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Hello beautiful being, I'm Laya also known as Catherine

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As a spiritual guide, my life's passion and mission are to help you reconnect with your soul and manifest your full divine potential.

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I am grateful for my teachers and mentors from all realms:

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From across the veil - I want to thank all of my blood ancestors especially my great great grandmother Lea who although I have never met her in the flesh, her spirit guides me; my mother who recently crossed over; my dear friend and mentor from Peru - Marcela Pantigozo for teaching me to trust my own connection to spirit and la Virgen de Guadalupe who is a pillar of light, strength, healing and guidance.

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From this plane, I want to also thank my human teachers - my numerous mentors in yoga therapeutics; family constellation and energy healing and shamanic drumming; my clients; my friends and especially my husband, Bill and my son, Nico.

 

From the natural world - I want to thank the lands of France, the United States, Mexico and Peru for giving me a home and a homecoming to remembering myself.  I want to thank the medicine of all of the elements - earth, fire, water and wind and of the minerals and plants, winged ones and four leggeds. In particular I want to thank hummingbird, pink salt, cacao, rose medicine, the mother drum,, the llama rattle and the flowers that speak their medicine.

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And last but not least, I want to thank my traumas and life challenges - moving to this country as a child immigrant, not speaking a word of English and being bullied; an emotionally abusive divorce of my parents across continents; a life threatening surgery in my 20s; miscarriages and infertility; a failed adoption; sexual abuse and most recently losing my parents.  

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All of these events and relationships have shaped who I am much more than any formal education or trainings. But of course, I also continue to study.  Below is a list of some of the passions I have pursued.

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Although my practice has evolved tremendously over time, my mission has remained the same:

​To help people align with their internal world, return to their true spiritual essence, and experience their innate wholeness!!

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I founded Laya Yoga in 2005 with the goal of bringing together my 25 years of experience in various therapeutic modalities into one philosophy and integrated offering.

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Today I combine my understanding of social work, trauma, ancestral healing, energy work, spiritual rituals, earth medicine and more to transcend a linear individual healing model to make room for a holistic multidisciplinary approach that honors the whole of one's being.