Karen Miscall-Bannon is the director of the Newington Yoga Center embodyoga™ Teacher Training Program.

She began her yoga studies in 1985 with Eddie Modestini, and recently with Patty Townsend at Yoga Center Amherst in 2001, where she became certified at the 200-and 500-hour levels in embodyoga™. Karen has assisted Patty in the YCA’s teacher trainings since 2004, and has been teaching parts of the modules since 2007, helping to develop the YCA’s yoga therapeutics program with Patty.

Karen has extensive knowledge of anatomy and embodyoga™ principles, with a focus on yoga therapeutics, stemming from her bodywork practice of over 10 years.

Karen brings a deep love of yoga and yoga philosophy to her teaching, and is known for being able to make abstract concepts accessible to her students. She gratefully brings what she has learned from her teachers and her own practice to her students, to assist them in deepening their awareness of body and mind through the yoga practice.