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 day approached and life became busier than expected, she seriously considered backing out more than once. Instead, she decided to keep her commitment and show up.
The race became more than a physical challenge. It was a reminder that some of the most rewarding experiences in life happen when we're willing to be uncomfortable. Confidence grows when we do hard things. Life becomes more interesting when we stop choosing only what's familiar.

If you've been tempted to back away from something because it feels difficult or inconvenient, this episode is an invitation to consider what might be waiting for you if you keep going. Now available wherever you get your podcasts!
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction00:56 Duathlon Backstory02:56 Quitting Then Reconsidering04:57 Choosing Discomfort09:34 Race Day Recap11:28 Purification And Growth13:13 Fire Transforms14:58 Your Tapas Challenge16:14 Conclusion
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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 helpers can become energetically depleted when caring for others takes priority over caring for themselves. Through the lens of Energy Medicine and the Five Elements, they share why making a commitment to your own well-being changes the way you show up in your relationships, work, and purpose.

The conversation also marks a major milestone in Blaine’s journey with EMYoga. From student and assistant to COO and now legal co-owner, Blaine reflects on how stepping into ownership has strengthened her confidence, leadership, decision-making, and relationship with responsibility. She opens up about navigating increased financial awareness, developing a stronger backbone, and learning to balance her natural Metal energy with more Fire, joy, and playfulness.

Lauren and Blaine also dive into their unique partnership dynamics, exploring how Metal and Water energies complement one another, why trust has become the foundation of their work together, and how they navigate changing plans and big visions.

They share the future of EMYoga, including upcoming programs to scale their vision. Now available wherever you get your podcasts!

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction00:35 The Earth Element & Self-Care02:25 Why Commitment Changes Everything03:12 Blaine’s Journey to Co-Owner05:36 The Shift After Signing the Papers07:47 Responsibility, Leadership & Backbone11:53 Coaching for Stage Presence & Energy13:56 Balancing Metal Energy with Fire16:07 Working with a Water-Energy CEO18:29 Building Trust Through the Years19:53 Scheduling & Different Energy Styles21:34 Trends in the Healing Industry23:11 Staying Grounded in Your Niche25:52 The Vision for EMYoga26:28 Training Teachers, Healers & Leaders30:00 Commitment, Growth & Chakra Shifts33:30 Conclusion
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#EnergyMedicineYoga #EMYoga #EnergyWorksPodcast #WellnessPodcast #EnergyMedicine #FiveElements #PersonalGrowth #LeadershipDevelopment #HolisticHealth #ConsciousLeadership #WomenInLeadership #GrowthMindset 

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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 injustice. However, when it is ignored, suppressed, or redirected, it often shows up in unexpected ways.

Drawing from her own family experiences, Lauren discusses how patterns around expressing or denying anger can shape our well-being. She also examines cultural and gender influences that affect how anger is perceived and expressed, and shares insights into the potential health impacts of chronically unexpressed anger.

Lauren offers practical tools for working with anger in a safe and constructive way. She guides listeners through Energy Medicine Yoga techniques such as "Expelling the Venom" (or "Blowout"), to help release excess liver and gallbladder energy, as well as neurovascular holds to support emotional processing.

The episode concludes with ways to channel anger into clarity, empowerment, and meaningful action. Now available wherever you get your podcasts!

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:50 Why Anger Now
02:53 Anger as Signal
05:20 When Anger Is Suppressed
07:16 Family Anger Lineage
10:01 Anger Power and Risks
12:42 Gender and Media Examples
15:56 Somatic Anger Practices
17:36 Turning Rage Into Action
19:20 Expelling the Venom Demo
23:51 Temple Hold and Meaning
25:47 Transform Rage Together
27:20 Conclusion

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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 about family conditioning, childhood stress patterns, and the ways our nervous systems respond around the people who shaped us earliest.

Using the lens of Energy Medicine and the Fire Element, Blaine explores the relationship between connection, protection, emotional openness, and the body's instinct to guard the heart. She also shares some of the intentional tools she uses during family visits to help her body feel more open, calm, and connected when old patterns start getting activated.

