The Nourished Woman with Keri Marino
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The Nourished Woman with Keri Marino
Create an At Home Yoga Practice that Actually Sticks
If you’ve ever fallen into the “on-again, off-again” yoga cycle — promising yourself you’ll get back into it, then life gets loud again or longed to have yoga be a bigger part of your life yet struggled with how — this conversation is for you.
We talk about what really keeps you from staying consistent with your yoga practice (and it’s not laziness). It’s nervous system overload, the invisible weight of life, motherhood and partnership, and the perfectionism that says if I can’t do it all, I won’t do anything.
I’ll show you how to build an at-home yoga practice that actually sticks — one rooted in desire, not discipline. From five mindful breaths before a meeting to a cat-cow before bed, we explore how micro-rituals can regulate your nervous system, clear your mind, and reconnect you with the woman you want to be.
You’ll learn how to listen to your body’s cues — when it’s asking for energy, when it’s craving stillness — and how to make yoga fit your real life instead of forcing yourself to fit yoga. We’ll talk about releasing guilt, honoring your cycles, and creating space for peace that lasts long after you roll up the mat.
Because the truth is: yoga was never meant to be something you check off a list.
It’s a way of remembering who you are — even on the days that don’t go to plan.
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Welcome to the Nourished Woman Podcast, a space for women who've been doing the work to grow and heal and are ready to feel good again, body, mind, and soul. I'm your host, Carrie Marino, somatic yoga therapist of over 16 years, mentor and mama of three. I help women like you fall in love with how yoga makes you feel. Alchemi the hard things you've been through and experience more pleasure and aliveness in your body and relationships. I'm so glad you're here. Let's dive in. I just know I can't survive. Without mysteries, something that I hear a lot is that you've practiced yoga on and off for a while, and that you have this sort of cyclical pattern with it, where there are these seasons where you're practicing yoga much more often, maybe a couple times a week, maybe more. And then there are times when your yoga mat is totally collecting dust in the corner or the closet or it's flopping around and buried under stuff in the back of your car. And also that these women that have shared these stories with me, I also know that it's never really out of your mind. Like even if you're not actively practicing yoga, even if you have had a long gap in between your practice of yoga, you know that it works for you, and you know that it's helped you tremendously in the past on so many different levels. And so your yoga practice, even in those cycles when you're sort of out of the groove of doing it regularly, it's never really out of your mind. And if you are practicing on a more consistent basis, but maybe not as much as you would like to, or as often as you know would feel so good for you to, it's also on your mind, right? Like it's, I like to think of yoga as this mystical tool in your toolbox that you can grab because, like, truthfully, yoga has a lot of different great tools inside of it. And so you can just like grab the tools and use them at so many different times and in so many different ways in your life. And I want to normalize right from the start that I know that you are a real woman living a real life. And first off, like I'm right here with you, babe. I am a mom of three, I am married, I run this business, and I get it. Like, I understand that you're a real woman with a real life, complete with dishes and laundry and relationships and kids and the personal growth and healing work that you're doing. And so today I want to talk to you about how to create a sustainable mindset and a habit of nourishing yourself long-term through yoga at home, so that you can bask in the benefits of your practice more often, and ultimately so you can have that sort of soul deep, bone-deep satisfaction of feeling proud of yourself along the way. Because I know that on some level, when you're practicing more regularly, that that feels good to you. Like there's inwardly a sense of accomplishment that comes when you're doing the practice of yoga more often. And it's yes, like it impacts how you feel in your body and how much spiritual access you have to yourself, but also like just in the mindset, like you're more proud of yourself when you're doing a practice that nourishes you more and taking that time for self-care. And so I want to just love up on this whole concept of a home practice because I know I've been running the Nourished Woman Sanctuary for about a year and a half now, and I've heard the different, like tricky aspects of maintaining a home-based practice from so many different women. I've been practicing yoga for 20 years myself and just, you know, walked thousands of women along this path. And so I want to talk about the common places where it feels hard and ways to overcome that so that you can ultimately remember who you are over and over and over again and come home to yourself over and over and over again in small, sustainable