Redefining Movement

The body remembers… even when the mind forgets. We have the ability to hone in on our connection between our feelings and our sensations to help us connect the past to the present. Our body carries with it so many thoughts and feelings, both unheard and unknown. But if we fine tune our connection with our sense of self we can learn to become better at feeling our feelings — without being captive t...

Nathan Hirschaut is an ex-professional dancer who graduated from The Juilliard School. He’s also a yoga teacher with a passion for creative coaching and spiritual evolution. He’s lived a lot of life in his 21 years and has a lot of wisdom to share from that time. When he realized that he didn’t want to follow the traditional path laid out for people, he knew he had to build an inner compass to gui...

Welcome to Wednesday Q&A, where you ask questions and we answer them! Your questions: Can posture make you have a hump at the top of your spine, and if you correct your posture, will it fix itself? If yoga is used to move the spine in ways to improve posture, doesn’t it also work with the muscles to improve one's posture in a muscular sense, and does movement in a yoga practice train the nervo...

How can we tap into our own energy and make the most of it? Mira DeMartino is a goddess of energy; a sculpter, an artist, and a beautiful spirit in every way. Originally from Poland, Mira used to be a fashion designer and interior designer. She began to observe how the energy of the objects she created for her clients was changing them, and she realized that people can empower themselves through t...

Adell Bridges is an international yoga teacher with a passion for sharing the healing power of yoga with everyone she can. We talk about what it’s been like to be an international yoga teacher when you can’t travel, as well as the new book she’s writing about hypermobile yogis. She also delves into how injury can be a learning experience, what she teaches about hypermobility, and how people with h...

Welcome to Wednesday Q&A, where you ask questions and we answer them! Your questions: Why do you do handstands or something similar in nearly all of your post? I struggle with posterior tilt of the pelvis, your yoga helps a lot but my biggest problem is when I sleep. I sleep on my stomach and find my low back hurts if I keep my legs straight. It helps to bend one leg out to the side, but is th...

Love is a beautiful thing, but keeping a relationship strong and healthy over the long term can be a lot of work. In honor of Valentine’s Day, Lara is joined by her husband, Mark Heimann, to talk about relationships and how to keep the SPARK alive. They each share five things that they think help to keep their relationship going strong. To learn more, and for the complete show notes, visit: lytyog...

Lesley Murphy is a lifelong traveler (up until this past year, that is), the creator of LimitLes Travel , and so much more. The past year has changed so much for her — as it has for many of us — and we dive into all that that means for her and how she’s adapted. To learn more, and for the complete show notes, visit: lytyoga.com Resources: theroadlestraveled.com Instagram: @lesleyannemurphy 33 | Tr...

Welcome to Wednesday Q&A, where you ask questions and we answer them! Your questions: Do you teach/recommend any mind exercise to heal the body, for example lower back pain? If you could only do one activity for the rest of your life besides yoga, what would it be? Can you talk about functional movement off the mat? Posture form tips for snow shoveling? Have you ever been injured? What was it,...

Carolyn Brown is a LYT-certified teacher who fought and overcame cancer. When she was diagnosed, she was training to go with her team to the Masters World Championships of Synchronized Swimming, and she was determined to still go. She went into research mode and did everything she could to improve her situation.  Three months after her chemo treatment ended, she was able to participate in the...

Karen Rohlf is an expert dressage teacher. She pioneered a new niche in the horse industry by combining two seemingly different styles of riding, and she works with horses to improve their biomechanics by focusing on the mental and emotional components of posture and movement. She also mentors other heart-centered equine professionals. Karen started as a horse-crazy kid. But the further she delved...

Welcome to Wednesday Q&A, where you ask questions and we answer them! Your questions: Please talk about running and your professional opinion on it as exercise? How do you organize your work/schedule? Secrets to staying motivated and upbeat during this pandemic? Headstands versus handstands? Pros and cons? Does hip opening yoga work for teeth grinding? I can’t get my head to the wall in neutra...

