Bio

Lauren never anticipated that yoga would become part of her daily life. A California girl raised on athletic fields, basketball courts, and in swimming pools, she traveled east for the classrooms of Princeton, and after graduating, moved to New York for life as a young Wall Street professional.   She turned to yoga – hesitantly at first – as a way to diversify her Manhattan treadmill workouts.   She soon realized that with regular practice, on and off the mat, yoga can change you from the inside, out, as well as from the outside, in.  

In spring 2009, Lauren resigned her job as a Vice President at Morgan Stanley to launch I.AM.YOU., a lifestyle brand and yoga studio in Manhattan's SOHO.  

Since, Lauren become a revered Yoga and Lifestyle expert, featured on CNN, Bloomberg, New York Magazine, NY Times, NY 1 Television and more. She shares this expertise via her classes, seminars & trainings, as well as through her regular columns for HealthyBitchDaily, FlowYogaMagazine, MindBodyGreen, and AlwaysNewYou.

Lauren has been hired by Division I Collegiate Athletic teams, Corporations, Hollywood Stars and individuals across the globe to create ideal body images, mind dexterity, and performance levels.  She is the first create Health & Wellness Corporate Training programs, the latest industry innovation, and from there leads Career & Life coaching based on her experiences in the Wall Street trenches to the streets of now.  

These cutting edge approaches to Nutrition, Yoga, and Life Coaching have taken her with I.AM.YOU. to Spain, France, Italy, the U.K., Colombia, Turkey, Mexico, and across the U.S.. 

Lauren graduated with an Advanced Certification from Conquering Lion Yoga, a program that unites Tibetan philosophy and the teachings of Geshe Michael Roach with the Indian Hindu traditions.  She received a secondary Advanced Certification from Kula Yoga School, the ultimate in creative, anatomy centric yoga, and complimented this with a Certificate from the Advanced Studies Yoga Anatomy Program.  Lauren is a graduate of the Institute of Integrated Nutrition and a certified Holistic Health Coach, as well as accredited by the American Association of Drugless Practitioners. She holds an Intermediate Level Certificate from the International Wine Center, and a BA in Romance Languages & Literatures from Princeton University.  

Lauren gives thanks to all her teachers, especially Kelly Morris from Conquering Lion, where it all began, Schuyler Grant from Kula, and Yogeswari and Lady Ruth from Jivamukti.  And, above all, her family.