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 avoiding bruised toes from hiking downhill, monthly cycle as relates to energy levels and delayed onset muscle soreness, muscle soreness from yoga and massage, and is LYT yoga enough movement?   Your questions: * How to avoid bruised toes while hiking down...

Join Lara for a conversation with Natalie Silverstein. Natalie is a real changemaker in the world as an author, speaker, consultant, and passionate advocate for family and youth community service. She formed the New York branch of the Minneapolis-based non-profit Doing Good Together with the mission of helping parents raise kids who help and contribute. Natalie has written two books Simple Acts: T...

Welcome to Wednesday Q&A, where you ask questions and we answer them!   In this Wednesday Q&A, we answer your questions about why men think they aren’t flexible enough to do yoga, advice for dealing with thoracic outlet syndrome, and working through depression.    Your questions: * Why is it that so many people believe that they aren't flexible enough to do yoga, especially...

“Being bendy” often starts as a party trick where you impress your friends with how flexible you are and they applaud your ability to put your foot behind your head. But hypermobility and the conditions associated are not only poorly understood within the standard healthcare system, they are also potentially very dangerous to those who live with them. In this episode, Dr. Linda Bluestein of Hyperm...

Welcome to Wednesday Q&A, where you ask questions and we answer them!   In this Wednesday Q&A, we answer your questions about knee pain, carrying angles, and the obturator internus muscle.   Your questions: * I've been having intense knee pain that keeps me up for part of the night. I feel it a bit during the day, but it really kicks in when I lie down to sleep. I suspect osteoar...

Join Lara for a conversation with Susan Marrufo, co-founder of Samarasa Center in Los Angeles, yoga and meditation teacher, retreat leader, and energy healer. Hear about Susan’s journey from her job in advertising in her 20s to her current role as a yoga entrepreneur. How she broke through societal expectations to explore who she truly is and what she has to offer the world.  In this episode,...

Welcome to Wednesday Q&A, where you ask questions and we answer them!   In this Wednesday Q&A, we answer your questions about shoulder impingement from COVID shots, how the LYT team met, finding a neutral pelvis when it’s laterally tilted.    Your questions: * I had four COVID shots and a flu shot in the same arm over the span of a year plus. Removal of lymph nodes requires...

This month, Lara talks through some helpful habits you should consider adopting, if you don’t already do them, upon waking up to set yourself up for success. Because how you wake up really does set the path for the day. It’s a way to jumpstart your morning. Waking up well can improve your productivity, mood, and health. In this episode, you will learn about… * the negative effects of hitting the s...

Today we welcome back returning guest, from Episode 447, Dr. David Ward. Lara and Dr. Ward discuss the latest research on how to prevent and reverse cognitive decline through holistic lifestyle-based strategies. Dr. Ward shares a ton of information about how to mitigate the risks of a shrinking brain as you age, some of which is hot off the research paper presses.  Dr. Ward is a licensed doct...

Welcome to Wednesday Q&A, where you ask questions and we answer them!   In this Wednesday Q&A, we answer your questions about shoulder discoordination when lifting the arms, whether pain indicates that you should stop doing something, and work/exercise balance in life.    Your questions: * For about 1.5 weeks, I can't lift my arms up sideways. It gets stuck pretty soon, even...

Leading a healthy and fit lifestyle, isn’t just a way of thinking and living. It can be a way of business and for serial entrepreneur, Andy Jackson, making it easier for kids and adults to lead a healthy and active lifestyle became his business obsession. From releasing VHS videos in the 90s, to today working with Elton John’s Rocket Sports, and heading his own curated wellness marketplace, A...

Welcome to Wednesday Q&A, where you ask questions and we answer them!   In this Wednesday Q&A, we answer your questions about what to do to help a frozen shoulder, tips for moving better, and what is your favorite thing about teaching LYT Yoga.    Your questions: * I have a very painful frozen shoulder. I wonder if there are any tips and/or exercises in LYT that can help me....

Join Lara for a soulful conversation with Mara Branscombe, author of Ritual as Remedy: Embodied Practices for Soul Care. Mara is a mother, ceremonialist, spiritual coach, artist, yoga teacher, mindfulness leader, and meditation guide. They discuss the importance of rituals, which can also be thought of as habits or active intentions in our lives, and how they can be healing and empowering and help...

