Our Team

Karen Gilmour

Core Team, Trainer

Former Kids Program Manager of Alluem Yoga in Cranford NJ, Karen began teaching kid’s yoga in Alluem’s opening days in 2009. She lead a thriving kids yoga program that included after school classes, weekend workshops, Storytime Yoga, summer camps, birthday parties, school visits, community events and private sessions, and managed the studio for 17 years. After experiencing the many benefits of yoga first hand, she knew bringing these benefits to children could help shape their awareness, self-esteem and confidence now and in their future. Karen completed her Children’s Yoga teacher training with Little Flower Yoga under the direction of Jennifer Cohen Harper in 2008, the Every Kid’s Yoga: Yoga for Children with Special Needs training in 2015 and is a certified Embody Love Movement Facilitator working with girls struggling with body dysmorphia and eating disorders.
Karen is currently on her way to becoming a Child Life Specialist to work with the social emotional needs of children in the hospital. Her focus is bringing mindfulness and joyful moments to children bedside and in hospital playrooms. She has recorded mindfulness based practices with an in hospital network – Calling All Kids – that is streamed into hospital rooms. She is currently working as an assistant at Children’s Specialized Long Term Care Hospital in NJ.
When she isn’t teaching or working, she’s usually found drawing and painting! Karen is also a children’s muralist and a published illustrator. She is the illustrator of Jennifer Cohen Harper’s children’s picture books and card decks! www.karengilmour.com