Yoga Health Coaching | https://yogahealthcoaching.com Training for Wellness Professionals Wed, 02 Feb 2022 16:08:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 Awaken Your Hunger, Desire and Focus with Carman Murray https://yogahealthcoaching.com/awaken-your-hunger-desire-and-focus-with-carman-murray/ https://yogahealthcoaching.com/awaken-your-hunger-desire-and-focus-with-carman-murray/#respond Wed, 19 May 2021 16:24:08 +0000 https://yogahealthcoaching.com/?p=23581

How hungry are you? Carman Murray has been feeling hungry, but she doesn’t think food can solve it. Like many people who detox, she has awakened desire, a hunger for more in her life. She is ready for her next identity evolution.

On a Coaching Gym with Cate, Carman discusses her desire to expand her business and hire more people. The result was an illuminating conversation about strategic thinking in business, hiring the right people, and even how urine therapy can help upcycle your energy vibration.

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

  • How to fully nurture yourself
  • How to connect to your deepest desire
  • How to delegate strategically

Links Mentioned in Episode:

Show Highlights:

  • The impact of detoxing on desire
  • Urine therapy and deep nutrition
  • Delegating tasks in order to achieve peak performance

Timestamps:

  • 0:46 Upcycling your own energy vibration
  • 4:12 Hiring and growing your business efficiently 
  • 8:52 Applying Pareto’s 80/20 rule

Guest Bio:

Carman has many roles: entrepreneur, yoga teacher, healer, teacher, mom, rancher, wife, leader, woman. Her why in life is to model for her children that each one of us has the choice to shine our gifts to the world. Her what is working with others and inspiring them to move away from overwhelm, anxiety and stress and move toward ease, thrive, and building a supportive network of people around them – their tribe. She runs her own business where she leads workshops, retreats, yoga classes, dynamic groups and courses.

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Steps for Building New Habits for the Future https://yogahealthcoaching.com/steps-for-building-new-habits-for-the-future/ https://yogahealthcoaching.com/steps-for-building-new-habits-for-the-future/#respond Thu, 15 Apr 2021 00:01:29 +0000 https://yogahealthcoaching.com/?p=23392

In order to become your future self, you will need to develop new habits. But navigating your past, present and future self is not always easy. So much of who we think we are is based on the belief system that was passed on to us. In order to become the next version of yourself, you will need to let go of limiting beliefs and embrace the plasticity in yourself.

There is a rhythm to creating new habits, and it needs receptiveness. Fear will paralyze you and keep you from achieving your goals and becoming the person you need to be to do so.

In this episode, Cate talks about overcoming fear of change, getting rid of outdated versions of yourself, and creating space for your future potential.

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

  • How to orient yourself in time and space
  • How your belief system influences you
  • How to overcome the fear of evolving

Links Mentioned in Episode:

Show Highlights:

  • The fluidity of personality and the role of pulsation
  • The importance of plasticity in yourself 
  • Self-massage and matching the pulsation of the cosmos

Timestamps:

  • 1:20 Getting specific about your vision of the future
  • 14:33 Falling into rhythm and becoming receptive to being
  • 33:10 Creating space and an embodied experience

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Romy Toussaint YHC Q3: “I am enough” https://yogahealthcoaching.com/romy-toussaint-yhc-q3-i-am-enough/ https://yogahealthcoaching.com/romy-toussaint-yhc-q3-i-am-enough/#respond Wed, 30 Dec 2020 21:21:12 +0000 https://yogahealthcoaching.com/?p=22935

Romy Toussaint is a force to be reckoned with. Known to some as “The Energy Queen”, Romy has been a Yoga teacher for over 20 years and has dedicated her life to helping others to live their lives consciously.

Now in her third quarter of the Yoga Health Coaching, Romy is finishing her pilot, and can’t wait to enroll more people. She was able to pay off the course tuition and then some, but admits setting a price was the hardest part of the process.

Listen to the podcast to learn more about how Romy was able to fill her first group and make more money, while automating her processes for future growth.

