by Karen Fabian | Jan 2, 2016 | bare bones yoga, Inspiration, Personal Training/Coaching, Teaching Moment
As I stepped into the studio to teach this morning, I was struck by the idea of teaching the first class of 2016. I’ve been teaching since 2002 so that’s a lot of “first class of the New Year” feelings I’ve had. Today as I taught, I...
by Karen Fabian | Oct 24, 2015 | Anatomy Stories, Class theme, Grow Your Teaching Techniques, Inspiration, Personal Training/Coaching, Running, teach, Uncategorized
I had a private client visit me once and it was our first meeting. He was a tech entrepreneur and was very stressed. He was coming to yoga because he knew it would be a good stress release. He also spent an extraordinary amount of time on the phone and on the...
by Karen Fabian | Oct 10, 2015 | Inspiration, Personal Training/Coaching, Self improvement, Today's Meditation
I’m reading Elizabeth Gilbert’s new book, “Big Magic.” To say it’s a wonderful, inspiring book is an understatement. There are some books that hit you to the core and this is one of them. I’m reading it through the...
by Karen Fabian | Aug 21, 2015 | Inspiration, Personal Training/Coaching, Today's Meditation
One of my favorite private yoga students used to come up from Shavasana (resting pose; the last pose in the practice) and he’d always have a revelation. It could be something about his personal life but it usually was about his business. We’d meet...
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 | Jun 4, 2015 | Inspiration, Living Well, Nutrition/Food, Personal Training/Coaching, Today's Meditation
Yesterday was the taping of my first TV show, “Living Well.” I had been planning for this show for months; booking guests, planning the questions, doing pre-interviews, working with the station manager on the show “open” as I learned they...
