Lara Christine

Week 9: Svadhyaya // Self-Study 🪞

I am a student first.

I have always been a lifelong learner, continually drawn toward personal growth, spiritual teachings, philosophy, psychology, relationships, and the deeper questions of what it means to be human.

My teachings emerge directly from what I am living, studying, and practicing within myself.

Svadhyaya is the practice of self-study and the study of sacred teachings.

I turn toward these teachings not simply to gather knowledge, but because they continually turn me back toward myself — inviting me to become curious about my patterns, question my beliefs and conditioning, listen more deeply to my inner experience, notice where I become reactive or defended, and discover what is true beneath the stories I tell (and sometimes believe).

I am committed to being a lifelong learner, not only as a project of self-improvement, but as a path toward greater freedom.

“This above all: to thine own self be true.”
— William Shakespeare, Hamlet

To me, self-study is about becoming intimate enough with myself to recognize what is true — and free enough to live from that truth.

🪞 Yoga Beyond the Mat: The Yamas + Niyamas

Join me each week as we explore these ancient teachings as a living practice.

At Yoga Pod South Boulder @yogapodboulderlongmont

Wednesdays 2–3 pm • unheated Pod Flow 2
Fridays 9:30–10:30 am • heated Pod Flow 2

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