Yoga for Mom-Life
by Susana Jones
Something unique about early motherhood is needing to reinvent self-care routines as a child grows. I provide Moms of young kids with flexible, minimalist, yoga-based strategies for replenishment and inspiration in the first five years of motherhood. Each episode validates common hardships of being a Mom of littles, and offers time-efficient ways to feel more alive, present, and fulfilled on your mothering journey.Integrate your takeaways by joining like-minded Moms of little kids in our membership community. We're in this together!www.yogaformomlife.com
Episodes
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26. How Regulating Your Nervous System Creates the Life You Desire, with Randi Halaway
In this soul-nourishing episode of Yoga for Mom Life, I speak with self-love coach Randi Halaway to explore how regulating your nervous system can transform your daily experience and help you create a life you actually desire—even in the middle of chaos. Together, we unpack the guilt, overwhelm,...
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25. Nutrition for Moms: Fueling Ourselves While Supporting Our Kids, with Katie Winter
This week I sat down with nutritionist Katie Winter to discuss how to nourish ourselves as moms while also supporting the nutritional needs of our growing kids. Katie, a mom of two teens and a certified nutritionist, shares her wisdom on balancing family nutrition, dealing with picky eaters, and...
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24. Holistic Psychiatry & Boosting Mental Health Naturally, with Dr. Whitney McFadden
This interview with Whitney Mc Fadden MD gets real about postpartum mental health, balancing hormonal cycles, sourcing good health from Nature's gifts, and ultimately looking HOT. I hope you enjoy our conversation as much as I did! Check out Dr. Whitney's work and get in touch:...
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23. The Framework for Maternal Flourishing That Inspired My Logo
Motherhood is complex, beautiful, and sometimes overwhelming—but what if a simple symbol could hold the key to navigating it all? In this episode, I dive into the deeper meaning behind my four-petaled logo and how it represents a powerful meta framework for maternal flourishing. Drawing from my...
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22. Their cognitive leap is yours, as well.
When your child is reaching a new milestone in their development, your world gets rocked. This week, I discuss how their cognitive leaps ripple through our lives and nervous systems, why "putting your oxygen mask on second" makes more sense sometimes, and when to make yourself priority #1. Plus,...
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21. Minimum Viable Yoga
Good news! This week's episode is about practicing the least amount of yoga to have the most desirable impact on your well-being. We'll explore the value in doing less with greater self-awareness and a method for understanding how each practice session contributes to your health in body, mind,...
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20. A New Year's Re-Centering
Before you beat yourself up for feeling sluggish, or go full-tilt on 2025 aspirations, go within and regroup. The holidays were a lot. This week is a lot (love you, LA). Chances are, your body, mind, and soul aren't totally in sync yet. This week, we explore giving our senses (and ourselves) a...
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19. Holiday time: What's in it for you?
The holidays add pressure to the already intense and wonderful years of early motherhood. But what for, exactly? This week we're checking in with the underlying reasons for how you spend the season, so you can revel in the glory of what it's really about for you. Discover who I kinda look like…
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18. Finding Your Zen in the Seasonal Madness
Even wild weeks can lead to inner peace and help you flow through the holidays with ease. Learn five steps to replenishing and thriving this season while attending to your little ones etc etc etc. Learn how to meet your mood with exactly what you're needing in the moment, as well as what you need...
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17. What "Caring for Mama" Looks Like in Real Life
My first guest interview! Kim Richards joins me to talk about Caring for Mama's highly curated care packages featuring nourishing products for a Mother's well-being. Learn about expanding the "culture of care" in home and family life, and how you can enjoy a month of on-demand yoga (taught by…
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16. Everything That Counts as Exercise When Raising Little Kids
Raising young ones is like perpetual strength training, but many Moms say they're less active than they want to be. Learn how to dodge the guilt-trip, and speed up recovery from long days of keeping up with your busy toddler. (Note: The original recording was corrected on 10/22 to better reflect...
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15. On Getting Things Done "Lazy River" Style
Fall has begun, and our calendars are filling up. Learn how "unitasking" can help you flow through this season with greater ease and well-being.
