Intentional Living for People + Planet
Yoga Philosophy Teacher, Businesswoman and Change Leader
Inspiring People in Change
A Life in Service to Humanity
Lila Lolling is a classical trained yoga instructor, yoga therapist, and author of Walking the Ancient Path of Yoga. For over two decades she has educated people in the fields of holistic living, classical yoga wisdoms, sacred ecology, and yoga therapy.
Throughout her yoga career, she has owned yoga studios, founded a 501c3 nonprofit organization, and served as a board member, manager, and director at various retreat centers. Lila has been featured in leading yoga magazines for her social justice advocacy, was voted New Yorker of the Week by NY1, and in 2018 addressed the world's dignitaries at the United Nation's International Day of Yoga on the topic of Yoga for Peace.
Lila continues to reinvent herself and refine how best to serve people and a planet in need of healing.
The Yoga Journey
Lila’s journey into yoga began in the late 90s as a means to reduce epileptic seizures, and it has worked. Since 2004, Lila has been seizure-free and living a holistic, yogic lifestyle. This has inspired her to share with others the secrets to health and healing.
Her monastic education was found within the International Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centres and the Saraswati lineage of South India. Her primary education is Advaita Vedanta, a non-dualistic philosophy propagated by Sri Adi Shankaracharya (780 CE) and Swami Sivananda (1887-1963).
Lila has lived, studied, and taught at traditional yoga monasteries. She continues to be a dedicated seeker and practitioner, finding ways to be in service and assist others move through life with more joy and ease.
The Environmental Journey
Lila's journey into environmentalism began around the same time she was introduced to a holistic, yogic lifestyle.
Her activism began on Austin's Capitol steps to protect watersheds from development back in the early 2000s. She then moved to more direct action, which included Permaculture practices at home, volunteering for community gardens and CSA's, and joining any cause to protect and preserve nature's resources.
In 2018 her focus shifted to helping to heal our Earth Mother, having participated in several programs from a variety of organizations including Omega Institute's Center for Sustainable Living, EcoPsychology Initiative, Drawdown, and the Pachamama Alliance. She continues to make regenerative decisions and dreams of a world where we live in harmony with each other and the natural world around us.
