"A letter to our co-host, producer, and most importantly, our cherished friend.

Look what we made.

Nearly five years ago, we started the Ojas Oasis podcast. Today we publish our Season 9 finale. And somehow, after all those hours of talking into microphones, the thing I most want to tell you is something I usually say when it’s just the two of us: I love you. And since it’s your birthday this week, I figured I’d say it where everyone can hear me.

Our listeners have heard me talk about my journey to becoming an Ayurvedic Doctor. You knew me while I was still becoming one. When I look back on those years, I can name the schools I went to and the teachers I learned from. I want to be just as clear about whose friendship held me through them. Erin, it was yours.

I now viscerally understand why Oprah calls Gayle her sister-friend. You’re the sister and the friend of my dreams. And whatever stage I get to stand on, however many people I’m lucky enough to help and teach about Ayurveda, I want them to know your name, too. This is something we made together.

To everyone listening, may you remember the phrase: Root To Rise. Strong roots enable us to rise and bloom in our fullest expression. In our yoga practice, sometimes that means grounding through the soles of our feet or the palms of our hands. In life, sometimes that means the friendships we sustain and nurture.

The friendship that started this podcast became Dharma through years of Devotion and showing up consistently for each other. Especially before and after the microphones are off.

Happy birthday, Erin."

- Sasha

Send us Fan Mail

This episode is brought to you by Ojas Oasis Ayurveda, Sasha's private clinical practice. Schedule a 30-minute strategy session here.

For 10% off Kerala Ayurveda, use code OjasOasis. For 20% off GarryNSun, code OJASOASIS20. For 10% off Ora Cacao, code OjasOasis10.

Support the show

To learn more about working with us, please visit www.OjasOasis.com
Connect with us @ojasoasis on Instagram, X, TikTok, and YouTube

What happens when we stop trying to do everything on our own—and allow ourselves to be supported? How might our relationship with ourselves change when we feel safe enough to be seen by others?

Today, we're joined by Ferny Barcelo, an Austin-based holistic psychotherapist, licensed professional counselor supervisor, yoga instructor, and women’s mentor.

For over a decade, Ferny has helped women navigate anxiety, perfectionism, relationship challenges, burnout, and the quiet ways we lose ourselves while caring for everyone else. Her work blends evidence-based psychotherapy with mindfulness, somatic practices, and the wisdom of yoga, helping women move from self-doubt and survival mode toward lives rooted in self-trust, connection, and purpose.

In this conversation, we explore the intersection of yoga, therapy, and feminine power—and how reconnecting with the body can open a deeper relationship with ourselves.

We also talk about sisterhood, women’s circles, and Ferny’s work with the Shakti Collective: spaces where women can share their experiences, feel understood, and grow together. Our conversation extends to men’s need for connection and emotional vulnerability, and what becomes possible when we have communities that support us.

At the heart of this episode is an invitation to consider where we’re carrying too much alone—and what it might feel like to let someone in.

Send us Fan Mail

This episode is brought to you by Ojas Oasis Ayurveda, Sasha's private clinical practice. Schedule a 30-minute strategy session here.

For 10% off Kerala Ayurveda, use code OjasOasis. For 20% off GarryNSun, code OJASOASIS20. For 10% off Ora Cacao, code OjasOasis10.

Support the show

To learn more about working with us, please visit www.OjasOasis.com
Connect with us @ojasoasis on Instagram, X, TikTok, and YouTube

What do hypnotherapy, mantra, and prayer have in common—and what can they teach us about the power of the mind to influence our health?

Today, I’m joined by Danny Miranda, a certified hypnotist, to explore the connections between Ayurveda, hypnotherapy, and spiritual healing—and how attention, repetition, and the meaning we give our experiences can shape our inner world.

Modern hypnosis developed through the work of figures like Franz Mesmer in the eighteenth century and James Braid in the nineteenth. Long before that, India’s Vedic traditions preserved sacred teachings through chanting, with sound and precise recitation at the heart of spiritual practice.

These traditions have distinct histories and purposes, but exploring them together raises fascinating questions about the relationship between words, awareness, and experience.

In hypnotherapy, focused attention and therapeutic suggestion can help people change their responses to sensations and experiences. In mantra practice, chanting, and prayer, sound and repetition can become anchors for concentration, devotion, and contemplation.

Through an Ayurvedic lens, we’ll also consider the mind’s prominent role in samprapti—the process through which disease develops—and what that relationship can teach us about caring for the whole person.

Join us as we bring ancient wisdom and modern inquiry into a conversation about attention, belief, and the role of the mind in healing.

Send us Fan Mail

This episode is brought to you by Ojas Oasis Ayurveda, Sasha's private clinical practice. Schedule a 30-minute strategy session here.

For 10% off Kerala Ayurveda, use code OjasOasis. For 20% off GarryNSun, code OJASOASIS20. For 10% off Ora Cacao, code OjasOasis10.

Support the show

To learn more about working with us, please visit www.OjasOasis.com
Connect with us @ojasoasis on Instagram, X, TikTok, and YouTube

Today, we're joined by Dr. Patrick Porter; author, speaker, and founder of BrainTap, a brain fitness system that combines guided audio, binaural beats, and an optional light-and-sound headset. His work explores how light, sound, and guided meditation can help us shift our mental state.

In Ayurveda, we pay close attention to what we take in through our senses and how those impressions influence our mind.

Today, we explore the concept of brain fitness, the inspiration behind BrainTap, and how to cultivate greater ease in a world that constantly asks us to stay on.

