Live Lila

Welcome to Lila Live! 

Thank you for choosing to practice. The time you are taking to invest in your own health and well being is rippling out in heaps to those around you; in your intimate relationships, communities, and beyond.  We need each other right now to be saying YES to showing up to move, to breathe, to feel, to listen, as a way to process, digest, and transmute our way to more ease and balance.  

Thank you for saying YES to practice. 

Live Lila, is owned and operated by Genell Huston, and continually fueled by all of you.  Live Lila is a hub for waking up to this one amazing life that we are gifted. It is a platform to hold community in practice on and off the mat.  You will find classes, workshops, courses, retreats, and trainings that all include one thing in common: remembering our innate wholeness on Earth.  The path there varies,  offerings range from body mindful movements,  breath practices, ceremony, ritual, retreats in wild off the grid spaces, and through the understanding of our own natural rhythms in connection to the great Mother Nature. 

Work with me 1:1, join me live, join me virtually, join me in community, and join me on retreat.  

Join me as we together move, be and reflect in our dance on this beautiful Earth. 

Genell Huston is founder and owner of Live Lila, as well as a teacher, leader, facilitator, mother, partner, seeker, and keen adventurer. Scribbled on a piece of paper at the age of eight, her self declared life purpose was “to make people smile.”  Having lived through various peaks and valleys of life in the decades that followed that script, she has steeped herself in practices, ceremonies, rituals, and routines that support her in finding her own steady inner smile.   Her presence and teachings weave in fascination with energies, spirit, and embodiment practiced and lived.  It remains true today that she leads a life in which she seeks to understand and share the energies of innate joy and love, inspiring herself and others to play in the grand dance of Live Lila (divine play).        

Time steeped in the arms of Mother Nature has influenced her life from a young age.  She was 12 years old when she first explored the Boundary Waters Wilderness Area on a 7 day canoe trip.  She went on to lead trips on the seas of Alaska, rivers and mountains in Oregon and Minnesota, start a wilderness camp for Girls in the waters of the North Maine Woods, bring yogis to offshore islands in Maine, stoke surfers and yogis in remote off grid locations in Costa Rica, and gather a group of women to re-wild in unscathed landscapes in Iceland.  The teachings of natural rhythms of life infuse her speech and knowing.    

The practice of yoga has been inspiring her life since 1999 through movement, intention, reflection, study, practice, and depth of connection.  Soon after, she dove deep into the studies of the sister science of Yoga; Ayurveda.  Yoga, Ayurveda, and various other subtle body teachings (Qi Gong, cranial sacral massage, mayo-facial release, Reiki) have helped her cultivate a daily rhythm that optimizes her connection to stay grounded and centered.  Be it scraping her tongue, snuggling with her boys, running along the coast, laughing with friends, surfing the warm waves in Costa Rica, preparing nourishing meals, or getting a good nights rests, Genell sees that all the choices we make in each and every moment create our own reality.  She is a certified RYT 500 and Live Lila is a RYS 500 school.  She offers 1:1 yoga sessions as well as private group offerings.       

She also is a certified Yoga Health Coach, mentoring clients 1:1 as well in group settings to support people stepping into their own vibrancy and wellbeing. She offers Seasonal Cleanses that attract a national audience of beings seeking to see, be, and live more freely from their attachments to food, time, habits, and space. She also offers 10 week habit courses that thread in lessons of yoga, Ayurveda, science, ritual, and practices to live a more awake and connected life.

She has spent the last decade diving deep into self study through traditional sacred ceremonies as a way to better understand psyche and heart.  This personal journey has begun to support others in integrating extraordinary states of consciousness.         

She teaches weekly classes online as well as locally in Portland, Maine, offers 200hr RYT certified Teacher Trainings, coordinates and teaches international retreats, leads habit evolution courses, and bi-annual seasonal cleanses.  She believes that we all deserve to live into our greatest version of ourselves, and continues to stay curious and in practice to find ways for her to step into her own greatness and sense of belonging.