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Holistic Healing Podcasts

615 shows and 75,287 episodes sit under Holistic Healing.

Mind-body recovery, natural health talk, herbs, somatic healing, and energy medicine podcasts in the Alternative Health space.

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The guide

What you'll hear on Holistic Healing podcasts

A guest on Herbs with Rosalee blends pennywort leaves into cool water because tannin-heavy teas dry her mouth. A medical intuitive promises, early in a session, not to diagnose anything. A live-streaming host tells listeners to stop saying the word cancer. All of this sits under one heading, so the real choice is what kind of authority you want in your ears. At their best, these shows slow down and pay attention to a plant, a breath, or a person describing an illness that took years to name.

The argument around them is about trust. A Pew Research Center report in May 2026 found that only one in ten people who consume health and wellness information from influencers or podcasts trust all or most of it. That wariness suits a field that runs from careful herbal teaching to sweeping theories of disease. This page sorts the shows by what they stand on, so you can tell a personal story from a research claim and a practice from a promise. For the wider field, see the Alternative Health guide and the Health & Fitness category guide.

Plants, taught by the people who handle them

Herbal shows are the warmest corner here, and at their best the most self-correcting. Herbs with Rosalee, hosted by Rosalee de la Forêt, frames Mullein, Smoke, and Harm Reduction with Lian Bruno + Lung Lube: an After-Smoke Syrup as not necessarily a how-to and not "a flat, outright endorsement of smoking herbs." The episode spends its time weighing context and risk. Near the end of Before You Pull Pennywort, Listen to This - with April Punsalan, a tidbit places pennywort in ginseng's family, then adds that it "definitely doesn't" act like ginseng. That reining in of its own enthusiasm is the show's best credential.

HerbRally gives a guest room for an origin story. In Menopause, Lyme & Functional Herbalism | Pam Gould, the clinical herbalist recalls collapsing episodes that no specialist could explain. Later she describes what she tells women who come to her sheepish about hormone therapy: "If that's working for you, great." Her talk of ordering lab work makes the Functional Medicine page a natural neighbour.

Lieve Galle's WYLDE, the podcast about foraging and herbalism in Europe, widens the map with herbalists from across the continent. In #19 Herbalism in Greece with Eleni Bourou, the pharmacist and herbalist admits "it's impossible to delete from my head what I've learned within the Western medicine context." The talk then turns to how preparation can change a plant's toxicity. Herbal Radio offers a regional counterpart in Southern Appalachian Medicinal Plants | Featuring Patricia Kyritsi Howell, which makes a case for turtlehead as an underused digestive bitter.

Traditions with their own vocabulary

Elements of Ayurveda Podcast works inside a complete system. Early in Jenny's Ayurveda Cleanse: A Story of Reconnection, host Colette notes that the podcast is not medical advice. That episode is a client's account of a group cleanse, adjusted when flooding made ingredients hard to source, and it is valuable as experience rather than proof. The better first listen is Trauma-Informed Yoga for Nervous System Healing with Sita Severson. In it, a speaker describes setting calendar alerts simply to remind herself to take a full breath. It asks almost nothing of the listener, which is its virtue.

Practices for the nervous system, and readings of it

In Reversing PCOS Symptoms Naturally with Maddy Pollack #164 on Mind Body Medicine for Self Healers, Pollack outlines her week of strength training, mindful movement and rest days. A speaker is wary of supplement ads that promise weight loss: "Those aren't necessarily true, always." The conversation is more hedged than its title.

Tapping Q & A - Getting the most out of tapping and EFT feels like a practice room. In How to tap when you don't know where to start, Gene Monterastelli breaks overwhelm into rounds of tapping, starting from the instruction to be "as specific as possible." In Tapping with the HARP participants featuring Kerri Rhodes, women in a jail recovery programme describe using the practice. One admits she was still at a 10 after three rounds and simply needed to tap longer.

Early in 014 Medical Intuition Session: Reclaiming Space on Medical Intuition Illuminated, Laura Weisz says she is not a licensed medical practitioner and will not diagnose. She later suggests ginger and nettle tea, so keep the disclaimer and the suggestions in view together. Near the end she explains that the sessions' silent visualisation stretches are left out of the episode, partly because they suit audio poorly.

Where the claims grow larger

Further out, the claims get bigger and the commercial ties matter more. Learn True Health with Ashley James runs ads for TakeYourSupplements.com alongside its nutrition interviews. Its most clarifying moment comes from a guest. In 521 Quantum Physics Meets Holistic Medicine, Dr. Vaughn Cook Shares Cutting-Edge Biofeedback Technology That Reads Your Body's Needs, Cook says his ZYTO technology is "not researched enough for me as a manufacturer to make a claim that it is diagnostic or curative."

In Ep. 180 - Healing Without Fear: Reframing “Cancer” As Chronic Fermenting Cells, Dr. Lodi tells listeners not to use the word cancer. In Ep. 175 - Water Fast, Raw Food, Real Reset, he argues that an "active biopsy actually spreads." The Dr. Lodi Podcast sets itself against conventional medicine and promotes a membership community and an online course, so hear it as one host's contested position.

