Do you want to take your teaching from the general population to helping people with sickness and disease? Lara Benusis did too.

Lara grew up with a mother with MS who practiced yoga, and so her yoga practice began at a young age. After many years as a professional dancer and a yoga teacher, Lara moved towards teaching yoga to people who were sick, as well as people who were healthy. For a number of years, she worked at a major cancer center in New York, and on today’s episode, she’s sharing her story.

This episode is a little bit different from some of the other episodes of M.B.Om because we don’t focus as much on the business aspect of Lara’s career. Instead, she shares how began teaching yoga to the cancer population, what her research in this department is showing about the benefits of yoga for the cancer population, and much more.

Enjoy!

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Show Notes from this Episode

• Growing up with yoga
• Moving away from professional dance to teaching yoga
• Teaching yoga to people who are sick and healing, instead of healthy
• Being head hunted for a major cancer facility and what it is like to teach people who are really sick
• Learning from each other and from our students, instead of from the internet and training
• Finding ways to assist and learn more about yoga and being a teacher
• Never stop learning
• If you want to teach people who have cancer or another disease, spend time learning about the body and become confident teaching first
• Studying why we feel so good after yoga, and how yoga can help people who are sick to heal
• Yoga helping to treat or during the treatment of cancer
• Helping cancer survivors becoming more active
• What are some of the main challenges that the cancer population faces and how can we help with this?
• Going from sedentary to wanting to move again
• Teaching the general population vs. the cancer population
• Measuring success as yoga teachers – how do you measure your success?
• And much more… Here’s the episode!

Resources

• Bessel van der Kolk

Connect with Lara

• Lara Benusis