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

  • How to get comfortable with setting a price for you program
  • How to use mantras when you feel overwhelmed
  • How to overcome the fear of investing in yourself

Links Mentioned in Episode:

Show Highlights:

  • Leading a dynamic group and keeping members engaged
  • Automating your business to grow faster
  • Identifying the drama triangle

Timestamps:

  • 2:35 Setting a price you feel uncomfortable with
  • 8:38 Growing as a program leader
  • 21:34 The power of having skin in the game

Guest Bio:

Romy Toussaint also known as “The Energy Queen” is dedicated to empower those around her to create a complete practice of consciously leading their lives; to manage their energy and become physically strong through all stages of their lives; to connect to their minds; strengthen their spirit so they can do their work in the world.

Romy is a transformational trainer and coach, motivational speaker, and yoga teacher .She is also a professional speaker and presenter on the benefits of mindfulness yoga and wellness. An expert at customizing and facilitating physical activity breaks, and mindfulness sessions at conferences and workshops for all types of groups and organizations.

In love with yoga for over 20 years, Romy has been married to her college sweetheart for 30 years and is the mother of four amazing sons and the oldest of 5 children.

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Yoga Health Coach of The Month Tania Miliken https://yogahealthcoaching.com/yoga-health-coach-of-the-month-tania-miliken/ https://yogahealthcoaching.com/yoga-health-coach-of-the-month-tania-miliken/#respond Thu, 05 Dec 2019 12:47:21 +0000 https://yogahealthcoaching.com/?p=21491 Having Tania Milliken in the Yogahealer community has been a blessing to me and to all of my course members. Tania’s unique perspective on family healing is what drove her to Yoga Health Coaching, and it’s what makes her an effective leader in her communities. In this podcast episode, Tania talks about how she found Yogahealer, why she will always be part of the Yogahealer community, and what’s next for her in her career as a Yoga Health Coach.

 

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

  • How Tania found Yogahealer and her path to personal healing to help her family heal
  • Why Tania is an advocate of community-based programs
  • What healing work Tania does with families with children with diverse neurological needs

 

Links Mentioned in Episode:

Show Highlights:

  • Tania shares her work supporting parents of special needs children
  • Tania and Amy discuss the importance of healing ourselves to help others heal
  • Tania discusses her personal struggles with raising special needs children

 

Favorite Quotes:

  • “It’s so much fun. And it’s been such an honor to be able to be part of the community. And that place and safety that Cate created so that as we’re doing this work and learning the habits and moving into coaching, we get to grow and practice in the safety of a community and with our peers. And everybody is leading and supporting each other.” — Tania Milliken
  • “In Cate’s community, in 17 months, I just had so many breakthroughs in my health, my emotions, communication skills . . . really finding what I really love to do in the world.” — Tania Milliken
  • “When I came to work with Cate, it was in the Living Ayurveda course as a family healer. And after I’d worked with her and done the Body Thrive program, I HAD to become a health coach because there are so many people who need the services that Cate’s offering.” — Tania Milliken
  • “I didn’t want Cate’s program [Living Ayurveda] for me, but I could see some of the health and wellness benefits for my kids . . . and so I joined her family healing program. And in doing so, of course, figured out that there were other things that I also needed to be doing, that there was a level of self care I thought I was doing that I wasn’t. And inadvertently, I’d become part of the problem.” — Tania Milliken

 

Guest BIO: 

Tania Milliken is a Certified Yoga Health Coach, with 20 years of experience as a family Support Specialist, who supports families with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder and similar Neurodevelopmental Disorders such as ADHD & Autism, when they are ready to focus on finding health and ease in their daily lives.

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How to Evolve Culture and Get What You Want https://yogahealthcoaching.com/how-to-evolve-culture-and-get-what-you-want/ https://yogahealthcoaching.com/how-to-evolve-culture-and-get-what-you-want/#respond Tue, 25 Dec 2018 11:56:27 +0000 https://healthcoaching.wpengine.com/?p=20821 In this Changemaker Challenge conversation, Cate chats with the members of Body Thrive about one of the “Ground Rules for Dynamic Groups.” Good communication is the bedrock of dynamic groups. When it comes to communication, most of us gravitate towards either care or candor. In a dynamic group, we learn to consciously practice both care AND candor. Care creates a feeling of trust and support in a group. By contrast, candor can feel very edgy, but it’s necessary for growth

Our habits are not our own. Our habits are cultural or micro-cultural. And our habits may or may not be the habits of Body Thrive. When we start to recognize that, we realize we have opportunities to practice communicating with care and candor in our micro-cultures. Words carry vibration and energy. When we communicate with care and candor, it carries far beyond ourselves. We evolve culture.

