A Personal Note From Orion

A balanced and beautiful life! That’s what everybody aims to have. According to my guest, Lauren Roxburgh, to find true well-being and create a healthy, strong, resilient physique, moving and nourishing your body with awareness and love rather than punishing it is essential.

Lauren, aka “The Body Whisperer,” is an internationally renowned author, wellness educator, leader, inspirational speaker and a regular contributor to Goop, Women’s Health Mag and MindBodyGreen. Lauren is regularly featured on some of the top global podcasts like Broken Brain, Ben Greenfield, Be Well By Kelly, The Genius Life, and many more. She is the go-to writer and expert on holistic body care, fascia, alignment, emotional health and movement medicine. 

Lauren regularly works with Hollywood’s A-List along with some of the greatest athletes and surgeons on the planet. She was named the “Body Alignment Pro” by Vogue, and has also been listed as one of the 8 Tech Pioneers to watch by Entrepreneur magazine. Lauren is also the founder and CCO of the popular virtual wellness platform – The Aligned Life Studio, the founder of the community hub – Aligned Tribe Collective, and the creator of The Body Collection. 

In this episode, Lauren shares her journey to holistic health and well-being and how she found her passion that helps many people today. She also talks about how to reframe your thoughts about trauma and pain, how the food you eat affects the body’s physical, mental, and emotional aspects, how to reframe your relationship with hunger, and many more.

Tune in as Lauren delves deeper into holistic health and its layers to achieve an aligned life.

In this Episode

• [00:46] – Orion introduces her next guest, Lauren Roxburgh, an internationally renowned author, wellness educator, leader and inspirational speaker.
• [02:27] – Orion asks Lauren how she started her journey and discovered her passion.
• [06:17] – Lauren discusses Rolfing, which is hands-on bodywork that consists of 10 sessions.
• [10:14] – Lauren communicates by working with people to connect to our true path and have support and collaboration energy.
• [13:41] – Orion shares being part of a high-end mastermind and asks Lauren about how people experience emotional transformation after their healing and transforming their bodies.
• [20:49] – Orion and Lauren discuss the trauma experienced by women during and after childbirth and ways to address it.
• [31:57] – Lauren talks about her first program with a meal plan and concept called Fascia Foods that aims to decrease inflammation, boost collagen and regenerate tissues.
• [36:45] – Orion loves being a flexitarian and shares the importance of respecting what other people want to eat.
• [39:06] – Lauren explains collagen powder, collagen blends, natural collagens and bone broth in replenishing tissues.
• [44:59] – Orion asks Lauren for other must-take supplements that are not common that can be beneficial.
• [49:02] – Lauren enumerates her three top tips for living a stellar life.
• [50:34] – Visit Lauren Roxburgh’s website to know tons of amazing movement medicine sequences and check her tools available with her partner at OPTP.

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About Today’s Show

Hey, Lauren. Welcome to the Stellar Life podcast. Thank you so much for being here. 

Yay, thank you for having me. I’m so excited to connect. 

Yeah, me too. I’m excited about what you’re doing in the world and how you’re being in the world. Before we begin, how did you discover your passion?

I love that question because it’s all about finding all of us. I think for anyone in the world right now, it’s finding that gem inside of us, that gift, that dharma, that we’re meant to do. It’s a great opportunity. 

I started the journey quite young. I was 16 and my mother was diagnosed with stage four breast cancer. We were all very shocked because she’s a pretty healthy woman in her 40s and it was really scary. The reason why I chose this path is because I would drive her to get her chemo treatment at Stanford University (because I grew up in Northern California). I would ask the doctors at Stanford where does cancer come from. I just had this curiosity about it and they really said, “Well, actually we don’t know 100% but we think it’s environmental, it’s genetic.”

Pretty much those were the two things and they didn’t talk about the other two things that we all talk about now in holistic healing. What it did is it opened up this place of curiosity in me and I realized that the doctors didn’t know everything and I wanted to go down the path of really learning more about holistic health and all the layers of other ways of what it means to actually be well and healthy. That’s of course, more than just working out and eating right and all that. It took me out a bit of a journey. 

The first thing I was inspired by was nutrition.

The first thing I was really inspired by was actually nutrition, so I studied that and I thought I was going to be an RD (registered dietitian), but then I realized that what they were learning wasn’t really what I was wanting to learn about. I was reading Deepak Chopra and Andrew Wiles’ work. These were really different philosophies than what was in the paradigm in school at that time for nutrition. 

I decided to kind of go my own path and it led me to continue to be a very physical athlete. I was an all-American swimmer. I always had that physical strength. It was one of my gifts, you could say. That’s where I kind of ended up working with a lot of pro athletes, a lot of celebrities, and doing all kinds of different workouts like Pilates, yoga, and really dynamic workouts. 

Then I discovered something really powerful in my late 20s, which was the real catapult for me was Structural Integration and that is the work of Ida Rolf. If you’ve ever heard of Rolfing, have you ever done Rolfing? I bet you have. 

I have not. I’ve heard of it.

