LEADERSHIP AND BUSINESS MENTORSHIP

Karen has always been a strong believer in a balanced life and a healthy lifestyle. From 2009 to 2020 Karen took Tony Robbins events including Unleashing the Power Within, Date With Destiny, Life and Wealth Mastery, Business Mastery and Leadership Mastery. She has also volunteered at several of these events to hone her conscious leadership skills and to have the opportunity to coach and mentor others.

Karen is passionate about human development, entrepreneurship, coaching, and mentorship. She supports youth education and entrepreneurship programs such as the Tony Robbins Global Youth Leadership Summit and the Cherie Blair Foundation. This foundation provides training for 100,000 female entrepreneurs.

LIFE AND HEALTH COACH

Beyond business mentorship and coaching, Karen was inspired to create Health On The Go whose mission is to provide private holistic fitness and nutrition coaching services focused on creating new habits for a healthier lifestyle. Karen created customized programs for select clients and family members. They received coaching on meal planning, shopping, and preparation. Also included were custom fitness and training routines to accommodate a busy corporate or personal schedule. She incorporated sessions including Reiki, Reflexology, Yoga, and Meditation, all of which she has received training certificates. Her services were personalized, easy, and convenient. Clients experienced increased energy, more happiness, and in some cases loss of weight and, overall a more fit body.

In 2017, Karen was seen in the documentary HEAL supporting her dear friend Elizabeth Craig through her cancer recovery.

A PASSION FOR YOGA

Karen’s mother took her to her first yoga class in Bolivia. Being an athlete from a young age, Karen could not believe the physical workout her body went through confined to a yoga mat. This was the start of Karen’s journey to seek out yoga teachers and studios to continue to evolve her own practice.

Karen became Vinyasa Yoga Certified in 2001 at the Prana Yoga Center in Miami, Florida and joined the Yoga Alliance. Later she became Anusara Yoga certified in 2003. Karen has studied various yoga styles including Ashtanga, Anusara, Vinyasa, Bikram, Iyengar, Sivananda, and Jivamukti with some of the best yoga instructors in the world. She has taken workshops and courses from David Williams, Doug Swenson, Bryan and Jonny Kest, Dominic Coigliano, Tommy Rosen, and Ana Forrest. Karen has also traveled several times to India to practice Integral Yoga at the Auroville Ashram near the town of Pondicherry.

In 2007, Karen met Elizabeth Craig, a Jivamukti yoga instructor and founder of Jai-Dye, a line of organic and uniquely hand-dyed yoga clothing. Over the next few years, Karen supported the marketing and business development of Jai-dye. She supported the sales at yoga conferences including the Telluride Yoga Journal Festival, the LA Yoga Expo, and YogaFest in Florida. In February 2008, Karen supported Jai-dye organic yoga wear on NBC6 news highlighting “green” fashion trends.

From 2001 to 2009, Karen was a yoga instructor at Yoga South and Something Yoga in Boca Raton, Florida and pioneered the first classes at the Colony Hotel in Delray Beach. She also enrolled her corporate office to allow her to teach yoga during the lunch break; a diversity enjoyed by all.

Later in 2013, during her role of Chief Marketing Officer at Lumeria Maui, the boutique hotel and retreat center in Maui, Karen was responsible for attracting and hosting top yoga teachers from around the world. Karen went out of her way to make these retreats memorable and took on the role of photographer and video support so that the participants could return home with memories of their yoga retreat. Yoga instructors hosting retreats included Tommy Rosen, Ana Forrest, Jason Crandell, John Friend, Craig Villani and Brock and Krista Cahill.

MEDITATION PRACTICE

Karen began her meditation practice in Arizona in the late 1990s. She joined the Soka Gakkai International (SGI) in Arizona and later continued to practice at SGI centers in the U.S., Brazil and France. The SGI is a global Nichiren Buddhist movement of people for peace. They were nominated for the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize. SGI believes our capacity to create happiness is infinite. The challenge lies in bringing forth our greatest possible selves in the face of daily reality. The world is woven of the profound connections of one life to another and this is why our actions can make ripples of positive change. Nichiren Buddhism practices the mantra Nam Myoho Renge Kyo, the mystic law of the lotus sutra. Karen’s favorite rendition is Tina Turner’s Sound of the Mystic Law.

Following Karen’s yoga teacher training, she practiced meditation at the Siddha Yoga Meditation Center in Miami and learned about the founder Muktananda and Gurumayi, the spiritual head of the Siddha yoga path. Karen also did a workshop on Melchizedek’s Merkaba meditation which applies elements of Hindu meditation.

Most recently, Karen received the Meditation and Mindfulness Teacher Training Certificate from the School of Positive Transformation. This meditation training is a scientific-based training taught by Dr. Itai Ivtzan, a psychologist and Associate Professor at Naropa University.

Stay tuned to learn more about Karen’s future meditation projects.