ways through an at-home-based yoga practice. So, one of the first myths that I want to bust that I feel like a lot of you have in your mindset is that a consistent yoga practice means that you're doing a long yoga practice. And so, like if we take a class at a studio or if you do like a live class on Zoom with somebody, then you're usually doing 60 to 75 minute classes. Sometimes you'll do a 90-minute class. And so, if your way of measuring a good yoga practice is based on the model of an hour-long class, that doesn't translate to an at-home yoga practice. You are automatically not setting yourself up for success if that's your goal. And obviously, if you're a yoga teacher and you're a yoga therapist and you're listening, because I know many of you are out there, then sure, do the do the longer yoga practices. Or even if you're just a student of yoga and you want longer yoga practices, like by all means, go for it. Do the 60-minute at-home yoga practice. It's it's so powerful. There's no denying that. And also, I want to highlight that yoga is not just something that we do on a fancy yoga mat in a studio or for an hour at a time, whether on our computer or in person with someone. Yoga is actually this mystical tool belt that is full of small practical rituals that you can do that you can weave in to your everyday moments. Like, literally, I have used yoga practices when I am in the dentist office. I have used it when I am driving in my car. I have used it, used yoga tools while I'm cooking dinner, I've used it in difficult conversations or any number of situations. Like one of my favorite times to weave out my yoga tools, pull out my yoga tools is before I go to bed every single night. So I want you to think less of yoga in this like structured practice where I have a guide and it takes a long period of time, and more in the wheelhouse of you probably already have done yoga long enough or often enough that you've picked up some things that you can use in small daily moments throughout your life. And I call this the spontaneous yoga, and it's literally like in all of my work with people, especially when I was working with people who were new to yoga early on, earlier in my career. And so it's like teaching them how to build the habit of practicing yoga. And I did a lot of private work with people and just like literally doing yoga only before I started weaving in the inner work and the coaching, like I do now. But I can tell you that there's always these moments where I see my clients back then it was more pronounced, and now that I work with women who already have an established yoga practice, like these light bulb moments where they would be like, oh my gosh, like I am just, I found myself just doing some yoga the other day, just like out of the blue. I just rolled out my mat, or maybe I was just like in my living room and stood on my rug and I did a yoga pose and I felt so much better. So the spontaneous yoga is real. I really want to highlight that you have that tool belt inside of you because of the work, the groundwork that you've already laid in your yoga practice and in all the time that you've already put in. And so I just want to invite you to really own that and to see what little things could I weave into my day in small moments that would help me remember to live this yoga and not just have it be like on destination yoga mat that I do it or on destination meditation cushion, but how can I weave this in in a more practical way? And I also want to talk about when you're practicing yoga, there's a lot of shoulding yourself that happens. Like, oh, I should do yoga more often, I should meditate, I should do restorative yoga, I should do breath work, right? Like we've all heard ourselves should ourselves about our yoga practice. And the reality, love, is that shouldding yourself is not a habit formation tool. It does not help you. All that shouldn't yourself can do is inform you about your values. If you're shoulding yourself about something, then you can mine that for information, like, oh, I'm telling myself I should do that, because actually there's something about having a more consistent yoga practice that I value. And so what I'm gonna actually do is see that I value that and then understand that behind your value, behind that desire to be more consistent in your yoga practice is a want, right? Like it's like this inner knowing-based want, this heart-led, this soulful want. And I venture to guess that probably it doesn't matter why you started practicing yoga in the original time, because we all had our entry points and it's usually exercise. And ultimately where you are now is probably a much higher level relationship with yoga. And it's the kind of yoga where you want to practice because you know that it helps you feel at home in yourself and it helps you feel relaxed and at ease, and it helps you feel deeply nourished on so many different levels. And so that I should do yoga more often conversation is actually I value the way that yoga helps me feel and who that helps me to be, and I want to do that because that is in soul alignment for me. This works for me, and I know that I want, I want to get on my yoga mat, I want to meditate, I want to chant, I want to do breath work because oh, who I have access to