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TURN YOUR LIFE UPSIDE DOWN​

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The ultimate guide to living your passions
(and doing handstands if you want to)

TURN YOUR LIFE UPSIDE DOWN IS A 4-WEEK COURSE DESIGNED TO GET YOU KNOWING WHERE YOUR PASSIONS ARE.
IN THIS COURSE YOU WILL GET TO THE HEART OF WHAT MAKES YOU COME ALIVE AND THEN START TAKING THE STEPS TOWARD LIVING THAT DREAM.
ADDITIONALLY, YOU’LL ALSO BE TAKEN ON A PLAYFUL JOURNEY OF STRENGTH TRAINING, BALANCE AND YOGA TO HELP YOU LEARN HOW TO DO A HANDSTAND.
LAUREN’S TURN YOUR LIFE UPSIDE DOWN COURSE IS FULL OF PRACTICAL TOOLS TO GET YOU GOING. INCLUDED IN THE COURSE CONTENT IS A FULL ILLUSTRATED E-BOOK, 7 GUIDED MEDITATIONS, 5 GUIDED YOGA PRACTICES AND JOURNALING EXERCISES FOR YOU TO DO ON YOUR OWN.
THIS COURSE IS ALL ABOUT GETTING TO THE ROOT OF WHAT MAKES YOU SHINE AND DISCOVERING HOW YOU CAN THRIVE.

lauren's turn your life upside down course will

 

 Help you discover your own authentic truth

Give you tools to release fear and move forward toward living your passions

Help to build the strength and balance necessary to learn a handstand

Get you physically and mentally stronger

Help build your confidence from inside out and outside to in

Give you tools to take actionable steps toward achieving your dreams

Teach you step by step how to do handstands (if you want to)

 

Are you ready to
turn your life upside down!?

Heck yes I am!!

How it works:

Each week, you’ll receive new course content

delivered right to your inbox.

Every week Lauren will send you

 tailored yoga sequences, meditations and stories 

to help get you going.

Let's do this!

Week 1: Starting where you are.

 

Where do your talents lie? What are you truly passionate about? How can you identify that?
Lauren takes you through journaling and meditations to get those questions answered. Get to know yourself and get comfortable with your starting point.

The yoga portion this week is all about building strength and feeling grounded. Lauren will guide you through a led yoga practice that is designed to help get you going with the foundational work for handstands.

 

Week 2: What do you want?

Where do your talents lie? What are you truly passionate about? How can you identify that?
Lauren takes you through journaling and meditations to get those questions answered. Get to know yourself and get comfortable with your starting point.

The yoga portion this week is all about building strength and feeling grounded. Lauren will guide you through a led yoga practice that is designed to help get you going with the foundational work for handstands.

 

What do you really want in your life? How can you use your talents and passions and turn them into success? In this part of the course you’ll begin to create specific goals and then start taking steps toward achieving them. You will start to grow your sense of worthiness, your self-worth. You will start to understand that you deserve to achieve all you desire.

In the yoga portion this week, you will start to build your confidence and further develop the strength needed for handstands.

 

Week 3: Taking & releasing control

 

This week is all about taking ownership of your dreams and releasing fears. Lauren will guide you through some journaling exercises that will get to the deep dark bottom of the fears that are keeping you from achieving your dreams. She will then lead you through meditations to help release those fears.

 

In the yoga portion this week, you will practice keeping control in your kick-ups and your movements in order to start practicing handstands.

 

Week 4: bringing it all together

In the final week of this course, Lauren will help give you tools to stay on your unique passionate path to success. she will infuse you with inspiration and practical tips on how to stay strong. She will give you tips and tools on how to keep believing in your dreams and how to keep believing in yourself, even when the world around you might be in doubt.

The yoga practice of this week is dedicated to fine-tuning and continued practice of everything that you’ve learned already. You will learn how to better balance, how to keep getting stronger and how to stay brave while you practice those handstands.

