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Why Isn't Everyone Doing This? with Emily Fletcher

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Welcome to Why Isn't Everyone Doing This with Emily Fletcher. Each week we’ll explore some of the most spine-tingling, potent modalities that can give you the kind of bliss and pleasure that is your birthright. No topic is off limits: We’ll dive into everything from breathwork to psychedelics, from meditation to BDSM. Join Emily in conversation with scientists, doctors, healers, and innovative thinkers to reveal the tools that have radically changed their lives, and that very well may change yours, too. We can’t wait to hear which one has you asking, “Why isn’t everyone doing this?”2023
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  • 147. Why Isn't Everyone Getting Unstuck from a Flat World? with Dr. Meenal Agarwal

    147. Why Isn't Everyone Getting Unstuck from a Flat World? with Dr. Meenal Agarwal
    Oct 6 2026
    What if vision is one of the missing pieces in the anxiety, brain fog, and overwhelm you have been blaming on yourself? In this episode, Emily Fletcher sits down with Dr. Meenal Agarwal, a board-certified optometrist, spatial awareness expert, and author of Stuck in a Flat World. Dr. Agarwal is a leading authority on the eye-brain connection and the person who coined the term spatial awareness processing disorder. Her work shows how a screen-heavy life disrupts the brain's ability to judge distance, track motion, and move through real-world space. Dr. Agarwal explains why the parietal lobe works like your brain's GPS, why a phone becomes a shield in crowded places, and why spatial awareness and empathy are more connected than most of us realize. She also shares her own story, from a confident cross-border driver to someone who feared parking lots, and what brought her back. Emily connects it all to Ziva: the way you use your eyes changes your brain, just as meditation changes its architecture. You leave with simple practices for before, during, and after screen time, including the 20-20-20 rule, a way to map a room before you enter it, and games that build spatial awareness in kids. In this episode, Dr. Agarwal explores: – Why "cut your screen time" misses the point, and what screens are stealing instead – The difference between near work and peripheral vision, and why the parietal lobe is your brain's GPS – Why you feel off balance after hours at a screen, and why so many kids get labeled instead of supported – The shift she recommends: prime your peripheral awareness before the screen, not after – The 20-20-20 rule, and Emily's eyes-open version of Come to Your Senses – Spatial empathy versus emotional empathy, and the Costco effect – Your brain's nightly recalibration, and how Emily uses promises and consequences with her own phone – What her year and a half of research taught her, and the baby steps that brought her back – Practices for kids: walk and talk, a daily audio phone call, the finger game, and the color walk – Why vision is about far more than 20/20, and what an eye exam can reveal about the brain and nervous system Key Moments: 00:00 – Welcome, and who Dr. Meenal Agarwal is 02:50 – What screens are stealing, and why "cut your screen time" misses the point 05:58 – The milestones we are missing: driving, biking, going out on our own 07:34 – Ventral and dorsal streams: what near work does to the brain's fear and balance centers 09:10 – Why you wobble after hours at a screen, and why we label clumsy kids 10:07 – The phone as a shield: a yoga studio story 15:21 – Prime before you scroll: the shift that works for adults and kids 18:27 – Come to Your Senses: Emily's eyes-open version of a Ziva practice 19:03 – Why your eyes are brain tissue, plus iridology and Drishti 23:10 – The 20-20-20 rule, and why looking away wakes up both streams 28:05 – The empathy study, and spatial empathy versus emotional empathy 32:04 – Map the room before you walk in: the Costco effect 33:46 – Emily connects the dots: the eyes, the nervous system, and the architecture of the brain 43:26 – Your brain's GPS needs a nightly recalibration, plus Emily's midnight promise 51:24 – The moment on the stairs that sent her searching for answers 55:56 – Library Saturdays, grocery aisles at night, and one friend at a time 58:44 – The finger game and the color walk: spatial awareness as play 1:06:30 – "If you don't know where you are in space, you won't know where you are in your own story" About Dr. Meenal Agarwal Dr. Meenal Agarwal is a board-certified optometrist (Doctor of Optometry, University of Waterloo), a spatial awareness expert, and a leading voice on the eye-brain connection. She owns three eye care practices in Ontario and hosts the podcast Uncover Your Eyes: The Truth About Health and Wellness. Her book, Stuck in a Flat World: How Screens Rewire Our Brains, Spatial Awareness, and Sense of Safety, is out Nov 2. Get the book: Stuck in a Flat World → drmeenal.com/stuck-in-a-flat-world Website: drmeenal.com Instagram: @drmeenalagarwal This episode is sponsored by Timeline. Support your mitochondrial health and get 20% off Mitopure at timeline.com/ziva. 🔗 MORE FROM EMILY & ZIVA: Learn Ziva Meditation: preview.zivameditation.com Free masterclass: learn.zivameditation.com Get 15% off with promo code WHYTHIS: whythis.zivameditation.com Follow us on Instagram: @zivameditation
