Karen Quinn, Ayurvedic Practioner, CYT, ERYT, is currently enrolled in a masters of ayurveda program at Mt. Madonna Institute with graduation in 2013. A yoga therapist since 2002, Karen works with people at all levels of imbalance to find freedom from illness through yoga movement and ayurvedic diet and lifestyle.
Karen has been the director of the Rishi’s Crossing Yoga teacher training program since 2003 and is on staff at the Progressive Health Center, an integral health center on the Swedish Hospital campus in Denver, CO. She began her ayurvedic studies in 2009 and continues to learn about how to bring this ancient medical science to help heal in our modern times.
As a psychotherapist, hospice worker, passionate tango dancer and avid yoga practitioner for two decades, Deborah teaches with both warmth and strength. She is committed to fostering the principles of strong foundation, leading with the heart, inner strength/outer softness, impeccable alignment, and integration of the whole body/mind into each pose. For the past 10 years she has been teaching not only general yoga classes, but adapted classes for recovery from addiction, trauma and other body-mind imbalances.
In her private practice in Monterey she integrates yoga-based and other somatic modalities into her psychotherapeutic work with clients, melding eastern wisdom with western psychology. She loves what she call the “bells and smells” of yoga, so chimes, chants, mudras, poetry and discussion of yoga philosophy are woven into her classes.
