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A Rebirthing Breathwork School began in 2020 by Karina Kalilah: Rebirthing Breathwork Practitioner, But it wasn’t always like this. HOW DID I GET HERE? I can.

Karina Pupo - Yoga | Breathwork | Sound Vibration

No one should love you more than YOU. I am Karina Kalilah; Rebirthing Breathwork Practitioner and Coach; and I create Sacred Sound Medicine with my voice and crystal bowls. I am a Freedom Fighter, Love is my medicine, and I am a Lover of Life in all it’s highs and lows. I activate YOU to stand your full power in your true potential through Rebirth

ing Breathwork Ceremonies, Deep Soulful Sound Journeys & Voice Activation. Today I am able to share my story of healing through the modalities I offer that were the foundation to my healing process. I now share my most inspired and empowered self with you all. My whole life, I would suffer bouts of anxiety and depression, living a life where feeling good was rare and I could never see myself as being truly happy, even though it was something I always longed for. I was diagnosed with depression and anxiety multiple times and later discovered I have had PTSD most of my life. I spent many years running from myself, taking drugs and drinking to escape the longing I had for something I couldn’t put my finger on. WHAT CHANGED? There came a point in my life where I knew I needed to change, that I could and would not stay living the life hiding from the black shadow that I was constantly running from, each and every day. In 2016 Breathwork and Sound Healing came into my life as a total surprise. I had been in denial of a hearing condition I had for a number of years, and as synchronicity would have it, one week after I had discovered I had lost 50% of my hearing in both my ears and my hearing was deteriorating, a Sound Healer came to the yoga studio I was managing. During the session I realised I could feel the experience better than I could hear the sounds. “There is something in this” I thought to myself, and I was curious to know more. The following week I had a private session which turned out to be a Rebirthing Breathwork session. This was a pivotal moment in my life. Breathwork along with Plant Medicines, EMDR, EFT Tapping, Theta Healing and Embodied Flow Yoga were the modalities that allowed me to get out of my own way; I let go of fear, neutralised trauma, released limiting belief systems, came into a sense of deep embodiment and I am on a continued journey to dive into my shadow self to bring it to the light to be transmuted. This is alchemy. If I did it, SO CAN YOU. MY MISSION:
I believe we can live a life where we can accept and love all the parts of ourself, through deepening our awareness of ourselves, having compassion, practicing kindness, sharing love in all situations, and having the wisdom to be with and rise above the storms that take place within, especially when challenges arise. You have that power in you too. The world needs you to step up and into your power, your unique love and your purpose. I share vibrational sound healing, breathwork, and voice activation, profound workshops and retreats to help you to connect with yourself and with others. I hold space so that you dive and drop into yourself, into your heart, strengthening your intuition, to uncover the ever evolving and unlimited self, let go of the stories of the past, clear limiting beliefs, connect and reopen your heart and achieve a consistent state of presence and flow. I share the wisdom I have discovered through the modalities of healing I have studied and experienced, so that you can be empowered and live this existence fully activated. I Empower you to achieve your dreams, to not play BIG, and to love yourself, the light and the dark. This is my calling. You’ve got this – can you believe it? About Karina:

Karina has a Bachelor of Education in Human Movement, Health Education from Sydney University. She is a 300hr+ Yoga Teacher, Breathwork Practitioner & World Renowned Sound Healer. She has 15 years experience in the health and education industry, with a background in welfare and mental health. In her previous career, Karina was a high school PDHPE teacher with a background in Welfare and positive mental health for teenagers and young adults. Her online programs are written with a wealth of knowledge and experience behind her. As your teacher I will always guide with enthusiasm and love. My sessions are empowering and supportive with a focus on connecting you to your deepest desires & taking action to make that happen. I guide you into developing deep mental & energetic focus that you can take with you into real life.

