Healing & Strength Building Yoga for Creating a More Healthy Balanced Life!
Through our yoga practice, we learn to look at ourselves, including the parts of us that are less evolved or pleasant. Learning how to do this physically with discomfort in an asana (pose) helps us to do this emotionally, spiritually and on every other level.
Yoga is the human quest for remembering our true nature, our deepest selves. In every human heart lies a deep longing to connect to something bigger than oneself, to find a sense of belonging and meaning to life. We are all individuals of the Divine and we are all one with this Universe.
All of this is why we practice yoga on and off our mats.
Karen grew up in Southern California with a passion for health and fitness.
In the 1980's her love of dancing led her to a career teaching aerobics while also spending time horse back riding. Her life experience also includes a four year business degree and twenty years in corporate human resources, fifteen of those years being spent in management and training. Karen's journey into yoga began in 2005 as part of her effort to heal and rehabilitate her mother after suffering a brain aneurism. Yoga also served to help Karen heal her mind and body. Not only did she find yoga to be a successful way to restore her mother's physical health, she also discovered the profound healing properties of yoga for mental as well as emotional stress. Karen has been teaching yoga since 2007.
Karen offers yoga classes and private yoga sessions in Granada Hills, Mission Hills, North Hills, Northridge, Chatsworth, and Porter Range CA. To enroll in a class or to schedule a private session please email karen@happykatyoga.com your request or call 818-209-0200.
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"I am athletic but always feel spastic with yoga. Karen explained poses well-easy to understand and intuitive. This was the first time someone explained the whole breathing thing as well-definitely makes a difference. Great job! I would take a class with Karen again."
"Class was wonderful especially for me because I'm so new at this! Karen is so helpful with the poses and moves. Very relaxing."
"This was an excellent experience to be able to do yoga without feeling concerned about hurting weakened body parts. For the first time I feel very relaxed and calm after working my body"
"I have taken many yoga classes with different teachers and I feel that Karen is very skilled and does a great job of choosing poses that match the class levels. I am comfortable modifying my own poses, but she also constantly makes sure that my special needs are met. I feel challenged but also, that my need to use yoga for relaxing is satisfied. I am really enjoying the class!"
"I like to explore different poses to see what works and what does not. I think it is great to take into consideration different peoples limitations and be able to work around it. Understanding that everyone's anatomy is different greatly helps. Thank you for the class. You are great!! The 5 second massage during savasana helps to relax."
