About
Lara
I’m Lara Kolesar, and I am devoted to the living conversation between body, soul, and source.
Through The Body As Muse Method, I guide you into the sensory language of your own aliveness—where breath, movement, and energy meet in a tender, wild dance.
I believe your body is not just a vessel, but a muse—an ever-speaking source of intelligence, intimacy, and creative expression. Underneath the noise of thought, there is a river of sensation—textures, shapes, temperatures, rhythms—inviting you to listen. To slow. To feel.
My own path has been one of remembering: that the more I attune to my body’s subtle pulses, the more life reveals her vast intelligence to me. This is why I guide others to anchor into presence, track the truth of what is here, and trust that nothing inside us is an obstacle—it’s all part of the choreography of becoming.
In my workshops, retreats, and one-on-one sessions, we enter spaces where the thinking mind can rest, where sensation takes the lead, and where the body’s quiet whispers open doors to self-trust, creativity, and connection.
Your body is a portal. Your senses are the keys. And when you let your body be your muse, you discover you’ve been in conversation with the universe all along.
About Lara’s work
Live life turned on…
Body As Muse is both a unique somatic modality and an approach to life. It combines touch, movement, sound & breath to bring awareness to the magnificent sense organ that your body is. A sense organ that you learn to trust and fine tune so as to consciously receive the whole spectrum of life and your unique soul’s essence. Much more than about physical touch, Body As Muse is the art of opening your awareness to being touched by life: Touched by loved one’s, touched by friends, touched by nature, touched by the divine. It is a paradigm shift and an approach to life that allows you to live a life turned on!
Being connected to your turn on is being connected to what fuels you. It is the energy that animates you, the life force that brings you into health and wellbeing as well as your expression and creativity. Through the guidance of a Body As Muse session or training you practice bringing your attention and awareness to the feeling sense of your unique turn on. From there you develop the capacity to conduct self-healing physiologically and emotionally as well as opening to creativity and purpose.
Feel more…
Turned On In the body translates as physical sensations such as tingling, pulsations, warmth, and expansion. These are the vocabulary words that make up the language of your inner knowing and life force. Any sensation, subtle or strong, the ones you welcome or those you don’t, all hold information about your longings, vulnerabilities and blocks.
Embracing boundaries & limits…
Opening up to life force aliveness in the body can be challenging due to our nervous system’s protective habits to avoid physical and emotional discomfort. We turn to mental distractions and cultural conditioning prioritizes the mind over the body, leading to further disconnection from trusting bodily sensations. We become impatient, self-judgmental, and/or overwhelmed by the input of the body’s rich yet misunderstood language.
However with guidance we can regain trust in what our bodies are communicating to us. We learn to cultivate the Open Curious Observer in us that can receive limits and boundaries as shapers of our unique being.
One to one or in a group…
Body As Muse can be experienced one to one or in a group. In a one to one session you are guided by Lara into deep relaxation and ease. From there your nervous system is available to open to the flow of embodied sensory knowing which Lara helps you to translate and trust. You learn to consciously connect with your body using Body As Muse’s four core ingredients: Presence, Responsiveness, harvesting, and conducting. A group experience involves an amplified field through connection and resonance.
Magnify your sensual intelligence…
Different from most bodywork modalities, you are invited to respond in the moment with your breath, movement, sound and your own touch. This magnifies the sensual intelligence in your body and transforms the bound energy in your body into free flowing pleasurable aliveness! Once you link your conscious to the unconscious parts of you then you have choice of how to engage and direct your life force energy.
Self intimacy, healing, & empowerment…
You get to the core of physical, mental and emotional tension that the body holds and free up stuck life force energy. As you learn to understand the language your body speaks, you can connect to its intelligence and reawaken the natural healing abilities of your body. Through Body As Muse you directly get to experience the magnificence of your being and you will leave with a deeper sense of empowerment, relaxation and the joy of being alive.
If you’ve read this far, thank you. I hope this is just the beginning of our connection.
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Featured Interviews
Want a deeper feel for Lara’s work and story? In this interview on the Treatment Room Secrets podcast, she shares how touch, breath, and movement became her language for helping others unlock the body’s innate wisdom. Listen in as she talks about the origins of her method, the power of somatic intelligence, and what’s possible when the body is truly heard.
Curious how embodiment can deepen your impact as a coach or healer? In this conversation with Geoff Newton, Lara shares how simple somatic practices can help you stay grounded, prevent burnout, and guide clients into real, lasting transformation—all while leading from your core essence.