Photo by Angus Rainbow

Karen has been living in Vail and practicing yoga for 30 years.

Her yoga practice began as a complement to athletic training, but has become a guide to moving through the world with relaxed attention and an open heart.

Before yoga and meditation became her career, she was an economist for 17 years, spending two years at Goldman, Sachs on Wall Street and 15 with a small firm in Vail. Karen has an undergraduate degree from Stanford and PhD all but dissertation from Berkeley.

Karen is a long-time student of alignment-based Ashtanga yoga with Richard Freeman.  She has advanced certification in classical vinyasa yoga with Andrei Ram in the lineage of Sri Dharma Mittra, and in kriya yoga and yoga nidra with Everett Newell in the tradition of Swami Rama. Karen studied yogic history and philosophy with Georg Feuerstein.

A certified massage therapist, Karen enjoys the study of anatomy and therapeutic applications of yoga.  She emphasizes the internal and external alignment that make yoga poses safe and beneficial, as well as the cultivation of a meditative attitude and experience.

Karen's training in meditation is primarily in the Indo-Tibetan Buddhist tradition.  She is empowered and certified to teach meditation by Noah Levine in the lineage of Jack Kornfield and the Thai forest Buddhist tradition.  She has attended eleven 30-day silent meditation retreats in Asia and the US.

Karen is registered E-RYT500 and as a continuing education provider with the Yoga Alliance. She recently completed a year-long Reiki Master apprenticeship with Susan Chiocchi.