Episode Details

Yoga therapist Mandy Mona speaks about family, faith, motherhood, body image, relationship strain, yoga therapy, pregnancy loss, and learning how to support yourself and others through difficult seasons of life.

Mandy shares how early losses in her family left her with questions about faith, God, and grief that she did not yet have the language to understand. She also reflects on growing up in a large, busy family, becoming a young mother, navigating a complicated relationship that later became her marriage, and learning how childhood experiences can follow people into adult relationships.

Yoga first entered Mandy’s life as a physical outlet, but over time, it became something much deeper. Through teacher training, work in treatment centres, and yoga therapy, she began to understand the connection between the body, emotions, breath, mental health, and lived experience.

Mandy also speaks about the loss of her son, Tyson, during pregnancy, after first learning she had been carrying twins. She shares how her family has continued to honour him, and what she has learned about supporting someone who is grieving in practical, grounded ways.

This is a gentle conversation about family, healing, faith, the body, and the many ways people learn to keep living alongside what they have carried.

Topics include:

• Growing up in a large, creative family with sports, siblings, and different personalities
• Questioning faith after early family losses and not having a clear language for grief
• Becoming a young mother while navigating relationship strain, family pressure, and uncertainty
• Body image, pregnancy, and the impact of comments that stay with us longer than people realise
• Discovering yoga first as a physical outlet, then as a deeper therapeutic practice
• Working in treatment centres and seeing people beyond addiction, diagnosis, or circumstance
• The difference between commercial yoga and yoga therapy as an integrative practice
• Pregnancy loss, stillbirth, family grief, and finding ways to honour Mandy’s son Tyson
• How to support someone who is grieving without asking them to explain everything they need

About:  Mandy Mona is a passionate, experienced yoga therapist dedicated to helping people reconnect with their bodies and trust their intuition through movement, breath and mindful awareness.

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