Beach Sunset Yoga Hawaii Waikiki

Teaching and training in this yoga in nature endeavor, founder Karen Le’s mission is to plant seeds of mindfulness throughout the world. Raised in Hawaii, she returned to Oahu after teaching throughout Southeast Asia but left her American corporate law position, feeling a different calling. Today, Karen seeks discovery of global unpaved paths while exploring diverse cultural perspectives. Graduate of the University of Hawaii's Law School and Political Science Master’s Program, Karen has a professional background in non-profit community development, social justice policy, and progressive alternative teaching methods. Karen serves as Executive Director for Athena Medical Foundation, a non-profit 501c3 organization that offers Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) courses as integrated medicine for low-income patients of Athena Medical clinics. With the true explorer’s heart and wisdom seeker’s aspiration, Karen completed two graduate summers in Rome, a semester in Puerto Rico, and an international law program in Singapore. Desiring to obtain a strong education from the source, Karen shouldered her backpack to pursue yoga training in India and meditation training in the Dalai Lama’s hometown. Her need for authenticity in all things instilled resourcefulness as she explored and learned while traveling to more than fifty countries. Baptized Catholic, Karen would grow into a Buddhist and believer in openness to all things scientific, philosophic, and spiritual in experience. As an avid practitioner of meditation and Buddhist dharma, from both a secular and a spiritual level, she passionately believes these beliefs hold the ability, beyond just good health, to increase happiness, mental well-being, and compassion. So too she believes these practices hold the solution to many, if not all, individual and social issues, hoping people of different faiths also find these universal principles and practices useful in life.