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Get ready for a dynamic episode of the Marli Williams Podcast! Join Dr. Tamsin Astor and Marli Williams as they unlock the secrets to intentional habits and self-care for leaders. Dive into the transformative power of self-trust, mindfulness, and creating a personalized playlist of energizing activities. Discover the ripple effect of modeling self-care so that you can be a better person and leader for yourself and everyone around you. In this conversation, we will explore radical honesty, adapting habits to your energy, and the game-changer, how self-love is the key to sustainable habit formation. We also share the power of habit stacking to tying habits to a larger purpose, get inspired by insights on conscious leadership, intentionality, and self-awareness. It's all about making small, playful changes that lead to a more meaningful and purpose-driven life. Don't miss out on this energizing conversation—get ready to embrace the power of your habits to help you change your life and leadership game for the better!Tamsin Astor, PhD is the founder and Chief Habit Scientist of Yoga Brained Coaching. She is known for giving her clients the tools to shift their mindset, organize their vision, and improve their habits to create an efficient, productive & joyful life & business. We make 35,000 decisions every day, which leads to decision fatigue. Dr. Astor helps her clients reduce the amount of overwhelming decision-making they do by harnessing their goal-achieving machine – AKA – their brains. This also increases their time and energy for fun!Prior to coaching, Dr. Astor was an academic and then a consultant, using yoga and meditation to support children and therapists, and teachers and students, on the ADHD and autism spectrum and in struggling inner-city schools. Dr. Astor is non-judgmental and compassionate, connecting multiple certifications to provide insight and support to her clients and to motivate and inspire others in her workshops, keynotes, and presentations. In addition to her coaching and consulting practice, Dr. Astor is an avid traveler and foodie taking her three kids to Brazil, France, England, Amsterdam, Japan, Costa Rica and beyond because she believes travel helps breed tolerance and cultivates gratitude and reflection as you observe how other cultures operate and make choices.Tamsin Astor holds a PhD in neuroscience and psychology and a post-doctorate in education. She also has certifications in yoga (RYT500, Yoga Ed.), mindset & Ayurveda (Living Ayurveda, Yoga Health Coach). She is an executive coach and author of the book Force of Habit: Unleash Your Power by Developing Great Habits.Website: https://tamsinastor.comLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tamsin-astor/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ktamsinastorInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/tamsinastor/Stay Connected to The Marli Williams PodcastFollow us on Instagram: @marliwilliamsOur Website: www.podcast.marliwilliams.comHire Marli to Speak at your next event, conference, workshop or retreat!www.marliwilliams.comReally love the podcast and want to share it??Give us a review on your favorite platform and share

Tamsin Astor, PhD is the founder and Chief Habit Scientist of Yoga Brained Coaching. She is known for giving her clients the tools to shift their mindset, organize their vision, and improve their habits to create an efficient, productive & joyful life & business. We make 35,000 decisions every day, which leads to decision fatigue. Dr. Astor helps her clients reduce the amount of overwhelming decision-making they do by harnessing their goal-achieving machine – AKA – their brains. This also increases their time and energy for fun!   Prior to coaching, Dr. Astor was an academic and then a consultant, using yoga and meditation to support children and therapists, and teachers and students, on the ADHD and autism spectrum and in struggling inner-city schools. Dr. Astor is non-judgmental and compassionate, connecting multiple certifications to provide insight and support to her clients and to motivate and inspire others in her workshops, keynotes, and presentations.   In addition to her coaching and consulting practice, Dr. Astor is an avid traveler and foodie taking her three kids to Brazil, France, England, Amsterdam, Japan, Costa Rica and beyond because she believes travel helps breed tolerance and cultivates gratitude and reflection as you observe how other cultures operate and make choices.   Tamsin Astor holds a PhD in neuroscience and psychology and a post-doctorate in education. She also has certifications in yoga (RYT500, Yoga Ed.), mindset & Ayurveda (Living Ayurveda, Yoga Health Coach). She is an executive coach and author of the book Force of Habit: Unleash Your Power by Developing Great Habits. Additionally, I'll be donating to and raising awareness for the charity or organization of my guest's choice with each episode now. This episode, the organization is called The Loveland Foundation. Any and all donations make a difference! You can connect with Tamsin on: Website: https://tamsinastor.com/ Book: Force of Habit: Unleash Your Power by Developing Great Habits: https://www.amazon.com/Force-Habit-Unleash-Developing-Habits/dp/1633537862 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tamsin-astor/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tamsinastor/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TamsinastorPhD To connect with me: Interested in working with me as your coach? Book a complimentary 15 minute call here. https://calendly.com/mike-trugman/15min LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-trugman-37863246/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/mytrugofchoice/?hl=en   Website - https://miketrugmancoaching.com/ YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUPyP3vEWc-oDlGASe2XIUg Please leave a review for this podcast on Apple Podcasts! - https://podcasts.apple.com/vg/podcast/mike-s-search-for-meaning/id1593087650?utm_source=Mike+Trugman&utm_campaign=dcbd0b11b0-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2022_03_08_12_14&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_33d78ffe68-dcbd0b11b0-510678693   Resources/People Mentioned: The Buddha and the Badass - Vishen Lakhiani Unbound - Kasia Urbaniak Parenting Beyond Belief - Dale McGowan Existential Kink - Carolyn Elliott The Choice - Dr. Edith Eva Eger Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor E. Frankl

Women's Yoga Health Coach and Sammy's good friend, Sophie Lea, shares her journey that led her to freebirthing her son, Obi, in her power. Sammy and Sophie touch on conditioning and deconditioning surrounding birth, how to examine when you're giving your power away, sitting with true discomfort, and why women everywhere are built to give birth.In this episode:Can you give birth for free? Wild pregnancy and FREEbirthStop giving your power away: Trusting that YOU know yourself bestTesting social norms and consenting to your lifeSophie's postpartum hospital experienceLaboring for 20 hours alongside her husband and sisterParenting from a grounded place and the importance of our mama tribeWhere are you giving your power away?Show References:Freebirth Society CourseFreebirth Society PodcastSponsor Info:Butcher Box | http://rwrd.io/bxy895l?cHeart & Soil Supplements | https://shop.heartandsoil.co/discount/AFFILIATE10?rfsn=7254256.3f378b&redirect=%2Fcollections%2FallSocial Tags:Follow SophieWebsite: yogisophie.com@yogisophie7 on InstagramFollow Richard Raymond Sniegowski II:@richard_raymond_ii@yourdads_old45s@welcometolimeforestFollow Sammy Sniegowski:@samantharosewellnesssamantharosewellness.comsamanthaconrad.comFollow What The Fuck Is Happening:instagram.com/wtfh.podcast

Should auld acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind? Or, is it time for a new beginning. Guest Lesley Pereira joins us to discuss healthy habits and goals for a reset in 2023.Questions or comments on the podcast? Email questions@werenotfine.comWe're Not Finehttps://werenotfine.comShop the Pod: https://werenotfine.com/shopInstagram: @werenotfinepod Doug JensenProfile: https://werenotfine.com/our-team/Email: business@werenotfine.comIG: douglasljensenTwitter: dougjensen4CsDr. Talia JacksonProfile: https://werenotfine.com/our-team/Email: business@werenotfine.comIG: @drtaliajacksonTwitter: @Talia.Jackson77Greg Gerik, Esq.Profile: https://werenotfine.com/our-team/Email: business@werenotfine.comExecutive Coaching: https://pathony.comIG: @ggerikTwitter: @ggerikGuest Lesley PereiraLesley specializes in helping people reduce stress, gain energy and develop a lifestyle they love. She's passionate about incremental approaches to helping people heal and thrive, without overwhelm or perfection. Certifications include Masters in Public Health, Ayurveda Wellness Counselor, Yoga Teacher RYT 500 and Yoga Health Coach. She is the founder of Reclaim, a comprehensive online program for women to learn and automate healthy daily habits of nutrition, movement and mindset. She offers one-to-one coaching, group coaching and retreats.Website: www.coachingwithlesley.comInstagram: @lesley.k.pereiraThis podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy

Podcast Intro: Sometimes, we ask ourselves what went wrong when everything didn't go according to plan, especially if we did everything in our power. We wonder what should be improved to become better. What strategies should we do to bring more clients? Christina Sjoberg has been struggling to bring new members to her group despite her doing talks and networking. She believes she's sabotaging her success.  In this episode, Cate Stillman is here with Christina Sjoberg to talk about generating more leads through talks. They will be talking about how to improve the talks and other alternative strategies you can do to bring more leads. What you'll get out of tuning in: prioritizing all the things - while still remaining at ease! bringing on new clients - shadow issues, confidence, etc. self-sabotage and not acting on what I should I am leading members of my group through their third quarter and we have really come together as a community where members share and support each other. This is working really well and people are experiencing amazing changes. This has helped my confidence in leading a group through the habits. I continue to struggle with bringing on new members (I only have 6 people in my current group). I am leading talks and consistently networking, but still can't seem to engage enough people for a consultation. Everyone I have brought on so far is people I have known for many years. I also find that I have competing priorities between my corporate yoga business and freelance consulting work. I have made the decision to not take on any more consulting work, but even with this extra time, I struggle with determining what activities will make the best use of my time to bring on clients, while also catching up on my YHC course, and supporting my group members. I've done the master of your courses in the past, and while helpful initially, I seem to lose momentum in the activation of what I've planned. I know I have shadow issues around money (particularly selling) and also stepping into my role as a coach. How do I overcome this so I quit sabotaging my own success? My pattern is a tendency to lurk and so I haven't been actively asking questions during the live calls when I probably would benefit - so even setting up this coaching gym is out of my comfort zone! How to improve your talks through various strategies How to get leads through talks How to make a good elevator pitch Links/CTA: Check out our related episodes! Next level Wellness Pro: with Emily Glaser, Ayurveda Group Membership Coaching: Difficult Members, Difficult Situations DM'ing to Boost Your Sales for Wellness Pros Download our Yoga Health Coaching Time Tip Sheet To find out more, go to www.yogahealthcoaching.com Check out  Christina Sjoberg's Links: https://www.somayogaandwellness.com/ Facebook: @somayogaandwellness Highlights: Cate shares some scenarios you can say to encourage and invite people to a talk after class. Cate talks about different strategies to use to generate leads. Cate mentions how she shares her convictions Timestamps: [1:06] Introduction [3:00] Working with People [7:00] Alternative Strategies in Getting Leads [10:32] Introvert's Edge to Driving Sales [11:29] Free talks [13:50] Strategy for Free talks [20:39] Direct messages [21:17] Elevator Pitch [24:55] Convictions Quotes: “All the other activities that you're doing in lead generation and lead nurturance aren't going to be effective without you having a one-on-one because we know that you're effective when you're one on one with someone.” “I believe that we think that getting older and all the things associated with that, like creaking joints, medications, poor health, or fatigue, are inevitable. I believe we have much more power to change those things than we think.“ “I believe that if you get in the right group of healthy people, you'll change those faster, that you'll feel better faster.” “Think hard about these convictions and break them into the shortest possible sentences you can and then put them on the wall. Remind yourself of your convictions every day, and then bring them up and have random conversations all the freaking time. “  “Conviction sells emotions and you're helping someone. The emotion that you're reigniting in them, honestly, is hope.” Guest Bio: Christina Sjoberg Christina Sjoberg is a Yoga and Meditation Teacher, Yoga Health Coach, neuroscience enthusiast, and recovering cultural consultant. She leads yoga, meditation, and wellness programs that guide people from overwhelm to ease and vibrant health.

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

Podcast Intro: Yoga Health Coach Shannon McCall is also a Writer, Ayurveda Practitioner, and Yoga/Meditation Teacher who leads her group to results and guides them toward life transformations.  While the year-long, trimester structure of her program is working well, the enrollment process every trimester is not. Tune in on this Coaching Gym where Cate helps Shannon get clear on what's working and what needs to change for enrollment.  Through this conversation, we will discover how to use our authentic voice in our marketing messages, while also giving potential members a sneak peek of what is in a dynamic group is all about.  You will feel inspired to figure out what you care about most and design messages around it to help those who need to hear it most! What you'll get out of tuning in: How to create a community of belonging. When to step back and reevaluate your course. Why use anger in marketing. How to get clear on your core messages. Links/CTA: Check out the latest happenings in Yogahealer here Shannon McCall's website: https://www.livingintobalance.com/  Ken Wilber Hiro Boga Personal Manifesto Podcast with Emily Cole Highlights: Cate talks about the magic of the eastern perspective creating a life beyond us. Cate teaches about a Ken Wilber-inspired inquiry practice.  Shannon talks about her Hiro Boga training. Timestamps: [3:11] Understanding the R.O.I. [6:16] Reevaluating course. [7:39] Inquiry practices- getting felts sense for business [11:59] Understanding who your course is for. [14:14] Using anger in marketing [17:17] Marketing from the inside out. [21:32] Understanding your core messages. [24:20] Speaking to the results. Quotes: “You need to know what you do and you need to know what people are thinking at the different stages so that they can get to lifetime customer value.” “Your course has a life that's beyond you and you are channeling in where the group goes and building a structure to do that.” “You're sleeping anyway, you're eating anyway, you're showering anyway, you're exercising anyway, so you might as well do it in a way that actually supports you.”   “Channel your anger for transformation.” Guest: Shannon Shanti McCall Writer, Ayurveda Practitioner, Yoga and Meditation teacher, Yoga Health Coach

Podcast Intro: Emily Cole, founder of Wild Within Coaching, is a Yoga Health Coach, Adventure Guide, and Digital Nomad, just to name a few things…  She believes in doing the DEEP WORK of getting centered within the self and loves guiding others to do the same. At a Live Event in January of 2022 with Cate, Emily was inspired to write a personal manifesto and has felt her purpose as a leader expand from this process. Listen in as Emily and Cate explore how her personal manifesto has led them to find her own truth, how it has been useful in coaching, and how it may evolve in the future.  This conversation will leave you inspired by how much can be discovered when we insource our wisdom vs. outsource! What you'll get out of tuning in: How live events are so transformative.  Why a personal manifesto is so useful for continued growth. How to stay integrity. Why publish your convictions. How to use a manifesto in decision making. Links/CTA: Yogahealer's Next Live Event: ALTA July 28-30 Yoga Health Coaching Launch - August 3 Master of You - Sep 8 Emily Cole Links Wild Within Coaching Blog: Your Personal Manifesto Community by Peter Block Deep Work by Cal Newport Highlights: Cate talks about creating values and beliefs in her personal family structure. Cate talks about common new age community beliefs lacking structure. Cate talks about the importance of follow-up after Live Events. Timestamps: [4:20]: The what and why of a personal manifesto.  [6:20]: Getting clear and specific on what you stand for.  [9:53]: Using a manifesto to check your life trajectory. [12:16]: The evolving manifesto. [16:39]: Building a bigger vision/three-year plan.  [19:00]: Personal Manifesto as a structure. [22:42]: Live events and follow-up. [27:18]: Doing the deep work.   [32:12]: Staying in integrity. [34:52]: Publishing your convictions and accountability. [38:19]: Decision-making through your manifesto. [42:10]: Negative vs. positive stressors. Quotes: “It's noticing what you really actually care about and then from care it goes to conviction.  What do you have a conviction about? And from conviction, you can see how deep it goes.” “The more we understand our manifestos or what exactly are our beliefs we deeply care about, it can serve as a guiding light for the direction in the next chapter of our life.” “You want to use your manifesto to solve problems in your future based on things you've learned in your past.”  “It's easy to go to events.  It's hard to build relationships on the follow-through side.” “If you are mad about something, that's a perfect time.  What do you do when you are angry?  What a great time to block some time for a manifesto!” Guest Bio: Emily Cole As the founder of Wild Within Coaching, Emily believes in, supports, and models going deep within ourselves for a wild journey. With a decade of wilderness guiding experience, she knows intimately the transformative power of adventure and how good it feels to be centered in oneself. Through coaching, she has seen the same process of people coming into their own guidance, wisdom, and power and loves supporting and guiding these exciting journeys too.

Podcast Intro: Like many, Helena is a Yoga Health Coach who has felt unmotivated and stagnated by everything going on in the world.  While her expertise in Ayurveda, Massage, Yoga, and Somabreath is needed more than ever in the world, she hasn't felt confident in a complete online community.  All of this, along with plans to move to a new location has got her questioning the best path for her purpose. This coaching gym with Cate and Helena is filled with many gems that motivate and reinvigorate making your personal brand a unique journey.   Take a deep exhale and drop into this conversation on building structure, designing a course, and finding potential clients in a way that is authentic.  When our inner wisdom is causing friction with our purpose, how can we create flow from that friction? What you'll get out of tuning in: How to get motivated again! How to build a dynamic group in a new community.   Where to host live events. How to build an evolving structure for your unique course. Why get potential clients interested in wellness investments. Links/CTA: Yoga Health Coaching Podcast with Debbie Grover-Slavin Soins Ayurveda Highlights: Cate shared about explaining what a healing journey is at the National Ayurvedic Medicine Conference. Cate talks about building a structure that can evolve through Yogahealer. Cate stresses the important responsibility of teaching people how to invest in wellness. Timestamps:  [4:50]- Turning internal wisdom into free talks.  [5:55]- Getting clear on goals.  [8:20]- Organizing and designing around our personal healing journey.  [12:07]- Organizing and designing around member avatar.     [16:05] - Lead the journey unique to you.  [21:33]- Planning out live events.  [27:08]- Mesh networking.   [31:54]- Pricing to get “skin in the game”  [34:25]- Marketing content creation.  [38:07]- Teaching people how to invest. Quotes: “The members are also mentors.  We are all continually learning.” “What do they need to know, think, and experience in order to transact with me and start the healing journey?” “The structure is going to evolve and that's the beauty of this business model.” “Don't think about nailing the structure.  Think of the best structure to possibly test first.” “What's the opportunity cost of not having people in your life that is growing, changing, and evolving and learning new things and living a healthy life? Guest BIO: Helena Subijana Coach practitioner in Ayurveda, Yoga and Somabreath instructor.

