The Nourished Woman with Keri Marino

Spilling the tea — the truth about making a living in yoga with Rebecca Sebastian

Wed, 02 Sep 2026 07:00:00 -0400

Whether you practice yoga, teach it or have built your career around it — the industry you love isn't always what it seems.

In this episode I sit down with Rebecca Sebastian — yoga teacher, yoga therapist and one of the most honest voices writing about what it's actually like to work in yoga today. Rebecca is the founder of Working in Yoga and Inside Yoga Magazine and she has been naming the systemic issues most people are too polite to say out loud.

Yoga teacher, yoga therapist and founder of The Nourished Woman, Keri Marino, talk about our careers in yoga, how the industry has changed, the large scale forces shaping it right now and what the path forward looks like for yoga teachers and therapists navigating it all. We also talk about the transformative power of yoga itself — and the students who make all of it worth it.

If you've ever wanted a look behind the curtain of the yoga world — this is that conversation. And if you're working in yoga and looking for clarity on what comes next — this one is especially for you.

Consider this your water cooler moment.

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Want to find out more about Keri and Rebecca?

Connect with Keri at www.kerimarino.com/ and @the_nourished_woman

Connect with Rebecca at www.thesunlightexperience.com/, www.workinginyoga.com/ and @rebeccasebastianyoga

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Connect with Keri or learn more about her offerings at www.KeriMarino.com and on instagram @the_nourished_woman

A gentle note: The Nourished Woman Podcast is educational and not a substitute for medical or mental health care. Please listen to your body and consult your provider when needed.

Why you can't stick with yoga

Fri, 28 Aug 2026 14:00:00 -0400

You like yoga. You know it helps. And you cannot seem to make it stick. And honestly — alot of people feel this way. Even yoga teachers and yoga therapists sometimes. 😂

But here's what I want you to know — your on-again off-again relationship with yoga is costing you something.

Not because you're undisciplined. Because you haven't had the right structure or the right understanding of what actually makes a practice last.

In this episode, yoga therapist and yoga teacher Keri Marino gets into the mindset shifts that will help you build a steady long-lasting daily yoga practice — the specific reasons most women lose the thread, the benefits waiting on the other side of consistency and what the yogic tradition actually says about devoted daily practice that nobody ever taught you.

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Stop waiting and wanting to practice - how women are finding the time

Wed, 19 Aug 2026 05:00:00 -0400

What if the thing standing between you and the life you actually want is smaller than you think?

Just practice. Consistent, devoted, real practice — woven into the actual fabric of your actual life.

In this episode of The Nourished Woman Podcast, yoga therapist and yoga teacher Keri Marino gets honest about what yoga practice actually looks like for real women — and what becomes possible when you stop making it optional and start making it a commitment.

Because here's what happens when a woman actually practices consistently —

The anxiety quietly decreases. The body starts to feel like somewhere worth living in. Pleasure becomes accessible. Play returns. Ease shows up in places that used to feel tight and reactive. You stop bracing for impact and start actually enjoying your life.

Not because everything got easier. Because you got more rooted.

We talk about the all-or-nothing thinking that keeps self-aware women stuck, when real women are actually fitting practice in and what works, what yoga actually is beyond active asana — and why that reframe makes everything more accessible, how to stop buying into the story that you don't have time and what to do instead and why leaning into your desire for practice matters as much as the logistics.

The honest truth? You have more time than you're telling yourself.

And 80% of the how — the structure, the curated practices, the ease of knowing exactly where to start — is already waiting for you inside The Nourished Woman Sanctuary.

This is your permission slip. And your practical roadmap.

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She ended the war with her body — Anna Guest-Jelley on yoga and body acceptance

Tue, 11 Aug 2026 06:00:00 -0400

What does it actually take to end the war with your body?

Anna Guest-Jelley — founder of Curvy Yoga — joins yoga therapist Keri Marino for a deeply honest conversation. From childhood Weight Watchers meetings and chronic migraines to building a yoga community that finally made women feel welcome in their own skin.

They talk about body acceptance as an active daily practice, what yoga actually does for a woman's relationship with herself over time and what it looks like to become audaciously whole — not by changing your body but by coming home to it.

Want to find out more about Keri and Anna?

