Karen More had an eighteen year career as a professional dancer touring nationally and internationally with dance companies and productions including Lar Lubovitch Dance, Elisa Monte Dance, Donald Byrd the Group, Philadanco, Kevin Wynn Collection, Santa Fe Opera, West Side Story, and the Radio City Christmas Spectacular. While dancing, she completed her undergraduate degree with The LEAP Program. After retiring from dance, Karen earned her master’s degree in education and multiple subject teaching credential as a graduate of the Aspire Teacher Residency. She taught kindergarten and pre-k, and eventually transitioned to teaching dance in schools. 

 

As a classroom teacher, Karen received a grant to become a certified Vinyasa yoga teacher. She continued her studies with Little Flower Yoga and earned her children’s yoga and mindfulness certification. After observing the transformative effect that mindfulness had on her classroom, Karen became inspired to deepen her practice and studies. In addition, Karen founded a dance program, including writing the curriculum for K-4, at an elementary school in Los Angeles. She also launched a school-wide mindfulness program which included introducing a new mindfulness practice to the community each week. Karen has also taught at elementary schools throughout NYC with the National Dance Institute and Little Flower Yoga/The School Wellness Project. She was a founding member of the creative team of A BroaderWay, and she also taught children’s dance classes at the Dream Project in the Dominican Republic. Karen was the rehearsal director of NYC based modern dance company, Emerge 125. She is a member of IATSE 764, and has worked in wardrobe with shows including Hell’s Kitchen, Funny Girl, and the Radio City Christmas Spectacular. 

 

Throughout each career path, Karen continued to explore yoga, mindfulness and meditation. She became a certified mindfulness meditation teacher with The Mindfulness Center.  She also holds an organizational mindfulness certification from Twello Academy. Karen has facilitated mindfulness professional development workshops for organizations including the National Dance Institute, Associates of NDI, NYC Arts in Education Roundtable, Kids Excel El Paso, Prairie Dance Theater (Oklahoma City), and Minds in Motion (Richmond). Karen is the Mindfulness Manager for a corporate wellness studio at Hudson Yards. She leads daily meditation sessions, creates mindfulness content, facilitates workshops, teaches dance and yoga, and plans wellness events. Karen is passionate about sharing mindfulness and meditation. It is the intention of More Mindful Solutions that clients leave each session feeling empowered with tools to support their wellbeing and inspired to create time and space to care for themselves.