Podcast Intro: Alissa Xander is a personal trainer, runner, and yoga teacher who took the plunge and quit her career to be a Yoga Health Coach.  Now she is not only successfully guiding her own members through life transformations, but she's also a HUGE asset to the YHC community as a Body Thrive Assistant and YHC Mentor.  This is just a few of the reasons Alissa is Coach of the month! Tune in on this inspiring conversation between Anna and Alissa as they celebrate her, her members, and mentees' successes.  As Alissa mentions the microcosm of her own member supported by the macrocosm of YHC, there is no denying the transformational power of dynamic groups in hitting our goals and expanding our reach. What you'll get out of tuning in: Why mindset shift is a key player in success and transformation. How to niche your skills into a unique package. Why set up systems to scale. How shifts in beliefs are amplified in dynamic groups. Why schedule self-care as a priority. Links/CTA: Upcoming Workshops: Living Ayurveda Course – June 9 Join Cate's LIVE Workshops: Lisbon Live Event (Lisbon, Portugal) – June 3 – 5 Alta Live Event (Alta, WY) – July 28 – 30 Alissa Xander's Links: Website - https://alissaxander.com/  Linktree - https://linktr.ee/alissax Facebook Group Women Rocking their Next Chapter Facebook Group Peace Run Yoga Instagram - @alissa_xander_wellness Twitter - @alissa_xander YouTube - Alissa Xander Wellness LinkedIn - Alissa Xander Highlights: Alissa talks about the mindset connection in running a course and marathons.  Alissa tells a story about members' identity evolution as a “night owl”. Alissa shares the YHC Programs' impact on her own lifestyle. Timestamps: [2:52 ]- Pain points transitioning out of a former career. [3:41] - Packaging a unique journey. [5:05] - Dynamic group experience. [8:01] - Limiting beliefs vs. growth mindset. [9:19] - Mindset training. [13:22] - Important tools in the Pilot. [15:15] - Rhythm of momentum in quarters of the pilot. [18:05] - Shifts in beliefs. [21:20] - Personal results from running annual pass. [24:15] - Systems to scale and maintain. [27:57] - Words of advice to YHC prospects. Quotes: “It's really exciting that every single person can make the journey fit them.  It doesn't have to be a cookie-cutter journey.” “You can know all the things to do, but if you don't know why you're not doing them or have a way to get yourself to do them, the behavioral science part, it's going to be hard.” “You are never behind.  It doesn't matter where anybody else is, you are exactly where you are supposed to be.” “You have to first believe that you can be that future version of yourself in order to get there.” Guest Bio: Alissa Xander Alissa Xander is a health coach, yoga teacher, and avid runner. She helps women let go of limiting beliefs that keep them stuck in bodies that don't look or feel the way they want. She believes you can achieve any goal by starting with your belief.

Podcast Intro: Claudia Huber has been a Yoga Health Coach to modern women in Germany for two years now.  While she's transforming lives and helping them find ease in their everyday life, she's looking to go even deeper.  She doesn't want to get bored and there is so much more she wants to learn and become an expert in. Listen in on this coaching gym as Cate helps Claudia get clear on WHAT problem she is solving for WHO, as well as how to use her constant learning and research as marketing.  This conversation will inspire writing as part of learning, mental digestion, and marketing and provide real ways to efficiently and effectively use your writing to get the most reach! What you'll get out of tuning in: How to effectively take in new research and information. Why writing serves as a digestion for the brain.  What types of writing are best for marketing. How to use your writing and research in multiple ways. How to expand your reach through writing. Links/CTA: Upcoming Workshops: Yoga Health Coaching – May 4 Master of You Workshop – May 12 – 13 Body Thrive – May 5 Living Ayurveda Course – June 9 Join Cate's LIVE Workshops: Lisbon Live Event (Lisbon, Portugal) – June 3 – 5 Alta Live Event (Alta, WY) – July 28 – 30 www.soulglowveda.com Highlights: Cate mentions studies on obesity and the size of the pineal gland.  Cate comments on connections with Ayurvedic texts and newer findings in brain science on how we are constantly meant to learn and adapt to better predict our future.  Cate talks about how companies are focusing on wellness more. Cate acknowledges how on a previous podcast how Claudia's members made a book for her on how she changed their life. Timestamps:  [2:35]- The evolution of Yogahealer courses.  [4:25]- Teacher vs. Coach vs. Leader.    [6:27]- Making marketing exciting  [10:55]- Cognitive digestion through writing and editing.  [12:32]- Writing articles vs. social media posts.    [17:58]- The process of finding voice through writing.  [25:55]- Defining the problem to be solved to write about.  [30:34]- Five words exercise for marketing.  [32:58]- Recording and archiving content.  [38:48] -Lecturing vs. connecting.   [43:55]- Writing an effective social media post.  [46:14]- Expanding your reach. Quotes: “What is edgy to you is important to the dynamism of the community.” “Get your desires to work for you, not against you, and then your deeper desires will lead to deeper fulfillment.” “Anything that's teachable, make that a renewable resource.  The highest value your members can get from you is coaching, so if you have good renewable resources to back up their learning in the process then you can do the highest value work with the person in front of you.” “What's the hook?  What's the before the story?  What's the after story? What's the takeaway? That's a social media post.” “Writing is the tool to develop your brain.” Guest Bio: Claudia Huber Yoga Teacher - 1000 h, Ayurvedic Practitioner and Yoga Health Coach Leading my own Community Soul Glow Veda for over 2 years now - to more GLOW in their body, mind and soul.

Podcast Intro: Alja Podgornik, Neuroscience Ph.D. Student and Yoga Health Coach in training has reached a fork in the road. To finish, or not to finish the Ph.D. that is crushing her soul, that is the question… Listen in on this Coaching Gym, as Cate explores both paths with Alja.  While both are completely different paths, similar challenges will arise on each.  Luckily in this growth-oriented community, we know that embracing either set of challenges will lead to a more evolved version of ourselves!  The journey is the destination! What you'll get out of tuning in: How to know when it's time to let go of something. How to make the most of a negative environment. How to navigate next steps when resistance is high. How to authentically fake it until you make it. Links/CTA: Check out Episode 196: Fear of Being Unlikeable Join the Master Class A day in my life | Lex Fridman Highlights: Cate talks about her process of writing Wild Habits Cate talks about how she's learning biochemistry at 48. Cate references the yoga sutras and fluctuation of the mind. Cate talks about bringing ground rules to personal soccer carpool. Timestamps: 1:12- Prioritizing Sales, Marketing, and Ph.D. Program. 5:10- Tapas and pushing through resistance.   9:11- Being out of alignment as a limiting belief. 12:48- Getting to the root of the energy around quitting. 15:10- Finding the Karma of a difficult situation. 20:20- Realizing short-term and long-term goals. 25:20- The opportunity in surrender. 29:50- Alignment of ethics. 34:01- Creating ground rules in the Ph.D. process. 40:18 - Applying lessons.  44:35-  Finding Marketing Material in your current experience. Quotes: “Diksha is initiation.  It's the thresholds, and in order to cross certain thresholds there is an insane amount of tapas, of friction, of tension, of doing the hard thing.” “It's not just to say you accomplished it, It's who you become in the process of accomplishing it, and that's the Diksha .” “Act it until you become it.  Actually, take on the behaviors even though they don't relate to the ego.  So it's not the ego acting, doing what it normally does, doing the pattern.  It's making a choice.” “If you read the yoga sutras…. it's really clear that the fluctuation of the mind is what doesn't allow the higher power of the mind.” “Early on I had to realize that my peer group had a very different trajectory than I did and so my discipline had to be entirely self-reliant and self-motivated and that my rules were for me.  And that has continued to serve me.” Guest: Alja Podgornik I have a background in neuroscience and I am currently finishing my Ph.D. I want to transition into a career where I can help people align their lifestyle to build resilience, health, and connectivity to, eventually, pursue their highest potential.

Podcast Intro: Aileen McGinnis and Suzanne McCahill Perrine Yoga Health Coaches, Aileen McGinnis, and Suzanne McCahill Perrine have been Accountability Partners since 2019.  At this point, it's so much more than an Accountability Partnership.  It's a strong friendship as well as a great business partnership, so much that they are leading a retreat together!  Listen in on this joyous conversation between the Accountability Partners and Cate as she detects what makes their connection so successful, the power of live events, as well as details on their upcoming Sacred Living Women's Eco Retreat in Ireland!   While there's lots of work and love that goes into their lasting partnership, they both agree that “bringing on the fun” and “saying yes to what you want” is a driving force of their success. What you'll get out of tuning in: How Live Events excel your growth  Why Accountability Partnerships are so important How to find Accountability Partnerships What steps to take to have a successful Accountability Partnership How to work with others and lateral mesh network Links/CTA: Check out our ONGOING FREE Masterclasses at Yogahealer.com Ep. 155 - How to Coach your Groups About an Anti Inflammatory Lifestyle Check out activities and retreats below: The Center Downtown Centered Living with Suzanne IG: @centeredlivingwithsuzanne Dan Sullivan's10x Talk Highlights: Cate talks about an article she read about how to smell inflammation. Aileen and Suzanne talk about their Ireland retreat details. Cate talks about Dan Sullivan's 100x Club where 10xers get together. Timestamps: 1:00- Their backstories 3:15- What works as accountability partners 6:11- Community benefits from live events 7:15- Continuing growth in an Accountability Partnership  9:52 - Investing into a network experience 12:45- Synergy of communities collaborating together 15:46- Retreat details 18:05- Advice for a successful Accountability Partnership    21:55- Summarized steps for Accountability Partners 25:25- Vulnerability and perfection as a Yoga Health Coach 29:27- Acting on “yes's” 32:00- The intimacy and acceleration of live events. Quotes: “The more people do live events and interact with other members, the more trust they have in the community, and the more strength they put into their accountability partnerships.” -Cate  “Your network is your net worth.” - Cate  “When we invest, then that investment can go up and down of course, but it can grow exponentially…. in Yoga Health Coaching you sign up and think you are going to be doing this one thing, and certainly we are, we become Yoga Health Coaches and we change our business and our business model, but the growth we couldn't have seen ahead of time are these kinds of connections.” - Suzanne “Like any relationship….  Those times when you start to feel separate from each other, the number one thing that is going to get you back on track is communicating again, showing up, and prioritizing time together.” - Suzanne “When you collaborate with someone, the sky's the limit.  You can do so much more than on your own.” -Aileen Guest BIO: Aileen McGinnis Born in Ireland and based in Tuscany with her family, Aileen has been practicing yoga for over 20 years, completing her first YTT with Marie Quail in 2002 after having a deeply inspiring and transformative experience in ‘The Expanding Light Retreat Center' (California) This Retreat Center /Ashram shares the teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda to uplift world consciousness). Her rich training experience hails from Ireland, Italy, India, UK, Spain, and Bali with various inspired teachers, most notably Cate Stillman, Uma Dinsmore Tuli (Yoni Shakti, Mother's Breath etc), and Leyolah Antara (Kundalini Dance). Aileen is a , a good-humored, big-hearted, enthusiastic teacher offering nurturing yoga classes, sacred, ecstatic dance experiences, and down-to-earth Ayurveda lifestyle coaching in her transformational group program; ‘AWAKEN TO THRIVE'. Aileen's message is about LOVE & UNITY Consciousness. You can find out more about her at aileenmcginnis.com Join her Facebook group: Embrace Natural Health and Immunity. Guest BIO: Suzanne McCahill Perrine is the founder/director of The Center, Harrisonburg's first dedicated yoga and Pilates studio. Suzanne, E-RYT 500, YACEP, Certified Health Coach, and Pilates teacher, began teaching Yoga in 2005. Inspired to connect to others in her community and spread the joy and healing potential of yoga, she opened The Center Yoga studio. After years of study in the Anusara tradition with teachers, Desiree Rumbaugh, Christina Sell, Elena Browner, Amy Ippoliti, Moses Brown, Bita Jenkins, Suzie Hurley, John Friend, and Douglas Brooks, she eventually started teaching others to teach, starting the Center School of Yoga. Suzanne encourages her students to have fun, relax, and enjoy the splendid journey that yoga offers them both on their mats and in their lives. More recently, Suzanne has studied under Cate Stillman offering yoga & Ayurveda health coaching as a way to collaborate with clients who wish to feel more connected to life, honor their true nature, and reclaim their health. She continues to find more joy in her life since discovering Yoga, meditation, and Ayurveda and sharing it with others.

This week on the show I have the lovely Hannah Levin, Ayurveda Health Counselor (NAMA), Yoga Teacher (E-RYT, YACEP), and Yoga Health Coach.   Hannah and I discuss:   -  What Ayurveda is and what it does -  The Vitality Circle  -  The importance of yoga and the 8 limbs -  The importance of when and what we eat -  Navigating stress -  Putting health first and getting that needed balance -  Hannah's best tips for healing and protecting immunity   Want more energy and strength and ready to drop those unwanted kilos?   Then check out LEAN 14 HERE.   It's the simple plan that gives you the complete framework you need to kickstart your way to more energy, strength and vitality.   More about Hannah:      Hannah Levin is an Ayurveda Health Counselor (NAMA), Yoga Teacher (E-RYT, YACEP), and Yoga Health Coach. She also holds a Master's Degree in Education. Her own healing path through chronic allergies, anxiety, sleep struggles, digestive issues, and chronic hip pain led her to healing found in Yoga and Ayurveda. Today, Hannah helps women regain their optimal health and vitality through her two online programs, "Evolve" and "The Vitality Circle". She also leads two detoxes a year and holds online Solstice and Equinox Retreats. She guides women to create diet and lifestyle changes so they can lose weight, sleep well, get off of medications, reverse auto-immune conditions, have vibrant energy, love themselves, age gracefully, and make their lives a glorious work of art!    Connect with Hannah:   Website:     www.heartfeltwellbeing.com     Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/heartfeltwellbeing/ Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/heartfelthannah                    Haven't subscribed to the podcast yet? Subscribe HERE and never miss an episode.   Connect with Kate:   Website: www.MindMovementHealth.com.au   Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/MindMovementHealth   Instagram: http://instagram.com/MindMovementHealth

In this episode of Insight Mind Body Talk, Jeanne talks with Kelly Gardner, a licensed mental health therapist and certified yoga therapist, about using the concepts of Ayurveda to improve mental and physical health. Ayurveda, the "sister science" of yoga, is a system that relies on the elements of nature -- air, water, earth, fire and ether -- to bring our lives into balance. They talk about how to tune in to each person's true nature to live more in rhythm in mind, body and soul.Kelly Gardner is a Licensed Mental Health Therapist, Certified Yoga Therapist, Yoga Health Coach, and Certified Daring Way Facilitator. She specializes in trauma-focused yoga therapy in clinical settings and in private sessions as well as mindset and lifestyle coaching. She is certified to lead the 3-course curriculum created by Brené Brown and combines that work with the Ayurvedic lifestyle habits to create lasting change. Kelly lives in Memphis, TN with her husband and 2 dogs.Continue LearningKelly Gardnerhttps://yourradiantsoul.com/Ayurveda Habits from Cate Stillman https://bodythrive.com/An overview of Ayurveda with a link to a quiz to help you find your doshahttps://www.banyanbotanicals.com/info/ayurvedic-living/learning-ayurveda/intro-to-ayurveda/A Yoga International story on the Ayurveda clock that might be helpfulhttps://yogainternational.com/article/view/the-ayurvedic-clockProduced by Jeanne KolkerMusic by Jason A. SchultzEdited by Jeanne Kolker and Jason Klein

Identifying Ayurvedic imbalances can be tricky, especially when it comes to the issue of weight gain. When we think of weight gain, we think of kapha dosha: heavy and cohesive. But when the underlying cause of weight gain is anxiety, we must look to pacify vata dosha. Listen in to this short conversation as Cate and Grace unravel the subtleties of vata masquerading as kapha by discussing Grace's recent experience with a vata imbalance.   What you'll get out of tuning in: How to determine whether weight gain is caused by a kapha imbalance or a vata imbalance. Why you should always suspect vata if stress is involved. Why normal weight-reducing practices don't work if the cause of weight gain is a vata imbalance.   Links Mentioned in Episode: Be a coach Have a conversation Discover more about Body Thrive  Body Thrive Book   Show Highlights: While warmth is pacifying to both kapha and vata, the dryness of many kapha-reducing foods and herbs can exacerbate an underlying vata imbalance. Distinguishing vata from kapha comes down to an underlying feeling of being "alright." Kapha is contentment, while vata is stress, anxiety and nervousness. When it comes to weight gain, kapha weight gain comes from lethargy while vata weight gain comes from a need to be grounded and insulated.   Favorite Quotes: "It's very, very common for the body to put on weight, and to put on weight quickly, like a security blanket, when vata is out of balance." --- Cate Stillman "As the practitioner, instead of trying to get her to exercise more and do all these fat-stripping things, instead I just want to soothe her. --- Cate Stillman "If we can start to analyze ourselves when we're looking at is this a vata imbalance or is this a kapha imbalance and know that one of the cool things about vata is that it's so mobile, it's so adaptive, it can look like the other doshas. . . . If you're ever wondering, assume vata is involved. In the modern age, because of stress, if stress is involved, I KNOW vata is involved." --- Cate Stillman   Guest 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.

