Karen Macklin, E-RYT 500, MA, PCC is a senior yoga teacher, meditation instructor, and professional life and leadership coach.
Karen teaches yoga with an emphasis on deepening concentration, awareness, and insight, as well as healing the body and mind. Her classes are intelligently sequenced, rhythmic flows that both challenge students and offer them an opportunity to enter a space of meditation and inquiry. She is committed to inclusiveness and diversity, and believes that yoga, at its best, is a way of coming home to oneself.
Karen has taught yoga and mindfulness throughout California, and has also taught at nearly a dozen workplaces including Twitter, Oculus, Genentech, Asana, Kaiser Permanente, and Second Genome. Karen is also a Professional Certified Coach through the International Coach Federation. She brings to coaching two decades of training in yoga and mindfulness, as well as training in Trauma Sensitivity, NVC (Non-Violent Communication), Social Justice, IFS (Internal Family Systems), Hospice Care, Ayurveda, Western Neuroscience, and Eastern Philosophy.
As a professional journalist, Karen has written extensively about yoga, meditation, and transformation, and has contributed to Yoga Journal, Yoga 
International, FitYoga, Alternative Medicine, Yogagenda, and Tricycle magazines. She has also written three yoga blogs: Samadhi and the City (for Yoga Journal), The Sacred Cow (for Pranamaya), and On the Om Front (for the San Francisco Bay Guardian). Her latest writing venture is a column for 48 Hills called Examined Life.
In 2014, Karen co-founded the organization Heart and Hand Yoga, which has led retreats that combine yoga, adventure travel, and service in countries around the world.