-About Bare Bones Yoga and founder, Karen Fabian-
Bare Bones Yoga was born out of the inspiration Karen Fabian had in late 2008 during the early stages of the economic recession.
As she looked at her own budget, she evaluated the cost of yoga classes and thought it would be wonderful if athletic, challenging, fun yoga classes could be offered in an affordable way: a basic space where students brought their own mats and the main focus of the space was yoga. While there’d be no retail services or amenities like towels and water, there would be solid, challenging classes at an affordable price. Around the same time, she ran into a student of hers who expressed a love of yoga but shared that she didn’t have the money for class. That was the “a-ha” moment Karen needed. She contacted a friend and found a unique space in which to offer class. Bare Bones Yoga was born! After the space in the Fenway was no longer available, the Bare Bones concept continued, using the core concept of “keeping yoga simple.” Karen uses this as the foundation of how she provides yoga services to adults and children.
-About Karen Fabian-
Karen Fabian, the founder of Bare Bones Yoga, has been teaching since 2002. A mixture of the corporate as well as the more organic, Karen has over 25 years of professional business experience in the areas of health care, managed care consulting and software design. Karen has her undergraduate degree from Boston University and a Masters in Healthcare Administration from Simmons College.
She began teaching after developing a personal practice at the Baptiste Studios in Boston. Over time, through the completion of several training programs with Baron Baptiste, she became a Certified Baptiste teacher. This endorsement from the creator of this popular and effective heated power yoga style allowed her to expand upon her teaching opportunities and engineer a plan to leave her corporate career and dedicate herself to teaching yoga full time. This transition was made in 2003 and continued until 2006, during which time she both taught full time at the Baptiste Power Yoga Institute and worked as a business manager there as well.
She returned to working for a corporate organization in 2006 and worked as a technical project management position until September, 2010. Karen left her corporate job in September, 2010 to start her own business and is is thrilled to be cultivating opportunities to support the health and wellness visions of her friends, students and clients. She teaches, writes articles on health and wellness, conducts workshops, trainings and wellness presentations. She is an avid runner and ran the BayState Marathon in Lowell, MA in October, 2008 and again October, 2011. She’s active as a wellness resource in her community and writes a weekly column called, “Under our Feet” for the online community newspaper, Charlestown Patch. She is also a regular contributor to MindBodyGreen and Mindful Hub. Her corporate wellness presentations on stress management, healthy eating tips, yoga in the workplace and living a life in balance have been presented to employees at Children’s Hospital, ZipCar, Staples (corporate office) and Boston Organics.
She has taught countless students around Boston and currently teaches regular classes and workshops in her neighborhood at Charlestown Yoga and Prana Power Yoga in Cambridge. Karen has the Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher 200HR designation from Yoga Alliance. You’ll find her listed on their website. Any workshops or trainings taken with Karen can be used towards your own CEU requirement with Yoga Alliance.
Karen also reads books to children during a monthly storytime in her neighborhood. She teaches children’s yoga, has taught the men’s crew team at Northeastern for two seasons and has conducted several yoga workshops for runners. She teaches private sessions, teaches rowers at Community Rowing, a local non-profit and offers running/yoga coaching sessions. She also offers yoga in corporate locations as part of YogaSource Boston. Contact Karen to learn more about classes and services.
Check out Karen’s You Tube Channel ( you can also find her videos here on her website on the video page):