Join Karla Weekly Each Wednesday from 6:30 to 7:15 for Guided Yoga Nidra
CURRENTLY ONLINE ONLY
 Yoga Nidra is the perfect respite and support in these difficult and stressful times. Please join me Wednesdays online for this healing and restful practice.

​In the wake of school closings due to COVID-19, I am currently donating 20% of all payments for classes to Feedmore RVA to help families and children struggling with hunger in our community, as many children depend on school provided breakfasts and lunches. 

Wednesday Evenings 6:30-7:15 
Online through Zoom meetings. Register and receive via email your invitation and link to the class. 

If you need financial assistance, please send an email or fill out the contact form at the bottom of the page. We'll work out a sliding scale rate.

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Yoga Nidra means “Yogic Sleep” but the practice is meant to help us hover between a state of sleep and wakefulness—awareness in a fully relaxed state. During this state, we can more easily “let go,” surrender, to take place. In such a state, healing can take place where healing is needed.

This practice can help all people. including those who are experiencing trauma and grief, access a place where body/mind/spirit can feel more integrated supporting better sleep, rest, relaxation, overall functioning and healing where healing is needed. Practicing Yoga Nidra supports all other practices of yoga and any other complementary treatment modalities. ​

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​The Journey Into Gratitude is a nearly 45 minute long guided Yoga Nidra. This journey takes you into a forest on a cool crisp autumn day where you will be guided to experience the forest with all your senses. The forest will remind you of gratitude that perhaps you have forgotten and support you gently in experiencing the embodiment of love and a deep sense of gratitude.

​It begins with a chant to invoke the awareness of this wholeness. The Purnamadah is the opening sloka (peace verse) from the Ishvara Upanishad, one of the holy Vedic texts, which translates to say, "This is whole, that is whole. When a portion of wholeness is removed, what remains is whole."

You'll move through stages of grounding and settling in, creating intention, followed by a full body scan to deeply relax the nervous system and then you'll experience sensations in the emotional and energy bodies as you move to a deeper level of awareness. These are followed by a guided journey into the bright and beautiful forest where you will encounter your own deep sense of gratitude. Then you'll be guided back to waking consciousness.

Stages 1-5 are influenced by yoga nidra scripts written by Jennifer Reis, taught in her Divine Sleep Yoga Nidra training.
​The Journey into the Gratitude Forest is my original work.

I hope you enjoy this journey.
Peaceful travels.

Sending love,
Karla

This is 40 minute long guided yoga nidra. This journey takes us to the Isle of the Ancestors where we can encounter those who've come before us, those ancestors and guides who perhaps we've known in this lifetime as well as those who are loving and supporting us from previous generations, across rivers of time, who live on in our body, our blood, our breath. 

As in The Journey Into Gratitude, Stages 1-5 are influenced by yoga nidra scripts written by Jennifer Reis, taught in her Divine Sleep Yoga Nidra training.  The Journey to Encounter the Ancestors is my original work.

I hope you enjoy your journey.  OM Shanti, Shanti, Shanti. OM Peace, Peace, Peace. Love, Karla