- Rebirthing Breathwork Practitioner
- Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy
- Theta Healing TM
- Level 1 Yoga Alliance Yoga Teacher
- Level 1 Gymnastics Coach
- Certificate III & IV in Fitness
- Bachelor of Education (Human Movement, Health Education)
- Senior First Aid/CPR

21/11/2023

In Wild Love Breathwork training I’ve been teaching about avoidance. We’ve been learning about how we avoid ourself, our emotions, conversations, things we have to do… and through the course, students are encouraged to edge into what they would have avoided.

I was on a call with one of them and she shared the positive impact this practice has been having on her life… she said:

As a result she shared that she:
🌟 Taken a stand & spoke my truth when an incident happened that goes against what I believe in and made a request.
✨ Learned not to reject myself when I’ve experienced a perceived rejection from another.
🫵 Unlearning self betrayal! This was huge. I betray myself by telling myself false truths. I got really real with myself. It hurt for a bit, and I’m learning from it.
🫶 Learned that by leaning into that which I don’t want to do or makes me uncomfortable I am moving that which is stuck.

Such BIIIG THINGS right? This is the power of the breath.
🌬️ increase self awareness.
🌬️ increase self confidence.
🌬️ increase in courage.
🌬️ increase clarity.
🌬️ increase in patience.
🌬️ increase self compassion.
🌬️ increase awareness of physical & emotional body.

This is powerful work. Through breath, you can learn the skills to have a more easeful, clear and focused life.

Leading my life face first 🤍

I have space for ONE more client 1-1 sessions starting in December! Come join me and experience what I’m sharing above.

05/07/2023

It’s possible to live your life from a place of love, rather than from a place of fear…

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🤍Not from a need to be liked.
🤍Not from a need to be needed.
🤍Not from a need to be “that partner”.
🤍Not from a need to be important.
🤍Not from a need to be “that friend”.
🤍Not from a need to be loved.

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When you heal the part of you that believes that you’re unlovable or not “good enough” for love, you’re able to not just receive that love, but to give love without coming from a place of need.

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But rather from a place of wholeness and love.

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This is the journey of the Wild Love Breathwork Practitioner - we learn to actively love and accept ourselves as we are through re-entering the body and creating a safe space within.

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We begin this week!

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The Embodied Breath Academy’s 6 month training begins July 12th as a curated, intimate group of 6 souls journeys to love and own all aspects of themselves.

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When you learn to live, breathe, work, relate, connect, and show up for yourself (& your friends, family, and community!) from a place of love, your reality shifts for the better.

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You’ll learn exactly how to do this and become certified to lead this transformation for others inside the Embodied Breath Academy’s Wild Love Breathwork Practitioner Training!

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Spaces are filling, but there’s still room to join us by clicking the link in comments and applying!

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When you apply, you’ll be invited to book a zero-pressure chat with Karina. On this short call, you’ll get clarity around the aligned next steps for your personal healing journey and if the Wild Love Breathwork Practitioner training is a fit, you’ll be invited to join us! There’s no obligation to join when you book your call, we’re happy to just connect with you.

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This is your invitation to journey within and become unashamedly YOU!

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Link in comments to take the first step and book your application call!

29/06/2023

The moment you’re about to eat the cake, text the ex, or skip the meditation in favor of another round of Netflix binging, you have an opportunity.

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🤍To pause.
🤍To choose.
🤍To take your power into your own hands.

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When you choose to pause and take a moment of space before falling into a behavior or pattern, you open up to a new way of being.

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This doesn’t mean you are suddenly a different person who doesn’t crave the cake, you just notice the behavior and choose how you want to proceed.

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If you still want to eat the cake, you can do so from a place of nonjudgement. Because it’s actually what you want to do, and not a pattern that keeps you in a loop. Same goes if you don’t want to eat the cake.

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As you notice your patterns and pauses, here are a few questions to journal on:
1. What is it that I really need right now?
2. How can I best support myself in what I need right now?
3. What emotions are present that I can turn and face? Can I create space to feel them?

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Our intention for you is that you take the time to sit with what comes up without judgment and notice any sticky beliefs that you can play with and lighten.

