To Live & Mother from Center
What does your body, mind, heart and soul need?
Join a global movement of fierce mothers on a pathway of wisdom, reaching generations.
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To hold a space of healing, presence
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I've been mothering through birth for 20 years, and through adoption for 13 years. Mothering in and of itself is a big transition, but life is also full of them. Sometimes we need pauses to reorient, to reconnect, and to integrate parts of life experiences and ourselves. I've been riding the waves over the years and realized how essential it is to care for ourselves in some radical ways that most of us didn't learn from our own mothers. 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, curiosity, intimacy 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 I my experience of becoming a mother through adoption parallelled my introduction to the deep wisdom of yoga, Ayurveda and understanding trauma. I believe there are unique threads for those of us mothering through adoption that deserve our attention and reverence.
Still, because I've had amazing teachers and guides, experimented in so many areas of health and motherhood and life, and have had to stumble through my young adulthood and mothering while navigating deep grief, ambiguous losses, disruptions, and transitions I've developed the capacity to meet anyone who seeks my services with non-judgement, compassion, and presence. I also love to hold the space of possibility and believe you can build your own capacity to hold the full range of being human as you come home to your organically intelligent body and understand how she speaks to you.
I feel I'm walking on holy ground when mothers invite me to accompany them and help 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 through embodiment, radical self-care, and community support to experience more ease, joy, grace and connection.
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, curiosity, intimacy 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 I my experience of becoming a mother through adoption parallelled my introduction to the deep wisdom of yoga, Ayurveda and understanding trauma. I believe there are unique threads for those of us mothering through adoption that deserve our attention and reverence.
Still, because I've had amazing teachers and guides, experimented in so many areas of health and motherhood and life, and have had to stumble through my young adulthood and mothering while navigating deep grief, ambiguous losses, disruptions, and transitions I've developed the capacity to meet anyone who seeks my services with non-judgement, compassion, and presence. I also love to hold the space of possibility and believe you can build your own capacity to hold the full range of being human as you come home to your organically intelligent body and understand how she speaks to you.
I feel I'm walking on holy ground when mothers invite me to accompany them and help 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 through embodiment, radical self-care, and community support to experience more ease, joy, grace and connection.
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. |
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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, |
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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. |
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Replenish in the Pause
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. |
I created these offerings for you.
I created them for me too because I wish I had had them through every entry, loss, and moment of joy and transition of motherhood. I wish my mother had had them. I created them for my daughters and for all mothers because I deeply care about the health of mothers, children, our communities, and our Great Mother Earth.
I want us to remember our innate capacities to heal, return to center, and thrive through a body-based, nervous system centered approach. I want us to feel alive, connected to intuition and power, connected to ourselves and each other. It takes a village. Sometimes we have to create the village so we can all remember together. Sometimes we are a part of several villages. May you discover ways to find and build yours.
“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
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
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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START HERE with this gift "Creating More Space for YOU" Meditation You'll also receive love letters from me with encouragement, inspiration, resources, and notifications of registration openings and special events. Let's explore possibilities to reclaim center and wholeness. |
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I would love to hear from you.
Let's connect! |