Laura Dern, 57, Loves This Low-Impact Workout That Only Takes 11 Minutes

It’s been a minute since fans have seen Academy Award winner Laura Dern in a movie. But now, she’s showing up big time in the new Netflix romance Lonely Planet, which co-stars Liam Hemsworth.

The 57-year-old looks super glowy as novelist Katherine, who falls in love with Liam’s Owen on a writer’s retreat in Morocco. But it’s hard to miss how fit she looks, too—especially as the film gets a little steamy.

So, what’s Laura Dern’s workout and wellness routine? Here’s what she’s shared.

What is Laura Dern’s workout routine?

On the fitness front, Laura does “literally whatever I can get, whenever I can get it.”

“Before kids, it used to be an hour and a half of yoga in the morning,” she told The New York Times in 2017. “Now I try to fit in some exercise on a dog walk. As a working parent, you’re just constantly trying to fit it all in.” (Laura shares kids Ellery Walker and Jaya with ex-husband Ben Harper.)

Laura loves yoga, but it’s difficult to fit it in as a busy mom. “My yoga practice has become, like, 11 minutes in the morning, because I don’t have the time,” she told Vanity Fair in 2019. “You have 11 minutes. You could hold a plank and do a couple sun salutations and meditate for even a few minutes and have a very centered day—as opposed to the day where you wake up to your phone and you’re checking a hundred texts, and then you go into the newsfeed and see all these hopeful promises that stress you out.”

But yoga isn’t the only workout that Laura does. She’s also been spotted out hiking with her pal and former Big Little Lies costar Reese Witherspoon:

For diet, she ‘listens’ to her body.

Laura seems to have a healthy approach to what she eats. “Diet is weird. It’s elusive. I just try to listen to my body,” she told the Times. “Lately, I’ve been doing matcha green tea with my whisk, and I really love it.”

Laura added that her kids are “actually very healthy,” noting that her son is “an impassioned surfer” who enjoys nutritious foods and juices. “We don’t have a lot of gluten and dairy in the house,” she added.

She’s so known for her wellness habits, in fact, that John Cusack (with whom she worked for the 1989 film Fat Man and Little Boy) once joked that Laura’s idea of a good time is “a little more granola on her yogurt.”

“I remember I was growing sprouts in my hotel room and eating so clean,” she told Vanity Fair. “I had some kind of charcoal filter for my water, and I would meditate every day. I was excited about setting a pattern of health in my life, and it brought me here.”

But Laura also said that now she doesn’t have as much time for all of that. “The hope is that you’re obsessive at a time you can be, so that you can start to weave in practical habits,” she says. “[Otherwise] the same habits are being sleepless and overworked and in your workaholic nature, and then… you go to the club to release tension.”

She turns to art and mindfulness to relax.

To unwind from her busy work day, Laura is big on art. “I look at the ferocity of Nan Golden’s work, listen to Patti Smith, read—and reread—books like Little Women,” she told Shape in 2020. “It’s inspiring and incredibly healing to learn from women who are their true selves. And that’s not easy. I care a lot about what other people think.”

Laura is also “a meditator.” She aims to do transcendental meditation for 20 minutes a day.

“If I don’t end up with 20 minutes, and just end up with a little bit of time, it’s better for me to get some of it in, being a vigilante about my practice,” she told W in 2020.

She’s also big on making gratitude lists, writing down five things she’s grateful for and five things she did well each day. “It helps me be kinder to myself,” she told Shape. “There’s no greater beauty trick in the world than that.”