 

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

  • What is the criteria of a good ground rule.
  • Why communicating with care and candor is a key ground rule for dynamic groups.
  • How communicating with care and candor can help us evolve culture.

 

Links Mentioned in Episode:

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Show Highlights:

  • 0:00 – Communicate with Care + Candor is one of the “Ground Rules for Dynamic Groups” that we use in the Yogahealer courses. Care creates a feeling of trust and support in a group. By contrast, candor can feel very edgy, but it’s necessary for growth.
  • 3:40 – Our habits are not our own. Our habits are cultural or micro-cultural. And our habits may or may not be the habits of Body Thrive. When we start to recognize that, we realize we have opportunities to practice communicating with care and candor in our micro-cultures. The holidays are a prime opportunity to do that.
  • 9:50 – The ground rules don’t have to be perfect, but they have to be good enough to help you start to change your behaviors. With regard to communicating with care and candor, we can change our behavior from complaining to others about a problem over which they have no control to directly communicating a problem, with care and candor, to the person or persons who CAN address the problem.
  • 11:10 – Words carry vibration and energy. When we communicate with care and candor, it carries far beyond ourselves. We evolve culture.
  • 13:38 – One way we can communicate with care and candor is to ask for what we need with specificity.

 

Favorite Quotes:

  • “When we talk about evolutionary groups and we talk about dynamic groups and we talk about these guidelines, they’re not just words at all. They’re simply words that are pointing toward very strong potential truths. And it’s really next-level living. It’s like the rulebook of higher level living.” — Cate Stillman
  • “These ground rules don’t have to be perfect. They have to be good enough to help you change your behaviors.” — Cate Stillman
  • “If we go back back to the ground rule that there’s an edge to candor and there’s an edge to care . . . something shifts. And that shift is not for our benefit only. . . . It’s so much beyond us. . . . We’re actually evolving culture.” — Cate Stillman
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Connecting to Your In House Doctor https://yogahealthcoaching.com/connecting-house-doctor/ https://yogahealthcoaching.com/connecting-house-doctor/#respond Thu, 20 Sep 2018 13:39:16 +0000 https://healthcoaching.wpengine.com/?p=20288 We have been taught to look outside of us for health answers.

We are supposed to go see a trained professional, get a test, a pill, a treatment from someone educated and up on the latest scientific studies and breakthroughs. They know how to help us. We take our aches and pains with the best descriptions we can muster and wait for their diagnosis.

The idea that we each have a lot of control over our health and can respond to these aches and pains with guidance from our own bodies can be dismissed swiftly and easily both by our own brains and by the health care systems around us.

Consider that the body has a greater ability to heal than anyone has ever allowed us to believe. As we practice yoga, ayurveda, and other embodying disciplines, we notice an experience that this body has a lot of wisdom that is is trying to share, and it just might have something to contribute when it comes to its own healing.

What if we could sync into inner wisdom and connect to an all knowing doctor who could help us steer clear of pitfalls in our health? What if we could find our personal in-house doctor, willing to tell us everything that we need to know, if only we are able to hear what it has to say.

Tapping into this can be better than a pill. Ownership of this connection creates confidence and independence. A high all of its own, and I want to share with you how I tap in.

The practice starts with an attempt to filter the cultural message enough to allow our body truth to be heard. We think we will need to coax this wisdom out of our bodies, but in reality, when we are ready, it is effortless, because this inner doctor is just as eager to connect with us.

Here is the formula that I use to connect us to that all powerful healing place.

 

The 4 Steps To Finding Your In-House Doctor

1. Tune In

Simply take a moment to shift your focus inward. This is one of the 8 limbs of yoga called Pratyahara. It means to withdraw the senses, like a turtle going into its shell.  We start here, intentionally taking the time to drop inward.

Let me use an analogy: Imagine going into a dark room and needing time to let your eyes adjust to the new level of light.  Allow yourself time to take a breath and give it a minute. Let your eyes adjust to this metaphorical dark room. Begin to see outlines of things and get a sense of what else is in the room with you.

This happens when you tune inward, when you withdraw the senses. You notice your breath, the movement in parts of your body, the feel of the air on your skin. More and more you open up to subtle feeling.

THIS is tuning in. It is our first step.