Really? You’ve got to do it. Everyone has to do it. It’s the best thing ever. Anyway, essentially Ida Rolf was a rocket scientist in the 1960s and she discovered fascia, which is actually really cool. She was studying the human body in gravity and she discovered the connective tissue, the scaffolding of our body that holds us up, also encases our nerves, our lymph nodes, and our chi. 

I combined all of those philosophies together and I’ve created this amazing aligned life method where people can really do all the different pillars, which is about movement, nourishment, cleansing, and connecting. It’s a really powerful thing and it’s so fun to be able to put it all together and to be able to serve it to the world right now. 

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It did take a while to get to this point and I’ve been doing this for a long time before wellness was kind of such a fad, if you will. I’ve been doing the work for a long time. I’m excited that more and more people are ready for this kind of work.

And I like that you’re a seeker and you don’t stop. A lot of people say, I have 20 years of experience, but they take the first year, and they just do it again, and again, and again for 20 years. But it seems like you’re ever expanding and you keep growing, and I appreciate that. 

Thank you. 

Rolfing—is that just like going on a form roll and rolling? What is it exactly?

Great question. Rolfing is more hands-on bodywork. The beautiful thing about it is the woman, Ida Rolf, studied osteopathy, she studied yoga, she studied a lot of different cranial-sacral type work, and she was a scientist. She looked at how the body was also processing emotions, so she started bringing in a lot of the emotional elements. 

What she did is she created this really amazing formula where you do 10 sessions of hands-on bodywork that are with a practitioner, and during the session it’s a different area of the body, so you’re also asking questions about this certain area of the body. 

For instance, I’ll give you an example. I think you’ll love this one. The first session is all about breath. It’s called the Breath of Life Session. As we know, breath is so trendy right now. We know it’s been such an important part of really being healthy when you really know how to breathe properly and efficiently. If we don’t get our breath right, open up our ribs, our lungs, and our diaphragm, then we actually won’t be able to get to those deeper layers. 

I always like to say the way we breathe is the way we live. We want to live deeply, we need to breathe deeply. It’s a beautiful metaphor of life, but then each area of the body has a different way to live. 

We want to live deeply, and we need to breathe deeply.

I’m just thinking about the way I live, it’s a little bit more like…

I know, that’s all of us. We’re all trying to find that balance. Totally, I’m with you, too. At times, I’m like wait, how am I breathing? Oh, I need to go back to my practice. I think that’s just living in that ebb and flow. Sometimes we do have to kind of force and sometimes we need to flow and chill out a little more. 

Anyway, Ida Rolf’s work put it into a formula of 10 sessions. When I went through that program—it was back in 2009 when I started that course—fascia was just becoming a thing. When I was in school and was already teaching people stuff with the roller, I was like people could give themselves their own 10 series of sessions with the foam roller. That’s where my first book was born, in that concept and that idea of taking the power back. Of course, we still want to go to practitioners and we still need people that are helping us through things like our doctors or our healers, or people that are holding space for our healing. 

I did really like the idea of making it more accessible to people who couldn’t afford going to a practitioner and doing those hands-on sessions, or couldn’t find a practitioner. I wanted to make this more accessible, so I did the book, then I created my own roller, my own tools, my entire kit of body rolling tools, fascia tools. Then I created this online course that mimics the book, and that just blew up. It just went all over the world globally. 

I like making it more accessible to people who couldn’t afford to go to a practitioner and do those hands-on sessions.

Then I realized that people could do this to themselves. We were getting these incredible before and after photos of people changing their physical body, but also their emotional self. People that were living in this old belief system, in this old paradigm, all of a sudden realized that they had this beautiful power within them. It was all about kind of helping people step into their power through the physical, which then gets you to tap in more to the inner being, to the spiritual, the emotional, and the personal power. It was really an amazing process.

Just looking at you it seems like you are very authentic. You really live what you’re teaching. Just by your beingness, the way you communicated it feels really sweet and genuine. Did you have to do a lot of work on yourself to get to that place or were you always like this?

Oh my gosh, of course. I’ve been a big believer in hiring either business coaches or life coaches. I work a lot with people that do astrology because I feel like we need a team around us to help us know we’re on our true path. We can connect to our true path, but I think we do need our support and to have that collaboration energy. 

Of course, having my husband who is my biggest fan, and my daughters who so believe in what I do, too, then friends that are truly pillars and who we’ve cultivated relationships with over the years in this kind of being a public figure stage of my life. 

It’s taken awhile. It takes a while to firstly feel comfortable on camera and to just be like okay, I just have to not worry about anyone else but just you and I having a real heart-to-heart chat. I do believe that the more we come from our heart and the more authentic we are, actually the more power comes because it’s unique. It has this grace and this flow. It’s the uniqueness that gives it that kind of magic. Thank you for saying that. I really appreciate it.

We can connect to our true path, but I think we need our support and have that collaboration energy.

I really appreciate that. It’s not common. A lot of times, there is the expert front of who they are, but then if you get to know them, the person is a little bit different. It’s like you integrated it in a beautiful way. 

Oh, thank you. That means a lot. I appreciate that. I agree with you because I think that’s the new paradigm we’re in or what we like to call the new world we’re stepping into, this feminine energy. I don’t even like to (by the way) use the word “influencer” because I don’t really believe in the idea of trying to influence other people. I call myself not an influencer but an educator. I’m hoping that I can help bring inspiration but not influence.

