Yoga with Karen

About me

I love yoga. I have practiced it for many years through different life stages and am deeply passionate about sharing it's benefits with others.

I had an interesting life pre-motherhood working in rewarding but demanding jobs in conflict affected areas with peacebuilding and human rights organizations. Yoga was a tool I used to support me and to make space for myself during sometimes stressful and often intense working and living conditions.

On return to Ireland, I spent time studying yoga, deepening my own practice and becoming a teacher. I am fascinated by this ancient tradition and the philosophy that informs it – I try to bring these traditional teachings into my classes in a way that is relatable for my students.

After an unplanned pregnancy and a great deal of fear about becoming a parent alone I went deeper into my yoga journey. I became a pregnancy yoga teacher during my pregnancy, and a postnatal teacher while my child was an infant. Yoga was there for me not only to help me through my worries and fears but was with me as I experienced the great joy of becoming a mother. Having my baby was the most transformative and powerful experience of my life. Yoga helped me connect with my body and my innate ability to birth my baby and I want to share some of this incredible power with others.

Now, as mother to my 3 year old daughter in our next stage of life living as a family with my partner Gareth, yoga continues to provide me with calm, peace and a breath of fresh air. Life has a way of continuing to offer us challenges, be they in parenting or in the hum drum of daily life, and yoga gives me the space and tools to find purpose and meaning on a daily basis. These are the fundamental teachings of yoga that I love to share x