If family gatherings leave you feeling tense, emotional, shut down, overactivated, or exhausted afterward, this episode will probably feel very familiar.

Now available wherever you get your podcasts!

Chapters:

00:00 Introduction

00:49 My Brother

02:53 First Chest Sensation

06:31 Why It Happens

09:41 Fire Energy Conflict

12:03 Calming Breath Tool

13:24 Thymus Tapping

14:22 Pinky Nail Acupressure

15:24 Chest Opening Reset

15:54 Conclusion

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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 an experiment with watercolor painting ended in a surprising shift in the nervous system. Her Oura ring data shifted measurably from “stressed” to “relaxed” during and after the session, providing her with real-time evidence that play affects far more than mood. 

From there, Lauren and Blaine explore how play can be woven into work itself. They introduce the yogic concept of “Lila,” meaning cosmic play, and how the witness perspective allows you to participate fully in the present moment.

But they don't stop at the bright side. The episode takes an honest turn into play's shadow through discussing boundary-testing teasing, gaslighting disguised as humor, and the pull of addictive play.

The conversation lands on attunement, balance, and the difference between play that restores and play that consumes. This one goes deep and leaves you with a richer, more honest relationship with what it means to truly play. Now available wherever you get your podcasts!

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction00:19 Why Another Play Episode00:57 Book Play By Stuart Brown01:18 Redefining Purposeful Play02:07 Ego Protection And Pushback04:51 Watercolor Test And Afterglow05:35 Oura Ring Stress Data08:19 Proof Play Boosts Performance09:56 Bringing Play Into Retreat Work12:37 Lila Cosmic Play Concept13:30 Witness Self Versus Flow15:19 Runner Mindset Lightness15:58 Play Boosts Performance16:45 Stress Metrics and Recovery18:41 When Play Turns Harmful21:11 Addiction and Compulsive Play23:21 Finding Healthy Boundaries24:44 Running as a Drug27:58 Attunement and Flow State29:40 Conclusion

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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 for Boulder County employees during a particularly stressful season at work. What happened next surprised her. The response was immediate. People felt calmer, more present, and relieved to have tools they could use right away, rather than one more thing to “work on.”
Blaine talks about what slowing down really means in the body, why so many people stay stuck in a low-grade stress response all day long, and the small moment during the Boulder County session that made her realize this conversation needs to happen in far more places than yoga studios.
She also shares a few of the practices from the workshop and explains why simple, repeatable actions can have such a strong effect on the nervous system over time.
If stress has started feeling more normal than calm, this episode is for you. Now available wherever you get your podcasts!
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction00:36 Rec Center Backstory03:14 Workshops and Scheduling03:58 Workshop Idea Sparks05:49 County Invite and Buzz08:59 Three Tools to Slow Down10:37 Nose Breathing Basics13:38 Forehead Hold Reset15:11 Side Stretch and Energy Hug18:24 Recap and Conclusion
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#EnergyMedicineYoga #EMYoga #EnergyWorksPodcast #WellnessPodcast #TheArtofSlowingDown #Presence #NervousSystemReset #SlowDown #EnergyHealing

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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 activities we often mislabel as play, like cooking, exercise, and goal-driven creativity.

Blaine shares a story from her triathlon days that reveals how deeply she struggled to shift from structured training into genuine playfulness, and what finally inspired her to pick up watercolor painting purely for joy. Lauren describes turning landscaping chores and snow clearing into spontaneous games, and why that shift matters more than it sounds.

Together, they connect authentic play to energy coherence, stress recovery, better sleep, creativity, and even animal survival behavior. Lauren and Blaine make the case that small, purposeless "play breaks" aren't a luxury, but a biological and energetic need.

Now available wherever you get your podcasts!
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction01:14 Billionaires And Backlash 03:01 Integrity And Nuance 05:08 Blaine Reacts To Play 05:53 Consternation Defined 07:16 Triathlon Joy Story 11:55 Defining Play Together 15:08 Blaine Finds Her Play 20:13 Purpose Versus Play 23:34 Is Cooking Really Play 24:38 Purposeless Play Debate 25:04 Cooking as Social Play 25:51 Gendered Views on Purpose 26:45 Landscaping Turned Game 29:14 Snowballing the Deck 30:43 Play as Energy Coherence 33:52 Intel Fires Itself 36:33 Stress Data Meets Play 41:49 Animals Play for Survival 45:07 Fire Element and Healing 46:49 Tiny Play Break Ideas 47:52 Conclusion
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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-global Energy Medicine Yoga community.

