We all hold within ourselves incredible strength, resilience, and potential for healing, transformation, and growth.
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Svälja Whole-Being is a community healing center right in the heart of downtown Duluth.
At Svalja, over thirty guides and teachers offer opportunities for growth and healing through: yoga, fitness, qigong, wellness workshops, and a Yoga Teacher Training school with multi-level options.
Our team — and the community we cultivate — is fueled by a whole-being, well-being approach.
Here we support people on their own unique healing journey. We strive to share practices and wellness modalities in a way that is accessible, inclusive, and honors choice.
The Svälja Vision:
Creating a world where all people can belong and be whole.
The Whole-being Well-being Approach
Trauma Conscious | Healing Centered | Growth Oriented
At Svälja Whole-Being (pronounced “svehl-yah”) all of our offerings are trauma-conscious.
Yoga means to unite. Yoga is a pathway to well-being and to the realization of our innate wholeness. We guide participants to connect with their internal resources and potential for healing, transformation, and growth. Through this exploratory journey we rediscover home, deep within: our true selves.
As a trauma survivor I have experienced a sense of separation from myself and the world. I felt like I no longer belonged here. Since practicing yoga I have been able to reconnect with myself, build my self-confidence, and begin to find my center. Yoga saved my life! — Jenny C. (PAVSA Yoga Participant)
“We are all just walking each other home.”
—Ram Dass
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W H O L E N E S S
And just like you
the moon has always
been whole
No matter how much
sunlight is striking its skin
Even if just a crescent
of shimmering light
you do not have to be
full to shine
Every inch of you
already exists, even if
held in sacred darkness
waiting to be revealed
. . .
K y l e L e i a
As Svälja’s founder and former studio owner, Kyle Leia remains a beloved and integral member of our team. She continues to share her passion as a yoga guide, lead teacher for the Trauma Conscious Program, and a dedicated Svälja Ambassador.
Beyond her work with the studio, Kyle is also an accomplished poet. You can learn more about Kyle Leia and explore her poetry here.