Karla Helbert, LPC, C-IAYT, is a licensed professional counselor, yoga therapist, Compassionate Bereavement Care® provider, certified Divine Sleep® yoga nidra guide, award-winning author, and a bereaved mother. Her life was forever changed after her first-born son died of a brain tumor in 2006. Karla’s award-winning book Yoga for Grief and Loss is endorsed and used as a teaching tool by experts in the fields of yoga, grief and loss. Karla is a volunteer with the MISS Foundation, an international non-profit organization dedicated to supporting families after the death of a child, and co-creator of the the foundation’s training program for yoga and mental health, combining current science and research on grief and trauma with the ancient teachings of yoga.