In this episode, Cate coaches Kelly Gardner through designing an annual pass that capitalizes on the wealth of knowledge and skills she already possesses. Kelly Gardner is "certifiable." She's a Licensed Professional Counselor, a Certified Yoga Therapist, a yoga teacher trainer, and a Yoga Health Coach. Kelly excels in building, analyzing, and refining systems, and she wants to learn how to build and offer signature courses. She's currently coaching the third round of her 12-week yoga health coaching course and is getting ready to launch her annual pass. For a Yoga Health Coach, the annual pass is the ticket to a good lifestyle. Offering multiple courses means more work for the coach. More is not better. In fact, more is worse. The key is to roll what you already know into your annual pass that so you only need to market and enroll for one course - your signature annual pass. To simplify things even more, you only need to design first next quarter. Let your course members help you design your next quarter and you can be sure you're providing them with the experience they want.   What you'll get out of tuning in: Why one annual pass is better than multiple shorter courses. How to design your annual pass based on your particular knowledge and skills. Why you only need to design the first quarter of your annual pass.   Links Mentioned in  Episode: Kelly's website Kelly's Facebook page Discover more about Body Thrive  Body Thrive Book Show Highlights: 0:00 - Kelly is "certifiable." She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, a Certified Yoga Therapist, a yoga teacher trainer, and a Yoga Health Coach. She's currently coaching the third round of her 12-week yoga health coaching course and is getting ready to launch her annual pass. Kelly excels in building, analyzing, and refining systems, and she wants to learn how to build and offer signature courses. 6:12 - For a Yoga Health Coach, the annual pass is the ticket to a good lifestyle. Offering more courses means more work for the coach. More is not better. More is worse. For Kelly, the answer is rolling everything she already has into her annual pass. 13:00 - By figuring out your market differentiator, you can figure out your marketing strategy. If you're still struggling to figure out what your annual pass should look like, go back and listen to "What Should Be In My Annual Pass?" in the YHC course hub. Each quarter of the annual pass goes deeper into your differentiator. 22:00 - After mapping out the annual pass, the next logical step is to organize retreats or live events. For Kelly, the idea of organizing a retreat is overwhelming. She offers her course online and her course members are scattered around the Eastern US. Cate suggests that Kelly have her course members come to her, build the retreat into the annual pass, and invite members to bring a friend who might enroll in the next round. 25:50 - When things get hard, get excited for your future members, for their transformation. Kelly's next step is to detail her A to B transformation and refine her messaging around that. It's important to speak in the language of the "A"s. 31:10 - You only have to design your next quarter. If you let your members help you design it, then they really are getting what they need from it, and you're not overbuilding it. We're selling connection, not information. We're building a container for transformation.   Favorite Quotes: "Having more to offer means having more to market. . . . More is not better." --- Cate Stillman "It's really important when things get hard to be excited for your future members." --- Cate Stillman "A lot of what people actually want is access. They don't want more information." --- Cate Stillman "I just figured out that the habit course I'm teaching isn't about the habits. . . . It's about building the container for them to go be who they want to be." --- Kelly Gardner   Guest BIO: Hi, I'm Kelly Gardner.  I'm a Memphis girl. I was born and raised in Memphis and my family has a strong history of working to make this city great.  So, I am doing my part as a Licensed Professional Counselor in both Tennessee and North Mississippi. I also serve as a Certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT and 500 E-RYT) in clinical mental health settings.  When I am on the road, I am leading yoga teacher trainings as a Senior Master Trainer for YogaFit Training Systems or I am leading personal development workshops. I am currently in the thick of my Yoga Health Coaching certification which builds on my previous Ayurvedic Yoga Specialist training.  And if you need a personal trainer, I've got that covered too. I believe that yoga is great for EVERYONE and I love introducing people to how yoga can change their lives.  (Yes, it can work for you too.)I am a guide for others to learn how to make strides toward the kind of life they really want to live.  I do not believe that anyone was born to be unhappy and it's my dharma to help others help themselves. Connect with Kelly on her website and facebook page.

In this "Coach of the Month" interview, Amanda Rae talks with Kattie Maffeo, Yoga Health Coach of the Month, to discuss her path, her practice, her goals, and her successes with Yoga Health Coaching. Kattie and Amanda chat about how experiencing depression and anxiety in Kattie's 20's led her to meditation and yoga. Kattie is currently teaching what she loves -- Yoga and Ayurveda -- and through Yoga Health Coaching she has been able to leverage her time and experience a free yet grounded lifestyle, splitting her time between Florida and Maine. Kattie has now found a wonderful community of people to immerse herself in who help her to uplevel herself and her wellness career.   What you'll get out of tuning in: Why you shouldn't be afraid to make mistakes  How to embrace Kaizen as a go-to coaching skill  How YHC can bring you into better integrity Kattie's best advice for new or prospective yoga health coaches     Links: Kattie's website  YHC Have a conversation Discover more about Body Thrive      Show Highlights: 2:15- In her 20's Kattie experienced issues with depression and anxiety. She was on prescribed medication, but was also self-medicating with alcohol. Kattie talks to us about how her journey with yoga and Ayurveda led to her regaining her health. 5:11- Kattie talks about her desire for more freedom in her life, a better self care routine and more integrity with herself and her time. She explains how Yoga Health Coaching has helped her to find this.   14:58- Kattie speaks in detail about the YHC course and how it has affected her life. Her habits and patterning have become more dialed in, she has purged old emotions, and has grown into a different person than she was in the past. 30:16- Would Kattie tell someone else considering the YHC course to make the investment? Heck yes! If you sign up for YHC, you are not only making the investment in yourself but in your career, and so much more. The YHC course is life- changing. Join us and find out for yourself!   Favorite Quotes: "I have a little more control with how I spend my time, which I think has been one of the biggest changes and shifts in my life in the past year (with YHC)." - Katie Maffeo "I really enjoy doing what I am doing. I love the teachings of Dinacharya. I think that the more we live in rhythm and in tune with nature the more healing can occur in our lives". - Kattie Maffeo   Guest BIO: Kattie Maffeo is a health crusader and enthusiast who shares her love for Ayurveda and Yoga with her community. Kattie discovered Yoga and Ayurveda over a decade ago when she was going through a challenging time in her life; she found the practice healing and transformational. She decided to deepen her studies and completed a 200-hour Yoga Teacher Training in her hometown. This brought her to the discovery of Ayurveda and from here everything fell into place. Wanting to expand her impact and have more flexibility with how she spent her time, Kattie enrolled in Yoga Health Coaching. Kattie is a Yoga Health Coach, Ayurvedic Practitioner, Yoga Teacher (E-RYT 200 RYT 500), and Yoga Therapist. Connect with Kattie here or join her community on Facebook and Instagram.     Show host: Amanda Rae is a life-long student and practitioner of life; she is interested in helping others to thrive versus just survive. She began practicing yoga 18 years ago and immediately fell in love with the effects it had on her relationships, mind, body and mood. She earned a Bachelor's degree in Communications and a Master's degree in Education. Amanda is a 200 hour certified Yoga Instructor and has traveled to India, Costa Rica, and Greece to study Ayurveda, health and longevity, herbal medicine, and culture. Amanda recently joined the Yogahealer team and immediately felt that she was pursuing her dharma. She is excited to connect with new peeps in the Yogahealer community and help others find the tools they need to thrive in their lives and in their wellness career. Connect with Amanda here or join our community on our Facebook group Yoga Health Coaching Wellness Pro Challenge.  

In this Changemaker Challenge episode, Cate and Grace sit down to discuss how fear gets in the way of us stepping into our potential and how to navigate that fear. As a Yoga Health Coaching enrollment coach, Grace Edison hears a lot of different versions of fear getting in the way of stepping into potential. On an evolutionary path, fear arises because inevitably, a part or parts of you have to die in order for you to step into your potential. When we realize that fear is normal and that fear can be a good indication that we're where we need to be, it becomes easier to navigate through the fear. A lot of wellness pros find themselves repeating the same patterns rather than advancing on an evolutionary path, and sometimes they don't even realize it. Yogahealer enrollment coaches, like Grace Edison, are experts at recognizing those patterns and helping potential course members recognize them too. Recognizing the patterns and being willing to change them, even in the face of fear, creates a peak performance mindset that can catapult you into your evolutionary journey. Are you ready for an evolutionary journey? Talk to Grace!   What you'll get out of tuning in: Why fear arises when you're on an evolutionary journey. How many wellness pros get in the way of their own professional growth. What steps you need to take to get out of your own way.   Links Mentioned in the Episode: Yoga Health Coaching Show Highlights: 0:00 - As a Yoga Health Coaching enrollment coach, Grace Edison hears a lot of different versions of fear getting in the way of stepping into potential. On an evolutionary path, fear arises because inevitably, a part or parts of you have to die in order for you to step into your potential. When we realize that fear is normal and that fear can be a good indication that we're where we need to be, it becomes easier to navigate through the fear. 4:55 - A lot of wellness pros find themselves repeating the same patterns rather than advancing on an evolutionary path, and sometimes they don't even realize it. Metrics are useful indicators of where you are: income, impact, network, and integrity metrics are particularly useful. 10:25 - Because Grace speaks to yoga health coaches before they decide to enroll, and she is able to witness their growth through the program, she has a unique advantage when it comes to determining what makes a person successful in YHC. It simply comes down to the person's ability to recognize that they are in a repetitive pattern and to be willing to change that pattern, no matter how much fear they experience. This creates a peak performance mindset. 15:33 - The role of Yogahealer enrollment coaches is to make decisions from a peak performance mindset. Part of that involves pointing out how, where, and when people are getting the way of their own potential. 23:00 - Thinking that you need to prove you can do something before you get help with it is a common way of getting in your own way. It's a backwards way of thinking. If you align to a proven process, like Yoga Health Coaching, you'll prove it to yourself along your growth path. And if you're with a group of people going in the same direction you want to go, your growth will happen so much faster.   Your Favorite Quotes: "The more you're in a peak performance mindset, the better able you are to take risk. So rather than it feeling risky, it feels like stepping into potentiality. It feels like stepping beyond and through the patterned self." --- Cate Stillman "Like Marcus Aurelius said . . . , the obstacle is the way. Where you're in your own way, that's the way." --- Cate Stillman "No one ever got out of their own way alone. Ever." --- Cate Stillman "Before it's a skill set, it's a process. . . . It's developing a process. It's breaking down the inertia of the old pattern and the old way of doing things." --- Grace Edison "The quickest way to evolve is to get with a group that's going in the direction where you want to end up." --- Cate Stillman   Guest 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.

In this Changemaker Challenge episode, Carly Banks sits down with yoga health coaches with backgrounds in Western medicine to talk about integrative medicine. Integrative medicine is an approach to health care that addresses the full range of factors that can affect a person's health: physical, mental, emotional, environmental, etc. Ayurveda is the perfect complement to allopathic medicine, which focuses very little on the prevention of illness and disease. While health care in the United States is starting to offer more wellness-based services and alternative healing modalities, the delivery is hit or miss and far less meaningful than the work we do as yoga health coaches. With the implementation of new laws and fear of malpractice, nurses have lost touch with what their scope of practice encompasses. It encompasses teaching and educating the public.  Nurses CAN discuss diet, lifestyle, supplements and medication. So nurses can educate in line with what we learn in Yoga Health Coaching. For nurses, Yoga Health Coaching is a fulfilling return to the reason why they got into nursing in the first place. Yoga Health Coaches in the medical field can start to bridge the gap between Western medicine and Ayurveda, between a treatment-based system and a prevention-based system. What we learn in Yoga Health Coaching demystifies ayurveda and makes it accessible to everyone.   What you'll get out of tuning in: Why Ayurveda is the perfect complement to allopathic medicine. How teaching patients about Ayurveda will  help future generations. How Yoga Health Coaching provides nurses with the structure to effectively educate patients and client about the foundations for health.   Links Mentioned in the Episode: Yoga Health Coaching Body Thrive Show Highlights: 0:00 - Integrative medicine is an approach to health care that addresses the full range of factors that can affect a person's health: physical, mental, emotional, environmental, etc. 2:15 - Annette Schellnbarger worked as a bedside nurse for over a decade. She discontinued her work a couple of years ago in order to complete her training as an Ayurvedic Practitioner. She sees ayurveda as the perfect complement to allopathic medicine, especially in the area of mental health. 3:55 - Nancy Plunkett has been a hospital nurse for over 22 years. What she noticed about allopathic medicine was how little emphasis was placed on prevention. As a yoga health coach, she now feels a sense of fulfillment because she is able to help people prevent illness and disease. Her fear is that as an R.N., she's not able to treat or diagnose anything, so she'll have to be careful with how she approaches her patients. 6:30 - With the implementation of new laws and fear of malpractice, nurses have lost touch with what their scope of practice encompasses. It encompasses teaching and educating the public.  Nurses CAN discuss diet, lifestyle, supplements and medication. So nurses can educate in line with what we learn in Yoga Health Coaching. 10:00 - For nurses, Yoga Health Coaching is a fulfilling return to the reason why they got into nursing in the first place. Nancy is hopeful that she and other Yoga Health Coaches in the medical field can start to bridge the gap between Western medicine and Ayurveda, between a treatment-based system and a prevention-based system. That will require educating and collaborating with medical doctors. 18:10 - Teaching patients who are being treated for disease or illness about the wisdom of ayurveda will help that wisdom filter down to future generations who may be able to avoid the disease process. What we learn in Yoga Health Coaching demystifies ayurveda and makes it accessible to everyone. 25:35 - If you are in a medical field, Yoga Health Coaching provides you with the structure to teach your patients or clients the foundations for health. While health care in the United States is starting to offer more wellness-based services and alternative healing modalities, the delivery is hit or miss and far less meaningful than the work we do as yoga health coaches.   Your Favorite Quotes: "There are so many laws, and we have been put in such a place of fear that we have lost touch with what is our scope of practice. And our scope of practice involves teaching and educating the public." --- Annette Schellenbarger "We have to allow people to be in charge of their health because what we're ultimately doing is teaching them how to become self aware." --- Annette Schellenbarger "This is the fulfilling part of Yoga Health Coaching for me is that I can do what I was supposed to do in the first place, what I was taught to do." --- Nancy Plunkett "Imagine if we can teach those people who are acute about disease prevention, then in another generation or two, that knowledge will carry down." --- Paige Pearman "As a nurse . . . , I have worked with very, very ill people. And 80% of the reason why they're there, even the cancer patients, were due to lifestyle and food choices. Every single one of them. And so ayurveda to me was like this lifeline." --- Annette Schellenbarger   Guest BIO:  Paige Pearman is an Ayurvedic Health Counselor through the California College of Ayurveda and Yoga Health Coach.           Internationally known Clinical Ayurvedic Specialist, Marma Therapist, Herbal Rasayanist, Registered Nurse, Massage Therapist, and Registered Yoga Teacher, Annette Shellenbarger, is the original founder of Chandra Ayurveda.   Annette brings long-term balance and health to her clients that range from next-door neighbors to yogis in Europe. Annette is also a leader in bridging Western and Eastern healing modalities, and restoring Ayurveda to its authentic, spiritual and most effective roots, and is an innovator in applying Ayurveda as a complimentary system of well being, wellness and health. Annette works with western doctors to support clients and provide a well rounded, holistic system of healing. Annette teaches and lectures at yoga studios, hospitals, community centers, and has a successful online program teaching Ayurveda to medical professionals, health coaches, yoga teachers, Registered Dietitians, and functional medicine doctors.   Nancy Plunkett is a registered nurse, yoga teacher, yoga health coach, yoga nidra facilitator, Take A Breath facilitator, and facilitator on yoga sailing retreats.    

