Karen Lee is a Certified Yoga teacher who has practiced for over a decade and studied with foremost instructors David Williams, David Swenson, and Eddie Stern of the Ashtanga System and presently Jhon Tomayo founder of The Atmananda Yoga Sequence. Karen teaches Yoga privately, at workshops around the country, and at the Atmanda Yoga Center in Manhattan! She hopes to bring heath, wellness and empowerment to her Yoga students, something she loves to do and has been doing for years!

Born in beautiful Pennsylvania, Karen Lee attained a B.S. in Health and Physical Education and a Master’s Degree in Administration. She taught High School for several years while modeling part-time on a local level. Expanding her horizons, she relocated to New York City to pursue a career in the modeling industry. After modeling in New York’s Top Showrooms, Karen chose to use her experience to help other young hopefuls. She was then offered a position as head scout and has worked for three major agencies over her 20 years in the business: Wilhelmina, Pauline’ s, and most recently, Elite Model Management, as its Director of Scouting where she traveled the globe searching for that great new face! Karen was also a major collaborator in the production of Elite Model Look, a premier international model search that launched the careers of Cindy Crawford, Alesandra Ambrosio, and Giselle Bundchen to name a few.

Karen’s expertise with these agencies gave her the opportunity to discover great talent, but most importantly to empower young women by helping them develop a sense of health, wellness, style and confidence. Karen has also been a guest judge on Tyra Bank’s “America’s Next Top Model.”

In 2008, Karen decided to pursue her career independently from an agency environment and formulated Karen Lee Group, a consulting firm where she continues to scout and develop talent as well as teach Yoga, a passion of hers for many years. She also supervises and manages the elite model house in Manhattan where she offers Yoga to the models that live there.