Equal parts soul-filled scientist, inspired educator, wilderness rites of passage guide & plant lover, Karen has been restoring landscapes and facilitating transformative experiences in nature for humans for over close to 30 years. Her work as a restoration ecologist & nature therapist has flowed from the fjords of the North Atlantic, across the reefs of the Caribbean sea, through the Peruvian Amazon and up to Costa Rica’s cloud forested mountaintops.
Founder of the Center for Sacred Ecology and steward of the 40-acre Samanea Nature Sanctuary in Monteverde, Karen’s attention is drawn to the sacred spaces where mind, heart, spirit & nature intersect within the habitat of the human form.
She has been working and studying within the Peruvian mestizo vegetalista tradition for 8 years, and serves as Don Carlos’ ceremony assistant & integration specialist. Karen is also the coordinator for master plant diet immersions at Don Carlos’ center in the Peruvian Amazon. She has lived in Costa Rica for 20 years and is mother to a teenage boy.