Karen is a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner and authorized Awareness Through Movement® teacher. She also brings to the Feldenkrais work, years of experience in Buddhist and western psychological studies, a long-standing meditation practice, training in martial arts (Aikido and Tai Chi), a degree in English Literature, and work as a writer and project manager in the computer industry.

Karen’s passionate desire to explore the world, coupled with a strong interest in human development and personal growth, led her to the Feldenkrais method. While travelling in New Zealand in 2004-2005, she attended a 10-day Awareness Through Movement workshop at the Wangapeka Study and Retreat Centre (www.wangapeka.org). During the workshop she experienced immediate benefits, including reduction of chronic pain in areas such as the neck and back, reduced mental tensions, relaxation of the entire nervous system, and greater flexibility and stability in physical movement, sensing, thinking, and feeling. These results convinced her that the Feldenkrais method has the potential to help people of all ages and abilities to overcome limiting habit patterns, and find comfort and vitality in all aspects of being.

Karen benefited from initially attending two excellent training programs, one at the Feldenkrais Institute in New York, with David-Zemach Berzin, and the other at the Feldenkrais Trainings Toronto, with Arlyn Zones and Olena Nitefor. She chose to complete her training in the Toronto program, closer to her current home in Ottawa, Canada. Since graduating from the basic program, she continues to attend Feldenkrais method advanced trainings and is establishing a practice in the Ottawa area.