Laruga Wakes Up at 2:45 AM For Yoga!

Laruga Glaser couldn't help but being a yoga teacher... It kept calling her, even when she was kicked out of a yoga teacher training!

What is Special About Laruga

Even though she experienced hardships growing up, meaning abuse, which I can relate to, she learned through yoga to transcend and heal.

I was taken by her presence and her pace. She exudes stillness, and she is very friendly.

As a teacher she has a heavy international traveling schedule as well as a Mysore program she runs daily in Stockholm.

I also appreciated how she helps us all give ourselves a break when she says (talking about the brutal winters in the Northern hemisphere)...

I do feel it is important to be sensitive to the seasonal shifts and adjust the rhythm of one’s practice during these times of external extremes, instead of trying to force the same pacing month after month

What we talked about

• How she grew up in the United States and stepped into yoga by "chance"
• How Ashtanga picked her curiosity at a very young age
• The role abuse played in her life as she developed into her own
• How teaching came to her
• How she met her boyfriend in Mysore exactly four months before I met James!
• Her daily routine (she wakes up at 2:45 AM people!)
• How she teaches and what her schedule is like
• How she manages her energy
• The one thing that took Laruga a LONG time to understand...

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TRANSCRIPT:

Claudia A. Altucher: Let me ask you something. It’s 4:00 PM in Stockholm, so I’m wondering: what did you do today?

Laruga Glaser: Oh, okay. Well –

[Laughter]

Yeah, my usual schedule is – I’ll – first thing in the morning, I practice – I’ll do my practice, which is quite early.

Claudia A. Altucher: What is “quite early”?

Laruga Glaser: My alarm come – goes off at around 2:45 AM.

Claudia A. Altucher: Oh, my goodness.

Laruga Glaser: So – but that doesn’t mean that I necessarily get up right away. It depends on – sometimes I hit “snooze” a few times to be perfectly honest.

Claudia A. Altucher: Well, you’re very allowed. Anyone who puts the clock at 2:45 AM is allowed to “snooze it” in my world.

Laruga Glaser: Yeah, sometimes I need a little bit of a buffer. Sometimes I do pop out of bed right away, but sometimes I’ll – you know, it’s a good way for me to kind of segue myself out of bed.

Claudia A. Altucher: So what time do you go to bed then?

Laruga Glaser: In a perfect world: 8:00 PM. That doesn’t always happen. Usually, I really start winding down between 8:00 PM or 9:00 PM, but the best time for me to be in bed is before 8:30 PM, really.

Claudia A. Altucher: Yeah, you need that. For me, too, only I don’t wake up that early. That’s very impressive to me.

Laruga Glaser: Yeah, yeah, that’s important.

[Laughter]

So –

Claudia A. Altucher: And then what did you do?

Laruga Glaser: Then – so I’ll do my practice, then it’s like I have to, very quickly, kind of shower and get ready to head to the studio to teach. So my commute isn’t too bad – it’s about, from door-to-door, it’s maybe about 20 minutes?

Claudia A. Altucher: Do you go by train, I guess? Or –

Laruga Glaser: Yeah. Twenty – twenty-five minutes, really, actually. So, yeah, I catch a train into the city center and make my way to Yogayama to teach. So I start around – a little after 6:30AM is when I start teaching. So my boyfriend leaves, actually, earlier to open the doors; he opens the doors at the studio at 6:00 AM. So some students lik...