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Today we’re back in the hood with our neighbor and new friend, Lara Land.
She runs Land Yoga where she teaches Ashtanga for adults, Chloe the Yogi for kids, and she is Executive Director of Three and a Half Acres Yoga, a not-for-profit organization that uses yoga to empower communities. A BFA graduate of Boston University, when not traveling to Mysore, India she makes Harlem her home. She’s brought her skills to the neighborhood but keeps busy abroad as well, teaching HIV positive women and children and genocide survivors in Rwanda. Lara finds plenty of time to keep very active right here in Harlem and recently organized her second Bollywood-theme fundraiser at Red Rooster to rescue children from human trafficking. We got lucky enough to steal some time for ourselves.
NB: Can you describe your personal style in a nutshell?
LL: I like to mix it up between classic style and things that are a little more bohemian. Always very feminine. Love heels!
NB: And because we have to ask, do you have a signature scent?
LL: Gardenia
NB: Where were you born?
LL: Hackensack, New Jersey
NB: Where do you live now an call home?
LL: Harlem
NB: What are your favorite things to eat and drink right now, whether here or abroad?
LL: I’m a salad girl. Since it’s end of summer I’m really into heirloom tomatoes at the moment. Love guacamole and anything avocado always. Warm soups in winter with carrot and ginger.
NB: What does your current home smell and taste like?
NB: What is your area of business?
LL: I am an Ashtanga yoga teacher and spiritual guide. My yoga shala is Land Yoga.
NB: How did you get into it?
NB: Are their certain scents that inspired you throughout your yoga journey?
LL: The smell of incense. Strangely the smell of trash burning is very India to me and I smell I oddly like. I like rosemary, lavender sometimes, peppermint for feet soaking, but overal grapefruit gardenia, and sandlewood. The smell of coffee ready is very yoga to me and the smell of chai. And wild flowers wafting outside.
NB: Where can we check you out! Any upcoming offers or events?