Zabie Yamasaki: What the Nervous System Often Needs Is...
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.
