Our Staff

Karen Moss

Owner and Instructor

Karen Moss is the founder, owner and director of Better Bodies Yoga. Karen is grounded in a strong athletic foundation and maintains certification from the American Council on Exercise (ACE) that she earned initially in 1995. She started down the yoga path in 2000 while training for the Chicago Marathon, which she ran in memory of her father with the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s Team in Training. Karen credits yoga to reviving her back to life after the devastating loss of her beloved father and keeping her injury free before, during, and long after running the grueling 26.2 miles. She also credits yoga for igniting that tiny spark of purpose, which ultimately lead her to light a path for others to travel.

Since opening the studio, Karen has continued to evolve as a teacher, and a disciplined and passionate student of yoga, anatomy, and kinesiology by earning certification in various lineages, and other alternative modalities. She has received several advanced certifications in the 200-hour and 500-hour range in addition to several therapeutic yoga certifications. In addition, she has trained and become certified in other areas of fitness, strength, health and wellness, sports conditioning, injury prevention, and age specific instruction.

Karen has found a particular niche and love for teaching any persons recovering from joint replacements, especially of the shoulders and knees, carpal tunnel repairs, heart and cancer surgeries, and injured individuals looking to rehabilitate themselves and gain injury prevention tools like amateur and professional athletes. Karen's compassion, patience, tenacity, and depth of knowledge provide much needed comfort, hope, self empowering knowledge and inner strength to persons especially enduring brutal cancer treatments or persons recovering from illnesses such as brain damage, and chronic conditions like fibromyalgia, COPD, paralysis, and Parkinson’s Disease, or to any serious student of yoga who wants to travel the yoga path.