INTERVIEW WITH LAURA SCHMALZL PhD, RYT-500 on NEUROPSYCHOLOGY AND YOGA THERAPY

On today's podcast, Amy talks with Laura Schmalzl, Laura is a Clinical Neuropsychologist and Cognitive Neuroscientist, as well as a longtime yoga practitioner and certified yoga instructor. Laura will be a C-IAYT very soon!

Laura obtained a BA in Psychology from the University of Padua. She then completed a Masters in Clinical Neuropsychology, a PhD in Cognitive Science, and Post-doctoral training in Cognitive Neuroscience at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. This was followed by further Post-doctoral training and research at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, and University of California San Diego, as well as an Associate Professorship at Southern California University of Health Sciences. Laura teaches neuroscience to chiropractic, acupuncture, and Oriental medicine students, she chose to introduce yoga practice as part of the weekly laboratory requirement assignment for her neuroscience students.

Amy and Laura discuss Laura’s background and her journey to where she is today, How Laura discovered Yoga Therapy, Yoga Therapy and its relationship with Neuropsychology, the work she’s done, what she’s been able to accomplish and so much more.

They talk about the following:

• Laura’s background and journey I academia…. and now on to a well-lived and well-rounded life that is quite different from the academic and research life she was living

• Laura’s experience as a Clinical Neuropsychologist and Cognitive Neuroscientist, and the difference between both fields.

• What led Laura to Yoga Therapy and becoming a yoga therapist and how her previous career has informed her work as a yoga therapist

• Laura’s thought on what a yoga therapy can do for clients

• Laura talks about her husband & Dave, and the work they do together in their new business, which is exploding beyond our wildest expectations

• What Laura wants to be known for at the end of her life, and what matters to her

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