The Architecture of Health

The Architecture of Health

By: Deborah Voisin

Language: en-us

Categories: Health, Fitness, Alternative

This show explores practical ways to build health into our everyday lives! We look outside of drugs, surgery, sedentary culture, and linear fitness to find more ways to create lasting health. The host, Deb Voisin, became passionate about regenerating health after helping her son heal several "incurable diseases" that started at birth and lasted the first 10 years of his life. She interviews experts from a variety of disciplines who share their unexpected breakthroughs and the practices and resources that worked. New episodes every 2 weeks. Deb's website is www.movingasdesigned.com.

Episodes

Simply Done with Monica Heine
Dec 15, 2025

In this episode, I’m joined by Monica Heine, author of Simply Done: Stories and Strategies That Make Life More Joyful.

Do you ever feel like your days should have 38 hours instead of 24? In a world where constant busyness has become the norm, Monica offers a refreshing approach to daily life—one rooted not just in productivity, but in leadership.

A recurring theme in our conversation is the kind of leadership that begins at home: how the way we manage our time, energy, and attention shapes healthy parenting, calmer households, and more resilient families.

"S...

Duration: 00:45:12
Harmonizing Homes with Biogeometry- Diana Moll, L.Ac.
Nov 26, 2025

BioGeometry is a modern design-based science rooted in ancient Egyptian principles that uses geometric forms to balance the subtle energy qualities of living systems, environments, and technologies. It centers on a unique “BG3” energy effect—said to create harmony and biological regulation—which practitioners apply through shapes, environmental design, and large-scale EMF harmonization projects, including the well-known Swiss town case studies. The field now spans architecture, agriculture, product design, and home energy balancing, supported by courses, research collaborations, and an expanding global community.Deb invited Diana onto The Architecture of Health because BioGeometry is, quite literally, the architecture of health—b...

Duration: 01:06:20
Musical Breathwork with Brooke McPoyle
Nov 13, 2025

In this episode, Brooke McPoyle—former Division 1 athlete, singer, and creator of Musical Breathwork—shares how her panic attacks and breakdowns inspired her to create a beautiful toolkit where science, sound, and breath collide.

She explains how breath, fascia, and vibration can fine-tune your brain, breath, and body, unlocking resilience and pain-free performance in just 18 minutes a day.

We explore stagnation, whole-body tension, and why restoring tension and rhythm—not forcing change—is the key to sustainable movement and healing.


www.musicalbreathwork.com

instagram musicalbreathwork

Duration: 00:53:44
The Design of Birth: Reclaiming Our Mammalian Blueprint with Eyla Cuenca
Oct 27, 2025

What modern obstetrics often forgets is that we are mammals—with innate birthing instincts honed over tens of thousands of years. When we allow that system to unfold, it’s nearly perfect.


In this episode, Eyla Cuenca, founder of Uncovering Birth, invites us to remember these “new old ways” of self-sovereignty and embodied knowing. Drawing from her background in anthropology, ethnographic photography, and years as a doula and birth trauma specialist, Eyla helps us reconnect to the deep intelligence woven through conception, birth, and beyond.


Join us for a conversa...

Duration: 00:51:13
Allergy Elimination with NAET, Roy Nambudripad M.D.
Oct 12, 2025

Allergies are permanent, right? That's what I thought before I used Nambudripad's Allergy Elimination Technique (NAET).

NAET is a non-invasive, drug-free approach to eliminating allergies of all types. It combines methods like applied kinesiology (muscle testing), acupuncture, acupressure, and nutritional disciplines to identify and treat energy blockages caused by allergens. 

NAET is used for a variety of conditions, including food allergies, environmental allergies, and symptoms like chronic sinusitis, asthma, and fatigue. In fact, it can help heal MANY conditions as you will learn in this fascinating interview with Dr. Nambudripad.

Dr. Roy Nambudripad i...

Duration: 00:50:44
Honor the Animal with Frank Forencich
Sep 28, 2025

Frank Forencich, acclaimed author on evolutionary biology, ecology, and movement, joins me to discuss his latest book "Honor The Animal: Experiential Design for Teachers, Coaches, Trainers, Therapists, Parents, and Health Professionals."


