Week 48: Breath, Borders and Belonging: Vanessa Muñoz-Pretzell on Yoga and Life in Berlin

In this episode of Plus Forty Nine, Andrea hosts her first
interview in the series and sits down with Vanessa Muñoz-Pretzell -
a yoga teacher from El Paso with Mexican, Lebanese and Cherokee
roots who has been living in Berlin for eight years. They talk
about how yoga became Vanessa’s path, what it means to move from
warm, open cultures to Berlin’s rough edges, and how language,
community and small rituals can slowly turn a foreign city into
home. Vanessa shares what shocked her, what she’s grown to love,
why she still misses desert sun and good tacos, and how Berlin
taught her to set boundaries and use her voice. It’s a conversation
about migration, identity, yoga as community and yes, about one of
the most “very German” topics of all: the culture of nudity in
saunas.