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Category: Friday with Friends

  • 252 | Veganism for Everybody | with Dominick Thompson

    252 | Veganism for Everybody | with Dominick Thompson

    Dominick Thompson is a vegan activist, weight lifter, and man of the corporate world. He offers a unique but deeply important voice to the vegan activism community, which he first came into after going to prison and realizing what life in captivity is like.

    While Dominick isn’t proud of the person he was, in some ways, he sees that it was the decisions he made that put him on the path to who he is today. He felt that he had truly hit rock bottom — and that meant the only place to go was up.

    When Dominick started speaking out about veganism, he realized that nobody else in that community was speaking to him. With his unique voice on the subject, he became wildly popular in the plant-based community; he became one of the breakout figures in a group of people who were making veganism and plant-based living cool.

    Today, at Eat What Elephants Eat, Dominick shows that being vegan gives people access to all the nutrients they need to be strong, and he is committed to making plant-based diets easy, accessible, and affordable.

     

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  • 251 | Wednesday Q&A | June 17, 2020

    251 | Wednesday Q&A | June 17, 2020

    Today is Wednesday Q&A, where you ask the questions and I answer them!

     

    Your questions:

     

    • What do you think of yoga therapy tools like acupuncture mats, vibrating guns, infinity straps, and wheels?
    • What would you modify the ashtanga yoga practice?
    • Is yoga enough for strength building?
    • Could you talk about why fasting is bad for us?
    • In downward dog, do you ever cue to press through your thumb and index finger?
    • Do you teach slightly bent elbows in downward dog if they’re hyperextended?

     

    Do you have a question?

    • DM me on Instagram: @lara.heimann
    • Email me at lara@movementbylara.com

  • 249 | A Primer in Physics | with John Frank

    Truly understanding movement demands that we first understand the physics behind it. So, today, we welcome one of my dearest friends, my brother John Frank, back to the show. He is a physical therapist and specialist in movement.


    The very basics of how we move in any mechanical way are rooted in Newton’s three laws of motion and gravitational law. These principles form the bedrock of any investigation into movement. John shares with us what the three laws are, why they are important, and how they relate to functional movement.


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  • 246 | Having an Open-Minded Approach to Yoga | with Kristin McGee

    246 | Having an Open-Minded Approach to Yoga | with Kristin McGee

    Kristin McGee is a world-renowned yoga instructor on Peloton. She’s been a yoga instructor for decades, riding the wave of the modern yoga movement. She’s also a mom of three and offers pre- and post-natal yoga.

    She was excited to demystify yoga and share it with more people without straying from the core principles. She shares the story of how she began teaching yoga at Peloton and her experience practicing yoga during both of her pregnancies.


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  • 244 | Getting rid of slouchy shoulder syndrome

    We’re all staying at home more often right now, which probably means working at a computer more, sitting more, or just staying in one place more often. When you don’t change your position, you’re likely to get this slouchy shoulder syndrome.

    In this episode, I share three moves you can do anytime to help to counter that, getting you more open in the front, getting some mobility in the ribcage, and bringing more awareness to posture.


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  • 243. The LYT 2020 Online Yoga Teacher Training Graduates – Part 2

    243. The LYT 2020 Online Yoga Teacher Training Graduates – Part 2

    Today I have the second set of my Yoga Teacher Training graduates. They’ve just graduated from my LYT 200-hour online teacher training, and they are going out into the world to try and make it a better place.

    We check in with everyone to hear why they joined, what they got out of the experience, and how it’s changed them.

     

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  • 240. The LYT 2020 Online Yoga Teacher Training Graduates – Part 1

    240. The LYT 2020 Online Yoga Teacher Training Graduates – Part 1

    Today I have a whole host of guests with me — my Yoga Teacher Training graduates. They’ve just graduated from my LYT 200-hour online teacher training, and they are going out into the world to try and make it a better place.

    We check in with everyone to hear why they joined, what they got out of the experience, and how it’s changed them.

     

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  • 237 | Mobility & Movement for the Everyman | with Ryan “Fitzie” Fitzpatrick

    237 | Mobility & Movement for the Everyman | with Ryan “Fitzie” Fitzpatrick

    Today on the show we have a friend of mine, Ryan Fitzpatrick — or as I know him, Fitzie. He’s a UPS driver, a yoga instructor, a philosopher, an amazing human being, and an incredible teacher. But, as an essential worker during this pandemic, Fitzie has his hands full.


    People are channeling their stress during these times in whatever way they can, and for many, that translates into unsafe driving. We talk all about how Fitzie is coping with the stress himself, working to help blue-collar workers take care of their bodies, and building a practice of meditation.


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