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What if the path to true confidence, ease, and joy isn't about doing more or proving yourself—but about aligning with who you really are?In this episode of The Pleasure Project Podcast, Dana Skoglund invites you into a new paradigm for living: one rooted in authenticity, clarity, and aligned action.You'll discover:Why alignment is the key to confidence, calm, and pleasure.The three pillars of alignment: who you are, what you want, and what you do.How slaying shame and exposing your truth can unlock radical self-trust and freedom.Why vulnerability is magnetic—and how sharing your real, unpolished self creates deeper connection.How to move beyond people-pleasing, perfectionism, and playing small to step into your fullest power.This isn't the status quo. This is a bold, brave, and liberating way of being—one that allows you to show up unapologetically, take action in alignment with your deepest desires, and create a life that feels as good as it looks.If you're ready to stop hiding, embrace your authentic self, and experience the freedom of living in alignment, this episode is for you.✨ Join The Pleasure Project Program to practice this new paradigm with a community of women who are redefining what's possible together.Click here to join The Pleasure Project Program

Click here to download the FREE Pleasure Project HypnosisWhat if changing your life didn't require force, pressure, or willpower—but pleasure?In this powerful episode, Dana Skoglund unpacks The Pleasure Principle—a concept rooted in psychology and rewired for high-achieving women who are ready to stop pushing and start flowing.We're wired to seek pleasure and avoid pain. But what if your brain currently sees the thing you want—exercise, rest, saying no, quitting sugar—as pain? And what if the thing you want to stop doing—scrolling, people-pleasing, late-night snacking—still feels like pleasure?Here's the truth: You don't need more willpower. You need to shift your associations.Dana shares personal stories, client breakthroughs, and science-backed insights to help you:Understand why “dirty pleasure” (sugar, screens, people-pleasing) keeps you stuckMake healthy habits feel easy and even irresistibleRewire your brain using simple mindset shiftsQuit unwanted behaviors (like smoking or sugar) by changing how you see themTransform the way you relate to pleasure, productivity, and yourselfYou'll also hear a deeply personal example of Dana's current mindset shift around slowing down—and how she's rewiring her brain to associate ease with empowerment, not laziness.✨ Plus: Don't miss the free hypnosis download at the end of the episode to help you embody a life filled with pleasure, purpose, and power.

Listen in on this dynamic conversation between Carrie Scollon and special guest Dana Skoglund about creating a dream life with ease by changing your brain. Dana shares how she guides clients to explore the art of living in alignment with body and emotion work. She talks about how to bridge the gap between desire and action by reprogramming subconscious thinking and trusting that desires are the map to purpose. Dana is the founder of the Pleasure Project Program and Podcast where she blends Eastern wisdom with neural and behavioural science to help people follow their curiosity and desires.

In this episode, life coach Dana Skoglund joins me to explore the intricacies of building healthy habits and cultivating intuitive self-care practices. Drawing from her expertise in yoga, Ayurveda, psychology, and neuroscience, Dana offers valuable insights into harnessing the power of neuroplasticity to transform our thought patterns and behaviors. From understanding the science behind habit formation to practical strategies for overcoming challenges and maintaining consistency, this conversation provides actionable steps for creating lasting change in our lives. Listen today, and don't forget to join my Facebook community: ⁠Women's Wellness Collective⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠! And please feel free to check out my website and follow me on social media ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠! Until next time, be well! Dana Skoglund is a Master Mindset and Health Coach and advanced yoga teacher. She combines her background in Ayurveda, yoga, Buddhism, life coaching, psychology and brain science to help ambitious women become the healthiest, happiest version of themselves by rewiring their brains. She's the host of The Pleasure Project Podcast and The Pleasure Project Program, a group coaching program for high achievers who want less stress, more ease and the blueprint for living their most purposeful, pleasurable and deeply satisfying life.She lives in BC Canada with her husband, 2 teenage boys, and 2 fur babies. www.danaskoglund.com  https://www.facebook.com/DanaSkoglundCoaching  https://www.instagram.com/danaskoglund/  https://www.youtube.com/user/danaskoglund

Dana Skoglund is a Master Mindset and Health Coach and advanced yoga teacher. She combines her background in Ayurveda, yoga, Buddhism, life coaching, psychology and brain science to help ambitious women become the healthiest, happiest version of themselves by rewiring their brains.In this episode we ‘get into it' with Dana about:-The power of the mind-Neuroplasticity-The meaning we make of other people's words-The thoughts we think-The language we use, and  -How to shift our mindset.Learn more about Dana and her coaching on IG.

Dana Skoglund is on today's show and we're talking about Ayurveda which has been around for 5000 years! We'll discuss:

The Daily Grind podcast brings you your Monday motivation with other brothers and sisters that are helping others on their Daily Grind. Every Monday you will hear from an expert, coach, or entrepreneur that is making waves in the health, business, and relationship industries. You don't want to miss out on this week's episode. More from today's guest Dana Skoglund: Dana is a master certified life coach, advanced yoga teacher and Ayurvedic health coach. She combines her background in Ayurveda, yoga, Buddhism, life coaching, modern psychology and neuroscience to help people build healthier habits and master their mindset using her 3 E method of behavior change. Social Media/Contact:www.danaskoglund.comhttps://www.facebook.com/DanaSkoglundCoachinghttps://www.instagram.com/danaskoglund/https://www.youtube.com/user/danaskoglundEmail: danaskoglund@gmail.com Dana's podcast: The Pleasure Project: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-pleasure-project-with-dana-skoglund/id1637528601?itsct=podcast_box&itscg=30200&ls=1  More resources from the Daily Grind Podcast: 1- Make sure you review this episode → https://forms.endorsal.io/form/62c75a1698ff8c29a1ad7141/ 2-Checkout The Daily Grind Podcast site: www.thedailygrindpodcast.com

Daily Journal Prompt For Happiness: www.livemyhappyhealth.com/selfjournal Dana works with the oldest form of healing, aligning your body with nature and natural cycles. She works with clients to balance their body and bring their energy into harmony so they can optimize their life. She works with clients to be their own biggest advocates and helps clients deeply understand their own body and what they need. She built her business on educating people on Ayurveda and the power of an optimal daily routine that is aligned with the cycles of nature. When you link with natural rhythms and taking care of your body, you feel better. Website: www.DanaSkoglund.com FB: @DanaSkoglundCoaching IG: @DanaSkoglund YT: @DanaKkoglund

Welcome to the Pleasure Project, I'm your host Dana Skoglund where I bring together eastern wisdom, psychology and life coaching to help you master your mindset and optimize your daily habits so you can experience more pleasure and ease and create a life that sparks joy. What is the one thing that would change everything? This was the criteria I was given for a project as part of my master coach training. The assignment was to design a project based on where my growth is. So I created the pleasure project, an 80 day experiment of consciously creating a life that sparks joy. Today is day 1. In this episode I share how I came up with the idea and my plan over the next 80 days. Please subscribe and follow along on my journey. And if you'd like to share what YOU think is the one thing that would change everything for you, I'd love to hear from you. Head on over to Instagram @danaskoglund and send me a message!

