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  • 357 | Being Your True Creative, Authentic Self | with Nathan Hirschaut

    357 | Being Your True Creative, Authentic Self | with Nathan Hirschaut

    Nathan Hirschaut is an ex-professional dancer who graduated from The Juilliard School. He’s also a yoga teacher with a passion for creative coaching and spiritual evolution. He’s lived a lot of life in his 21 years and has a lot of wisdom to share from that time.

    Before Juilliard and before professional dancing, Nathan saw dance as more of a sport than an art. He was good at controlling his body, but he didn’t understand how to use that for self-expression. Now, in the year of COVID and with dance mostly on hold, Nathan decided to go full force into starting his business, Hive Creates, a company dedicated to supporting the next generation of leading artists in 2018.

    When he realized that he didn’t want to follow the traditional path laid out for people, he knew he had to build an inner compass to guide him and help him be strong enough to navigate the unknown. He gathered the components he needs to not only create authentically but to help others do the same.


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  • 356 | Wednesday Q&A with Kristin Williams | February 17, 2021

    356 | Wednesday Q&A with Kristin Williams | February 17, 2021

    Welcome to Wednesday Q&A, where you ask questions and we answer them!


    Your questions:

    • Can posture make you have a hump at the top of your spine, and if you correct your posture, will it fix itself?
    • If yoga is used to move the spine in ways to improve posture, doesn’t it also work with the muscles to improve one’s posture in a muscular sense, and does movement in a yoga practice train the nervous system to bring our bodies into a proper posture?
    • I’ve heard that massage can also help improve posture through manipulation of the muscle tissue. I’ve heard it’s especially helpful for people with rounded shoulders. Is this true?
    • What is the root cause of dorsal kyphosis?


    Do you have a question?

    • DM me on Instagram: @lara.heimann
    • Email me at lara@old.lytyoga.com
  • 355 | How to Get In Touch With Your Energy | with Mira DeMartino

    355 | How to Get In Touch With Your Energy | with Mira DeMartino

    How can we tap into our own energy and make the most of it?

    Mira DeMartino is a goddess of energy; a sculpter, an artist, and a beautiful spirit in every way. Originally from Poland, Mira used to be a fashion designer and interior designer. She began to observe how the energy of the objects she created for her clients was changing them, and she realized that people can empower themselves through the objects that they surround themselves with.

    Our energy flow starts with physical body movement, and moves on from there. Then there is the energy contained in the objects around us. And we have to recognize that energy management starts with the thoughts that we choose to think and feel.

    If you’re looking to add some energy to your room, it is hard to give prescriptive advice, but Mira recommends that you start by observing yourself and understanding yourself. Find out what spaces you feel good in, or what styles you like, and once you recognize that, you can begin to incorporate that into every space that you spend time in.


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  • 354 | Practicing Yoga with Hypermobility | with Adell Bridges

    354 | Practicing Yoga with Hypermobility | with Adell Bridges

     

     

    Adell Bridges is an international yoga teacher with a passion for sharing the healing power of yoga with everyone she can.

    We talk about what it’s been like to be an international yoga teacher when you can’t travel, as well as the new book she’s writing about hypermobile yogis. She also delves into how injury can be a learning experience, what she teaches about hypermobility, and how people with hypermobility, or those teaching people with it, can learn to work with it.

     

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  • 353 | Wednesday Q&A with Kristin Williams | February 10, 2021

    Welcome to Wednesday Q&A, where you ask questions and we answer them!


    Your questions:

    • Why do you do handstands or something similar in nearly all of your post?
    • I struggle with posterior tilt of the pelvis, your yoga helps a lot but my biggest problem is when I sleep. I sleep on my stomach and find my low back hurts if I keep my legs straight. It helps to bend one leg out to the side, but is there anything else I can do?
    • Poses to avoid in lordosis or any adjustments we need to make?
    • Where can I get more information about your training?
    • What stretch is good for my tired nape, the base of my skull? Is it stress related?
    • How to help someone modify Goddess pose when they can’t tuck their tailbone?

     

    Do you have a question?

    • DM me on Instagram: @lara.heimann
    • Email me at lara@old.lytyoga.com
  • 352 | How to Keep the Spark with Your Partner or Loved One | with Mark Heimann

    352 | How to Keep the Spark with Your Partner or Loved One | with Mark Heimann

    Love is a beautiful thing, but keeping a relationship strong and healthy over the long term can be a lot of work.

    In honor of Valentine’s Day, Lara is joined by her husband, Mark Heimann, to talk about relationships and how to keep the SPARK alive. They each share five things that they think help to keep their relationship going strong.


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  • 351 | Putting Down Roots: How a Lifelong Traveler Adapts to a Stay-at-Home World | with Lesley Murphy

    351 | Putting Down Roots: How a Lifelong Traveler Adapts to a Stay-at-Home World | with Lesley Murphy

    What does a world traveler do during lockdown?

    Lesley Murphy is a lifelong traveler (up until this past year, that is), the creator of LimitLes Travel, and so much more. The past year has changed so much for her — as it has for many of us — and we dive into all that that means for her and how she’s adapted.

    In the last year, she has gotten engaged, got pregnant, and settled into a home after living as a travel blogger for years. Through all of this change, she has learned so much about herself… both in what has changed and what has stayed the same.


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  • 350 | Wednesday Q&A with Kristin Williams | February 3, 2021

    350 | Wednesday Q&A with Kristin Williams | February 3, 2021

    Welcome to Wednesday Q&A, where you ask questions and we answer them!


    Your questions:

    • Do you teach/recommend any mind exercise to heal the body, for example lower back pain?
    • If you could only do one activity for the rest of your life besides yoga, what would it be?
    • Can you talk about functional movement off the mat?
    • Posture form tips for snow shoveling?
    • Have you ever been injured? What was it, and how did you overcome it?


    Do you have a question?

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