Redefining Movement

Welcome to Wednesday Q&A, where you ask questions and we answer them! In this Wednesday Q&A, we answer your questions about massage frequency, experiencing low energy, and diastasis recti in newborns.  Your questions:  How often would you recommend a massage? Is it okay if it hurts? What are your recommendations for low energy? My newborn baby has diastasis recti. Will it go away...

Jill Coleman is a relentless fitness and business coach striving to help other health and fitness professionals to get out of the gym and start a business that attracts clients successfully. She leverages her extensive knowledge and experience in the fitness space, from running marathons to joining figure competitions, to help clients develop the right mindset for having a fulfilling fitness journ...

Join Lara for a discussion about the power of the words “I Can” and “I Will.” You’ll realize that your thoughts truly can shape your perception and reality, so it’s important to think positively to enhance your life today. In this episode, you will learn the following: You can’t achieve something without first believing you can do it. Your words form your thoughts, which then color your reality.&n...

Join Lara for a conversation with Gina Conley, MS. Gina has a master's in exercise science and is a birth doula. She is a perinatal fitness trainer and owner of MamasteFit, an in-person perinatal training facility in Aberdeen, North Carolina. Gina has exclusively trained prenatal and postnatal fitness clients for the past 6 years and offers both in-person and online training support. Gina is a mom...

Welcome to Wednesday Q&A, where you ask questions and we answer them! In this Wednesday Q&A, we answer your questions about practicing yoga with different leg lengths, diastasis recti, and relaxing the pelvic floor. Your questions: 1. I got a really good question from a new student. She has different leg lengths that in daily life is adjusted by different thickness of the soles of her shoe...

Join Lara for a conversation with Lynn Schulte, PT, founder of the Institute for Birth Healing and pelvic health physical therapist. Her specialty is helping women have an easier birth by preparing their body for birth and helping them recover more completely after birth. Using energetic techniques of craniosacral therapy and visceral manipulation, Lynne helps clients to find the real issue causin...

Welcome to Wednesday Q&A, where you ask questions and we answer them! In this Wednesday Q&A, we answer your questions about sciatica, shoulder positioning, and warrior 1 back leg.  Your questions: 1. I've been listening to your podcast for a while. After hearing the question from the lady about sciatica, I have joined your platform. I recently had a flare-up of sciatica in my right le...

Join Lara for a conversation about rehab science with Dr. Tom Walters, DPT, OCS. Dr. Walters is a board-certified orthopedic physical therapist that specializes in the treatment of pain and movement disorders. He is the founder of Rehab Science and dedicates his time to teaching people about human movement, pain, and how to most effectively recover from injury. Besides running his clinical practic...

Welcome to Wednesday Q&A, where you ask questions and we answer them! In this Wednesday Q&A, we answer your questions about handstands, intermittent back pain, and Bell’s palsy.  Your questions: 1. I have a handstand question for the podcast. I am following the idea to pull the femur up and I'm quite stable in my handstand hop until I have to inhale again. Then all falls apart and I s...

Join Lara for a conversation about the importance of creative breaks and creativity. It’s true that we all have some level of creativity and there are ways to enhance it to our benefit.  In this episode, learn about:  * The significance of creativity in human history. * How creativity impacts problem-solving. * How creativity is tied to our brain reward centers. * How letting the mind wa...

Today I have the second set of my Yoga Teacher Training graduates. They’ve just graduated from my LYT 200-hour online teacher training, and they are going out into the world to try and make it a better place. We check in with everyone to hear why they joined, what they got out of the experience, and how it’s changed them.   Resources: https://lytyoga.com/lyt-yoga-teacher-training/ Hosted on A...

We wanted to bring you one of our favorite past episodes to let you hear more about our amazing upcoming LYT teacher training: Today I have a whole host of guests with me — my Yoga Teacher Training graduates. They’ve just graduated from my LYT 200-hour online teacher training, and they are going out into the world to try and make it a better place. We check in with everyone to hear why they joined...

Join Lara for a conversation with physical therapist Scott van Niekerk. Originally from Zimbabwe, Scott is the founder, owner, and PT Director of Wholistic Physical Therapy in Brewster, New York, a facility with the goal of treating the entire human being. With a background in manual therapy, including being mentored by John Barnes, founder of the Myofascial Release approach to Physical Therapy, a...