Connect with Keri at https://www.kerimarino.com/ and @the_nourished_woman

Connect with Anna at https://www.curvyyoga.com/ and

https://whatthebodyknows.substack.com/

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Your body isn't broken — how to keep practicing yoga through pain, injury and hard health seasons.

Wed, 05 Aug 2026 10:00:00 -0400

Reality is so many women feel lost on how to navigate their yoga practice - when health factors are at play. If you have ever wondered, how do I practice yoga when I don't feel my best? Or how to practice yoga in a way that doesn't flare up pain or chronic health conditions. You're not alone.

In this episode, Yoga Therapist and Yog Teacher Keri Marino dives deep into the mindset and methods that will help you make decisions on your practice that honor where you are and help support your health goals.

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Next steps ⬇️

Find out how deep your yoga practice is going - a free quiz to help you sort out of you're getting the most out of your practice

-> https://kerimarino.eo.page/deepenyourpractice

The boring yoga might be exactly what you need.

Wed, 29 Jul 2026 11:00:00 -0400

Let's be honest, sometimes yoga can feel boring. And ironically, that might be exactly what you are needing. Especially if you are a woman who is prone towards fight or flight, leads a demanding lifestyle or prefers to "keep moving."

In this episode, yoga therapist and yoga teacher Keri Marino talks about the healing power of slow, contemplative yoga practice and how it gives you something more active styles never could.

She'll uncover the real medicine a yoga practice can provide and the mindset shifts that will help you stop avoiding and start leaning into your practice.

Next steps ⬇️

Find out how deep your yoga practice is going - a free quiz to help you sort out of you're getting the most out of your practice

-> https://kerimarino.eo.page/deepenyourpractice

If you are local to Greenville, join me for my in person workshop Beyond Therapy: Yoga, Somatics and Nervous System Medicine for deeper healing. Sunday, August 16th 2026. $35/person and for women only. Find out more and claim your spot here:

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The Truth About Trauma, Yoga and What Actually Heals with Liz Albanis

Wed, 22 Jul 2026 07:00:00 -0400

What does trauma-informed yoga actually mean — and does all yoga heal, or can some of it hurt?

In this episode yoga therapist and yoga teacher Keri Marino sits down with Liz Albanis, Australian yoga therapist and host of the Yoga for Trauma: The Inner Fire of Yoga Podcast, for one of the most honest conversations this show has had about trauma, the body and what healing with yoga actually looks like.

They cover what trauma really is beyond the dramatic version, why not all yoga is created equal for trauma recovery, the red flags to watch for in yoga spaces, what a genuinely supportive practice actually feels like from the inside — and where these two experienced practitioners see things differently.

If you're looking for an honest, expert take on how to heal through a yogic based approach. This one is for you.

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Want to find out more about Keri and Liz?

Connect with Keri at https://www.kerimarino.com/ and @the_nourished_woman

Connect with Liz at https://www.lizalbaniswellness.com.au/ and @lizalbaniswellnessau

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Next steps ⬇️

Find out how deep your yoga practice is going - a free quiz to help you sort out of you're getting the most out of your practice

-> https://kerimarino.eo.page/deepenyourpractice

Your Body Was Protecting You All Along - Trauma, Your Body and Healing Deeply

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 21:00:00 -0400

If you've ever wondered where the chronic tightness in your shoulders comes from, the mirror you'd rather avoid or the pleasure you can't fully open up to receive - it could be because your body is holding onto something to protect you (like it needed to in the past.)

The reality is, so much of how you've thought about and experienced your body - is rooted in trauma and adaptive patterns.

But a conscious, loving relationship with your body in the here and now isn't guided by protective habits alone, it's also resourced in soul alignment, you standing in your power and a nervous system that can hold goodness too.

In this episode, yoga therapist and yoga teacher Keri Marino unpacks how trauma impacts your body and what it looks like to heal deeply - in a holistic yoga therapy based method.

