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Dr. Patty Hlava and Dr. Laura Stephan are AwakenPeace. They share a mission to cultivate well-being and healing through the practices of embodied self-care and self-nurturance: Acts of authentic kindness.

What is AwakenPeace?
AwakenPeace is a collaboration. It is about joining—women joining together, traditions joined into practices—all in the support of deep healing and the awakening of wholeness that already resides within each and every one of us. This is where we awaken true peace.
Our mission is to cultivate well-being and healing through the practices of embodied self-care and self-nurturance: Acts of authentic kindness. We join the traditions of Yoga, Ayurveda, and Psychology to cultivate whole-person practices for easeful living and self-love.

We guide people into the wisdom of their bodies restoring balance in the natural physical and emotional rhythms of life.

Who are the women behind AwakenPeace?
Patty and Laura were doctoral-level mental health professionals who realized that they shared a vision for healing.

Patty Hlava, Ph.D., AWC, C.MI, RYT
Patty is a Director of Identity Evolution and Highest Capacity Intuitive specializing in Ayurveda, yoga, and psychology. She has been helping discover the best versions of themselves for over 15 years in her work in the health and wellness field as a licensed psychotherapist, certified coach, meditation instructor, registered yoga teacher, and author. Blending the ancient wisdom of Ayurveda and yoga philosophy with transpersonal psychology and modern behavioral science, Patty is an expert in guiding her clients toward sustainable habit changes for mind, body, and spirit.

She has been involved in research and teaching on the subject of gratitude since 2006. Her research has been published in the International Journal of Transpersonal Psychologyand Journal of Humanistic Psychology, as well as in several books.

Her light and playful presence is a refreshing one in the landscape of rigid health routines.