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14. Mom's Brain, Dopamine, & the Internet
The second of a two-part series on inner-knowing, with a focus on postpartum brain changes, and how social media fails us when we need solid "me time."
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13. How Intuition Can Simplify Our Lives
Intuition is a gift of inner-knowing that's always there for us. It can add clarity to confusing times, simplify our decision-making, and save us energy. Learn how to make it work even more in your life, and give you a boost of self-confidence as a Mom.
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12. One Great Way to Build Positive Momentum
This week’s episode offers an inside-view of my online membership, which has the perfect balance of structure and flexibility to help you do this Mom-thing really well, and get your personal needs met.
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11. Keeping a Healthy Routine Amid Constant Change
If there's one constant about being a parent, it's adapting to change. As Moms, we want to take good care of ourselves, so when the demands of raising a family make that seem impossible, it's discouraging for us. The qualities of steadiness and flexibility help us get our needs met while also…
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10. The Power of Uninterrupted Conversation
Despite the importance of socializing, trying to have adult conversations with kids present can be frustrating, if not taxing on our brains. Discover how talking without interruption, Yoga Nidra, and observing Nature can restore your concentration and help you be fully present when it matters most.
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9. For the Brand-New and Pregnant Mamas
A perspective on self-care while raising children that helps Moms flow through early Motherhood without losing themselves. Discover how building a healthy foundation for your "self-care pyramid" sets you up for a full and vibrant life.
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8. Dealing With Climate Change as a Mom
The planetary crisis affects us at a deep level, adding stress to to our systems, which have enough of it already. But as Moms, we're super-powerful, and great at preparing for everyone's well-being, which makes us the heroines the world needs now. Learn 3 steps to processing climate change as a...
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7. Constant Vigilance and Your Nervous System
Keeping young children safe can keep us on alert for years. Learn what effect this can have on our short and long-term health, and how to break out of the uneasy terrain between anxiety and fatigue.
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6. Why You Should Sit on Your P-hole, Not Your B-hole
Sitting may be unavoidable for long stretches of your day, but how you sit can help or hurt your cause. Learn where to place the weight of gravity when sitting down so you can spend more of your day feeling awake, refreshed, and better supported.
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5. Counterposing the Daily Grind with Helpful Opposites
From sun up to sun down, we do a lot of the same kinds of movements, which can break us down after awhile. Fortunately, our bodies respond to what's important to us, so if a resilient, capable body is something you strive to enjoy when you're older, this episode is for you! I'll help you identify...
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4. A Summer That Doesn't Break You
Summertime used to be easy. Now that we're parents, it can feel like more work than play. Using the yogic view of the Self, I'll guide you through a little process that reveals feel-good moments and activities you can easily incorporate into your family's summer season.
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3. Making the "Village" We Need
In this episode, I talk about the makeshift village some families and I created on a weekend camping trip, and how incredibly helpful it was to coexist with a group of people and our young children. With so much of parenthood happening in isolated places, spending time in Nature with other…
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2. How Free-Time Became Scary
As our little one(s) grow, they require less hands-on care, which frees-up Moms to have more personal time. But how to spend that precious time, now that life is so different and demanding? Learn how to get the replenishment you crave in limited time, and how getting to know yourself at this…
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1. Why We're Not (Only) Doing "Mommy & Me" Yoga
In this (first!) episode, I encourage every Mom out there to do some Yoga by themselves. Why? Because where our attention goes, energy flows. Most of the Moms I know tend to everyone else’s needs before their own. At times, this is necessary. But when all our attention goes towards others, our...
About this show
Something unique about early motherhood is needing to reinvent self-care routines as a child grows. I provide Moms of young kids with flexible, minimalist, yoga-based strategies for replenishment and inspiration in the first five years of motherhood. Each episode validates common hardships of being a Mom of littles, and offers time-efficient ways to feel more alive, present, and fulfilled on your mothering journey.Integrate your takeaways by joining like-minded Moms of little kids in our membership community. We're in this together!www.yogaformomlife.com
Hosted by
Susana Jones