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There’s no right or wrong way to reflect, just trust your internal wisdom as it comes up.

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And if you feel the call, I’d love to hear what came through for you! Feel free to DM me and share your answers with me. I love learning more about you and this is one of my favorite ways to connect deeper!

28/06/2023

Are you ready to be radically self compassionate? Here’s the real truth for our empathetic healers…

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You can only give the level of compassion to others that you give to yourself.

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And the double whammy?

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You’re not truly compassionate with yourself until you’ve experienced true compassion within yourself, from yourself.

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You might feel sympathy or empathy, but don’t confuse that with compassion.

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When you know, understand, and can tap into true compassion within yourself, you won’t be the same again. Neither will anyone around you.

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🤍Caring for your health no longer becomes a want, but a need.

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🤍Honoring your own needs no longer becomes an option, but a lifestyle.

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🤍Saying “no” from a place of integrity is no longer just bold; it’s an example of true leadership.

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The level of compassion you have for others can only come from the level of compassion you have for yourself.

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And inside the Embodied Breath Academy’s Wild Love Breathwork Practitioner Training, you learn how to not only cease looking for love and validation outside of yourself, but how to open the well of love already bubbling inside of you.

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Join us for 6 months of transformation beginning July 12th!

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You’ll join our small, curated soul family on our (online) adventure into the best chapter of your healing journey yet.

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To the healer reading this far, we see you. We know you are ready to liberate yourself from shame, empower your feminine, and master life-changing practices to mindfully guide yourself and others through transformational healing.

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Click the link in comments to explore if Wild Love is right for you.

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When you apply, you’ll be invited to book an application call where we will get clear on how the Wild Love Or****ic Breathwork Practitioner Training will support you in your personal healing journey. If it’s a fit, you’ll be officially invited to join us for our online training. And if it’s not quite the right fit, you’ll be given any resources we feel could support you.

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There’s no obligation to join us when you book your exploratory call, and you’ll leave with clarity and next steps to support you on your journey no matter what.

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Click the link in comments to explore and apply.

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The world is ready for a leader like you!

27/06/2023

“Mama” is a mantra for reconnection to mother.

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Click the link in comments to enjoy this meditation!

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It contains channeled Pleiadian Light Language, Tibetan throat singing by Svara, a D Crystal Bowl to activate the Sacral Chakra for connection, abundance, and sensuality.

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All you need to do?

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Open your heart and allow the divine frequencies to flood you.

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Love,
Karina

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P.S. If this meditation resonates with you, DM us and let us know!

26/06/2023

We’re less than 1 month away from our online Wild Love Practitioner Training and we couldn’t be more excited!!

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Inside our Wild Love Breathwork Practitioner Training, you will learn how to:
✨Cultivate the power of a strong energy body
✨Move somatic experiences of emotions
✨Empower your Feminine (hint, we all have this aspect to us, regardless of how we identify our gender!)
✨Reclaim your unique identity
✨Tap into your unique connection to the Divine and become a channel
✨Integrate parts practices to find & alchemise the wisdom inside every emotion
✨Hold space for your clients to move energy in this way

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Our 6 month journey begins July 12th and we have only a few spaces remaining in our curated community of 6 souls.

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You’re reading this far because you are ready for the next step in your healing journey. Click the link in comments to explore if Wild Love is right for you.

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When you apply, you’ll be invited to book an application call where you and Karina will get clear on how Wild Love will support you in your personal healing journey. If it’s a fit, you’ll be officially invited to join us and if not, you’ll be given any resources we feel could support you!

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There’s no obligation to join us when you book your exploratory call, and you’ll leave with clarity and next steps to support you on your journey no matter what.

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Click the link in comments to explore and apply - we can’t wait to get to know you better!

15/06/2023

Do you know that you’re self sabotaging and don't know how to change it? Here’s a quick hack to stop self-sabotage in its tracks…

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We’ve all been there… looking at the sweet treat eyeing us from the kitchen, the battle between “treat yourself” and “treat your body well” is heightening.

