Karen Wachsmuth is a certified yoga and meditation teacher, with more than eight years of teaching experience. Her company, Yoga for Your Life, currently provides stress management and yoga services for corporations, senior communities, and colleges and universities throughout Iowa.. Her professional training includes a 200-hour certification in teaching yoga from the Kripalu Institute in Lenox, Massachusetts, teacher training in Iyengar yoga, and certification in teaching meditation from Kripalu. 

Karen is also a professional musician, a conductor, pianist, and singer, with a master's degree in conducting from the Juilliard School in New York City, and a Ph. D. in conducting from the University of Colorado.  She began studying yoga, meditation, and Alexander Technique as a young performer in order to conquer physical tension and performance anxiety.  Her background includes 12 years of teaching at the college/university level. She is committed to teaching as a way of sharing her discoveries with others.