What if your spiritual practice wasn’t about escape or perfection — but about learning to be deeply human?

In this rich and soulful conversation, Keri sits down with David Harshada Wagner — meditation teacher, artist, father, and yogic philosopher — to explore how devotion, discipline, and pleasure all weave together into a life of meaning.

They talk about Harshada's journey from addiction recovery to spiritual teacher, the “God-sized hole” so many try to fill, and how to build a practice that feels nourishing instead of performative.
From morning gym rituals to chanting, marriage and parenting, this is a conversation about the sacred that hides in plain sight.

Because the real path isn’t somewhere far away —
it’s right here, in your body, your breath, your ordinary day.

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

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

Daily Devotion - 21 day therapeutic home yoga practice 

-> https://www.kerimarino.com/daily-devotion-21-day-program.html

The Nourished Woman Sanctuary - on-demand and live somatic yoga for women ready to feel wildly whole & free

-> https://www.kerimarino.com/the-nourished-woman-sanctuary.html

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 on instagram @the_nourished_woman

Connect with Harshada at https://www.davidhwagner.com or instagram @harshadawagner. Sign up for this meditation course here https://harshada.teachable.com/p/meditation and use code "NOURISHED" for 20% off.

If you're standing on the threshold of wanting change, and feel both excited and terrified at the same time. This episode is for you. 

In this episode, we'll explore a gentler way to get what you really want by learning how to expand yourSelf from within —so your growth stops feeling like a rollercoaster of highs and lows of overthinking and self-doubt and more like a return to yourself.

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

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

Daily Devotion - 21 day therapeutic home yoga practice 

-> https://www.kerimarino.com/daily-devotion-21-day-program.html

The Nourished Woman Sanctuary - on-demand and live somatic yoga for women ready to feel wildly whole & free

-> https://www.kerimarino.com/the-nourished-woman-sanctuary.html

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 on instagram @the_nourished_woman

If you’ve ever sat down to meditate and instantly felt restless, distracted, or frustrated — you’re not bad a meditation - you're just not successful yet. In this episode, Keri shares insight on what modern women need to enjoy meditation and how to find practice in a way that feels so good you can't wait for your next practice. 

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

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

Daily Devotion - 21 day therapeutic home yoga practice 

-> https://www.kerimarino.com/daily-devotion-21-day-program.html

The Nourished Woman Sanctuary - on-demand and live somatic yoga for women ready to feel wildly whole & free

-> https://www.kerimarino.com/the-nourished-woman-sanctuary.html

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 on instagram @the_nourished_woman

In a world that feels increasingly heavy, it's easy to wonder if your yoga practice, your inner work, your quiet moments of healing — actually matter. Is rolling out your mat enough when everything around you feels like it's burning? This episode is Keri's love letter to every woman asking that question.

Here at The Nourished Woman, we believe that the work you do on your mat and within yourself — the shadow work, the nervous system tending, the devotional practice of coming home to your body — sends ripples out far beyond what you can see or measure. When a woman heals, something shifts in every room she walks into, every relationship she holds, every generation that comes after her. Your practice is not an escape from the world. It is your contribution to it. If you've been struggling to justify the time, the stillness, the inward turn during a season of collective unrest — this episode is exactly what you need to hear.

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

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

Daily Devotion - 21 day therapeutic home yoga practice 

-> https://www.kerimarino.com/daily-devotion-21-day-program.html

The Nourished Woman Sanctuary - on-demand and live somatic yoga for women ready to feel wildly whole & free

-> https://www.kerimarino.com/the-nourished-woman-sanctuary.html

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 on instagram @the_nourished_woman

This episode is an honest exploration into what it means to acknowledge and heal mother wounds. For so many women, the foundation of how you relate to yourself - for better or worse - started in how you were mothered by your mother. We take a trauma informed devotional yoga approach to exploring what it means like to tend to your inner child and feel more free because of it.

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

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

Daily Devotion - 21 day therapeutic home yoga practice 

-> https://www.kerimarino.com/daily-devotion-21-day-program.html

The Nourished Woman Sanctuary - on-demand and live somatic yoga for women ready to feel wildly whole & free

-> https://www.kerimarino.com/the-nourished-woman-sanctuary.html

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 on instagram @the_nourished_woman

If your mind “gets it” but your body still feels stuck, this episode is for you. We talk with Courtney from Hearts for Hope Therapy about how art therapy, somatic practices, and yoga reach the places words can’t—helping women soften perfectionism, create nervous system safety, and move through grief and identity shifts with more ease. Through stories of motherhood, intuition, and messy creative expression, you’ll hear practical tools, gentle truth-telling, and real permission to reconnect with your body, feel deeply, and come alive again.

