Karen McQuade has her Masters in Early Childhood Education and over 18 years of teaching experience. She started her own private school in Northborough, MA in 1996 for bright and gifted students in grades K – 6th. In 2008, after noticing benefits from her own yoga practice, she began incorporating yoga as part of her curriculum with her Kindergarten class and saw a dramatic change in her student’s abilities to focus and pay attention to their learning. After each yoga session she noticed a major difference in the way they transitioned to other subject matter!  Each student was calmer and demonstrated a greater thinking capacity!

After this observation, Karen became certified to teach children’s yoga. She feels that if we can get children, at a young age, to experience and develop a love of yoga that they will be much happier kids and adults, later on. She is now certified in Iyenger and incorporates Vinyasa into her children’s classes. Karen’s enthusiastic manner, energy, creativity and knowledge of child development all contribute to her growing success as a children’s yoga instructor.