certified women’s hormone health practitioner
about
Hi, I’m Lara.
Like most women, I didn’t have the best experience with my doctors.
Prescribed antibiotics, antidepressants, pills and creams for years on end by doctors who were just checking off a checklist, I was trying everything out there to resolve my symptoms.
When my mother’s endometrial cancer was ignored by doctors for 5 years, despite her appeals, I realised that there was a serious problem with women’s healthcare in the medical system. We aren’t being taken seriously. “Women bleed” said one doctor. “Sounds like anxiety,” says another. “It’s normal” says another.
At Aima health, we listen. Your symptoms are real, but you can heal. We do that with evidence-based holistic lifestyle changes and looking at you as a whole person. No one else has your past, your experiences, your neural wiring, and that’s why your health requires a unique solution.
A new perspective on the frontiers of health
When dealing with our health and wealth, we need to work with people we can trust. That usually means taking a decentralised approach, because unfortunately, in much of the world, medicine is a corporate business rather than a healing practice.
Even when trying to adhere to “the science” and peer-reviewed studies and meta-analyses, it is often not enough – because alternative, nature-based and circadian biology practices do not get funded. Lack of funding and lack of studies do not automatically mean something is not helpful or effective.
I believe how trustworthy someone is, is demonstrated by how they are willing to change their mind and update their views in the face of new information, evidence, or observations. If you keep doing the same things and getting the same problems – that doesn’t make sense.
Sometimes you have to go against the status quo to get the results you’ve been waiting for. In that way, I have swayed away from a purist centralist medicine and science perspective, taken on board holistic, ancestral wisdom while embracing cutting-edge circadian biology – which rejects pharmaceutical supremacy and dependence as a first port of call, while also prioritising the individuality of the patient and their experiences.
about me
My Philosophy
My formative training in holistic health come from 15 years in a variety of disciplines including: multiple yoga teacher trainings, neuromechanics and physiotherapeutic trainings; ayurveda, Thai massage certifications, meditation and breathwork, Buteyko, nutrition and of course an internationally recognised Women’s Holistic Hormone Health Pracitioner from the MindBodyFood Institute.
Over the past years of working with dozens of women on their health challenges, I have helped clear acne, restart missing menstruation, a natural conception, guide women through the perimenopause with ease, soothe the challenges of PMDD and calm autoimmune disorders.
My first step in many of these cases is informed consent and informed decision making – this means I show you how to know your own body, how to know when you are ovulating and how to know what each symptom means. So that when your body speaks, you can answer with wisdom.
Certifications & Qualifications
Holistic Hormone Health Practitioner
2022
An internationally recognised instituion with in depth training in all aspects of womens reproductive health and special focus on the impact of the perimenopause. Nutrition, lifestyle, and holistic interventions.
Ayurvedic and Thai Massage Medicine
2020
From schools of traditional Eastern medicine, where ancient wisdom treats symptoms as imbalances in the body and mind. Nutrition, sleep and relationships can all contribute to our state of dis-ease and bringing them back into harmony can lead to better health.
Physiotherapeutic & Neuromechanics Advanced Yoga Training
2017
15 years of encompassing yoga learning from Iyengar to hatha to Synergy to Vipassana. My passion grew of where East meets West and understanding how to bring the ancient wisdom into the modern day – for modern bodies and brains facing modern stressors. The keys are in the past but they must be adapted for our different way of life – sitting in chairs, weaker neck muscles, eye strain etc.
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