In this Changemaker Challenge conversation, Cate and Grace discuss the mindsets of highly successful wellness pros.   Mindsets are mental habits. In her enrollment conversations for Yogahealer, Grace sometimes gets the sense that something is "squashing" the urgency to evolve, to be successful. She feels that something is often mindset problems: doubt, fear, lack of knowledge, lack of network, old wounds.   Highly successful people have a big picture view of where they want to go, and they're constantly reverse engineering that back into the day to day, focusing on what they can accomplish right now that will get them to the future they so clearly vision. For that reason, their day-to-day is constantly changing and evolving.   Another key mindset of successful wellness pros is that they invest in where they're going and they invest bravely. They invest in where they're going; they don't invest according to who they've been or how they invested in the past; they're continually upleveling how they invest.   What common mindsets do you see among highly successful wellness pros? How does your mindset differ from theirs? Grace would love to have a conversation with you about it. Go to Yogahealer.com/have-a-conversation to schedule your conversation today.   What you'll get out of tuning in: How highly successful wellness pros invest in themselves. Why the day-to-day habits of highly successful people are constantly evolving. How your mindset might interfere with your success.   Links Mentioned in the Episode: YHC YH Have a Conversation Show Highlights: 0:00 - Your network is your net worth. A network is conversations. Our conversations are relationships. When we start to figure out which conversations get us where we want to go next, our relationships start to become very intentional. 3:00 - Mindsets are mental habits. One of the habits of highly successful people is asking themselves really good questions. What common mindsets do you see among highly successful wellness pros? How does your mindset differ from theirs? Grace notices that highly successful wellness pros focus on opportunities rather than problems. 7:15 - Highly successful people have a big picture view of where they want to go, and they're constantly reverse engineering that back into the day to day, focusing on what they can accomplish right now that will get them to the future they so clearly vision. For that reason, their day-to-day is constantly changing and evolving. 9:33 - According to evolutionary enlightenment theory, in the ground of being, everything is already happening beyond time and space. There is no contraction of time or space. That is why meditation is one of the habits of highly successful people. Evolutionary impulse creates the sense of urgency that causes us to act. 12:52 - In her enrollment conversations for Yogahealer, Grace sometimes gets the sense that something is "squashing" the urgency, the evolutionary impulse. She feels that something is often mindset problems: doubt, fear, lack of knowledge, lack of network, old wounds. Cate explains why you don't really want to have the skills you need to meet the challenge right now. What's more important is mindset: Who do you need to become in order to get where you want to be? 15:15 - Another key mindset of successful wellness pros is that they invest in where they're going and they invest bravely. 17:00 - Uncompromising self care is another habit of highly successful wellness pros. While self care is an investment of time, the monetary investment can be quite low. Highly successful wellness pros also possess a strong belief in what they're doing. They're willing to do the "hard stuff" to reach their goals, including long term planning and learning the skills they need to get to where they want to go.   Favorite Quotes: "You don't really want to have the skills to meet the challenge right now." --- Cate Stillman "This is another key mindset of successful people . . . They invest in where they're going. All the time. And they don't invest according to who they've been or how they invested in the past. So they're continually upleveling how they invest." --- Cate Stillman "That's what it feels like with investment: It feels like you need to be brave." --- Cate Stillman Guest 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.

In this Coach of the Month interview, Cate sits down with Heather Stoken, a YHC Mentor who is currently enrolled in YHC Mastery. When your uniqueness leads you to your niche, opportunities start to unfold. Heather started with Synergy Bloom, her basic habits course based on Cate's Body Thrive model. Her husband's career as an airline pilot led her to target people in the airline industry who live a very alternative lifestyle that is not conducive to health and wellness. The importance of working with this niche population centers around the potentially fatal consequences of airline staff who are often sleep deprived and living an unhealthy lifestyle that is out of sync with their circadian rhythms. Comparing Heather's websites, Synergy Bloom is a typical Yoga Health Coach's website. It's Heather in her element being Heather. Her niche website, Fit Fly Movement, is very different. Heather used a "5 words exercise" from the YHC course to determine what that site would look like. It's clean, concise, corporate. It's meant to appeal to a niche that has little to no knowledge of or interest in yoga or ayurveda. Heather's advice to new or prospective yoga health coaches is that you don't have to know your endgame to get started. YHC provides the information, the content, and the skills you need to succeed. Book your free coaching call today: https://yogahealthcoaching.com/be-a-coach.   What you'll get out of tuning in: How to use what you already know to find your niche How to market to your niche Why you don't need to know your endgame to start Yoga Health Coaching   Links: Body Thrive Book YHC Have a conversation Related YHC Podcast Related YHC Blog   Show Highlights: 0:00 - When your uniqueness leads you to your niche, opportunities start to unfold. Heather started with Synergy Bloom, her basic habits course based on Cate's Body Thrive model. Her husband's career as an airline pilot led her to target people in the airline industry who live a very alternative lifestyle that is not conducive to health and wellness. 7:50 - The importance of working with this niche population centers around the potentially fatal consequences of airline staff who are often sleep deprived and living an unhealthy lifestyle that is out of sync with their circadian rhythms. Pilots and flight attendants themselves have an injury rate higher than that of construction workers. 8:45 - Comparing Heather's websites, Synergy Bloom is a typical Yoga Health Coach's website. It's Heather in her element being Heather. Her niche website, Fit Fly Movement, is very different. Heather used a "5 words exercise" from the YHC course to determine what that site would look like. It's clean, concise, corporate. This website is sent to airlines in a request to get them to include the course in their mandatory monthly training. 13:45 - Injuries and illnesses that prevent staff from working have a personal cost to the individual but also a cost to the company (or airline). In the airline industry, there may be a direct correlation between the time spent working and the likelihood of illness or injury. Drugs prescribed for injuries, particularly opiods, can lead to addiction, which further diminish work performance and quality of life. 22:15 - Yoga Health Coaching gives us the tools and the plan we need to discover our niche and market to that niche. Heather started by asking individual pilots and flight attendants to fill out a survey for her. From the survey responses, she started to form the focus of her program. 30:10 - Heather is a Yoga Health Coaching Mentor who is currently enrolled in YHC Mastery. Her advice to new or prospective yoga health coaches is that you don't have to know your endgame to get started. YHC provides the information, the content, and the skills you need to succeed.   Favorite Quotes: "What happens with niching, and what happens the more you own your uniqueness, different opportunities start to unfold." --- Cate Stillman "I had this philosophy that everybody needs to move better in their body, know their body better, be an advocate for their own body before they outsource their healthcare." --- Heather Stoken "There are so many skills and so much information in the Yoga Health Coaching program. It's so rich in content." --- Heather Stoken "You don't necessarily have to know what your endgame is to start the game." --- Heather Stoken   Guest BIO: Heather Stoken is an herbalist, Yoga and Yoga Tune Up® teacher, and student of Ayurveda. She has been practicing transformative work for the last 10 years in beautiful Portland, Oregon and on retreats and workshops throughout the Country. Heather is passionate about her yoga both on and off the mat, and integrates fun as well as anatomical understanding into her teaching. Off the mat, Heather is a mother, a novice artist, poet and chef, as well as a lover of travel and the great outdoors.

In this Changemaker Challenge episode, Cate and Grace discuss the ways the doshas affect our self-limiting behaviors and how we can use our natural tendencies as assets. Vatas are very sensitive and naturally self-isolate in their own insecurity. They get excited about things but often change direction. Coaches and course members need to let vatas know that they are valued members of the group. Coaches also need to teach vatas how to recognize when they start to withdraw and self-isolate so that they can pivot and lean in to the group. Pittas are fiery. They're mentally sharp but can be critical and irritable know-it-alls. They struggle with "beginner's mind." Because they're so in their heads, they can lose connection with their hearts and with the group. If coaches can help pittas can come to terms with the fact that while they might know a lot about something, they probably don't know a lot about everything, they can start to pivot and lean into the group. Kaphas are stable and compassionate. They're loyal, bonded, and loving, but can be stuck in their comfort zone. They resist change and can be complacent. But if kaphas can spark their desire and get themselves into a group that is going in the direction of what they want to experience next, it becomes easy for them. We all have one of these tendencies. No one is exempt. Get to know what your tendency is; flip it, and it becomes an asset.   What you'll get out of tuning in: How we disqualify ourselves from evolutionary groups. How we can use ayurveda to understand the ways we self limit. How knowing your dosha can help you turn tendencies into gifts.   Links Mentioned in Episode: YHC Have a conversation Monetize your wellness business with Free 4-video series Show Highlights: 0:00 - As an enrollment coach, Grace notices the different ways that the doshas exhibit self-limiting behaviors. She can make a pretty good guess just based on one's tone of voice or rate of speech. 2:00 - Vatas are very sensitive and naturally self-isolate in their own insecurity. They get excited about things but often change direction. Coaches and course members need to let vatas know that they are valued members of the group. Coaches also need to teach vatas how to recognize when they start to withdraw and self-isolate so that they can pivot and lean in to the group. 10:00 - A new question Grace has been asking to gain information about how members would NOT feel supported is to ask, "What would piss you off?" 12:40 - Pittas are fiery. They're mentally sharp but can be critical and irritable know-it-alls. They struggle with "beginner's mind." Because they're so in their heads, they can lose connection with their hearts and with the group. If coaches can help pittas can come to terms with the fact that while they might know a lot about something, they probably don't know a lot about everything, they can start to pivot and lean into the group. 23:30 - Kaphas are stable and compassionate. They're loyal, bonded, and loving, but can be stuck in their comfort zone. They resist change and can be complacent. But if kaphas can spark their desire and get themselves into a group that is going in the direction of what they want to experience next, it becomes easy for them.   Favorite Quotes: "We really have to self identify first and figure out how is this showing up for us . . . if we don't want to remain isolated and stuck and constantly subjecting ourselves to our own BS." --- Grace Edison "Some of these things, they really become your greatest gifts. So if you get yourself, . . . if you put yourself with the right group of people that's going in the direction of what you want to experience next, it's easy for you." --- Cate Stillman "All you need to do is get yourself in the right group of people." --- Cate Stillman "We all have one of these tendencies. No one is exempt. . . . Get to know what your tendency is; flip it, and it becomes an asset." --- Cate Stillman   Guest 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.

In this Changemaker Challenge episode, Carly Banks "gets naked" with newly certified yoga health coach, Kelly Gardner. Before Yoga Health Coaching, Kelly Gardner was teaching A LOT of yoga. She is also a licensed professional counselor offering mental health counseling and yoga therapy. She is gradually replacing time spent in those pursuits with Yoga Health Coaching, including offering her course both online and in clinical settings, working with people who are ready to move forward. Through the habits of vedic tradition, she's offering her groups fundamental techniques for self healing when they need it most, emphasizing how healing the body can help heal the mind. Kelly describes how many people move throughout their days as "having an out-of-body experience" where we get caught up in "shoulds" and other negative self talk. She believes that if we can learn to stop "shoulding" on ourselves, we would understand that we can always start over. Pulsation is part of the healing process and it's part of habit evolution. Are you ready to bare it all, and show up as your awesome, supportive, community building self? Time to talk to Grace Edison. https://yogahealer.wufoo.com.mx/forms/zg2nt9y19mkqk5/ What you'll get out of tuning in: How Yoga Health Coaching can help you stop shoulding on yourself and start enjoying the pulsation of healing body and mind. How Yoga Health Coaches show up "naked" for their course members and for each other. Why we need to heal the body before we can heal the mind.   Links Mentioned in Episode: Kelly's website Kelly's Facebook page YHC Have a conversation Monetize your wellness business with Free 4-video series Show Highlights: 0:00 - In Yoga Health Coaching, members show up as their true selves: we're vulnerable; we're supportive; we're real. 1:55 - Before Yoga Health Coaching, Kelly Gardner was teaching A LOT of yoga. She is also a licensed professional counselor offering mental health counseling and yoga therapy. She is gradually replacing time spent in those pursuits with Yoga Health Coaching, including offering her course in a clinical setting, working with people who are ready to move forward. 3:48 - Kelly ran two pilot groups before becoming fully certified as a Yoga Health Coach: one online group with 9 members and one in-person group in an outpatient mental health counseling setting. She has enjoyed running two groups at once and witnessing the transformation of her group members. In her mental health group, she emphasizes how healing the body can help heal the mind. 8:00 - Kelly describes how many people move throughout their days as "having an out-of-body experience" where we get caught up in "shoulds" and other negative self talk. 10:47 - We've all experience some sort of trauma. Pulsation is part of the healing process and it's part of habit evolution. We need to be able to go into and come out of it as many times as we need to until the process is complete or the habits are automated.   Favorite Quotes: "The mind follows the body. So we've got to get the body feeling best before we can have the mind feeling best." --- Kelly Gardner "If we can stop having this all-in-our-minds experience and actually get into the body, we can let go of some of those stories or at least take a time out from them." --- Kelly Gardner "Pulsation is a big piece in anything. The reason we can't take all 10 habits and immediately have it is because we can't change all that much at once. So we have to be able to go into it and come out of it and go into it and come out of it." --- Kelly Gardner "The course, the habits are forgiving. The body is forgiving. We can always start over, but we've got to be able to open our minds to that." --- Kelly Gardner     Guest BIO: Hi, I'm Kelly Gardner.  I'm a Memphis girl. I was born and raised in Memphis and my family has a strong history of working to make this city great.  So, I am doing my part as a Licensed Professional Counselor in both Tennessee and North Mississippi. I also serve as a Certified Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT and 500 E-RYT) in clinical mental health settings.  When I am on the road, I am leading yoga teacher trainings as a Senior Master Trainer for YogaFit Training Systems or I am leading personal development workshops. I am currently in the thick of my Yoga Health Coaching certification which builds on my previous Ayurvedic Yoga Specialist training.  And if you need a personal trainer, I've got that covered too. I believe that yoga is great for EVERYONE and I love introducing people to how yoga can change their lives.  (Yes, it can work for you too.) I am a guide for others to learn how to make strides toward the kind of life they really want to live.  I do not believe that anyone was born to be unhappy and it's my dharma to help others help themselves. Connect with Kelly on her website and facebook page.

In this Changemaker Challenge Career Clarity Session, Carly Banks sits down with Yoga Health Coach and Ayurvedic Wellness Counselor Nicole Matthiesen. Six years ago, Nicole was working long hours and not taking very good care of herself. She ended up getting sick and was diagnosed with IBS. Western medicine provided her with no relief, so she started looking for alternative treatments and found ayurveda. Ayurveda healed not only her IBS, but other things as well, including seasonal allergies, rashes, anxiety, depression, and PMS. The impact was so profound, she knew she had to share it with others, and she started studying to be an ayurvedic wellness counselor. While working for world-renowned Vedic teacher Acharya Shunya, Nicole encountered Cate Stillman, who sent them her book, Body Thrive. Nicole learned that, in contrast to the teachers she was currently working with, Cate took a very mainstream approach to ayurveda without losing the spiritual aspect of it. She was so impressed with Body Thrive and with Cate's webinars, that she decided to enroll in Yoga Health Coaching. Nicole became a Certified Yoga Health Coach in May 2018. She in now in YHC Mastery. She has found that with each iteration of Body Thrive, with the help of the behavioral science that we learn, she is taken to a deeper place in her ayurveda practice.   What you'll get out of tuning in: How ayurveda addresses whole body wellness as opposed to treating a condition. How Yoga Health Coaching differs from traditional ayurveda training. Why the Body Thrive annual pass is the best way to automate the habits of ayurveda.   Links Mentioned in Episode: Nicole website's Nicole facebook page YHC Have a conversation Monetize your wellness business with Free 4-video series Show Highlights: 0:00 - Nicole became a Certified Yoga Health Coach in May 2018. She in now in YHC Mastery. She started studying ayurveda in 2013. Prior to that, Nicole was working long hours and not taking very good care of herself. She ended up getting sick and was diagnosed with IBS. Western medicine provided her with no relief, so she started looking for alternative treatments and found ayurveda. Ayurveda healed not only her IBS, but other things as well, including seasonal allergies, rashes, anxiety, depression, and PMS. The impact was so profound, she knew she had to share it with others, and she started studying to be an ayurvedic wellness counselor. 4:10 - While working for world-renowned Vedic teacher Acharya Shunya, Nicole encountered Cate Stillman, who sent them her book, Body Thrive. Nicole learned that, in contrast to the teachers she was currently working with, Cate took a very mainstream approach to ayurveda without losing the spiritual aspect of it. She was so impressed with Body Thrive and with Cate's webinars, that she decided to enroll in Yoga Health Coaching. 6:45 - While she thought she was practicing dinacharya, Nicole quickly realized that with each iteration of Body Thrive, she was taken to a deeper place in her practice. What she has found as a coach is that different members are opened up in different ways with each round of the 10 habits course. 8:50 - Through her YHC coursework, Nicole was able to work through some issues with self-confidence so that she could confidently lead a group through a transformational process. 12:00 - One of the more powerful aspects of the Body Thrive model is the behavioral science we use to help automate the habits of ayurveda.   Favorite Quotes: "Every time I go through the habits or work through the habits, they just take me to a deeper and deeper place." -- Nicole Matthiesen Guest BIO: After spending many years in the corporate world, Nicole Matthiesen became a Yoga teacher, Ayurvedic Health Counselor, and Wellness Coach. She was led to the sister sciences of Yoga and Ayurveda in her search for a healthier and more fulfilling life. The deep healing and transformation she experienced by embracing these traditions have inspired her to share this knowledge and support others on their own journey towards more balance, better health, and happier lives. Connect with Nicole on her website and facebook page.

