Kareen Zebroff

Kareen Zebroff, born Helge - Kareen Brüggemann, (* 1941 in Wind Bach ) is a Canadian yoga teacher of German origin.

Life

Kareen Zebroff - daughter of a physician - grew up during the Second World War in Marienbad. 1946, the family fled to southern Germany, where her father worked as a doctor then. In 1951 she lived with her ​​younger sister for a year in an orphanage. 1953 her parents' marriage ended in divorce. 1956 emigrated to the mother with daughter Kareen and their older brother from Heidelberg to Canada in the town of Dawson Creek.

At the University of British Columbia Kareen Zebroff studied in Vancouver, where she worked as an elementary school teacher after graduation. After her marriage and the birth of her three children, she began - in the small town Hundson Hope on the Peace River in northern Canada alive - at the community college with the teaching of Yoga. Previously Kareen Zebroff had started from a depressed and overweight situation out with your own yoga exercises.

In the spring of 1970, the Canadian television broadcast for the first time Zebroffs half-hour yoga class. And after the approval of the then sports chiefs Hanns Joachim Friedrichs Kareen Zebroff was five minutes to present the exercises Yoga for Yeden in the television series The sports information from October 1973 at the German ZDF. After 59 shows, there was for the exercises from January 1975 in the hub a new time slot.

Publications

• The ABC of Yoga. Fforbez, Vancouver 1971 German edition: Yoga for Everyone. Translated from English by Rosemarie Litzenberger. Econ, Dusseldorf / Vienna and hawks, Wiesbaden (1971? ), ISBN 3-430-19945- X