Karen Seidenberg

Karyn was born and raised in Spring, Texas. She has been an athlete all her life, but her heart has always been in gymnastics. When she was 3 her parents put her in a gym where she started training with Bela Karolyi, who was the USA Olympic Gymnastics coach at the time. While training with Karolyi she put on the “Hope’s Team” for future Olympians and was told to take ballet lessons to help with floor routines. When she wasn’t at the gym, she was in the ballet studio and began to develop a passion for it as well. She stayed in both activities through middle school, until her older sister suffered a gymnastics career ending injury and her parents decided it was time to leave the sport. She decided to join the Klein Oak Strutters when she went into High School and spent 2 years with them and continued taking ballet lessons throughout, while also dabbling in cheer. After leaving school she couldn’t ever fully leave gymnastics, so she started coaching and hasn’t looked back. 15 years later, she has 5 elite competitive teams at Basel’s Gymnastics (that she built from the ground up) and was recently awarded BEST XCEL GYMNASTICS PROGRAM IN TEXAS from our governing body USAG! She contributes a lot of that success to her upbringing in both ballet and gymnastics. When she’s not in the gym, or here at the studio, she is studying to become a Holistic & Sports Nutritionist while also being a Mom to 3 awesome teenagers she shares with her handsome hubby. She is excited to share her love of fitness, strength, flexibility and dance with you all here at Pure Barre!