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Psst... there's no shame in anything you choose to do/eat/see/feel/think - this is only said to support those of you who are creating habits from an empowered state!

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Before you eat the sweet or follow any old behavior pattern that may not make you feel like a million bucks (ie. Smoking, drinking, skipping the meditation, gossiping, etc.) that will be followed by a period of guilt and asking yourself why you gave into temptation, try this:

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Step 1: Take a pause before you go into the old behavior.

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Step 2: Share it out, take a walk, journal or voice note yourself about it, or take a few conscious breaths to get yourself out of your head and into your body.

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Step 3: Choose to do something differently, not something different. If you still want to follow the same behavior after this, do so from a space of non-judgement and free will, the sweet treat is all yours, guilt free!

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This means that if you set a goal to quit coffee, start by drinking a lemon water in the morning and wait an hour to have your coffee.

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This shows your body and your mind that changes are safe and easeful.

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We’d love to hear how it goes for you when you try this practice! DM us and let us know!.

13/06/2023

Can you feel that gnawing feeling?

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You push the darkness within you down.

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You deny her existence…
☯By being the good girl
☯By attempting perfection
☯By making sure others' needs are met before your own
☯By not saying what you feel out of fear of being judged, abandoned or outcasted (because at some point, you were)

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What you may not be willing to realise is that she is YOU. And that when you get to know her, she is your greatest power.

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🔥She wants you to put you first
🔥She wants you to own your dreams
🔥She wants you to own your desires
🔥She wants you to speak your truth
🔥She wants you to FEEL your power
🔥She wants you to FEEL the rainbow of the expressions of love
🔥She wants you to realise you DESERVE to feel that good
🔥She is or****ic energy and wild

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Coming back to her is your journey inside the Wild Love Or****ic Breathwork Practitioner Training, and you’re invited to join us!

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For 6 months, I’ll lead you and our small, curated community of epic souls who are blazing the way on their own healing path.

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You will journey into Divine Love and Or****ic Energy, while learning to harness and use these energies as healing forces within the body.

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You will learn self-love tools and practices to increase your level of presence and sensitivity, and to overcome states of disassociation and self abandonment.

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By the end of our journey, you’ll be certified to lead others on their own healing journey as a Wild Love Breathwork Practitioner certified by the Embodied Breath Academy.

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From there, your possibilities are limitless and your gifts are exponential.

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Spots are already filling and doors are open to apply for our next round of our Wild Love Or****ic Breathwork Practitioner (online) training beginning July 12th!

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Link in comments to explore and book a no-pressure exploratory chat with me to see if this is the right place for you to accelerate your healing journey!

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You belong in love.

11/06/2023

One of the pivotal moments of my life was being told I couldn’t run my own business: that I would fail.

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Hands one. That was a turning point.

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Have you had this happen?

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While it hurt in the moment, in hindsight, those words would become the spark I needed to get myself started…

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As a woman running my own international Breathwork business from intuition, love, actual human guidance, and some really hard work; it’s been the culmination of making some damn good decisions, working through the multitude of limiting beliefs & challenging moments, and choosing to keep going even though I burnt out that I’ve learned: doing what I love makes life soooo worth living! I also learned that you (and I!) can’t do this (everything from business to healing to life) alone!!!

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7 years later, the Embodied Breath Academy is growing strong with an incredible team of amazing humans who believe fully in our mission: to have human consciousness attuned to a baseline frequency of self love, resilience & actualising purpose through recognising the infinite outcomes of life 🤍

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I am loving watching this dream fruition into reality!

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Will you join us?

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Up-and-coming trainings:
✨ Wild Love org^$.mic Breathwork Practitioner Training Online (starting July 12th 2023) - working with shadow and pleasure to heal trauma 🤍

🌬️Rebirthing Breathwork Practitioner Training in October in Bali - using the power of gentleness to heal trauma 🤍

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DM for info!

