This season we are focusing on the theme of “women in wellness,” and I will be having conversations with some truly impressive women who are sharing their gifts with the world making this planet better by pursuing their passions. We are kicking off our 1st episode with Lara Land!  Lara Land is a deeply compassionate somatic life coach, consultant and yoga teacher trainer specializing in trauma sensitivity. Her work is in helping to heal trauma both subtle and significant and train others using trauma sensitive yoga, meditation, mindfulness and breathing practices. Lara has spent the last 25 years studying Ashtanga yoga and sharing yoga asana, chanting, meditation, and philosophy directly from her teachers in India.

Lara owned Land Yoga studio for ten years, is the Executive Director of Three and a Half Acres Yoga non-profit, and is the founder and co-producer of SOULFest. Lara has an online on-demand yoga program, THE COMPLETE Introduction to Ashtanga Yoga and has self published My Bliss Book, a life-purpose coaching program and planner. Her first book with Shambhala Publications, The Essential Guide to Trauma Sensitive Yoga due out in May 2023 and is the host of the Beyond Trauma Podcast

She has been featured in and contributed to New York Magazine, Huffington Post, Yoga Journal, Apartment Therapy and on Fox5, CBS, NY1 and SiriusRadioXM.