Francesca Cervero — A Day In Her Life

Francesca Cervero has been a full-time yoga teacher for 21 years — and she will tell you, this is her passion. Francesca has evolved her teaching from 40-50hr weeks in person in New York, to now teaching exactly when her son is in school virtually.

In this week’s conversation, Francesca shares how a serious hip injury at 23 (she was walking with a cane while teaching full-time in New York City) redirected her from dance to yoga permanently, why she deliberately compressed her career after becoming a mom, and what she means when she says movement should be "nutrient-dense" — tailored to each person's specific asymmetries, not performed for an audience.

What We Cover:

How a hip injury at 23 — that happened in a yoga class — ended her dance career and launched a 21-year teaching career (and why she'd never describe yoga as having simply "healed" her)
The morning routine she protects fiercely before 7:00am: bone broth before coffee, reading, and a 10-to-15-minute meditation practice
What she means when she calls movement "nutrient-dense" — and why she believes yoga cannot be both a healing practice and a performative one at the same time
Teaching yoga virtually since March 13, 2020, and why the transition worked so well she never looked back (even when the world reopened)
Why she keeps dinner so simple you "could hardly call it cooking" (Whole Foods grilled chicken, Trader Joe's orange chicken, sous vide Costco steak) — and the intentional decision behind it
Finding her people after moving to the suburbs eight months pregnant: the PACE new mom group, a neighborhood WhatsApp with 25 families under four, and what it actually takes to make new friends in your 30s
The activism chapter she didn't see coming — going to Capitol Hill with Chamber of Mothers, co-founding a local Singing Resistance chapter, and having to buy pants that weren't leggings for the first time in years
What her 22-year-old NYC self — who was climbing walls at 3:00am on a Tuesday — would think of dinner at 5:30 every single night and lights out before 10

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