In this conversation, Frank confronts the mounting ecological and social storms that are pushing human stress to new extremes. His message is urgent: to survive and thrive, we must invent new cultures, new ideas, and new ways of living—radically, ferociously, and relentlessly creative.


More importantly, he shares practical strategies to help us train for resilience. By designing de...

Duration: 00:51:11
Upgrade Your First Aid with Jodi Scott
Sep 12, 2025

What if first aid could be more than just disinfecting and covering up wounds? What if it could actually nourish your body while protecting it—without toxic alcohol or petroleum-based products?


In this episode, Deb sits down with Jodi Scott, CEO and Co-Founder of Green Goo: Plants With Purpose, to talk about how a woman-owned, family-run business is reimagining first aid and personal care for the better.


Green Goo creates all-natural herbal salves designed not only to fight infection but to actually feed the tissue so it heals faster. Th...

Duration: 00:50:41
Pain is a Predictor of Threat with Anna Gieselman
Aug 29, 2025

Anna Gieselman is a seasoned movement and wellness professional with over 20 years of experience in the healing arts. Her expertise spans yoga, applied neurology, and functional mobility, with a deep commitment to helping others heal and thrive.


In this lovely conversation, she describes a variety of unexpected and effective ways to train that go beyond functional movement patterns.


To think about reframing pain as a predictor of threat as much or more than a symptom of something that already happened blew Deb’s mind! Even our pain is a pa...

Duration: 00:48:45
Movement Longevity with Dr. Cuan Wayne Coetzee
Aug 15, 2025

Dr. Cuan Wayne Coetzee is a chiropractor, author of "Why Movement Is Medicine," and popular Instagram influencer!

In this interview, we discuss the pillars of movement longevity and practical strategies to move better for the long term.

His instagram account, movemeduk, is where you will find dozens of specific exercises that he has found help people expand their healthy. movement options.

To buy his book or get more information, his website is www.movemed.co.uk.

Duration: 00:43:39
Pasteur Lied? Germ Theory vs. Terrain Theory
Aug 04, 2025

Bechamp and Pasteur were rival scientists who disagreed about the nature of health.


Louis Pasteur's most significant contributions to modern medicine include his development of the germ theory of disease, the process of pasteurization, and the creation of vaccines for rabies and anthrax. These breakthroughs revolutionized disease prevention and treatment and laid the foundation for modern immunology. 


Bechamp is best known for terrain theory, much more akin to the microbiome theories of health that have gained an increasing amount of traction in current years. He essentially understood the balance of...

Duration: 00:15:13
Do Less First: Plant Medicine & The Primordial Code with Brian Costello
Jul 22, 2025

Author Brian Costello shares about tools he has consistently found to help restore our natural vitality and feeling of belonging.

Our conversation flows around the concept of "Do Less First". Brian reminds us over and over that just by protecting our time, space and energy, we can restore our physical health, intuition, our sense of the sacred, and the wonder of it all

Brian also facilitates safe and transformative plant medicine ceremonies. He distinguishes between recreational, intentional, and ceremonial plant medicine experiences.

Brian is the author of "The Primordial Code"- a fictional...

Duration: 00:50:19
Snake Oil Works with Deb Voisin
Jul 06, 2025

Did you know that real snake-oil from the Chinese watersnake is a powerful anti-inflammatory, rich in Omega 3's? That it actually works?

In this episode, Deb Voisin discusses both the irony and reality of what this common smear used against natural medicine really means in the modern pharma-industrial complex.

Deb is a mom who helped her son resolve several "incurable diseases" and is the founder of Moving As Designed.

Duration: 00:15:08
Hurt People Generally Don’t Hurt People: Weaponized Empathy and Personality Disorders with Dr Peter Salerno
Jun 14, 2025

Did you know that “hurt people hurt people” is a dangerously vague, over-used, and under-substantiated claim that invites predatory behavior from dark personalities like narcissists, sociopaths, psychopaths, and other disordered personality types?


Dr. Peter Salerno in this lively interview explains how foundational beliefs behind this statement are embedded in our culture and most therapeutic practices, sometimes putting victims in harm’s way by leaving them open to weaponized empathy, exploitation, and manipulation.