Those are really interesting conscious language awarenesses to have for this new world that we’re coming into. I think in order to really be able to truly inspire someone to do something, we—you and I, or whoever’s holding space for that idea—have to embody it. We have to actually be in it, living it, being the change, living the change, being the friend we want to attract, being the partner we want to be with, being the love we want to feel in the world. It’s that inner shift. When we can do that work from the inside out and create that inner shift, the magic and the synchronicity that shows up is just beyond words. You cannot even imagine it. It’s beyond imagination. 

Thank you for saying that. I hope to inspire others to really tune into their authenticity, take time to be quiet, and to actually listen to your soul, listen to whatever you want to call it, the universe, your soul, God, however you see it. There are so many more messages that want to come through for us to all grow, evolve, and create a new world.

I’m a part of Genius Network. It’s a high-end mastermind. 

That sounds cool. 

It is so cool. You have to join. 

That sounds amazing. Can I sign up?

Yeah. 

That sounds very cool. 

There are so many more messages that want to come through for us to all grow, evolve, and create a new world.

We just came back from Phoenix and we’ve spent some time in Sedona, just landed last night. It’s full of hard-driven entrepreneurs, really sweet, kind people. Some of them are a little bit more woowoo, and we were having lunch with some of the woowoo ones. 

I love the woowoo.

Me too. We had lunch at True Food Kitchen, which was great. 

I love that place. 

I love that place. They opened a deck of cards from Yanik Silver. The card that I got is, you are the one you were looking for, the hero card. We seem to look around for other people, look up to other people, and wait for somebody else to tell us who we should be. And as you said, it’s about doing work. You do the work, with mind and the body, which is so beautiful. You said that a lot of people have emotional transformation after they were healing and transforming their bodies? How does that work? 

To me, the physical, and especially when you work with fascia and connective tissue, and science calls fascia our sensory organ. What’s cool about that is that it’s a newer term and science hasn’t even given fascia credit until 2008, which was when the first fascial congress was established in Germany. 

That’s when medical people and people in the holistic world like massage therapists and other healers that were already in Chinese medicine and Ayurveda that have been working with fascia for centuries, came together in one place, connected, and realized this is where we can bridge that kind of science with spirituality. That was a big deal. 

That really helped put fascia on the map and also gave it more funding for scientific research and everything. Now we know and we have beautiful science about it that proves that it’s where we feel everything. Now we also know from psychology that we actually hold emotions in our fascia as well.  For me, that’s another thing. 

When I was doing the work hands-on with clients, touching their bodies and really going in deep, what it did is it gave me almost the ability to have X-ray vision, if you will. My dad always calls it educated intuition. When you learn a formula and the science behind it, but then you also have your own intuition and you blend those together, it’s quite powerful. 

For me, doing the work hands-on with some of the best, most famous athletes on the planet, and also people at the top of their career, gave me this opportunity to really understand how the body works and how the body works when it’s reaching its highest potential. 

By doing that hands-on work, I realized, too, that I’m a kinesthetic learner. I learned through my hands and the way I memorize things is not by reading it, but actually by saying it. I realized what my skills were and how to make most of those things through that work. 

A lot of the work I was doing was hands-on, but also talking people through and dialoguing them through an emotion or trauma that maybe was living in the body. Like I say, trauma lives in the tissues. Trauma is a big thing right now. We’re having a bit of a collective trauma that we’re all going through on the planet because of everything, all the change, and all the grief, so we’re all having trauma that we’re all going to have to go through.

Trauma lives in the tissues.

Also the uncertainty. 

Yes, and not being able to plan ahead, especially people like us that are like we want to get stuff done and we want to keep moving forward. It’s like oh, my gosh, we have to sit still. In a way, that really can be traumatizing, too, because you’re like I just want to keep going. But the world and universe are nope, you can just chill out a little longer. 

Anyway, the trauma thing is quite important. I think in the next few years, will be even more important to have tools that will help with this. The trauma, though, is one thing that I always like to explain to people when they’re telling me about the things that have happened to them. I’m like okay, trauma is actually not trauma. It’s really interesting to explain because it’s not what happened to us. It’s how our body responded to that situation. 

When we have that realization and that light bulb go off, it’s actually really empowering because if it’s how our body reacted to the situation, then we actually have the power to change how our body is processing it now still. We have these amazing ways to heal trauma through breath work, through freeing it up, through actually putting the roller on your body or some sort of rolling tool on your body, actually flushes the limp but it also can flush the energy that’s blocked in the tissue area, especially if you have awareness and you bring that kind of focus and that presence to that moment to connect to that area and release it. 

It’s raising the vibrational energy so that the energy can flow better through us.

You might even cry, you might laugh, you might cough. People do a lot of humming, singing, dancing, somatic dance, sound bowls, sound healing. I just got certified doing Tibetan sound bowl healing in level one. There’s a lot more to learn, but I’m starting somewhere. It’s raising the vibrational energy so that the energy can flow better through us.