inside of me during and after that practice is so something that I want. So I want you to carve out this space inside of you for this to be what leads you, that you get to be creative about your yoga practice, that you get to weave it in, and that you get to lean into what you want because that is what's gonna get you to roll out your yoga mat and do the thing and soak in the benefits. Now I want to talk to you about the real woman, real life situation that you are facing. I want to talk to you about some of the most common hurdles that I see women come up against, those edges that you bump up against that you're like, and you can get really tangled up here. And truthfully, these different areas that I'm gonna talk to you about, they can honestly stall you out for a long time if you want it. And I'm speaking to you if you're if you've been in that cycle of not showing up as consistently in your yoga practice as you want to, and feeling like that sort of internal almost frustration or judgment with yourself of like, why can't I just do it? I want to do it, I know how much it helps me. Ugh, like all there's this, there's that, there's these things, there's you know, there's all these different things in the way. So let's just name what those things are. And I want, as I'm sharing this with you, you're probably not gonna resonate with all of them, and you'll resonate with some of them. And I want you to get really honest with yourself about which of these hurdles you are subconsciously or consciously letting get in your way. So let's talk first about the life hurdles, the outer things that are going on inside of you. So if you are a mom of a kid of any age that still lives in your home, that automatically can be a really big hurdle for an at-home-based yoga practice. Maybe you literally have a nursing baby, maybe you have a high schooler who's coming and going and needing different things from you, maybe you've got kids of any different age, maybe you've got multiple kids, maybe you've got one kid. Like, if kids are in the home, that can be something that really makes it challenging for you to feel like you have time for an at-home yoga practice. Just speaking from my own perspective, as of this moment, I have a two-year-old, a seven-year-old, and a ten-year-old. And I can tell you that I really don't enjoy doing my like movement yoga practice with my kids. Nobody likes having a toddler climb on your back or throw yoga blocks at your face when you're doing your yoga practice. So, mamas, I see you. Other things like work, a lot of us have ever since COVID a lot less separation between work and home life. If you are an entrepreneur, then you know that you're sort of carrying parts of your business with you all throughout your days. And so I see you if work feels like it takes up space, especially for my folks that work from home or that run your own business, or even just have a job where you're expected to answer your phone or to answer emails at different times of day and night, that that can be a barrier for you with an at-home yoga practice. And then there's honestly just all the practical stuff of like there's laundry that needs to be folded, or dishes that need to be put away, or maybe home feels like a really overstimulating environment because you've got other people playing music or or coming and going, or you've got a dog barking, or you've got all these different things that feel like they're pulling you towards them. And we as women, mostly, like still in the United States, we predominantly carry a lot of the household responsibility. And especially if you live alone, maybe you're carrying all of the responsibility to care for your home. And so there's the dirty floors, there's all the things that you feel as a woman that are your responsibility. There's also things like you have to get out your yoga gear. Like maybe your yoga gear is tucked away in a closet, and you're like, oh, I don't want to walk down the hallway and get out my yoga mat and pull out my yoga box and then turn on my computer and then set myself up and then do my yoga practice. There's also things like maybe you have to put your dog bed out for your dog so that your dog can actually like lay beside you when you're practicing yoga. Or maybe you have very limited time with your partner if you're in a marriage or relationship where you live together or you're dating someone. And so the thought of rolling out your yoga mat or sitting for meditation feels like it would actually take away from time that you might give to your partner or your kids. Or maybe your couch is super appealing, and you've got a sort of routine of like making yourself a cup of tea and sitting on a couch, and you're like, I don't want to give up my couch time because couch rod is real for a lot of women, and you the thought of like the effort of doing your yoga practice just feels hard when the couch is right there. And another one is feeling in your life that there's really not time that's just yours. Like it's always moving from one task to another task, taking care of this and then taking care of that, and thinking ahead and planning or researching, and it can feel like there's really just not time at home that's just for you. Then I want to talk to you a little bit about the more