Lauren Brown

After 10 years on the mat and 6 years as a teacher, one thing has become clear to Lauren: she doesn’t practice yoga, yoga practices on her. “It has transformed me inside and out. I love it, I hate it, I don’t want to live without it.’’ As the daughter of an accounting professor and in school for a music degree, Lauren fielded the question of becoming a teacher constantly. She would confidently say that teaching was never a part of her master plan. 

At a particularly low point in her life, the yoga found her and saved her. She made the cross-country move back to Austin to complete her first 200hr teacher training at Baptiste affiliate Breath & Body Yoga. While still working her 9-5 job, Lauren taught full-time and managed the studio while continuing to study with Baron Baptiste and Christina Sell. Thousands of teaching hours later and tired of having to decline opportunities because of scheduling, she made the leap into self-employment and dedicated herself to being a teacher. 

Through dealing with several injuries of her own and working with private clients with vastly different physical abilities and yoga goals, she developed a focus on anatomy and alignment. With the encouragement of several students, she studied and now practices Thai massage for private clients. Lauren currently has over 700 combined hours of teacher training. She is working toward her 1000hr Yoga Medicine teacher training certification with Tiffany Cruikshank as well as becoming certified in Fasica Manipulation.

Lauren strives to create Vinyasa classes that are physically challenging and emotionally freeing, full of purposeful alignment and balanced with playfulness. The yoga mat is a reminder to show up in life every day with an open heart and a clear mind. When she is not being a self-described yoga nerd, you will find her on the trail or a spin bike, reading on the porch with a cup of coffee, cooking, enjoying good wine, and playing the piano.