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40: How to Build Confidence and Overcome Limiting Beliefs as a Yoga Teacher with Karen Fabian

All Mats Taken - A Yoga Teachers Business and Lifestyle Podcast

Release Date: 10/21/2025

42: Why Your Yoga Business Needs a Free Offer That Actually Works with Colynn Cespedes

All Mats Taken - A Yoga Teachers Business and Lifestyle Podcast

In this episode, Colynn Cespedes from Frikshuhn Yoga joins me to dive deep into the art and strategy of creating a free offer that truly grows your business. You'll learn why lead magnets are essential in today's saturated market, how to craft offers that attract your ideal clients, and how building and nurturing a community should be done with an email list. We share real-world examples, actionable steps for niching down, and expert insights on using market research to make your offers irresistible. Plus, get a sneak peek into our upcoming free challenge The 3-Day Build Your Freebie Challenge...

41: Simple & Effective Yoga Sequencing: Proven Methods for Confident Teaching with Sage Rountree

All Mats Taken - A Yoga Teachers Business and Lifestyle Podcast

This week we dive deep into the art and science of pedagogy in yoga teaching with Sage Rountree. Sage shares her rich experience in transitioning from an academic teaching background to yoga instruction and the lessons learned along the way. We discuss: The importance of repetition, clear queuing, and balancing structure with flexibility in class planning. Frameworks such as the 6-4-2 method and the SERVE method to help teachers design balanced and effective classes. The integration of exercise physiology principles and the role of varied yet intentional practice to enhance both...

40: How to Build Confidence and Overcome Limiting Beliefs as a Yoga Teacher with Karen Fabian

All Mats Taken - A Yoga Teachers Business and Lifestyle Podcast

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...

39: Have We Forgotten the True History of the Chakras? The Hidden Origins of Modern Yoga Philosophy

All Mats Taken - A Yoga Teachers Business and Lifestyle Podcast

Most of us learned that the chakras are an ancient yogic system, but what if that story isn’t quite true? In this episode, I take you down the rabbit hole that completely changed how I understand chakras. What started as simple class planning for my yin yoga series turned into a deep dive into the forgotten history of the modern Western chakra system. We'll trace their journey from early Tantric philosophy to Theosophy, Carl Jung, and the New Age movement. You’ll learn how a mix of Western psychology, color theory, and mysticism transformed a centuries-old meditation map into today’s...

38: Spinal Energetics Explained: Release Trauma & Restore Balance with Yoga Teacher Georgie Jeans

All Mats Taken - A Yoga Teachers Business and Lifestyle Podcast

Unlock the mysteries of spinal energetics in this transformative episode with guest Georgie Jeans a yoga teacher and spinal energetics practitioner. Learn all about this emerging somatic healing modality blends gentle touch, breathwork, and intuitive energy work to release deep-seated tension and trauma. Adrianne shares her experience being guided through a spinal energetics session and Georgie shares her journey from yoga to energy healing and inspiring stories of client breakthroughs. Whether you’re curious about alternative healing, seeking new ways to support your well-being,...

37: How to Sell Your Yoga Classes Without Feeling Pushy with Brytta Moreira

All Mats Taken - A Yoga Teachers Business and Lifestyle Podcast

Does the thought of selling make you feel a bit uncomfortable? Today's guest will flip the way you think about sales and selling as a yoga teacher on its head and make you excited to go out there and start practicing how to sell. In this episode, we discuss: Sales as a spiritual practice Why it's essential and not at all sleezy Getting comfortable with selling your services The benefits of collaborations We even go through a sample sales script! At the end of this episode, we were talking about how we could have a whole conversation all about collaborations for yoga teachers, SO WE...

36: Lineage, Philosophy, and Cults: How to Teach Yoga Without Losing Yourself Or Your Practice with Rachel Scott

All Mats Taken - A Yoga Teachers Business and Lifestyle Podcast

How can we honor our lineage, share yoga’s philosophical roots, and let our personality shine? In this episode with Rachel Scott, we discuss how to share the wisdom passed down through generations, weave philosophy into your classes, what to do if your lineage feels tainted by scandals or cultish behaviour when you know the deeper teachings are healing and how to recognize cult-like behaviour if you're ever faced with it. Links: Download the AI Prompt Workshop for Yoga Teachers and get more efficient output when working with AI: Watch this episode on YouTube: Connect with...

35: Has the Yoga Industry Bubble Burst?

All Mats Taken - A Yoga Teachers Business and Lifestyle Podcast

Is the yoga teaching industry dead? This is the hype that's trending on Instagram right now. In today's solo episode I discuss: How algorithms create echo chambers that can either fuel our success or destroy our confidence The deeper shifts I've seen happening over the past couple of years that everyone is predicting now How I'm shifting how I view what other's perceive as failures into benefits, successes and hopeful potential in my business. Why the "yoga bubble bursting" narrative is actually about the end of superficial, overpriced trends, not the end of authentic teaching Ready to build...

34: Indian Mythology For Yoga Teachers with Dr. Raj Balkaran

All Mats Taken - A Yoga Teachers Business and Lifestyle Podcast

Ever wonder why yoga poses have names like Hanumanasana or Garudasana, and what they actually mean? In this episode with guest Dr. Raj Balkaran we'll find out how asanas were named and how stories, from ancient mythology to cultural narratives, literally shape our consciousness, behaviors, and entire civilization. Plus discover how being aware of this can transform both your yoga teaching and your life. As yoga teachers, we're familiar with the idea that our stories determine our actions and a large part of our practice is to quiet the mind so that we can get in touch with our true self or...

33: 7 Ways To Identify AI Writing in 2025

All Mats Taken - A Yoga Teachers Business and Lifestyle Podcast

Have you been reading content online lately and thought, "Is this AI-generated?" or have you been editing AI content and wondered if you've infused enough of yourself into it to make it you? Today, I'm going to turn you into a human AI-detector. By the end of this episode, you're going to be able to sniff out unedited AI content from a mile away and impress your friends at a dinner party by knowing the definition of fancy AI terms like perplexity and burstiness. Now, this isn't a let's bash AI content and never use it in your business episode. We want to learn the red flags so we can...

More Episodes

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/

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