Karen Elliot is a former member of the International Association of  Yoga Therapists and has been a certified yoga teacher since 2003.   Over the past 22 years, continued studies in new therapeutic techniques have enabled Karen to aid her students in  maximizing and maintaining  their freedom of movement,  as well as reduction of pain from injury, habitual body patterns and related muscle tightness caused by stress.

Certified Yoga Instructor (500 hours) - Yoga Haven 2003 - Calgary

Somatics Exercise Coach Level 1 - Essential Somatics 2014

Somatics Exercise Coach Level II, - Essential Somatics 2016

Certified  Critical Alignment Therapist Level IV -  2010 -  Bharata Institute

Usui Reiki Master, Metaphysical Institute of Canada 2013

Acutonics Level 1 - 2018 - Acutonics Institute of Integrative Medicine

Acutonics Fibonacci Sequence  - 2018 -  Acutonics Institute of Integrative Medicine

Acutonics Lever II - 2024 - Acutonics Institute of Integrative Medicine

"I am eternally grateful for the wonderful teachers and mentors that have made such a huge impact in my life and my teachings:  teacher, longtime friend and mentor Maggie Kavanagh - former owner of Yoga Haven, and now owner of Tara Shanti in Crawford Bay, BC - who brought yoga into my life many years ago;   my cousin and Acutonics mentor and beloved enlightened one, Ron Laplace, who followed the “path” long before many knew there was another way;  Gert Van Leeuwen, teacher, author and creator of Critical Alignment Therapy;  teacher, mentor and friend, Sherryn Rault of Sheryoga Therapy; my dear friend, teacher and mentor Theresa Evans of Midwest Clinical Somatics & Stonepath Yoga in Sturgeion Bay, Wisconsin who found the truth of Somatics and opened the door to Somatics here in Calgary and across Canada;  and last but not least - Martha Peterson founder of Essential Somatics who eats, sleeps and breathes Somatics, and whose mission is to have Somatics  internationally recognized for its therapeutic value and to make those teachings available on a global scale and help people help themselves out of pain."