internal hurdles, the ones that are more subtle and might have to do with your mindset and might have to do with some of your adaptive patterning and your nervous system ultimately. And so a big one that I see is an all or nothing mentality. Like either I'm practicing yoga three times a week or I'm failing. Or either I'm practicing in the morning when I said I would, or I'm not at all. Like if I don't hit that morning practice, like it's just not gonna happen. Or even sometimes I'll see women that give yourself a pass and you're like, I just don't do video-based practices. I just don't do them. And that I'm just gonna call it, it's an all or nothing mentality. It is a limiting mindset that you are choosing to reinforce and accept every time you let yourself believe that. Because the modern nourished woman does her yoga practice when she has the opportunity and she can. And yes, sometimes we make those opportunities by choosing them and creating the habits and the pathway and the skill and the neural wiring inside of us that you choose them. And like really buying into this all or nothing mentality will simply keep you stuck. And if that's what you want, if you really enjoy your stuckness, then go for it. But adventure to guess, you probably wouldn't listen to this particular podcast if you wanted to keep buying into all or nothing beliefs. Another one, another more subtle one, is the desire to zone out. And I am speaking to you if you feel like when you actually get time where you could do your yoga practice, you feel this inner pull towards zoning out in some way. And it might be listening to a podcast, it might be listening to an audiobook, it might be reading a romantic book or a fantasy book, it might be watching some show that's entertaining for you on a streaming platform. It could be any number of things, it could be that you zone out by cleaning, it could be like a million different ways that you zone out. But I want to recognize with you that internal barrier of I could do my yoga practice right now, but I would rather not be in this moment. I would almost rather be in an alternate reality somewhere in my brain. I want to go somewhere else rather than do a yoga practice that like invites me to tune in. And if that's you, I just want to acknowledge that. And I want to also gently suggest that if you're feeling that I need to zone out conversation inside of yourself, it is probably a sign that you need your yoga practice more because likely you are going through. Through something that needs your attention and care, and you're feeling a need to disassociate from the present moment and from yourself as a coping strategy. And I don't want to knock zoning out, right? Because like it's it's a good, wonderful part of our lives, and it's not problematic as a tool that you can use. And also true if zoning out practices are keeping you out of touch with yourself and they're making it to where you're not leaning into the gift of yoga in your life and you want to, then it's problematic. Like that's a sign that you're overindulging in that part of you that wants to zone out. And probably if you speak really honestly with yourself, you've got some bits and pieces, you've got some stuff going on that are tricky for you. And if you'll face those tricky things, if you'll process them, if you'll roll out your mat, if you'll sit for the meditation, if you'll do some of the inner work that I invite you to do, then you'll probably find a nudge of clarity and some relief from that internal pull to zone out. Another one, and this kind of goes back to the all or nothing thinking, is this idea that, like, oh, like, you know, what difference does five breaths really make in the scope of my life? Like, is that really, you know, it's not long enough to actually make a difference? Or it's just 15 minutes of yoga. Like, does that really help? Because it's only 15 minutes. How much can really happen for me in 15 minutes? And if you've got any of that internal resistance around how how like short practices can make a difference, I just want to ask you, why couldn't it make a difference? Like, I want to challenge that part of you that feels that lean towards this is not enough to matter. Instead, like, what if the new thought is like every little bit counts? Every little bit of my yoga practice counts, every little bit can shift my state, every little bit can bring me closer to myself and to my true self and my highest self. Every little moment, every little choice, every little bite-sized practice that I can do is bringing me back to that core essence of who I am. And so every little bit counts. The next thing that I want to talk about is the I'm wiped out comment that I hear a lot. Like I'm so wiped out at the end of the day. I'm so wiped out when I get home from work. I'm so busy. I just I don't know how I'll make room for my yoga practice. I don't know how. I'm so wiped out. I'm so tired. I'm so busy. There's just no time, right? And so I want to tell you that, like, okay, I get that you're tired. I get that you're wiped out. Maybe you're going through some seasonal depression. Maybe you're at this really, really high functioning level in your life where you're giving and doing and performing and giving and doing and achieving. And perhaps you're