by Karen Fabian | Feb 24, 2016 | Anatomy Stories
As teachers, what we say has a huge impact on the actions our students will take in class. This is why our words and the choice of our words makes a huge difference to the experience students will have. Sometimes there are cues given that might not make the most sense...
by Karen Fabian | Feb 7, 2016 | Anatomy Stories
I’m a pretty passionate yoga teacher and I’ve found that there’s really no other kind. To do what we do, especially if you do it as your primary source of income, you usually are pretty passionate about teaching yoga. It’s one of those...
by Karen Fabian | Jan 29, 2016 | Anatomy Stories
This is often a common concern from students. They practice yoga but wonder why they don’t feel more flexible. I had a conversation after class the other day with a student and she said that she felt her hip flexors (her words) were tight. She described...
by Karen Fabian | Jan 18, 2016 | Anatomy Stories, Grow Your Teaching Techniques, teach
When I teach anatomy to yoga teachers, I usually preface some things I say with, “This is from my perspective.” I say this because even though anatomy and the study of anatomy seems to be a matter of “fact,” in some ways, some...
by Karen Fabian | Jan 2, 2016 | Yoga Business Workshop
I think by now we’ve moved to agreeing that yoga is a business too, right? There was quite a bit of discussion over the years about the “business of yoga” and the “practice of yoga” and concerns that yoga is turning into TOO much...