by Karen Fabian | Mar 11, 2019 | Anatomy Stories
Did you ever realize that muscles do more than one thing, depending on how the body is positioned? Many times when we learn about what muscles do, we focus on their main function. So, for instance, the hip flexor muscle, the psoas, flexes the hip, like in the bent leg...
by Karen Fabian | Mar 4, 2019 | The Bare Bones Yoga Podcast: Conversations for Yoga Teachers
Hello, and WELCOME to Conversations for Yoga Teachers! This is EPISODEÂ 18! In the last episode, I did a review of cues for some standing poses. It quickly moved up in my podcast stats to be a listener favorite so I decided to do a second episode where I...
by Karen Fabian | Feb 25, 2019 | Anatomy Stories
Many times when I meet people and they find out what I do, they say, “Wow, you must be in such great shape from doing all that yoga.” When I tell them that I don’t DO yoga when I teach, they sometimes shake their head in disbelief. “What...
by Karen Fabian | Feb 21, 2019 | Anatomy Stories
If I had to pick a part of the body that gets the most questions asked about it in yoga, I’d say the hips are the most popular. By “popular” I mean students seem to have the most questions about the muscles and related tendons,...
by Karen Fabian | Feb 16, 2019 | The Bare Bones Yoga Podcast: Conversations for Yoga Teachers
Have you ever been in a yoga class and the teacher gives you a cue and you’re left scratching your head wondering what did they mean by that? It could be the word choice or the word combination or just a lack of understanding on your part as to what a particular...
