NANCY NECHAMA KARP
Holistic Healing Artist ~ Sound Energy Alchemist ~ Urban Zen Integrative Therapist ~ Trauma Informed Restorative Yoga Teacher & Meditation Guide ~ Energy Medicine Therapist

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I am passionate about compassion. And I’m dedicated to be in service holding space for others to consciously connect with their inner sense of well-being and to help people release pain, fatigue, anxiety, chronic stress, hopelessness and remember the infinite source of life flowing through them available as loving wisdom.

Practicing daily self-Reiki and self-care rituals for personal wellbeing, I wake up every day grateful to be alive. It wasn't always that way. From a very young age I was in an environment that fed a growing low self-esteem, negative self-talk compounded by an undiagnosed congenital hearing impairment, and sensitivity to the suffering animals and natural world that ultimately manifested over the years as spiritual angst and chronic clinical depression.

There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen

Consciously working to heal my relationship with my mother, who is now my beloved, cherished, and best friend, I began on a healing path in early 2000 by learning how to cultivate a beautiful life. I have certifications in Reiki, Gong Therapy, Vocal Sound Healing, and Yoga, as well as in Integrative Therapy as taught by the Urban Zen Integrative Therapy Program combining restorative yoga,  essential oil therapy, Guided Breath and Body Awareness meditations, bearing witness, and Reiki Healing Treatments.

Introduced to the transformative power of the gong in Kundalini Yoga classes, when I completed my Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training in 2009, I purchased my first gong as a graduation present to myself. I have since gone on to study with Don Conreaux in his first Gong Master certification at the Integral Yoga Institute NY, and dove deeper into the healing power of the gong to emerge in 2014 guiding sound bath meditations specializing in gongs and private Gong Therapy sessions as taught by Mehtab Benton.

Based in New York City, private and semi-private sessions are either in my home-office in the East Village or in private homes. I’ve given group Gong Sound Baths at the Open Center, the Floating Lotus Spa, special events such as memorial services, meditations, Goddess On The Go, and fundraising benefits for notable organizations such as The Garrison Institute, and Tibet House.

I began practicing Reiki in 2005 providing over 300 hours of Reiki and Integrative Therapy to patients and caregivers in clinical rotations at Beth Israel Hospital and Rivington House.

An experienced Reiki Circle and trained Women’s Ways™ Circle facilitator I also provided on-call private Spiritual Counseling and Reiki sessions to clients of the Integral Yoga Institute-Spa.

I began teaching The Tibetan Rites, a yogic style series, at September Space NY/Wold Cares 9/11 Community Center in 2006 and provided Reiki and auricular therapy (ear acupuncture and ear seeds) in community clinics and for the Mayan people in Guatemala in 2010-2011.

Customized sessions may include anything from my toolbox mentioned above and Gong Therapy, shamanic drumming, rattles, Himalayan singing bowls, Acutonic® Tuning Forks, Vocal Sound Healing, Essential Oil Therapy, yoga, intuitive guidance, and wellness coaching.

I also provide a special Healing Insomnia session in private homes with my signature Good Night Gong™ sound bath–a luxurious journey into deep, restorative sleep that may help diminish insomnia, reset the circadian rhythm for healthy sleep cycles, enrich dream-time, and provide increased revitalization upon waking the next morning.

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SOUND HEALING

2016 - Gong Therapy certification by Mehtab Benton, Kundalini Yogi, Teacher Trainer, Author, Vedic Astrologer, Founder of YOGA YOGA studios in Austin, Texas

2013 - Gong Master certification by Don Conreaux, Grand Gong Master

2011 - Vocal Sound Healing certification by Tom Kenyon

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REIKI RYOHO

(Spiritual Practice and Hands-on Healing Art)

2011 - Master Komyo Reiki Shinpiden/Teacher - trained and attuned by Rev. Hyakuten Inamoto founder of Komyo ReikiDo (formerly Komyo Reiki Kai)

2011 - Master Usui/Tibetan Reiki Ryoho - trained and attuned by William Lee-Rand founder of the International Center for Reiki Training (ICRT)

2009 - Reiki 1 training with Pamela Miles and Lena Falth in conjunction with the UZIT training of the same year

2008 - Master Usui Shiki Ryoho Reiki - 1-year Program - trained and attuned by The Center of Living Light Reiki Master Teachers (RMT); Carmen Loriño, R.N., Randi Lynn Ditman-Ibrahim, and Len Ditman

2007 - Shinpiden (Level 3) Usui Reiki Ryoho - trained and attuned by Franz Steine of International House of Reiki

2006 - Advanced Practitioner (Level 3 ) Usui Shiki Ryoho Reiki - trained and attuned by the Center of Living Light

2006 - Level 2 Usui Shiki Ryoho Reiki - Trained and attuned by The Center of Living Light

2005 - Level 1 Usui Shiki Ryoho Reiki - Trained and attuned by The Center of Living Light

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YOGA

I’ve completed teacher training certifications in Exhale to Inhale trauma informed Yoga, Womb Yoga/Well Woman Yoga, Yoga for Children, Restorative and Therapeutic Yoga, and Kundalini Yoga.

During my Reiki training, I gained an appreciation for the importance of being physically fit and healthy and mentally sound to be a strong vehicle for the sacred current running through me for it to flow to better be of service to others. 

Exploring a variety of yoga styles in search of a personal practice that could be done every day at home that supports spiritual evolution she found what is referred to as the Tibetan Rites - a practice that synthesizes all of the senses (except taste,) and motor-faculties in a moving meditation.

Sharing the practice of the Tibetan Rites with friends and family, a friend encouraged her to pursue a teaching path and the yoga training path that called to her was Kundalini Yoga. She made a commitment to practice purely Kundalini Yoga for the duration of the training in 2008. The Tibetan Rites are a component of her morning routine and she guides students and clients in a variety of yoga styles depending on what they need.

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2009-2011 - 300-hours certification - Urban Zen Integrative Therapy Program (UZIT): Restorative Yoga, Essential Oil Therapy, Contemplative Care and Reiki certified by Rodney Yee, Colleen Saidman-Yee, Tracy Griffiths, Roshi Joan Halifax, and Pamela Miles and Lena Falth.

2008 - 200-hours certification - Level 1 Kundalini Yoga as Taught by Yogi Bhajan for the Aquarian Age certified by the Sat Jivans, founders of Kundalini Yoga East.

2005 - Tibetan Rites practice and teaching based on the book The Ancient Secret of the Fountain of Youth by Peter Kelder.

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MORE HEALING ARTS

2016 - iRest™Level 1 Yoga Nidra certified by Richard Miller, PhD

2015 - Harmonic Renewal Facial Tuning Forks - certified by Mary-Elizabeth Wakefield, L.Ac.

2010 - Auricular Acupuncture (N.A.D.A.) certified by Michael O. Smith, M.D., D.Ac.  of Lincoln Medical & Mental Health Center

Circles & Rituals

Member since 2001 and Shamanic Adept with Deep Arrow Woman, M.S. Ed. of Moonfire Meeting House founded in 1990

A Circle of Women™ - trained and facilitator with Deep Arrow Woman/Lorraine Simone, M.S.Ed., founder of the School of Women's Ways/Moonfire Meeting House

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Completed the AHA Heartsaver® CPR/AED Adult Child Infant Course - valid through 03/2019

Sat Nam, Aloha, Shalom, Namasté, Kadeeshté, Tashi Dalek!