About Kalaa Integral Wellbeing
Transforming Your Wellbeing
Do you somehow feel dissatisfied with your current habits and lifestyle routines?
Do you sense within you untapped potential - possibility for change just needing a spark to set alight the flames of growth and regeneration?
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That you could do more, or do differently, to feel more attuned to and in harmony with your inner self?
That you could be working towards more authentic goals or living more aligned with your core values?
Are there challenges to your health and wellbeing that you know deep inside you are capable of working on and impacting?
Maybe all you need for things to shift within and around you is an empathic, supportive, qualified guide to:
1. Help you envision and map those first steps;
2. Aid you in tapping into and leveraging internal and external
resources to spur you forward;
3. Co-create an exploratory field to design, plan, learn and practice
more nourishing life routines & build foundations for change;
4. Observe and monitor your progress alongside you, adjusting and
adapting in line with your needs and aims; and
5. Reflect and celebrate with you as you learn, grow and change?
In addition to our coaching sessions, we facilitate workshops and retreats focused on inner exploration and personal growth. Join us in embracing a holistic path towards self-discovery and profound transformation.
Holistic Rehabilitation Support
Have you had a recent significant injury, or are living with a chronic injury or disability, and would like to link into individualised support; one that offers a holistic overview and comprehensive case management of the multidomain and multidisciplinary aspects of your care needs?
Do you feel you need assistance communicating effectively with your treatment providers? Perhaps you don’t feel fully empowered in making informed decisions about your care, or sense that there are gaps in your rehabilitation and recovery needing to be addressed?
Are your coping capacities needing more support - bolstering you in meeting challenges, fostering your strengths, overcoming barriers and mobilising required resources - to enable you to adapt and progress through this life event?
If yes - link in and let us help support you in your recovery journey; including assessment of needs and holistic rehabilitation planning, adjustment to injury counselling, workplace rehabilitation coordination and multidisciplinary case management.
In addition to our coaching sessions, we facilitate workshops and retreats focused on inner exploration and personal growth. Join us in embracing a holistic path towards self-discovery and profound transformation.
What Shapes our Offerings:
Our approach is foundationally integrative - a truly holistic frame that incorporates elements
that are evidence-informed from both science and traditional (often categorised as Western
vs Eastern) models of human care, psychology, health and development - and all methods
we work with are targeted and adapted to meet your individual needs and goals; a process
where we walk alongside you as you identify what you would like to change, and help you find
“the how” to achieve the transformation you envision!
We’ve termed the approach we work with the Bio-Psycho-Social-Subtle-Spiritual (BPSSS) model of functioning, growth and wellbeing. This builds on the biopsychosocial model of Engel (as adopted by the WHO) - which conceptualises the dynamic interplay of biological, psychological, social and environmental factors - and extends it to include the subliminal subtle and spiritual domains of the person. All domains interconnect to uniquely shape and impact our wellbeing and personal growth trajectory; our health, illness, functioning, life participation, and unfolding fulfillment of our truest selves. Consideration of these two additional domains of subtle and spiritual allows for a genuinely holistic understanding and interwoven envisioning of what is needed to shift things integrally for you.
Our approach is underpinned by the philosophy of Sri Aurobindo, which views the human being as consisting of multiple, integrally interconnected layers, with the innermost core being that of our spirit or soul (psychic); our individual, evolving essence of the divine consciousness. For our deepest inner selves to be known and free, aspiration, awareness and intentional effort are often called for to harmonise the outer layers - the surface physical, vital and mind; as we cultivate progress towards the ultimate aim of living anchored in direct contact with the higher consciousness of our Inner Being.
In this way we will work with you through an integral lens, considering all the layers of your being and their interrelation; to incorporate strategies and practices aimed to access, shift, quieten, and align those challenging outer layers that interface between our deepest inner Self and the external world.
The bottom line:
Together, we will collaborate on tapping into your intrinsic motivations and capacities, exploring deeply your individual medley of inner and outer resources and assets to facilitate change and growth towards your goals, to progress forward on your unique path as you work to achieve your version of “well-being”. And planning always includes strategies for ongoing self-management and self-care.
Get to Know Me
My name is Carla. I’m a Rehabilitation Counsellor and Yoga & Inner Work Facilitator, a wife, a daughter and a friend, and a participant in the Auroville adventure. I am blessed that my deepest inner compass orients me towards the aspiration, the seeking, discovering and practicing of the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo.
Certifications & Training:
Master of Rehabilitation Counselling
(The Dean's Scholar)
University of Sydney Rehabilitation Counsellors are Allied Health Professionals and specialist counsellors who understand the impact of disability, physical and mental health conditions and social disadvantage on people's lives, and especially the importance that work, education and meaningful participation plays in achieving inclusion, independence and self-esteem in the community.5
BA (Psychology)
University of Wollongong; the study of the science behind human behaviour, the human mind, its functions and interactions at individual and societal levels, and provides theory and practical methods for understanding our thoughts, feelings, sense of ourselves, our behaviours and growth; with the aim to improve psychological health for people across a diversity of social and cultural contexts.
Yoga Teacher Training (Hatha, Ashtanga) & Yogic studies (Tantra, Classical)
A depth of theoretical, scriptural, historical and contextual learning, in addition to extensive experience, practice and training in embodied, experiential inner exploration practices.
Consciousness-based Counselling (Integral Psychotherapy)
Currently completing: Namah Integral Health & Sri Aurobindo Society; A year-long certificate & vocational course, conducted by Dr. Soumitra Basu (psychiatrist & co-author of the book ‘Consciousness-Based Psychology: Sri Aurobindo’s Vision of Yoga, Health and Transpersonal Growth’), lays down the broad lines of clinical practice within the context of Integral Yoga Psychology. At each level of consciousness, remedial measures are discussed and proposed, providing the deepest possible immersion into the necessity and practice of Integral Psychotherapy through Consciousness-Based Counselling (CBC).
Graduate studies in International Health
Curtin University; including international health & primary health care, STIs & HIV-International perspectives, and maternal & child health in developing countries.
Studies in Integral Yoga and Integral Psychology
Including the Sva-Parichayam course with the Indian Psychology Institute (IPI); Introduction to Integral Psychology and a learning journey of consciousness-based processes and growth in self-knowledge - covering “topics like cognition and modes of knowing, self and personality, yoga-based research methodologies, processes of change, relationships, professional work involving application of psychological processes (education, therapy, etc.)... The central focus is on increasing self-knowledge and developing consciousness-based psychological skills that help both in one’s personal growth and work”.6
5 Australian Society of Rehabilitation Counsellors Ltd. (ASORC) Competencies for Rehabilitation Counsellors Fifth Edition 2020