A big problem so many people struggle with is knowing how to deal with uncomfortable emotions in a healthy way. Oftentimes, emotions are dealt with by overeating, emotional eating, turning to drugs or alcohol, distraction, avoidance, etc. In this episode, I sit down to chat with Dana Vanwoerden Skoglund about true emotional self-care and how to deal with uncomfortable emotions.    Known as the teacher's teacher and community leader, Dana Skoglund has been teaching yoga since 2005. However, she realized that in order to help people feel better outside of the yoga class, she needed to help them transform their daily habits and mindset.   Dana's passion is contagious. She embodies a warm, light-hearted, and genuine approach in sharing lessons learned as she guides you into living a more intentional, aligned, and self-honoring life.   In this episode, we chat all about emotional self-care, ways to effectively change destructive habits, ways to cope and heal from past experiences, and how making yourself a priority helps not only you but those around you as well - proving once again that self-care isn't selfish at all.   Ways to connect with Dana: Website: https://www.danaskoglund.com/  Email: danaskoglund@gmail.com  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DanaSkoglundCoaching  Instagram: www.instagram.com/danaskoglund   Register for the upcoming “Reverse Dieting” webinar: https://mailchi.mp/4ba0db64cc93/reversedieting   Have podcast topic suggestions? Come find me on IG or email me at racheldmeigs@gmail.com    If you want healthy lifestyle tips and encouragement, join me over in my free Facebook community: Heart, Soul, Mind, & Body Wellness   Want to see all the latest updates? Head over to Instagram and follow me @rachelmeigsking

Dana Skoglund is a certified Life and Yoga Health Coach and advanced certified yoga teacher. She combines her background in Ayurveda, yoga, Buddhism, life coaching, modern psychology and habit change science to help women cultivate balance, ease and thriving health by building healthy habits and optimizing their daily routines in her signature course Align & Thrive. Dana created the 3 E method of behavioral change to help women create changes that stick so they can increase energy, improve sleep, reduce stress and anxiety and lose weight permanently.Social/website:www.danaskoglund.com https://www.facebook.com/DanaSkoglundCoaching https://www.instagram.com/danaskoglund/ https://www.youtube.com/user/danaskoglundFree 3 part video series: Ayurveda Summer Camp: https://coaching.danaskoglund.com/ASCFree Facebook Group: Grow Strong Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/growstrongcommunityIf you want to connect and know more about me and my podcast: Leap of Healthyou can find me at :www.alexbalgood.comFacebook @AlxBalgood and @leapofhealthwithalexbalgoodInstagram @AlexbalgoodYoutube @AlexBalgoodBuy on Amazon Book: Parents, Our Greatest Teachers by Alex Balgood available on paper bag & kindle version and Barnes and Noble Books#alexbalgood, #alwaysmoving, #author, #creatingwealth, #gutbrain, #healer, #healeverything, #healing, #intuition, #intuitivehealing, #leapofhealthpodcast #healthyli, #livingmybestlife #quantumhealing , #nutrition, #nutritioncoach #massagetherapy, #nutritionistlife, #airquality, #FeldenkraisMethod, #healingslowly, # functionalmedicine, #fertility, #habits, #neuroplasticity

We've all had our fair share of trials and errors in terms of finding the proper diet and lifestyle change. We have also wondered what other lifestyles could work for us, especially when you've tried them all. That is until you found Ayurveda.   Today Dana Skoglund joins me to share her insights on Ayurveda and the five elements that make up this ancient school of medicine. She also shares her tips on sleep, emotional eating, and overcoming stress.    Dana Skoglund is an Ayurvedic lifestyle coach, Yoga teacher with over 1,000 hours of teacher training under her belt, and Yoga teacher trainer. She is obsessed with: bio-hacking for optimal health, personal growth and optimization, Eastern wisdom, and mastering your mindset.   Tune in and learn more about the Ayurvedic lifestyle in this insightful episode, from how your circadian rhythm works to what foods you should and should not eat.   Learn more about Dana: Web: https://www.danaskoglund.com/ IG: https://www.instagram.com/danaskoglund/   In This Episode: [0:54] What does Ayurvedic health and lifestyle mean to Dana? [2:14] What are the common problems Dana sees with her clients? [3:04] What is the circadian rhythm? [7:54] There's no one-size-fits-all diet [10:50] What is an elimination diet? [13:27] What food or drinks does Dana consider as poison to the body? [17:55] Sleep and the circadian rhythm [22:08] Waking up with the sun [26:51] Resetting your circadian clock [27:51] Dana's tips on getting adequate sleep [34:01] More about behavior change for practicing Ayurvedic health [40:44] Dealing with the emotional aspect of making the change [44:00] Stress is a mental construct [48:42] Where to find Dana   Links and Resources: Peak Performance Life Peak Performance on Facebook Peak Performance on Instagram

Hi Friends! Thanks for being here! Today's guest is Dana Skoglund. She is an Ayurvedic lifestyle coach, life coach and Yoga teacher with over 1,000 hours of teacher trainings under her belt. Today we talk about her journey with yoga and Ayurveda, and how she was able to transform during the pandemic. If you would like more information on Dana, please check out her website for more information!

Welcome back to the podcast! Today, our special guest was Dana Skoglund! She is an ayurvedic lifestyle coach, yoga teacher with over 1,000 hours of training experience, and mother of 2 boys. She is passionate about helping women build the confidence to step into their potential and never settle for “plan B”, status quo, or a life of mediocrity.   In This Episode, We Will Discuss: What is the Ayurveda Diet? Intermittent fasting Eating seasonally Does bullet proof coffee break your fast? Why to avoid drinking anything with your meals And more!   Enjoy!   Check out her website here: https://www.danaskoglund.com/     Check out the VIDEO COURSE here: https://chantelrayway.com/video-course/   Check out Young Living right here: https://chantelrayway.com/youngliving/   Check out Beauty Counter right here: https://www.beautycounter.com/chantelray   CLEAN YOUR HANDS With This INCREDIBLE Non-Toxic Hand Soap: http://click.mygreenfills.com/aff_c?offer_id=36&aff_id=2703    Check out the FASTING RESET SUMMIT HERE: https://fastingresetsummit.com/   Listen to the new audiobook as a podcast HERE: https://chantelrayway.com/purchase-audio-book/   Purchase on Amazon Here: https://www.amazon.com/shop/intermittentfastingthechantelrayway    Free Video Preview: https://chantelrayway.com/top-12-thin-eater-tips-free-video/   Check out these things I LOVE: https://chantelrayway.com/things-i-love-2/    Strengthen your immune system with Vitamin C: https://chantelrayway.com/vitaminc/   Protein Powder: https://store.chantelrayway.com/products/complete-protein-shake-vanilla & https://store.chantelrayway.com/products/complete-protein-shake-chocolate   Enjoy refreshing, all-natural wine: https://chantelrayway.com/wine/   Enjoy a FREE smoothie recipe book: https://chantelrayway.com/freerecipe/   Re-energize with nutritious algae Energybits: https://chantelrayway.com/energybits   Castor Oil: https://chantelrayway.com/castoroil   Foraineam 1 oz bottles: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07S1L97J9/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B07S1L97J9&linkCode=as2&tag=chantelray-20&linkId=68f0c0dc0102955a00a378cf68aa7c7f   Bekith 3 oz bottles: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07XBSCCVT/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B07XBSCCVT&linkCode=as2&tag=chantelray-20&linkId=bcf8e80b98cded81e33cf23f3a75a339   Even more: https://chantelrayway.com/things-i-love-2/    Get the audiobook & e-book bundle of Chantel's 2nd edition to Waist Away The Chantel Ray Way at a REDUCED price HERE!   Connect with us on Social Media: YouTube Channel Link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCteFjiVaY6n0SOAixcyZbWA Like us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/TheChantelRayWay     Things we love: https://chantelrayway.com/things-i-love-2/ Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/TheChantelRayWay   This podcast is a SIMPRONTO MEDIA production.   ***As always, this podcast is not designed to diagnose, treat, prevent or cure any condition and is for information purposes only. Please consult with your healthcare professional before making any changes to your current lifestyle.***

