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Private sessions and public schedule available upon request. Lotem is a yoga and meditation instructor and a 3rd degree Reiki practitioner.

She has been teaching in yoga studios, retreat centers, corporations, rehabilitation recovery centers and mental health facilities internationally and currently here in Los Angeles. Lotem has been studying and teaching for over 10 years and has completed 500+hrs of Yoga Alliance certified trainings. She received her BA in Psychology and Sociology in 2012 and has been delving into various holistic healing modalities since. Lotem has studied with teachers such as Tracee Stanley, Joan Hyman, Diana Lang and Shiva Rea, at schools and centers such as YogaWorks, Samudra Global School of Living, and Esalen along with several other teachers and trainings that have encompassed a range of modalities. Lotem incorporates mindfulness practices, trauma-informed yoga techniques , Yoga Nidra (aka deep relaxation) in her classes. Her studies and teachings also include a fusion of Vinyasa, Hatha, Iyengar, Yin and Restorative Yoga. She guides through practice of asana, meditation, pranayama (breath-work), and philosophy. In her creative and dynamic sessions, she blends an energizing flow with a calming fusion of Restorative, Yin & Reiki. For her, yoga has been a source of healing to restore mental, emotional, spiritual and physical balance. Her goal is to create a safe space for students to unwind, receive, and enjoy themselves through cultivating self-awareness and compassion. Lotem feels that through attention, time, movement and breath we each have the capacity to heal ourselves from the inside out. She aims to help people connect internally to their body, breath and heart in an uplifting and gentle way.

03/14/2024

Feeling spring like …💚

It’s not without the dark of winter or the mud of hardship that beauty blooms.

Holding the two together in my heart has been the greatest reckoning and always a practice process.

Flowers growing through the cracks of side walks, spring that rises from winter? butterflies that fly from incubating in the chrysalis, lotus’s that rise from mud— some of my cherished inspirations of emergence.

What are yours?

Sending you all some muddy spring loving my friends 🫶🏼🌻

And always grateful to my friend for capturing the sweetest moments 📷✨

11/17/2023

We poured our heart and soul into this day and to see our vision come to life from the ground up has been a dream come true. It warms and fills my heart to create a safe space for people to rest, connect, and transform.

This day retreat marked by the new moon in Scorpio has reminded me of the power of bringing our heart’s intention into reality when attention and love is directed towards it— and the support of the cycles of the moon and of life in allowing the process of death and rebirth to run its natural course.

I am beyond grateful for these two, for all who said yes and trusted us to take them on this journey, to learn and grow alongside this group of beautiful humans, and to all the ways our inner work can create a ripple effect in spreading light into the world that is so deeply in need of it. Our family just got even bigger!

Details for the next one coming soon✨🌙✨

10/09/2023

When women gather, mountains can be moved. I feel this deeply in my heart and the time it is needed is now, perhaps more than ever. There is a call for the feminine energy (non gender related) to heal the world in this patriarchal world we live in. To heal with strength in softness, power in vulnerability, fierceness in an open heart. I feel humbled and privileged, with a hint of nervous excitement to share an offering that is closest to my heart, maybe more than any offering I have shared before.

We would love to have you join us, all women-identified welcome. October 27th 7-9 pm .yoga

From my heart,
Lotem

Photography by the incredible 📷 (I’ll be sprinkling more from this magical shoot soon)

09/03/2023

Hi friends, I’ve missed practicing with you!

As much as I love travel and more and more can find home and center wherever I go in the world (on my better days!), there’s nothing like the feeling of coming back to my own physical home and energetic space; I can feel my whole body drop down as a giant exhale like a weighted blanket of gravity.

The integration part is just as vital as the adventure itself. My first month of being 33 has already brought so much expansion through contraction and I can feel an accelerated growth coming through. Now I’ll relish in some tea, baths, Abhyanga self massage and good simple slowing down nourishment to let myself absorb and digest it all.

Feeling full and ready to practice with you all again and I’d love to see you for class this week. It feels like a perfect time for integration at the tail end of all the heightened activities of summer and the beginning of September with Fall just around the corner— a time for homecoming and taking it down a couple notches, which after all is always in the body and heart anyhow 🙃✨

Curious what your favorite way of integrating is?

And if you feel called to join me, here are some chances 💕

Today:
9:30 am
12 pm gentle yoga cc equinox
5 pm yin

Monday 7 am

Tuesday
7 am
12:30 pm mindful flow, 4:30 pm power vinyasa, 8:15 pm reiki restore all at .yoga

Wednesday
7 am
5:30 pm power and sound healing sports club

Thurs
9:30 am nourishing flow

08/22/2023

Isn’t everything out there just an arrow boomeranging us back to our hearts?

Lately I am reminded over and over of how everything and everyone is a mirror to come back to our own love. Nothing and no one else can give us that.

Breath is a portal to this love that we are and embody, and often it takes work to dig and excavate through the other stuff that has gotten in the way and return back to everything we’ve been looking for all along right inside ourselves.

Breathwork feels like the palette cleanser, where we get to work through the inner landscape sweeping and tending our way back home, and I’m so honored that I get to take people on this journey.

