At one of the world’s most respected cancer research institutions, scientists are bringing energy healers into controlled experiments—and getting results they can’t fully explain.

In this special feed takeover, Insights at the Edge presents the debut episode of Phenomena: The Science and Stories of Energy Healing, a new six-part Sounds True podcast hosted by Ivy Ross. Phenomena explores the emerging science behind energy healing with rigorous curiosity, compelling personal stories, and an open mind. You can learn more about the podcast at phenomenahealing.com. 

In this first episode, Ivy introduces us to Dr. Lorenzo Cohen, director of MD Anderson Cancer Center’s Integrative Medicine Program, whose team has spent years measuring what biofield therapy—energy healing—does to pancreatic cancer cells in the laboratory. What they found is measurable, replicable, and difficult to explain: biofield therapy slows cancer’s ability to spread at the genetic level.

Listen to explore:

• What MD Anderson researchers discovered when energy healers worked with pancreatic cancer cells—and why the results surprised even the scientists
• How biofield therapy reduced cancer cell invasiveness and migration in multiple studies, with multiple healers and rigorous controls
• The story of Mojdeh, a cancer patient who worked with energy healer John Lavack before surgery—and what her surgeon found in the operating room
• The Bengston Cycling Method: what it is, and why it may be affecting the body’s ability to heal at the cellular level
• Why the absence of a known mechanism doesn’t undercut the data—and what conventional medicine gets wrong about healing

This isn’t a story about belief. It’s about what happens when serious scientists ask a question that deserves a serious answer.

Listen now to Phenomena on Insights at the Edge, and be sure to subscribe on your preferred podcast platform for all episodes of Phenomena, coming every other week through July. →

What if the problem isn’t that you’re not doing enough—it’s that you’re doing too much, too fast, and on borrowed time?

This week, Tami Simon speaks with Zabie Yamasaki—founder of Transcending Trauma through Yoga, whose yoga-as-healing curriculum is now taught at over 50 universities including Stanford, Yale, and Johns Hopkins—about her new Sounds True book, Protect Your Energy: A Gentle Guide to Nurture Your Nervous System, Cultivate Rest, and Honor Your Needs.

Drawing from her own journey through hypervigilance, burnout, and a rolling series of panic attacks that landed her in the emergency room, Zabi offers both the science and the soul of nervous system healing.

Join Tami and Zabi to explore:

• Why burnout is so sneaky—and how we’re constantly borrowing from tomorrow to get through today
• The difference between managing your energy and managing your time—and why that distinction changes everything
• What it means to “hold the default nervous system in the room”—and the hidden toll it takes on parents, teachers, healers, and leaders
• How boundary work is nervous system work—and why lack of boundaries shows up in your body long before you recognize it as a boundary problem
• “Shapes of rest”—simple body-based practices that offer genuine restoration, not just collapse
• Somatic self-consent: the embodied check-in practice that helps you navigate the gray zone between yes and no
• Why, especially right now, protecting your energy isn’t selfishness—it’s resistance

This is a conversation for everyone who keeps going even when their body is begging them to stop—and who needs permission, finally, to rest.

Listen now and start protecting your energy. →

This conversation offers genuine transmission—not just concepts about awakening, but the palpable presence of realized teachers exploring the growing edge of spiritual understanding together. Originally aired on Sounds True One.