Episode 16: Has Reformer Pilates Eaten Yoga? Kate Kendall Settles It and We Talk GLP1s.

This week’s guest has an answer for that, and it is not the one anyone expects.

Kate Kendall has been teaching yoga in Australia for over two decades. She is the co-founder of Flow Athletic in Sydney, the author of Life in Flow, and the woman behind Active Yogi, and she walks into the cabin with a story that starts with vanity, ends with purpose, and includes one of Lee’s spookier intuitive premonitions along the way. Together they cover what yoga is actually doing to the nervous system, whether reformer Pilates has eaten yoga, why meditation is not supposed to feel blissful, and the idea Kate has built her whole philosophy around: the space between.

In Womansplain, Justin arrives with the most 2026 question possible. GLP-1s. What are they, do they actually work for cravings, and should he be anywhere near them? Lee gives him the straight, mechanism-first answer, plus the warning about where not to buy them.

And Irene has a rave. It is about Lee. She would like everyone to know that listening to this podcast is the closest thing to having a private nutritionist in your pocket, and she is the proof.

✨ In this episode we chat about:

• Irene’s birthday box that sold out in twenty minutes, and why she has still got it.

• How Kate went from a digital agency desk to her first yoga class in North Bondi, arriving for vanity and staying for the mental gold.

• The teacher who handed Kate a permission slip to teach, and later told her opening Flow Athletic was a mistake.

• Vagus nerve stimulation for beginners: gargling, singing in the shower, and humming bee breath.

• Yoga nidra, the lying-down practice the wellness world has rebranded as NSDR, and why it might be the perfect entry point for people who cannot sit still.

• What it actually means to be an active yogi, and why having all the gear is not the same as having a practice.

• Has reformer Pilates eaten yoga? Kate saw the wave coming from inside her own studio.