About Lara
yoga teacher, artist, soul pilgrim and body poet.
I am dedicated to the path of embodied curiosity, of descending inside, with our breath as a guide, to look for treasures…
For this body of ours is an extraordinary alchemical vessel filled with so much magic and meaning, and it is forever awaiting for the fire of our presence in order to transmute any struggle and metabolise any stress into embodied wisdom and mental freedom.
For me, this is the heart of Yoga, and true meditative awareness, a welcoming of ourselves full-spectrum to practice, showing up empty of agenda with a willingness to befriend ourselves and get to know ourselves on a deep and true level.
This Tantric approach has been radical medicine in my personal journey working with over a decade of post traumatic stress symptoms of somatic anxiety and insomnia. Learning to trust the intelligence of my body as a potent source of power, creativity and healing, not to mention abundant pleasure. This realisation has become my life passion and purpose.
My dedication therefore as a facilitator and guide for others is to invite you to feel that embodied curiosity is actually the purest form of self-love there is, and an opportunity for you to reset into wellbeing.
I would be so honoured to have you join me to dive into the murky depths and touch the starry skies of your body, soul and creative potential together either in-person or online.
I am the founder of Body Poetry Yoga, teaching workshops and trainings across Australia and the world, founder of Art of Being Retreats, a prolific artist and ceramicist, with several pathways to connect, create and practice together online.
In the tradition of this practice, I would like to humbly honour and acknowledge my teachers, and the teachers that came before them. I am so grateful to have had the opportunity to travel and train with several luminary guides and liberated souls, each of whom have transmitted deep truths, techniques and methodology that have deeply informed my way of being in the world and my unique offering to you.
With special thanks to vinyasa trailblazer Shiva Rea, who awoke for the first time in me the potential in the practice of Yoga as a portal towards cellular liberation, embodied freedom and true Tantric enquiry. I’m honoured to continue to travel and assist Shiva, and spread the essence of Prana Vinyasa Yoga in my yoga classes.
Forever grateful for my love affair with true meditation thanks to Lorin Roche and Camille, gratitude to my asana guru and dear friend Noelle Connolly, the art of touch and heart of connection via my Zen Thai Shiatsu masterful friend Gwyn Williams, feminine rewilding and Tantric sensitisation thanks to Michaela Boehm, Depth Psychology and navigating the process of integrating head and heart thanks for Matt Licata PHD, and Sarah Powers for the gift of the yin practice in my life in the role of both student and teacher.
And last but definitely not least, my truest heart mentors - my parents and maternal grandparents. Thank you for all of your passion, purpose, depth and wisdom. Thank you for endlessly encouraging me to trust my intuition and follow my heart, above all else.
“In my opinion, Lara is a modern Shamanic practitioner of the arts. She combines her extensive knowledge or yoga, art therapy, psychology, mediation, dance and music to help those who are willing to allow deep levels of their psyche to assist them with healing visions and trance states. I have witnessed her facilitate such states in an incredibly humble and intuitive manner. And as she continues to evolve, as we all do, so does her work, which is a real joy to be a part of.”
“Lara is one of the most extraordinary women I have met. She has a vitality that saturates every space she walks into, every object she touches, and every person she comes into contact with. Her absolute devotion to the practice of yoga, as both teacher and student, is a privilege to be part of. I feel incredibly honoured to have been a witness to her journey, to watch her step into her power as an inspiring leader in our community.””
THE ART OF BEING
From as early as I can remember, I was painting, drawing, carving and creating… encouraged by my artist mother to express through colour and texture before I could walk or talk ~ art, decoration and design has been woven into my DNA.
Over the years I have drawn many parallels between yoga/meditation and the process of creating art, both of which demand diving into the depths of what the soul wants to express and following those creative urges to burst, to bloom, to impregnate, incubate, impart and give forth LIFE.
As I gave myself more and more permission to simply PLAY with a vast array of creative and expressive mediums throughout my life, unconfined by outcomes or artistic ideals, this revealed the deep satisfaction that is available to all of us when we shift out of the critical mind, and drop into the intuitive feeling body.
My range of ceramics, murals, body paintings, tattoo designs and many other creative collaborations are born from that place of opening to awe, and reveling in the process of ‘not knowing’ as Flow State takes over and we are set free from all that holds us back from expressing the fullness of who we were born to be.
It is a joy and an honour to facilitate this unfolding for others.