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Next steps ⬇️

Find out how deep your yoga practice is going - a free quiz to help you sort out of you're getting the most out of your practice

-> https://kerimarino.eo.page/deepenyourpractice

Women and Our Bodies - Body Image Truths & Finding Liberation

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 10:00:00 -0400

In this episode, yoga therapist and yoga teacher Keri Marino unearths the honest truth about women and our bodies including body image, the desires you hold, and what really helps you feel free. We explore what informed how you feel about your body so you can see that the struggles you've grappled with were never your fault, and get insight and inspiration into what really matters most - to help you heal your relationship with your body in a way that sets you free. To be more present, liberated and at peace. 💜

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Next steps ⬇️

Find out how deep your yoga practice is going - a free quiz to help you sort out of you're getting the most out of your practice

-> https://kerimarino.eo.page/deepenyourpractice

From Women's Shelter to Yoga Therapist — on Turning Hard Things Into Something Beautiful with Jessica Erlendson

Tue, 23 Jun 2026 10:00:00 -0400

Jessica Erlendson is a yoga therapist and menopause educator from Calgary — and she is one of those women who has taken the hardest parts of her life and turned them into something that genuinely helps other people heal.

In this conversation we talk about leaving a domestic violence situation at 21 and pregnant, how learning became her form of freedom, what yoga therapy actually looks like when it meets a real human being exactly where they are, and why being comfortable in a restorative pose is not a small thing — it might be the whole point.

This one is warm, honest and a little unexpected. I think you're going to love her.

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Find out more about Keri and Jessica

You can find Keri at www.KeriMarino.com or instagram @the_nourished_woman

Find Jessica at https://canadianperimeno.com/ and on instagram @schoolofperimenopause

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Next steps ⬇️

Find out how deep your yoga practice is going - a free quiz to help you sort out of you're getting the most out of your practice

-> https://kerimarino.eo.page/deepenyourpractice

I Cried Recording This — On Giving MySelf Permission and Why Yoga Needs to Go Deep Again

Wed, 17 Jun 2026 10:00:00 -0400

I almost didn't make this episode. It's the most personal thing I've shared in a while — and at one point I just stopped and cried, right there into the mic. This is me working through a paradigm shift I've been sitting in for months: owning that after seventeen years, I'm not a beginner yoga therapist figuring it out anymore. I'm a senior one. And that comes with a responsibility I've been hesitant to fully claim — to speak honestly about what's happened to yoga over the last twenty years, as it moved from weird and deep to widely available, and in that spread, became diluted. Surface level. Fitness oriented. A stress reliever you do for 15 minutes and forget.

In this episode I talk about why yoga has always been about healing and integration, not just exercise — and why, in a world accelerating into AI and disconnection, we need practices that turn us inward more than ever. I talk about devotion. About what it means to actually identify as a woman who practices — not occasionally, but as a real part of who you are, with a system and a village around you that helps you fill the gaps when life gets hard. This one is raw, it's honest, and I think it might be exactly what some of you have been needing to hear.

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Next steps ⬇️

Find out how deep your yoga practice is going - a free quiz to help you sort out of you're getting the most out of your practice

-> https://kerimarino.eo.page/deepenyourpractice

Beyond Calm - What Yoga Actually Does to Your Nervous System Over Time

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 09:00:00 -0400

You know yoga makes you feel better. But do you know why?

And more importantly — do you know what becomes possible when your nervous system actually heals over time?

In this episode of The Nourished Woman Podcast yoga therapist and yoga teacher Keri Marino gets personal and conversational about what nervous system healing actually looks and feels like from the inside — for real women living real lives.

Keri opens with her own past experiences of deep nervous system dysregulation — what it felt like in her body, her relationships and her daily life — and walks you through how somatic yoga therapy changed everything. Not in a clinical way. In a woman to woman way that will make you feel deeply seen.

This episode covers what your nervous system is actually doing and why it matters for your healing, what expanding your nervous system capacity actually feels like — and why it's about so much more than just calming down, how healing your nervous system opens you up to pleasure, to feeling good in your body, to intimacy, to abundance and to life itself, why inner work and somatic yoga therapy work together as a complete method and how to actually start doing this work in your real life.

Because the goal was never just calm.