When you say how do people release the emotional energy, bringing it back to your original question, using the roller was just this amazing way in. It was again this bridge to get people to feel their sensory organs, to actually feel. It’s inevitable that anyone that lays on a foam roller will feel it and they’ll be like oh, my gosh, this is amazing. I feel like something is happening. You’re giving them this really tangible thing that’s immediate. In the world we live in now, you’ve got to have something to catch them like that, or else they’re off to the next thing. 

The roller for me was so great. It’s kind of what put me out there in the world. I get called “the roller girl.” Gwyneth Paltrow was using the roller and that put me on the map globally. The beauty of that is it’s giving people this great tool to feel again, to get into their sensory system, into their senses, get out of their cerebral mind, and actually get into the sensuality, into the pleasure, into the feeling. 

I know that’s a lot about what you talk about and what you teach. To me, that’s where a lot of the healing, especially in this new era with the feminine energy rising, to really not be above the masculine but just to match so we have more of that balance. It’s actually a really exciting time. I know it’s a hard time. The feminine energy is coming through more than ever, which is part of the reason why we have slowed down and stopped moving so much because we need to be not so much doing but more being and that’s the feminine. That’s how emotions shift for people. 

You touched so many topics that I’m passionate about and I love what you’re saying here. I want to give you my own example, which I think is because I have a son. He is two years and five months old. He’s the cutest little thing.

Congratulations. That’s amazing. 

Thank you. 

We love babies. I have a four-year-old so we’re not far off. They will love each other. 

Yes. I was planning a beautiful home birth. I had a beautiful team, music, and a bathtub. He was breeched. I even hired the only doctor in LA that does breech baby deliveries. I was fully dilated for 12 hours. I’m having a good time, but then 12 hours later, the little one refused to go down. They couldn’t deliver him and they said okay, now we’re going to the hospital. 

So I’m going to the hospital. It’s a very different environment and the doctor—I’ll be forever grateful for her for delivering my son—was very harsh. She was even mad that I wasn’t showing up earlier or something like that. The whole process that of a C-section instead, and it was really traumatic for me. 

Since then, it’s been 2 ½ years and I still have (and it’s increasing) this incredible pain in my left hip. I took a Zumba class and I felt, oh my God, it’s not good. I had to not do it again, then did it again, and did again because I couldn’t stop. The hip is still out of sorts. What portion of it is physical and what do you think how much of it is emotional, spiritual?

The way we breathe is the way we live.

Thank you for your openness and your vulnerability. Actually, I’ve worked with a lot of women that have had very traumatizing births, including myself. It’s such an interesting thing. I hope that our culture evolves a little bit more. It’s such a hard one. I think it has to do with us also being very controlled and as you said, there’s a lot of masculine energy around that whole system, but as far as your specific situation, the rigidity.. 

They do magic. I would like then to be a little bit more hard-driven as well or more conscious too. I know you had so many births in the last 24 hours, but still there’s a human being here.

It is such a miracle. It’s a miracle, too, even though it happens all the time. My husband and I still look at each other and we look at our kids and we’re like, how do we create these miracles? It is just beyond otherworldly. It’s the thing that women do and have this gift to do that’s out of this world. It is such a miracle. It would be beautiful to have more of that nurturing energy around the system. 

Then also to help women after birth, to be able to talk about it like this, to be able to understand, or to have more aftercare for the mother to be like okay, let’s do some work with your pelvic floor. Let’s talk about the birth. Let’s not just sweep it under the carpet and pretend like it didn’t happen. 

It is a BFD. It’s a big deal. Like my sister as well, she was going to do a VBAC. She wanted to do a VBAC for her second child and she ended up having to do another C section too. It was all emergency and so much trauma. Of course, you have those women that are like it’s orgasmic to have a baby. Most people don’t. 

Orgasmic birth is what I wanted. 

Wow. Like can we please have more of that information?

Yeah. I’m just going to be in the water and it’s going to be so beautiful, and then all of a sudden… We all get what we need for our growth, and babies come to the world the way they want to come to the world. 

Very true. 

There was a bigger picture. And back to the dealing with the bigger picture. 

We can raise awareness, shed light on it, and have these kinds of conversations to keep the communication open. I think that’s a big piece of the reason why. When we talk about the pelvic floor, for instance, or sex or sexual energy, it’s either all or nothing. No, we don’t talk about it at all, we grip, we clutch our mouth, we squeeze our pelvic floor, or we talk about porn. There are just these two extremes. It’s like porn or not talking about it. It doesn’t exist. We don’t have a pelvic floor, we don’t have a vagina. 

You work with Gwyneth Paltrow and there is now in Netflix, was it Sex, Love & Goop or something like that? Is that the documentary?

Yes. 

And Jaiya is there. It’s amazing. We worked with Jaiya—my husband and I—for a whole year. We did a whole mastermind with her. It was really cool. Yes, we need to talk about that and we need to heal from trauma. Sorry, I just wanted to share with you. 

I love it. That’s exactly the way I like, the heart-to-heart conversation. That’s perfect. Basically, to me it’s about every woman that I’ve talked to that’s had trauma in the birth will have some sort of lower back pain, or pain during sex, or hip pain is a big one. Like Shakira’s quote, the hips don’t lie. 