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    1 h et 10 min
  • 146. Why Isn't Everyone Dancing Their Feelings? with Sah D’Simone

    146. Why Isn't Everyone Dancing Their Feelings? with Sah D’Simone
    Sep 29 2026
    What if ninety seconds on a dance floor could do what ten years of therapy couldn't? In this episode, Emily Fletcher sits down with Sah D'Simone, a spiritual teacher, humanitarian, and bestselling author whose approach to healing was forged through over 300 days of silent meditation, clinical spiritual care training at Cedars-Sinai Hospital, and years of direct service in the margins. Sah is the creator of the Somatic Activated Healing (SAH) Method and founder of the Somatic Dance Institute, and his work has drawn collaborations with Harvard, Columbia, and the UN. They trace Sah's path from meditation teacher to dance mystic: the night in Bali when a trance on the dance floor cracked him open into a full-body recognition of strangers dancing beside him, the year his mother died and everything he'd built around joy fell apart, and why he believes talking about trauma can trap you in a cycle of blame while dancing it moves the charge all the way through. They also get into how Christian missionaries turned the god of dance into the devil, the nuanced difference between chasing pleasure and finding it inside whatever is true, and why no feeling, however big, is the one that finally breaks you. In this episode, Sah explores: Why talking about your trauma can trap you in a cycle of blame, while dancing it moves the charge all the way through The night in Bali when a trance on the dance floor cracked him open into a full-body recognition of strangers he'd apparently known before How Christian missionaries turned Pan, the god of dance and revelry, into the image of the devil The difference between chasing pleasure as an escape and finding the ecstasy inside whatever is true, even rage or grief What his mother's death taught him about prayer, pain, and the limits of visualization A Vipassana retreat gone sideways, and the wave of full-body release that followed once he stopped resisting Opening for a DJ with five minutes' notice, and the closest he has come to a physical experience of the divine on a stage Why no feeling is too big to survive, and what actually makes people exhausted Key Moments: 00:00 – Emily's introduction: from meditation teacher to dance mystic, and why Harvard and Columbia came calling 03:02 – Why the most prestigious universities on the planet are studying his work 05:10 – His mother's death, and the six months of "sanctioned insanity" that followed 07:48 – The Osho line: why a woman dancing is closer to God than a man meditating 08:40 – Why talking about your trauma can trap you in a cycle of blame and victimhood 14:11 – How Christian missionaries turned Pan, the god of dance, into the devil 19:40 – The night in Bali when dance cracked him open into a past-life recognition on the floor 27:06 – 2020, and the moment "the goddess" rewired his entire career overnight 28:00 – "Part rave, part ritual": why the fastest, most industrial beats create the safest place to disappear 30:47 – His pushback on spiritual bypassing in ceremony culture, and Emily's response 40:34 – What his mother's death taught him about pain, prayer, and the edges of joy 42:27 – A Vipassana retreat, "princess and the pea," and the full-body release that followed 44:23 – The Iceland eclipse festival, and opening for a DJ with five minutes' notice 49:31 – The first-ever multi-day festival at the pyramids, and the Egypt eclipse he's building toward in 2027 51:16 – What he'd say to the exhausted parent of three who says they don't have time to dance 54:05 – His one request: dance to a single song, eyes closed 58:04 – A Lakota elder's line: all the suffering on the planet traces back to uncried tears About Sah D'Simone Sah D'Simone is a spiritual teacher, humanitarian, and bestselling author of Spiritually Sassy and Spiritually, We. He is the creator of the Somatic Activated Healing (SAH) Method and founder of the Somatic Dance Institute, where he has trained teachers and guided communities worldwide in trauma-informed, body-based practice. A chaplain intern in spiritual care at Cedars-Sinai Hospital and guest teacher at Columbia University, his work has been recognized with the City of Los Angeles CARE Award. He hosts the podcast Solving the Riddle of Being Human. Website: sahdsimone.com Instagram: @sahdsimone This episode is sponsored by Timeline. Support your mitochondrial health and get 20% off Mitopure at timeline.com/ziva. 