Dr. Noshene Ranjbar: Standing Up for Peace Within

Oh sweetest listener, welcome to a truly gorgeous episode.  Amidst deeply heart-centered conversation, Dr. Noshene Ranjbar leads us through three embodiment exercises to collectively coax our nervous systems into regulation.  Dr. Noshene Ranjbar is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Arizona College of Medicine - Tucson, Department of Psychiatry and Director of the Integrative Psychiatry Clinic at Banner - UMC South. She also serves as the Training Director for the Integrative Psychiatry Fellowship. Dr. Ranjbar’s interests include integrative psychiatry, health disparities with a focus on Native American and immigrant mental health, and mind-body medicine. Dr. Ranjbar is involved in advocacy for refugees seeking asylum to the United States. She also serves as faculty at the Center for Mind-Body Medicine where she is involved in building health promotion programs within Native communities. We dive into: A gorgeous grounding exercise to invoke ourselves into this healing conversation The more stress we experience the less embodied we tend to be. How do we come up for air, when deeply feeling into the nightmares of the world? The importance of practicing connecting to create safe spaces and co-regulate.  The body has the capacity to release stress and anxiety far more effortlessly than the mind: SHAKE IT OFF. Humans have done this for AGES: our ancestors regularly shook their bodies in dance, ceremony, and regulation. Let us remember! Dr. Fatemi prescribes us a dance party, and Dr. Noshene plays DJ How mighty we are as individuals, and especially as a collective. Dance + shake exercise Meditation So much LOVE