Yogis Uncovered | Meet Lana
In this edition of Yogis Uncovered, we go behind the scenes with Lana. Join us as we learn about her multifaceted career, unravel the depths of her transformative yogic journey, learn about her spirit animals and her sage advice to her younger self.
“…yoga has always been a part of my life, but how it’s been a part of me has changed, has evolved. From only external, from attaching to what it looks like, to detaching from that, and finding more of an internal source.”
Hello everyone, I am Lana Violet and I am in the ether, I’m everywhere.
What do you do for work?
Well, many things. To put it in a nutshell, I work in the adult entertainment business as well as the fitness, health and wellness business.
How long have you been practicing yoga?
I really got into yoga since 2013, so about ten years. I feel like I’ve always, I wouldn’t say needed, but yoga has always been a part of my life, but how it’s been a part of me has changed, has evolved. From only external, from attaching to what it looks like, to detaching from that, and finding more of an internal source.
How has your experience been with True Naked Yoga?
The way that they present it, the way that they portray it is just so beautiful and so well done that I want to be a part of it. So I’m grateful to be a part of this company.
How has yoga affected your life?
For me personally, through my journey, through my life, through my experiences, the yoga practice, through asanas, through meditation, and especially breath work. Just understanding and learning to find the best quality and mechanics of my breath. That physicality and getting those biological benefits from that physicality has really deepened my internal dialogue, my internal perception.
If your life was a book, what would this chapter be called?
I couldn’t give you a definitive name of the chapter. I will describe it as my healing era, inner child era, and that the book is called “The Power of Calm”.
If you were an animal, which one would you be?
So I have different ones for different themes. An octopi or a dolphin in the water, or a whale, cuz they’re so big… and they sleep all the time. A snake for the desert, it’s cunning and smart and wise despite all the mythologies about it. And an eagle so I can fly and soar high, or a spider.
Recently it’s been a spider.
What advice would you give your younger self?
Be open to philosophy. I was very against it. If I were to give advice to my younger self, I would say be more open to philosophy, be more open to softness. You don’t have to be hard and surviving all the time. Explore empathy, explore compassion, see what happens.
What’s something in the past that shaped who you are today?
Every choice that I made that in hindsight I think was wrong, was actually the best thing I could have chosen at the time. Because it made me who I am today. I mean, if you were to look back in your past and sometimes you think like, I shouldn’t have done that, I shouldn’t have done this. I switched my mindset to like, no, if I never made that choice, I would never have came here. So I guess another way to put it, it’s like all the mistakes that I’ve done, or the mistakes that I perceive as, were generally just steps into this growth and evolution into this present moment.
So I’m grateful for all the good, the bad, the negative, the frustrated, the tragic, the joy, all of it, all of it.
*this interview has been edited for brevity and clarity