Lani Granum
Namaste! I’m Lani (rhymes with Annie). I’ve been a yoga teacher since 2000 and a psychotherapist since 1974. Each role informs the other, so that my yoga students become more inquisitive about their minds, and my psychotherapy patients become more comfortable in their bodies.
Yoga Bio
I’m proud to say I’m one of the oldest yoga teachers I know. Years of intense play: sports, dance, skiing, triathlons – not to mention parenting – have kept me fit, but time takes its toll no matter how hard you work at defying age. My firm belief, however, is that if there is a fountain of youth, it’s yoga. I’ve taught since 2000, and have witnessed how yoga is truly limitless in its ability to keep us in compassionate touch with our body-mind-selves, and hopefully in relationship with another body-mind-self as well.
I did my initial training with Ana Forrest, then Tias Little, Angela Farmer, Shiva Rea, Dharma Mittra and many other master teachers. My style is now so eclectic I hesitate to label myself, but the closest would be Vinyasa Flow. Core strength, reverence for the breath, respecting one’s natural range of motion, and always seeking for a sense of flow are essential to my style. I also love language and music; hence chanting and poetry are ever-present in my classes.
I’m proud to say I’m one of the oldest yoga teachers I know. Years of intense play: sports, dance, skiing, triathlons – not to mention parenting – have kept me fit, but time takes its toll no matter how hard you work at defying age. My firm belief, however, is that if there is a fountain of youth, it’s yoga. I’ve taught since 2000, and have witnessed how yoga is truly limitless in its ability to keep us in compassionate touch with our body-mind-selves, and hopefully in relationship with another body-mind-self as well.
I did my initial training with Ana Forrest, then Tias Little, Angela Farmer, Shiva Rea, Dharma Mittra and many other master teachers. My style is now so eclectic I hesitate to label myself, but the closest would be Vinyasa Flow. Core strength, reverence for the breath, respecting one’s natural range of motion, and always seeking for a sense of flow are essential to my style. I also love language and music; hence chanting and poetry are ever-present in my classes.
Psychotherapy Bio
Educated at the University of Chicago, I began my psychotherapy career working with seriously disturbed children. I then moved on to treating adults and couples in my private practice of long-term psychodynamic therapy. My basic orientation, strongly influenced by Bruno Bettelheim and Marian Tolpin, is that people’s emotional struggles are the result of old patterns stemming from past relationships. “Talk therapy” - by which I mean a two-person, relational process - combined with some form of yoga - a one-person process - is the best medicine I know for healing the suffering of the self.
Educated at the University of Chicago, I began my psychotherapy career working with seriously disturbed children. I then moved on to treating adults and couples in my private practice of long-term psychodynamic therapy. My basic orientation, strongly influenced by Bruno Bettelheim and Marian Tolpin, is that people’s emotional struggles are the result of old patterns stemming from past relationships. “Talk therapy” - by which I mean a two-person, relational process - combined with some form of yoga - a one-person process - is the best medicine I know for healing the suffering of the self.