Welcome to Wednesday Q&A, where you ask questions and we answer them! In this Wednesday Q&A, we answer your questions about wrist pain, yoga in the sand, lower thoracic pain, and thumb pain. Your questions: 1. My active cyclist, sixty-year-old student has been practicing LYT with me for more than a year. We celebrated the relief from chronic neck discomfort last winter. Remarkable improvem...

Join Lara for a conversation with Nicole J. Sachs, LCSW, a renowned psychotherapist, speaker, writer, and podcaster who specializes in the treatment of chronic pain and related conditions. With her book The Meaning of Truth and her online courses "Freedom from Chronic Pain" and “Freedom from an Anxious Life,” she has guided hundreds of thousands of people worldwide toward lives of freedom. Through...

Welcome to Wednesday Q&A, where you ask questions and we answer them! In this Wednesday Q&A, we answer your questions about can you achieve perfect posture with a broken bone, distal finger proprioception, disc function and spinal alignment, and bunions. Your questions: 1. Can you achieve perfect posture if you’ve broken an important bone like the collarbone? 2. I have a podcast question a...

Join Lara for an introduction to napropathic medicine with Dr. Patrick Nuzzo, DN. Dr. Nuzzo's passion for the restorative, regenerative lifestyle and the anti-inflammatory diet began in 1974 during his nutritionist studies, motivated by the loss of his influential naprapath uncle. He made significant contributions to the natural foods industry, developing renowned nutritional supplements and partn...

Welcome to Wednesday Q&A, where you ask questions and we answer them! In this Wednesday Q&A, we answer your questions about bursitis and tendinitis in the hip, mouth taping, and why we don’t do seated forward folds in LYT.  Your questions: 1. I have a yoga student that was diagnosed with bursitis and tendinitis in her left hip. She's 33 years old. She had a scan three weeks ago, then...

Keundric Loucious , or as his friends call him, “Dooley”, is a passionate and successful fitness entrepreneur determined to push his own boundaries and help those around him do the same. He believes in the power of fitness to transform lives, and as the Owner and Founder of E.F.F.E.C.T. Fitness , he knows a thing or two about staying motivated to stay on track. With his undeniable energy and solid...

Welcome to Wednesday Q&A, where you ask questions and we answer them! In this Wednesday Q&A, we answer your questions about right leg pain, gentle ways to build core strength, and osteomyelitis. Your questions: 1. I have pain deep in my right glute that shoots down the back of my leg. It started back last July after I finished my first half marathon. A few weeks after the race, I developed...

This month, Lara dives into brain mapping, mental health, and the impact of exercise on the brain.  In this episode, you’ll learn about:  the importance of brain mapping in understanding the brain's function and its role in mental health.  the different parts of the brain, their function, and how they have evolved over time. the factors that contribute to mental health disorders. ho...

Join Lara for an enlightening conversation with Nicole Hellthaler, MPS, RYT 200, Assistant Director of Prison Yoga Project. In addition to holding a Master's in Public Service from the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service, Nicole has been making a meaningful impact by facilitating yoga and mindfulness in Men's, Women's, and Youth detention centers in Little Rock, Arkansas for ye...

Welcome to Wednesday Q&A, where you ask questions and we answer them! In this Wednesday Q&A, we answer your questions about hyperlordosis, ischial bursitis, and releasing stress. Your questions: * Why do you think it is that you could have two people the same age with hyperlordosis, for example, one of them goes through life with no pain and yet the other has been suffering with chronic ba...

Join Lara for an informative conversation about reluctant entrepreneurs with Amanda McKinney. Amanda is a recognized thought leader and coach on Accidental Entrepreneurship, author of Why Not You? An Accidental Entrepreneurs Guide To Success and host of The Unapologetic Entrepreneur Podcast. As a coach, she can help any Accidental Entrepreneur navigate self-doubt so that they can take action and r...

Welcome to Wednesday Q&A, where you ask questions and we answer them! In this Wednesday Q&A, we answer your questions about back pain, wrist pain, and how to protect your lower back. Your questions: * How do I know if my intermittent back pain is a disc or a muscle? * I lead a pretty sedentary lifestyle, work at my computer ten plus hours per day for my job but try to workout/practice LYT...