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 ⬇️

Grab a free yoga practice to Come Home to Your Body

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

Start a consistent daily yoga practice in Daily Devotion - 21 days of 10 minute yoga practices plus email support to keep you on track

-> https://thenourishedwoman.heymarvelous.com/product/92272/lessons

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

Help spread the word. If this episode resonated, share it with a friend and leave a review on Apple Podcasts.

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.

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 ⬇️

Grab a free yoga practice to Come Home to Your Body

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

Start a consistent daily yoga practice in Daily Devotion - 21 days of 10 minute yoga practices plus email support to keep you on track

-> https://thenourishedwoman.heymarvelous.com/product/92272/lessons

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

Help spread the word. If this episode resonated, share it with a friend and leave a review on Apple Podcasts.

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.

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 ⬇️

Grab a free yoga practice to Come Home to Your Body

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

Start a consistent daily yoga practice in Daily Devotion - 21 days of 10 minute yoga practices plus email support to keep you on track

-> https://thenourishedwoman.heymarvelous.com/product/92272/lessons

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

Help spread the word. If this episode resonated, share it with a friend and leave a review on Apple Podcasts.

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.

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 ⬇️

Grab a free yoga practice to Come Home to Your Body

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

Start a consistent daily yoga practice in Daily Devotion - 21 days of 10 minute yoga practices plus email support to keep you on track

-> https://thenourishedwoman.heymarvelous.com/product/92272/lessons

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

Help spread the word. If this episode resonated, share it with a friend and leave a review on Apple Podcasts.

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.

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 ⬇️

Grab a free yoga practice to Come Home to Your Body

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

Start a consistent daily yoga practice in Daily Devotion - 21 days of 10 minute yoga practices plus email support to keep you on track

-> https://thenourishedwoman.heymarvelous.com/product/92272/lessons

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

Help spread the word. If this episode resonated, share it with a friend and leave a review on Apple Podcasts.

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.

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 ⬇️

Grab a free yoga practice to Come Home to Your Body

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

Start a consistent daily yoga practice in Daily Devotion - 21 days of 10 minute yoga practices plus email support to keep you on track

-> https://thenourishedwoman.heymarvelous.com/product/92272/lessons

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

Help spread the word. If this episode resonated, share it with a friend and leave a review on Apple Podcasts.

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.

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 ⬇️

Grab a free yoga practice to Come Home to Your Body

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

Start a consistent daily yoga practice in Daily Devotion - 21 days of 10 minute yoga practices plus email support to keep you on track

-> https://thenourishedwoman.heymarvelous.com/product/92272/lessons

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

Help spread the word. If this episode resonated, share it with a friend and leave a review on Apple Podcasts.

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.

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 ⬇️

Grab a free yoga practice to Come Home to Your Body

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

Start a consistent daily yoga practice in Daily Devotion - 21 days of 10 minute yoga practices plus email support to keep you on track

-> https://thenourishedwoman.heymarvelous.com/product/92272/lessons

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

Help spread the word. If this episode resonated, share it with a friend and leave a review on Apple Podcasts.

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.

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 ⬇️

Grab a free yoga practice to Come Home to Your Body

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

Start a consistent daily yoga practice in Daily Devotion - 21 days of 10 minute yoga practices plus email support to keep you on track

-> https://thenourishedwoman.heymarvelous.com/product/92272/lessons

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

Help spread the word. If this episode resonated, share it with a friend and leave a review on Apple Podcasts.

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.

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
→ (https://www.kerimarino.com/the-nourished-woman-sanctuary.html)

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