Whether you’re curious about brain health, looking for ways to improve sleep and focus, or simply trying to feel less depleted, this conversation offers a fresh perspective on the habits and inputs that support your wellbeing.

Send us Fan Mail

This episode is brought to you by Ojas Oasis Ayurveda, Sasha's private clinical practice. Schedule a 30-minute strategy session here.

For 10% off Kerala Ayurveda, use code OjasOasis. For 20% off GarryNSun, code OJASOASIS20. For 10% off Ora Cacao, code OjasOasis10.

Support the show

To learn more about working with us, please visit www.OjasOasis.com
Connect with us @ojasoasis on Instagram, X, TikTok, and YouTube

How often do we move straight from one thing to the next—finishing a conversation, answering a message, jumping into another task—without taking a moment to arrive back in ourselves? What if we could move through a full day with more ease—getting things done without feeling constantly hurried inside?

In today’s episode, Erin and Sasha explore how small pauses between tasks can change the way we experience our lives. A moment to breathe, let one experience settle, and consciously enter the next.

We also get honest about how hard it can be to slow down, let alone stop. Constant movement and self-improvement can become compulsive—there’s always something else to do, fix, or become. Even our pursuit of well-being can leave us feeling like we’re never allowed to simply be.

Through an Ayurvedic lens, pauses through out the day offer an opportunity to cultivate sattva: clarity, harmony, and strength in the mind. They give us space to notice what we’re carrying and choose how we want to show up next.

Like floating on a river, we can participate in the motion without straining through every moment. Join us as we explore how a little space can support deeper inner peace—and make everything else feel easier.

Send us Fan Mail

This episode is brought to you by Ojas Oasis Ayurveda, Sasha's private clinical practice. Schedule a 30-minute strategy session here.

For 10% off Kerala Ayurveda, use code OjasOasis. For 20% off GarryNSun, code OJASOASIS20. For 10% off Ora Cacao, code OjasOasis10.

Support the show

To learn more about working with us, please visit www.OjasOasis.com
Connect with us @ojasoasis on Instagram, X, TikTok, and YouTube

There is a palpable shift in the air, both outside and within us. As summer gives way to fall, Erin and I are feeling the return of Vata season: the wind, the changing routines, and that sense of everything moving at once.

Today we talk about caring for ourselves through that transition, from seasonal cleansing and kitchari to knowing when it’s time to slow down, listen, and support our bodies. We also get into something that can make change harder than it needs to be: the pressure to do it all perfectly.

Lately, I have been realizing more and more, the power of authentic, conscious expression. No longer feeling the need to limit how I show up on the podcast, sharing my human nature alongside what I’ve learned as a practitioner.

I often use the term “boots on the ground” when describing this incarnation. To be alive, in and of itself, is a spiritual practice. To let yourself be seen, and let yourself be heard, is a spiritual practice.

And sometimes, life asks us to meet the moment as it is, even when it doesn’t look at all the way we planned. Trust it. Allow it to keep unfolding and revealing before jumping in to change it or fix it.

Send us Fan Mail

This episode is brought to you by Ojas Oasis Ayurveda, Sasha's private clinical practice. Schedule a 30-minute strategy session here.

For 10% off Kerala Ayurveda, use code OjasOasis. For 20% off GarryNSun, code OJASOASIS20. For 10% off Ora Cacao, code OjasOasis10.

Listen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify

Support the show

To learn more about working with us, please visit www.OjasOasis.com
Connect with us @ojasoasis on Instagram, X, TikTok, and YouTube

"In today’s episode, the phrase “no more buffoonery” came out of my mouth somewhat jokingly. But honestly, it perfectly captures where I am.

This is a candid, slightly unhinged, and deeply personal conversation about my dating life: what I’ve experienced, what I’ve learned, what I’m calling in, and what I am absolutely no longer available for.

Erin asks me some really powerful questions about how I became a woman who is willing to walk away early, before I have all the answers, before a situation becomes unbearable, and even when there are real feelings involved. Because that wasn’t always who I was. There was a time when I would stay, hope, rationalize, overextend, or fall in love with someone’s potential. But somewhere along the way, something shifted.

I began to understand that discernment is not cynicism. Standards are not walls. And walking away from something that cannot meet you is not failure, it is an act of devotion to the life and love you know you are meant to have.

We also talk about situationship culture and the normalization of romantic ambiguity: connections that offer intimacy without commitment, access without responsibility, and just enough possibility to keep someone emotionally invested. I’m no longer interested in pretending that confusion is chemistry or that inconsistency is part of the adventure.

I want, and deserve, a great love. I want devotion, emotional safety, commitment, passion, marriage, family, and a man who is genuinely excited to build a beautiful life together. And I’ve realized that calling in that kind of relationship requires becoming unavailable for everything that imitates it but cannot actually become it.

So this episode is part dating confessional, part personal reckoning, and part declaration of what comes next. There is laughter, vulnerability, some truly questionable storytelling, and, of course, absolutely no more buffoonery." - Sasha

Send us Fan Mail

This episode is brought to you by Ojas Oasis Ayurveda, Sasha's private clinical practice. Schedule a 30-minute strategy session here.

For 10% off Kerala Ayurveda, use code OjasOasis. For 20% off GarryNSun, code OJASOASIS20. For 10% off Ora Cacao, code OjasOasis10.

Support the show

To learn more about working with us, please visit www.OjasOasis.com
Connect with us @ojasoasis on Instagram, X, TikTok, and YouTube