Yoga ~ Massage & Bodywork ~ Ayurveda ~ Artist Gallery & Boutique ~ Art Classes
The Karuna Shala, Yoga, Massage & Bodwork Studio, Glen Ridge, NJ
855 Bloomfield Ave.
2nd Floor, Suite 208
Glen Ridge, NJ 07028
United States
ph: 973.743.1211
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Living our Dharma...
We opened The Karuna Shala to express our passion and deep commitment for the work we do. Through the physical and spiritual movement of Yoga and Bodywork, we have found our ‘true’ nature and creative spirit. This has infused our lives with a sense of healing, balance, liberation and peace. We feel blessed to have the opportunity to share it with others.
We hope you will come to visit us at The Karuna Shala, enjoy a cup of chai and experience NAMASTE.
We look forward to meeting you!
Blessings and Peace~
Debbie and Ivy
Debra Lustberg, is a caring and nurturing person with an adventurous spirit. She has a deep connection with nature and a passion for travel. Her travels have led her across the US, South East Asia, India, Central America, New Zealand and Australia. Each of these adventures has influenced Debra’s life
and practice in a unique and significant way.
Debra began exploring the healing arts and practicing yoga in 1997. She was driven by the desire to learn holistic healing methods as an alternative to traditional Western medicine. Since then, her studies in Eastern and Western Massage & Bodywork techniques, Reiki, Yoga & Meditation have shaped Debra’s understanding of the deep connection between the mind and body. Debra believes that massage and bodywork has the ability to help everyone - physically, mentally and emotionally. She enjoys taking time to understand
her clients in order to address their specific needs. Whether enabling a client to breathe easier and relax, feel nurtured through touch, or recover from surgery
or other injuries, Debra practices massage as a
healing modality that helps to enhance her client’s body-awareness and help to teach the body to heal itself.
Debra is a Nationally Certified Massage Therapist and Reiki Master. She received her massage training at The Healing Hands Institute in Westwood, NJ and her Advanced Thai Massage Certification at The Thai Massage School of Chiang Mai, Thailand. A recent trip to Rishikesh, India sparked her interest in Ayurveda and she has since received certification in Ayurvedic Bodywork at Kripalu.
Ivy Giacchino-Berrocal loves being a Yoga teacher! Naturally creative and spirited, she brings her entire self to her classes, and is actively a teacher and student of Yoga.
Her education includes Chakra & Psychology study with Anodea Judith, 500-hr. Yoga Teaching Certification from Starseed Yoga Center, with Jyoti Chrystal, Prana Vinyasa with Shiva Rea, Art & Yoga with Hari Kirin Kaur, Chanting with Manorama, Ayurvedic Yoga Therapy with Dr. Marc Halpern, and a 500-hr. Advanced Yoga Teacher Training @ Yoga on Main which included Yoga & Ayurveda.
Ivy has also studied and is inspired by other forms of spirituality, such as Paganism. She doesn't believe that a Yoga class is all about Asana. She teaches a flowing style yoga that incorporates all 8 limbs of yoga.
Ivy is attentive to nature’s cycles and patterns. She lives and teaches accordingly, incorporating Ayurvedic theories into her practice and lifestyle. She is also a visual artist, who believes that Art & Yoga are soul mates and that, either done together or separate, they have tremendous healing qualities.

Let the beauty of what you love
be what you do.
~Rumi



The Karuna Shala, Yoga, Massage & Bodwork Studio, Glen Ridge, NJ
855 Bloomfield Ave.
2nd Floor, Suite 208
Glen Ridge, NJ 07028
United States
ph: 973.743.1211
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