Dana and I get into all the myths about healthy living, as well as life in New York, going to the "FAME" high school, her life as a pro dancer & master yogi and Lulu Lemon Ambassador. Living her life full time in Canada, Dana breaks down some of the reasons why people are unsuccessful with their "healthy living" trial and error. Reach Dana Skoglund; danaskoglund.com

In this Changemaker Challenge episode, Carly Banks sits down with fellow yoga health coach Dana Skoglund. Dana broke the $100K mark with her yoga health coaching income this year, working an average of 25 hours per week! Prior to YHC, Dana was making $18K teaching 6-8 yoga classes per week. To try to make more money, she would lead a ton of workshops, but that left her exhausted. Dana now works 5 hours a day, 5 days a week. Her evenings and weekends are free to spend with her family, and she loves the freedom of creating her own schedule. Yoga Health Coaching also provides Dana with the freedom to travel because she can work from anywhere. Dana's success is due in great part to her ability to understand the value of investing and reinvesting in her self and her business skills. Simultaneously, she's investing in the growth of the people she can serve. Her goal for next year is to double her income. With an income that exceeds her basic needs, Dana is able to reinvest in her business skills, design the life she wants to give herself and her family, all while leading others to permanent positive change.     What you'll get out of tuning in: Why investing in your business skills is the best investment for you, your family, and the people you serve as a wellness professional. How Yoga Health Coaching allows you to design the type of life you want to live. How income and impact go hand in hand.   Links Mentioned in Episode: Dana's Website Body Thrive Yoga Health Coaching   Show Highlights: 0:00 - Carly and Dana live in the same city. Rather than being competitive, they meet up on a bi-weekly basis, share ideas and resources, and collaborate. 2:20 - Dana has broken the $100K annual income mark as a yoga health coach! Prior to YHC, Dana was making $18K teaching 6-8 yoga classes per week. To try to make more money, she would lead a ton of workshops, but that left her exhausted. Dana now works 5 hours a day, 5 days a week. Her evenings and weekends are free to spend with her family, and she loves the freedom of creating her own schedule. 6:50 - Yoga Health Coaching also provides Dana with the freedom to travel because she can work from anywhere. One of the reasons she set her sights on making more money was so she could travel more, and she has been able to do so this past year. Her goal for next year is to double her income. 9:00 - Dana's success is due in great part to her ability to understand the value of investing and reinvesting in herself and her business skills. 11:00 - Inspired by Dana's success, Carly is setting her sights for her own success higher. She knows that investing in her personal and professional growth is the best investment   Your Favorite Quotes: "It's a great combination of having the freedom to be in your home and doing your work at your computer on your own time and then also be out in the community and connect." --- Dana Skoglund "I've continuously realized I need to invest more in being able to share my work with more people. You can't just be a good teacher to do that. It takes way more than that." --- Dana Skoglund "I could continue to just play comfortable, but growth feels way more interesting." --- Carly Banks "When we play small, we're actually stealing from other people because we're not helping as many people as we could be helping." --- Dana Skoglund     Guest BIO: Dana Skoglund is a Certified Yoga Health Coach, Yoga teacher, and mother of two rambunctious young boys. She's been studying Yoga since 2000 and teaching since 2004, and she has over 1,000 hours of training in the styles of Jivamukti, Anusara, and Sridaiva. Her desires to take her health and well-being into her own hands and to learn how to keep her family healthy led her to Ayurveda in 2011. After implementing daily routines from Ayurveda and noticing the profound impacts they had on her energy and happiness, she began coaching clients into these better body habits in 2013. She aims to inspire others about the importance of health habits in crafting the lives of their dreams. Dana is also deeply passionate about travel, adventure, learning, movement of any kind, and the arts.

When we first begin a detox, we may start off with plenty of excitement and motivation. However, once we actually eliminate those foods and activities we are used to, we often find that our detox goals fade. Why is that? Jill and Carly discuss their multiple Yogi Detox experiences, and how their preparation and expectations changed from their first detox to their preceding ones. Especially when we are doing a serious detox for the first time, we try to go all in with strict limits, which doesn’t lead to much success. We can easily burn out and find ourselves back with or old habits. Carly explains that YogiDetox emphasize easing into and out of the detox so that the habits actually last, and so that we feel less overwhelmed. Jill discusses her struggles with emotional eating, and how she identified her food crutches that were preventing her from facing her emotions. The support system provided in Yogi Detox is something both Carly and Jill used to help guide them through their detoxes, allowing them to actually accomplish their goals and personal development. Ready to begin a journey that will change your life? Start with this podcast, and learn how YogiDetox can get you to thrive.   What you’ll get out of tuning in: Why we need support in a detox How to handle emotional detoxing How to benefit from Yogidetox   Common Links: Body Thrive Book YogiDetox Webpage Body Thrive Course Webpage Ayurvedic Spring Detox And The Doshas With Alex Biondo Show Highlights: 4:00 (1) - YogiDetox is a powerful tool that allows you to recognize your own crutches and comforts. Often when we avoid facing an experience, we utilize these crutches as an escape without even realizing. 9:20(1) - Cate has designed this program so that there are always ways to go deeper as we do the detox multiple times. You can design your diet to fit your lifestyle individual needs - whether that is the master cleanse, or just sticking to more natural, raw foods. 8:48(2) - Our culture can mistakenly honors people who deal with struggle on their own. YogiDetox encourages us to lean on the group for support when we meet difficulties in a detox, which allows us to be more successful. Your Favorite Quotes: ” It’s about deep nourishing, not about taking things away. “ - Carly Banks “It can be irritating when we realize that we are the once getting in our own way, but it is also extremely empowering.” - Carly Banks “The Three week yogi detox should be a design your own adventure.” - Jill Rehm Guest BIO: The Body Thrive path led Carly to a new and exciting world where all can be accomplished with ease. Adding YHC certification training to work and parenting is proving to be easy, with the right tools. Carly’s shattering old patterns and false beliefs about herself, to become the person that she and her family deserve.  Connecting? Connect and hear more about how Carly juggles life as a busy mom at Nourished living.   Gale’s life has always been anchored in a committed physical practice. Practicing ballet from the age of 3, and highland dancing from the age of 4 into her adulthood, she went on to study dance in university. After exploring other career choices, her passion for movement therapies became her apparent life dharma- Committing to a life of learning and sharing empowering life practices. Gale studied hatha yoga under Meghan Currie and Sridaiva with Desi Springer and John Friend, and Yoga Tune Up’s Embodied Anatomy with Trina Altman. The most influential teacher in her practice is Dana Skoglund, her teacher who has a background in Anusara and Sridaiva yoga, as well as ayurveda. Through yoga and ayurveda Gale strives to facilitate a newfound sense of self-empowerment, self-accountability and gratitude for life in all those who practice in her community. Check out her website and contact on facebook page.

