Lauren Elizabeth Ingram

I was born with an overwhelming childhood imagination I has yet to out grow. I began practicing yoga in 2000 as a tool for playful self exploration and have since cultivated patience and gratitude on and off of my mat.

After earning my Theatre degree at College of Charleston, I felt the universe pulling me to Portland and in my first leap of faith I gave up everything and hopped on a plane to see what the City of Roses had in store for me.

Since attending Level I and II teacher training with Baron Baptiste, I have also studied with and draw my inspiration from; Rod Stryker, Seane Corne, Shiva Rea, and Tim Miller. I still considers herself a student, learning from everyone I encounters.

I lead a very intuition based class and I have been told I am articulate, poetic, and folks love my hands on assistance. I believe we can all tap into our true organic nature; we just need a guiding light and the proper tools to discover it within ourselves.
What is yoga?
I would have to say yoga that it is the art of falling in love with yourself no matter how insufficient, clumsy, needy or broken you feel. Yoga is a practice of paying attention, utilizing your intuition, and the process of squeezing out everything that does not serve you in order to make room for what does, so that you may heal. It is creating space to observe yourself so that you can accept bliss and humility with grace by narrowing the gap between the two. Yoga is making a commitment to observe what is real, not what you or anyone else tells you is true, so that you may provide only truth to everyone you meet. It is the engagement of your entire being around the fire in your heart that dances, plays and sings but also struggles, weeps, and shrinks so that you may experience the abundance of each day. Yoga begins by drawing you into a physical practice- maybe a very traditional one or maybe one that is more modern. Somehow, someway, it makes you feel whole almost like you have finally found this "something" that had been missing all the time. Really, the system of postures, pranayama (or breathing), drishti (gaze), and meditation bring you back to everything that you always have been; a perfect whole and complete individual. In my classes, you will learn to turn on your light so that you can excavate all of your radiance and shine.