In this week's episode of How Yoga Changed My Life a Podcast, Adrienne and Nora sit down with Deb Flashenberg, founder of the Prenatal Yoga Center in NYC, to explore what it truly means to listen to your body through pregnancy, birth, and beyond.

Deb brings decades of experience as a prenatal yoga teacher, labor support doula, childbirth educator, and pelvic health specialist. After a challenging first birth, her curiosity and commitment to understanding pelvic health, functional movement, and empowered birth deepened—leading her to advanced training in Yoga, pelvic floor health, pregnancy and postpartum corrective exercise.

Together, Adrienne, Nora, and Deb discuss:

• Why pregnancy and birth should never be one-size-fits-all
• The importance of non-prescriptive, non-restrictive movement practices
• How functional yoga supports a functional birth
• Pelvic health as a lifelong conversation—not just a postpartum concern
• Learning to trust your body’s wisdom instead of overriding it

Deb also shares how her passion for education and advocacy inspired her podcast, Yoga | Birth | Babies, where she has had conversations with some of the most respected voices in the birth world, including Penny Simkin, Gail Tully, Pam England, Rebecca Dekker, Dr. Sarah Buckley, and many more.

At the heart of this episode is a simple but powerful reminder...Know what feels good to you. Have a conversation with your body.

Whether you’re pregnant, postpartum, a movement professional, or simply curious about embodied choice and empowerment, this episode offers insight, compassion, and permission to do things your way.

Learn more about Deb and her work:

Prenatal Yoga Center – NYC

https://prenatalyogacenter.com/

Listen to Deb’s podcast:

Yoga | Birth | Babies

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The theme music for this episode, “Cenote Angelita”, was written and produced by Mar Abajo Rio AKA MAR Yoga Music. Dive deeper into this and other original yoga-inspired compositions by visiting bio.site/mcrworks. For the latest updates on upcoming events featuring his live music for yoga and meditation, be sure to follow @maryogamusic on Instagram.

In today's People Be Peopling episode, Adrienne, Natalie and Nora break down one of the most misunderstood parts of fitness, yoga, and being a human: the gap between our expectation of effort and our actual nervous system capacity.

Why do people shut down? Quit early? Spiral? Get irritated? Or suddenly need the bathroom the moment class gets hard?

Spoiler: it’s biological, not personal.

How Hard Is Too Hard? (Your Nervous System Will Let You Know…)

We explore:

• How stress, sleep, life chaos, and past experiences shape your real capacity
• Why your body sometimes says “nope” before your mind catches up
• The difference between discomfort and danger
• How yoga + movement help you meet yourself with honesty instead of reactivity
• Why compassion, consistency, and micro-wins regulate your system better than intensity ever will

This episode is your permission slip to stop fighting your nervous system and start working with it. Less shame. More understanding. Huge energy savings.

Because at the end of the day… people be peopling, nervous systems be nervous-system-ing, and movement is the bridge back to ourselves.

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The theme music for this episode, “Cenote Angelita”, was written and produced by Mar Abajo Rio AKA MAR Yoga Music. Dive deeper into this and other original yoga-inspired compositions by visiting bio.site/mcrworks. For the latest updates on upcoming events featuring his live music for yoga and meditation, be sure to follow @maryogamusic on Instagram.

In this week’s episode of How Yoga Changed My Life, biomechanics-driven Lara Heimann unpacks one of her favorite topics: posture and alignment — and why they matter more than you think.

Lara breaks down posture as more than how you sit or stand; it’s the carriage of your energy. Whether you’re upright, lounging, or lying down, your alignment shapes how you breathe, how efficiently you move, how your nervous system responds, and how you exchange energy with the world around you.

• Why posture isn’t about perfection, but function + freedom
• How maintaining the spine’s natural curves supports better breath and better movement
• The connection between alignment, emotional regulation, and embodiment
• How small daily habits create long-term resilience

This episode is an inspiring look at how aligning your body helps you align your energy, your choices, and your entire way of moving through the world.

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If you’ve ever felt disconnected from your body, overwhelmed by your thoughts, or curious about how movement can support your mental and emotional well-being — this episode is for you.

Click here Lara's website PYT Physical Therapy Yoga or on Instagram LYT Yoga Method

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The theme music for this episode, “Cenote Angelita”, was written and produced by Mar Abajo Rio AKA MAR Yoga Music. Dive deeper into this and other original yoga-inspired compositions by visiting bio.site/mcrworks. For the latest updates on upcoming events featuring his live music for yoga and meditation, be sure to follow @maryogamusic on Instagram.