Being a nurse, Miranda was apprehensive when she first heard of detox growing in popularity. After having gone through YogiDetox herself, however, Miranda has seen first-hand the massive benefits detoxing has had on her health. Gale and Miranda chat about the transformational experience that this program has brought to so many people. Often in our busy modern lives, it can be really great for us to take a step back from things that aren’t serving us. Detoxing allows us to remove ourselves from our everyday lifestyles, so we can more easily cut out foods that we don’t realize are negatively impacting us. Additionally, it encourages stricter adherence to practices and habits that serve us well, such as going to bed early. Cate Stillman has designed YogiDetox so that you have the power to design your own detox and do it how you want. Miranda emphasizes how it is less about increasing stress through strict adherence to guidelines, and more about doing the things that you know serve your health best. Detoxing allows us to get back into alignment and balance with ourselves, and YogiDetox provides the support we need to get there.   What you’ll get out of tuning in: Why detoxing can be so transformative Why you should do YogiDetox What eliminating certain foods can tell us   Links Mentioned in Episode: YogiDetox Fall  Intermittent Fasting, Detoxing And The Ayurvedic Clock  The Detox Path of Deep Nourishment with Deanna Minich  Show Highlights: 3:38 - Miranda discusses with Gale how YogiDetox is designed for participants to design their detox to fit what they need at any given time in their lives. It is powerfully transformative to take a step back from things that aren’t serving you, and to do little experiments in your lifestyle and diet to see the changes that result. 5:50 - YogiDetox allows you to go about your detox individually while also having access to a community of people going through the same experience. While Miranda detoxed more on her own, she underscores the value of the Facebook community for answering questions, providing support, and showing how others are handling the detox journey. 11:45 - Miranda emphasizes looking at our local environment, including local plants that grow, to see how we can utilize these resources to feed our health. Invasive weeds can serve as abundant sources of local nutrients that connect us with what our environment is providing for us.   Favorite Quotes: “Reexamining things to do little experiments on yourself to see how you feel when those things are taken out of your life - I think it's very valuable.” - Miranda “It is very valuable that we start looking at what’s around us and how it’s supposed to be helping us.” - Miranda “How are we feeding ourselves in other ways?” - Gale Edison     Guest BIO: Miranda Smith is a 48 year old registered nurse, who lives in Northwestern, B.C., Canada. She loves spending time with her family, especially her 2 little grandsons. She loves yoga, paddle boarding, hiking, golf and has a big interest in wild edibles.  She hopes to continue to live a healthy, active life and appreciates the yoga healer community for its knowledge and support. She has taken the Living Ayurveda course and has participated in several yogi detoxes. This year instead of a New Years resolution she has decided to say “Yes!” to things that make her feel alive and it has been opening up some new and interesting opportunities." Connect on facebook page.   Host BIO: Gale’s life has always been anchored in a committed physical practice. Practicing ballet from the age of 3, and highland dancing from the age of 4 into her adulthood, she went on to study dance in university. After exploring other career choices, her passion for movement therapies became her apparent life dharma- Committing to a life of learning and sharing empowering life practices. Gale studied hatha yoga under Meghan Currie and Sridaiva with Desi Springer and John Friend, and Yoga Tune Up’s Embodied Anatomy with Trina Altman. The most influential teacher in her practice is Dana Skoglund, her teacher who has a background in Anusara and Sridaiva yoga, as well as ayurveda. Through yoga and ayurveda Gale strives to facilitate a newfound sense of self-empowerment, self-accountability and gratitude for life in all those who practice in her community. Check out her website and contact on facebook page.

  On Today's Episode of A Healthy Curiosity, you'll learn about: Ways to integrate self-care into your routine so it's more likely to happen Svasta: Being seated in yourself - the optimal state of body and mind Why taking time for yourself actually opens up time and increases your efficiency Shape-shifting for state-shifting   Today Brodie is with Dana Skoglund, one of Brodie's Yoga Health Coaching colleagues. Dana is a certified Yoga Health Coach, yoga teacher and a mother of 2 rambunctious young boys. She has been studying and teaching yoga since 2000. Eventually, Dana's desire to take her health and wellbeing into her own hands led her to Ayurveda in 2011. After implementing the daily routine of Ayurveda and noticing the profound impact it had on her energy and happiness, she began coaching clients into these better body habits in 2013, after receiving her Yoga Health Coaching Certification. She aims to inspire others about the importance of healthy habits in crafting the life of their dreams. Connect with Dana Skoglund: https://www.danaskoglund.com/       Get Our Self-Care Manifesto You have the right to take care of yourself. When you take care of yourself first, everyone around you will benefit, and will let you get more done in less time. If you need a reminder, just go to our webpage and click the download button. Then print and hang the manifesto on your wall or fridge or wherever you want so long as you get to see a positive reminder every day. Remember: Self-care is not selfish; it is essential.   Level Up Your Life Are you ready to upgrade to the next version of you? If you are ready to receive the guidance, accountability, and support you need to up level your health, feel more energized, and truly love your body, then join me for the Level Up Your Life program!   Visit BrodieWelch.com/Level-Up to learn more and schedule your FREE Discovery Call Today!   The next round of Level Up Your Life begins September 25, 2018.   Share Your Healthy Curiosity Thank you for joining me on today's episode of A Healthy Curiosity, the podcast that explores what it takes to be well in today's busy world with healthcare strategies through Chinese medicine. If you enjoyed today's episode, please head over to iTunes and subscribe to the show. Share your favorite episodes with your friends on social media to help us spread the word and help more people achieve optimal health throughout their busy lives. Don't forget to follow us on Facebook and Twitter to tell us what you'd like to learn more about!  

In this Changemaker Challenge Career Clarity Session, Cate chats with Yoga Health Coach Dana Skoglund about how building a signature system or leveraging an existing signature system can propel your wellness career to the next level. Building a signature system involves codifying your life's work coupled with what you've learned from others into a system that is succinct and easy to integrate. Dana has successfully used and expanded upon Cate's Yoga Health Coaching System to create her own signature systems. Leveraging an existing system requires a growth mindset – the ability to learn from and benefit from someone else's work. Is your native genius to build and create your own system, or would you benefit more from leveraging your own system? Listen in as Cate and Dana discuss how Wealth Dynamics can help you determine your best course of action. Once you've decided which course of action is right for you, using tools to develop and refine your system, allows you to see its strengths and weaknesses. Creating and emphasizing codified language around your system makes it easier for clients and course members to identify and understand key components of your system. Finally, the success of your system is dependent on your ability to constantly refine and upgrade the user experience.   What you'll get out of tuning in:   How committing to a growth mindset allows you to see the value and wisdom in systems that are unfamiliar to you.     How learning, using, and teaching someone else's system can propel your career to the next level.     How using tools can help you see the strengths and weaknesses in your own signature system.     Links: Body Thrive Yoga Health Coaching  Changemaker Challenge  Bowspring Yoga Wealth Dynamics Dubsado Mindset by Carol Dweck Draw Backwards Tint  Show Highlights: 1:00 - A system codifieds your life's work coupled with what you've learned from others into a system that is succinct and easy to integrate. 1:40 - The ability to learn from and benefit from someone else's system requires a beginner's mind, a growth mindset. 12:40 - Is your native genius to build and create your own system, or would you benefit more from leveraging your own system? 18:00 - Using tools to develop and refine systems, allows you to see the strengths and weaknesses in your signature system. 22:19 - Creating and emphasizing codified language around your system makes it easier for clients and course members to identify and understand key components of your system.   Your Favorite Quotes The more we already know something, the harder we make to really be able to receive someone else's zone of excellence and zone of genius and their incredible insight. --- Cate Stillman When you're learning a system that you're not familiar with, it's uncomfortable in the beginning. --- Dana Skoglund I find that knowing your system [Yoga Health Coaching], and having gone through that system and seeing what works about that system, allows me then to expand on it and create my own systems. --- Dana Skoglund What are you learning right now that you need to just turn around and teach? And by that I mean today or tomorrow or within the next 24 hours? Because if you put a delay on it, it just means that you're not going to be integrating what you're trying to learn. --- Cate Stillman You have to be always seeing what's the next way I can make this better and how can we improve on the old system. --- Dana Skoglund