Let's do this!

what people are saying:

Working my way through Lauren Rudick's new course, Turn Your Life Upside Down, and feeling inspired. Thanks for creating a course that combines yoga, meditation, introspection, and goal setting, Lauren! If you're needing a dose of inspiration + handstands in your life, go check it out!!
Amanda Kingsmith
M.Bom
I absolutely loved doing this and having Lauren as my own personal cheerleader throughout the process. Knowing that Lauren has created a life on her own terms meant that she was the ideal person to take me through this. The mantra based meditations were simple yet highly effective and I found myself coming back to the powerful words throughout my day as a reminder. The practices were dynamic and strong - giving me the confidence and bravery to push my comfort zone a little bit each time I came to the mat. I feel so much more empowered to turn things upside down. I loved the structure and the combination of physical and mindset work - it is exactly what I needed and I know it has helped me shift through from a place of feeling a little stuck, to a place of opening up to infinite possibility. 
Lauren Barber
Yoga Teacher & Health Coach
As a beginner I came into this really not expecting this much attention to detail. Lauren brings such a down to earth focus and ease to yoga and the practice that I absolutely connect with.
Steve Wittington
Marketing Manager
Turn Your Life Upside Down allows us to finally catch up with ourselves. As you progress from chapter to chapter, emotions and experiences long submerged surface. As we confront our wants, needs, fears and aspirations the notion that we are capable of all our desires under the sun starts to resonate. Lauren’s authentic nature teamed with her ability to be so humbly vulnerable is truly inspirational. TYLU is an incredible mix of lighthearted fun and deep reflection that builds a sustainable self-awareness brining participants to their truth, whatever that may be
Allison Thorne
Director of Sales
Turn Your Life Upside Down was an insightful journey which enabled me to shift my perspective. Throughout the 4 week course the journalling exercises paired with the meditations and asanas further helped incorporate lessons from the course to my everyday life. I would highly recommend this program to anyone who wants to delve deep within themselves and get in an inversion.
Amanda Stetski
Market Researcher
YOU DO NOT NEED TO BE A YOGI, HAVE A REGULAR YOGA PRACTICE, OR EVEN HAVE PREVIOUS YOGA EXPERIENCE TO TAKE THIS COURSE. 
 
JUST COMMIT TODAY AND START WORKING TOWARD YOUR BEST LIFE EVER!

THIS COURSE IS DESIGNED FOR YOU TO COME AS YOU ARE, 

BE HONEST WITH YOURSELF 

AND THEN GROW STRONGER, HAPPIER AND 

MORE CONFIDENT EVERY DAY.

I'm in!!

This course is for you if...

 You are a seeker

You know you can live a more passionate life

You want to get stronger

You want to know yourself better

You are willing to work hard to achieve your dreams

I'm ready!!

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Yoga Academy International Faculty:

Lauren Rudick

Lauren Rudick

Lead teacher and founder of Yoga Academy International, Lauren is a globally celebrated yoga instructor. She has been teaching yoga for almost 20 years and has many trainings under her belt. Lauren has led yoga retreats and workshops in over 2-dozen countries and continues to study with world-class instructors whenever possible. She has been featured in Women's health Magazine, YogiTimes, Optymyz and get out there to name a few as well as on countless podcasts and newspaper articles. Lauren has solid roots in Iyengar based Hatha yoga with continued studies in Vinyasa flow, Anusara, Ashtanga, Restorative, Bhakti and Yin Yoga. She is inspired by teachers who tell stories. She has studied under Seane Corn, Chris Chavez, MC Yogi,, Mercy Ananda, Nancy Goodfellow and many others. Lauren is passionate about sharing yoga from an authentic and soulful point of view. Lauren is E-RYT 500 registered with Yoga Alliance. 

Jimmy Erickson

Jimmy Erickson

The kindest and most inclusive person you'll ever meet... Jimmy discovered yoga through his deep-rooted passion for dance. Since becoming RYT certified in 2013, he’s immersed himself in the practice, blending his love of movement with mindfulness and breathwork. His classes are a reflection of grounding and uplifting experiences, emphasizing the power of breath and mindfulness. Whether you're a beginner or seasoned yogi, join Jimmy in exploring the transformative journey of body, mind, and spirit through yoga.

Joy Hall

Hatti Williams

After a 50-year nursing career, Joy completed her 200hr yoga teacher training at age 72 in Costa Rica with Yoga Academy International. Joy's love of nature and passion for movement and the outdoors are infections. With her deep knowledge of anatomy and years of teaching in a clinical setting, she joined the Yoga Academy Faculty as an anatomy teacher in 2024.

Nancy Goodfellow

Nancy Goodfellow

Yoga director and co-owner of Pranamar Villas and Yoga Retreat in Costa Rica, Nancy is extremely well known for her inspiring and creative daily classes, workshops,and retreats, with students both locally and internationally. Her twenty years of committed practice, thousands of hours of trainings, and continual curiosity towards life’s most mysterious aspects are all part of why she has so many devoted students. She began her Yogic studies in the Ashtanga Vinyasa tradition under the guidance of her first teachers, Dominic Corigliano, Tim  Miller and Pattabhi Jois. Nancy has completed over 500 hours of Yoga Alliance teacher trainings and began teaching in 1998. Nancy dedicated many years of study to the Anusara method with its amazing principles of alignment, Tantric philosophy and Bhakti filled practice. She completed over 500 hours of certified Anusara teachings and traditional non-dualistic Tantra studies.

