Are you looking to boost your confidence and break through the limiting beliefs holding you back? In this episode, I sit down with Karen Fabian to explore the mindset shifts, practical strategies, and personal stories that can help you step into your full potential, both on and off the mat.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

• Karen’s inspiring journey from healthcare professional to successful yoga teacher
• How to identify and overcome the most common limiting beliefs yoga teachers face
• The role of mentorship and why seeking help accelerates growth
• Practical tips for building confidence in the classroom and beyond
• The ripple effect: how your confidence impacts your students and community
• Real-life examples of yoga teachers transforming their businesses and lives

Ready to transform your teaching and mindset? Tune in and start your journey to greater confidence!

Meet Karen Fabian:

Yoga teacher, Podcast Host, Author and Founder of Bare Bones Yoga, Karen Fabian has a background in rehabilitative medicine and healthcare. Her passion for anatomy and human movement is behind all she does, including her work with yoga teachers inside her program, The Yoga Anatomy Blueprint Learning Program and her membership, The Yoga Teacher Confidence Club. Along with over 20 years of teaching, she is an E-RYT and a Yoga Alliance Continuing Education Provider. She earned her Certified Personal Trainer certification in 2017 and Corrective Exercise certification in 2019 with the National Association of Sports Medicine, has an undergraduate degree in Rehab Counseling and a Masters in Health Care Administration. She has written two books for yoga teachers and is the host of her podcast, “Conversations for Yoga Teachers” with listeners all over the world. She lives in Boston.

All Mats Taken Links:

Download the AI Prompt Workshop for Yoga Teachers and get more efficient output when working with AI: https://allmatstaken.com/resources

Connect with Adrianne on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/allmatstaken/ (new podcast account)

Buy me a kombucha to support the show: https://fantastic-pioneer-1892.kit.com/products/support-the-podcast-tip-jar

Learn more via Karen's website: https://barebonesyoga.com/

Follow Karen: https://www.instagram.com/barebonesyoga/

Follow Karen on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@barebonesyoga

Follow Karen on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/karenyoga

Listen to my episode with Karen on her podcast discussing AI for Yoga Teachers on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/yoga-teaching-and-ai-ep-342/id1432716189?i=1000701578087

Or Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5qA0DPSgMlRfdtMz8rSPWl?si=7ca80c63ca95477e

Referenced Paper:

*Ok so a few corrections from the episode. The paper I was referencing was the Framingham Heart Study by Christakis & Fowler. It ran from 1983 to 2003 and followed 4739 individuals. They found that happiness clusters in networks and that the association between one person’s happiness and others’ happiness reaches up to three degrees of separation (friends, friends-of-friends, and friends-of-friends-of-friends). They also report concrete effect sizes (e.g., a nearby friend becoming happy increased a person’s probability of being happy by ~25%), and that the effect decays with distance and time. Find more information here: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19056788/