Awaken with Susan Klein-Holman
Susan Klein-Holmen is a multi-passionate entrepreneur. The Founder and Creative Director STELLdesign, and Yoga Teacher and Mentor at her own school: Kosha Yoga Shala.
She grew up in the prairies of the mid-west. Her Scandanavian heritage continued to call her soul back to her native land. So in 2004, she moved to Norway with her Norwegian husband.
She started an interior architecture company, working with clients in two languages, both Norwegian and English, all while raising 3 children, and doing her absolute best to do everything right!
Her love for yoga and spirituality continued to flourish in Norway. After taking her first class back in Oregon, while completing her Masters degree, she started teaching her own classes and opened her own school Kosha Yoga Shala and the Kosha Yoga Teacher Training Program.
Susan talks about how the practice of yoga has influenced the way she approaches her creative work, the way she lives, eats and breathes, as well as how it changed her relationship to her loved ones and herself.
There is a common thread between practising yoga and being inside a beautiful, well-design space. Both uplift the human spirit. Space is sacred. It holds us. It holds our interactions. It holds the dance between doing and non-doing. Aesthetics, like yoga, can heal and bring us closer to the feeling of AWE.
Susan shares with us a very intense and terrifying experience that changed her life forever.
It happened to her while at a yoga retreat. Her story is one that maybe you can relate to?
We’re sharing it because there needs to be more awareness around how these types of powerful spiritual practices can open up the mind to the movement of transcendental energy.
As more and more people in the West are practising different types of chanting, meditation, breathwork and yoga, it seems more important than ever that teachers are aware of what can happen. It’s essential as a yoga teacher to know how to support students around these powerful energetic transformations and how to create safe spaces for them. This is something that isn’t being taught on your typical yoga teacher training.
Susan is particularly qualified to support others who are experiencing this type of awakening, as she’s been there herself. And she knows just how disorienting it can be!
Her mission is to continue to educate and create more awareness in yoga communities around the topics of spiritual emergence, and emergencies, so that yoga teachers and practitioners know what to look for when seeking out spiritual teachers, and can clearly identify the red flags!
Susan completed her Spiritual Emergence Coach training with Dr Emma Bragdon the founder of IMHU. You can listen to our podcast with Dr. Emma Bragdon *episode 164.
She is offering peer support to others having challenging awakening experiences.
Susan is offering an Immersion training called Awaken this fall. It’s a special program for women in perimenopause and menopause who are experiencing low energy, low mood, overwhelm, anxiety and burn-out who want feel a sense of joy, energy and creativity again.
Keep an eye on her website for more details.
Come practice with me in person in 2023
Barcelona: September 22 - 26, 2023
Madrid: September 27 - October 1, 2023
Cleveland, OH: November 3 - 6, 2023
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