Karena Virginia is author of Essential Kundalini Yoga and has 20 years of experience as a certified healer, spiritual mentor, and internationally acclaimed yoga instructor. Her work encourages us to connect and empower our own personal truth through love, compassion, inner beauty, heart expansion, body prayer, meditation, and quantum physics. 

Karena is a Sounds True author and a regular contributor to Yoga Journal. She was featured on the cover of Yoga Journal in 2019, and has been featured on television networks as an accessible bridge between deeply spiritual practices and media.

She studied acting in college, and spent her early 20s working in commercial television and print while discovering her passion for healing family dynamics. As a new mom, she taught prenatal and fertility yoga and began helping others overcome generational trauma. In her 30s, she discovered the link between generational trauma and the fear of shining into our potential, and has spent the past 10 years researching epigenetics, addiction, yogic philosophy, energy healing, and near-death experiences, which she herself experienced as a child after a misdiagnosed appendicitis.