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ABOUT KALA

since 2016 kala has been the curator and host of small-group biodynamic wine, food, and wellness retreats + a global yoga educator for individual clients, corporations, and at events around the world. in 2018 she founded nonprofit org yoga to cope to address a need for accessible, beginner-friendly practices focused specifically on supporting clients through grief, trauma, depression, and the like. since 2020 she has gone on to pursue multiple MA programs to expand her offerings and clinical expertise, via graduate work in Yoga Studies and Mental Health Counseling. kala combines yoga and counseling to provide a potent “yoga therapy” integrated approach for her clients, in bite-sized, accessible formats via in-person events and telehealth individual and group counseling services.

kala’s yoga is informed by tantra and hatha practices, focusing on subtle body work. she integrates use of the body, mind, and spirit as tools which, when balanced, can support healing and overall health. kala’s clinical counseling approach is integrative, with a focus on somatic/yogic work, relational psychoanalyis, and narrative theoretical approaches to trauma work and wellness.

“i can take you as far as i’ve gone”
— dr. jacob ham

Degrees | Certifications | Continuing Edu

  • M.A. Mental Health Counseling (New York University, New York, NY, USA)*

  • M.A. Yoga Studies (Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA, USA)

  • B.S. Health Sciences (University of Missouri - Columbia, Columbia, Missouri, USA)

  • 500 CYT Tantric Hatha Yoga (Ubud, Bali, Indonesia)

  • 100 CYT Yoga, Mindfulness, and Social Change (LMU, Los Angeles, CA USA)

  • 45 CYT Level 1 Mama Tree Prenatal Yoga (Jane Austin, San Francisco, CA, USA)

  • 45 CYT Level 2 Mama Tree Prenatal Yoga (Jane Austin, San Francisco, CA, USA)

  • Birth Doula Core Training (Natural Resources, San Francisco, CA, USA)

  • Dissection Livestream Specialty Class: Central Nervous System (Brain, Spine, and Spinal Cord) (Anatomy Trains, Tom Myers and Todd Garcia)

  • Dissection Livestream Specialty Class: Breath in the Body (Anatomy Trains, Tom Myers and Todd Garcia, Virtual)

  • Dissection Livestream Specialty Class: Deep Dive into the Pelvis (Anatomy Trains, Tom Myers and Todd Garcia, Virtual)

  • YS 207 | The Upaniṣads (Dr. Varun Khanna via Yogic Studies, Virtual)*

*in progress

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