Journey
I’m glad you’re reading this.
This is my Story
Hello, I’m Kim. Kara is my second name — both names feel true to me.
I use she/her pronouns.
I am white, able-bodied, a first-generation academic, and raised in Germany.
Yoga and sound are, for me, pathways of reconnection — to the body, the breath, and to what exists beyond performance, optimization, and self-exploitation.
My personal path has been shaped by rupture, inner restlessness, and a search for meaning. For a long time, yoga was primarily a physical practice for me. Over time, it became a space for honesty, regulation, and genuine transformation.
Yoga invites us not to avoid pain, but to meet it consciously — and in doing so, to discover agency, responsibility, and freedom. I understand the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali as a precise ethical framework for life: for ourselves and in relationship with others, as an invitation to conscious and responsible action.
Today, I hold spaces for people who wish to slow down, reconnect with sensation, and cultivate depth, presence, and inner clarity. My work is calm and attentive — rooted in respect, accountability, and the belief that everything essential already lives within us.
Honoring the roots of yoga is central to my work. Yoga, to me, is not a sport and not a consumable wellness product, but a complex, living path with cultural, spiritual, and philosophical origins.
As a white yoga student, I understand my practice and my work as an ongoing process of learning: listening, reflecting, making power structures visible, and remaining mindful of the ongoing oppression of BIPOC and other marginalized communities.
Yoga acknowledges suffering — personal and collective — while also offering pathways toward freedom, even in the presence of internal and external limitations. It can support and hold us, bringing us into deeper connection with ourselves, other beings, and the world.
Yoga challenges us to continue learning and to repeatedly question our values and privileges.
May the yoga path never come to an end — may we always remain students.
In reverence and with humble gratitude toward yoga and all those who have walked this path before us, and the teachings that have been passed down to us.
Om Shanti Shanti Shanti Om