Getting in our own way happens. To everyone. But it doesn't have to continue to happen. We can take the time to step back and observe our patterns, be open to changing how we converse with others, and develop practices for becoming more clear on noticing it happening, and taking steps to let go of those beliefs and habits. When we observe, open to change, and implement practical steps towards those changes, we get out of our own way. A career in wellness means deep self-investigation. Grace Edison and Dana Skoglund discuss their experiences with investigating how they get in their own way, why it happens, and what has worked for them to get rid of that habit and build in better ones.   Show Highlights: 12:04 – The fear of success impedes our ability to achieve success. When we mine that fear, with the support of others, we can release those fears and have a new perspective.   17:07 – Sometimes it is important to take the time to visualize out what will happen if we do not make changes to our habits around our goals for our lives. 21:03 – When there is no structure, we can get distracted by our own ideas.   What you'll get out of tuning in: Why you want to take the time to uncover and work through the ways you self-sabotage How to learn to see your own strengths, and why it matters. Where to begin to have an honest, level conversation with your fears, rather than battle them   Related podcasts: How Fear Disqualifies Us from Stepping into Potential: With Yoga Health Coach Grace Edison JJ Virgin and the Miracle Mindset: Overcoming Life's Hardest Lessons Conscious Daydreaming is How You Connect to Your Future Self with Summer McStravick   Favorite Quotes: "I feel the fear, release the edges, and do it anyway" – Dana Skoglund "I'm really interested in this fear of success. How does it show up for you? – Grace Edison

Hi, it's Cate Stillman, and I'm here with Coach of the Month Kari Zabel. We're so happy to have her on the show today, where we will talk about her journey through law school and a graduate degree in City Planning to practicing and then teaching yoga, all before changing her path to become a Yoga Health Coach. Tune in to hear how Kari Zabel overcame the cultural norms surrounding her to pursue her passion and become a successful wellpreneur.   What you'll get out of tuning in: How to improve your capacity to get things done Why overcoming cultural beliefs is so important for pursuing your dharma How to attract clients by living what you teach   Links: Yoga Health Coaching: Have a Conversation  Bryan Kest's website Dana Skoglund's website  Code of the Extraordinary Mind by Vishen Lakhiani  Refer a friend to Yoga Health Coaching  Apply to be a Yoga Health Coaching podcaster  Kari's Website   Show Highlights: 5:00 – There are incredibly powerful cultural belief systems that tell us we can't do what we want to do. Overcoming normative values and belief systems is often crucial for pursuing your dharma. 8:30 – The better body habits you have, the greater capacity you have to do anything you want to do. Habit evolution can help you not only feel better, but get more done in your day! 12:00 – Yoga Health Coaching gives you the tools you need to be able to create a health coaching business, and especially helps you get comfortable with aspects for which you might not feel you have the capacity yet. 16:00 – By improving body habits, you change physically and energetically, and people want to be around you more. When you live what you're teaching, it's not hard to sell your courses to clients because they want to go where you're going. 26:00 – If you have an eating disorder, you should go to therapy, not a health coaching course. However, a health coaching course could be incredibly beneficial for anyone who has experienced disordered eating.   Favorite Quotes: "I didn't need to live based on someone else's idea of what I should be doing." – Kari Zabel "You're probably going to have to overcome some familial or cultural baggage." – Cate Stillman "It's really hard to continually be going against the grain." – Kari Zabel "The better body habits you have, the greater capacity you have to do anything you want to do." – Kari Zabel "When you live what you're teaching and practicing, it's not that hard to sell something." – Kari Zabel "People are often steered inappropriately into career paths that don't really fit them, or relationships that don't really fit them." – Cate Stillman

In its first months, more than 15,000 people have listened to the YHC Podcast! We've recorded more than 45 shows in 2017, covering topics from Yoga Health coaching transformation stories to useful business coaching skills that support our Pro-Thrivers in their professional evolution. We have learned a lot about creating better shows, and have had great exchange and support among the YHC Podcaster community. We would like to give a big thanks to all YHC Podcast members: Brooke Bailey, Rosie Tait, Annie Barrett, Andrea Bachman, Michele Summers Colon, and Grace Edison. If you are part of the Yoga Health Coaching community, and especially if you are in YHC Mastery, feel free to apply here for our new YHC Podcast season. Here's to a prosperous 2018 behind the mic! In order to celebrate our successes from the last year, here are our most successful shows in 2017:   1. Learn to Time Bend with Dana Skoglund + Annie Barrett with Dana Skoglund, Annie Barrett Yoga Health Coaches juggle a lot of responsibilities, and many of us admit to feeling like we lack integrity with time. In this episode, Annie Barrett and Dana Skoglund – both Yoga Health Coaches – discuss how Dana has mastered the Yogi superpower of bending time. Dana shares her best strategies and tips for being productive and effective as a yoga teacher, Yoga Health Coach, mother, and entrepreneur.   2. The Habits for Hope in Healing with Annette Shellenbarger with Cate Stillman and Annette Shellenbarger     Listen in for Annette Shellenbarger's tips about understanding, trusting, and loving the Ayurvedic habits. Learn how to integrate Ayurvedic habits into your own life, and see them change the lives of those around you. Cultivate your own mental, emotional, and physical thrive, influence others in your life without nagging or telling them what to do, and teach clients what they need to do to help themselves more effectively.   3. From Fibromyalgia + Chronic Fatigue to Yoga Health Coaching with Lynn Taylor with Cate Stillman and Lynn Taylor     Lynn Taylor, YHC's Coach of the Month, provides tips on using your journey to help others find their Thrive. Help your clients fall into their own rhythm by adopting lifestyle habits, ask AWE (And What Else) to encourage them to share more, and leverage financial sacrifice to help people commit to upleveling their habits through your course.   4. Hashimoto's Autoimmune Disease: Healing with Yoga Health Coaching, with Gin Burchfield and Cate Stillman     Gin was diagnosed with Hashimoto's autoimmune disease four years ago. Since then, she has set forth on a journey to learn exactly what works for her body, not only to eliminate her symptoms, but to Thrive. She shares how the habits of Body Thrive have helped her get in touch with her body, ensuring that she gets exactly what she needs while staying away from things that will push her out of balance and toward inflammation. Tune in to find out why it's important for all people to get in touch with their bodies' needs, how the habits help day-to-day energy levels, and how group work can help orient toward connectedness and thrive.   5. YHC Personal Evolution Paths with Grace Edison + Dr. Michele Colon, with Grace Edison and Dr. Michele Colon     Name any trendy diet, and there's a good chance Grace Edison has tried it — without lasting effects — over the years. Even with all that practice, she was stuck in a seemingly endless cycle of losing and gaining the same 50 pounds over and over again. Eating was a form of self-harm and emotional solace through difficult periods in her life, but on her personal evolution path, she broke free of old patterns that kept her body from changing. In this episode, Grace shares how the habits of Body Thrive helped her body figure out where it really wants to be, and how she has used her personal transformation and evolution to inspire and help others live in bodies they love.   6. COM: Step into the Fire with YHC Coach Alexandra Epple, By Cate Stillman, with Cate Stillman and Alexandra Epple     Alexandra Epple shares tips for encouraging students to step into the fire to enjoy the transformation they desire, understanding the importance of tailoring course offerings, and shifting from victim to creator mode. Tune in to learn how to nurture your career, get rid of your perfectionism, and focus on results.   7. 7 Ways Family Meetings Harmonize Our Lives, with Annie Barrett     In this episode of the Yoga Health Coaching Podcast, Yoga Health Coach Annie Barrett raps about how her family is evolving their health and connectivity with weekly family meetings. Annie talks about how she got her husband and two teens on board with weekly meetings, and how it improves their connectivity, communication, habits and health. This episode is for you if you care about evolving not only your own habits, but also the habits of your family and core peeps.   8. What to do for an Overweight Vata, with Cate Stillman     The majority of Western society is overweight. As a practitioner or student of ayurveda, it is difficult to assess whether excess weight is a vata or kapha issue. Cate shares her advice on how to tell the difference between vata weight and kapha weight, as well as how vatas can work to bring balance (and weight loss) into their lives. Cate provides helpful information about self massage, sipping warm water, and chewing gum to help combat these imbalances and lean in toward Thrive.   9. Creative Ways to Bring Healthier Habits to the Corporate World, with Brooke Bailey     When we approach our health holistically, we experience profound benefits in our personal and professional lives. Naturally, we want to share these benefits with others. Whether you work in a large corporation, a small business, or as an independent contractor, if you want to see a reduction in the pervasively high levels of stress in the workplace, then this episode is for you. Brooke Bailey, a former member of the Rat Race but now soon-to-be Yoga Health Coach, invites Eve Gaudet, her client and Executive Coach, to discuss how we can approach both large and small organizations about making healthier habits an integral part of their wellness programs.   10. The Ayurveda of Podcasting with Cate Stillman and Andrea Bachman, with Cate Stillman and Andrea Bachman     All your podcast followers are influenced by their Ayurvedic constitution: because of their dosha, they are more inclined to focus, process, or space out when listening. Tune in to learn how you can lead engaging, collaborative conversations that cater to everyone's needs, whether audio, visual, or kinesthetic, to engage anyone listening.    

