She is a student of Iyengar yoga, and an advanced Ashtanga yoga practitioner. Lauren is regularly featured in Yoga Journal, and can be seen in and on the cover of Yoga Journal’s 2001 calendar with other leading yoga instructors such as Rodney Yee, Richard Freeman and Sarah Powers. Lauren has been teaching yoga for well over a decade and counts among her students Cher, Shirley MacLaine, Nick Nolte and Olypic gold medalist diver Greg Louganis. Lauren lives with her family in Malibu, CA, and travels extensively, teaching yoga at conferences across the U.S. Lauren also started a yoga program for women dealing with eating disorders at the Monte Nido Eating Disorders Center in Southern California. (For more information on eating disorders go to: Eating Disorder Referral And Information Center)Lauren likes to remind her students that she did not start doing handstands until her mid 30s.