About | Layla Barnies

I offer: Heart centered regulated skillful support.

There’s a place where you are safe and supported.

There’s a place where you are at peace and presence

There’s a place where your whole body relaxes and vibrates with life

There’s a place where your true essence lives

I’ll meet you there.

My Background

So, What Is It That You Do?

My mission is to share, guide, & facilitate holistic health, vitality, engagement, connection and community for collective liberation, collective awakening, collective harmony and collective wholeness.

I use sacred & healing arts, earth-based practices, rituals and evidence- based lifestyle habits for healing, wholeness and harmony in body/mind/soul.

B.A. Sociology/ Psychology -The George Washington University, 2000
M.S., E.D. University of Pennsylvania, 2001
Experienced-RYT — Registered Yoga Teacher, 2006
Founding Board Member and Administrator, Septima Clark Public Charter School, 2006
Co- founder, National Kids Yoga Conference, 2014
Founder, lil omm Yoga & Wellness, 2007–2015
Founder, LOLA COMMUNITY, 2016+Present
Holistic Health Coach, Institute for Integrative Nutrition, 2011
Certification in Foundations of Positive Psychology, UPENN, 2018
Ayurvedic Lifestyle Wellness Coach, Shakti School, 2019
Author, Delight, 2016
Author, Plan to Thrive, 2018
Author, Little Little, 2021
Adjunct Professor at The American University Department of Health Studies & AU- Experience, 2017–2021
Mind- Body Medicine Facilitator, 2019
Extended Studies in Vedic Counseling, 2019–2020
Certified Inner Voice Facilitator, 2020
Rising Kohenet, 2020
International End of Life Care Training ( Death Doula) 2020
Adjunct Professor of Ayurvedic Psychology at Maryland University of Integrative Health, 2021
Trauma Resolution & Integration, 2021-Present

I am Pleasance ( Shamirah) Silicki, eternal student of awe & wonder.

I work with… weaving ancestor reverence, grief & gratitude, dreams, S.O.L. practices ( Sacred Ordinary Life), healing arts, earth- based rituals, spiral and cycles, into our daily, modern, full, vibrant lives.

I teach: how to align with seasons, cycles, spirals and connection with earth based reverence as a mental health practice.

I teach: regenerative practices for the S.O.L. ( Sacred Ordinary Life).

I am the creator of …the L.O.L.A ( lil omm life academy) Community.

Who I Help

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What's in It for You

i weave ancient & modern

practices for personal and collective healing& care.

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