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

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

Daily Devotion - 21 day therapeutic home yoga practice 

-> https://www.kerimarino.com/daily-devotion-21-day-program.html

The Nourished Woman Sanctuary - on-demand and live somatic yoga for women ready to feel wildly whole & free

-> https://www.kerimarino.com/the-nourished-woman-sanctuary.html

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 on instagram @the_nourished_woman

Connect with Courtney at https://www.heartsforhopetherapy.com/or on instagram @heartsforhope.arttherapy

Most women come to their healing carrying something they've never been asked to set down — a deep, chronic dissatisfaction with their own body. Not because something is wrong with them, but because they've been swimming in a culture that profits from their self-doubt. Beauty standards, diet culture, and centuries of puritanical messaging have taught women to treat their bodies as problems to be solved rather than homes to be cherished.

In this episode, Keri traces the full arc — from where so many women begin (disconnected, ashamed, at war with their own reflection) to where they arrive after doing the deep somatic yoga therapy and inner work together. We'll unpack the real roots of body shame, why willpower and positive affirmations alone will never get you there, and what it actually looks like to stop treating your body as a project and start relating to her as the sacred, wise, living temple she has always been. If you've spent years trying to fix yourself into worthiness, this episode is your permission to finally come home. 

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

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

Daily Devotion - 21 day therapeutic home yoga practice 

-> https://www.kerimarino.com/daily-devotion-21-day-program.html

The Nourished Woman Sanctuary - on-demand and live somatic yoga for women ready to feel wildly whole & free

-> https://www.kerimarino.com/the-nourished-woman-sanctuary.html

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 on instagram @the_nourished_woman

The sacred practice of yoga holds tremendous power for healing, integration, and transformation—but with that power comes the responsibility to navigate the yoga world with awareness and discernment. Drawing from personal experience and years of professional observation, I pull back the curtain on the sometimes uncomfortable reality of yoga cults and high-control groups that have caused harm to vulnerable practitioners.

Whether you're a yoga practitioner, teacher, or someone curious about the practice, this conversation offers essential guidance for navigating the sometimes murky waters of modern yoga while preserving access to its profound gifts. Choose wisely, trust your instincts, and remember that true yoga always returns you to your own wholeness and power.

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

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

Daily Devotion - 21 day therapeutic home yoga practice 

-> https://www.kerimarino.com/daily-devotion-21-day-program.html

The Nourished Woman Sanctuary - on-demand and live somatic yoga for women ready to feel wildly whole & free

-> https://www.kerimarino.com/the-nourished-woman-sanctuary.html

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 on instagram @the_nourished_woman

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For Resources on Yoga  and Other Cult Documentaries, Cults and Cult Recovery:

Yoga Documentaries: Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator (Bikram Yoga), Breath of Fire TV Series and True Believers (Kundalini Yoga), Wild, Wild Country (Osho)

Other Cult Documentaries: Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey, Holy Hell, Source Family, One Taste, Escaping Twin Flames and so many more. 

Organizations that Can Help: People Leave Cults and International Association of Cultic Studies both have great resources on their blog. 

When's the last time you sat in silence — on purpose, without reaching for your phone? For most of us, stillness has become genuinely uncomfortable. We fill every spare moment with podcasts, scrolling, noise — anything to avoid the quiet. But what if that quiet is exactly where your answers live?

In this episode, we're getting honest about the habit of constant input and what it's actually costing you — your intuition, your self-connection, and access to the deepest parts of yourself. Through the lens of somatic yoga therapy and devotional inner work, we'll explore why silence feels so hard, what that discomfort is really telling you, and how to begin reclaiming small moments of stillness as a sacred practice. This is for the woman who knows she needs to slow down but keeps finding reasons not to. Your inner voice is still there — she's just waiting for some space.

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

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

Daily Devotion - 21 day therapeutic home yoga practice 

-> https://www.kerimarino.com/daily-devotion-21-day-program.html

The Nourished Woman Sanctuary - on-demand and live somatic yoga for women ready to feel wildly whole & free

-> https://www.kerimarino.com/the-nourished-woman-sanctuary.html

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 on instagram @the_nourished_woman

What if yoga wasn't something you performed, but something that actually healed you? In this conversation with Liz Delaney — owner of Greenville Yoga and coach for women in transition — we explore what becomes possible when we stop chasing the Instagram-worthy pose and start letting the practice meet us exactly where we are. With 20 years of studio ownership rooted in accessibility and belonging, Liz shares how true yoga disrupts our deepest patterns: perfectionism, the chronically busy and avoidance — until the practice becomes an interruption, a gentle wake-up call back to the body and our truest selves.

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

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

Daily Devotion - 21 day therapeutic home yoga practice 

-> https://www.kerimarino.com/daily-devotion-21-day-program.html

The Nourished Woman Sanctuary - on-demand and live somatic yoga for women ready to feel wildly whole & free

-> https://www.kerimarino.com/the-nourished-woman-sanctuary.html

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 on instagram @the_nourished_woman

Connect with Liz and Greenville Yoga's offerings at https://greenvilleyoga.com/ and on instagram @GreenvilleYoga