The goal is a bigger more alive more free experience of being human.💜

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Next steps ⬇️

Find out how deep your yoga practice is going - a free quiz to help you sort out of you're getting the most out of your practice

-> https://kerimarino.eo.page/deepenyourpractice

What My Yoga Practice Actually Looks Like as a Mom of 3

Wed, 27 May 2026 11:00:00 -0400

If you've ever wondered what my actual yoga practice looks like behind the scenes, this episode is your real‑life sneak peek. I’m giving you full access to how I’ve woven yoga into motherhood—amid naptimes, school pickups, marriage, business, and all the beautiful chaos.

You’ll see how I make time to nourish myself consistently, even when the mat feels miles away. And honestly? It might just shift how you think about your own practice—helping you deepen it, show up more often, and soak in the benefits without guilt.

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Next steps ⬇️

Find out how deep your yoga practice is going - a free quiz to help you sort out of you're getting the most out of your practice

-> https://kerimarino.eo.page/deepenyourpractice

Break Free From Shame — How It Lives in Your Body and How Yoga Helps You Heal with Christy Bonner

Wed, 20 May 2026 07:00:00 -0400

Shame doesn't just live in your thoughts. It lives in your body. And healing it requires more than just understanding it.

In this episode of The Nourished Woman Podcast, yoga therapist and yoga teacher Keri Marino sits down with Christy Bonner — licensed marriage and family therapist, certified Enneagram teacher, 500-hour yoga teacher and author of Freedom from Shame — for one of the most honest and illuminating conversations about shame, healing and liberation you'll hear.

Christy brings a rare combination of clinical depth, spiritual wisdom and personal vulnerability to this conversation — and together they go places most wellness podcasts never go.

In this episode you'll discover the critical difference between shame and guilt — and why getting this wrong keeps women stuck, how shame lives in the body and why healing it requires a bottom-up approach not just insight and understanding, the three ways women respond to shame — moving toward, moving away and moving against — and what each reveals about your nervous system, how religious trauma and rigid faith systems create some of the deepest shame wounds and what freedom from that actually looks like, what the Enneagram shame triad reveals about types 2, 3 and 4 — and how all nine types carry shame differently, what it actually feels like when shame stops running your life — in your body, your relationships and your capacity to take up space in the world and how yoga uniquely heals shame by working on the body, mind, spirit and life simultaneously.

Shame loves secrecy. This conversation is the sunlight. 🕯️

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Connect with Keri at https://www.kerimarino.com/ and @the_nourished_woman

Connect with Christy at www.mindbodyandspirit.com, @enneagram.yoga or her podcast Enneagram + Yoga.

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Next steps ⬇️

Find out how deep your yoga practice is going - a free quiz to help you sort out of you're getting the most out of your practice

-> https://kerimarino.eo.page/deepenyourpractice

The Mindset of a Woman Who Successfully Practices Yoga at Home — It's Not What You Think

Wed, 13 May 2026 07:00:00 -0400

The woman who practices yoga consistently at home isn't more disciplined than you. She's more desire led. Big difference.

In this episode,yoga therapist and yoga teacher Keri Marino breaks down the exact mindset that separates the woman who practices from the woman who means to — and what actually becomes possible when you stop making yoga optional and start making it yours.

Because the goal was never calm. It was always liberation. Pleasure. Feeling wildly alive and free in your own body and life.

This is how you get there. 🕯️

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Next steps ⬇️

Find out how deep your yoga practice is going - a free quiz to help you sort out of you're getting the most out of your practice

-> https://kerimarino.eo.page/deepenyourpractice

What's Waiting for You Inside The Nourished Woman Sanctuary

Mon, 04 May 2026 11:00:00 -0400

If you've been curious about what's actually waiting inside The Nourished Woman Sanctuary — this video is for you.

Yoga therapist and yoga teacher Keri Marino walks you through everything inside her devotional online yoga studio built specifically for self-aware women who have done the inner work and still feel like something essential is just out of reach.

This isn't a generic yoga class library. It's a therapeutically intentional practice space designed around your nervous system, your emotional wellbeing and your body's own wisdom — in 15-30 minute practices that fit into your real life.

Since recording this episode I have made a few changes to The Nourished Woman Sanctuary. Read on to learn more.

Inside the Sanctuary you'll find:

- 170+ somatic yoga practices organized by what you need — anxiety relief, emotional processing, nervous system regulation, pelvic health, burnout recovery, grief, body image, pregnancy, postpartum and so much more.