The thing that happens in the hips is that it can be very stagnant because we have a lot of tissue there, a lot of muscles intersect, the hip joint intersects with the hip capsule. There are actually a lot of ways that energy can get stagnant and stuck in those areas. That’s where bodywork can be really powerful for you. To do a little bodywork or to get on the roller and do some pelvic floor work on that squishy ball and work on it because the pelvic floor is connected to the hips and the sacrum in the lower back. Of course the feet, I know it sounds crazy, but the feet are such a big piece of that alignment. 

You are so right because what’s happening is it’s radiating in pain to my knee and my foot. 

Reframe your relationship to pain and let it be a communicator from your body, the amazing miracle of your body.

Yes. It’s really about raising that awareness and that consciousness of that area, tuning in, being quiet, putting some music on that can get you in the zone, tuning in yourself to the area, and realizing that the pain is not something that we want to numb but it’s actually here to give us a message. It’s a messenger. I like to teach people to reframe their relationship to pain and let it be a communicator from your body, the amazing miracle of your body. 

To realize that, how amazing my body is it’s whispering to me. I’ve been called the body whisperer. I’m all about helping people understand and be their own body whisperers. Listen to the whispers before you have to hear the screams. That’s a really good way to look at it. Then looking at the whole system, as a matrix, and also the whole system outside of our body, too.

It’s our relationships. It’s the microbiome or the biome, the air that we breathe in. I mean, doing earthy, and even just laying on the grass can be really good for taking down inflammation. Of course, working the body and all the different ranges of motion and doing some of that somatic dance I’ve shared. I have that in my online life studio. I have it on my Instagram now, showing people how to move their body, which I know what you teach, too. It’s just helping really clear the cobwebs and clear the trauma.

The movement is medicine. It helps your body clear the stagnant energy. Then the Chi and also the nerves are happier. The limb can carry out the waste, because a lot of times when we have trauma in the tissues, it bundles up and turns into this dried up dehydrated scar tissue. Picture it is like a dried up sponge inside your body or a piece of plastic in your body. It’s not getting the blood flow, the circulation, and the juice that it needs.

The movement is medicine.

Essentially, by doing this work with the roller, with a rebounder, with breathwork, with stretching, with somatic movement, sound healing, and even like omin, this kind of somatic movement of energy, we actually are able to rinse our bodies from the inside out. It’s like giving our bodies an internal shower. You’re rinsing all that stuff out. 

Sometimes people will have huge cry sessions after a big movement session. That’s just energy coming out of your system to make room for new. We need to have this daily hygiene. It’s really powerful.

Yes. I had, in my past, a yoga session where I arch my back a lot more than I used to, or thought I was capable of. I started laughing for, I don’t know, half an hour. I couldn’t stop laughing.

Wow, that’s beautiful. That’s energy just moving through. What a great way to release it. It’s through the actual laughing. That’s so great. Laughing is actually medicine, too. I always say laughing is the best core workout for sure.

Right, and beyond movement and sound healing, and there is so much to sound healing. That’s a different episode.

I know. That’s a whole nother podcast.

Laughing is the best core workout for sure.

For sure. What do you take as a supplement to reduce inflammation?

I love that question. When I launched my first program, which was the 10 Series, where people could go and do it to themselves with a big 36-inch roller, the online course we did was also with a meal plan. I created this concept called Fascia Foods. It’s basically eating for your connective tissue and for decreasing inflammation, for boosting collagen, regenerating your tissues, joint health, and all of that stuff, too.

I have a whole entire meal plan for basically feeding your cell. It’s like cellular renewal. Think of eating not just for your skin, that whole concept of eating for skin, for beauty. That’s all great and that’s icing on the cake, but really thinking of eating from skin to soul. It’s eating from your outer all the way to your inner, and it’s really teaching people how to eat more locally, sustainably, and organically, of course.

It’s really getting rid of the pesticides which I know I’m preaching to the choir. I’m sure you already do this, but maybe your listeners don’t. Taking down the pesticides, the glysophate, and those kinds of things. Those toxins in our food really actually build up a residue inside of our bodies which creates more of that inflammation and can get stuck in the system. That’s why I love the roller and rebounding because it is flushing the toxins.

One of my pillars in my program—Move, Nourish, Cleanse—cleanse is a very important piece because we need to continue to help assist in the detoxification processes in our body in order to really be thriving, glowing, and also having clarity in our mind because those toxins can be stuck in our brain as well and kind of make us feel like clouded over.

Right, and affect our mood.

Having that inner compass can be dulled with a lot of these chemicals in our environment.

Also a lot of the water that we drink that’s so purified, has chlorine and fluoride. The problem with that is it can dull the pineal gland, which is really important for keeping your intuition and being able to understand that third eye to be able to see beyond just seeing with our eyes, but seeing beyond, knowing the truth, feeling the truth and that type of thing. Having that inner compass can be dulled with a lot of these chemicals in our environment, and even environmental toxins in our cleaning supplies and our skincare.

These are things I know people already know, but maybe they don’t realize that it can be affecting and actually gets stuck in our joints. Emotions can get stuck in our joint that can create pain. Toxins can get stuck in our joints as well and just not moving and not clearing every day, that rinsing. I always like to say fascia, you want to think of it like flossing. It’s like you want to floss your fascia. You want to do emotional hygiene as well, like just listening to the messages that your body’s trying to say or that your intuition or your gut instinct is trying to say as well.