08/06/2023

Your words are creating your reality, healer.

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✨You’re not here to be fixed.
✨You’re here to be witnessed, heard, and loved. Exactly as you are.

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Recognize how your language creates your reality as you tell yourself what you can or cannot do, what is or is not difficult for you, and what may or may not be possible for you.

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This is especially important on your healing journey as you accept the simple (yet profound!) invitation to truly love yourself.

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Here’s an example of a simple shift to make to your language that will easily upgrade your reality:

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“It’s hard for me to love myself” —> “It has been hard for me to love myself in the past”

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Notice what you felt or experienced before was only in the past. And here you are, now.

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These small shifts create powerful ripples in the way that you think, feel, and believe about yourself.

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Here are a few journaling questions for you to reflect on:

1. What are 10 things I am grateful for? (And here’s the special sauce) Why?

2. How would my life look if I chose to commit to changing _(that thing that bugs you about your life)_? How would I feel about myself & my life with that change?

3. What sparks my joy? Where in my schedule can I do more of that?
We’d love to hear how you go with these!

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Drop a comment on what stuck out to you in your reflections or DM us - we love getting to connect with you deeper.

06/06/2023

Can I tell you a secret?

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You’ve probably done plenty of inner work.

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If you’re anything like me, you’ve chanted the mantras, gone to therapy, dove into breathwork, and experienced your fair share of coaching.

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While your mind and psyche have gotten a workout, it may not have given you the big shifts and changes you wanted in the practical ways you’d hoped.

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Before I realized how to shift this, I was the queen of inner work, but I was still lonely, confused, and feeling like I was missing something.

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Until I figured it out - I needed to change my behavior!

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My mind took a backseat and I consciously chose to shift my behavior to meet the reality I was creating in my love life, business, and community.

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✨I smiled at men (whom it felt safe to).
✨I flirted with myself and anyone I felt like.
✨I danced without worrying what anyone thought of me.
✨I took deep breaths I didn’t realize I was holding in.

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In short, I returned to love.

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Freeing, inspiring, playful, contagious and wild love!

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Are you ready to take your practice to the next level?

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Join us in the Wild Love Breathwork Practitioner Training!

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We begin July 12th inside a sacred online journey of people on the healing path who desire to transmute feelings of shame, guilt, anger and fear into LOVE through breathing that ignites or****ic energy.

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You will learn emotional release practices to assist you in the moving of these intense emotions and learn how to facilitate this for your clients to help them feel accepted, safe and grounded.

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Spots are already filling & applications are open now!

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Please note: When you apply, you are only booking in a complimentary call with Karina and aren’t obligated to join Wild Love. We want this to be a full body YES for all, which makes this a great opportunity to explore if the Wild Love Practitioner training is right for you!

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Click the link in comments to explore more and apply.

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I can’t wait to grow with you!

02/06/2023

I finished this training with a feeling I have never earnestly felt: Accomplishment & gratitude.
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Having only run this training 6 times online previous to this one, I knew it was a good training, but I didn’t realise how amazing it would be face to face.
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Honestly as I type this, I’m finding it hard to put into words. The group blossomed in every way, there were a few days where the energy was dark and heavy as we traversed together through the mud and shadow of our own inner psyche. Honestly, I would be worried if we didn’t go there.
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The journey flowed really beautifully, everything building on what we learned the day previous.
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Some of the biggest highlights:
✨ the fire ceremony & the day at the water temple.
✨ the laughter and silliness and random moments of dancing.
✨ voice activation session learning how to bring sound into sessions.
✨ watching them hold space like pro’s & going deep every breathe.
✨ and of course the bond we made together.
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All of us practitioners went through the process along with the students as a way to learn to embody this work from the perspective of space holder; just like they would with any plant medicine path.
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I say this often: I don’t sell this work, I just tell people why I think it’s amazing. And it is absolutely amazing.
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Dates are set for the next training taking a max of 10 here in bali. If you’re interested, send me a DM! I’m also calling in the brothers!!! This training was all women, and I don’t want the next one to be. We all need gentleness and can embody the essence of that through this style of gentle Breathwork.
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Loving you all!
Karina 🤍

01/06/2023

In the wise words of Lizzo, “in case nobody told you today, you’re special”.