In this podcast episode, Cate talks with August Coach of the Month, Brooke Bailey, about marrying eastern mindset with western mindset, left brain with right brain, masculine with feminine. Brooke is a certified Yoga Health Coach, ParaYoga© Level 1 Certified Teacher, Four Desires Trainer, and a Registered Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance. She also happens to have an MBA in International Management. The common ground that Brooke has found between her business background and her wellness career is connection: connection with self and connection with others. The benefit of her two diverse backgrounds (business and yoga) is that she can help others find a balance between the two. Living, working and studying abroad for several years provided Brooke with the opportunity to broaden her understanding of others through cross-cultural experiences. Using these experiences, she developed a coaching and teaching approach that is easily accessible to students from a variety of different backgrounds. Brooke is able to draw on her academic education to deliver her course in a practical manner that is accessible to people of different backgrounds who may not have any experience with yoga or ayurveda. As a YHC Mastery mentor, Brooke is interested in watching the dynamics of the peer mentoring ("mastermind") groups and witnessing the coaching and listening skills members develop. Personally, she is currently focusing on "Easeful Living" and balancing right brain and left brain.   What you'll get out of tuning in: Where the common ground lies between business and yoga. How group dynamics engender self trust. Why longer online courses are more successful.   Links Mentioned in Episode: Brooke's website Brookes' facebook page YHC Have a conversation Monetize your wellness business with Free 4-video series Show Highlights: 0:00 - Brooke started practicing yoga for stress relief. What she found was that her time spent on the mat led her to start questioning her choices off the mat. With an MBA in International Management, Brooke is able to draw on her academic background to deliver her course in a practical manner that is accessible to people of different backgrounds who may not have any experience with yoga or ayurveda. 5:05 - The common ground that Brooke has found between her business background and her wellness career is connection: connection with self and connection with others. The benefit of her two diverse backgrounds (business and yoga) is that she can help others find balance between the two. 8:30 - The group dynamic of Yoga Health Coaching can be a challenge for Westerners, but Brooke has noticed in her groups that the practice of listening to others can lead one to more fully trust one's own intuition. The end result is that the entire group is elevated by the experience of connection. 12:52 - One of Brooke's coaching success stories involves a woman who wanted to lose weight. Brooke explained that her ability to lose weight was tied to her ability to process emotions. The woman lost 20 pounds within her first 12 weeks of Brooke's annual program and felt her results were worth more than the investment she'd made in the program. 15:05 - The benefit of the annual pass is that there is a continuum of breakdown to breakthrough. Within a year, the likelihood is that one will either backslide or face a new challenge or both. And chances are that life circumstances will hit hard during that year. Being able to lean into the support of the group helps solidify the habits and lifestyle. 16:38 - Brooke's course members take the habits and the dynamic group guidelines into their work environments. Automating the mindset is just as important as automating the habits. 18:16 - All of the Yogahealer course are at least a year long now, and some are getting longer because people want to stay in the group. This is the opposite of what is happening with other online courses. The length of time allows for depth of growth. 23:20 - As a YHC Mastery mentor, Brooke is interested in watching the dynamics of the peer mentoring ("mastermind") groups and witnessing the coaching and listening skills members develop. 28:27 - Brooke is currently focusing on "Easeful Living" and balancing right brain and left brain.   Favorite Quotes: "To me, business is about people. And it's about connection." --- Brooke Bailey "You're not just learning habits. You're learning a different way of approaching your life." --- Brooke Bailey "You don't really want to go anywhere, and you get that depth takes time." --- Cate Stillman "Anything we practice in Yoga Health Coaching applies to the rest of your life. It applies to your business. It applies to your relationships." --- Brooke Bailey     Guest BIO: Brooke Bailey holds a BA in Management from Tulane University and an MBA in International Management from Thunderbird School of Global Management in Arizona, where she graduated with honors. Brooke is a certified Yoga Health Coach, ParaYoga© Level 1 Certified Teacher, Four Desires Trainer, and a Registered Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance. Brooke works online with clients across the globe through her 10-week group coaching course, Journey to Thrive. Using the tools of Ayurveda, Behavioral Science and yoga she guides individuals to identify which goals are aligned with their unique purpose shows them how to create a lifestyle that supports those goals and teaches them a process for experiencing more joy and ease in their daily lives. Working with Brooke opens more than just your body, she opens your mind and spirit to its greatest potential. Connect to Brooke to oh her website and facebook page.

Grace Edison and I dive into today's spicy and edgy topic on how to move from a place of feeling pissed to a place of empowerment. We discuss our egos and how they have a tendency to bring us down with the 4 D's of defense, distraction, discounting, and denial.  We discuss taking action and standing up to ourselves by making connections with our peers and forming strong and honest bonds. By forming peer groups we have a better ability to overcome our negative thoughts and habits. We gently nudge our egos out of the way in order to stay on our true paths towards connection and growth. In listening to the feedback our peers give us, we are able to build trust and gain confidence in ourselves and grow at a rapid rate, breaking through our glass ceilings. When we take the time to pause, listen, and reflect on feedback we are given, we are able to see the habits we've created that we need to change in order to move onto our next level of self-growth.   What you'll get out of tuning in: Where do our egos get in the way? How do peer groups help us to grow? How do we receive feedback well?   Links Mentioned in Episode: Body Thrive Book YHC Have a conversation Sign-up for the FREE live Living Ayurveda Masterclass series now!   Show Highlights: 1:10- From pissed to empowered! How our ego keeps us from connection and growth. We talk about working with our ego in order to own your actions and thoughts and realize your recurring patterns and change them. 9:50- We discuss how to use feedback from your peers or in peer groups. How to get to the point where you are super honest with yourself and with others and how to take feedback and use it to grow. Favorite Quotes: "She thought she could, so she did." -Grace Edison "A very strong accountability group will generate an entire energy where they can see the key strengths that every member can bring, and they leverage those strengths." -Grace Edison "We open our hearts, we collaborate rather than compete, we take action." -Grace Edison "Stop being pissed and be empowered." -Cate Stillman   Guest 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.  

CALLING ALL YOGA INSTRUCTORS!! This beautiful soul has got it figured out!! Are you ready to have FUN in your BUSINESS? Are you ready to create programs and workshops WITH JOY? Are you ready to feel like THIS IS SOOOOO EASY?!!! Today I chatted with Suzanne Lynch of saratogaspringsyoga.com and Suzanne Lynch Wellness. After three years as a Yoga Health Coach she's developed a custom program that suits her dream lifestyle while attracting her dream clients. She's changing people's lives, by just doing what comes naturally to her! How lovely is that. This show is a MUST LISTEN. I'm super inspired.   What you'll get out of tuning in: How to develop a community mindset toward your potential clients. Why you want to leverage your YHC resources. What you gain when you approach your business model with a sense of ease and abundance.   Links Mentioned in Episode: Suzanne's FB Suzanne's website Sign-up for the FREE live Living Ayurveda Masterclass series now! Show Highlights: 2:11  – Suzanne discusses what motivated her about her career challenges to take Cate's business program and her initial successes. 6:30  – Part of successful coaching is patience, support, and understanding the wisdom in our resistances. 8:09  – After we master the techniques of a new program, the rules, we can improvise, play, and make it unique to ourselves and our clients.   Favorite Quotes: "How easy can this be? How much fun can we make this?" – Carly Banks "I am really really big on a lot of support and small steps. Because I want sustainable change."  – Suzanne Lynch "They're driving the content, and I'm really serving their needs."  – Suzanne Lynch   Guest BIO: Suzanne has been helping people get out of pain, and live happier, healthier lives for over 25 years. She has a special talent and affinity for habit evolution and deep listening. Suzanne loves helping clients feel better than they have in years. Suzanne has been a meditator for 30 years, and was certified by the NACC as a Catholic Chaplain in 2001. She worked for the Red Cross after The Trade Center bombings, as well as in hospitals, and in Hospice. She's a long time student of yoga and started back in 1989. Suzanne lives in Saratoga with her husband, Bruce and her dog Argos. She is a mother of two grown children. Connect with Suzanne on her FB page and get more info on Suzanne's website.

In this Changemaker Challenge episode, Cate and Grace discuss tribe growth: How to Take Your Tribe from Zero to Hero. Cate is an expert at building and nurturing a tribe. For wellness pros, a tribe is the community of people we are working with: clients, students, members, participants, etc. It's becoming more common for wellness pros to adopt a community membership model, but they sometimes fall short of enrollment expectations. There's a skill to creating an infrastructure that facilitates growth and transformation through interconnectivity. People want to belong. They want a contract. They want to know what's expected of them. They want to know what they're going to receive. And they need to be continually reminded of the value of belonging. In the tribe model, the leader creates a space where members can easily and frequently connect. Tribe creates a sense of belonging, connection, unity and commitment. In a tribe, growth becomes more easeful as there is a give and take of support that is energizing rather than depleting. The more we give, the more we get.   What you'll get out of tuning in: How to find and lead a tribe How to spark interest and foster engagement How to hack tribe interaction with ground rules for dynamic groups Links Mentioned in Episode: Body Thrive Book YHC Have a conversation Monetize your wellness business with Free 4-video series Show Highlights: 0:00 - Cate is an expert at building and nurturing a tribe. For wellness pros, a tribe is the community of the people we are working with: clients, students, members, participants, etc. Tribe creates a sense of belonging, connection, unity and commitment. In a tribe, growth becomes more easeful as there is a give and take of support that is energizing rather than depleting. The more we give, the more we get. 6:43 - There's a skill to creating an infrastructure that facilitates growth and transformation through interconnectivity. As wellness pros, we sometimes get in the way of our clients or students connecting with each other. In the tribe model, the leader creates a space where members can easily and frequently connect. To make it work most effectively, there has to be a financial commitment so that members know the value of their connection with you and with each other. 10:30 - It's becoming more common for wellness pros to adopt a community membership model, but they sometimes fall short of their enrollment expectations. People want to belong. They want a contract. They want to know what's expected of them. They want to know what they're going to receive. And they need to be continually reminded of the value of belonging. 14:04 - In the tribe model, people want to stick around long term. They want to earn a position in the community over time. Leaders start to emerge from the tribe and they bring in and help assimilate new members. The role of the primary leader then becomes maintenance and evolution of the infrastructure of the tribe. 16:28 - Creating a contract or policy or group guidelines or ground rules for the tribe adds a level of understanding and depth of meaning to tribe membership. It creates a shared context and vision and markers for success. Favorite Quotes: "We're all connected. And all of our actions, and even our thoughts and ideas are interconnected. So where you end and where I begin, in terms of what we're understanding, in terms of how we impact each other, in terms of thrive, these things are way more interconnected than assumed by a strictly Western thought perspective." --- Cate Stillman "When we see where there's been areas of massive growth and transformation or depth in our lives, we can see that it's tied to a number of other people. And then can we as wellness pros, can we actually leverage that to get people into thrive? So to me, tribe is more than just a vehicle or concept to do that. It's a necessity." --- Cate Stillman "In the guru model versus the tribe model, there is a missing level of humanity and vulnerability of the leader actually leading through their own growth." --- Grace Edison   Guest 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.

On today's show Carly Banks talks with Davina Clauer, a Yoga Health Coach in training and mother of two, about Davina's experience in Yogahealer courses. Both Body Thrive and YHC courses opened up so much time and space in Davina's days and brought health and ease to her and her family. She is currently working her full time job, pursuing her Yoga Health Coach certification, and starting her new coaching business, while at the same time finding space for her passions as a Yoga Instructor and Postpartum Doula. While Davina's story is unique, it is not uncommon for many people to accept Ayurvedic Body Thrive habits into their lives and move into a space of easeful living. Following these habits allow us to enter into a state of flow, where we feel in tune with life and at peace within ourselves. These habits help to move us out of a stagnant state into one of perpetual growth and learning. If you are interested in upleveling your time, your health, your space and your life, then listen in on today's podcast and gain inspiration and velocity on your growth path.   What you'll get out of tuning in: How do the Body Thrive habits help us to thrive? How to find more time in your day. How working in a group helps growth.   Links Mentioned in Episode: Body Thrive Book YHC Have a conversation Davina Clauer's website Davina's Facebook Monetize your wellness business with Free 4-video series Show Highlights: 1:20 - Davina talks to us a bit about her Yoga Health coaching background, how she found Cate and Yogahealer, and where it has led her. 6:00 - The addiction to saying 'I don't have enough time.' In reality, with the BT habits we are opening up so much time and space for ourselves and we have the capacity to handle more. 12:00- The importance of group dynamics and how accountability helps our exponential growth in life. We don't have to do it alone!   Favorite Quotes: "Your day now flows around the habits instead of being another thing that you have to find time for." -Davina Clauer "The most successful people start before they're ready." - Davina Clauer "Sometimes we compare ourselves to people who are in chapter 20, or they are in a different book, and we forget that they were on chapter 1 at one point." -Davina Clauer   Guest Bio: Davina Clauer is the proud mother of two amazing girls and is really into practicing & teaching Vinyasa Yoga. Her specialized practices are focused on supporting mothers, babies and children through significant moments of life. The techniques used in prenatal and children's yoga can provide countless benefits for the overall well-being for the entire family. Davina took her first yoga class with her then 6-month-old in 2013 and her life changed forever. This led her to start teaching yoga in 2015 after completing my RYT-200 certification. Towards the end of 2015 Davina's life was shattered when she suffered a devastating loss of a pregnancy at 11 weeks. She was searching for anything to feel better and decided to turn back to her yoga practice. She was pulled toward the ancient wisdom of Ayurveda to heal herself emotionally and address the physiological cause of her miscarriage. She found Yogahealer and entered into her first Body Thrive during this time, which then lead her on to Yogahealers' Yoga Health Coaching Course, that she is currently enrolled in. Davina is now happy to report that after some major changes in lifestyle, she conceived and carried a healthy baby girl who graced us with her presence in Feb. 2017. Since giving birth Davina has been bound and determined to continue down her wellness path and decided that she wants to help others on theirs; she hopes to help people design the healthy life that they deserve to live! Conect with Clauer on her Website and Facebook.

In this Changemaker Challenge episode, Cate and Grace discuss organic, grassroots pro-healer careers: how to step into your power and grow your impact and income on a shoestring budget. When it comes to growing an organic, grassroots pro healer career. Cate wrote the book. From living in a trailer during ayurveda school to running her first Yogidetox in yurt with 6 paying members, it's fair to say that Cate grew her business from a shoestring budget. When it came to schooling and training, Cate was most interested in ayurveda and very much about the ROI (return on investment). Within a year of starting ayurveda school, Cate was making 50% of her income from ayurveda, even before she was certified. Yoga Health Coaching works the same way. We earn while we learn. Before we can recognize, articulate, and step into our dharma, there's some processing we need to do, processing of dysfunctional and/or outdated parts of ourselves with our eyes wide open. The Yoga Health Coaching community provides a safe space that facilitates this processing while providing feedback that comes from a place of care and love AND provides support for identity evolution and dharmic upgrades. When you book a career conversation with Grace, you'll explore your wants, your needs your desires, your dharma. Grace has been through it. She's been where you are, and she's not so far ahead of you that she can't relate. What you'll get out of tuning in: How Yoga Health Coaches earn while we learn What needs to happen before we can fully step into our dharma Why we need to stop judging ourselves for wanting to make money   Links Mentioned in Episode: Body Thrive Course Body Thrive Book YHC Have a conversation Stay Hydrated with Copper H20 Show Highlights: 1:00 - From living in a trailer during ayurveda school to running her first Yogidetox in yurt with 6 paying members, it's fair to say that Cate grew her business from a shoestring budget. When it came to schooling and training, Cate was most interested in ayurveda and very much about the ROI (return on investment). 4:50 - Within a year of starting ayurveda school, Cate was making 50% of her income from ayurveda, even before she was certified. Yoga Health Coaching works the same way. We earn while we learn. 5:25 - Cate started out in environmental policy but her interest shifted to human consciousness when she realized that policy wouldn't change until human consciousness changed. 9:05 - Cate is in the process of writing her next book, Awake Living, a dharma life-hacking system. In looking at what's already been published on dharma, she found that the majority of it comes from a masculine point of view. In Cate's view, before we can step into our dharma, there's some processing we need to do, processing of dysfunctional and/or outdated parts of ourselves undertaken with our eyes wide open. 12:57 - Grace is in this process right now. While it's difficult to recognize and receive honest feedback, it can be softened by recognizing the care and the love that underlies or envelopes the feedback. The Yoga Health Coaching community provides a safe space for us to give and receive feedback that comes from a place of care and love while providing support for identity evolution and dharmic upgrades. 15:30 - Shakti will lead the way through desire. It led Cate to impact and income. Money makes impact easier. It's also a source of independence. For those reasons, we need to stop judging ourselves for wanting to make money. 18:15 - When you make an investment, look at the ROI. What's missing from yoga teacher trainings and ayurveda school is training on how to be self employed, how to go pro in your wellness career. 20:18 - When you book a career conversation with Grace, you'll explore your wants, your needs your desires, your dharma. Grace has been through it. She's been where you are, and she's not so far ahead of you that she can't relate.   Favorite Quotes: "All of us are wounded healers at some point, and we're in it for our own journey until we're in it to help people." --- Cate Stillman "There's this whole underbelly of dharma that causes parts of ourselves that are dysfunctional or outdated . . . that need to get processed through agni." --- Cate Stillman "For pro healers, shakti leads the way." --- Cate Stillman "My dharma has a lot to do with the marketplace. A lot to do with helping pro healers in the marketplace. . . . Money makes impact easier." --- Cate Stillman   Guest 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.