So, yes. Oh, sorry. I’ll go back to your question. Your question was supplements. The thing that really helps with joint health is… I’m huge on collagen. A big one is bone broth. I know some people are vegans. Some vegans do have bone broth as a supplement, because what it does is it actually helps all of your connective tissue. By the way, we have connective tissue inside of our organs. It can really help with gut health. As we know, a lot of people’s gut are very off and that can create all these issues.

Really healing the gut through lots of fiber, good healthy fats, good proteins, of course, a lot of greens and getting basically Vitamin C is a good one, too, for your connective tissue. I take a magnesium powder every night before bed because that helps calm your nervous system and helps your body regenerate and replenish overnight. Right now, I’ve been doing this broccoli sprout powder that’s an amazing superfood. I love it. If I can’t get a green juice, then at least I’m getting that and I add a little lemon to that. That’s a superfood I love.

I’m not big on smoothies right now. Because I don’t really like to add smoothie protein powders. I like to get the protein from either avocados or coconuts, more whole foods type things. I am a big believer in eating a little bit of meat as long as I know where it comes from, and I know the farmers or that it’s organic and local. I do think that and I know not everyone is going to feel the same about that.

I’m a believer in balance and being an omnivore or a flexitarian. I could go for a month without eating any meat. Then every once in a while when I get my period, I might want to eat a little bit of red meat because I’m craving more of that good solid grass-fed beef. Great question, though.

Think of eating not just for your skin or beauty. That’s all great, and that’s icing on the cake, but thinking of eating from skin to soul.

I love being a flexitarian. But I also know that for my body I need red meat, and I get locally, if I can, grass-fed. My husband is vegan.

Oh, wow.

Yeah. 

That’s cool.

Sometimes I have to cook twice. I think it’s really important to respect what other people want to eat, because if you don’t eat or don’t know what somebody else’s body is needing. I don’t like it when people take vegan or paleo or whatever it is, they make it a religion. They make it dogma. Like it’s my way or the highway, that person may not going to even hang out with you. Sometimes it can get that extreme.

I so agree. I’m so glad you said that. To me, what can happen is you go the opposite. You get into that obsessive, that’s basically the control, the clutching, the burying down, and then trying to force. That’s the division that we’re seeing on the planet right now so much too, because when we push people one way or another way, we’re actually feeding that toxic energy. It’s like having that openness and the respect and allowing people to make that choice.

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My whole mission in life is to really empower people or to liberate people to understand their power within and to know that they have the ability to choose. They can choose how they react and respond to any situation. It’s not really what happens to us. It’s how we deal with it. Just that idea of life isn’t happening to us, it’s happening for us. To me, if people can just get that little piece, then we’re starting to evolve as humanity, which is a big part.

First, be a good person, then be loving, then live and let live, because you don’t know what’s good for one person is not necessarily great for the other. I think regardless of what others say, we need to be in tune with our bodies and see what works for us. And if we’re genuinely in tune with our bodies—this is good for me, this is bad for me—then we can be in perfect health.

That’s such a good point. I know it seems so simple, but it’s so true.

You spoke about bone broth. What’s the difference between drinking bone broth to just put in collagen powder in your smoothie? It’s the same difference?

There’s a lot of debate around this. It depends on the collagen powder, because there are a lot of them out there. Some of them are not actually being absorbed by yourselves and your tissues. You’ve really got to do due diligence and, and look and make sure that there is science behind the one that you’re taking.

There’s one on the market, it’s called Verisol, and they’ve done a lot of scientific research on it, and it’s in certain collagen blends. I’m actually designing my own. It’s actually a combination of magnesium with collagen, and should be coming out in the next few months and it’s a powder. Essentially, you take it before you go to bed. It’s to basically replenish yourself and your tissues while you’re sleeping.

I was going to call it Sleeping Beauty Powder, but then that sounds a little too superficial. I think we’re going to call it something about cellular renewal, like really renewing ourselves at night, and it gives it a little more. For me, it’s a little more perspective of how it’s not just skin deep. It’s not just your skin, which it is that but it’s also your organs, it’s your muscles, and your joints.

I did a ton of research. I’ve been working on this product for about two years now. We’ve gone with the highest quality magnesium that’s the most bioavailable and same with the collagen as well. With collagen, I would say for people that are listening, really have discernment on knowing the product that you’re buying and make sure it’s not just a good marketing ploy. 

There’s some great marine collagen out there. I know Elle Macpherson has that The Super Elixir™ line. She just came out with one, I think it’s either some sort of ocean one. It might be vegan, which is interesting too, because I think you can get it from algae collagen. For people that are listening, do some research on what products you’re really thinking about bringing into your body because it is important.

There are also things you can take better supplements that help your body produce its own natural collagen, like the vegan supplements. I think that’s what they are doing, helping the body produce more of its own collagen. Bone broth, first of all, you can get it now in powdered form, which is phenomenal and makes it so easy. To me, it’s more of a ritual. I actually enjoy it. I think when we have that awareness and that presence with what we’re ingesting.

