Learning, Growing, Thriving After Injury with Laura Burkhart

Yogaland Podcast

Andrea Ferretti

Health & Fitness, Yoga, Yogaland

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2018

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

When your body hurts, it can feel like your soul hurts. And when you sustain an injury from yoga, it can be even more rattling. When an injury threatened Laura Burkhart's yoga practice—and her livelihood—she was forced to dig deep, be creative, and step into a new role as a yoga teacher, too. In this episode, she explains how she survived with humility and humor. (PS: Don't forget to read Laura's most recent Yoga Journal blog post!)

We talk about:

* Laura's experience sustaining a hip injury during her yoga practice, how it was diagnosed (when she didn't have health insurance), and the path she took to begin to heal

* How she coped with the fear, shame, and frustration that came up

* The process she used that allowed her to shift from a negative mindset to one that help her completely reprioritize her life and work

* The biggest insight she learned from the ordeal: Don't get your identity from your physical abilities or your career, but in something deeper and more meaningful

* How she approaches her practice and her teaching these days

* The advice she has for yoga teachers or practitioners who hope to work smarter, not harder

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0:00.0	Hey everyone. I'm Andrea Ferretti and this is episode 101 of Hilda Land.
0:06.0	Feels kind of exciting to be officially in the triple digits.
0:12.0	Today I talk to Laura Burkhardt. of resume in her own right. She's currently a YJ influencer and is a regular print and online
0:26.0	contributor for Yoga Journal. She's been on the cover of Yoga Journal Italy and Singapore.
0:31.5	She teaches at conferences all around the world and and she is the first teacher to co-lead a retreat, I mean not a retreat, a
0:39.3	teacher training, a 200-hour teacher training with Jason starting this September. In fact, the last day for the early bird
0:47.3	discount for this training is May 14th. So if you're interested, get on it. You can learn more about that training. It's five weekends
0:55.3	starting September 14th by going to bit.ly slash Jason 200. But this episode is specifically focused on Laura and her coming out about being a
1:10.7	yoga teacher dealing with a severe injury.
1:12.8	This is a collaboration episode with Yoga Journal,
1:15.6	and it came about in an interesting way.
1:17.8	She wrote a piece for Yoga Journal a few months ago
1:21.0	where she talked openly for the first time publicly about dealing with this severe injury and I read it fervently and I thought I really want to talk to her.
1:31.0	And then she wrote another blog post that's just gone up in
1:35.6	in tandem with this podcast that outlines what worked and what she's learned as
1:41.2	she's getting through this injury and it's a great compliment to this episode.
1:44.8	You can find it at yoga journal.com slash injury recovery and I will also link to it on the show notes page.
1:52.0	So Laura and I talk about, I ask her to just tell her story and the diagnosis phase and because that is challenging you guys. If anyone's sustained an injury you know that it just feels like it moves all around you don't know what's going on
2:06.3	she had a lot of financial fallout because she didn't have health insurance she had
2:11.5	emotional issues.
2:13.0	She was fearful.
2:15.0	But what I think is great about the story is that Laura ultimately saw it as a huge wake-up call for figuring out how to continue teaching this discipline and doing this practice that she
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