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.