So many of us are feeling fried right now. There’s so much going on in the world, both personally and globally, that can make us feel like our nervous system is in a clenched fist. But there are ways that we can soothe ourselves, even if we can’t change the circumstances that got us stressed out. To learn more, and for the complete show notes, visit: lytyoga.com Resources: Instagram: @lara.heimann...

Dr. Jannell MacAulay is a U.S. Air Force veteran who has managed human performance under high-stress situations for over two decades. As a military leader and combat pilot, she experienced the same stress, frustrations, and fears that leaders and teams in corporate America face daily in their personal and professional lives. She went on to earn her PhD with work in the field of strategic health an...

Welcome to Wednesday Q&A, where you ask questions and we answer them! Your questions: Question about my right outer hip/glute medius. I’ve always had super tight outer hips. When I go for a hike, that’s the first place that starts to complain/ache. Is it a question of doing more strengthening of the abductors or more and the right kind of stretches? What would you recommend to do for diastasis...

This past year, we’ve had comfort and discomfort, and we’ve had to reconcile with the comfort that we might experience daily. Some comforts are necessary for us to thrive, but there is such a thing as getting too comfortable — it’s called being complacent. Sometimes, you have to reach, to push yourself past your comfort zone, because it’s only in the discomfort that we can truly begin to grow. To...

Lee Asher is traveling around the country in a school bus with eleven dogs helping people understand the importance of animal adoption, and he’s also currently building an animal sanctuary in Estacada, Oregon. When he was young, he knew he wanted to make as much money as he could to help save as many animals as he could. But, eventually, he realized that he didn’t actually need a lot of money to m...

Welcome to Wednesday Q&A, where you ask questions and we answer them! Your questions: Have you heard about the bowspring yoga method? Thoughts on running for exercise or recommendations for proper form? Thoughts about forearm balance? Is it true that the hip and the jaw are connected? Are there poses where length of arms, legs, torso come into play and have to adjust? How do you jump back into...

Lara is lucky to have an amazing partner in Mark Heimann. They’ve been married for 19 years and together for 22, and they wanted to share some of what they’ve learned about making a relationship work. They also answer some of your questions from Instagram about resentment, asking for what you want, and how they’ve influenced each other. To learn more, and for the complete show notes, visit: lytyog...

Eva Papp is a licensed psychotherapist who’s developed a program for female empowerment. She believes that it’s incredibly important for women to feel financially independent, but that there are many systemic challenges that hold women back. She talks about giving women the ability to pivot in their life, and finding the mechanism to discover our authentic self. To learn more, and for the complete...

Welcome to Wednesday Q&A, where you ask questions and we answer them! Your questions: After sitting with my knees bent for a while they hurt, and the pain goes away when straightening them. What’s going on and how can I correct it? My right hip goes deeper into hip flexion and tilts anteriorly more than the left when I’m at a 90/90 low lunge. Where do I begin? Where do you put the lower leg in...

With the increasing popularity of practices like mindfulness, yoga, and breathwork, people in the Western world are thinking about their breath more than ever — and more intentionally than ever. But not only is it necessary for life, the rhythm of our breath has countless effects on our bodies. We’re going to explore how your breath can be used to say “yes” more in your life. Take a moment to ask...

Simon Holloway is the sales and marketing director of Vegepod, a self-watering portable garden bed. Lara is a huge fan (she’s been using them a LOT this year), and they talk about how the business came about and what it’s like running a small business during the pandemic. Simon also talks about how appearing on Shark Tank brought a huge boost to the business, why the product appeals more to season...

Welcome to Wednesday Q&A, where you ask questions and we answer them! Your questions: Why do so many physios and other yoga teachers with more formal education disagree on modifications to traditional yoga poses to make them more optimal and safer for the general population? Do you believe that foot problems can be reversed? Women who always wear heels and find flats painful, did their fascia...

The essence of what we teach in the yoga world is the balance of Sthira and Sukha, or the hard and the soft. We can apply this concept to our body and our movement, but we can also apply it to our mind. Where in your life do you need to firm up? Where do you need to soften? Because when we find this balance, we are at ease. To learn more, and for the complete show notes, visit: lytyoga.com Resourc...