Dr. Salerno is a licensed psychotherapist who specializes in trauma and personality pathology and has authored multiple books...

Duration: 00:57:32
Homeschooling that Supports Joyful, Lifelong Learning with Carol Bowles
Jun 06, 2025

As a working mom, homeschooling seemed way too overwhelming and scary to take on until Covid mandates tipped the scale. On this episode, Carol Bowles helps explain aspects of home schooling that can empower families to design an educational approach that integrates with their whole family's lifestyle....and most of all, unlocks the innate pleasure of learning!

Carol holds a Master's Degree in Education from the University of California Santa Cruz, and a CA Multiple-Subject Teacher Credential. She has been teaching in public and private schools since 2001, including teaching children and teenagers with special needs, teaching reading i...

Duration: 00:52:47
Light Quality, Native Frequencies & Methylene Blue with Andreas David Christou
May 23, 2025

Andreas David Christou has a Master's in Science of Movement and a Bachelor's degree in Nutrition in Cypress. He is a lifestyle optimization coach focused on ciircadian biology and quantum health.

In this delightful interview, Deb and Andreas have a meaningful and wide-ranging conversation about how to design and build foundational health essentials into our everyday lives.

Blue light regulation, red light, sunlight, and methylene blue are all tools that we can use to better support our circadian biology and create a an environment where our bodies can regenerate.


Mobility-fitness...

Duration: 01:03:16
The Crown Jewel of Ayurvedic Medicine: Pancha Karma with Nicola Turner
May 09, 2025

Why is Pancha Karma considered the crown jewel of Ayurvedic Medicine?

In this episode, longtime Ayurvedic Medicine Practitioner and Yoga Therapist, Nicola Turner, shares why and how this thoughtful and integrative approach to restoring health works where other isolated and general approaches sometimes fall short.

For more information, go to www.nicolaturnerayurveda.com

Duration: 00:45:38
The War on Informed Consent: Vaccine Facts and Fiction with Jeremy R. Hammond
Apr 25, 2025

Jeremy R. Hammond is an independent journalist who exposes state propaganda designed to manufacture consent for criminal government policies. He provides deeply researched analyses on critical issues—including US foreign policy, economic policy, and health freedom—to empower readers to think critically, take action, and make an impact.

His work has been cited and recognized for its literary and scholarly excellence by prominent thought leaders including Noam Chomsky, Tom Woods, Max Blumenthal, Paul Craig Roberts, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, and Dr. Joseph Mercola.

Jeremy’s book “The War on Informed Consent: The Persecution of Dr. Paul Thomas by the...

Duration: 01:18:36
Pain-free Athleticism: It Doesn't Have To Hurt to Work with Sandy Gross
Apr 12, 2025

Sandy Gross is a "Regen Specialist"! She teaches her athletic clients the performance care skills they needed to learn to recover better in between practices and games.

Regeneration is a set of skills, that when combined with breath and the mind, are superlative to simple rest and time.

Since 2013, her work has filled a void in the sports performance space with tools, techniques and information that coaches, trainers, athletes, doctors and physical therapists value, but they weren't taught in their schooling. 

Tune in to our conversation about various gentle techniques that can help any...

Duration: 00:53:25
Chronic Wellness: Overcoming Chronic Illness with Trauma Release & Pro-Metabolic Nutrition with Theresa Piela
Mar 28, 2025

After years of debilitating symptoms that brought her to the brink of death at a very young age, Theresa Piela found health in surprising ways. This inspired her to found Living Roots Wellness as a concrete way to give back to those on similar healing paths.

Theresa specializes in difficult to treat gut disorders that failed to respond to traditional antibiotic, herbal, or dietary protocols."The more difficult the case, the better."

Theresa focuses on supporting the most complicated cases with “chronic illness” & trauma patterns that may have lost hope & the ability to connect to joy...

Duration: 01:06:00
Embodied Meditation with Narayani Gaia
Mar 13, 2025

Narayani Gaia is a healer of healers and practitioner of conscious embodiment and global healing! And an amazing dancer!

In this interview, Narayani and Deb explore the question of "What's the difference between embodied meditation and other meditation?"

