by Karen Fabian | Oct 7, 2016 | business, teach, teaching
All this week I’ve been sharing Facebook live training with videos on my Facebook page. I’ve been covering themes from the business chapters of my book, “Stretched: Build Your Yoga Business, Grow Your Teaching Techniques.”   I’ve been...
by Karen Fabian | May 13, 2016 | Anatomy Stories, teach
Yesterday I hosted a webinar called, “10 Anatomy Based Teachings You Can Share With Your Students” and I loved doing it! ( there will be many more webinars in my future, for sure). The focus of the webinar was to provide 10 anatomically themed tips you can...
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 | 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 | 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 24, 2015 | Grow Your Teaching Techniques, teach, Teaching Moment
I used to teach in a way that led with the head. I tried to teach by stuffing a lot of platitudes, thoughts, inspirational ideas and even coaching into each class. I had a sense that yoga was supposed to be a mover; a mover of stuck energy into flow. I thought...