Hi everyone! Cate here with Dana Skoglund. Dana has been in YHC mastery for two years, with her first pilot in April 2015. She is doing amazing things with her health coaching career, surpassing her goals in finance, impact, and reach each year. She just finished her 10th round of courses, and she now has two other mastery continuity programs that she's created. Today, we are going to chat about marketing and client outreach, and tackle some of the following questions:   How do I build a lead generation system to convert 60 people into my course again and again? What is your conversion rate? When you get on the phone with them, how many people opt-in to your courses? If your conversion rate is lower than 30%, what's wrong with the system? When in that sequence are you making an offer? Make the offer to have a strategy session with you sooner than later. When are you making an offer to join your program? Is there a way to simplify?   Tune in to hear our laser coaching session that focuses on nurturing potential clients and making time for personal interactions, allowing you to advise them on what they truly need.   What you'll get out of tuning in: Why personalized interactions are so important How to use feminine-style marketing to nurture qualified leads When to make an offer, and when to hold off   Show Highlights: Yoga Health Coaching Yoga Health Coaching Mastery Dana's website   Show Highlights: 3:00 - When building your email list, think about how many people you need to hit your goal. Then consider how you can simplify it to reach the people who will sign up for your courses at the price you are willing to give them. 7:00 - Make sure you get yourself in a peak state before you coach someone into enrollment in your courses. 10:45 - Instead of pushing clients toward your courses, get interested in what's going on with them. When they come in, it's not about you and your values; it's about finding out more about them and what they need. 15:00 - Don't make an offer prematurely. Whether it's free trainings, body work, applications for more sessions, or making sure they see quality content that may help them personally, your work can really nurture them in what they need. 20:00 - In all content, you should always provide an opportunity for them to have a conversation with you. This will allow people the opportunity to get in touch with you and your courses more quickly and efficiently. 22:50 - Ask people to refer their friends! More people are willing to give referrals than we typically ask. And referrals have the best conversion rate, with 80% of people buying when they have a referral from a friend.   Favorite Quotes: "In any kind of coaching, you want to get yourself in a peak state before you dial or sit down with someone." - Cate Stillman "I choose to feel confident that I can do this. I listen deeply. I come from a place of wholeness. I trust myself and the universe." - Dana Skoglund "Reevaluate how you have your home page so people can just get right into a strategy session with you." - Cate Stillman "At some point paying for leads is faster." - Cate Stillman   Guest BIO: Dana Skoglund is a Certified Yoga Health Coach, Yoga teacher, and mother of two rambunctious young boys. She's been studying Yoga since 2000 and teaching since 2004, and she has over 1,000 hours of training in the styles of Jivamukti, Anusara, and Sridaiva. Her desires to take her health and well-being into her own hands and to learn how to keep her family healthy led her to Ayurveda in 2011. After implementing daily routines from Ayurveda and noticing the profound impacts they had on her energy and happiness, she began coaching clients into these better body habits in 2013. She aims to inspire others about the importance of health habits in crafting the lives of their dreams. Dana is also deeply passionate about travel, adventure, learning, movement of any kind, and the arts.

Here we are on the Changemaker Challenge. It's me, Cate Stillman of Yoga Health Coaching with the now-famous Grace Edison! We're talking about deep listening today. I actually just re-wrote the Yoga Health Coaching guide, and the deep listening section is big. It's a skill, and you can't making deeper change without it. As I was doing this, I was reflecting on how I think one of the reasons Grace has done so well here is her ability to listen from a place of care. And it's authentic care! This is incredibly important when it comes to interacting with our clients. So tune in to learn about diving into deep listening, and uplevel your life, your relationships, and your career.   What you'll get out of tuning in: What to do to practice deep listening How to practice physiological empathy Why dynamic groups are so important for rapid evolution   Links: Yoga Health Coaching website  Change Your Questions, Change Your Life: 10 Powerful Tools for Life Craig Hamilton's website Andrew Cohen's website Dana Skoglund's website   Get your Kira Grace's exclusive 20% discount   Show Highlights: 0:45 - Take time to enjoy the return from your offerings: so many of us work really hard all the time with the goal of enjoying our lives later, in retirement or further down the road. But the time is now to enjoy your life! 4:15 - Deep listening comes down to caring. By allowing your physiology to presence care, you can practice empathetic physiological listening. You're not just empathetic in your mind, but you're actually physiologically available: your heart is available. 11:15 - Create a safe space to deeply listen to your clients. Schedule a time and provide a structure so you can get to a place of depth and groundedness. Then, you'll have time to reflect, ask questions, and get to the heart of the problem. 17:30 - Don't skip over the hard questions: hold yourself and your clients accountable for talking about uncomfortable things. This is what will set you apart from other health professionals and bring you to the root of the problem. 30:30 - Dynamic groups are so important for rapid evolution: they help us to deeply listen, to care, to empathize, to identify our self-sabotage, to call each other out, and to have each other's back. 33:30 - In order to get comfortable with your clients uncomfortableness, get into your body and come to an intuitive place. Give everything you have to that person in that moment, and allow things to be exactly as they are.   Favorite Quotes: "I've learned a lot about deep listening. I think it's always been there, covered up by my desire to talk a lot." - Grace Edison "If you're grounded in your own physiology, you can become so much more available." - Cate Stillman "The habits were huge for me in being able to feel and empathize, and then not take it on as my own." - Grace Edison "Once you become whole, then you can Thrive." - Cate Stillman "Extreme ownership of behavior in alignment with our own potential is what it's all about." - Cate Stillman  