Narayani is authoring the upcoming book on the Embodied Awakening Map Method. She is the founder of Awakened  Community and works one one-on-one with people and in groups globally.

Social Links

Website: NarayaniGaia.com

Facebook: @lnarayani

Instagram: @gaianarayani

YouTube: Awakened Life TV with Narayani Gaia 

Po...

Duration: 01:01:14
Every Step Stronger: Head Over Foot with David Weck
Mar 01, 2025

David Weck is a regenerative movement visionary and a prolific inventor who has helped millions of people across the globe. From world-class athletes breaking records to disabled individuals regaining the ability to walk, Weck’s inventions and biomechanics concepts have stood the test of time.


In this interview, David shares how walking in perfect balance creates a priceless and irreplaceable confidence and resilience. He breaks it down to simple steps to start implementing “Head Over Foot” that can help any make Every Step Stronger! Weck’s work was a big part of helping Deb understa...

Duration: 01:09:58
Thermography for Breast Health & Cancer Prevention with Debby DeMartini, CCT
Feb 14, 2025

Thermography exposes sensitive breast tissue to 1/1000th the amount of radiation that traditional mammography does. Not only is it safer and cheaper, it identifies inflammation in various parts of the body that are critical for building a systemic and preventative approach to resolving or avoiding chronic diseases like cancer and metabolic diseases. 

In host Deb Voisin’s case, starting at age 26, doctors always prescribed expensive, frequent, and often false positive mammography scans because her breasts were lumpy and her mom had breast cancer. Fortunately, she eventually discovered thermography and Debby De Martini! This game changing approach showed tha...

Duration: 00:56:28
Head Injuries, Birth Trauma and Craniosacral therapy with Cindy Bacon
Feb 01, 2025

Deb was shocked at the relief for head injuries and birth trauma that Cindy Bacon, a very experienced craniosacral therapist, was able to help facilitate for members of her family.

In this episode, Cindy shares how this therapy helped her recover from a traumatic brain injury and other experiences as a midwife and home-birth specialist that motivated her to practice this method.

Craniosacral therapy focuses on the bones, membranes, and fluid of the head, neck, and spine (craniosacral system). Practitioners work with the natural, rhythmic movement that can be disrupted by stress, trauma, or disease an...

Duration: 00:44:25
Effortlessly Reduce Inflammation with Alkalized Hydrogen Rich Water with Thai Cabados
Jan 17, 2025

In Deb’s healing journey, she was surprised at how impactful ions from grounding and ionic footbaths were to support healing from autoimmune and other “incurable” conditions.

Once she learned that they worked in great part because they decreased chronic inflammation, she finally found and started using alkalized hydrogen-rich water because it was much more powerful and easier to integrate into her everyday life! Decreasing chronic inflammation became effortless!

Reduced inflammation enhances the body’s ability to heal, promotes healthier tissues, and supports better organ function. Hydrogen-rich water increases antioxidant capacity and thereby decreases the inflamma...

Duration: 00:38:58
Is Sitting Really The New Smoking? with Deb Voisin
Jan 03, 2025

Deb Voisin, founder of Moving As Designed, has spent decades considering the physical and cultural aspects of sitting. She has intensely tested a variety of approaches to optimizing it as important part of her health freedom.

In fact, when Deb sat at her most as a sedentary technology professional with a daily 3-hour commute, she gained an inch in height from very intentional small changes in how she sat!

Whether or not sitting is really the new smoking, it is a critical part of our lifestyle design that merits its own episode!

References:<...

Duration: 00:30:47
Healing the Brain with Color: Irlen Visions with Susan Hughes
Dec 14, 2024

Susan Hughes is MA Certified Irlen® diagnostician and director of Irlen Visions. She was a teacher for 23 years and started working as a screener for Irlen® Syndrome in 1988. after three of her children tested positive for Irlen® Syndrome.

She had been told her 14 year old son was lazy and poorly motivated. After wearing the Irlen spectral filters for six months he was moved into the gifted program. Her other children had similar improvements! 

Since then, Susan’s work as an Irlen diagnostician has provided a key tool for brain healing that has helped thousands of people with a...

