To Live & Mother from Center
First, we have to be in our bodies and know how to access our own wisdom.
Then, we must remember how to trust our bodies and our wisdom.
But did anyone ever show you how?
How to feel at home in your body and access the medicine within you?
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"How might your life have been different if there had been a place for you? A place for you to go...a place of women, to help you learn the ways of woman...a place where you were nurtured from an ancient flow sustaining you and steadying you as you sought to become yourself. A place of women to help you find and trust the ancient flow already there within yourself ...waiting to be released.
How might your life be different?" --Judith Duerk, author of "Circle of Stones" |
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Upcoming Ways to practice wisdom together and return to center
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ONLINE WORKSHOP: The Art of Self-Massage
Discover the healing power that’s always available to you through your own healing hands. Learn simple practices that will help you release stress, react less, feel centered, harness energy, sleep better, and even improve digestion and help balance hormones! This is both a stand alone workshop and part of a January series for those in Reclaiming Center--Winter Yin Rejuvenation. |
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FREE ONLINE CLASS for Mothering through Adoption
Join Michelle Kenefick and Karla for a conversation that centers the journey of the adoptive mother as a way of weaving threads of connection personally and culturally. Our lived experience as adoptive moms tells us that adoption is multi-dimensional, with much of it remaining unnamed. We've created a space where we are committed to exploring not just the universality of motherhood, but also the unique complexities of adoption. We want to introduce you to this space and invite your own wisdom and experience into a circle we’ll be offering in February. |
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Circle Wisdom for Mothering through Adoption
I'm thrilled to be co-facilitating a new MotherCircle with my colleague Michelle Kenefick, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner.. This is a dynamic 8-week curriculum-based gathering. MotherCircle supports women to understand the unseen arc of their motherhood journey, come out of confusion and into greater clarity, and share wisdom within a supportive community. This particular circle also invites the opportunity to explore the unique complexities of mothering children they did not birth–adoption, kinship, blended families, etc. |
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Discover the arc of your motherhood journey
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. If you have ever had a pregnancy, experienced loss, mothered in any way or you work with mothers you are welcome here. This is part of the world I want to leave behind for my daughters and future generations. Together, we build Mother Culture. |
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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 one of a kind, so there is no one-size-fits-all. We explore your unique elemental design to help you know yourself better, and look at ways this ancient wisdom and nature's rhythm can support your health, mind, emotions, female body, nervous system, and hormones as you journey through all of life's thresholds as a woman, mother and human. |
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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, remember your inherent wholeness and connect to intuition. This is an embodied wisdom practice and we set the intention to feel replenished and live into what it's like when a deep thirst has been quenched and we have prioritized rest as a resource. |
Welcome! I'm Karla.
Mothering is some of the hardest, most sacred, beautiful, complex and life-giving work I’ve ever done.
Motherhood has been a portal for deep growth and transformation!
It's been an invitation to acknowledge both the light and dark we hold within us.
It's called me to know and understand the capacity we have to heal our lineage in both directions, past and future.
Through my journey as a mother, both by birth and adoption, and in supporting women at all stages of life, I’ve come to understand that we aren’t meant to mother alone. Walking alongside my own mother through her final years with Alzheimer’s further deepened my commitment to this belief.
The well-being of mothers is vital. When mothers thrive, so do their children, families, and communities.
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’m grateful to have learned from many teachers, guides, nature, and life itself. Through Discover Your Center, I aim to share holistic practices that sustain women throughout life and can be passed on to future generations. Ultimately, I believe in the profound wisdom within each of us and strive to create spaces where you can remember and reconnect with your own inner knowing.
I also wholeheartedly believe that when we dissolve the layers of separation within ourselves, we can create authentic spaces of connection and healing with and for others from our own connection. This is best done with accurate witnessing, deep compassion, support within a community, and often a guide, teacher or mentor.
Mothering is some of the hardest, most sacred, beautiful, complex and life-giving work I’ve ever done.
Motherhood has been a portal for deep growth and transformation!
It's been an invitation to acknowledge both the light and dark we hold within us.
It's called me to know and understand the capacity we have to heal our lineage in both directions, past and future.
Through my journey as a mother, both by birth and adoption, and in supporting women at all stages of life, I’ve come to understand that we aren’t meant to mother alone. Walking alongside my own mother through her final years with Alzheimer’s further deepened my commitment to this belief.
The well-being of mothers is vital. When mothers thrive, so do their children, families, and communities.
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’m grateful to have learned from many teachers, guides, nature, and life itself. Through Discover Your Center, I aim to share holistic practices that sustain women throughout life and can be passed on to future generations. Ultimately, I believe in the profound wisdom within each of us and strive to create spaces where you can remember and reconnect with your own inner knowing.
I also wholeheartedly believe that when we dissolve the layers of separation within ourselves, we can create authentic spaces of connection and healing with and for others from our own connection. This is best done with accurate witnessing, deep compassion, support within a community, and often a guide, teacher or mentor.
To hold a space of healing, presence and safety for our kids and our communities
the deep healing and connection starts with us and within us.
Let's do this together!
Karla
“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
Your path toward healing, wholeness and center is sacred.
I'm honored to accompany you on your journey.
You'll also receive encouragement, inspiration, resources, and notifications of registration openings and special events.
I wonder what's possible. Let's explore together!
Your path toward healing, wholeness and center is sacred.
I'm honored to accompany you on your journey.
You'll also receive encouragement, inspiration, resources, and notifications of registration openings and special events.
I wonder what's possible. Let's explore together!
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I would love to hear from you.
Let's connect! |