- A monthly practice calendar delivered to your inbox at the start of every month — one meditation and one breathwork practice repeated all month for deep integration, plus varied movement practices through the weeks. No decision fatigue. No wondering where to start.

- Two live gatherings on Zoom every month — the first Tuesday Candlelight Gentle amd Restorative Yoga and third Monday Morning Devotion meditation and yoga philosophy.

- A community of women from all over the world doing this work alongside you.

This membership is for you if:

You've done the therapy, the journaling, the yoga — and something still feels just out of reach.

You grew up learning that your body wasn't entirely safe and you're ready to find your way back.

You want a devoted practice space that meets you exactly where you are — not another course that asks you to analyze yourself further.

This is yoga as a sacred relationship with yourself. Not discipline. Devotion.

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🕯️ Join The Nourished Woman Sanctuary
$47/month — cancel anytime
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May is our two year anniversary month — practice challenge, giveaway and a community that is especially alive right now. There has never been a better time to walk through the door.

🕯️ Not sure yet? Start here — free guided practice

If you’re ready for a gentle yoga practice that helps you feel at home in yourself and opens you up to feel more present and alive. Get a 10 minute somatic practice here.
→ (https://kerimarino.eo.page/comehome

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If this episode resonated, share it with a woman who needs it and leave a review on Apple Podcasts.

Connect with Keri at https://www.kerimarino.com/ and @the_nourished_woman

Surrender is Not Giving Up: The Yoga of Trusting the Process without Shutting Down

Wed, 29 Apr 2026 07:00:00 -0400

There's a space most women know intimately but rarely talk about - the gap between where you are and where you want to be. It's uncomfortable in a quiet, persistent way. Often confusing and conflicting. Sometimes grief tinged. And filled with the urge to control, fix, shut down, gaslight or force your way through it.

This episode is an invitation to try something different.

Through the yogic concept of Ishvara Pranidhana - the practice of surrender and trust - we explore what it actually means to accept your reality without giving up on what you want or abandoning your feelings. This isn't about giving up or pretending you're fine, it's about learning to take hold of your life with open hands. To take wise, embodied action while releasing the white-knuckled grip on how it's al supposed to look.

If you’ve been wrestling with trust, struggling to accept what is, or exhausted from holding others emotions while not tending to your own — this one is for you.

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Next steps ⬇️

Find out how deep your yoga practice is going - a free quiz to help you sort out of you're getting the most out of your practice

-> https://kerimarino.eo.page/deepenyourpractice

Why I Really Do This Work — My Story of Childhood Trauma, Sexual Abuse and Coming Home to My Body

Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:00:00 -0400

I've never told this story publicly before now.

In this episode, I'm sharing the real reason I became a somatic yoga therapist - not the professional biography version, but the actual lived truth. The childhood that was full of love and also full of trauma. The religious upbringing that taught me my body was a problem. The relationship at 14 that became two years of sexual and emotional abuse I couldn't name until a class gave me the words. The eating disorders, chronic pain, body image struggles and anxiety.

And yoga - finding me at the height of suffering and showing me for the first time what it felt like to feel light, safe and at ease in my own skin. This episode is for everyone who's wanted my story over the years but hasn't known where to find it. For every woman who has been carrying something quietly for a long time. Who has done the therapy, the inner work, the journaling and still feels like they're living from the neck up...like something essential is just out of reach.

Reminder, you are resilient AF, you were never broken, there is a roadmap forward and you are not alone. I'm here with you and so many other are too.

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Next steps ⬇️

Find out how deep your yoga practice is going - a free quiz to help you sort out of you're getting the most out of your practice

-> https://kerimarino.eo.page/deepenyourpractice

Done alot of Inner Work and Still Feel Stuck? Here's Why.

Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:00:00 -0400

You’ve journaled about it.
Talked about it in therapy.
You understand your patterns…
So why do you still feel stuck?
In this episode, we’re talking about the gap so many self-aware women find themselves in — where you know what’s going on… but your body hasn’t caught up yet.
Because healing doesn’t happen in your mind alone.

Your body has to feel safe enough to actually process what’s there, in this espisode Yoga Therapist Keri Marino shines some light.
If you’ve been stuck in overthinking, analyzing, or trying to “figure yourself out”… this will help you understand why — and what’s actually missing.