Hello and good morning! Happy Friday, Changemakers! This is Carly, and I am so excited today – it's Friday, the sun is shining, and I'm not sick! I've been sick all week. Not to mention my son is one year old, and he has clearly communicated to me that he gets 'man colds.' So it's been a really difficult week. It's really hard to get anything done with a baby in one arm and Kleenexes in the other. So I'm so excited to be having this conversation in particular. I'm here with Dana Skoglund, who is a very inspiring and successful Yoga Health Coach. Dana is going to talk to us today about streamlining to create more ease. This week especially highlighted the importance of this for me because I had to move a lot of things around to support my health and the health of my family: it's really important to have procedures in place that can step in when you're not feeling so great or when life gets to hectic. Dana started Yoga Health Coaching three years ago, and since then has transitioned from being a yoga teacher struggling to make a living to creating her own health coaching business and running 10 programs in the last three years with the help of YHC. Tune in to hear about Dana's journey, and how she manages her time to create ease in her business and her life!   What you'll get out of tuning in: How to create content with ease Why you shouldn't be afraid to repeat yourself How to use marketing tools to streamline your business   Links: Yoga Health Coaching Evergreen Marketing   Dana's website Get your Kira Grace's exclusive 20% discount Show Highlights: 19:20 - Everyone can do what they love for a living. You just have to want it enough to make it work. 20:00 - The more coaching you do, the more resources you accumulate and the more you can improve, refine, rework, and streamline your website, your brand, and your business. 22:15 - In YHC 2.0, all content is provided: there is a library of videos, worksheets, tip sheets, etc. to use until you create your own content down the road. This way, you can run a program right from the start without creating everything first. 23:30 - You can create free talks, webinars, blog posts, and other content to put on your website for lead-in to courses. By doing this and using marketing tools, you can create a steady flow of business with ease. 25:30 - Don't be afraid to repeat yourself: People need to hear the same thing more than once for it to sink in, and by saying the same things in different ways, one of the ways you say it is bound to click for someone.   Favorite Quotes: "I was hell-bent on doing what I love for a living, and that's really what brought me to Yoga Health Coaching." - Dana Skoglund "I think everyone can do what they love for a living… It's just about wanting it enough to make it work." - Dana Skoglund "Don't be afraid to repeat yourself. Everyone needs to hear these things that really matter." - Carly Banks "We streamline by finding what works and repeating those processes over and over again." - Carly Banks  

Tune in and learn how to: Make time to do the things that really "light you up" Get into a state of flow where you can use your unique talents to boost your business Prioritize and use the 80/20 rule for time management to learn where to direct your focus Give yourself permission to take time when you're in a funk—progress will still happen!   In this episode I rap with Dana Skoglund about: Tips on the transformative power of YHC and how it can help you: Manage life now and in the future when things get overwhelming Make and follow an organized plan to use time wisely and guide yourself to your goals Get out of your own way and feel less emotionally involved to become more productive Prioritize!     Show Highlights: 2:45 — The capacities we build at YHC are totally transformative and lead to better alignment, impact, income, support, and collaboration. 5:10 — YHC leads to differences in the realities of our lives. One key way is that we understand the power of delegation in freeing up our time. 11:00 — Building your business will always require effort but also offer continued growth. There are things you can do now and in the future to better manage your time and prepare for this growth. 13:13 — When you need to slow things down, this is still a great time for planning, prioritizing, and setting goals. 19:00 — We need to always be on the lookout for leaders, especially as we shift into new phases of growth. 25:40 — Clear communication opens up pathways for and commitment to your and your students' journeys ahead. 31:05 — The support Dana receives in Continuity is completely invaluable.     Link from the Conversation: Dana's Website     Favorite Quotes from the Conversation: "I feel like I've gotten so much more clear around my niche and my style and my values." "Perfectionism was really what held me back. Part of delegating is being okay with things not being done the way you would exactly do them. But it's better than not having that support!" "It took me a while to be okay with reaching out and investing in support." "There's always a big long list, but by creating organization within that list…I'm only working on one or two things at a time. And that feels totally doable."   Coach Bio: Dana Skoglund is a Certified Yoga Health Coach, Yoga teacher, and mother of two rambunctious young boys. She's been studying Yoga since 2000 and teaching since 2004, and she has over 1,000 hours of training in the styles of Jivamukti, Anusara, and Sridaiva. Her desires to take her health and well-being into her own hands and to learn how to keep her family healthy led her to Ayurveda in 2011. After implementing daily routines from Ayurveda and noticing the profound impacts they had on her energy and happiness, she began coaching clients into these better body habits in 2013. She aims to inspire others about the importance of health habits in crafting the lives of their dreams. Dana is also deeply passionate about travel, adventure, learning, movement of any kind, and the arts.

Dana Skoglund is a certified yoga health coach, yoga teacher and mother of 2 rambunctious young boys. She has been studying yoga since 2000, and teaching since 2004. Eventually her desire to take her health and wellbeing into her own hands and to learn how to keep her family healthy led her to Ayurveda in 2011.    After implementing the daily routine of Ayurveda and noticing the profound impact it had on her energy and happiness, Dana began coaching clients into these better body habits in 2013. Dana aims to inspire others about the importance of healthy habits in crafting the life of their dreams. She is deeply passionate about travel, adventure, learning, movement of any kind and the arts.     This was a fascinating conversation, where I learned so much about myself.  I know you’ll learn a lot from Dana, too.  Dana shares a ton about Ayurveda, which is so enlightening (and will make you eager to implement simple new habits!)  This episode is packed with helpful tips and powerful insights.  Take notes!   Listen in to hear Dana Share: What is your dosha and why it’s important to understand it How following the cycle of the sun aids in digestion and improves health How you can make simple changes to honor the cycle of the sun How you can change the way you use time and how to use exercise to create time How to change your habits without feeling overwhelmed 5 ways to dramatically improve sleep   Links Mentioned: Dosha Quiz: Chopra Center Dosha Quiz: Joyfullbelly.com NY Times 7 Minute Workout   Dana’s Website: www.danaskoglund.com Dana’s Webinar: How to Create a Powerful Morning Routine Dana on Facebook Dana on Instagram

Being Intentional in Your Life  How would you show up in your daily life if you felt like all of your needs were met and you treated yourself with compassion? In this day and age with our electronic devices constantly demanding immediate attention, overcommitted schedules for both ourselves and our families, managing our work and trying to take time out of each day to take care of our health and well-being, it can be hard to navigate each day with any sense of ease or balance. Dana Skoglund has been there. As a busy mother of two young boys and emerging from the buzzing metropolis of New York City, Dana felt overwhelmed and frustrated as she tried to build her practice as a yoga instructor and manage her family. When she moved to Kelowna, BC, she began to re-evaluate her habits and realized the importance of self-care, having a routine, and setting boundaries. Currently, she is teaching yoga but also leads multiple lifestyle/yoga coaching courses on better sleep habits, the keystone habits to create healthy daily routines, ditching cycles of overwhelm and burnout, Ayurveda, and fostering a deeper sense of purpose. In this conversation with Dana, we discuss how to step off the hamster wheel and take control of your life and what it looks like to have a routine focused around self-care. We often feel overly busy and overwhelmed, and I definitely fall back into that category regularly. “We are doing busy work and that busy work sometimes helps us feel like we are accomplishing something because we can check something off our list, but is it moving us in the direction we want? And often it isn't and we feel like we aren't actually enjoying our life at all. We are busy but we're not present for every moment and are not able to actually do what we want to do and what's most important.” We talk about knowing your core values so that you can create a buffer and set boundaries so your actions are aligned with what is most important to you. Another great part of this conversation is time management and how to block of time during your day. This conversation helped bring me back to what is important to me and reminded me of how to create better work-life balance. I loved this exchange with Dana Skoglund and I hope you do too! [video width="1024" height="1536" mp4="http://www.sonyalooney.com/wp-content/uploads/Danaver3.mp4"][/video]   SHOW NOTES Connect with Dana Dana's 21 Days to Epic Sleep Course Dana's Free Morning Webinar    Books Mentioned Peak Performance by Brad Stulberg and Steve Magness 12 Week Year by Brian P. Moran The Success Principles by Jack Canfield The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up Marie Kondo Spark Joy by Marie Kondo Essentialism by Greg McKeowan   Meditation Apps Mentioned: Headspace App Insight Timer   My Next Race: La Leyenda Del Dorado 7 Day Race in Colombia : July 30-Aug 6   Click HERE

