Rooted in compassion, joy, and a deep connection to nature, she offers personalized one-on-one Kundalini Yoga sessions, blending traditional practice with intuitive insight to meet each student’s unique needs. Her approach integrates mantra, meditation, and mindful movement, encouraging transformation through presence, ritual, and inner awareness. True to her spiritual name, Karuna—meaning “compassion” — she teaches with humor, music, and a deep commitment to transformation. Karuna believes “we start from the earth up in any practice, and every practice is reviewed by nature first.”

Karuna is a certified KRI yoga instructor for Levels 1, 2 and 3 of Kundalini Yoga and the Modules for 21 Stages of Meditation, Authentic Relationships, Conscious Communication, Mind & Meditation, Vitality & Stress, and Lifecycles & Lifestyles. She is certified also in the Super Health Program, Radiant Children Yoga and Pre-Natal Yoga. Under the umbrella of Light on Kundalini LLC (LOK) she has trained over 200 Kundalini Yoga teachers.

Karuna spent seven years studying intensively in India with Masters of the artistic and devotional aspects of yogic lifestyle in the Hindu and Sikh traditions. This concentration included Ayurvedic nutrition and the well-being practices renowned as ”Ishnan”. Following on this she immersed in Native America ceremonial and healing practices and was given the name “Chante Eton Wo Wa Gla Ka Win” (woman that speaks with her heart) by the Lakota clan of Medicine Man Frank Fools Crow. She is ordained through international interfaith organizations as a “Wisdom Keeper” in the above traditions, an Interfaith Minister, and a member of the global Evolutionary Leaders Circle.