Founder: Karla Shallenberger, Reiki Master * Holistic Healer * Trauma-Sensitive HeartMath Practitioner
Dreamer & Believer
LoveJoy Energy Arts came into existence during a profound meditation experience early in my meditation practice. At the time I didn’t know what energy work was or that it even existed, I just knew I wanted to be an energy worker and be involved with healing arts. I wanted to make a difference in the lives of others, to uplift them, inspire them, and encourage them to find the healing path within themselves to make real and lasting changes in their lives like the changes my practice was creating in me.
I have experienced profound stored-trauma release through energy work and meditation. I sincerely want to help others free their bodies and themselves. Our bodies remember and store trauma energetically even when our conscious mind believes it’s dealt with. Energy work, meditation, and breath work did all of those for me and more. It helped build a bridge of integration and healing that created a profound change in my life. It is now my mission and my passion to share that with others.
After deepening my practice and my education, I became certified in Reiki Energy achieving my Master Reiki level III in 2022. I have been developing my meditation practice for over 15 years while studying the physical, emotional, and spiritual benefits that accompany meditation, breath work, and energy balancing to support and uplift our lives. I am a Trauma-Sensitive HeartMath Practitioner focusing on training and teaching a deeper understanding in how breath work with a heart focus can bring our nervous systems into a balanced, coherent state that is the stepping-stone for enabling our bodies to begin the journey of release and renewal. Our bodies know who to heal. Once we get out of our head and into our heart, the body does the rest.
I am deeply interested in the latest work in the sciences of epigenetics, neuroplasticity, heart and brain coherence, and quantum physics in how the health of our body is directly influenced by our thoughts, our breath, and our energetic vibrations. I apply all of these studies in my work to help my clients reach a deeper understanding of their body and the magnificence it holds in its ability to heal itself.
Prior to entering the world of Reiki, Transformational Coaching, and HeartMath coherence work, I spent over 30 years in the legal world as a freelance court reporter. During some of those years, I cared for my mother with dementia and became a Certified Dementia/Alzheimer’s “Savvy Caregiver” with the Alzheimer’s Association. Understanding the subtleties of our energy bodies helped me to connect and care for my mother as she passed through her dementia journey.
I’ve attended multiple workshops and seminars on energy work, meditation, breath work, and heart-brain coherence.
It is my goal to bring positivity, light and inspiration to everyone around me, to uplift, encourage, and excite the one that lives in all of us, the one who knows our best life is within us. Believing that a change is possible is the first step in a healing journey. I believe in the power of energy, of love, and the power of connection to make an incredible impact on ourselves and the world.
The way appears when we take the first step. I look forward to taking some of those steps with you as you embody healing, love and joy.
Embrace life, it will embrace you back!
Languages: English, conversational Italian, beginning Spanish