2. Listen

Once you are tuned in, you have no other job but to listen. The outside world gets quieter and you can hear discerning messages from your body.  Are you tense or relaxed, in pain or feeling good, is your breath smooth or jittery, deep or shallow, full or incomplete?

Your focus becomes just one of listening and acknowledging the status quo of the body.  Donna Farhi in “The Breathing Book” refers to this as Inner Literacy saying “as we become more internally literate, we start to access our own internal doctor who can warn us of trouble before it becomes serious”. Develop your understanding of the messages coming from within your body and you add whole new and important literacy tool to your wellness quest.

Listening is as easy as stopping for a moment, taking a deep breath and ask yourself “What do I need right now?” Then allow your body – not your brain – to answer the question. You will be amazed at the simplicity of the request. More often than not the body is asking for just a few moments of self care. As easy as getting a drink of water, taking a pee break, getting up to stretch, closing your eyes, putting a pair of socks on your cold feet.

Honestly, listen to the small stuff and you wont need to hear it yell big stuff at you.

3. Respond

Choose your reaction to these sensations astutely.  What is your body telling you that it needs? Is it possible to not override these feelings with your bossy brain?

This is common, when our ego brain gets a message that it doesn’t like, it rushes to rationalize and negate. There can be a loop in our brain that is always pushing away the truth of how we are doing, stopping us from actually listening to what our body is trying to tell us. This becomes a huge opportunity to notice our own inner critic and begin to quiet it.

In this place we are usually not acknowledging our body messages, and it becomes easy to say “I don’t know what is wrong with me”. In Deborah Adele’s “The Yamas and Niyamas” she points out that saying “I just don’t know what to do” is dodging something that feels hard to accept, and that “more often than not, we know what to do: the cost of our realness just seems too high at the time”.

This is HUGE.

How often have you felt like you need to be doing something different, but don’t act on that impulse because it is scary?

Our response to our self needs to be one of compassion, grounded in respect and truth. When we tune out the messages of our body because it ruffles the status quo of our lives, we create a ripe arena for dis-ease.

Your response to the messages your body offers, is your opportunity to offer nurturance, to create strong communication lines to the vitality and wisdom of your body.

As you listen you are fostering an important ability, an increase in literacy if you will. As this ability grows you find that your response can be more and more accurate, leading you to healing in every choice you make.

Can I put the words ability and response together for a moment? Switch which one is first? The new word is Response-AbilityResponsibility.  WHOA. What we are doing is developing your personal Responsibility. Freakin’ Cool.  

4. Feel the Rewards

So you have tuned in, listened, responded, and now it is time to absorb the appreciation from your body.

This step may be the most important. You must allow yourself some analysis time at the end of your practice to notice the results. This is the time that you let all the inquiry outcomes rise up to a conscious level.

Let your whole system make note of the effect of the stimulus you applied or the question you considered, create positive neuromuscular pathways, and efficient brain-body connections.

In the book  “Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment Calm and Confidence” by neuropsychologist Rick Hanson describes how we can create self directed neuroplasticity toward inner strength as you “activate mental states then install as neural traits”.

Each time you tune in, listen, and respond, you will notice how the choices you made are affecting you, a process of integration is going on in your background physiology, creating the foundation for the next version of yourself to arise.  As Rick Hanson states “You turn every day good experiences into good neural structure”.  Hardwiring new crucial patterns into your brain body connection.

 

Connecting to Your In House Doctor

Connecting to Your In House DoctorPracticing the connection to your in house doctor makes it stronger, and as you connect you increase your response-ability, and sync into rhythms natural to your body.

This process is sped up when you start to apply Ayurvedic habits through the 4 step filter. Your body will eat up positive choices, your inner doc cheering your every circadian choice.

Your body will get really blunt and obvious about bad choices. In fact, the opportunity of tuning in, listening, responding, and feeling the rewards is like practicing science experiments on yourself. Testing theories and seeing your results. The very definition of Ayurveda is the science of life. Interesting isn’t it?

Use this 4 step process in your yoga, meditation, or ayurveda practice as a filter to check to see your body’s reaction. Every time your body will communicate to you how the practice created change in your body.

The more you practice the more you notice, when you ‘Feel the Rewards’ you will see yourself enjoying the dividends of a healthy vibrant fulfilled life.

Icing on the cake!

