Founder: Karla Shallenberger, Reiki Master * Holistic Healer

Dreamer & Believer

LoveJoy Energy Arts came into existence during a profound meditation experience early in my meditation practice. At the time I didn’t know what energy work was or that it even existed, I just knew I wanted to be an energy worker and be involved with healing arts. I wanted to make a difference in the lives of others, to uplift them, inspire them, and encourage them to find the healing path within themselves to make real and substantive changes in their lives like the changes my practice was creating in me.

I have experienced profound stored trauma release through energy work and meditation, and I sincerely want to help others free their bodies and themselves from their past traumas and emotional patterns. Our bodies remember and store trauma energetically even when our conscious minds believe it’s dealt with, or sometimes even repressed. Energy work, meditation, and breath work did all of those for me and more. It helped build a bridge of enormous healing and create such profound change in my life that it is now my mission and my passion to share that with others.

After deepening my practice and my education, I became certified in Reiki Energy work achieving my Master Reiki level in 2022. I have been developing my meditation practice for over 10 years while studying the physical, emotional, and spiritual benefits that accompany meditation, breath work, and energy balancing to create and uplift our lives. I am deeply interested in the latest work in the sciences of epigenetics, neuroplasticity, heart and brain coherence, and quantum physics in how the health of our body is directly influenced by our thoughts, our breath, and our energetic vibrations. I apply all of these studies in my work to help my clients reach their optimal lives.

It is now my life’s work to bring positivity, light and inspiration to everyone around me, to uplift, encourage and excite the one that lives in all of us, the one who knows our best life is within us, sometimes it just needs the right company along the path to help us find ourselves.

Prior to entering the exciting world of Reiki and Transformational Coaching, I spent over 25 years in the legal world as a freelance court reporter. During some of those years, I cared for my mother with dementia and became a Certified Dementia/Alzheimer’s “Savvy Caregiver” with the Alzheimer’s Association. Understanding the subtleties of our energy bodies helps me continue to connect with my mother as she passes through her dementia journey.

I’ve attended multiple workshops and seminars on energy work, meditation, breath work, and heart-brain coherence.

Languages: English and Italian