Duration: 00:49:36
Slaying Toxic Myths with Scott Mason
Nov 29, 2024

Scott Mason is a myth-slayer, attorney, podcaster, TEDx speaker, and leadership coach! In this interview, he shines a light on toxic myths that can obstruct our personal transformation.

With his depth of knowledge in mythology, he uses myths to debunk myths and gives us practical tools for becoming our most vital self!

He also shares his key part as Deb's first dance teacher in Deb's epic movement journey!

For more information about Scott's many offerings, go www.myfreedomrocks.com.

Duration: 00:54:32
Shamanism & Energy Medicine with Marc Mangus
Nov 17, 2024

Marc Mangus is a practicing shaman. Shamanic healing and energy medicine helped him recover from crippling injuries he sustained in a car accident.

He not only made a dramatic recovery for his broken spine, he also started regenerating health in a way he never imagined possible, even before the accident. 

Marc shares insights into shamanic principles that helped guide his healing journey and that he uses with his clients. 

For more information about Marc and the shamanic healing services he offers, visit his website www.vital-harmony.com

Duration: 00:52:40
Faith, Intuition, Meditation & Stress with Regan Caruthers
Nov 02, 2024

Regan Caruthers, author of Tragic Magic and spiritual teacher, shares wisdom she acquired from major life events and decades of training. 


We talk about what helped her build discernment & intuition in ways that brought more freedom, joy, love and health to her life. This includes the role of our heart in intuition and coherence, the role of meditation and prayer in stress management, and many more practical topics!


We also briefly touch upon what does NOT work...where we fall into spiritual bypassing or get stuck in reactiveness rather t...

Duration: 01:01:21
Hormone Harmony: Women's Health & Fertility Basics with Emily Waterfield-Buttner
Oct 17, 2024

In her health journey, Deb was surprised to find one of the most confusing and downright wrong ideas about health were rooted in women’s health, hormones, energy metabolism, and fertility. 


In this episode, Integrative Nutrition Health Coach, Menstrual Cycle Educator and founder of Golden Wellness Emily Waterfield-Buttner describes her journey away from toxic hormonal birth control methods and towards golden wellness that is practical, sustainable, and affordable!


We discuss very practical tools that will make women of almost any age restore health, fertility, and hormonal harmony.

Duration: 00:51:18

Ground to Crown: Simple Ways to Be More Grounded
Oct 05, 2024

Deb Voisin, the host of this podcast, shares the crashes and episodes of trying way too hard to be healthy that eventually resulted in her discovery of ways to be grounded that are simple and sustainble.

Curing the incurable and reaching our full health potential without expensive procedures and gadgets is only possible when we are truly grounded!

Duration: 00:29:53
Natural Singing is a Health Practice with Heather Houston
Sep 19, 2024

In this interview, Heather Houston shares how cultivating our natural singing voices bring health in a surprising number of ways! 


Heather has been a professional singer for much of her life and only recently learned that she had a tongue-tie. Tongue ties can be so restrictive that they deform normal facial growth, but after decades of having one, she finally saw a natural orthodontist who told her that her singing practice is what preserved her healthy facial architecture! 


Heather gives us immediate first steps to take for harnessing this po...

Duration: 00:47:56
Becoming Durable Is Simple But Not Easy: Moving and Resting Like a GOATA with Ricky Stanzi
Sep 04, 2024

Widespread chronic pain is modern...so are cultures designed around chairs and sedentary living that don't regularly get down on the ground. Ricky Stanzi is a former professional football player who experienced recurrent injuries. After years of research, he discovered something that was simple and worked which was Goata Movement. In this interview, Ricky articulates aspects of our design that once honored and incorporated into our everyday movement can make us more durable and free for the long term. He describes the skeletal architecture of the foot and the coiling movements native to our species that the Goata Movement...

Duration: 01:28:43
Of Rats, Frogs, and Dogs: Re-imagining Health in an Alien World with Frank Forencich
Aug 22, 2024

Frank Forencich is a writer, philosopher, human advocate, and founder of Exuberant Animal. He is a visionary and leader in the primal movement revolution who has authored many books and presented at many events around the world.

