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The Urban Monk Podcast

Urban Monk Productions, Inc

Pedram Shojai is the Urban Monk. He is a Doctor of Oriental Medicine, a Taoist Priest, a Qi Gong Master, film maker, author, and Kung Fu world traveler. He invites you to join in the convers...

Episodes

20 of 117 episodes

Live Fully By Facing Mortality

🎙️ What would shift in you if you knew, with total certainty, that you had one year left to live? Dr. Pedram Shojai opens with that questio...

40:56Sep 4, 2026

The Predictive Brain

🎙️ Your brain doesn't record reality. It predicts it. Dr. Pedram Shojai unpacks predictive processing, the neuroscience showing that the br...

44:22Aug 24, 2026

Your Brain's Most Expensive Habit

🎙️ Your brain's most expensive habit isn't scrolling, overthinking, or multitasking. It's the default mode network, and it's running the sh...

41:09Aug 21, 2026

The Mitochondrial Root of Being Wired and Tired

🎙️ Feeling wired and exhausted at the same time, and sleep isn't fixing it? Dr. Pedram Shojai traces that specific kind of tired back to mi...

41:58Aug 14, 2026

Fascia: The Sensory Organ No One Taught You About

🎙️ Your fascia is not just packaging. It's a sensory organ. Dr. Pedram Shojai introduces fascia as a continuous connective tissue web runni...

31:36Jul 31, 2026

The Gut Is Talking: How Your Second Brain Actually Runs Your Mood

🎙️ Your gut isn't reacting to your emotions. It's generating a large share of them. Dr. Pedram Shojai unpacks the real science behind the g...

45:19Jul 24, 2026

Your Bad Mood Might Be Inflammation

🎙️ Your bad mood might not be psychological. It might be inflammation. Dr. Pedram Shojai unpacks psychoneuroimmunology, the decades-old fie...

44:17Jul 17, 2026

Your Nervous System Has a Ladder

🎙️ Most people oscillate between stressed and crashed without ever finding ease. Dr. Pedram Shojai breaks down why that's not a willpower p...

32:01Jul 6, 2026

The Noise Pollution Crisis

🎙️ You've stopped noticing the noise. But your body hasn't. Dr. Pedram Shojai opens with a live listening experiment revealing how much sou...

33:21Jun 26, 2026

How to Stop Living Outside the Present Moment

🎙️ The past has no location. It cannot be found, weighed, or measured. Dr. Pedram Shojai builds a scientific and contemplative case for why...

46:32Jun 22, 2026

Money Stress Is a Body Problem

🎙️ Your nervous system reads a low bank balance the same way it reads a predator. Dr. Pedram Shojai opens by naming what wellness spaces ra...

34:14Jun 19, 2026

The Pain Body & The Somatic Witness Practice

🎙️ Have you ever been flooded by a feeling that had nothing to do with what was in front of you? Dr. Pedram Shojai explores the pain body,...

38:06Jun 5, 2026

How Sensory Starvation Is Dimming Your Emotional Life

🎙️ What if a significant portion of what gets diagnosed and medicated as depression isn't a chemical problem at all? Dr. Pedram Shojai make...

36:14May 29, 2026

The Toxic Burden Nobody Talks About

🎙️ What if your exhaustion has nothing to do with stress, sleep, or mental health, and everything to do with what's inside your walls, your...

36:51May 22, 2026

Training Your Brain for Peak Performance

🎙️ What if your brain could learn in hours what normally takes years? Dr. Pedram Shojai sits down with Dr. David Bach, serial entrepreneur...

53:33May 15, 2026

Chronoception: How to Restore Your Sense of Time

🎙️ Where did this year go? If time feels like it's slipping through your fingers and the days blur together, your chronoception is under at...

30:22May 8, 2026

When You Reclaim Your Senses, You Reclaim Yourself

🎙️ When did you last actually taste your food or feel the temperature of air on your skin? Dr. Pedram Shojai breaks down exteroception, you...

28:02May 1, 2026

The Sounds You Don't Hear Are Keeping You Wired

🎙️ The sounds you don't hear are keeping your nervous system wired. Dr. Pedram Shojai reflects on completing his 100-day gong practice and...

52:30Apr 24, 2026

Temporal Awareness: Where Your Mind Lives

🎙️ Most of us spend more than half our waking hours somewhere other than the present moment. Dr. Pedram Shojai unpacks temporal displacemen...

30:45Apr 20, 2026

Blue Vibe: The 40 Hz Device Reversing Cognitive Decline

🎙️ What if a wearable device using a single frequency could reverse mild cognitive decline in 30 days? Dr. Pedram Shojai sits down with Mar...

25:53Apr 17, 2026