Bucket — a mind-body metaphor for your nervous system's total load of stress and perceived threats.  Discover why your brain creates pain as protection (not punishment), how stress, past injuries, poor sleep, and even what...

What happens when the medical system tells you to "wait and see"—and you decide you're done waiting? In the very first episode of In Your Bones™ , Vivian takes you back to the moment everything changed: a routine school screening and a diagnosis that would shape the next three decades of her life. Scoliosis. But this isn't just a story about a curved spine. It's about what...

Have you ever had pain that just wouldn’t go away—no matter what you tried? That was Vivian’s experience with elbow pain that lasted for five straight months. No injury. No obvious cause. And every treatment only brought temporary relief. Until one question—from a mind-body consultant—revealed the emotional pattern hidden beneath the pain. In this episode of In Your Bones™ , Vivian unpacks how emo...

Have you ever felt like your body was holding a story it didn’t have the words to tell? A knot that won’t release. A symptom that doesn’t make sense. A quiet tension that lingers in your posture, your jaw, your chest... In Your Bones™ is the podcast that helps you decode those signals—through the lens of neuroscience, somatics, and ancient healing traditions. I’m Vivian Doan , Integrative Neuro Sp...