Name any trendy diet, and there's a good chance Grace Edison has tried it — without lasting effects — over the years. Even with all that practice, she was stuck in a seemingly endless cycle of losing and gaining the same 50 pounds over and over again. Eating was a form of self-harm and emotional solace through difficult periods in her life, but on her personal evolution path, she broke free of old patterns that kept her body from changing. In this episode, Grace shares how the habits of Body Thrive helped her body figure out where it really wants to be, and how she has used her personal transformation and evolution to inspire and help others live in bodies they love.   3 Bullet Points How to inspire others via your own transformation Why you need to stop jumping from diet to diet and instead create new habits How to hear the true cravings of your body Links Mentioned in Your Episode: Dana Skoglund Yoga Health Coaching Body Thrive Book Show Highlights: 3:50 — Grace explains the massive transformation she underwent after a 10-week YHC pilot program with Dana Skoglund and how it prompted her to become a Yoga Health Coach. 7:00 — Weight-loss transformations happen naturally with YHC — bodies find that level where they're meant to be, just like Grace's has. 10:00 — Grace shares how getting into her proper body rhythms — through the 10 Habits of Body Thrive — made a massive impact on how her body reshaped itself. Earlier, Lighter Dinners and Early to Bed in particular have proven to really impact her life. 13:00 — We all need to go through a personal inquiry process to get to the root of our habits, spark change, and become grounded. 17:40 — Listening to what your body is really asking for and needing is one of the most critical steps toward changing your relationship with food and using it as fuel, not emotional support. 20:30 — Food can change more than our bodies — it can even change our thought patterns. Bad food can lead to thoughts of self-doubt. Your Favorite Quotes "It's when people start asking you to teach what you've learned that you know you're on the right path." "There was a different quality of energy or vibration when people were around me — they could see there was a clarity in my eyes." "It's not a story of deprivation or magic pills." "I was eating for self harm." "All of that weight was keeping me stuck inside myself. It was like I was wearing a disguise or a bodysuit." BIO: Grace Edison lives in British Columbia, Canada. She's a mom of twin 8 year olds, a Yoga teacher, studio owner, and Yoga Health Coach — and she also works for Cate Stillman in Admissions at Yogahealer! More than anything, she loves to make people laugh and has a not-so-secret dream of doing stand-up comedy. Grace has a strong passion for empowering others to take their health and wellness into their own hands. She loves building authentic relationships, making people laugh, and creating supportive communities. After a long-standing relationship with severe depression, Grace has found deep relief through the habits of Ayurveda — and much credit is due to Cate and her Body Thrive program. After taking Body Thrive several times and jumping into Yoga Health Coaching, Grace came aboard the Yogahealer team. If you're interested in applying for or discovering if you're a good fit for the course, please contact her at graceg@yogahealer.com to book a strategy session!   Guest BIO: For almost two decades, Dr. Michele Colon has dedicated herself to maintaining a private medical practice and providing exceptional care to her patients while at the same time studying Holistic Medicine, Ayurveda, Yoga, Reiki, Reflexology, and Acupressure. Dr. Michele believes that food is medicine and that Yoga, Ayurveda, and meditation are the keys to perfect health. Dr. Michele has a Bachelor's degree in Physiology, a Master's degree in Biomedical Sciences, and a Doctorate in Podiatry with a specialty in Foot and Ankle Surgery. She's also certified in Yoga, Reiki, Reflexology, and Laser Therapy. Dr. Michele has studied Ayurveda extensively and has worked with some of the best practitioners throughout California to bring Ayurveda to the forefront of medicine.

Are you a Yoga Health Coach who struggles with time management? Do you feel like there aren't enough hours in the day to engage in your own self-care and wellness habits, attend to your health-coaching business, and take care of your family or community? You're not alone. As Yoga Health Coaches, we juggle a lot of balls. Many of us admit to feeling like we lack integrity with time. In this episode, Annie Barrett speaks to Dana Skoglund — Yoga Health Coach to Yoga Health Coach — and learns how Dana has mastered the Yogi superpower of bending time. Dana shares her best strategies and tips for being productive and effective as a Yoga teacher, Yoga Health Coach, mother, and entrepreneur.   Annie raps with Dana about Mastering + Bending Time: Understand Yogi superpowers and why, as householder Yogis, learning to bend time (a.k.a. become a master of your time) is better than walking on water Dana's struggles with time management and stress as a solopreneur and new mom Why women haven't been getting good self-care and time-management models, and how Yoga Health Coaches can change that Dana's strategies to help Yoga Health Coaches get organized and get in integrity with time via quarterly planning, time-blocking, and daily check-ins How Dana helps coaching clients learn time management   What you'll get out of tuning in: How to balance your own self-care and take care of your business How structure enables presence and flow, and how they're the keys to easeful living Learn strategies for getting organized using time-management tools Learn Dana's favorite books and resources on task-management and time-bending   Links: Dana's Productivity Resources The ONE Thing 12-Week Year James Clear on Productivity   Show Highlights: 3:30 — Here's a quick rundown of Yogi superpowers you can nurture and develop. Dana has mastered the superpower of time-bending. 5:30 — It's a common feeling among people that they simply don't have enough time during the day to get done what they want to do. It leads to an experience of chronic stress. Dana and Annie agree it's an issue in a culture that expects too much. 9:00 — Yoga Health Coaches teach people how to take care of themselves first. It's an important skill that people aren't doing, and it's depleting their immune systems. We can't be effective coaches if we aren't taking care of ourselves, either. 16:15 — Learning new ways we can organize ourselves and our time, especially as we become Yoga Health Coaches, helps us and our clients. 19:00 — There are so many different habits and realms of learning within Yoga Health Coaching, and this highlights the importance of goal setting. What's important for you to create next? Dana explains how to focus your attention and efforts here with quarterly, weekly, and daily planning. 23:30 — Dana expands on her explanation of time-blocking and creating a schedule that supports her. How can you make clear boundaries around self, work, and family time? 28:00 — Dana explains how she teaches the art of time-bending to her clients with meal planning, journaling, and turning the action of making better choices into a habit.   Favorite Quotes: "These habits we develop are kind of like Yoga superpowers." "Women put too much pressure on themselves to do it all." "We need to learn the skill of taking care of ourselves first. It doesn't come naturally, and we don't really know how to do it." "There was no choice. I had to learn how to use my time differently and to be able to figure out ways to get all these new systems into place." "There's always room for improvement and ways to refine, and it's continually expanding. But we do get to a point where we feel like we're in charge of our time."   BIO: Dana Skoglund is a Certified Yoga Health Coach, Yoga teacher, and mother of two rambunctious young boys. She's been studying Yoga since 2000 and teaching since 2004, and she has over 1,000 hours of training in the styles of Jivamukti, Anusara, and Sridaiva. Her desires to take her health and well-being into her own hands and to learn how to keep her family healthy led her to Ayurveda in 2011. After implementing daily routines from Ayurveda and noticing the profound impacts they had on her energy and happiness, she began coaching clients into these better body habits in 2013. She aims to inspire others about the importance of health habits in crafting the lives of their dreams. Dana is also deeply passionate about travel, adventure, learning, movement of any kind, and the arts.   Annie Barrett: As an educator, a Yoga teacher and teacher trainer, a Certified Yoga Health Coach, a spouse, and a mother of two amazing teens, Annie Barrett models and teaches folks how to thrive in body, mind, and spirit and how to live purposeful, passionate lives. Annie has walked the householder Yoga path for 25 years, and she has a gift for making the wisdom teachings of Yoga fresh and accessible. She guides people into knowing themselves more deeply, embracing themselves more fully, and evolving into a state of well-being and expansive freedom. As a Certified Yoga Health Coach, she is trained and practiced in the daily habits and health principles of Ayurveda. She coaches and guides students into upleveling their health and reaching their full potential with proven habits for vitality, health, and happiness. Check out Vibrant + Soulful Living with Annie Barrett and join her community.  

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