If you’re navigating the loss of someone you love, please know you don’t have to do it alone.

Grief is one of life’s most profound challenges, a deeply personal journey that can feel overwhelming, endless, and impossible to bear. Many of us would do anything to avoid this pain. Yet with the right support, grief can also become a doorway to unexpected growth and transformation.

Koren Paalman created Conscious Grieving® in 2007 following the death of her life partner. At the time, no one was integrating yoga with grief support. The sadness felt unbearable and the path forward seemed impossible to find. Traditional grief counseling helped, but she needed something more, something that recognized that grief lives in the body as much as in the heart and mind.

When she finally found emotional support and learned somatic skills to help her process the loss, something shifted. The grief didn’t disappear, but it began to open rather than destroy. It changed the direction of her life in ways she couldn’t have imagined.

That experience became the foundation for Conscious Grieving®, a registered trademark and methodology born from lived experience and refined through years of helping herself and others navigate loss. Since then, she’s experienced many deaths of people close to her. Each loss has deepened her understanding that while grief is universal, each person’s journey through it is unique. She brings this hard-won wisdom, along with her 30+ years of yoga expertise as a Senior Iyengar teacher and certified yoga therapist, to this deeply personal work.