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It’s true!

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And while you can’t have enough reminders of that, you CAN give yourself the gift of remembering that in your very core, you are love.

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From this knowing, miracles happen, happy coincidences occur, and abundance flows in.

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Click the link in comments to spend 8 minutes in the vibrational frequency of love. Come home to yourself.

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Featured in this meditation are three Crystal Bowls: C for Base Chakra, F for Heart, A for the third eye.

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The intention of this experience is for you to connect with the love you have for yourself and the love you have for others.

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Our invitation for you… Move to it, meditate to it, breathe with it.

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Once you’re finished, DM us and let us know how it landed for you, if you feel called to share.

30/05/2023

Yeah, but what really IS love?

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There is more to this story...

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🤍I have always had a curiosity to what LOVE really is... what does it mean?
🤍How does it feel?
🤍Does it feel different for everyone?
🤍Is it a feeling or a thing you do, or both??

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I asked all these questions in a breathwork session. The breath took me on a journey I will never, ever forget. The breath took me on a journey to Egypt, 5000 years ago. It showed me the truest, rawest form of love a human could experience. It felt totally overwhelming: my body wanted to explode, combust & I cried & cried & cried.

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With the denser energy of love rising from the earth and the more light energy of love coming down from the sky, meeting in my heart, I felt (for the first time!) what true unimpeded, unspoiled, un-ego-ised love felt like...

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But how did it become so watered down? What I was experiencing love to be until this point felt like high-functioning depression in comparison.

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The breath then took me to the Mayan Temples. I could sense that the love had become jaded, or perhaps blurred by unhealthy sexual desire, subtle manipulation & co-dependancy.

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The breath then took me to the age of the burning of the witches, where fear had become a tool people in leadership roles used to control. The love was starting to feel numb.

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The breath took me to today: with the amount of stress, fear, fatigue, doubt, shame, agitation people experience. In comparison to the experience of love I had in Egypt, I felt numb, separate and deeply saddened.

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This breathwork session single handedly began my journey with understanding and embodying states of love, joy, bliss, and welcoming in fear, shame and grief as a part of the broad spectrum of emotions we can feel as a human.

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What if what you feel is just 1/10th of what could be possible? And what if those states of love, joy, bliss could expand and grow exponentially?

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Questions I committed to answering & Wild Love was formed.

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As deep as you dive, you access the HIGHS in equal measure.

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Fast-forward to the past two years, my exploration of Wild Love Breathwork has been changing my life. I find it hard to put into words the states of love, joy, bliss I am experiencing. Self acceptance is at an all time high, I am moving through challenges with relative ease and grace, and am overcoming burnout by turning more of my awareness to the felt sense of my body’s yes and no.

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I am breaking old patterns and LOVE has become a baseline, even through some seriously challenging times.

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Not only that:
- I am no longer over indulging in feeling.
- I am no longer feeling unlovable, disgusting or defective.
- I know my worth.
- I speak my truth.
- I am committed to life.
- I know what my needs are.
- I know what I desire.
- I am the creatrix of my life.
- I am fully relaxed when in company.
- When I notice myself suppressing emotions, I NOTICE IT!!
- I ride the waves of loss/grief, rather than being in a state of loss/grief.
- I feel more connected to LOVE on a daily basis.
- Deepening experiences of intuition, clairvoyance, dreams and telepathy. NO JOKE.
- I am more mindful of who I spend my energy with.
- My or-g a $m $ OMG...
- I have deeper experiences of wild energy while self pleasuring.
- It also was very supportive in healing covid in just 5 days.

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Deep down I know I am still only beginning to explore the depth of possibilities available to me. And you are invited to experience this realm of love too!

