Practicing Stillness with Dr. Nissa Keyashian
This Changes Everything with Sarah Rice
Sarah Rice - Wave Podcast Network
4.6 • 884 Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Feeling calm, restful, and focused this week, talking with Dr. Nissa Keyashian, who opens our minds and bodies with the process and practice of stillness. We explore the many ways people can employ mindful techniques during particularly volatile and challenging times to embrace and encourage calm.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello friends and welcome once again to everybody's favorite therapy theme podcast. I'm your host Sarah. |
| 0:04.5 | And today we're talking about something that really feels almost radical in the world we're living in right now. |
| 0:10.1 | That's stillness, not productivity, not optimization and not fixing yourself, but just learning how to be |
| 0:16.1 | quiet enough to hear what's, you know, actually going on inside our heads, right? |
| 0:20.3 | Today I'm joined by Dr. Nisa Kiyashian, whose work focuses on helping people find calm |
| 0:25.8 | and presence without turning mindfulness into, you know, just another thing you're failing |
| 0:30.8 | at. |
| 0:31.2 | We don't need any of that. |
| 0:32.1 | So this conversation is for anyone who really feels overwhelmed, overstimulated, or just like exhausted from the |
| 0:39.5 | noise of modern life. All right, let's find out how to be still in this very noisy world. |
| 0:46.6 | Welcome to the show, Nisa. I'm so excited to have you here because I feel like now is the time |
| 0:52.3 | where we got to talk about how to find some stillness because this world is getting really loud. |
| 0:59.8 | First of all, welcome to the show. |
| 1:01.2 | Thank you so much for joining us. |
| 1:03.4 | Tell me a little bit about what you do and your work. |
| 1:07.5 | Yeah, thank you so much for having me. |
| 1:10.3 | I am a psychiatrist in private practice in San Jose, California, and I'm also a writer and a yoga and meditation instructor. |
| 1:22.4 | They pair so well those things. |
| 1:25.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:26.1 | Was that a hard thing to merge? |
| 1:29.6 | Which came first, really? |
| 1:31.1 | Yoga or the, like, psychology practice? |
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