Welcome to Wednesday Q&A, where you ask questions and we answer them!   In this Wednesday Q&A, we answer your questions about passive stretching after a gym workout, foot cramps, hamstring spasms, and diaphragm cramps, and proper rib cage placement for breathing well.   Your questions: * What should you do after a gym workout instead of passive stretching, if you’re already doing...

Today on the podcast, Lara chats with the twinkly, bright spirit Kali Durga. Kali is a yin yoga teacher who utilizes Internal Family Systems Therapy and she practices Buddhist and Dharma philosophies. She uses anatomy, Traditional Chinese Medicine, mind training, and trauma healing in her offerings of classes, trainings, and retreats. Kali also holds an MPH in Environmental Public Health and serve...

Welcome to Wednesday Q&A, where you ask questions and we answer them!   In this Wednesday Q&A, we answer your questions about nerve pain with myofascial release balls, pilates vs. yoga, and fun postural exercises for kids.    Your questions: * I use a collection of balls for myofascial release. I use them everywhere for general conditioning. Several weeks ago, I noticed when...

This month Lara helps us all out with her top 10 tips for getting back into a movement practice. Maybe you aren’t moving as much as you used to anymore. Listen in to hear some great ideas of how to get moving again. You deserve to move! Your body is designed to move and it needs movement to feel great.  1 - Remember your why 2 - Plan your approach 3 - Be creative, yet consistent 4 - Appreciat...

Sleep. Everyone needs it, but not everyone gets it. We’re talking good, quality, restful sleep. Devin Burke , a sleep expert, was first introduced to this extremely complex phenomenon when doing some research for a friend. The only solution he found was sleeping pills. Refusing to believe this was the answer, Devin found himself going down the rabbit hole of how sleep is the foundation of health a...

Welcome to Wednesday Q&A, where you ask questions and we answer them!   In this Wednesday Q&A, we answer your questions about breathing patterns and weightlifting.   Your questions: * My dad died last week. I sat with him the three days before he passed. As he lost responsivenes halfway through the first day, he began a labored breathing. The hospice nurse called it breath starva...

Join Lara for a chat with Annemiek Dunhof, founder of Engaunite, which combines speaking English and teaching yoga. Annie has a background as both an English teacher and a yoga instructor. She discovered a niche in combining these two skill sets to help people who speak other languages teach yoga in English in order to maximize their reach in the world. She has developed both in-person and online...

Welcome to Wednesday Q&A, where you ask questions and we answer them!   In this Wednesday Q&A, we answer your questions about knee pain from cycling, LYT love, and dowager's hump.   Your questions: * I took up cycling in February of this year and LOVED IT, so had cycled most days since then as I use it to commute across London to my classes. This was up until about a month ago wh...

Dr. Chelsea Roberts fainted in her first yoga class. Keeping with it, Chelsea focused her attention and came to revel in how yoga made her feel and how this practice created benefits for the other pieces of her life. Trained in child development with a Ph. D. in educational studies, she is wired for teaching and has found herself as a prominent yoga and meditation teacher and Peloton instructor. I...

Welcome to Wednesday Q&A, where you ask questions and we answer them!   In this Wednesday Q&A, we answer your questions about how wide to place your hands in down dog, splitting classes up, and anatomy knowledge. Your questions: I'm five-seven, but my arms are really long. I'm not kidding, from fingertip to fingertip I have a six-foot wingspan. When I'm in downward dog, it feels bette...

Color is vibration. It is movement, it is language. Walaa is a certified color mentor and therapist and Founder of Color Ways. She works with her clients to transform their lives and guide them on their journey with color to help them become their best selves. In this episode, Lara talks with Walaa about her personal journey into the world of color and how she can help individuals gain a sens...

Welcome to Wednesday Q&A, where you ask questions and we answer them!   In this Wednesday Q&A, we answer your questions about carrying angles, kneeling, and nerve pain in yoga.   Your questions: There is a popular yoga teacher who preaches about how the carrying angle of the forearm means that most people need to place their hands wider on the mat, thus wider than their shoulders...