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How to get to zen-topia. Troubleshooting the mind when it is time to take a seat. https://yogahealthcoaching.com/get-zen-topia-troubleshooting-mind-time-take-seat/ https://yogahealthcoaching.com/get-zen-topia-troubleshooting-mind-time-take-seat/#respond Tue, 17 Jul 2018 07:44:41 +0000 https://healthcoaching.wpengine.com/?p=19823 So you sit down for your meditation practice after a long day with the hopes that your mind will quiet down. After a few moments you quietly ask yourself, Is it even possible right now? Your inner dialogue continues. Is that possible? I don’t think it will ever stop.. I should have ordered the fish tacos, they looked really good. …How long have I been sitting here?… If you have ever tried meditation then you may have come across a similar inner dialogue at some point. I know I have and still do! Meditation yields many benefits but can be really hard to have as a daily practice. Here are a few tips on what I have learned along my path to cultivating my inner stillness and becoming one who meditates.

There are many paths to this place of stillness, but first of all, what is stillness? To the beginner, it may seem like the elusive state of mind that you read about in the ancient spiritual texts. To the novice, it may be a glorious state of calm that is reached every so often. To the seasoned meditator, it is a state of being, the state that scientists of the highest caliber are studying.  So how would one turn off the mind and find their way into this place of stillness? Well for starters the mind is a thinking machine. And behind this thinking machine are the subtle layers of clarity. Some lineages of meditation have called these layers the “clear light mind” while others have referred to it as the “seat of the observer”. This is the place of stillness beyond your senses, void of thoughts, emotions, and beliefs.

Our minds love to wander, don’t they? Sometimes you may feel that you can’t sit still, or your mind won’t stop. This could be from stress, overwhelm and/or not processing a portion of your inner dialogue, emotions and experiences. That was my experience.

So how does it work and how can you learn to experience this state even when the mind is reflecting a relentless hungry child? Let’s explore two practices I have adopted to help continue a meditation practice and cultivate inner peace.

 

Two meditative practices that help you find your zen.

  1. Mind wandering.

I have discovered that during my day, my mind becomes overwhelmed and then fatigued. Meditation is a great place for me to find some rejuvenation from this fatigue, and this is my strategy to enhance the practice. Through trial and error, when I sit on my cushion to meditate, the mental fatigue would keep my mind very active and easily distracted. So I tried pulsing between focus and freedom  — focusing my mind for as long as possible and then allowing it to wander. I liken this to exercising a muscle, it is the strengthening and releasing that builds strength and resilience.

This is a particularly easy way to zentopia and a very popular route to spark creativity and thinking outside of the box. If you find yourself trying to hard or having a hard time staying focused, mind wandering can be a great tool to troubleshoot an overactive mind.  It is like letting the dog off the leash in a park. After running, sniffing and exploring every scent and corner of the park, it calms down and begins to rest in the tranquility of being.

Life can be very heavy and stressful, so inviting lightness into your practice can leave you feeling refreshed to keep you coming back for more. What I have found during those times the mind just wants to lick every thought and eat every sensation, let it! Let it go for a few minutes and tire itself out. You will see that after a few minutes of running wild it is much easier to go deeper into your inner zen-den and find the calm seat behind the chaotic mind.

     

 

 

  1. Explore the senses.

Your senses are interpreters of your world. When overstimulated they can become dull and, well, desensitized. The act of moving your awareness through the senses helps to calibrate the senses and calm the mind. To do this, grab a timer and set it for 2-3 minutes. During that time fix your attention on one sense. For example:

  • When you are fixed on the sense of smell, focus on the smells around you and notice them as they are. Experience the smell or lack thereof without labeling or judgment.
  • Explore the different sounds happening from all directions. The sounds near to you, and far from you, receiving them as they come.
  • Soften your gaze on a stationary object and look at it. Without trying to focus on the object itself, continually let go of the need to focus and relax the eyes.
  • Feel all of the things touching your skin, clothes, floor and even air temperature. Feel the contrast between all of the sensations. For example, cool and warm, soft and firm.
  • Notice the tastes in your mouth. Without preference to change anything, accept the flavors as they are in the moment.

Technically this is an alternating concentration practice and is a great warm-up for the longer single-pointed focus practices. It is highly effective because it promotes concentration while calming the senses and organs of action.

While a meditation technique such as single-pointed focus (or dharana) is a powerful step along your path to inner peace, these two practices can be helpful strategies when your meditations could use a little help. It is still a great idea to find a quiet time with the intention to focus the mind. The practice of focus and concentration helps find balance in the overstimulating world we live in and helps to cultivate strong mental focus, presence and bodily awareness.