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Next steps ⬇️

Find out how deep your yoga practice is going - a free quiz to help you sort out of you're getting the most out of your practice

-> https://kerimarino.eo.page/deepenyourpractice

Why Yoga Makes You Cry; Here’s Why That’s Good

Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:00:00 -0400

Ever cried or had a surprising emotional release during yoga and wondered what just happened? In this episode, we get into the why (the science and the subtle) of these common tender moments, trace it back to something powerful and name part of what makes yoga so healing. If you're on a journey know yourself more, grow, heal and expand you might find answers here to why emotions rise, tears flow and ease settles in every time you roll out your mat.

This episode was a direct response to a question I've been asked too many times to count over the years. If you have a question you'd like me to answer email or DM on Instagram.

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Next steps ⬇️

Find out how deep your yoga practice is going - a free quiz to help you sort out of you're getting the most out of your practice

-> https://kerimarino.eo.page/deepenyourpractice

Why You Keep Overthinking Your Emotions (and How to Actually Process Them)

Wed, 01 Apr 2026 08:00:00 -0400

Have you ever journaled for hours, talked it out with your therapist, listened to every podcast episode about healing — and still felt stuck? If you're a woman who lives deeply in her mind, constantly analyzing her emotions instead of actually feeling them, this episode is for you. In today's conversation, we're diving into the pattern of over-intellectualizing emotion — what it looks like, why so many of us default to it, and why all the self-awareness in the world won't set you free if it stays in your head.

Through the lens of devotional somatic yoga for women and nervous system healing, we'll explore how to gently move out of analysis mode and back into your body — where real transformation lives. Whether you're new to gentle and restorative yoga and inner work or you've been on this path for a while, this episode will give you practical, embodied tools to start feeling, expressing, and releasing what you've been carrying. This is the heart of what we do here at The Nourished Woman — and it just might be the permission slip you didn't know you needed.

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Next steps ⬇️

Find out how deep your yoga practice is going - a free quiz to help you sort out of you're getting the most out of your practice

-> https://kerimarino.eo.page/deepenyourpractice

Perimenopause, Self-Love, and Yoga Practice with Kat Smith

Wed, 18 Mar 2026 07:00:00 -0400

Perimenopause doesn’t just shift your hormones — it often shifts the questions you’re willing to ask about your life. In this episode, I sit down with yoga teacher, Enneagram teacher, and TEDx speaker Kat Smith for an honest conversation about midlife, motherhood, and the moment many women realize they’ve been holding everything together while quietly running on empty.

We talk about self-trust, desire, and how yoga and nervous system practices can support women through the emotional and physical changes of perimenopause. If you’re navigating midlife, feeling stretched thin, or craving a deeper connection with yourself, this conversation offers perspective, compassion, and practical insight.

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Connect with Keri at https://www.kerimarino.com/ and @the_nourished_woman

Connect with Kat at https://www.theyogasmith.com and @the_yoga_smith or on her podcast Enneagram + Yoga.

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Next steps ⬇️

Find out how deep your yoga practice is going - a free quiz to help you sort out of you're getting the most out of your practice

-> https://kerimarino.eo.page/deepenyourpractice

If Meditation and Restorative Yoga Feels Hard. Let's talk.

Wed, 04 Mar 2026 07:00:00 -0500

If you’ve been waiting for meditation, breathwork, or restorative yoga to “finally feel easy”… this is your loving reality check.

Learning to be still is a skill. And like any new skill — playing guitar, lifting weights, having hard conversations — it’s awkward at first. Your mind will wander. Your body will fidget. You will feel anything but enlightened and likely come up against anxiety at some point.

That doesn’t mean you’re bad at meditation or restorative yoga. It means you’re building capacity.
In this episode, we talk about why high-functioning women especially struggle with stillness — and why that’s not a flaw, it’s a training ground. We move beyond the fantasy of instant calm and into what actually creates embodied confidence and nervous system resilience: repetition, honesty, and small, devotional reps.

If you’re ready to stop waiting for calm to magically descend and start practicing your way into steadiness, this conversation will give you both the gentle nudge and the grounded truth you need.

