ABOUT
Lauren Buckles,
certified Yoga Teacher for Youth and Adults & Allergy Expert
Lauren’s yoga certifications are in Vinyasa Yoga, Katonah Yoga, Yoga & Mindfulness for youth, Mindful Educator Essentials, Difficult Emotions, Mindfulness Fundamentals, Chair Yoga & Yoga for Teens.
Lauren works as an Allergy Consultant with Free to Feed and is currently studying to become a Certified Lactation Counselor.
Yoga is a part of everything we do….
Lauren has over a decade of experience teaching yoga and mindfulness to both youth and adults. She has completed over 300 hours of yoga and mindfulness training. She strives to create a brave, safer space within her classes by offering options and adapting her class to the students’ needs. Lauren has mentored dozens of upcoming children’s yoga teachers and has provided Professional Development for school educators and administrators throughout New York.
Teaching Philosophy: Lauren believes that the pattern of the seasons and the power of the senses helps us attune and tend to our internal lives. She views yoga as an opportunity to notice our experience, to have a conscious conversation with oneself and to cultivate personal wellbeing in order to contribute to the community. Her classes are rooted in repetition, imagination and curiosity. She believes revelations happen when there’s a compassionate container holding it all. Boundary and embodiment of oneself sets up the container. Lauren is inspired to utilize asana and pranayama as techniques for greater joy and clarity. In practice, she hopes her students will cultivate a compassionate relationship to themselves by being curious and paying attention to their experience.
Becoming a mom has led Lauren away from the yoga studio and school classroom. She is passionate about helping parents, caregivers, and new moms learn how to take yoga off the mat and to utilize the practices to support them in their daily lives. Lauren believes her yoga practice helped her advocate for her and her child’s needs when her son was navigating food reactivity as an infant. Her personal experience with breastfeeding through food allergies led her to become an Allergy Expert with Free to Feed, where she has helped nearly 100 moms navigate food reactivity in their babies. Lauren incorporates self-compassion and mindfulness into her Allergy Consultations, ensuring that parents are seen, heard and validated.
“Most of our suffering comes from resisting what is already here, particularly our feelings. All any feeling wants is to be welcomed, touched, allowed. It wants attention. It wants kindness. If you treated your feelings with as much love as you treated your dog or your cat or your child, you’d feel as if you were living in heaven every day of your sweet life.”
Mindfulness practice
Pause for a moment and bring your attention and curiosity to your experience. Open your arms out wide. Notice the sensation of your breath in your chest. Notice the sensation of your feet on the earth. This is how you can begin to practice mindfulness. It can be very simple and subtle!