Karla Helbert: What is Yoga Nidra? + Guided Yoga Nidra Session

Karla Helbert, LPC, C-IAYT, is a licensed professional counsellor, yoga therapist, Compassionate Bereavement Care® provider, certified Divine Sleep® yoga nidra guide and award-winning author. Her books include Yoga for Grief and Loss, as well as The Chakras in Grief and Trauma, published this year.

In this video, she discusses what yoga nidra is, who it’s for, and how to help students/clients get set up for practice, after which she leads viewers in a guided yoga nidra session.


The Chakras in Grief and Trauma
A Tantric Guide to Energetic Wholeness
Karla Helbert, illustrated by Rachel Rosenkoetter

Exploring the ways in which grief, loss and trauma affect the individual chakras, this book is a tantric guide to working with energy and readdressing the balance of the whole. This is a compassionate approach to dealing with the darkest times of life, with over 100 creative and expressive exercises to help clients find harmony and balance. Read more

Lizzie Lasater: Tips on Keeping up Your Yoga Practice During Pregnancy

We’re lucky to have had the chance to talk with Lizzie Lasater, yoga teacher trainer in both the digital and physical sense. Lizzie studied art history and architecture at Columbia University and now translates her training into digital courses, global Restorative yoga teacher training workshops, and her awesomely creative jewelry collection.

Lizzie wrote a chapter for Yoga Teaching Handbook, published by Singing Dragon in 2017, and she wrote the foreword for the brand new Yoga Student Handbook, which is in shops now.

In our podcast, we talked about all things pregnancy and yoga, connecting with the body and the baby during pregnancy, mental health issues in the first trimester, as well as social prescribing.