Do you make your own?

You can. I make my own. I’ll take a turkey if we’re making a turkey or chicken. For my kids, they love chicken broth. You can use any bones. You can do a fish broth, and it’s amazing. You put a little bit of apple cider vinegar. I have recipes on my site if people are looking for that, but it’s the apple cider vinegar that really helps pull out the collagen out of the bones and all of the tissues. That’s what we’re doing. We’re basically pulling out the nutrients from the animal’s bones and tissues to put it into our own.

People have been using this for centuries. This is ancient wisdom. This is nothing new. They know it boosts the immune system, it heals the gut, and it helps people get better after being sick. It’s enjoyable, pleasurable, and it’s savory. If you’re craving something savory, you can add crushed garlic, lemon, thyme, and all kinds of really amazing herbs to help bring in all those superfoods in. I would just always choose or actually do both, to be honest. I do recommend both.

Yes, making me hungry.

Respect what other people want to eat because you don’t know what somebody else’s body needs.

I know. A cup of soup, soul-soothing broth. That’s actually another tip I do. Just real quick as we’re talking about it is if I’m ever feeling inflamed, then as we know, at night when we sleep is really what our body does the rejuvenation, the regeneration and the getting rid of the inflammation.

I wake up in the middle of the night sometimes if I work too hard or if I train hard. I’ll wake up in the middle of the night with an inflammation.

Isn’t that amazing? Yeah, from the inflammation, from the breakdown of the tissue, because you’re breaking down the muscle tissue. One thing I recommend is for people to have a really good healthy breakfast that’s full of the fiber, the fat, the proteins, and the greens, then a big lunch as well. And then to actually have bone broth for dinner, because then you go to bed with a more of an empty stomach, so that you might even be a little hungry.

I always say reframe your relationship to hunger before bed, because really, you want to be eating for the next activity that you’re going to do. If you’re going into the end time of your day, and you’re going into sleep land or dreamland, then going with less than your belly allows your body to actually use the energy that we use to digest food to actually replenish, restore, heal, and decrease the inflammation.

That’s why I think taking that beautiful broth before bed is just going to penetrate into your cells, your gut, and everything. So in the morning, you wake up with a flatter stomach, and also less puffy eyes, and probably just feel lighter. Probably you step on the scale, you might even be a few pounds lighter. You could do that a few times a week, as well as a reverse intermittent fasting modality. 

That’s something that I talk a lot about in my programs. It’s like really going lighter at night and going bigger meals in the morning because you’re going to be burning that energy and you’re going to be using your brain a lot. As women and mothers, we’re always multitasking. We’re getting a million things done and we want to work out. I never really feel like I want to be hungry until noon. To me, that’s completely reversed of how I work. I’m sure you’re the same.

I’m the same.

We love to break the fast. We love breakfast.

Yes. Do you have any other must-take supplements that are not common, like more than the Vitamin C, vitamin D, all that. Something that you think anyone should take, or it can be beneficial.

I actually prefer to get, if I can, the nutrients from whole foods because when you think about it, they were made in nature in this combination for a reason. Like I said, I’d rather get it from doing juices for instance. It’s a great way to get everything compacted into, even though you do lose some of the fiber, you can get a lot of micronutrients from juicing.

Especially I don’t juice with fruit at all. It’s either having a fruit smoothie that I make for my kids, or it’s like all green vegetables. This would be my supplement. It would be like an organic cucumber, half a bag of organic spinach, I’d cut up a lemon and actually put the whole lemon in except for the seeds. Then I’ll do parsley, or if I’m into a coriander if I have that, and then I’ll put that in the blender and that’s my supplement.

I’d rather get it from the whole food besides magnesium because magnesium is obviously really low in the soil. Unless you’re doing a lot of work with your soil and know where your food is coming from, you’re probably lower in magnesium and like you said vitamin D. The other thing though, right now of course, which everyone’s doing too is the zinc and colloidal silver. Have you done colloidal silver?

I know colloidal silver is controversial. Some people say don’t touch it. Some people say this is a miracle. How do you use it? Do you use it on kids?

Yeah, you can use it with kids. The thing about colloidal silver, it’s not something that you want to take all the time. It’s not one of those oh, I’m going to take that everyday like my vitamin D and my zinc and my C, but it’s really great that they have one that you can put up the nose, which is good, because as we know, the new variant is all in the nose. 

It’s a mineral. We already have that in our body, so it’s naturally in our body as well. You’re just helping your body with more minerals, essentially. We actually got a spa pool and instead of chlorine, because I didn’t want toxins from the chlorine, they use silver as the purifier. In a way, it’s just helping your body stay clear and purified. 

Take time to be.

Many people that I know in the holistic world and nutritional world are huge believers in silver right now with the immune system. Again, you cycle it in, you don’t have to take it all the time, but it can be quite helpful. If you ever have a little sore throat, I like the one that you can either spray on your tongue, or do it up in your nose as well. 

Another supplement, I guess I would say that’s kind of something I do often is chlorophyll. There’s a great product called ChlorOxygen, and you get it on Amazon. That’s just getting more plants, good green energy. It’s a really good blood purifier. It helps yourselves repair.

