by Karen Fabian | Aug 8, 2015 | Anatomy Stories, Class theme, Grow Your Teaching Techniques, Inspiration, Personal Training/Coaching, teach, Uncategorized, Yoga training
One of the interesting things about muscles is they work in pairs. When one muscle does one thing, a nearby muscle will do something different, perhaps the opposite. One of the simplest examples of this is the biceps and the triceps. The biceps flexes the elbow; the...
by Karen Fabian | Jul 29, 2015 | Anatomy Stories, Class theme, Grow Your Teaching Techniques
I have written before about my passion for sharing the anatomy behind the poses with my students. As I’ve spent more time studying anatomy, I’ve uncovered lots of little (but really BIG) things that can make or break the practice. One of the most basic...
by Karen Fabian | Jul 6, 2015 | Anatomy Stories, Class theme, Grow Your Teaching Techniques, teach, Yoga training
I watched the women’s USA team win the World Cup, like millions of others did yesterday. As I watched them run around the field, I was mesmerized not only by their speed by their flexibility and strength. In order to run fast, you need power. In order to keep...
by Karen Fabian | Jun 2, 2015 | Anatomy Stories, Class theme, Grow Your Teaching Techniques
I decided to focus the next few classes on the feet. Sounds obvious, I’m sure because all poses start from the feet. But honestly, there isn’t a lot of cueing that happens at the feet and your foot positions can make a world of difference in how you feel...
by Karen Fabian | May 25, 2015 | Anatomy Stories, Personal Training/Coaching
I had a student in class recently who was returning after some time. He checked in and said he had a rotator cuff issue. I asked him if he was diagnosed as such and he said no, he was just guessing (note: always ask your students where they got the diagnosis...
by Karen Fabian | Mar 21, 2015 | Anatomy Stories, Yoga training
I had a question before class yesterday and had an opportunity to work through a problem in a student’s practice with her. One of the things I love about teaching is getting questions from students. When there’s a real level of inquiry and interest from...
