Lara founded The Sage Practice: MindBody Empowerment (helping people in pain rewrite what's possible) in 2020. Living with chronic pain is something she understands personally. After a misdiagnosis of a medical emergency in 1991, Lara required over a dozen surgeries that saved her legs but left significant nerve damage and decades of pain.  Learning about the new neuroscience of chronic pain in 2019 transformed her life, inspiring Lara to change her career. Formerly a sociology professor, Lara is now a mindbody empowerment coach & teacher, as well as resident expert at Curable in somatic tracking and voice for those who have 'structural' in addition to 'neuroplastic' symptoms. Her advocacy in this field is her mission -- after all, she does not want her decades of pain to go to waste if it can help others soothe their own suffering to find joy again. For more somatic trackings, as well as courses and 1-1 or small group coaching opportunities: thesagepractice.com

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Reviews

A Jones

Feb 24, 2026

Soothing meditation, very helpful

Megan

Feb 5, 2026

So lovely to see you here Lara! And thanks so much for this very helpful practice. I really appreciate how you encourage us to bring attention to both neutral/positive sensations and to a deeper sense of internal okay-ness. I’m not sure I’ve heard those both in the same practice before. I will be coming back to this! ❤️

A Jones

Feb 4, 2026

Beautiful and powerful meditation. Feels nice to be held. 💕

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