In this Changemaker Challenge Career Clarity Session, Carly Banks chats with fellow Yoga Health Coach Marcia Wilson. Marcia is a newly certified yoga health coach running her second pilot program and starting YHC Mastery. Marcia has been in the wellness industry for a long time, but she feels she has never had the level of impact on the people she has worked with as she has had with yoga health coaching. As a studio owner and yoga teacher, she knew by the interactions with her students after class that her students wanted more contact with her. As an occupational therapist, Marcia feels she didn't have the tools she needed to make a difference in her patient's day to day lives until yoga health coaching. Yoga Health Coaching is a great fit for yoga teachers who want to make a bigger impact without burning themselves out. Often yoga teachers are so busy running around from class to class, and maybe even working a side job, that they miss out on yoga's sister science, ayurveda. They aren't taking care of themselves and they're out of integrity with what they're teaching. The habits of ayurveda that Marcia has learned in Yoga Health Coaching have benefitted her personally in how she shows up in her personal life, and the business training she received in YHC has been significant and impactful on her professional life. She now sees herself as a community builder with the skills of a savvy business woman.   What you'll get out of tuning in: How Yoga Health Coaching is a great fit for yoga teachers who want to make a bigger impact without burning themselves out. How YHC helps yoga teachers shift into integrity with what they teach. How wellness pros can blend what they're already doing and what most interests them with yoga health coaching.   Links Mentioned in Episode: Body Thrive Course Body Thrive Book YHC Have a conversation Stay Hydrated with Copper H20 Marica's website Yoga Loft Show Highlights: 0:41 - Marcia is a newly certified yoga health coach running her second pilot program and starting YHC Mastery. Pilot programs are run during YHC training. Marcia has been in the wellness industry for a long time, but she feels she has never had the level of impact on the people she has worked with as she has had with yoga health coaching. As a studio owner and yoga teacher, she knew by the interactions with her students after class that her students wanted more contact with her. As an occupational therapist, Marcia feels she didn't have the tools she needed to make a difference in her patient's day to day lives until yoga health coaching. 8:43 - Yoga Health Coaching is a great fit for yoga teachers who want to make a bigger impact without burning themselves out. Often yoga teachers are so busy running around from class to class, and maybe even working a side job, that they miss out on yoga's sister science, ayurveda. They aren't taking care of themselves and they're out of integrity with what they're teaching. 11:30 - The habits Marcia has learned in Yoga Health Coaching have benefitted her personally in how she shows up in her personal life, and the business training she received in YHC has been significant and impactful on her professional life. Marcia has appreciated the clear examples and guidelines set forth about how we're expected to show up in YHC, and she has applied those to her yoga studio. 15:00 - Yoga Health Coaching combines so well with any health and wellness niches that wellness pros don't have to stop what they're doing to be a yoga health coach: Yoga Health Coaching can be another component of the services we're already providing. Marcia has set an intention to be more innovative and more responsive to what is happening in her community. At the same time, our course members are curious about what we're interested in, so we get to bring our own interests into our courses. 18:25 - Like many yoga health coaches, Marcia has found that course members naturally start to step into leadership roles. Course members from her first group are now organizing monthly "living labs" for her current group.   Favorite Quotes: "This type of process where we're supporting people over time in a conversation is massively impactful." --- Marcia Wilson "I actually see myself more as  a teacher, learner, and provider of ayurveda, starting at the base with dinacharya, the habits." --- Marcia Wilson "The habits that we teach are so simple. That does not mean that they're easy, but they're worth it." --- Carly Banks "The skills that I've learned through this program have given me a completely different way that I can step into conversations and projects." --- Marcia Wilson "I'm a community builder. That's what I do." --- Marcia Wilson     Guest BIO: Marcia Wilson is an Occupational Therapist, yoga studio owner, and Yoga Health Coach (in training) in Kamloops, BC. A life-long learner, she's navigated career changes, motherhood, health issues and marital breakdown with increasingly refined skills gleaned from the world of yoga and ayurveda. Her current passion? Supporting others on their journey of evolution by sharing the simple self care practices that have shifted her into a consistent space of clear energy and deep connection. Connect with Marcia on her website.

In this Changemaker Challenge episode, Cate and Grace discuss the warning signs of slacker career habits. A lot of us wellness pros are great at what we do, but that's not enough to grow a business. Often we're reluctant to even think of the services we provide as a "business,"  so we have slacker habits when it comes to our careers. We're in reactive mode and do little to no long term business planning. If we want make a bigger impact by helping more people, we need to develop professional career habits that systematically grow our business so that it's easier for people to find us. To start, we need to develop a larger perspective by identifying and quantifying 3 aspects of our career growth: impact, revenue, and lifestyle. A wellness pro with pro career habits is doing annual and quarterly planning that includes actionable steps that will help her hit her targets in all three areas. Using a project management tool streamlines the process and provides a structure for automating pro career habits. Getting into integrity with being a wellness pro involves creating habits that increase our levels of skill and challenge so that we remain in flow throughout our careers and avoid hitting a plateau.   What you'll get out of tuning in: How to determine whether you have slacker career habits or pro career habits. How you can start to develop pro career habits. How you can stay in flow throughout the length of your wellness career.   Links Mentioned in Episode: Body Thrive Course Body Thrive Book YHC Have a conversation Stay Hydrated with Copper H20 Flow     Show Highlights: 0:30 - A lot of wellness pros are great at what they do, but it's not enough. They still have slacker habits when it comes to their careers. They're in reactive mode and haven't automated the daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual habits they need to turn pro. To start, they need to develop a larger perspective. 5:13 - We can start by identifying and quantifying 3 aspects of our career growth: impact, revenue, and lifestyle. A wellness pro who has pro career habits is going to be doing annual and quarterly planning that includes actionable steps that will grow her career. 8:50 - With slacker habits, the impact extends beyond ourselves and our businesses to those people we weren't able to serve because we were slacking. 9:30 - For many, careers plateau at a certain point when skill exceeds challenge, but we can only remain in flow if our skill and challenge are both high. Using a project management tool is a pro career habit that helps us streamline the process of upleveling our skill and our challenge to grow our business by creating actionable steps and identifying lead and lag indicators. 25:20 - Getting into integrity with being a pro involves creating habits that increase your skill and your challenge in order to grow your business.   Favorite Quotes: "The truth for people who have pro career skills is they know that every challenge is an opportunity to grow their skill." --- Cate Stillman "This isn't about adding more to-dos. This is about getting in integrity with being a pro in our career habits." --- Cate Stillman "I need wellness people to act like wellness pros. We need to have pro career habits or we can't have the kind of impact [we want to have] because at the end of the day, it's all about impact." --- Cate Stillman   Guest 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.

Still riding the "high" from the Yogahealer Mexico retreat in March, Carly chats with Gin Burchfield, who has taken her Yoga Health Coaching training and certification and created her own unique programs that serve kids and families. Gin has been a successful massage therapist for 16 years. For the last 12 years, she has also been providing Ayurvedic consulting on a one-on-one basis. What she's found is that the one-on-one model is exhausting and not very successful in terms of long-term impact. As a certified Yoga Health Coach, Gin is serving parents with the Body Thrive model and children with her own unique program called "My Body is Science," which combines anatomy, yoga, and the habits of ayurveda.  The intergenerational aspect of her work emphasizes that vibrant health is both your birthright and your legacy. The flexible structure of Yoga Health Coaching provides us with the opportunity to create custom programs like Gin's. As the YHC community grows, we see more and more coaches becoming empowered, recognizing their strengths, and utilizing their unique interests to offer a habits-based program to their niche populations.   What you'll get out of tuning in: How the one-on-one coaching model is limited in its ability to effect long-term change. How the flexibility of the Yoga Health Coaching model allows us to deliver programs customized to our own unique strengths and interests. How the Yoga Health Coaching community supports our endeavors regardless of our niche markets.   Links Mentioned in Episode: Body Thrive Course Body Thrive Book YHC Have a conversation Stay Hydrated with Copper H20 Gin's website Gin's facebook page My Body Is Science   Show Highlights: 0:00 - Carly and Gin met in person at the Yogahealer retreat in Mexico in March, and they are both still riding the high from that. 3:25 - Both Carly and Gin are serving families in their versions of the 10 habit program. Both are transitioning out of the jobs they've been in for years. Gin has been a successful massage therapist for 16 years. For the last 12 years, she has also been providing Ayurvedic consulting on a one-on-one basis. What she's found is that the one-on-one model is exhausting and not very successful in terms of long-term impact. 6:00 - Gin is a certified Yoga Health Coach who is serving parents with the Body Thrive model and children with her own unique program called "My Body is Science" that combines anatomy, yoga, and the habits of ayurveda.  The intergenerational aspect of her work emphasizes that vibrant health is both your birthright and your legacy. 7:50 - The structure of Yoga Health Coaching provides us with the opportunity to create custom programs. As the YHC community grows, we see more and more coaches becoming empowered, recognizing their strengths, and utilizing their unique interests to offer a habits-based program to niche populations.   Favorite Quotes: "It [the retreat experience] takes you to the next level of what you think is even possible . . . and then exponentially further." --- Gin Burchfield "Vibrant health is your birthright and your legacy." --- Gin Burchfield   Guest BIO: Gin began her career in massage, Ayurveda, yoga, and wellness in 2001, and has been in private practice in Raleigh and Cary, NC since 2008. She now specializes in Medical Massage Therapy and Ayurveda. Gin has also served as faculty in the Therapeutic Massage program at Wake Technical Community College since 2009 and enjoys her work as a Montessori Yoga and Anatomy Instructor through her self-developed "My Body is Science" program. She is currently studying to become a Certified Yoga Health Coach and is offering her new group-coaching formatted, 10-week program PURE HEALTH four times per year. Prior to this, she had the distinction of working at the Chopra Center for Wellbeing, founded by renowned physician and author Deepak Chopra. Here she learned Ayurvedic Massage Therapy and Panchakarma (detoxification) administration. She served as Assistant Supervisor in the Chopra Center Spa before being recruited to work as Therapeutic Bodywork Team Lead at Wellspace, a large integrative healthcare center formerly located in Boston, MA. Check her website and facebook page.

In this Changemaker Challenge episode, Cate and Grace pose the question: What is the growing edge in your leadership? Leadership training is intense and personal. When well done, it breaks down dysfunctional patterns. For that reason, growing edges look a lot like breakdowns. When we heed the call to lead, we are continually coming up against growing edges and breaking down shadow issues to deepen our capacity to lead. And it doesn't feel good during the breakdown process. The three sectors of leadership are leading, coaching, and managing. As wellness pros, we need to ask ourselves, or have others help us identify, in which sector our strength lies: inspiring, connecting, or systematizing. When we heed the call to have the kind of impact we want to have, we need to commit to developing skills that we may not have. On a growth path, resistance often shows up. When it does, we need to recognize that resistance is the product of the ego being enmeshed with the past self telling us we don't need to do the things that will help us grow. Recognizing and being present with that truth allows us to reignite our resolve to grow and hold true to our mission and vision.   What you'll get out of tuning in: Why growing edges look a lot like breakdowns. Why the call to lead requires us to break down dysfunctional patterns. Why leadership requires us to identify our weaknesses.   Links Mentioned in Episode: Body Thrive Course Body Thrive Book YHC Have a conversation Stay Hydrated with Copper H20   Show Highlights: 1:30 - Leadership training is intense and personal. When well done, it breaks down dysfunctional patterns. For that reason, growing edges look a lot like breakdowns. When we heed the call to lead, we are continually coming up against growing edges and breaking down shadow issues to deepen our capacity to lead. And it doesn't feel good during the breakdown process. 6:57 - The three sectors of leadership are leading, coaching, and managing. As wellness pros, we need to ask ourselves, or have others help us identify, in which sector our strength lies: inspiring, connecting, or systematizing. 13:37 - On a growth path, resistance often shows up. When it does, we need to recognize that resistance is the product of the ego being enmeshed with the past self telling us we don't need to do the things that will help us grow. Recognizing and being present with that truth allows us to reignite our resolve to grow and hold true to our mission and vision. 23:31 - When we heed the call to have the kind of impact we want to have, we need to commit to developing skills that we may not have.   Favorite Quotes: "When it gets hard, --- and it will get hard . . . because that's the nature of doing things that you don't know how to do yet --- there's going to be a struggle to become who you want to be. --- Cate Stillman "If resistance shows up . . . you know you're on the right track. --- Grace Edison "We have to be able to dissolve [in order] to grow. --- Cate Stillman "When we heed the call of the kind of impact we want to have, without self diminishing, without playing small, without coming up with excuses, . . . now we're choosing the path of fire." --- Cate Stillman   Guest 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.

In this episode, Alex Biondo and Rachel Peters talk about the ways in which Yoga Health Coaches are becoming community leaders. Alex and Rachel rap about how leadership is a natural evolution of a Yoga Health Coach's journey. Rachel shares how she became comfortable with stepping into the role of leader by recognizing and aligning with her natural strengths. As someone who's been known for years as a successful yoga teacher, her identity is evolving into someone who supports others on their wellness journeys and as a coach and collaborator.   What you'll get out of tuning in: How Yoga Health Coaches become wellness leaders in their communities How recognizing and utilizing our natural talents makes us better leaders How mesh networking and collaborating are the new leadership models   Links Mentioned in Episode: How to Build a Tribe webinar Body Thrive Book YHC Have a conversation  Rachel's website Rachel's Facebook page   Show Highlights: 2:30 - What is the difference between community building and community leading? Rachel has been building a yoga community for years, and she talks about how she made a mindset shift and got comfortable stepping into the role of leader. 5:00 - Rachel recently felt sparked to step into leadership and is now making an impact both locally and with her online national (soon to be global!) community. 8:00 - When we recognize our natural strengths, we lead others with more ease. Rachel talks about showing up as her authentic self and focusing on her strengths and desires, which, in turn, leads the right people to find her. 11:00 - For many of us, leadership starts at home. When we live in integrity, the first to notice are those closest to us. They often pick up the reins and take the lead, as Rachel's husband Dan likes to do. He's now an avid forager! 16:00 - What Yoga Health Coaches do has a ripple effect. We touch others in many ways. As people learn what we do, we become a face of holistic wellness in our communities and often end up helping people who aren't even our clients. 19:30 - What does the next step of leadership look like? Collaboration and mesh networking. Rachel talks about how she works with other wellness leaders in her community.   Favorite Quotes: "I lead from my strengths, rather than having to cultivate new ones" ~Rachel Peters "A sometimes unintended consequence of becoming a Yoga Health Coach is that we are becoming community leaders." ~Alex Biondo   Guest BIO: Rachel is a Certified Yoga Health Coach and the Founder of Embody Ease and the Easeful Living Community. She is a yoga teacher and teacher trainer at Prescott Yoga, in Prescott, AZ. She is also the leader of the Coaching Team at Yogahealer. She's a wife and a mom, loves being outdoors, and leads her students and clients into health and ease in their bodies and lives. Check her website and facebook page.