even in a time where it's just like it's kind of about survival mode. Because I want to normalize that sometimes we just need to survive. We just need to get through the hard that we're choosing and that we're walking through right now. And other times life is in an easier flow and it's more spacious, and it's not as challenging. It's more, it's more easeful and relaxed. And so if you feel wiped out, if you feel like you have nothing left to pour back into yourself, if you feel like you're in a time where motivation is low and it's simply hard for you to want to do your practice, then I just want to love on you and I want to wrap you in so much compassion. And I want to invite you to listen to the part of you that feels tired and listen to the part of you that feels overextended and really honor that in your practice. And even like as women, we have different hormonal cycles. And if you're still menstruating, like for example, during your period, you're gonna want to practice a more restful practice. And then if you're if you're done menstruating, like you can base that on the moon. So honor your feminine cycles, honor when you're tired, honor when you're overextended, honor when you're burnt the fuck out. And let your yoga practice meet you where you are. Your yoga practice can adapt to you. You do not have to practice the same, for example, ashtanga yoga practice that you've always practiced all throughout your cycle. Like even in the ashtanga yoga system during the moon week, like you don't practice the same. So it's break the structure of how you quantify your yoga practice and let your yoga practice meet you where you are. I want to invite you to have a more energetic practice when you're energized or when you want to burn off some stress and have a more soothing and relaxing practice whenever that's what you need. And then another one that I want to speak to here is the I simply don't know how to stop. Like maybe you're the kind of person who like goes all day and then you just pass out at the end of the night. And you know that you really want to weave your yoga practice in at home. Maybe you've got a partner who works from home. Maybe you have all these different things. It's just like, I just go, go, go, go, go, and then I pass out at the end of the night. And so if you don't know how to stop, if you're always filling every empty space with something else and you want to fill it with your yoga practice, I want to remind you of the desire from earlier, the want to do it. And what if that gets to be louder than the I don't know story, or I don't have space in my home, or I don't have a room that's just for yoga, or there's dog hair on the rug, or there's this going on. Like it's not overindulgent for you to do your yoga practice. It is not selfish of you to tell your partner that you're gonna spend 15 minutes doing a meditation. In fact, your partner might just thank you when you're done for doing the meditation, because your yoga practice is about so much more than just you, babe. The last two things that I want to talk about in this hurdle category, one is another internal one, and it is viewing your yoga practice simply as exercise. So if you have a sort of outdated model of needing to, and I'm sorry to call it outdated, that's like a little judgy of me. Let me let me walk that back. If you believe that your yoga practice is just about exercise, even though you know that it's a spiritual practice, that it helps you mentally and emotionally, but if you're still stuck in this like sort of diet culture, beauty industry tangle about your yoga practice having to lead you to be more physically fit or less cellulite or lose weight or whatever it is, I want to challenge you here because it will limit your capacity to eat the rainbow in essence of yoga. Like if you're thinking that your yoga practice always has to be something that builds a little bit of a sweat and helps your body be more physically fit, you're gonna miss out on meditation and you're gonna miss out on the beauty of a breath work practice, and you're gonna miss out on the magic of chanting, or you might miss out on some of the inner work tools and resources that exist inside of the yoga realm. And so if there's that internal, like, I want to do yoga, but like, ugh, I'm not gonna meditate or breathe because those are not gonna help me be physically fit enough, what would happen if you just relaxed, babe, and you trusted yourself to get some exercise and you trusted yourself enough to do some breath work and some meditation because they offer such incredible benefits. Okay, my love. To sum all of this up, to sum all of the hurdles up outside you and inside of you, it ultimately boils down to what your nervous system is doing. And if your nervous system is in fight or flight mode or it's in fawn or freeze mode, it's gonna tell you I do not have time to practice yoga. It's gonna make these hurdles feel louder. It's gonna make all of the excuses and the barriers feel impenetrable. And so the irony of this is that your yoga practice, especially the ones, because the nervous, the nourished woman sanctuary that I offer is literally based on the state of your nervous system. The irony is that yoga is a sort of medicine for your nervous system and so many other different