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Sculpted Lotus Yoga, trauma informed yoga to feel calm and more at home in your body!

11/19/2025

What’s your favorite soup?

How can you practice in a way that feels nourishing to you?

Happy autumn 🍂

Join me today for slow flow at 10 am or vinyasa at 12 pm for a soup-er nourishing practice 😉 that is trauma sensitive and allows you the space for presence for an entire hour!!

10/31/2025

Though I can stand on my head and my hands, I’m not here to entertain you.

In my classes, you won’t find noise to fill the silence, you’ll discover a spaciousness to observe limiting habits and patterns. Physically, mentally and energetically through your breath.

You’ll find space for breath, awareness, and honest connection.
A space to practice being human, and honing your skills to ride the waves of being human. Not fabrication, not performing, not pleasing, not escaping.

I don’t play music because I want you to hear yourself.
To notice your heartbeat, your breath, your thoughts.
To meet yourself exactly where you are. I don’t play music so that you can bear witness to the magic that is already in you.

Yoga was never meant to be entertainment.
It’s an education of the self, space for self study and a remembering.
It’s a space for UNLEARNING the layers of junk that have been piled on top of you , stealing your voice, your power, your purpose.

Yoga practice is a return to the quiet truth that’s already within you.

Yoga Sūtra 1.2
yogaḥ citta-vṛtti-nirodhaḥ

Yoga is the stilling of the mind’s fluctuations.

When you strip away the noise, you can finally listen.
And that’s where real transformation and self mastery begins.

Join me in class, explore this spaciousness in community.

Know your habits and patterns, sign up in advance and add the class to your calendar to hold yourself accountable.

I have an online schedule if that’s your favorite way to practice and I teach in person in Portland

Monday + Wednesday
10 am Slow Flow and 12 pm Vinyasa
Thursday
5:30 pm Vinyasa

09/25/2025

Did you know…

I’m a mama to 3
I’m a homeschooler
I’m a curriculum writer

With a passion for philosophy, art, literature and free will, I committed to homeschooling my kiddos from day one.

It has been such a magical and rewarding journey this far. I’m amazed at all we have learned together and how we have grown.

Reading, writing and creating together has given us the closest relationships. I feel so grateful that we have flung ourselves into this wholeheartedly on the easy days and the challenging ones.

While I’ve written curriculum for adults, my own kiddos, and for I am now considering packaging the curriculum I’ve written for parents and homeschoolers to use for their kiddos.

What a wild ride?! I’ve toyed with this idea in the past and waves of second guessing and self doubt held me back.

My website has an entire learning platform built in and this is something I feel passionately about. So, here we go!

Initial roll out will be for kiddos 8-14. As I get rolling, I’ll circle back around to the earlier elementary kiddos and the tots.

Hang tight! More information to come 🎉

09/11/2025

The aim is to raise levels of awareness. Get to know your mind and how it works. Befriend your mind. Get to know your mind’s potential.

Why?

So that the individual will gain an understanding of the depth of themselves.

The sutras are a road map, meant to be traveled and experienced. Mere study of the yoga sutras without the practice and experience of them is like studying a map and encyclopedia of Italy without knowing the taste of pistachio gelato and Italian espresso!

Using the map and the experiences give you a deeper under of how you fit into your own life, your gifts, and purpose here.

If this is of interest to you, you’re craving more than a tiny simple sample in the confines of an hour class, I invite you to join me for a life shifting weekend long immersion.

I’m leading an Urban Immersion: The Path of the Sisya.

What does it mean to be a pupil of yoga and where is the guru?

Together we will explore the dedication of a student of yoga, ethics, philosophy, asana practice, pranayama, meditation/concebtrantion, mantra, mythology and MORE.

Leading this offering Oct 17-19. It is open for enrollment with early access discount, so now is the time!!
DM me for the link to enroll.

07/24/2025

Getting synced with your subtle energy body in presence is a magically rhythmic practice. It starts with peeling away extra auditory and visual stimulation.

This is where trust swirls again and you hear the whispers of your heart. This is where you’re safe and free. Dropping back into the sacred self.