In this interview, we take a more expansive view of the human body as it extends beyond our skin and connects deeply with our environments. Frank offers useful ways to imagine health in a stressful, sedentary world that challenges our evolutionary biology.

From reimagining medicine to play tribes and participatory athleticism, we cover a lot of territory!

...

Duration: 00:48:17
Boundaried Listening to Build Connection with Grace Fleming of Hand In Hand Parenting
Aug 06, 2024

We have 2 ears and one mouth for a reason!

In this episode, Grace Fleming of Hand In Hand Parenting shares the neuroscience behind how specific listening practices helps us connect more authentic and respectful ways. She also shares about what kind of boundaries help this happen. 

Deb studied Hand In Hand parenting with Grace when he son was small, so these listening practices are especially powerful for parents, but their utility extends to almost any type of relationship. 

gracefleming@handinhandparenting.org

https://www.handinhandparenting.org/

BOOK: Listen: Five Simple To...

Duration: 00:49:25
Project Run-Wave: 111 Days of Sprinting in Skirts
Jul 24, 2024

Despite a variety of setbacks and injuries, Deb shares how she finally grew to love running at age 57!

After yet another horrible hip crash that left her limping and cawling to avoid stabbing pain, she regained her ability to sprint in a surprising way. Determined to keep that ability no matter what, she decided to start sprinting every day for at least 111 days in a row.

This tiny commitment over the 111 days transformed not only how she ran, but helped her authentically confront things that had prevented her from enjoying running. She called this experiment...

Duration: 00:41:37
Safe and Sound: Calming the Nervous System with Sound with Vincent Wilkin
Jul 11, 2024

Vincent Wilkin is a physician, professinal musician, and a Safe And Sound practitioner.

In this interview, Vince reminds us that safety is the foundation of health. The Safe and Sound protocol that he uses helps his clients make progress in many life areas. It combines specific filtered sound frequencies with a supportive therapist or administrator. It has successfully treated a variety of complex health problems like PTSD and birth trauma!

Deb is excited to share this information with more people because it made a noticeable improvement in her son's healing journey.

Vince and...

Duration: 00:57:06
Moving In Our Design is Simple and Freeing with Original Strength Founder Tim Anderson
Jun 29, 2024

Tim created Original Strength in 2009 after suffering repetitive stress injuries from his athletic pursuits when he was led simple movement protocols that had a measurably positive effect on people with ADHD...and found that they instantly improved his quality of movement!

Deb has been heavily inspired by the simplicity, effectiveness, and practicality of the Original Strength movement toolkit for years and HAD to have its originator, Tim Anderson on her show for an interview!!!! WOW this was SUCH A FUN AND USEFUL INTERVIEW!

In this interview, Tim shares plenty of stories of healing along with...

Duration: 00:49:27
Hydration, Salt & Minerals with Craig Lane
Jun 18, 2024

Craig Lane, the founder of Health Alkemy and inventor of the title “Holistologist,” Certified Nutritionist (B.S. in Nutrition) and Herbalist, has experience and education in Western medicine, Chinese medicine, and Ayurveda.

Deb invited Craig to discuss hydration because only after years of drinking 8 glasses of water a day did she realize that it was having a negative health impact!

Craig explains the complex interconnections between dehydrating agents like caffeine and alcohol, mineral levels, salt types, and water purification methods that help us get a better picture of what creates optimal health.

To lear...

Duration: 01:05:23
Integrative Dentistry and Oral Posture for Health Optimization with Dr. Ariana Ebrahimien
May 24, 2024

When my son was young, he had a variety of chemical sensitivies, food allergies, and crowded teeth. In the process of working with Dr.Ariana Ebrahimien, I learned how changing oral posture and guiding facial growth could double airway size...and as he grew, his face and oral posture changed and he eventually lost ALL food and chemical sensitivies...and has a gorgeous jawline to boot!

In this interview, Dr. Ebrahimien and I discuss various aspects of how holistic dentistry and oral posture are powerful tools for optimizing our overall health. Breathing, chewing, and swallowing are the...

