To Live & Mother from Center
What does your body, mind, heart and soul need? 

​​To hold a space of healing, presence 
​and safety for our kids​
the deep healing starts with us​

Hey There! I'm Karla.
Through miracles of birth and adoption, I’m the mother of three daughters  and I love it!   Mothering is some of the hardest, most sacred, beautiful, complex and life-giving work I’ve ever done.  I see motherhood as a spiritual path.

As an Ayurvedic Wellness Coach, Yoga Teacher, MotherCircle Facilitator and Spiritual Guide, I help mothers navigate the deep joys, intense transitions, and complexities of growing and being family while tending to their own thresholds of physical, spiritual, and emotional transformation.  We do this together through embodiment, feminine wisdom, radical self-care, and community support.

​I've been mothering through birth for 20 years, and through adoption for 13 years.  Mothering in and of itself is a rite of passage, but life is also full of transitions and initiations.  Sometimes we need pauses to reorient, to reconnect, and to integrate parts of life experiences and ourselves.  Over the years I've realized how essential it is to care for ourselves in some radical ways that most of us didn't learn from our own mothers because they didn't receive it either.  It's clear, however, that it's never too late and all that we choose consciously at any stage or season of life can deeply heal the fragmented parts within us and move through generations past and future.

I've been holding spaces of healing and transformation for women of all walks of life and seasons of motherhood  and womanhood for more than decade.  I offer what has supported me:  witnessing, wisdom, intimacy, curiosity and connection.  

Embodiment is at the core of all the spaces I curate and hold. My special gift is supporting women mothering through adoption, foster, kinship and blended families because my experience of becoming a mother through adoption parallelled my introduction to the deep wisdom of yoga, Ayurveda and understanding of the body, trauma, and healing.   I believe there are unique threads for those of us mothering through adoption that deserve our attention and reverence.   I believe in all mothers gathering together to source and share wisdom, regardless of what season, cycle, or stage of mothering you're in or how you came to motherhood. 

I believe we're never meant to walk the path of motherhood alone so I love creating programs within communities.  It's so dynamic and powerful to gather together!  Still, I know how amazing it can be to have one-on-one personalized support when needed.  So I offer both in my services. 

I've created these services and programs for you.  I also created them for me because I wish I had had them through every entry, loss, each moment of joy and transition of life and motherhood.   I do this for the sake of my own daughters, for my own mother and grandmothers, for the mother who brought two of my daughters into the world, for all their grandmothers, and for all mothers, women, and future generations.  

I feel I'm walking on holy ground when mothers invite me to accompany them as they navigate their own thresholds of physical, spiritual, and emotional transformation. I'm here and ready to journey with you.  Reach out if you'd like to begin with a conversation or explore this site. and offerings.

Here's how I support the thresholds of life and motherhood
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Discover the arc of  your motherhood journey

 Join a global movement of fierce mothers on a pathway of wisdom, impacting generations. Women circling is the oldest code and in an 8-session MotherCircle you  can gain clarity, metabolize experiences, and distill wisdom within a supportive  community.   This is for all mothers in all seasons and stages of life with kids of all ages.  This is part of the world I want to leave behind for my daughters and future generations.
1 -on-1  Ayurvedic Wellness & Holistic Coaching

 Nourish yourself with time-tested wisdom and practices of Ayurveda that guide you back to your own true nature and intuition.  You are unique, so there is not one-size-fits-all.  We explore your unique elemental design to help you know yourself better, and look at ways nature's wisdom and feminine wisdom can support your health, mind, emotions, female body, nervous system, and hormones as you journey through motherhood,  
A Year-long Mentorship within a Dynamic Community

Returning Fall 2023.  Learn, practice, and evolve through seasons and cycles while finding rituals and rhythms that are life-giving and sustainable. This offering is truly one of my best in that it keeps evolving with the wisdom and experiences of the women who join. It's been curated and revised with help of so many over the years.  I am always in awe of the authenticity, wisdom, grace, and community support that shows up in Root Rise Thrive community and big shifts happen through tiny incremental changes.  
Replenish in the Pause
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​Pause with me in workshop settings to rest, move, breathe and BE.  Experiment with somatic practices and Ayurvedic self-care that connects to cycles and seasons.  Nourish yourself in a gentle yet fierce community of women and remember your inherent wholeness and inner wisdom. This is an embodied wisdom practice and the goal is that you will feel replenished and feel like your thrist has been quenched.

“Karla is the real deal! She has a wealth of knowledge about healing the body, mind and soul and has a wonderful way of being 100% supportive and non judgemental, while gently challenging me to make slow and steady shifts to be more grounded in my body, and to create/maintain habits that are nurturing and life-giving.  She’s curious, grounded, relatable, and so very kind as she helps her clients find what feels right for them.   I’ve been able to create sustainable practices that have really helped me to step into my authentic self, thrive during a global pandemic (!!) and to become a much more grounded and responsive mother and partner." 
                                                                          ​--Jessica G, Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Adoptive parent
For some of my reflections and messages on mothering and matrescence GO HERE
For current offering and how you can work with me GO HERE
For a little more about me and why I do this work GO HERE

When we live from connectivity and presence, we have a greater capacity to create the safe, healing spaces our kids, families and those we care for deserve.

Let's do this together!
                    Karla
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Working with Karla was truly an investment in health and wellness.   Her program was grounding, practical, and doable, and her presence is kind and supportive. Karla doesn't just teach; she radiates all that she shares in her program -- she lives this.     Working with Karla helped me integrate what I know about self-care in a way that also allowed me to drop the "should's"and tap into my body's wisdom about what I need to thrive.
Now we're in a pandemic, and it's stressful, but I'm using everything I learned in Root, Rise, Thrive daily to stay afloat, manage multiple roles and
responsibilities, and lean into the slower pace to find joy in a difficult time.  
                                                                                                                                                 ---Hilary Mandzik , PsyD, Licensed Psychologist,     hilarymandzik.com

May you know you are inherently whole and always enough.  
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"Creating More Space for YOU" Meditation 

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