Karla is a Wellness Facilitator, Trauma-Informed Somatic Yoga Specialist, and Sound Healing Practitioner rooted in years of experience guiding individuals and communities toward healing, balance, and wholeness.

 

Her journey with Hot Yoga led her to earn her Yoga Teacher Certification in 2006, specializing in Hatha yoga. She has since deepened her practice through ongoing studies, workshops, and advanced training in various yoga styles, achieving her RYT 500+ accreditation with Yoga Alliance.

 

Karla completed her TCTSY Foundational Training — Trauma Center Trauma-Sensitive Yoga — through the Center for Trauma and Embodiment. TCTSY is the only empirically validated yoga-based clinical intervention for complex trauma and PTSD, developed at the Trauma Center at Justice Resource Institute in Boston. This certification deepens and formalizes the trauma-informed, choice-based approach to movement that Karla has been practicing and refining throughout her entire career.

 

As a Wellness Facilitator at the Women Centre — one of Canada's leading addiction and mental health treatment centres for women — Karla has spent nearly two decades creating compassionate, empowering spaces for women navigating addiction, trauma, abuse, and mental health challenges. Her work is rooted in the belief that healing begins in the body, and that every person deserves to feel safe within themselves.

 

Karla is also a Sound Bath Practitioner, facilitating deeply restorative sound healing sessions using crystal and Himalayan singing bowls, resonance instruments, and intentional vibration. Sound healing works by guiding the nervous system into a state of deep rest — slowing brainwaves, releasing tension held in the body, and activating the body's natural healing response. Karla integrates sound healing into women's circles, restorative yoga sessions, wellness retreats, and private sessions, creating experiences that restore balance on every level — physical, emotional, and spiritual.

 

With a strong passion for the yoga community, she founded and directed Infinite Yoga Studio in Mississauga for over a decade, leading 220-hour Yoga Teacher Trainings, organizing yoga retreats and workshops, and offering corporate and private yoga classes. She is also a certified Thai Yoga Massage practitioner.

 

Karla teaches a variety of yoga styles and wellness modalities:

 

✔ Trauma-Informed Somatic Yoga (TCTSY) — choice-based, body-aware, healing-centred

✔ Sound Bath & Vibrational Healing — singing bowls, nervous system restoration, deep relaxation

✔ Restora-Yin Yoga with Essential Oils — profound calming, tension release, and body restoration

✔ Vinyasa Flow — for strength, flexibility, and mindfulness

✔ Power Yoga — dynamic, energetic, and strengthening

✔ Restorative Yoga — deep relaxation, healing, and stress relief

✔ Senior Yoga — gentle, supportive practices tailored for all stages of life

✔ Women's Circle Facilitation — somatic movement, guided meditation, and reflective group practice

✔ Specialized Workshops — relieving tightness and tension in the back, shoulders, hips, and areas of chronic stress

 

Through her work with private clients, community groups, and women in recovery, Karla encourages a mindful, intuitive approach to well-being — guiding people to listen to their bodies, cultivate a gentle yet steady practice, and build sustainable self-care habits that last.

 

She is especially passionate about the intersection of trauma-informed movement and sound healing — two practices that together create a profound pathway back to safety, presence, and inner peace.

 

"Connect with me, and let's embark on this journey together."

 

"Life brings more joy when you do what you love —

and most of all, love what you do."