parts of you as well. Yoga's energy medicine, yoga is mental health, yoga is physical health, like yoga is all of these things. So you, as the highest self in the equation, will need to override what your nervous system is telling you. And where I see so many women not owning their power in terms of an at-home-based yoga practice is in missing this one key piece. What is gonna what are you gonna let be louder? The patterns and the beliefs and the stories that your nervous system tell you, or what you as the boss, highest self, goddess in charge, soul in this equation chooses for yourself. What are you going to choose for yourself? So whether or not you have a consistent at-home-based yoga practice, whether or not you're doing small ritualized practices throughout the day, it's about what your highest self is deciding versus what your nervous system is deciding. And I believe in you to choose based on your highest self. All right, so now that we put your highest self in charge here, let's talk about how to actually do it. Like how do you do these different things that I've talked to you about? And the first thing that I want you to know is you simply start small. When you are getting up out of bed in the morning and you put your feet on the ground, can you be mindful and aware that you've put your feet on the ground or what you see with your eyes as you open the curtains or the blinds to let the natural light in? Can you tune into that? Can you feel present in those moments? Can you incorporate a little bit of yoga movement in the morning? Can you raise your arms up overhead and intertwine your fingers? I'm doing it right now. I wish you could see me. And stretch your palms up overhead. Can you do some sun breaths where you inhale your arms up and stretch tall and exhale and bring your hands together and just really luxuriate and going slow? Can you do some mindful breathing in small moments throughout the day? Maybe you put your hands on the sides of your rib cage and feel the expansion as you inhale and the release as you exhale. Can you do a little bit of chanting as you're driving somewhere? Can you chant ohm in the car? Maybe you listen to a little bit of chanting music. Maybe right before you go to bed every single night, you do some kind of meditation. It could be two minutes of meditation, it could be 10, 15 minutes of meditation. What I'm hoping you're getting at here is that small practices. You can do some cat cows before bed. Like small practices can be woven in throughout the course of your day. And then that will make a difference and that will help you do this next one. And so the next one is to make a at-home yoga practice part of your identity. So you simply decide that you're the kind of person who has woven yoga into her life and into her life at home as well. So rather than holding the identity of I do yoga just at the yoga studio, or I do yoga just with this certain teacher online and I don't do it anywhere else, what if yoga becomes a part of your identity? It is simply a part of who you are. It is simply a part of how you live your life. It is simply a part of your home life dynamic. Make this part of your identity. The next is to ritualize it. So when you are gonna turn on your computer or open up your tablet or click play on a practice on your phone, whether it be through Insight Timer or through somebody else's yoga subscription service or through the Nourished Woman Sanctuary, I want you to ritualize a little bit. What if rolling out your yoga mat was a ritual in and of itself? To me, I love the feeling of watching my yoga mat unfurl. I enjoy the simple action of straightening out my yoga mat, untucking it, and seeing the smooth mat layout. How can you ritualize that? Or do you have a candle that you like to burn? Or are you an essential oils person? Or do you enjoy like this? I was teaching a group of women. I've been running behind the scenes, a group of women called Embody Sisterhood that's private access here in my local community, and it's like somatic yoga and emotional processing for women. And one of them was telling me she has her like snuggle yoga blanket, and then she has her like yoga yoga blanket, the one she uses for preps and the one she uses just to cuddle. How can you ritualize it? Maybe you say an affirmation for yourself. This is my time to come home to myself. This is my time to call all of my energy back. Ritualize it, love. And then lastly, you'll get so much more of an at-home-based yoga practice if you make yourself part of a community. And being part of a community might be more of an app-based community. And it might be more of a like, maybe you join like a Facebook group for people who do yoga. And so you're just like seeing other people talk about how they're doing yoga at home. Inside of the Nourished Woman Sanctuary, you're seeing other women comment on the different practices that they do. You're having live gatherings with me twice a month. So you're interacting with those other women who are doing an at-home-based yoga practice. As a woman, relationships are everything to you. And so the more that you can build a community around your yoga practice, the more that it will help you stay in touch with your practice. I know that you know that yoga is incredibly valuable