Duration: 00:47:01
From Obese and Disabled to Endurance Athlete- Red Herzog's Health Reclamation Story
May 02, 2024

This week on The Architecture of Health podcast, I interviewed competitive athlete, mom, and stunt woman, Red Herzog!
She shares her incredible journey from being almost completely unable to walk, even with a walker at 350 pounds. She shares what gave her the determination to make a complete transformation..in part by going against doctor's orders. By taking one more step every day, she eventually became an elite-level multi-disciplinary athlete and stunt woman.

You can learn more about or reach Red on her Instgram account Redhotrises.

Duration: 00:51:20
Biotensegrity and Bone Awakening with Dr. Michele Tarento and Agnes Douillet
Apr 24, 2024

Dr. Michele Tarento is a health-through-movement pioneer who has decades of education and experience as a physician, an osteopath, a biology professor, and a professional modern dancer. She is also the inventor of a somatic approach to movement and posture called Oseto-Eveil©.

In our interview, Michele explains how the architecture of our bodies is dynamic, a state of constantly rebalancing tensions-- an expression of biotensegrity.

The bones are our most compressed tissue and the benefits of awakening them through simple practices that she describes in our interview is backed by solid research.

One o...

Duration: 01:02:54
Integrated Foot Strength Is Essential for Healthy Movement with Nic Simpson
Apr 14, 2024

This week's episode is with Nicholas Simpson, Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology (BScKin), NSCA Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS). Nic has coached multiple medal-winning athletes and teams at the international & Olympic levels.

In this interview, we discuss how important healthy feet are for our agility and athleticism. They are our primary interface with our environment and integrated foot strengthening is not commonly emphasized despite being a weak spot for most people who wear shoes all the time!The few foot strengthening protocols that are commonly practiced are ineffective because they look at the foot as separate...

Duration: 00:58:28
Harvesting Sunlight Thoughtfully with Craig Lane
Mar 29, 2024

Craig Lane, the founder of Health Alkemy and inventor of the title “Holistologist,” Certified Nutritionist (B.S. in Nutrition) and Herbalist, has experience and education in Western medicine, Chinese medicine, and Ayurveda. He bridges the gap between modern medicine and proven Ancient Health Traditions.

In this interview, Craig shares why sunlight exposure is so critical to human health and how to do it thoughtfully...HINT: it's not as simple as smear on sunscreen! (which is mostly toxic!)

For resources and more information, you can contact Craig at www.healthalkemy.com and https://linktr.ee/healthalkemy?ltsi...

Duration: 00:47:11
Green Building and Practical Environmentalism with Karsten Mueller
Mar 24, 2024

Karsten Mueller has both a Master's degree in Holistic Nutrition and a PHD in Ecology. He has decades of experience both in governmental positions and green real estate development projects that prioritize environmental health.

Over the years, Karsten became skeptical of the role of government in improving environmental health, especially after seeing the inefficiency of politics firsthand working in government...and even more so after experiencing the alarmist, ineffective, and misguided public health policies governments issued during Covid.

In this conversation, Deb and Karsten cover practical and enjoyable ways anyone can care for the environment...

Duration: 01:02:44
Movement Liberation with Marlo Fisken
Mar 08, 2024

Marlo Fisken is a world-renowned movement educator, pole dance problem-solver & wiggle advocate! She is well known for helping a huge number of people discover that fluid, creative, dance-based movement doesn't have to be complicated or intimidating.

She has been a professional dancer for 30 years, taught for 18, and has a degree in anthropology and public relations. She was an early innovator in pole dancing waaaaaaay before it became popular and the body of work she has developed is called Flow Movement.

In this conversation, Marlo and Deb chat about practical ways to design a lifestyle that...

Duration: 00:53:08
Beyond Traditional Physical Therapy: Holistic Recovery & Injury Reduction with Dr. Shaun Astorga
Mar 04, 2024

Despite having a doctorate in clinical physical therapy, even Dr. Astorga hit a dead end with conventional medical approaches when he experienced a severe neck and head injury.

Instead of settling for possibly lifelong incapacitation, he found the help he needed from a movement researcher/therapist who helped him fully recover by shifting his understanding of how the body is designed to move.

As a result, he brought the work to his patients and then to other physical therapists, coaches, and personal trainers so that they could also help their clients restore movement freedom.

