Summer series: Lorna Jane's refreshingly simple morning rituals

Oh, welcome to Healthyish and happy new Year. Thank you for joining us on the podcast from Body and Soul. I'm your host, Felicity Harley, to celebrate well summer and new Year. To inspire those goals, those resolutions, whatever you set. We're dropping our top Healthyish episodes from last year now. In this one, Athletia Queen Laurna Jane joined me in the studio to share how she starts the day, plus

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NA. Welcome to Healthy Ish. Thanks for having me. Oh, it's a pleasure having you in the studio.

Good to be here. I can't wait to see what questions you ask.

Well the first one.

Now it is still morning recording this, So what were your healthy habits this morning?

This morning?

Well, I was staying in a hotel, but I did get up and have a walk and it was freezing. Can I just tell you it was freezing? It is very cold in Sydney right now. I think they're saying it's the coldest day on record this year, so.

Well well done.

A Brisbane person getting up breeze by night walking in the.

So I went for walk.

I saved some lemons, so I had some lemon water, not the usual thing I would do at home, but I had that before I left, and I made sure that I grabbed a few things from the buffet. Oh, I like it, but that's it now I'm straight here.

Do you have a.

Set morning routine or is this something that you just mold depending on where you are what season.

It is absolutely and it's always been my dream to have like a morning that extends to eleven and then start work at eleven. I know, and I used to when I used to spend a lot of time in the US. That's how I used to live there, and it used to be fantastic, you know, do a nine o'clock class instead of a six o'clock class my dream, and it was so.

Lovely, you know.

But I haven't really achieved that yet, But yeah, I do. I definitely have a morning routine because and generally a whole fitness routine because I think those rituals and that consistent behavior really sets you up for success.

So yeah, I do. Do you want to know it?

Yes? What are some of those rituals?

Okay?

So in the morning, I do sort of a sort of a meditation. I think it's just a fancy word for breathing meditation for me. Anyway, maybe I'm just not seeing it.

For what it truly can be.

But I just lie in bed and really like, I feel like I get my best thoughts and ideas in the morning. Like when I wake up, it's like my filing system has actually worked and I get these pops of ideas. So I usually write things down and then just sit and think about what I'm going to do that day.

So while you're lying in bed at four thirty usually, well that's early, I know, but that's when I naturally wake up.

What time are you going to bed?

Nine o'clock?

Nine thirty? Okay, Yeah, you're one of those people. Yeah, five am.

Club Not always like I get up it o'clock when I'm training with my trainer, but some of the days when I'm just going for walk or something, I do five thirty.

But I genuinely wake up.

So that's why I have that time to stay in bed and do some thinking and writing some things down.

Not always, but has it been like this since you say, started Laurna Jane, or has this evolved, like your approach to health and wellness over the years.

I've always been a morning person, and you have to remember I started as a fitness instructor, so six o'clock classes have always been my thing. So I've always enjoyed exercising in the morning because nothing can get in the way, you know, Like, I'm a fairly motivated person when it

What do you do for fitness nowadays?

Fitness Okay, strength training really important.

And I actually love it. I do wish I had started earlier. I really do.

Like I tell the girls at work all the time who are in their twenties and thirties, start weight training. So weight training with a trainer twice a week, and then I train by myself another two times a week. In between that it's yoga. I walk twice a day's that's a bit of a meditation thing too. I do with my husband, who is the CEO of LRNA Jane. So in the morning we walk out dog Harry about twenty minutes, not a fast walk at all, but we talk about our day, which is really nice.

I tak business absolutely, it's like a business meeting every morning it is.

It's a walk meeting, and sometimes we have pretty heated discussions. I'm sure some of the neighbors those clerks and are going to get.

To do sometimes.

But we talk about what.

We're doing, and I might have some questions I want to ask him, and I'll say, are you free for this someone's coming in, I'd really like you to have a chat to him, blah blah blah. So we talk through that and then at night it's more a how was your day?

Check in?

And so then we can really transition not completely we're human, but transition into that more relaxed be at home.

We're a couple rather than business partners. Yeah yeah, so interesting.

Yeah, an active week though, What perhaps is the biggest lesson in health and wellness that you've learned over the years. What's some wisdom you can impart?

Oh?

So many, so.

Many, I think give us a few.

I think the strength training was a big thing, especially as you age and for women, like, you're not going to get big. Look, I'm not a big person and I do it four times a week, and I really do heavy weights.

You know.

My trainer is a great big, you know, bodybuilding champion. So you're not going to get big, You're just going to get stronger. And for me, I meant feel more powerful because I'm strong.

It's so empowering lift. I mean, I'm with you.

I love lifting heavyweights and I have actually haven't done it for two weeks and I feel I'm in my head, I'm thinking I have to go on strength train, like I really need to feel that power.

Makes you feel it does?

Yeah, it really makes you feel powerful, so absolutely, And I then really love yoga as well. I sort of did. I think it's probably about five or six years ago. I went to Bali and did my instructor training just so I could really understand what I wanted to achieve out of yoga. So that's my be kind to myself.

And did that help doing the yoga training. Do you feel like you, well, you get more out of yoga.

Yeah, that's me I do. But I like to know the ins and outs of things, you know, Like I had so many questions and I just thought, I just really want to immerse myself in it. And I think the girls at work thought that I'd possibly teach a

You know, if I'm really stressed.

I just can't do yoga like I can when I'm not stressed, because my body's resisting. And I guess that's what I need it the most.

Well, it's your mind, isn't that telling you? Yeah, I can't.

I can't do this now. Move nourish believe. I mean, it's it's long been your company's ethos. It's a it's a beautiful mantra. Do you still live by this?

Absolutely?

And most people don't know this, but it was actually my way of living before we even started Lorna Jane. It's always been my way of I guess, justifying and not understanding why people. I get so fustedt why people don't find time for the health and wellbeing. I just it does frustrate me. I know all the reasons, of course, I know all the reasons, but I can't understand why.

They don't put it on the top of their to do list. You know.

So for me, it was always like, wake up every day, move nourish belief, Move your body in some way.

Doesn't you can just be walking the dog.

You know. I'm not sure I won't do that much today because I've got to fly back to Brisbane and all those sorts of things. But I've had my walk this morning, you know, move your body some way, eat.

Good food, just make some great choices.

You know, it's so easy, like I looked at the choices my husband made on this trip compared to me, his were not as good.

As much that live the Londa Jay mantras.

He does usually, but it was his birthday today.

That's okay, we'll let him up.

And then I think the most important one is believe. I think positivity. So if you just walk into every single day saying I'm going to move my body, I'm going to eat good food, and I'm going to try to be positive about everything, just thinks a great way. And if you do that every day, I feel like and I've witnessed women who haven't been in a good place with their health and well being actually wake up a few months down and the track and go, hey,

It's yeah, it's a.

Way of life, and you just have to be consistent. I think it's an easy way to think about it and achievable for most people.

Yeah, achievable is Keith Lona. Thank you for coming on Healthy Ish My Pleasure.

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