— Nourishing Habits LLC, Guilford, CT

~Daily habits are the biggest indicator of a healthy life~

Education

Masters in Business Administration
B.A. Psychology
Licensed Massage Therapist NY/CT
Raw Living Foods Chef
Nutrition Counselor AADP
500+ hour Yoga Teacher
Trained in: Vinyasa, Hatha, Ashtanga, Kripalu,Yin Yoga, Yoga therapeutics
Cycle/Spin Instructor
Pilate’s Mat Instructor
Hippocrates Institute Living Foods Program

Worthwhile ventures take energy, enthusiasm and desire. To make our life a work of art, to be present, productive for our family, work, hobbies requires sustainable focus and energy. Science tells us that food and lifestyle choices significantly affect quality of life; they are the biggest indicator of how we’ll function long term. Our body is the vehicle for this life. Here we are…born into this body for a period of time…no one knows how long…

Pause to notice the state of your health, body, level of joy. What quality of life have you created? What quality of life do you want? Make you vision a reality. You deserve it!

Health has very little to do with numbers on a scale, there are as many unhealthy skinny people as overweight healthy people. What kind of cells are you creating? Take inventory of your daily habits because they increase your odds of embodying disease. Our world is filled with good hard working people that sacrifice health for all sorts of justifiable reasons. I’ve heard all of the excuses and have compassion around the difficulties inherent in changing daily habits and yet i know it can be done. You are worth it. Decide to create better health one meal, one habit, one day at a time.

A snapshot of a life: Karen Rose, nickname Kai, grew up in a health oriented ashram community of Yogi’s. Traveling much of her youth abroad and in the states afforded Kai the luxury of kaleidoscopic experiences. Schooled through direct experience in the outdoors and sadhana, much time was spent exploring markets, working in the kitchen, hiking and deeply delving into meditation techniques. Parts of high school were spent in Fairfield County Ct; effective training for a high pressure results oriented lifestyle. These life experiences led to the formation of Nourishing habits LLC . Kai guides busy professionals to achieve optimal health goals.

After working with Kai, clients experience consistent energy, greater focus and productivity, improved athletic performance and the confidence from feeling good. Really good. The diet game is over folks; thin does not equal healthy. Discover cellular nutrition and implement tools for sustainable change. Achieve the results you deserve to live energized every day.

Growing up: I grew up like most kids in the 60′s- we were given to many antibiotics, ate ring dings, captain crunch, lucky charms, bacon, eggs and drank gallons of milk from those fun dispensers with the spout. Before the use of hydrogenated oils and factory farming those foods actually were healthier. Thank goodness.

During my formative years I was blessed to travel with my mother and a herd of people seeking something outside of the box-we lived on beautiful mountaintops with the clothes on our backs and a very small suitcase. We sold our belongings, (record number of garage sales), rented our house and set out to experience the world. We traveled, lived with friends, studied at Maharishi International University, came back to Ct, traveled again and so it went for years. Addicted to the promise of enlightenment or ‘cosmic consciousness’ we sat in meditation like junkies promised a permanent fix-oxygen our drug of choice.

Stays in California and Switzerland exposed me to ‘out of the box’ ways of eating and my mind was never sharper. I worked in a hotel kitchen in Arosa Switzerland, (our ashram community took it over), and learned to respect freshly prepared food. We lived in Santa Barbara California and I was hooked on fresh glorious local food. The body, mind, spirit thrive on healthy food; it was and is a necessary tool to live well.