Zabie Yamasaki: What the Nervous System Often Needs Is LESS
Sounds True: Insights at the Edge
Tami Simon
4.6 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Your body has been sending the signals. You've just been too busy to listen. Tami Simon speaks with Zabie Yamasaki—founder of Transcending Trauma through Yoga and author of Protect Your Energy—about nervous system regulation, somatic boundaries, and why the most powerful act of resistance in troubled times isn't pushing harder. It's learning, finally, how to rest.
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.
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| 0:00.0 | The Sounds True Podcast Network. |
| 0:08.3 | One of the reasons burnout is so sneaky is because we're constantly borrowing from tomorrow to get through today. |
| 0:17.2 | You know, where we're just, yeah, I can do it. I can do it. I can do it. And then suddenly |
| 0:23.8 | the body says no more. Welcome, friends. In this episode of Insights at the Edge, my guest is Zahabia Yamasaki. |
| 0:41.4 | I have the opportunity to call her Zabi, and you can call her Zabi too. |
| 0:46.8 | Zabi is the founder of transcending trauma through yoga. Her yoga as healing curriculum, get this, is now being implemented at over |
| 0:57.6 | 50 college campuses. She's the author of several books on trauma-informed yoga and Zabi has a new book |
| 1:07.1 | with Sounds True. It's called Protect Your Energy, a gentle guide to nurture your nervous system, |
| 1:15.2 | cultivate rest, and honor your needs. This book, dare I say it, is a co-regulation partner |
| 1:24.0 | that you can use. That's what it's designed for. It's a co-regulation guidebook that we need |
| 1:31.9 | right now in our times. Friends, stay with us. Zabi, welcome. |
| 1:47.2 | Oh, thank you so much, Tammy, for that beautiful, warm welcome. |
| 1:52.7 | It is such an honor to be with you and share space with you today. |
| 1:57.5 | You poured so much love into the book, so much care for people. I'd love to know a little bit as you were writing the book. What were you accessing inside yourself that you were making available for others? How would you describe that process? |
| 2:17.2 | Wow, this is such a beautiful question. And, you know, I love kind of reflecting on the writing |
| 2:25.1 | process now that I can kind of step away from it. And, you know, I actually, during the |
| 2:33.6 | manuscript process, I had this moment moment and I must have had a really |
| 2:37.8 | distressed look on my face as I was sort of plugging away at my laptop because my son came over. |
| 2:46.1 | He's eight and he closes my laptop and he puts his little hands on my face and he says, |
| 2:52.7 | it's okay, mama, it doesn't have to be perfect. |
| 2:56.9 | And it was just such a reminder to me as I was writing the book that I was also trying |
| 3:03.3 | to practice what I was preaching. |
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