Still buzzing from the electricity this group created, so ready to lean in and open. What I love about this practice is how accessible it is to everyone and in this way it serves as an empowerment to anyone, a tool that we each have at any moment with the inherent capacity to be our own healer.

Can’t wait for the next one! Breath work on the Vineyard in Malibu September 20th with . Also offering this work 1:1 to anyone interested.

All are welcome; we all have breath as long as we are here 💚

08/04/2023

Embarking on a yoga teacher training is no small feat. It can change one’s whole life and lifestyle, whether intentionally or not when there is a willingness to open to the process. Saying yes to do something like this, despite the inevitable resistances, uncomfortable edges, intense moments— is an opening in and of itself. The many tears, laughs and heart openings cracked open on this journey reverberate wider than we may know as medicine to all.

Even if someone initially comes to work on asana (the physical alignment of the poses) one might leave with something completely different and unexpected— with a deeper understanding of philosophy, an amplified embodiment, an enhancement of the voice from within, a stronger connection to the subtle body (the chakras, energy centers), community etc etc.

I am touched and humbled by the beautiful beings who chose to take on this vulnerable undertaking and trust and myself to meet all the edges beyond the comfort zone that a training like this can bring up. This group was particularly so open, eager and available to soak it all up and I gained and learned a whole lot from them. To witness them in their growth of becoming is something I hold close to my heart, and now watching them fly from the nest

04/11/2023

I have rarely seen the moonrise so big and felt it so close as I have these last few nights, peaking over the surrounding mountains that seemed like the edge of the earth. Each night it would peak at different times, surprising us and though never disappointing.

Steady anchors like these keep me tethered to the precious constants that hold their promises in their own way, making all of the inevitable chaos feel somewhat manageable.

Ready to share with y’all from a place of being desert 🌵 bathed, starstruck ⭐️and with dust covered skin and yet a clearer inner landscape.

See you on the mat or meet you at the moon 🌚

This week:
Tuesday: 9:30 am yin, 12:30 pm flow and 8:15 pm restorative reiki all .yoga

Wed: 9:30 am yin and breathwork .yoga and 5:30 pm power flow sports club

Thurs: 9:30 am flow and nourish and 4 pm

Sat: 12:30 pm weekend wind down cc

Sun: 8 am flow and 5 pm yin

03/01/2023

Super excited about this one.

Three of my favs: chakras, breathwork and yin.

Will love to have you for this nourishing Sunday afternoon with one of the sweetest communities ✨

Scroll right with more info, and sign up with .yoga (in person or on the website).

❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

06/02/2021

As the hustle bustle ensues post-pandemic, I’m staying put.

Don’t get me wrong , I’ll take the sunshine and face to face connections I can get.

Though where I refill my cup, where I come home to myself is right here , inside of me . In the quiet , the solitude , the inwardness .

In yoga all we need is our mat and ourselves . You can even take out the mat part since I’m pretty sure the ancient yogis didn’t have those 😛

So that leaves you with yourself .

And when we find ourselves, we find the entire world.

I’ve always been a seeker , searching for answers through teachers , trainings, books , the stars , etc.

Though so much of my life I still felt empty.

When I feel my breath , my heart beating , the connection to the earth and the sky , I feel full.

So I stay put as in slowing down as things get quicker , going inside as the activity intensifies and remembering when I forget.

And I also will be sure to get a latte at my neighborhood coffee shop, take a walk with a friend , dance when I have no words , and listen to a city becoming alive again as I hear the hum of the universe resting.

Beginning a new womxn’s yoga series next Monday on zoom . Mondays and Wednesdays 8:30 am . It’s a 7 week series (not consecutive this round though spread throughout the summer). Those who can’t make lives receive a recording .

Includes yin/restorative and slow flow yoga , meditation, Breathwork, yoga nidra for all levels .

See you in some way shape or form ... after all there’s really no such thing as time or space according to quantum physics 🙃

Grateful for y’all for showing up in all the ways that you do .

Xo,
L

04/27/2021

Shedding stories, beliefs, patterns that were never mine to begin with .

As an empath, I have carried the whole world on my shoulders.

How about you ? What are you carrying that’s not yours ?

I’ve had to ask myself this question several times in my life, and often in one day. From childhood, as a very sensitive being I’ve learned to carry emotions, energies , burdens of others that weren’t mine to begin with . It hurt me and it didn’t even help those that I’ve carried it for .

We each need our own pain in order to heal it .

The words I’ve learned to say to myself , still practice on a daily basis go something like this and I hope they help you as well:

“You don’t need to hold on to it anymore darling.
You are safe now .
The world may not always be a safe place ,
But your world,
With its miraculous breath and heartbeat I would say is quite a safe place to Be.
The only thing worth holding onto is your Light. And that, you do carry. You sure do .”

And guess what ? One more thing , your Light comes from your Dark, your Gifts from your Wounds.

The cool thing is it’ll benefit you, and everyone else , to give others back their pain and hold on to your own energy and light .

This is a good time for that, with the full moon and all
🌕🌕🌕

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https://lotemporatyoga.com/

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