Karina Kalilah

Karina Kalilah – CEO & Founder of the Embodied Breath Academy.

With 10 years Breathwork & Sound Healing experience, over 15 years experience in holding transformational spaces, and 20 years in Teaching & Education, I feel passionately about creating a safe & creatively curated space for you to thrive.

Hello!

I am Karina Kalilah; Embodied Breathwork Practitioner and Somatic Integration Coach; I create Sacred Sound Medicine with my voice and crystal bowls.

I guide seekers, visionaries, and creatives like YOU into ecstatic liberation, the kind of freedom that isn’t just a mindset, but something you feel pulsing through your body.

Through breathwork journeys, I help you release stored tension and awaken the life force that’s been waiting inside you. My sound healing + sonic & somatic experiences use rhythm, vibration, and voice as medicine to rewire your energy, drop you out of the mind, and connect you back to your raw, unfiltered self.

In my Ecstatic Dance Ceremonies, your shadow becomes fuel for freedom. We move through contraction into expansion, through silence into rhythm, through heaviness into ecstasy. It’s part ritual, part celebration, and always a rebirth.

No performance, no perfection. Here it’s about remembering who you are at your deepest core… messy, wild, magnetic, and free.

Today I am able to share my story of healing through the modalities I offer that were the foundation to my healing process. I now share my most inspired and empowered self with you all. But it wasn’t always like this.

HOW DID I GET HERE?

I was sitting in the middle of the desert at burning man. I found myself immersed in a profound moment, the sunrise painted the sky in a spectacular display, accompanied by the reverberating bass from a nearby art car, and as tears streamed down my face, I realised the journey leading to this moment had been arduous: from undergoing explant surgery and the subsequent physical changes, to the intense highs and devastating lows of falling in love and its eventual collapse due to old programming playing out.

In the aftermath, I navigated my emotions as best I could, drawing upon years of experience as a breathwork practitioner. Despite employing tools and strategies to manage my thoughts and feelings, I found myself instinctively diving into my business, a longstanding coping mechanism to avoid pain. As long as I remained occupied with work, the deep-seated pain remained buried within.

I was abundant, I was succeeding & I was living the life of my dreams… It felt so good!!

But the foundations were all built on fear:
Fear of not being enough.
Fear of failure.
Fear of being obsolete.
Fear of not being loveable.

Significant pain is not meant to stay hidden forever.

After six months of pouring myself into my business, expanding my client base even further and building a team to support this expansion, I noticed that my nervous system was fried & I realised I was using work to mask deep-seated fears. One scorching Sunday in Bali, as vertigo set in and burnout loomed, I knew a drastic change was necessary.

I allowed myself the time to heal, understanding that true, lasting healing cannot be rushed or superficial. I reconnected to the transformative power of breathwork, a practice that had changed my life in 2016 when I first became a practitioner. Over the next 9 months, I committed to practices aimed at integrating fears, reprogramming beliefs, realigning my body, and making new, conscious choices. Through Conscious Connected Breathing, singing, dance, and movement, I began to re-embody my inner light.

You can read more about my origin stories & times before this here… The reason why I became left my career, how the EBA Started, I went deaf in 2013, I travelled the world in 2015, I made music in 2019 despite being deaf, I healed trauma in 2016, Pandemic in Bali in 2020 and so much more…

What Changed?

During this process, I gained clarity on my true desires and gave myself permission to release what no longer served my highest good. This path was challenging yet led me to a profound sense of self-love, compassion, healthy boundaries with myself & my business, and began attracting aligned experiences. The ‘old’ fell away, brick by brick, the old foundations began to crumble.

I am more attuned to my thoughts, emotions, and behaviours, welcoming them with love and compassion.

Through dedicated effort, I am reprogramming my mind to embrace new beliefs about myself and life, aligning myself with the truth of who I really am, before the world told me who to be.

The result? A newfound sense of:
♥️ Knowing myself and I know my worth.
♥️ Self love & acceptance, that I can hold myself through anything.
♥️ A deep sense of trust in myself.
♥️ Listening… to divine timing & messages that come through intuitive channels.
♥️ I am grounded, centred, peaceful amongst the chaos (most of the time), and have access to regular experiences of JOY.
♥️ Redefining success!
♥️ Can move the emotions as they arise and use the energy in effective ways to lead a magnetic life.

I want you to know that this transformation is within reach for anyone, including YOU.

It is my passion to create a safe and loving space for you to embark on your own journey of self-discovery and empowerment. I offer a nurturing environment where all aspects of your awakening are welcomed. My role is to guide you to remember your own inherent love, worthiness to live a fulfilling life, in absolute enoughness.