🔗 MORE FROM EMILY & ZIVA: Learn Ziva Meditation: preview.zivameditation.com Free masterclass: learn.zivameditation.com Get 15% off with promo code WHYTHIS: whythis.zivameditation.com Follow us on Instagram: @zivameditation
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    1 h et 5 min
  • 145. Why Isn't Everyone Priestessing Themselves? with Elayne Kalila

    145. Why Isn't Everyone Priestessing Themselves? with Elayne Kalila
    Sep 22 2026
    What if the word apocalypse was never about the end of the world, but about what gets revealed once the veils come down? In this episode, Emily Fletcher sits down with Elayne Kalila, a psychotherapist turned priestess and the founder of the Priestess Presence Mystery School, for a conversation that travels 30,000 years back to trace the deliberate erasure of feminine spiritual authority. Elayne walks through the Venus of Willendorf, the moment agriculture and land ownership gave rise to patriarchy, and why the women burned as witches were so often the post-menopausal landowners, healers, and midwives, not young women at all. They also get into Freud's diagnosis of hysteria and its roots in the idea of a wandering womb, why 43 million American women between 45 and 65 are entering their power rather than their decline, and Elayne's own confronting practice for holding the men causing harm on an altar of healing instead of hatred. This is a conversation about rage as initiation, aging as beauty, and what it means to priestess yourself and everyone around you through change. In this episode, Elayne explores: Why the witch burnings targeted post-menopausal landowners, healers, and midwives, not young women How agriculture and land ownership seeded patriarchy 10,000 years ago Why "apocalypse" actually means the lifting of the veils Her altar practice: naming powerful men who've caused harm and calling them into their hearts Freud's diagnosis of hysteria and its roots in the idea of a wandering womb Why 43 million American women between 45 and 65 are entering their power, not their decline Isis and her twin sister Nephthys, and Inanna's seven gates as the oldest map for this transition Why rage in perimenopause is information, not dysfunction Key Moments: 00:00 – Emily's tribute to Elayne, and welcome to Why Isn't Everyone Priestessing Themselves 01:20 – Introducing Elayne Kalila: psychotherapist turned priestess 04:50 – Going back 30,000 years: the Venus of Willendorf and the first evidence of goddess worship 05:42 – How agriculture and land ownership seeded patriarchy 10,000 years ago 06:56 – The witch burnings: who was really targeted, and why 09:59 – The apocalypse, meaning the lifting of the veils 13:34 – The case for the feminine, made directly to the man who thinks this isn't for him 21:48 – Elayne's altar practice: naming powerful men who've caused harm and calling them home 35:42 – What it means to priestess yourself: navigating the unknown without a map 47:54 – Isis and her twin sister Nephthys, and the echo of Inanna and Ereshkigal 50:53 – Hysteria: how a wandering womb became a medical diagnosis for a woman's power 53:04 – 43 million American women are entering perimenopause, and why that's power, not decline 58:05 – Premenstrual rage as information, not dysfunction 1:00:45 – Inanna's seven gates as the oldest map we have for this transition 1:01:54 – Aging as beauty: the story of her partner and her white hair About Elayne Kalila Elayne Kalila Doughty, MA, MFT, is a psychotherapist turned priestess and the founder of the Priestess Presence Mystery School, where she has spent over a decade ordaining women into the Divine Feminine mysteries. She is the author of The Sacred Call of the Ancient Priestess and The Magdalene Rose Oracle, and hosts The Red Podcast. Website: elaynekalila.com Instagram: @elayne.kalila This episode is sponsored by Timeline. Support your mitochondrial health and get 20% off Mitopure at timeline.com/ziva 🔗 MORE FROM EMILY & ZIVA: Join Ziva Insiders: whythis.zivameditation.com Learn Ziva Meditation: preview.zivameditation.com Free masterclass: learn.zivameditation.com Follow us on Instagram: @zivameditation
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    1 h et 11 min
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