Karen Fabara, in motion, at the Barbican
¿Qué más, ve?ve · interj. · /be/ · Caleño. Friendly greeting from Cali, Valle Del Cauca. It means "What's up?", "How's it going?" or "What's new".

Move freely.

I'm Karen. I coach people who want a body that does more: first pull-ups, a hike without the knee pain, a deeper squat, a first aerial invert. Some of my clients are athletes. Most of them just want to feel strong again.

Strength, mobility, pole
London in person · Online worldwide
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Fuertes de por vida

Strong for life.

Office workers, weekend warriors, women over 30 who want to be fit for the next forty years, men who can't touch their toes anymore. You don't need to be an athlete. You need a plan and someone who actually watches you move.

De vuelta al juego

Coming back.

After injury, after years away, after a body that stopped being fun. We rebuild the foundation first, con toda, then we load it. Slowly is fast.

Técnica y rehabilitación

Skill and rehab.

Pole, calisthenics, aerial, prehab / rehab, return to sport after injury. You already train. My job is to make the training precise: the grip, the line, the missing range, the thing that's holding the trick back.

Everyday strength & mobility

1:1 LondonOnline anywhere
A client stretching in a doorway at the Barbican
  • Body weight training
  • Pain-free hiking
  • Hips that open
  • Shoulders that rotate
  • Posture without thinking about it
  • Strength after 30, 40, 50

Skill, pole & rehab

Privates London studiosProgramming online
Karen on a pole against the Vancouver skyline
  • Pole conditioning and tricks
  • Calisthenics progressions
  • Return to sport after injury
  • Aerial strength
  • Grip and shoulder health
  • Flexibility with intent
3.4° N76.5° W · Cali

I grew up in Cali. My first training was salsa.

No gymnastics club, no junior athletics. Just a kid outside all day, and years of drilling the same eight counts until my body stopped thinking about them.

51.5° N0.1° W · London · 2018

I found pole, calisthenics, and handstands, and the question changed.

Until then I competed in salsa and trained for aesthetics. These gave me a goal my body couldn't reach yet, and the only route there was strength I hadn't built.

49.3° N123.1° W · Vancouver · 2019

At thirty I walked into a tumbling class to learn a backflip.

Not because I needed one. Because I wanted to find out what a woman at thirty can actually do, as opposed to what she's told she can do.

49.3° N123.1° W · Vancouver · 2020

Then I went looking.

Gyms shut, so I trained wherever I could: Olympic lifting, contortion, hand balancing. I wanted to know how much strength and how much range one body could hold at once.

49.3° N123.1° W · British Columbia · 2025 - 2026

In 2025 I tore my ACL and both menisci.

Rehab taught me more than any certification. Eight months after surgery I was back up Panorama Ridge BC, and most of my coaching comes down to this: change what you can, adapt the rest.

51.5° N0.1° W · London · Now

Everything since Cali has been the same question.

What can this body still do? Pole, strength, range, rehab. I just keep asking it for other people now.

Karen, arms raised, in black and white
A handstand between concrete columns
Karen against a brick wall, hand on her head
Walking past a Barbican tower, in black and white
Next

The journey continues.

Karen in a deep side lunge on the Barbican bricks, seen from above
strength / fuerza
mobility / movilidad
pole / barra
flow / flow
Kogi · noun · /ˈko.ɣi/ · Jaguar, in the language of one of Colombia's indigenous peoples. Flow is just flow: movement, motion, the thing a body does when nothing is in its way.

Four ways in. All of them start with a free call where I watch you move and tell you what I see.

011:1 personal trainingStrength, mobility and conditioning built around your body and your week. Older adults, beginners, people coming back.London · in personEnquireLearn more about 1:1 personal training
02Online programmingA progressive programme, video feedback on your lifts and skills, check-ins that actually check in.Online · worldwideEnquireLearn more about Online programming
03Pole privatesConditioning, technique, grip, the trick you've been stuck on for six months.London studiosEnquireLearn more about Pole privates
04Group classesPole dance & conditioning, lifting, Lagree, flexibility and mobility. Beginner to advanced.LondonEnquireLearn more about Group classes

"Pull-ups were my nemesis. Now I can do three. She doesn't use a cookie-cutter approach."

Erika · pole conditioning · Vancouver

"I'm not just there to train. From her explanations I understand more about my body and how it works."

Chris · former professional volleyball player

"Recovering from injury with sciatica. She's about accountability and non-scale victories: feeling strong, not the number."

Cynthia · returning after injury

Hágale pues.

hágale pues · phrase · /ˈa.ɣa.le pwes/ · Colombian for "go on then", "let's do it".

A free fifteen-minute video call to chat about where you are and where you want to be, so we can see if we're a good fit.

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