Interview With Lana Reed | Yoga Instructor
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Today’s episode is brought to you by carbs: Lana loves sweet potatoes; it brings back special memories of her childhood.
I feel that Lana Reed is very effective in helping people become their best yogi self. She helps her clients build skills and climb up the yogi ladder. Her classes are structured and help students climb up the growth ladder.
I sit down to talk to Lana about how she found yoga and grew from there. At age 18, with no athletic background, she started working to save money to travel. Living in Chicago, she found a yoga class at the community center for a few months. After that, she didn’t revisit yoga until she moved to Mexico after leaving college to pursue learning Spanish. In Mexico City, she met and dated a yoga teacher. She realized that yoga teachers don’t make a bunch of money and the struggle is real… so shout out to those full-time yoga teachers!
Lana doesn’t get a lot of new yoga students, but understands what her clients go through to even enter the studio—she likens it to living in Mexico with a language barrier. Going through this time in Mexico, alone, she learned that she’s more capable than she believed and there is capacity to express oneself past the spoken word.
We talk about religion, shame, and guilt and her coming back to her own version of spirituality and maintaining a spiritual practice. Lana talks about how she’s in a transition process and journals and meditates to do the deeper, harder stuff so she doesn’t have to live scared. She speaks about full acceptance of herself, darkness and light. She finds that the practice of yoga helps her look at life more clearly and help her clients. It’s not that every student needs to have a transformational experience; it’s about showing others a different way to look at themselves. Even in the darkness, she strives to show her clients that there is always beauty around.
Lana’s greatest joy is to see success in her clients. Sometimes, success is about sitting out and honoring your body and space. We discuss her travels, childhood, and how these experiences have transformed her life, her clients’ lives, and living every day to the fullest.
Yo! I’m not a licensed therapist, I just talk about real shit that’s happened to my clients and me.
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