About
Karla Helbert, LPC, C-IAYT, E-RYT, is a licensed professional counselor, yoga therapist, meditation teacher, reiki practitioner, and award-winning author. Her life changed after the death of her first-born child. Karla’s private therapy practice has a focus on loss, grief and bereavement, working in particular with those affected by trauma and traumatic death. She leads classes, workshops and retreats for the traumatically bereaved as well as trainings for professionals on how to work compassionately and effectively with those impacted by traumatic grief. Her award-winning book Yoga for Grief and Loss is endorsed and used as a teaching tool by leaders, teachers and experts in the fields of yoga as well as grief and loss. She is also the author of the award-winning Finding Your Own Way to Grieve: A Creative Activity Workbook for Kids and Teens on the Autism Spectrum, recipient of the Gold Medal for books in the category of Grief/Death & Dying from Independent Publishers. Her book The Chakras in Grief and Trauma: A Tantric Guide to Energetic Wholeness is the currently the only book on the chakras focusing on the ways our energy bodies are impacted by trauma and grief.
Featured Work
The Chakras in Grief and Trauma: A Tantric Guide to Energetic Wholeness
The Chakras in Grief and Trauma: A Tantric Guide to Energetic Wholeness, is innovative guide to the chakras explaining how grief and trauma impact every level of our being and provides the tools to help those experiencing trauma and grief by influencing, balancing and nurturing the chakra system.
The book provides thorough and clear explorations of each chakra, their connections to each other, and tantric ways of working with energy. It features over 100 expressive and experiential exercises to remedy the ill-effects of grief and trauma, including yoga poses, mudras, pranayama (breath exercises), journaling, creation of ritual, use of essential oils and crystals and stones. Drawing on expertise as a licensed counselor, psychotherapist and yoga therapist, and personal experience as a bereaved mother, the author shares the teachings, practices and philosophies of yoga's ancient wisdom in a new way, and shows how to sustain personal chakra balancing that will resonate through all areas of life.
