Movement & Ahimsa For The Modern Age with Lara Heimann

“When you connect to your body you inherently are connecting deeper into its conscious and subconscious connection to the mind and the spirit, they are all intertwined. The body is actually the most successful direct way to get there.” - Lara Heimann

Lara Heimann is the founder of the LYT yoga, a method based in functional movement that she has developed over the last 2 decades as a physical therapist and yoga teacher. She is a thought leader in combining physical therapy and yoga to meet the needs of our modern lifestyles. She has a podcast called Redefining Yoga where she explores the ways yoga has to evolve. You can find her at her home studio in Princeton, NJ, YogaStream, where she developed LYT. She offers online daily yoga classes on LYT Daily which can be found on her website linked below. 

 

In this episode, you’ll hear:

Lara’s love for movement, & how it all began What it really looks like to live our yoga in the modern ageWays yoga has had to adapt to our modern lifestyles and movement patternsHow yoga expands what we think we are capable of & deserving of in our lives Keys to succeeding as a yoga teacherOwning your quality yoga teaching and being paid properly for your gifts

 

Lara’s Offerings:

Yoga teacher training June 20-July 11 (*online YTT option as well)

Daily yoga online classes on the LYT daily

Lara’s Yoga Technique www.lytyoga.com

 

Totally Stoked Book Club Selection:

Animal Liberation: The Definitive Classic of the Animal Movement (P.S.) by Peter Singer

Since its original publication in 1975, this groundbreaking work has awakened millions of concerned men and women to the shocking abuse of animals everywhere -- inspiring a worldwide movement to eliminate much of the cruel and unnecessary laboratory animal experimentation of years past.

In this newly revised and expanded edition, author Peter Singer exposes the chilling realities of today's "factory forms" and product-testing procedures -- offering sound, humane solutions to what has become a profound environmental and social as well as moral issue. An important and persuasive appeal to conscience, fairness, decency and justice, Animal Liberation is essential reading for the supporter and the skeptic alike.

 

Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism by Melanie Joy PhD

This groundbreaking work, voted one of the top ten books of 2010 by VegNews Magazine, offers an absorbing look at why and how humans can so wholeheartedly devote ourselves to certain animals and then allow others to suffer needlessly, especially those slaughtered for our consumption. Social psychologist Melanie Joy explores the many ways we numb ourselves and disconnect from our natural empathy for farmed animals. She coins the term "carnism" to describe the belief system that has conditioned us to eat certain animals and not others. In Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows Joy investigates factory farming, exposing how cruelly the animals are treated, the hazards that meatpacking workers face, and the environmental impact of raising 10 billion animals for food each year. Controversial and challenging, this book will change the way you think about food forever.

 

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