A personal reflection on my current experience of being in my body, which includes having just gone to the doctor a been asked to step on a scale for an issue that, I believe, had nothing to do with my weight. Together, we explore a trauma-informed perspective on the ways our bodies change, and an invitation to soften around our softness. I offer a mini breath practice to explore this softening from an embodied place. // 3:48: discussion, 26:22: guided breath practice // Stay connected on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/laura__tara/ and the web: https://lauratara.com/

This week, I'm reflecting on the process of taking a podcast episode down, the friction that process entailed and how it ultimately rooted me more deeply into my values. The experience culminated in a lesson on "how we make our dreams," which we explore together. Then, we practice a guided breath meditation for expanding our capacity to be with friction in order to propel ourselves toward value-centered transformation. // 3:27 yoga philosophy discussion, 30:27: guided breath meditation // Stay connected on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/laura__tara/ and on the web: https://lauratara.com/

This week, I'm offering a therapist's perspective on the Jonah Hill situation, a viral pop culture moment that had us talking about emotional manipulation and weaponizing therapy. Rather than adding to that already-exhaustive analysis, I'm breaking down the therapeutic values, ethics and risks at play in what we know publicly about therapists' relationships with Jonah Hill. We close with a guided mini-practice for offering care to ourselves, the same tool that helps us be careful in situations that call us to stand in our values like therapists often have to do. // 3:42: discussion, 50:40: guided mini-practice // Stay connected on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/laura__tara/ and on the web: https://lauratara.com/

This week, I'm offering a perspective on the spiritual concept of past lives that is rooted in the teachings of my yoga lineage and centers presence, grace and trust. Guided meditation for breathing our way toward presence included! // 5:17: yoga philosophy discussion, 26:31: guided meditation // Stay connected on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/laura__tara/ and on the web: https://lauratara.com/

On a week when themes of freedom are at the cultural forefront, we explore the dissonance between our social ideals of freedom and our societal reality in which rights and protections are consistently being taken away from marginalized groups. We discuss how yoga philosophy approaches this concept, the difference between power and authentic freedom, and practice a guided meditation to use our true power to ignite more love. // 4:21: yoga philosophy discussion, 30:23: guided meditation // Stay connected on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/laura__tara/ and on the web: https://lauratara.com/

There's been a lot going on, and a lot of need and inspiration to connect with the body. This week, we explore how grounding into our physical bodies, then our "feeling" bodies, can help us process the intense experiences of our times, complete with a guided, body scan meditation to put it into practice. // 4:20: yoga philosophy discussion, 27:23: guided body scan meditation // Stay connected on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/laura__tara/ and on the web: https://lauratara.com/

I'm sharing a personal reflection on authenticity, on saying the hard or real thing out loud. We explore the way this can have impacts from creating compassion to affecting change in the world, complete with a guided, step-by-step meditation for acknowledging and working with hard emotions. // 4:40: yoga philosophy discussion, 30:29: guided meditation // Stay connected on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/laura__tara/ and on the web: https://lauratara.com/

We're exploring the concept of Spiritual Bypass; specifically, the ways that we often bypass what it really means for the collective in favor of an easier, individualistic lens. I offer reflections and, in leu of meditation, some self-inquiry and calls to action to reflect the way that this practice is a little more about the external than the internal . // Stay connected on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/laura__tara/ and on the web: https://lauratara.com/

In honor of pride month, I explore what it means to be queer and queer-affirming, especially in my roles as caregiver. We reflect and meditate on the concept that queerness is reality and it expands our capacity to connect to the sacred. // 4:50: yoga philosophy discussion, 25:55: guided meditation // Stay connected on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/laura__tara/ and on the web: https://lauratara.com/

This week, I'm taking a look at influencer culture, and the capitalism that produced it, through the lenses of yoga philosophy and my own experience as a yoga practitioner and teacher with a social media presence. // 3:28: yoga philosophy discussion, 32:59: guided meditation // Stay connected on Instagram: https://instagram.com/laura__tara/ and on the web: https://lauratara.com/