Also the other one, it’s not really a supplement, but it’s more of a way to help cleanse is taking charcoal. Charcoal is not something that I take every day or anything but maybe once a week, or if I’m going to do a big infrared sauna session, then I’ll take it before I go in the sauna. What it does is, your body doesn’t absorb the actual charcoal. It’s like a sponge. 

Again, you probably already know this, but it’s a sponge that picks up all of the toxins. When you go on the sauna, your body is sweating. It’s actually like pulling all of the toxins out of the fat cells, but then it’s putting it into the blood. When you take the charcoal, it’s coming through the blood, and it’s pulling all of those toxins, and then you basically pull it out. So anything you’re not sweating out, that gets stuck in the bloodstream, you’re going to release it in other ways. 

I love charcoal, especially if you’ve had too much to drink one night, take a charcoal before bed and you won’t have a hangover in the morning. That’s a great tip.

Thank you. We’re running out of time. I had so many questions that I wanted to ask you.

Sorry, I’m just chatting so much.

No. Everything was so unbelievably awesome. What are your three top tips to living a stellar life? And where can people find you, get your books, your rollers, join your community and all that?

Listen to your gut; listen to your intuition.

Thank you. Okay, my three top tips would be, take time to be. That’s number one, to be present, to be you, to be with all the people that you love. 

Number two tip would be listen to your gut, listen to your intuition. Take the time to connect with it to really hear and to be unique and authentic. 

Number three would be, make time for yourself every day for self care because when you fill yourself up or your own cup up, then you can actually be of service and help others. Until we do that work inside with our own selves, not just taking a bath, but actually really listening what am I feeling that’s not right now in my life? Doing that self-care movement of nourishing yourself, eating well from every level and having balance as well and taking time to make yourself a priority, then that’s how we actually can step in, do the work, be part of the change, and be the change really. That to me is the beginning of being the change and the shift.

So those are my three tips. 

How people can find me? You can check me out on Instagram. I share a lot of cool tips there. My nickname is Lo. Some people call me Lo Rox, but it’s @loroxburgh on Instagram. Also my platform is the alignedlifestudio.com. You can find tons of amazing movement medicine sequences. We just launched yoga. We’re going to be actually launching sound healing and monthly astrology forecasts, and a meal planning app for all the fascia foods. Then the last thing we’re adding right now is ballet bar work with this amazing professional dancer.

Then of course my tools are available with my partner at OPTP. You can get them on Amazon. You can find them on Goop. You can find them at Target. You can also just come to my website or the alignedlifestudio.com and find all the goodies there. Thank you so much. It’s an honor to chat with you. I could definitely chat with you for ages.

Honestly, with all my heart I really loved our conversation. Thank you so much.

Me too. Yes, thank you so much.

And thank you, listeners. Remember to take time to be you, listen to your gut, take time for self-care everyday, and have a stellar life. This is Orion. Until next time.

Your Checklist of Actions to Take

{✓}Be a seeker, and don’t stop learning. Self-growth is key to living a fulfilling life.

{✓}Breathe properly and efficiently. Effective breathing can provide you with a greater sense of mental clarity. It can also help you sleep better, digest food more efficiently, improve your body’s immune response, and reduce stress levels.

{✓}Hire life or business coaches. You need to have a team around you to help you know your true path. Also, their support and collaboration energy will be a great help in your journey.

{✓}Be your authentic self. Your behavior, traits, and personality should align with your values and beliefs. It means your actions and choices in life are consistent with how you view yourself at the core.

{✓}Embody what you want others to do in their lives. You have to be the change and live the change that you want to see in the world.

{✓}Have time to be quiet and listen to your soul. There are so many more messages that want to come through for you to all grow, evolve, and create a new world.

{✓}Reframe your relationship to pain. Let it be a communicator from the amazing miracle of your body.

{✓}Think of eating from skin to soul. Holistic nutrition can help you live a healthier lifestyle and make you feel better physically and mentally.

{✓}Respect and allow others to choose what they eat. You don’t have the right to judge another eater on what they feel the best for the body.

{✓}Make time for self-care. Taking time to relax and de-stress can improve your mood, brain function, and memory. Relaxation will allow your mind and body to repair itself.

{✓}Visit Lauren Roxburgh’s website and Aligned Life Studio’s website to learn more about Lauren and her programs and tools. Also, follow her on Instagram, Facebook, and Youtube.

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About Lauren Roxburgh

Lauren Roxburgh “The Body Whisperer.” is an internationally renowned author, wellness educator, leader and inspirational speaker – and a regular contributor to Goop, Women’s Health Mag and MindBodyGreen. Lauren is regularly featured on some of the top global podcasts. She is the go-to writer and expert on all things holistic body care, fascia, alignment, emotional health and movement medicine. Lauren regularly works with Hollywood’s A-List along with some of the greatest athletes and surgeons on the planet. Named the “Body Alignment Pro” by Vogue, Lauren has also been listed as one of the 8 Tech Pioneers to watch by Entrepreneur magazine. Lauren is also the founder and CCO of the popular virtual wellness platform – The Aligned Life Studio, the founder of the community hub ‘Aligned Tribe Collective” and the creator of The Body Collection.