The German New Medicine Podcast, in Understanding Coronavirus From the German New Medicine Perspective, reads respiratory symptoms as healing after "a territorial fear or scare fright conflict." Homeopathy for Mommies gathers members' testimonials in Simple Remedies, Powerful Results: How Homeopathy Is Changing Lives. They are heartfelt, and best heard as stories.

Where to start

Pick one episode, listen for how the host handles a claim, and let that decide the next.

  • For the plant-curious: Herbs with Rosalee, Before You Pull Pennywort, Listen to This - with April Punsalan, a lawn weed reconsidered with care.
  • For a pause in a crowded week: Elements of Ayurveda Podcast, Trauma-Informed Yoga for Nervous System Healing with Sita Severson, practical and undemanding.
  • When everything feels like too much: Tapping Q & A - Getting the most out of tapping and EFT, How to tap when you don't know where to start, a step-by-step way in.
  • For a traveller's view of plant medicine: WYLDE, the podcast about foraging and herbalism in Europe, #19 Herbalism in Greece with Eleni Bourou, where clinical training meets folk practice.

Featured shows below are part of the PlayNext catalog. Updated weekly.

Recommended clips

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The highest-scoring 60-second moments anywhere in holistic healing, one per show.

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The Energy Healing Podcast with Dr. Katharina Johnson · 2026-02-03
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164: Healing Through Frequency, Movement, and the Body’s Intelligence | Cindy Huston
Mystical Sisterhood · 2026-02-11
The Healing Power of Yoga and Herbs with Emily Mills
Life On Earth Podcast · 2024-10-10
Grief, Healing, and Learning to Carry Loss with Candice Franklin
The Fieldswell Podcast · 2026-04-08
Through the Veil: Horses, Healing, and a Second Chance at Life with Emma Rogers
Touched By A Horse · 2026-02-19

Drawn from 1,873 playable clips across 132 shows.

New on PlayNext

Just added to Holistic Healing

The newest holistic healing clips in the library, one per show — ordered by when the clip was made, not when the episode came out.

NASA Meets Ancient Healing: The Chronic Illness Breakthroughs You've Probably Never Heard Of
Field Notes: An Exploration of Functional Medicine · added 2026-09-05
The Healing Power of Yoga and Herbs with Emily Mills
Life On Earth Podcast · added 2026-08-23
491: Boost Your Fertility at 40 and Beyond: Testing, Nervous System Healing and Cutting Out Stressors | Aimee Raupp
Ancient Health Podcast · added 2026-07-05
Holistic Health And Wellness With Dr. Richard Massey
Organic Healthy Lifestyle · added 2026-07-04
164: Healing Through Frequency, Movement, and the Body’s Intelligence | Cindy Huston
Mystical Sisterhood · added 2026-06-21
Why Healing Acne Starts in the Gut
The Evan Brand Show · added 2026-06-20
#314 Channeling Mary Magdalene: Divine Wisdom & Healing with Rev. Lynn LaBorde
Sovereign Self Show · added 2026-06-19
DMT, Source Energy Devices and Quantum Dot Healing With Dmitri Leonov
Optimal Performance · added 2026-06-15
Parents Are the Force Multiplier in their Child's Healing with Len Arcuri
The Remedy Revolution Podcast · added 2026-06-09
The Power Within: Mari's Healing Story
Self Powered Healing · added 2026-06-08

10 clips, one per show, added between 2026-06-08 and 2026-09-05.

Featured shows

4 shows, described rather than listed

Each has a short write-up and a note on what it does best here.

Where to start

4 routes in, one per reader

01listener recovering from chronic illness or traumaStarts with Mind Body Medicine for Self Healers

Long patient stories about the gradual process of healing, with emphasis on safety and nervous system regulation.

02listener interested in herbs and somatic self-careStarts with Learn True Health with Ashley James

Deep-bench conversations about herbs, essential oils, somatics, and whole-body advocacy.

03listener who wants biohacking-flavored recoveryStarts with The Ben Azadi Show

Mechanism-first health lessons covering inflammation, fasting, autophagy, and metabolic healing.

04Black women seeking culturally centered wellnessStarts with The Melanin Wellness Podcast: Holistic Health and Healing for Black Women’s Wellness

Ancestral healing, beauty rituals, and trauma recovery centered on Black women's experience.

Glossary

Holistic Healing vocabulary, decoded

somatic healing

Body-centered approaches to recovery that address how stress and trauma are stored and released in physical tissue.

nervous system regulation

Practices designed to bring the autonomic nervous system out of chronic stress or freeze responses.

biofield

A concept in energy medicine referring to the electromagnetic and biophotonic fields thought to surround living organisms.

ancestral healing

Practices that draw on cultural, genetic, or intergenerational lineage to address present-day health and emotional patterns.

autophagy

A cellular recycling process that removes damaged components — often referenced in the context of fasting and metabolic health.

adaptogens

Herbs like ashwagandha, rhodiola, and reishi that are claimed to help the body manage stress and restore balance.