Blaine shares the podcast's origin story: after years of hoping to find the right co-host, she realized the perfect partner had been right in front of her. Lauren said yes, and the rest is history. 

To celebrate, they count down their top five most-loved episodes and close by looking ahead.

Now available wherever you get your podcasts!
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction01:13 Gratitude To Listeners 02:11 Niche Audience, Global Reach 03:46 Origin Story Manifesting 06:20 Lauren Joins The Show 07:48 Consistency And Podfade09:43 Top Five Episodes Countdown 16:16 Top Episode Is With Donna Eden 18:03 Conclusion
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Top Five Episodes:1) Death and Dying with Donna Eden — https://youtu.be/n_qQn72jmDo
2) Beyond Gut Feelings: Intuition — https://youtu.be/cbI0bGo81CA
3) The Invisible Healer: Subtle Energies — https://youtu.be/tLaYF3fV2fw
4) Chanting with Jill Purce — https://youtu.be/PFaBiYdFePA
5) The Soul's Role in Healing, Death & Transformation with Sarah Allen — https://youtu.be/-PEyUWUidkQ 

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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 sales rep who quietly stumbled into a life of longevity through meditation, community, creativity, and presence.
Pat shares the story of how a career move from New York to Massachusetts in 1972 led him to daily meditation, a practice he's kept for over 50 years. He talks about quitting smoking at 62 using a surprisingly simple mindset shift, the grief of outliving so many friends, and what it means to still feel connected and purposeful at nearly 90.
Lauren and Pat also explore his extraordinary "art diary," a handmade calendar project he's maintained since 1972, filled with drawings, collage, and dry humor that documents the texture of daily life. 
Pat reflects honestly on death, the afterlife, regret, and the wisdom he'd offer anyone trying to live well.
This is a heartfelt conversation about aging, meaning, and the small things that quietly add up to a long, full life. Now available wherever you get your podcasts!
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction00:27 Nearing Ninety 01:03 Staying Active, Moving Slower 02:35 What a Hernia Scan Taught Him 04:29 Family Roots of Longevity 06:15 His Take on Longevity Habits08:35 How He Quit Smoking at 62 12:48 How Meditation Began 17:55 50+ Years of Daily Mantra Practice 19:47 The Art Diary Calendar Project 21:33 Why He Started It in 1972 23:15 What Goes Into Each Day 24:31 Documenting the Texture of Life 25:31 Collage, Drawing & Humor 28:29 Love, Marriage & Mara 31:27 Community as Longevity Medicine 33:26 Procrastination, Photos & Presence 38:05 His Thoughts on Death 41:53 Afterlife, Regrets & What He'd Change 45:50 Why He Prefers Analog Over Digital 47:20 Conclusion
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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 suppressed emotions impact both relationships and health.

Drawing from Chinese Medicine, she looks at what starts to build when experiences go unexpressed, and how that can show up in the body over time. She also touches on how holding things in affects your energy and sense of connection, often long before you notice.

Through personal insight and practical wisdom, Blaine explains that opening up can restore energy flow, deepen connection, and support healing. If you’ve been carrying something silently, this episode offers a powerful reminder that healing begins when you bring it into the light. Now available wherever you get your podcasts!

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction00:29 Burke’s Lifelong Friendships02:25 The Colorado Hike04:19 Heart Surgery Reveal05:54 Why We Keep Secrets08:06 Liver Qi and Plum Stone09:45 Lung Qi and Letting Go10:28 Heart Qi and Shen Protection13:37 Breaking the Dam to Heal14:28 Connection Through Asking Help16:36 Shame Can’t Survive Light18:08 Conclusion
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#EnergyMedicineYoga #EMYoga #EnergyWorksPodcast #WellnessPodcast #EnergyHealing #SpeakYourTruth #EmotionalWellness #QiStagnation