Lara is an amazing healer who saved me so many times. Her in-person healing once helped me resolve a trauma that happened 20 years prior and was still having an effect on my hands. It really helped me to heal my hands from arthritis! It was what I was missing in my fight with that debilitating disease. Her distance healings always helped me to balance my energy so I could come back to my own self. And it always worked! No matter what stress I went through, how low on energy I was, she could always create sacred space that worked in a very profound way. Thank you Lara! 

Lara brings together bodies of wisdom and healing techniques in a way only a true medicine woman can. Five elements Chinese medicine, felt sense focusing and trauma release therapy are all powerful healing modalities but when brought together through her unique understanding something quite extraordinary emerges. She is able to facilitate a healing experience that creates new neurologic pathways that allow the innate health and wisdom of our bodies to flourish and thrive. Her work teaches us how to activate the medicine inside of each of us. Once liberated from stories, judgments and the fight-flight or freeze response around stress and trauma, the innate wisdom in our cells (and in ourselves) is restored and vitality and joy return. Having studied and worked with many different forms of medicine, finding Lara has been a true gift as she brings a unique and needed bridge to our physical, emotional and spiritual health. 

​Working with Lara has been an incredibly grounding and supportive experience. Her work has been a huge part of my healing process, supporting me in ways that continue to make a difference. Her approach is unlike anything else I’ve tried, gentle yet deeply effective. I came in with a lot of stored tension and nervous system dysregulation, and through her guidance, I have been able to feel my body start to release what no longer serves me. She creates such a nurturing space and guides you through somatic work in a way that allows your body to soften, process, and return to a natural state of flow. Her energy clearings add another layer, by shifting what feels stuck - physically, emotionally, and energetically. She has such a deep understanding of the mind body connnection. Each session leaves me feeling much lighter and truly safe in my body & mind. The shifts I experience don’t just stay in the session, they continue unfolding in the days and weeks afterward. Beyond that, her work has created profound, lasting change throughout my entire journey. As I reflect on the past few years, I wouldn’t be where I am without her wisdom, guidance, and the genuine care she has for my wellbeing.

Working with Lara was an unexpected, not to mention profound, source of enlightenment. With Lara's help I learned that the body stores trauma in the nervous system until such a time as it is safe to be released. This can be decades later–well past the point at which we're confident we're adults operating only with adult-level perspectives and maturity. Little do we know that traumas from childhood govern our reactions and responses to the world around us and those closest to us. The series of Neurogenic Qigong sessions I had with Lara provided more than one missing puzzle piece to childhood traumas that impact me to this day. Now that I have a sense of knowing what my body was holding onto, and why those memories were guarded for so long, I am able to examine and process them with the help of a strong support system, and will one day set them free. My time with Lara was invaluable to me and my healing, and I would recommend her work to anyone who has a desire to free themselves from their past. 

I came to Lara looking to address some anxiety issues that have flared in relation to the Covid 19 Pandemic and unexpectedly homeschooling my four kids. I was wanting to find a new way to breathe, manage stress and heal a dull ache in my abdomen. Lara gave me simple but effective tools to help me manage my stress moving forward and the sessions themselves left me feeling replenished and with good energy. After each session, I felt less dread and fewer feelings of frustration around my life circumstances. I also appreciated the opportunity to focus on particular words and sounds and felt that my pain was lifting. After one session I checked in with my kids downstairs and my seven-year-old wanted a picture with me. I wasn’t planning on it and took a selfie. It was interesting to observe myself in this photo as you can see the ease of my expression and the lightness I felt. I exuded happiness! The exercises Lara taught me to do on my own have helped me to be more aware of how I am feeling in the morning and at the end of the day. I am now able to clear my mind and focus myself more easily. Lara is kind, thoughtful and easy to work with. I strongly recommend trying a session to find out for yourself! 

Since never having experienced a Neurogenic Qigong session I wasn’t sure what to expect. There was a lot of physical work that took place during the hour I was on the mat, but at the same time there was space for my mind to relax, wander and many emotions were set free. Mid-session I was feeling an overwhelming sense of transformation. I was surprised by the many memories that resurfaced during the session and how far back these memories went, some decades old, and others farther than that. The memories carried emotional baggage that I had shoved down at one time or another. Allowing these memories to surface felt necessary and liberating. Post session, I was surprised by the amount of energy I possessed. I also felt relief from some injuries I had been dealing with in my shoulder and ankle. These injuries had been nagging at me for some time and no amount of rest or exercise had been able to break the tension in them until this session. The transformation that occurred within me through Lara’s guidance was highly therapeutic and deeply healing. Lara has an uncanny ability to hold space passively while at the same time guiding you through the session. I felt completely comfortable with Lara, which allowed me to go deeper into the work that was happening and to be vulnerable with whatever came up during the session. In summation I can say that the experience I had with Lara was one of a kind.