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Wild Love: Practitioner Training is HERE!

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What is WILD LOVE?
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EXPERIENCING the physical expression of LOVE within the body and using that love to heal the beliefs that fuel emotions like shame, guilt, anger & fear.
START DATE: July 12th, 2023
SENSUALITY, WILD ENERGY, HEALING SEXUAL TRAUMA.
SESSION: A 2.5hr Self Exploration & Breathwork Workshop for the first 3 weeks of every month bi-monthly for 6 months.
WHATSAPP GROUP: Community building through a private group to share resources, keep us accountable and build community.

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Session times, dates, course outline are all on the website!

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If you’re feeling the call, DM me to explore more! We have already filled a couple spots and will keep this training limited so that you get plenty of high-level support throughout our 6 month journey.

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This will be a truly incredible experience. It's time to break the patterns. Enough pretending, no more faking it, or seeking validation. There is no better time than now to live in your full authenticity.

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This world needs you.

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Karina Pupo - Yoga | Breathwork | Sound Vibration No one should love you more than YOU. I began to see the value in my Yoga practice and the little light bulb moments that occurred on my mat began to land as a practice in real life. I stopped caring so much about what others thought of me, I was not so highly strung or stressed, the little things that would once bother me no longer did. I began to see value in the person I am and for the first time in my life, began to see how hard I was on myself, ALL THE TIME. I could see how I would beat myself up with a baseball bat after every conversation I had with anyone, overthink and tear myself apart regardless of what was discussed. If I did something I would tell myself why what I did was so crap, and that I would always be substandard. My self-esteem was the lowest of low and through my yoga practice, I began to become aware of it all, like it was an ugly mural across a wall in a back alley. All these little insights into myself were shocking and horrible to actually see, but being able to see my habitual bullying thought processes has enabled me to correct them and understand that I don’t have to listen to or believe those thoughts. Through courage, time and practice, I stopped listening to the thoughts that would bring me down and despite it all, I actually started liking myself. This was when The Yoga Movement was born. I know there are people like me out there. We overthink, overanalyse, over communicate, over criticise, judge & under love ourselves to breaking point, habitually, over and over. But what if it didn’t have to be like this anymore? I believe Yoga and meditation should be accessible to everyone. I believe in a world where Yoga is offered to people of all abilities, body types, ages, genders, socioeconomic status… I mean it! EVERYONE. Why? Because if everyone in the world had an opportunity to feel good about themselves, then there would be less suffering in ourselves, and therefore less suffering in others. It is my dream to help you shift your stuff through the practices that I know. To change the world and make it a better place, first we need to change ourselves to become the best we can be. You CAN be the best you can be! Become a part of The Yoga Movement. About Karina: Karina has a Bachelor of Education in Human Movement, Health Education from Sydney University. She is a 300hr Yoga Teacher and Personal Trainer. She has completed two 200hr Foundational Yoga Teacher Trainings with Absolute Yoga Academy and HYA Yoga Studios & Academy and a 100hr Yin Yoga Teacher Training with Sarah Owen & Janine Leagh. Karina teaches Power Yoga, Hot Yoga and Dynamic Flow Yoga and Yin Yoga. She teaches regular classes at HYA Yoga Studios & Academy, and you can see their timetable here. She has 10 years experience in the health and education industry, with a background in welfare and mental health. In her previous career, Karina was a high school PDHPE teacher with a background in Welfare and positive mental health for teenagers and young adults. Her online programs are written with a wealth of knowledge and experience behind her. As your teacher I will always teach with enthusiasm and love. My classes are energising and uplifting with a focus on connecting breath to movement, and developing deep mental focus that you can take with you into real life. Yoga is different for everybody. However, I believe that Yoga is not about how flexible you are, it’s about what you learn on the way down. - Level 1 Yoga Alliance Yoga Teacher - Level 1 Gymnastics Coach - Certificate III & IV in Fitness - Bachelor of Education (Human Movement, Health Education) - Senior First Aid/CPR