Carra began practicing Vipassana meditation in 2009. She has spent over 120 days (non-consecutive!) in silent retreat and served for a year as residential staff at Cloud Mountain Retreat Center in Castle Rock, WA. She is a graduate of the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program, guided by Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield. She is also a very proud graduate of the 2023 Glowing Body Teacher Training. Carra lives in rural Knoxville, is a proud chicken mom, and in is her first year of acupuncture study at Jung Tao School of Classical Chinese Medicine.