The Sage Practice:
Mindbody Empowerment Coaching
Reclaim Your Life from Persistent Pain

The Sage Practice shows you how to thrive again.

Clients say, “I got my life back, only better.”

You can too. Lara can help.

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The SAGE Practice:
4 Tenets of Empowerment

  • Self Trust: Cultivating inner safety

  • Agency: Taking charge with new choices

  • Growth: Embracing transformation

  • Engagement: Reconnecting with life’s joys

Newly Available:

  • New somatic tracking & other recordings available for purchase on specialized topics (e.g., self trust, inner safety, agency, etc.)

  • Live Q & A, “Calm for When ‘Safety’ Feels Too Hard” on the Curable app (now available on replay for subscribers or via free trial)

Coming Soon!

  • My personal story on the Like Mind Like Body podcast airs on Oct. 30

  • Live Talk, Redefining Healing, on Curable (Nov. 13)

  • The Sage Practice: 4 Foundations for MindBody Empowerment (an online self-paced course) to teach you the skills to take your power back (express interest)

  • Collections of somatic tracking, meditation, and educational recordings for particular issues (structural symptoms; setbacks; self compassion, etc.) (express interest)

Lara Birk, PhD, Founder, The Sage Practice, LLC

Empowerment is Healing.

After 17 surgeries left me with lasting structural challenges and decades of pain, I discovered the science of brain-based pain through Curable. Inspired by its transformative power, I left a career I loved to help others on similar journeys.

At The Sage Practice, I teach clients how to create self trust, agency, growth, and engagement, empowering them to take their power back and make the most of their one wild and precious life.

The fact that you’re here on this website right now tells me you have the courage & curiosity it takes to learn what I’ve learned (the hard way):

Even pain can be an invitation to come more fully alive.

“It feels like Lara is a mirror to my highest self that even I hadn’t seen. She is truly gifted." — Rebecca Bauder

“I first came to Lara because she’s a leading voice in mindbody circles, but I chose Lara because she’s been through hell and knows what she’s talking about.” — Morris D.

“Lara is among the very best teachers I have ever seen.” — David Karp, PhD

“I am not afraid of storms for I am learning to sail my ship.” — Louisa May Alcott