Wellness is physical, mental, energetic, emotional, and community. ❤️

To join me for a practice that will drop you back into this space come to tomorrow evening for the 5:30 practice.

07/17/2025

I used to curate the perfect playlist for every class.

The rise and fall of emotion.
The timed arc.
The chosen inspiration of chaos to fill the silence.

Then I’d practice to it, ensuring the rhythm was right for the movement like choreography.

Somewhere along the way, I realized…

✨ The music was doing the work for me and everyone else.
✨ The music masked what was rising naturally and squashed my inner knowing.
✨ It was a lovely distraction, but still a distraction.

Removing the playlists meant removing the performance from healing.

Removing playlists from classes meant stripping away the layers that made it “palatable” and instead sitting with what was raw, unfiltered, and real.

And ceasing to naively appropriate a practice that innately grows, heals, and helps.

Now, in the silence…
Breath becomes the soundtrack.
Body becomes the teacher.
The moment becomes sacred again.

This is yoga.
As it always should have been.

If you’re craving stillness, realness, and nervous system support that doesn’t bypass the truth you’re not alone.

If you’re “tired” of the practice or not that into it anymore, if you’re over this wellness culture and believe that the yoga doesn’t work… it’s likely because you’ve stayed in the shallow end of the pool and it’s time to go deeper. In silence. And peel away another layer of attachment.

Want to see what this is all about? I lead classes in Portland studios and I lead classes online - you can practice in your very own home. ❤️

DM me with questions, comments, requests and for links.

07/15/2025

“WAIT! No music?!”

Hey. 👋 I’m Lauren Danner. I teach yoga classes, yup even flow classes with no music.

I teach yoga the way it was always meant to be: quiet, bold, uncomfortable, and healing.

I don’t play music in my yoga classes because the real rhythm is inside you and you’ve marched to the beat of someone else’s tune for long enough.

You’re worth hearing, you’re worth listening to, and you’re worth a practice that allows your WHOLE self to shine. Not just a playlist.

So, for the next 30 days I’ll be sharing something that has been on my heart for quite awhile: WHY I stopped playing music in my yoga classes after 20 years, what it has taught me, how it has deepened my practice and made me a better teacher, and how it has also shifted my students back into true healing and empowerment.

I’ll be sharing something real and raw words with you, stories, struggles and I’ll be dropping some truths. So if you’re a student or a teacher, you’re going to want to follow along.

If you read this and felt resistance and/or scoffed at not having music in yoga classes, this is especially for you.

06/04/2025

Kiddo + Me Yoga is all about making lasting memories and important connection! Grab your kiddo and join me at YogaRiot in Portland starting mid July. Sign up for one or all 5 in the series! Dm for registration link!!

06/02/2025

Happy happy joy joy.
Love wins.
Always. 🫶 🌈

05/29/2025

I’m thrilled about the upcoming kiddos and me class I’ll be leading at YogaRiot in Portland.

This is an incredible opportunity for grown up and kiddo connection, play, and lasting memories 💕

Portland, spread the word!!

04/11/2025

😭 💗 This is IT!

A lovely student told me this after class today and my heart exploded. All the things I’ve flubbed up, all the things I’ve learned, the experience I’ve had, the trainings and practice… this is why. To provide a safe space for bodies and minds.

Trauma sensitive practices that are still curious, challenging, and connect humans back to their authentic glorious and safe nature 🥰

Want to take classes with me?
I’ll be at Modo Yoga for two classes Saturday morning, one on Sunday night and two on Tuesday morning. (Head to the Modo yoga Portland website)

If you aren’t in Portland and want to practice with me, you still can! I have online classes and a full on demand library. (Head to the link in my bio/my website)

Message me with questions. 🙏

Stay safe, friends! 😉 🫶

01/31/2025

After 7 years in South Carolina, the Danners and Sculpted Lotus Yoga have packed up and MOVED back to Portland, OR.

I will be leading classes online still starting in about a week, and if you’re in Portland you’ll be able to practice with me soon in person (I’ll keep you in the loop)

🙏 ❤️

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Portland, OR
97217

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https://linktr.ee/Sculptedlotusyoga, http://Sculptedlotusyoga.com/

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