I Had Learned How to Achieve. But Where Do You Learn to Be at Peace…?

Where Do You Find Answers to Questions Like : What is Life Purpose? What are The Reasons for Pain, Suffering, and Struggle? What is Right and What is Wrong? Should You Follow Society’s Expectations or Your Own Path?

My journey into yoga begun in 2001, when an older friend took me to my very first lecture on Yoga Science about Karma, therefore Karma Yoga is where that education began. Alongside my corporate and academic journey—and, in many ways, to preserve my own sanity—I began studying Yoga Science, and its profound exploration of action, cause and effect.

I Thought We Were All Talking About the Same Yoga. We Weren’t.

After leaving the corporate world and my other business ventures, I decided to broaden my yoga studies through training in Iyengar Yoga. The training took place in Bali, led by teachers from the US, as were the majority of the 35 students. Somewhat surprisingly, after many years of being immersed in yoga science, trying to explain life, it was there that I came to realise that 99% of people think of yoga primarily as a physical discipline. Asana. Posture.

On other hand, what fascinated me during that training, was discovering just how profoundly the physical body could influence the mind. And it did every second.

I was genuinely astonished by what a single week of “chest openers” (asanas designed to create space in the chest area) could do to a person’s emotional state. Thant week I cried like a baby.. everyone did. It seemed to come out of nowhere, and was shocking.

Beyond Everything I Thought I Knew About Yoga: Discovering Yoga Therapy - Connecting the Pieces

After my Iyengar Yoga training, I realised that I wasn’t particularly interested in mastering headstands—or any advanced poses, for that matter. What I wanted was to understand the relationship between the body and mind more deeply. I wanted to know why something as seemingly simple as chest-opening postures could affect our emotional state at all.

That curiosity led me to study Yoga Therapy with a medical doctor, bringing together the ancient science of yoga with a modern medical understanding of the human body. I remain deeply grateful to my dear teacher, JI Vikas Clothe (India’s Yoga Ministry of AYUSH) for all the knowledge he gave me, as I would never have discovered my path in Yoga Therapy without him.

An Experience I Had No Words For: The Quest to Understand Meditation

When I was 10, I came across a magazine explaining meditation. For a while, I practised it every night before sleep, until one evening I experienced what felt like a loss of bodily sensations. I had the distinct sensation of rising above the bed. The experience was so vivid and it frightened me, so I stopped the practice. Almost 20 years later, I became curious about meditation again. I explored different teachers, trainings and books, yet something always felt superficial. Simply sitting in silence did not feel like meditation to me.

It took me almost a decade of searching to finally find a teacher who could reveal to me what true meditation really is. When I finally found my Meditation teacher Ji GuruMukh, I was shocked once again.

True meditation leads to a world beyond the mind, outside the boundaries of what our senses can comprehend. Time disappears, the senses withdraw, and the familiar perception of everything begins to dissolve. I feel incredibly fortunate and grateful to have been taught this knowledge and, today, to be able to bring it into my private work with clients.

Ayurveda: Understanding the Physical Realm

Ayurveda is another interesting story. At one point, I somehow gained so much extra weight that taking stairs to the third floor made me short of breath. I turned to Ayurveda looking for answers—and curiosity became study. I learned traditional Ayurvedic detoxification methods and began to understand the five elements from which, both the human body and the natural world are composed. What fascinated me most was discovering why there is no universally “healthy” way of eating. The same salad and crackers eaten every day may support weight loss and a sense of lightness in one person, while leaving another feeling depleted, restless or increasingly anxious. The question is not simply “Is this food healthy?” but rather, “Is it right for this particular person?” I cannot imagine understanding the body fully without this perspective. It taught me, just as Yoga Therapy later, that true wellbeing begins with understanding the individual.

Sound Healing — Understanding Vibration & Resonance

During the most demanding years of my career, sound therapy was the one practice I could still find the energy for. I didn’t need to achieve anything or even try—I could simply receive. And in that experience, my love for sound was born, along with the understanding that sometimes, simply receiving is all a person has the capacity for. I carry that understanding with me every time someone comes to me looking for a way through a difficult period in life. I started collecting bowl-type gongs almost 15 years ago, long before I knew where that fascination would lead. Over time, the right teachers appeared, eventually guiding me into the deeper study and practice of Sound Therapy.

Kriya Yoga — The Hidden Knowledge That Came My Way Just Recently

Kriya belongs to the realm of mystery. An ancient and highly refined practice, it works with breath, energy and awareness as a kind of fast track into the deeper dimensions of life itself, addressing the underlying causes of suffering rather than simply its manifestations. Kriya means “action” or “a conscious inner action”—a precise process through which one works with the body, breath, mind and energy to create inner transformation. It is not something easily explained intellectually; it has to be experienced. I call it BODY-MIND detox system.

Today, I Bring All of These Worlds, Knowledge and Experiences Together

Today, I no longer see my different paths as separate chapters of my life. The corporate world taught me discipline, responsibility, high standards and how people function under pressure. It also taught me how narrow our view of the world can become when we look at it through only one lens.

Yoga taught me to look beneath what is immediately visible. Yoga Therapy taught me how to connect the pieces—the body, mind, emotions, life path, habits, circumstances and the deeper questions we carry through life.

All of this is present when I sit down with a person today.

I work privately with people who lead demanding lives—entrepreneurs, executives, and others carrying significant responsibilities—but I never work with a problem alone. I work with the message their body, mind, emotions, or life circumstances may be trying to communicate—a message that sometimes needs to be translated, understood, faced or reshaped.

My work is rooted in Yoga Therapy, but it is also shaped by more than two decades of studying, practising, questioning, experiencing and observing what actually helps people change. Including me, I needed to drop the old life to create a new one.

I do not believe in giving everyone the same practice or programme. What restores one person may not restore another. What one person needs to strengthen, another may need to soften. Sometimes we need discipline; sometimes we need to stop pushing. Sometimes the body is the place to begin; sometimes it is the mind, a habit, a belief, or simply the way we have been living.

Every programme I create is therefore deeply personal—built around you. Just like a fine suit, true personalisation requires tailoring..

Your body, your mind, your circumstances, your story, where you are now and where you want to go. Because before I can understand what you need, I need to be able to truly see you.

Laura