Want to get better at meditation and restorative yoga?

Get My -> Good at Meditation and Restorative Yoga Guide

For self-aware women who feel like you’re bad at meditation and are ready to feel successful. https://kerimarino.eo.page/meditationguide

Want to hear other episodes on meditation?

Check out:

Why Meditation Feels So Hard - and How to Finally Find a Practice You Love
On Meditation, God & Relationships with David Harshada Wagner

Come Home to Your Body - free somatic yoga practice for women

The Nourished Woman with Keri Marino

Spilling the tea — the truth about making a living in yoga with Rebecca Sebastian

Why you can't stick with yoga

Stop waiting and wanting to practice - how women are finding the time

She ended the war with her body — Anna Guest-Jelley on yoga and body acceptance

Your body isn't broken — how to keep practicing yoga through pain, injury and hard health seasons.

The boring yoga might be exactly what you need.

The Truth About Trauma, Yoga and What Actually Heals with Liz Albanis

Your Body Was Protecting You All Along - Trauma, Your Body and Healing Deeply

Women and Our Bodies - Body Image Truths & Finding Liberation

From Women's Shelter to Yoga Therapist — on Turning Hard Things Into Something Beautiful with Jessica Erlendson

I Cried Recording This — On Giving MySelf Permission and Why Yoga Needs to Go Deep Again

Beyond Calm - What Yoga Actually Does to Your Nervous System Over Time

What My Yoga Practice Actually Looks Like as a Mom of 3

Break Free From Shame — How It Lives in Your Body and How Yoga Helps You Heal with Christy Bonner

The Mindset of a Woman Who Successfully Practices Yoga at Home — It's Not What You Think

What's Waiting for You Inside The Nourished Woman Sanctuary

Surrender is Not Giving Up: The Yoga of Trusting the Process without Shutting Down

Why I Really Do This Work — My Story of Childhood Trauma, Sexual Abuse and Coming Home to My Body

Done alot of Inner Work and Still Feel Stuck? Here's Why.

Why Yoga Makes You Cry; Here’s Why That’s Good

Why You Keep Overthinking Your Emotions (and How to Actually Process Them)

Perimenopause, Self-Love, and Yoga Practice with Kat Smith

If Meditation and Restorative Yoga Feels Hard. Let's talk.

From Sexual Trauma to Self-Trust: Reclaim Your Body and Find Confidence with Kat Beck

From Fake Peace to Real Peace

Doomscrolling When You’re Stressed AF (and How to Come Back to Yourself)

The Missing Piece in Your Marriage (It's Not What You Think) with Emily Galligan

From Autopilot to Aliveness: The Practice of Really Being Here

Midlife, Menopause & Coming Home to Your Body with Bonnie Papajohn

New Beginnings Aligned with Your Body and Soul

This Isn’t About a New You — It’s About Coming Home to You

From Mold Illness to Healing: Taking Ownership of Your Health with Katie Poterala

Create an At Home Yoga Practice that Actually Sticks

How to Break Free from Limiting Beliefs and Let Good Things In

How Better Breathing Can Transform Your Sleep, Mood, And Relationships with Perrin White

How to Stay Centered (and Sane) this Holiday Season

On Meditation, God & Relationships with David Harshada Wagner

How to Get What You Really Want (hint: get out of your way love)

Why Meditation Feels So Hard — and How to Finally Find a Practice You Love

When the World Is on Fire, Does Yoga Even Matter?

How to Heal Mother Wounds while Mothering

Off the Beaten Path Healing: Grief, Love and Making Bad Art with Courtney Chandler

From Body Shame to Sacred Home

The Hidden Dangers of Yoga Cults: How to Protect Yourself and Find Authentic Teachers

Your Intuition Can't Compete With Your Notifications

Yoga Isn't Just Bendy People in Cute Pants with Liz Delaney

Stop Putting Yourself Last: Breaking Up with Martyrdom

Mental Health, Trauma Recovery and Why a Body Based Approach is Essential

Ripple Effects: How Growth Changes Relationships

A Case of the F*ck-Its: The Self-Honoring Way

The Power of Yoga to Help You Grow and Truly Heal

Awakening the Nourished Woman Within