Hatti Williams

Hatti Williams

Hatti Williams is an Astrologer, Sound Healer, Fashionista and Yoga instructor. She completed her 200hr yoga teacher training and Yin Yoga teacher training with Yoga Academy International in Greece. Hatti then went on to study Yoga Nidra and Sound Healing where she learned more about the energetic body and Traditional Chinese Medicine Meridians. Hatti has a gift for bringing the mystical to life through her lectures and teachings. She offers a digestible and soulful take on astrology and merges the ancient wisdom of yoga with our understanding of the celestial universe seamlessly.

Teresa Edmilao

Teresa Edmilao

Teresa has been practicing massage therapy since 2006. She has a 3000hr diploma in Massage Therapy from the West Coast College of Massage Therapy in Vancouver, BC. Teresa has a passion for helping people connect with their bodies. She lives by example, inspiring people to lead an active and healthy lifestyle. Teresa spent 7 years practicing massage therapy in Canada to people from all walks of life; students, athletes, desk workers, labourers, youth, elderly, dancers, and accident victims. Teresa is also a fire dancer and hula hoop dancer. She has experienced numerous injuries has personally been through the rehabilitation process many times. It was these experiences that have lead her to delve deeply into the study and application of anatomy and movement. Teresa offers anatomy classes at Yoga Academy International. Her teachings are thorough, meticulous but fun, drawing on every day life experience to help yogis understand their bodies better. 

Angie Pone

Hatti Williams

Originally from Argentina, Angie is now a beach babe and a Nicaraguan local. She teaches soulful yoga classes that include Whim Hoff style breath work and themes sprinkled throughout that really connect yoga philosophy with movement. Angie is a dedicated yogi, having completed 3 yoga teacher trainings and a meditation training.

Will Peters

Will Peters

Making yoga accessible and enjoyable, regardless of who you are and how strong or flexible you are, is his priority. With a passion for all things health and wellbeing, Will’s aim is to inspire anyone and everyone to step on the mat to gain the physical and mental benefits that yoga can provide.Born in the UK, Will is a qualified and registered yoga teacher with over 250 hours of training. Will places an emphasis on alignment and safety. Outside of teaching, Will is an enthusiastic yoga student, constantly pushing his body and mind to new limits. Whether it’s learning to handstand, progressing towards the splits or practicing mindfulness exercises, Will loves to learn new things and grow. This provides continuous evolution to Will’s teaching as he brings new-found energy and knowledge from my personal practice into class.

Charlotte Mason

Charlotte Mason

Chef Charlotte Mason hails from Boston where she used work in high end restaurant kitchens and then later opened up her own catering company. Burnt out and needing a break, Charlotte went on a surf vacation to Nicaragua and 3 weeks later moved cross continents and has been there ever since. Charlotte's love of sourcing locally, creating exceptional plant-based dishes and combining flavours makes her food loved by everyone. Charlotte is passionate about health and wellness and is also a certified yoga instructor. Giving back not only with flavours, Charlotte frequently teaches yoga classes in Spanish for local women and helps empower local women to follow their dreams and speak their minds. In joining Yoga Academy International, Charlotte has added so much to the experience by creating comfort and family feelings found only when gathering around a table to share delicious meals together. When not on Yoga Academy International's trainings, Charlotte creates gourmet pop up dinners around Nicaragua and chefs at yoga retreats around the world.  

Sanne Hofman

Sanne Hofman

Sanne is a ray of sunshine! Before joining the Yoga Academy International team, Sanne was a neuropsychologist in Holland. On her path, she felt that her chosen field was not quite the right fit. So Sanne set off on a journey through Central America to get to know herself better. Along the way she met her partner Toby in Panama. Together they worked and traveled through Central America eventually finding their way to Maderas Beach, Nicaragua. They loved the spot so much that they decided to move there and eventually got jobs managing a boutique hotel. Wanting to expand her offerings at the hotel, Sanne took Yoga Academy International's 200hr teacher training in 2018. She then furthered her studies in the Chakra-Vinyasa Training and went back to Europe to take Thai Yoga Massage training. Sanne is compassionate, loving and kind. She is an example of how to live yoga ethics while still being true to who you are. Sanne offers YAI students endless encouragement and love as well as unwavering support on their journeys. She can always be counted on for a listening ear, a compassionate friend, a glowing smile or a warm hug when you need it most. 
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