Karen Roy

Karen Roy is a professionally certified E-RYT yoga teacher and meditation educator with more than 1,000 hours of advanced training across multiple schools of yoga, meditation practice and philosophy. Based in Toronto, Canada, she has been contributing to the wellness community since 2009 and teaches on the faculty of Insight Timer.

She specializes in trauma-informed and ADHD-supportive meditation, creating practices that are compassionate, accessible and grounded in real nervous system understanding. Her approach moves away from rigid ideas of "perfect mindfulness" and helps people work with their minds gently, realistically and without shame. She teaches for those who often feel left out of traditional wellness spaces: overthinkers, sensitive minds, restless bodies, trauma survivors, and anyone who struggles to sit still or quiet their thoughts.

Karen's recent study and work in mental wellness is personally informed by her own experience of childhood emotional trauma and a late-adult ADHD diagnosis, along with the depression and anxiety that often accompany it. She speaks from her own ongoing healing, and helps others move through acknowledgement, acceptance and forgiveness, including the grief of what might have been.

She is also keenly interested in somatic yoga, a mindful movement practice focused on the internal sensations of the body rather than the outward look of poses, and offers somatic breathwork and sound healing. She enjoys working with both large and small groups, and keeps a very small private clientele. Her voice is calm and relaxed, and she teaches meditation as a practical, healing, deeply human experience rather than a performance.