Lara O'Connel

Lara completed her 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training in 2025 with Lorraine Shedoudi within LPY Yoga, and she is Reiki I Certified.

Lara has been practicing yoga for over 30 years and once she truly found the ability to modify her own practice transformed that knowledge and passion into teaching. Practicing and teaching inspires her to see the connections in our daily lives and our communities. She enjoys redirecting the focus of the day to small moments of reflection and gratitude while acknowledging and honoring all of the emotion of the human experience. 

Lara is an Experienced LPY 200 Hour Yoga Alliance Registered Yoga Teacher, Reiki Certified, and continues her love of learning with a focus on mediation and gentle yoga at the Kripalu Center. She also holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Rhode Island School of Design and has a background in Apparel Design.  She is a member of the Lexington community and has been a member of LPY for ten years.

You can find her stretching her creative muscles most recently in knitting projects or flower cuttings which she loves to share. 

She has tremendous and daily gratitude for the people in her life, her friends, her family, and her great mentors and teachers at LPY. They inspire her and remind her to share the gifts we all have with each other.