In this Changemaker Challenge career conversation, Carly Banks chats with Yoga Health Coach in Training, Amarylis Fernandez. All too often, potential pro healers fall into lives and patterns that society deems "normal" only to find themselves years later unhappy, burnt out, and unfulfilled. Such was the case with Amarylis. She thought she was doing everything "right." She had a husband, education, a home and career, yet felt lost in her life. She set the bar low for herself, accepting low paying work and settling in her marriage. The life she was leading wasn't bringing her joy, and she felt like she was just wandering through it. When thoughts of change would creep in, she would "check out" with the help of alcohol. After the birth of her daughter, Amarylis came to her breaking point. She didn't know how to live her life, and she knew she was suffering physically, mentally, and emotionally. Taking small steps toward health, Amarylis found Yogahealer. She completed the Living Ayurveda Course and Body Thrive and is now in Quarter 1 of Yoga Health Coaching. No longer pressing the "snooze" button, Amarylis has transitioned out of her old life. She is experiencing joy, and she is waking up to the possibilities this new way of life holds for her.    What you'll get out of tuning in: Why potential wellness pros often find themselves leading unfulfilling lives. What to do when prolonged discontent leads to physical suffering. How Yoga Health Coaches benefit from business training and community support.   Links Mentioned in Episode: Body Thrive Yoga Health Coaching Awake Living How to Build a Tribe webinar Amarylis Fernandez facebook Amarylis Fernandez website Show Highlights: 1:00 - All too often, potential pro healers fall into lives and patterns that society deems "normal." After resisting for a while, Amarylis eventually started following what she thought was the path to a "good life:" college, marriage, a house, a career with a benefits package . . . . But rather than bringing her happiness, Amarylis found herself "checking out."  There was nothing wrong with her life; it just wasn't resonating with her; it didn't bring her joy. 4:00 - Later Amarylis realized that she had been depressed and using alcohol as her "snooze button," as her means of "checking out." She felt ungrounded and didn't have a real sense of who she was. For decades, she hit the "snooze button" on her life because she didn't feel like she was ready to wake up to her own life. 5:15 - Amarylis's wake up call came after the birth of her daughter. She was staying at home to care for her and was forced to confront the fact that she didn't know who she was anymore. She didn't know how to live her life, and she knew she was suffering. Her suffering manifested as neurological issues that doctors couldn't explain. She knew her body was "freaking out" about something and she needed to get grounded, so she committed herself to exercise, despite some deep resistance. She started weight training and it felt amazing to move her body. More importantly, she started to get grounded in herself and wake up to who she was and what she wanted her life to be. Once she started to "undo" the life she had made for reasons that were not her own, everything started to align for her. She stopped drinking, and she began to experience joy. 9:50 - Amarylis completed the Living Ayurveda Course with Cate and is now in Quarter 1 of Yoga Health Coaching. Body Thrive changed the way she lived and Yoga Health Coaching is changing the way she thinks about her work and her earning potential. YHC made her understand that she was limiting herself with outdated beliefs about money and the type of work she does. 12:55 - Amarylis's keystone habit is Early to Bed. She has always been an early riser, so getting enough sleep means getting to be early. Waking early gives her the time she needs for self care before her daughter wakes up, which sets her up for a really good day. 15:30 - One of the best things about Yoga Health Coaching is that you can tailor your program to a segment of the general population that you want to work with . Both Amarylis and Carly work with new moms. Even though Yoga Health Coaches are entrepreneurs, we are part of a larger community that offers support and guidance. 17:25 - YHC also helps us see the value of the work we do so that we have the courage to step outside our comfort zones and price our programs according to the results our members get, which often means a much higher dollar value than we might have placed on ourselves. We also learn how to invest in ourselves so that we show up fully.   Favorite Quotes: "Every time I drank, I was hitting the snooze button and saying to the universe that 'I'm not ready to wake up yet. I'm not ready to wake up to my own life.'" --- Amarylis Fernandez "Getting grounded in that way helped me started to get grounded in who I am and find the confidence to say, 'I'm going to have to leave and undo this life that I've made for myself for reasons that weren't mine.' " --- Amarylis Fernandez "When you take that step, and when you do that scary thing and make that scary change and stop pressing the snooze button or stop checking out when the fears to change come up, really beautiful things can happen and that feeling of alignment . . . happens so quickly. --- Carly Banks     Guest BIO: Amarylis Fernandez is a yoga teach, a yoga health coach in training, and a mother. Not so long ago, Amarylis was totally frazzled, ungrounded, and desperate for change. And she realized things wouldn't change until she did. So she did. Now, Amarylis is on a path to guide women into vibrant living amidst the beautiful chaos children can bring. She spent a transformative month living at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health getting my 200 hour yoga teacher certification. She earned her 85 hour pre/postnatal certificate through the Bhaktishop in Portland, Oregon. She's trained more than 200 hours in Ayurveda with Cate Stillman of Yoga Healer, and specialized in Ayurveda for pregnant mamas and new mothers through Sacred Window's Ayurvedic Doula programs. Amarylis believes the transition into motherhood is a wild and wondrous ride that can be aided by yoga in all forms: postures, breath work, meditation, mantra, and help from your tiny guru(s)! She also knows the potent life transformations that occur when the wisdom of Ayurveda is incorporated into daily rhythms. Connect with Amarylis on her FB page and get more info on Suzanne's website.

In this Coach of the Month interview, Cate chats with Candice Claire Oksenhorn about her personal and professional growth path. Candice began her career in media sales but felt a yearning to be in a career that resonated with her in a meaningful way and could help others. She started learning about meditation and Ayurveda. Despite Candice's prior training in Ayurveda, she describes Body Thrive (the prerequisite for Yoga Health Coaching) as a profound, transformative process that tied all the "loose ends" together. In her personal life, Candice has experienced both chronic and acute stress and says it was the chronic stress that really wore her body down. She believes that the aligning with the rhythms of nature (dinarcharya in Ayurveda) is what helped her recover from stress and avoid disease. Now, through Yoga Health Coaching, she feels like she is able to offer others something that is both valuable and tangible. What she loves about teaching the habits is that it is just a very practical way of taking care of the body that works with individuals' existing belief systems. Candice consciously avoids being "lofty" in her teaching. She teaches from a place that resonates with her and that puts others at ease.   What you'll get out of tuning in: How the habits of Body Thrive directly affect our ability to resolve the effects of both chronic and acute stress. Why an academic understanding of Ayurveda doesn't guarantee transformation. Why no two Yoga Health Coaches will deliver the same experience.   Links Mentioned in Episode: Body Thrive Book YHC Have a conversation Candice's fb Candice's website How to Build a Tribe webinar Yogidetox Yogahealer   Show Highlights: 1:50 - Our subtle anatomy is delicate, receptive, designed for connectivity, awareness and bliss, and in today's society, we abuse it. When we go on a healing journey, we start to wake up our subtle anatomy. 3:00 - Despite Candice's prior training in Ayurveda, she describes Body Thrive (a prerequisite to Yoga Health Coaching) as a profound, transformative process that, for her, tied all the "loose ends" together. She sees each round of Body Thrive as further refinement of the habits. 6:40 - Candice is now teaching her own group course, and she has found that her clients, some of whom are studying Ayurveda, are not practicing even the simplest of habits. Just as Allopathic doctors are not trained in nutrition and digestion, Ayurvedic practitioners often don't adequately explore dinacharya and the daily habits. 9:20 - The habits are for everyone. Not everyone wants to study Ayurveda, but everyone needs a healthy body. Candice didn't want to be "lofty" with her teaching. She teaches from a place that resonates with her and that puts others at ease. 11:55 - Candice has experienced both chronic and acute stress and says it was the chronic stress that really wore her body down. She was high functioning, but she felt a lot of pressure to do things the "right" way, the expected way. Her husband suffered from mental illness, and while she tried to work with and around that, she would internalize a lot of the inner conflict she felt. Additionally, Candice dealt with chronic insomnia after the birth of her daughter. She thought she was taking care of herself, but she felt herself "crashing." 16:10 - Her studies fortified her for the acute stress she felt after her husband's suicide. Despite the inflammatory physical reactions her body had to the acute stress, Candice had faith that her body knew how to heal, and she continued to practice dinacharya. She started Body Thrive in 2016 and has educated her daughter in the habits. 22:50 - Your habits can either work for you in a regeneration process or against you in a dis-ease process. When we learn the habits of thrive, we naturally want to share those and educate others so that they know they have a choice in how they experience life. 26:40 - Candice's advice to newer yoga health coaches is 1. You're never done, and 2. Just do your pilot. She ran her pilot in person, recorded her teaching sessions, and now uses those recordings for her online course. 29:20 - No two coaches will teach the same way because no two coaches have had the same life experiences. As coaches, the more interested we become in the results of our members, and the more we are able to connect with them, the more our coaching skills improve.   Favorite Quotes: "Understanding the information doesn't equal transformation. You really have to find little ways to do it." --- Candice Claire Oksenhorn "If we . . . can get into beginner's mind, if we're curious about the depth of alignment to the daily rhythm, alignment to the seasonal rhythm, . . . if we can just get super curious, expect phenomenal things from really opening with curiosity to what I don't already have dialed in." --- Cate Stillman "We're never done with refinement." --- Candice Claire Oksenhorn "Not everybody wants to study from the intellectual perspective of Ayurveda, but everyone needs a healthy body." --- Candice Claire Oksenhorn "It's hard to have faith in the moment when things don't seem to be getting better fast." --- Candice Claire Oksenhorn Guest BIO: Candice Claire is a Yoga Health Coach living in Aspen, CO amidst the beautiful rocky mountains! Candice began her journey in Ayurvedic studies at the Chopra Center University in 2009 attaining her certifications to instruct Primordial Sound Meditation and Ayurvedic Lifestyle. The passion was ignited and she went on to study with other accomplished teachers in Ayurveda and Aromatherapy: Jai Dev Singh, Dr. Claudia Welch, Dr. John Doulliard, Cate Stillman, David Crow, Sarah Crow, WOTE (Wisdom of the Earth), etc...! Candice is passionate about healthy habits rooted in the ancient wisdom of Ayurveda. Her personal journey includes healing from a chronic inflammatory condition which became acute after her husband's suicide in 2014. Candice chose a natural healing path by using the daily rhythms, organic food and aromatherapy rather than pharmaceuticals. Even with her Ayurvedic background,  Cate Stillman's clear and easy format of focusing on one ayurvedic habit per week using modern habit research made a profound impact in Candice's healing journey. Her personal experience, knowledge and wisdom, and powerful format of Yoga Health Coaching allows Candice to help others easily integrate healthful habits into their lives. Candice's 10 week online course is called Body Bliss. She also leads cleanses twice per year and works with clients privately. Connect with Candice on her FB page and get more info on Suzanne's website.  

In this Spotlight Edition of the Yoga Health Coaching podcast, Grace Edison hosts Yoga Health Coach in Training Alec Hurley. Alec teaches yoga in San Diego and is the founder of Higher Self Wellness.  Before Alec began YHC, he was working as a professional chef and noticed his interpersonal relationships and intrapersonal connections fading away. He stepped deeper into his yoga practice and found Yogahealer through the podcast. After listening to the podcast for a couple of years, he decided to join YHC.  When transitioning from the job that he was trained for into yoga health coaching, Alec, like many YHC members, encountered fear and self doubt. He still works through some of that on a daily basis. Through his keystone habits, Start the Day Right and Sitting in Silence, Alec practices being present with himself so that he can grow into this new role and allow space for intuitive guidance. As one of the few men in YHC, Alec sees the cultivation and balance of feminine and masculine qualities, or yin and yang, as the key to bringing more harmony into our culture. Alec cites Gay Hendricks's book The Big Leap as one of the biggest influences on his ability to shift his identity and live a life more in alignment with his values.   What you'll get out of tuning in: How Yoga Health Coaching can allow you to live a life more in alignment with your values. How Yoga Health Coaching provides opportunities for personal growth as well as support for working through growing edges. Why your gender is irrelevant to your ability to coach the habits of Body Thrive.   Links Mentioned in Episode: Yoga Health Coaching Body Thrive Alec's Free Guided Meditation The Big Leap Show Highlights: 4:00 - Alec took his time getting his pilot program off the ground. He wanted to explore his own relationship with the 10 habits of Body Thrive so that he could embody the habits and teach them from an deep, authentic place. Alec's keystone habits are start the day right and sitting in silence, both of which have helped him cultivate deep presence within himself. 5:45 - Fear and self doubt were the two biggest obstacles Alec had to overcome in order to teach his pilot. Alec credits his keystone habit, sitting in silence, with his ability to be fully present and grow into this new role while allowing space for intuitive guidance. Reading Gay Hendricks's book The Big Leap influenced his ability to shift his identity and live a life more in alignment with his values. 8:50 - Alec is one of the few men in YHC. He was introduced to the "feminine" practice of deep listening at a young age, and so was able to recognize that practice as a key component of coaching women. He sees the cultivation and balance of both feminine and masculine qualities, or yin and yang, as the key to bringing more harmony into our culture. 12:30 - Free talks have been a growing edge for Alec, as they are for many yoga health coaches. He uses them to explore his voice and share his understanding of the topics. He pushes himself even further out of his comfort zone by live streaming his free talks. 16:11 - What surprised Alec most about YHC is how open and collaborative the community is. Members are willing to share what is working and what is not working and help each other navigate their growing edges. 18:22 - Alec renamed his program after an insight about the art of connection. His unique approach to teaching the habits supports both physical and spiritual evolution and comes from his deeper connection to his higher self.   Favorite Quotes: "Sometimes we can shift our identity, but those close to us are a little behind. . . . They're used to that person who fit into the box that we created for ourselves or that they created for us." --- Grace Edison "I think it's very powerful. I mean, there needs to be a balance of this masculinity as well as this femininity of being able to just listen and receive deeply what the other person has that they need to express. In my short experience so far as a coach, that's been the most powerful lesson." --- Alec Hurley "Culturally, there's so much . . . there's a lot of stuff that's out of balance. And it takes cultivation of both of these qualities, the yin and the yang, the masculine and the feminine. It takes cultivation and an understanding and a balance of both of those qualities to bring more harmony to our culture." --- Alec Hurley "This is the missing link in the law of attraction: getting the food body, the physical body, in alignment with the earth rhythms so that the negative inner dialogue starts to be reduced and the desires are more easily heard." --- Grace Edison   Guest BIO: Alec Hurley is a yoga teacher in the San Diego area and a life long surfer. He is the founder of Higher Self Wellness and an avid practitioner of ancient wisdom and spiritual practices which he infuses into his public yoga classes and group program "The Art of Connection". He is professionally trained as a Chef and incorporates the ancient wisdom of "food as medicine" into his culinary creations. Currently enrolled in the Yoga Health Coaching program, Alec is adding the practices of personal and planetary alignment into his modern healthy lifestyle toolkit to help shift the collective into deeper states of connection. You can download a Free guided meditation here to get a deeper sense of what he is all about. Alec is also YHC Blogger in 2018, here is his first article https://yogahealthcoaching.com/five-layers-experience-yoga/

In this Changemaker Career Clarity session, Carly Banks chats with Brodie Welch about the value of establishing a tribe. Brodie is a Yoga Health Coach and Chinese medicine practitioner who has recognized how much easier and faster her clients evolve when they are supported by a group of their peers. As a coach, working with a "tribe" makes her job easier and much more enjoyable and allows her to work from anywhere. Motivation wanes quickly. To effect real change, you need the support of like-minded people working toward similar goals - a tribe. Within a tribe, people identify their similarities, establish meaningful connections, and support one another on their personal growth paths. As a yoga health coach, leading a tribe makes your job easier and holds you accountable to your own high standards.   What you'll get out of tuning in: How a establishing a tribe makes your job as a yoga health coach so much easier and much more fun. Why the YHC annual ticket model is valuable to you and your clients. How our tribe helps us overcome our fear of or resistance to identity evolution.   Links: Brodie's website Brodie's Facebook Yoga Health Coaching Have a Conversation Show Highlights: 3:20 - Motivation wanes quickly. Change happens so much faster when you're working with a group of people heading towards the same goal. 5:00 - The YHC annual ticket model allows new coaching group members to immediately drop into an energy of momentum towards growth, and your clients will see the value in that. 6:22 - As coaches, it's so much easier working with a group of people who support and motivate one another. 6:45 - People are craving opportunities to be together, and yoga health coaching lets you provide them with fun ways to do that. 7:12 - Yoga health coaching allows you the freedom and mobility to work from anywhere. 8:20 - Trying to evolve in our externally oriented, yang-addicted culture requires bringing like-minded people together. 9:10 - Women in particular benefit from being part of a tribe because they are able to identify with the circumstances, struggles, and challenges of other women. 10:20 - Being part of a tribe gives us permission to evolve our identity. 11:40 - As a yoga health coach, leading a group holds YOU accountable to your own high standards. 12:50 - As members of the yoga health coaching tribe, we inspire and are inspired by each other.   Your Favorite Quotes "What you do every day makes more of a difference in how you end up feeling than what any practitioner can do in an office visit, no matter how powerful." --- Brodie Welch "We have an 85% better chance of reaching our goals if we do things with a group rather than on our own." --- Carly Banks "I see self care as a feminist issue." --- Brodie Welch "People are able to see themselves in each other, and oftentimes in people with very different life circumstances. --- Brodie Welch Bringing together this group of like minded individuals who have this same set of goals to get to this point of how they want to feel . . . it's just such a beautiful thing. --- Carly Banks Guest BIO: Brodie Welch is a Licensed Acupuncturist, board-certified herbalist, Chinese Medicine expert, holistic health coach, and self-care strategist. She's the founder of Life in Balance Acupuncture in Corvallis, Oregon, where she has been treating patients since 2003. Brodie helps caring, high-achieving, women put themselves on their own to-do lists so they can trade stress and burnout for energy, joy, and vibrant health. She has helped thousands of clients improve their digestion, sleep, and mood; dial in a regular bodymind practice, and step into the next version of themselves. She leads self-care bootcamp programs to help women bridge the gap between what they know they should be doing to take care of themselves and actually doing it. She's also the creator and host of A Healthy Curiosity: the podcast that explores what it takes to be well in a busy world.

