Karen Vassar

Karen fell in love with Vertical Fitness Dallas the old-fashioned way: by attending a bachelorette party for her sister. The day after her first pole jam, she realized that being too sore to drive after attending a party was insane and decided that pole fitness was just the thing to get her back to her college dancing shape.

While she ultimately walked away with a bachelors degree in business from the University of Oklahoma and an MBA from SMU, Karen began her journey in higher education studying musical theatre and performed professionally one summer before realizing that the lifestyle was not for her. When she isn’t in class at VFD, she is working in marketing in the arts, moonlighting on entrepreneurial projects with friends from business school, spoiling Nellie (the softest, most adorable dog ever), or writing for her blog, classaddict.com.

Karen has an array of passions, but the most recent addition to the list is TRX suspension training. After trying the class at VFD in the fall of 2010, she immediately knew she wanted to build the strength necessary to be able to share the intense, customizable experience with others and was formally trained in the spring of 2011. She recently whipped some problem areas into shape with TRX training and the Isagenix cleanse and is extremely grateful to Karen Palmer and the Vertical Fitness Dallas family for helping her get her revive the confident woman that had been hiding for so long.