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Duration: 00:39:54
The Design of Eating with Callie Cavanaugh
Feb 22, 2024

Callie Cavanaugh is the Author of "Eating In by Design: The Essential Guidebook to Redesign Personal & Planetary Health from Home."

Callie experienced health issues due to a tapeworm and leaky gut. The more food she restricted, the more disconnected she felt. As a result, Callie spent a decade studying and researching ancient to modern modalities of healthy eating. As a trained chef and design professional, she brought her sense of design and aesthetics to discover what she calls The Eat In Method.

Given that healthy eating is one of the most essential activities we do...

Duration: 00:45:06
Rebuild Your Skin Microbiome using Ayurvedic Principles with Nicola Turner
Feb 12, 2024

When Deb recently easily went 113 days in a row without of not getting her hair wet and her hair health dramatically improved, she realized that there was also probably a better way to nourish her skin as well!

In this interview, Ayurvedic medicine practitioner Nicola Turner describes how using too much soap can damage your skin's protective microbiome and the restorative oiling practices that she learned and teaches her clients as an Ayurvedic medicine practitioner.

We also cover a few high-level Ayurvedic principles about healing, self-care, and transformation.

For more information about Nicola...

Duration: 00:28:17
Stretching is Overrated: Strength and Yoga
Feb 09, 2024

Hannah of Hannah Presence Yoga is a successful yoga teacher in the UK who has taught a lot of different types of yoga classes to a wide variety of people.

At one point in her career, her yoga practice stopped progressing. She visited a personal trainer and was shocked at not only how weak certain muscles were but how much more "flexible" she became once she got stronger!

She realized that part of what she and other yoga teachers characterized as muscle "tightness" was often a sign of muscle weakness and overstretching... So she redesigned...

Duration: 00:41:42
Why Did I Create This Show?
Jan 31, 2024

I once received a $350,000 medical bill for misdiagnosis, surgery, and medication that DIDN'T WORK to resolve a problem that a simple elimination diet mostly corrected a few months later for free.

Although I had insurance, I still had to pay a $20,000 copay for the useless and damaging interventions.

This unexpected experience catalyzed me to start a 17-year journey down a deep rabbit hole of root-cause health research to find practical alternatives to invasive, expensive, and often inappropriate medical procedures...and many were not only free but simple, enjoyable, and unexpected!

I used research...

Duration: 00:24:28
Breath Re-patterning for a Pain-free Life with Fractal Biomechanics
Jan 25, 2024

Ankoor Bhattacharjee, founder of fractal.biomechanics, coaches clients to repattern their breathing with specific positions that feed whole-body regeneration. He helped Deb in 2022 when he taught her that hip problems were breathing problems!

In this episode, we discuss: inefficient breathing breath causes pooch-belly, the difference between diaphragmatic breathing and belly breathing, easiest ways to let go of muscular tension interfering with your breath, how "healthy" things like backbends and 6-pack abs can interfere with healthy breath patterns, why breath is the most important pattern you can train with the right blueprints that align with gravity/natural law.<...

Duration: 00:43:19
Reclaim your Primal Movement Foundation with Bam Lionheart
Jan 20, 2024

Bam Lionheart, the founder of Primal Movement, was a talented multi-disciplinary athlete and a professional personal trainer when he hit a wall applying to join Air Force Special Operations. No matter what he did, he could not meet the elite running criteria. This made no sense since he was already EXERCISING ALL THE TIME!

Bam discovered that he was running "in reverse" of the movement pattern needed to fun fast enough to make the cut....and finally understood why he had avoided running most of his life. It HURT!

From that point on, Bam not...

Duration: 00:45:28
Wake Up Your Dreams with Katherine Bell
Jan 13, 2024

Dr. Katherine Bell is both an expert on dreaming and has a PhD in AstroPhysics. She has spent decades cultivating her expertise in helping people unlock dreaming's power for self-discovery and authentic, very personal transformation.

In this episode, we discuss the neuroscience of dreaming, the dreamer's paradox, and practical ways to let your dreams work for you.

For more info about Katherine's various offerings including 1:1 work, podcasts, and writing, go to www.experientialdreamwork.com

Duration: 00:34:44