Today's episode is a Career Clarity session with Lori McIntosh, hosted by Carly Banks. Lori is a Yoga Health Coach, and an incredibly inspiring person in the YHC community. She works with horses, and clearly has an immense emotional connection to her animals. Watch how emotionally stable Lori is, it's clear that there's a connection in doing something that's bigger than yourself, and having a connection to a species like a horse. Lori offers a lot of tailored trainings for people in the horseback riding communities. She's taken what's offered in Yoga Health Coaching and made it her own, and has come up with some really cool offerings and free talks and things for this riding community. In the podcast today, Lori and Carly talk about deep listening, and how to use it in order to sell their offerings. Tune in to hear how you too can sell your coaching offerings using something that is easeful and productive without sounding like a salesperson.   What you'll get out of tuning in: How to cultivate connection in order to build trust, credibility, and rapport Why you want to practice deep listening How to create space for your future clients during coaching calls Show Highlights: 7:45 - When you really listen, you're being mindful and purposeful. When you practice and perfect deep listening, you become open-minded and nonjudgmental so people can share and see if you're the right fit for them as a wellness coach. 11:20 - 'Data Mind' is when you ask questions to get answers that meet your own agenda and needs. Instead, you want to hold space for them. Focusing on them instead of yourself will allow them to share more of their story. 13:00 - 7% of words, 35% of tone and pitch, and 58% of body language is comprehended. Because of this, it's best to have coaching calls in person or over video if you can, and over the phone if you can't, and really never over email. 15:00 - While your conversation may not lead to an immediate sell of your offerings, it will cultivate the connection your potential clients have with you, making them 'future clients' rather than 'never clients.' 20:00 - People do want to buy things, especially when they make their lives better. By remembering this, we can take some of the pressure off ourselves and know that if our offering is good enough, people will want to buy it. Favorite Quotes: "Sales is not about 'the pitch.' It's about making a connection with the person on the other end of the phone." - Carly Banks "It's learning to be selfless: you're just holistically present in a conversation." - Lori McIntosh "So much of the connection is potentially lost just by stepping back to the phone and then to the email." - Carly Banks "Everyone is a future client." - Lori McIntosh "People love to buy." - Lori McIntosh  

Batool Merali is an Ayurvedic Practitioner, Yoga Teacher, Yoga Health Coach, and she also helps her husband run a hotel business. Amid all this work, she found time to write and publish her first book in 2017. Batool has dug deep into her ancestral heritage and has drawn on some tried and true modern-day self-care tools to create a book which honours ancient wisdom but is grounded in modern-day practicality. The book has so many things to offer. Amongst other things it brings colour and life to many Hindu deities, is an adult colouring book, and, perhaps most importantly, is a journal which cunningly prompts the writer to delve deep and develop life-changing self care rituals. Batool is an incredibly warm and generous human being, and in this podcast she shares with us the difficulties she faced getting her project off the ground. She explains how she was able to stay true to her vision despite technical and creative challenges, and bring her vision to life. This episode is a must-listen for anyone who wants practical advice about achieving a dream writing project from concept to print.   What you'll get out of tuning in: How becoming an author can help you get your message out Why self-care must be at the centre of any big goal How to inspire cosmic consciousness   Link: Dr. Light Miller Batool's Book The Divinity Within Nourish Myself   Show Highlights: 2:30 – When writing a book, start with a mind map. This way, you can organize your thoughts with symbols, words, images, and affirmations. Then, once you organize these ideas, they become sentences, paragraphs, chapters, until they become a full book. 7:30 – Where did you come from? Where do you want to go? What are your goals? So many of us don't know what we want to accomplish, what we're grateful for, what makes us happy. In order to figure out what we want and take steps to achieve it, you can create a vision board for insight. 10:00 – We need family, we need love, we need connection with nature, we need friends, we need community, and we need our planet. But we don't need much more: we don't need the material things we think we need to be happy. 14:45 – Once you have the Ayurvedic daily habits in place, you can create further disciplines, or habits, in order to follow your dharma and achieve success.  23:30 – Everyone teaches habits, and there is nothing competitive about it. You just have to be creative and teach it in your own style. This brings your experience and point of reference into your course.  25:25  – Whatever means we take toward it, whether through journal, or vision, or meditation, we all want to achieve the end goal of bliss, happiness, and joy through enlightenment.   Favorite Quotes: "When you're in connection with the universe, the right people show up at the right time." – Batool Merali "We forget to be grateful, we forget to be thankful, we forget where we really came from." – Batool Merali "We need guidance to connect us back to the divine." – Batool Merali "We lose what's important in our busy-ness." – Rosie Tait        "It's our own twist on what we think will appeal to the people we're working with." – Rosie Tait        "We all want everyone to be living a life of balance and bliss." – Batool Merali   Guest BIO: Batool Merali is a certified Ayurvedic Practitioner and yoga teacher working in the field of alternate and holistic health for over a decade. She guides people to thrive in body, mind, and spirit; releasing the anxiety that is holding them back in reaching their highest potential and to experience the magic of life through personal transformation. Going back to her roots, she found Ayurveda. Health and beauty begins from within. She teaches thoughtful and practical application of yoga, Ayurveda, habit transformation, home remedies to evolve, transform, and lead you to a vibrant, graceful, ageless life. Visit Batool's website and connect with Batool on Facebook.

Annie Barrett, certified Yoga Health Coach from Olympia, WA, USA, raps with Marie Harder, Yoga Health Coaching member from Hamburg, Germany. Marie came to YHC from a background in Media Studies, with a special interest in Women in Media. Annie and Marie discuss Marie's recent success running her pilot YHC course with a spiritually-minded international community of women that included members from three different continents. Marie shares her experience in holding space for identity evolution, and bringing women back to their felt experience and bodies to be able to shift their lives and catalyze their dharma. She shares how self-massage and mediation were the keystone habits for her clients to begin to step into "self-navigation," and how the experience of coaching ultimately taught her how to lean back and trust in her own dharma and evolution.   What you'll get out of tuning in: How the habits of Ayurveda lead women back to their dharma What kinds of questions to ask to bring people to realizations and melt old patterns How to help women come into their bodies   Links:  Marie's website Marie's Facebook  Yoga Health Coaching   Show Highlights: 6:45 - When teaching a YHC course, it is important to not just teach the material, but to tap into intuition: sensing when lightness or focus is needed in your clients can help to create a much more pleasant experience and more effective overall course. 10:00 - Coaching calls are a great place to just be present and hold space for clients to explore their problems and come up with the answers themselves. Asking very simple questions can bring people to felt experiences and deeply held beliefs. 18:00 - Oil massage can help dissolve old patterns and beliefs, and build self-love and self-compassion. By using an affirmation like "I am safe, I am loved" while doing oil massage, we can bring that truth deeply into our very being. 22:40 - Shifting from doing to simply being allows for intuition and inner wisdom to shine through. Creating a way to make meditation a part of daily life is often the most important step for implementing this habit. 25:00 - YHC courses are really all about leading your clients to a place of self-navigation. By starting with the habits, we can lead people to their intuition so they can then lean into their own wisdom. 31:00 - People in the corporate sphere are the ones who currently influence the world. By tapping into this population and helping them step deeper into who they really are, we can help shape the world itself.   Favorite Quotes: "These habits are here to bring us closer to what we are actually here to do." - Marie Harder "As women, it is very easy to disassociate from bodies, and yet the habits are about reclaiming the body and becoming friendly with it." - Annie Barrett "Everything changed, and they didn't want to go back to their lives as they were." - Marie Harder "When they got into integrity with their body, it allowed them to get into integrity with what made them come alive." - Annie Barrett "When we don't offer our course members our own story, our own vulnerability, they often have a hard time experiencing breakthroughs." - Annie Barrett "Just being there with them and holding space - that is a tremendous value." - Marie Harder   Guest Bio: Marie Harder, PhD (Media Studies), is a Yoga Health Coach from Hamburg, Germany. Her background is in theatre, editing, and Systemic Coaching. After burnout, severe disease, and a decade of 'masculine' meditation, she was called to a quest for methods for 'women's liberation' as real, raw, and tangible experience. She found the habits from Ayurveda and Yoga as integral building blocks. In her PhD work, Marie explored cultural 'stories' mainstream movies tell about women's empowerment and disempowerment. And these dynamics are neither created exclusively by 'the system' nor 'men,' and also live in most of us women. In her programs, she teaches how this knowledge around cultural pitfalls, together with tools from Ayurveda and Yoga, can become a lifestyle of embodied presence, integrity, and connection. Marie leads online courses in German and English, and trainings and retreats for women in Germany. Visit Marie's website and connect with Marie on Facebook and Instagram.  

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.    

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  

Hey everybody, it's Carly here from Yoga Health Coaching. I am lucky to be talking to Marcia Wilson, a fellow Yoga Health Coach. And today, we are going to be discussing time management, which is something that is so important to so many. It can be a struggle, especially for Marcia and myself: we are moms, we are building businesses, and we have a lot going on. I love talking to different members of this program about how you get through the day, and how you make all the pieces fit together. So tune in for some brief and helpful tips on how to make the most of the time you have in your day!   What you'll get out of tuning in: Why getting enough sleep may be the next step for upleveling your business How to gain better calendar integrity Why you should block self-care into your calendar   Links: The 12 Week Year Plan Your 2018 with Cate Stillman Have a Career Conversation with Grace Edison David Allen's Getting Things Done Best Self Journal Google Calendar  The Art of Self-Care   Get your Kira Grace's the NEW Romance Strut Collection Show Highlights: 6:30 - Sometimes it simply comes down to getting enough sleep! Sleep can help improve decision-making and mental clarity, and decrease anxiety, overwhelm, and being swayed by negative outside influences. 9:15 - Having a set routine makes decision-making much easier: by establishing a routine to do without thinking about it, you can leave the rest of your decision-making energy for problem-solving in your business. 15:00 - Make sure you only plan the things you know you'll be able to get done in a day. If you always plan too many things than you can get done, you may fall into a cycle of breaking commitments. 19:00 - Use your calendar to create work-life balance: include time for you and create boundaries that protect yourself and your life. You, your family, your friends, and your clients will thank you for it.   Favorite Quotes: "Our ability to make good decisions is limited throughout the day." - Marcia Wilson "That which gets scheduled gets completed." - Carly Banks "You don't want to create a cycle where you're not doing the things you're committing to." - Carly Banks "If I can see what the week is going to be like already, then I start to make better self-care decisions." - Marcia Wilson

Cate Stillman interviews December Yoga Health Coach of the Month, Dana Schwandt. She started Yoga Health Coaching almost three years ago when YHC was barely out of Beta testing mode Dana, a mom of two, and a long-time yoga studio owner, and a successful Yoga Health Coach lives in Germany. One day Dana realized she needed to make some big changes in her career. She found herself asking the question, " Am I going to stand next to a yoga mat and teach or am I going to TALK to people?" Watch the video to find out what happened next as Cate talks to Dana about career evolution and how Dana has come into greater alignment with her body and business integrity.   What you'll get out of tuning in: How to build and nurture your audience, aka ideal clients!! Why Health Coaches should lean into personal career evolution toaccelerate personal identity evolution How to meditate to incorporate both easeful living and identity evolution to get way more done everyday and have fun doing it!   Links: Dana's website Get your Kira Grace's the NEW Romance Strut Collection   Show Highlights: 2:30 - Many Yoga Health Coaches who were previous yoga teachers find that their dharma is interacting with and coaching their students, rather than teaching them in a yoga class. By shifting to more coaching and less yoga teaching, their income streams also shift to reflect their business integrity. 10:40 - While there are many physical signs of healing after teaching these courses, like weight loss, skin clearing, and better sleep, perhaps the most important result is getting clients to love themselves, be at peace with themselves, and find their inner light. 12:00 - You can't have self-acceptance if you don't have body integrity. This is why habit evolution and identity evolution can go hand-in-hand: without one, you cannot have the other. 19:00 - Meditation can help you improve your sense of fulfillment, your relationships, and the integrity of your business by building faith and trust in the universe and what will unfold. 25:15 - Take responsibility for building and nurturing your audience. By doing this, you will make course onboarding much more easeful for your clients and yourself. 29:30 - Allow your career evolution to be a reflection of your identity evolution, and everything will fall into place.   Favorite Quotes: "We find an easier way to the money path, but we also find an easier way to the impact path, and the dharma path." - Cate Stillman "She said "my mom told me the other day 'you look as if you were freshly in love with a guy... '" And she said… "I actually am in love, but with myself."" - Dana Schwandt "Self-love relies on self-care." - Cate Stillman "I use my meditation every morning to drop back into trust and faith." - Dana Schwandt "Building a business is the most awesome identity evolution." - Dana Schwandt "Allow your career evolution to be a reflection of your inner evolution." - Dana Schwandt

Hello Changemakers! Carly Banks is here today with Andrea Catherine. Andrea is a fellow Yoga Health Coach who just wrote an awesome blog on the Yoga Health Coaching website. It's called "The 7 Habits of Highly Ineffective Yoga Teachers," which is maybe the best title I've ever heard. And it's got huge traction: it's in the top ten most read blog posts on the Yoga Health Coaching website! So tune in to here about Andrea's journey as a Yoga Health Coach, her newest blog post and its inspiration, and how she found her voice through blogging, storytelling, and podcasting.   3 Bullet Points How Yoga Health Coaching provides tried and true business structure What to do (and what not to do!) to be a more effective Yoga Teacher How to find your voice through blogging with YHC   Links: The 7 Habits of Highly Ineffective Yoga Teachers  Andrea's website Andrea's podcast: Fearless Self-Love  Get your Kira Grace's Holiday Yoga Dresses   Show Highlights: 3:15 - While many wellness coaches have experimented with different program structures, Yoga Health Coaching provides the structure that seems to work the best for most coaches and their clients. 4:45 - To be a more effective yoga teacher, limit the amount of time you have with your back to your students by inviting them to watch you if you need to demonstrate something. When your students are practicing poses, make sure you have your eyes on them to make sure they are practicing safely. 5:50 - As a yoga teacher, connecting with your students is one of the most important aspects of the practice, so it is essential to create an environment of calm, peace, and ease. 6:10 - Showing up to the mat having already done your practice will help you be present in your body and present for your students. 12:00 - Practicing the habits of Ayurveda are a way to practice self-love, no matter where we are on our journey. Favorite Quotes: "I always start class by asking the students how I can meet them where they are." - Andrea Catherine "When I go to a class, and I leave wowed, these are the things the teacher did to make the experience so much more powerful." - Andrea Catherine "We connect with story. It's powerful." - Andrea Catherine "We can love ourselves where we are, even if we're not in that place we want to be." - Andrea Catherine "We make the decision to do these things for our health from a place of self-love." - Carly Banks

Yoga teaches us how critical our patterns are, not only in shaping our bodies, but also in shaping our destinies. Through the work of habit evolution we can prepare our minds and bodies to do the deeper work of self-understanding. There is a yogic process for personal development, written about in the ancient texts of the Vedas and made actionable for modern life through the process known as The Four Desires, developed by Yogarupa Rod Stryker. In this episode the Yoga Health Coach podcast, Annie Barrett has a conversation with Four Desires Trainer Brooke Bailey about how the habits of dinacharya prepare us to go to new depths of self-understanding and do the work of our unique dharma.   What you'll get out of tuning in: How your daily habits can make or break your dharma How the Four Desires process guides you to live from your life's purpose How syncing your habits with nature will make you more aware of your unique purpose   Links: Four Desires Workshop with Brooke The Great Work of Your Life by Stephen Cope Check out McIntosh Wellness essential oils suggestion by Lori   Show Highlights: 6:00 - What brings you joy? Sometimes this can be difficult to answer if you don't feel good due to stress or other health issues. When you feel better after implementing the 10 daily habits, you can start to reflect on what brings you joy, and thus uncover your dharma. 7:40 - The Four Desires process invites you to ask deeper questions of yourself. The desires are dharma, artha, kama, moksha. 12:15 - People usually come to the Yoga Health Coaching 10 Habits course through artha, the desire related to health. We also tend to look at dharma with another manifestation of artha, our profession, and how we support ourselves economically. 15:50 - Often, we might be clear about what we're doing in the world, but may not have addressed our need for kama, relationships and sensuality. The habits can bring us into deeper relationships with the other categories of desire. 21:00 - The Habits support all Four Desires, and direct us back to wholeness. Get clear about what's important for you to express with a Four Desires workshop. 29:00- Our habits can make or break our manifestation of dharma!   Favorite Quotes: "When we create more energy for ourselves through healthier habits, we can then focus that energy in a way that is in line with our personal dharma." - Brooke Bailey "It is freeing to know that life has our back, and the habits support that understanding." - Brooke Bailey "Wellness encompasses everything, not just the physical and the tangible." - Brooke Bailey "While we are all connected, and we share the same humanity and the same source, we also have a very unique individual spark." - Brooke Brooke "The Four Desires work will strengthen your understanding of how these habits are helping you move forward." - Annie Barrett "Our habits really keep us where we are, or if we shift them, take us to where we want to go." - Annie Barrett   Guest BIO: 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.