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 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...

Join Lara for a discussion with Dr. Robert Wolfe, director of the Center for Translational Research on Aging and Longevity at the University of Arkansas. Dr. Wolfe is both a scientist and a long-distance runner. His research is focused on the regulation of muscle metabolism and he shares how amino acids might be able to help your performance and recovery, as well as, how they can help with aging....

Welcome to Wednesday Q&A, where you ask questions and we answer them!   In this Wednesday Q&A, we answer your questions about anteriorly versus posteriorly tilted pelvis and psoas release techniques.   Your questions: In a book I’ve been reading, the author states that most people are rib thrusters and pelvis tuckers. The author says this is a response to being hunched over in a...

Tune in to hear Lara’s take on how to refresh your brain in these challenging times so you can operate at your best! R - Rest E - Exercise F - Focus R - Read E - Eliminate news S - Soften your face H - Hum To learn more, and for the complete show notes, visit: lytyoga.com/blog/category/podcasts/ Resources: Instagram: @lara.heimann Shop my favorite 100% Science-Backed Amino Acid Supplements. Enter...

Lara and Yogi Aaron met virtually many years ago through Aaron’s Costa Rican beautiful retreat center, Blue Osa. Yogi Aaron has been practicing yoga for a very long time, but unfortunately, like so many people, was injured by his yoga practice. He has learned a lot through his experience of pain, how to better prepare his body and better move his body. And he now has a podcast called Stop Stretchi...

Welcome to Wednesday Q&A, where you ask questions and we answer them!   In this Wednesday Q&A, we answer your questions about postpartum movement practices and the creativity that goes into LYT Yoga sequencing.    Your questions: Any suggestions for postpartum movement and strategy for getting back into movement? I love how creative you are in LYT Yoga. How do you come up wi...

Join Lara for a conversation with Shayna Cornelius & Dana Stiles, co-founders of DayLuna, to talk about all things human design. Human design is a synthesis of ancient modalities with modern science. It allows you to see what your energetic aura or energetic body looks like and how it operates in the world around you to experience less resistance, more abundance, and more expansion. You can th...

Welcome to Wednesday Q&A, where you ask questions and we answer them!   In this Wednesday Q&A, we answer your questions about restarting yoga after breast surgery, persistent wrist pain, and scar tissue around the collarbone from surgery.    Your questions: I've just had breast surgery to remove three lumps from my left breast. There were two incisions, one on my areola and...

In this episode, Lara chats with Ph. D., international exercise physiologist, and nutrition scientist Dr. Stacy Sims. Dr. Stacy’s aim is to revolutionize exercise nutrition and performance for women. Believe it or not, much of the research out there on nutrition and exercise physiology is conducted on men and then applied to women. She talks about how men and women are different and how we should...

Welcome to Wednesday Q&A, where you ask questions and we answer them!   In this Wednesday Q&A, we answer your questions about remedies for pain from practicing handstands, how to heal and prevent shin splints, & how to manage scoliosis in your movement practices..   Your questions: I'm quite frustrated every time I'm making progress with handstand practice, I'm getting proble...

Former gymnast and competitive cheerleader Dr. Lindsay Massumi didn’t realize her ankle injury was related to her pelvic floor issues. In this episode, Lindsay shares her journey to becoming a doctor of physical therapy, including the discovery of her pelvic floor dysfunction and how this is related to more chronic injuries than you think.  In this episode, you’ll learn: * Common impairments...

Welcome to Wednesday Q&A, where you ask questions and we answer them!   In this Wednesday Q&A, we answer your questions about how best to weight-bear in the hands and strategies to manage dizziness and/or vertigo.   Your questions: Referring to the similarities of the tripod of the feet can you and Kristin talk about the position of the hands in weight-bearing and the return of e...