for you. I know that you know that it makes a big difference in who you are in your life beyond the physical benefits. And the physical benefits are, they're fucking major. Like, let's be honest. I love the physical benefits of yoga. And I also want to talk to you about how I view yoga as a somatic yoga therapist. And so I just kind of want to like bring you into my head for a moment and show you how I see it so that you can kind of see it through that lens. So to me, a yoga practice is not just like a start and stop practice, it is a lifelong devotional practice. And this devotional practice is an act of service both to myself and to all of the people that I interact with. So I know that every time that I do my yoga practices, I am giving back to myself on many different levels. And I am giving back to the people closest to me and to all of you who listen to this podcast and to the people in my community that I will interact with, whether it be the grocery store clerk or the person behind me in line or how I drive my car. But I also know that there's a ripple effect of your yoga practice on the earth and on the world. And so, to me, a yoga practice is a lifelong devotional practice. It is truthfully a role of activism. It is a way that you are being an activist for goodness in the world and for like good-heartedness in the world and connection and love in this world. And your yoga practice really like clears the channel of all of the shit that you can pick up, the stuff that's not yours, the past stuff, the stuff that bogs you down, the stuff like all the fear and the limiting beliefs, like your yoga practice is literally like clearing the energy channels in your body. It is clearing out the physical stress and tension and bracing and gripping and holding. It is clearing that out of your body. It is clearing out the stuff in your mind. It is clearing out all the stories and the emotions. It is clearing out all of this room inside of you. And in that room inside of you is room for your soul. It is room for your spirit. It is room for some infinite connection to something bigger than you, the divine or God or goddess or source or whatever you want to call it. But your yoga practice is ultimately, ultimately, ultimately bringing you in touch with your own soul and with the infinite, however you want to call it. And it's living your life as the sort of devotional practice and prayer. It's this return to yourself. It's this inner peace that other people can feel. It's health mentally, physically, emotionally, spiritually, relationally. Your yoga practice is huge. It is huge for you. And I wonder how it would feel for you to view it as that every time you click play on that meditation or breathwork or chanting or your gentle or restorative or your vinyasa yoga. Like what if you let it be so much more? Because the point is not to do more yoga, the point is to live your life as yoga and to have that medicine woven into the fabric of who you are. I cannot wait to see what you create from this. I would love to hear from you. So if this inspires you to practice yoga more often, or even if you want to join us inside the Nourished Woman Sanctuary, I would love to have you in there. It is a it's a somatic yoga library with over 150 different practices. They're based on these signature series of real women, real life situations. So it's like, are you on your period? Okay, here's a yoga practice for you that's based on the state of where your nervous system is. Are you holding some stress in your body that you want to release? Are you burnt out? Okay, here's a yoga practice for you. Do you want to have a good night of sleep? Here's a yoga practice series based on that. Are you carrying some fear and stress and tension in your hips? Okay, let's unwind what's going on in your hips and holy hips. Do you want to make space inside of you for what you want to create and love on your spine? Practice make space within. So it's the signature series of 15 and 30 minute nervous system based somatic yoga rituals that you can do from home. There's metal. Meditation and chanting and breath work. And you also get two live experiences with me once a month. Throughout the fall and winter, one of those is a 75-minute candlelight restorative yoga, deep rest, guided relaxation, so yummy. And the other is a workshop. And they the topics vary a little bit. They're all on Zoom this month. As I'm recording this, it's December, and I'm doing one on breaking free from limiting beliefs and fears so that you can live more expansively and confidently in your life. And I do a different topic like that every single month. I'd love to have you join us. And also, if you know someone that is here with you in this interest in yoga and wanting to practice more often, share this episode with them. Much love to you. Thank you so much for listening to the Nourished Woman podcast. I would love to hear what resonated with you and what you're carrying with you out into your life. Send me a message on Instagram at the Nourished Woman or even my email. Your messages really mean the world to me, so don't be shy. The beautiful music that you're hearing is by Sean Johnson and the Wild Lotus Band. You can find them on all streaming platforms. I'll see you next week for another episode.