I think of meditation as shifting to be a state of being more than a practice itself, so enjoy your journey to zen-topia and choose a meditative practice that suits your needs in the moment.

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When Our Ego Keeps Us From Connection + Growth https://yogahealthcoaching.com/ego-keeps-us-connection-growth/ https://yogahealthcoaching.com/ego-keeps-us-connection-growth/#respond Fri, 13 Jul 2018 08:53:24 +0000 https://healthcoaching.wpengine.com/?p=19820 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:

 

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.

 

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Trauma, Turmoil and Evolving Through Transitions https://yogahealthcoaching.com/trauma-turmoil-evolving-transitions/ https://yogahealthcoaching.com/trauma-turmoil-evolving-transitions/#respond Wed, 16 May 2018 12:23:03 +0000 https://healthcoaching.wpengine.com/?p=19596 In this Changemaker Challenge conversation, Cate and Grace discuss trauma, turmoil, and evolving through transitions as a wellness pro. One week post-op major abdominal surgery, Grace Edison is glowing! Prior to her surgery, Grace made sure that her Body Thrive habits were solid, especially the ones she would be able to do post-op. Professionally, there wasn’t much to be done. Her annual planning was complete, and the structure and support for her courses was already in place. The YHC business model allowed Grace to relax and focus on what was most important – healing. When we put the “pro” in wellness pro, as we do in Yoga Health Coaching, it’s important for us to model ease and flow no matter what life throws at us. Trauma, turmoil, and transition open the liminal space, a space beyond the threshold of our own patterns and programming, that allows opportunity for new insights and growth. The habits of Body Thrive provide us with a groundness that leaves us much more available to our experience. Yoga Health Coaching creates a lifestyle and structure that allows us to turn trauma, turmoil, and transitions into opportunities for insight, growth, integration, and evolution!

 

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

  • How to turn trauma, turmoil, and transitions into opportunities for insight, growth, integration, and evolution.
  • How the habits of Body Thrive help us thrive through trauma.
  • How Yoga Health Coaching is more than just a business model.

 

Links Mentioned in Episode:

Show Highlights:

  • 0:30 – One week post-op major abdominal surgery, Grace Edison is glowing! Prior to her surgery, Grace made sure that her Body Thrive habits were solid, especially the ones she would be able to do post-op. Professionally, there wasn’t much to be done. Her annual planning was complete, and the structure and support for her courses was already in place. The YHC business model allowed Grace to relax and focus on what was most important – healing.
  • 4:30 – When we put the “pro” in wellness pro, as we do in Yoga Health Coaching, it’s important for us to model ease and flow no matter what life throws at us. For Grace, that was simply a matter of getting really clear on what needed to be done while she convalesced. Because the structure and support that provides her ease and flow was already there, she was able to relax and enjoy a sense of relief while she recovered.
  • 7:54 – Grace’s keystone habit through her convalescence has been Earlier, Lighter Dinner. Start the Day Right is a close second, particularly with regard to drinking water and pooping, which is a common problem after surgery. She’s also practicing self massage. She’s enjoyed time for reflection and deeper integration.
  • 10:35 – Trauma, turmoil, and transition open the liminal space, a space beyond the threshold of your own patterns and programming, that allows opportunity for new insights and growth. Case in point, Grace is already thinking about how she can help other people prepare for and recover from trauma.
  • 15:55 – As we engage in a growth journey and step deeper into dharma, we require a stronger energetic container. The habits of Body Thrive help us ground and build that stronger container that can withstand higher and weightier vibration. On a growth path, we’re in transition a lot more, yet with that stronger container, that groundedness, we’re much more available to our experience.
  • 19:55 – Yoga Health Coaching is more than just a business model. It creates a lifestyle and structure that allows us to turn trauma, turmoil, and transitions into opportunities for insight, growth, integration, and evolution.

 

Favorite Quotes:

  • “I’m seeing a whole other level of how Body Thrive and how Yoga Health Coaching allowed me to move through a situation or experience that could have been a break down and could have been very traumatic, and it really was the complete opposite.” — Grace Edison
  • “It’s so funny to think about how . . . really learning a proper business model was going to help me go through major surgery. . . . But it isn’t just a business model, Cate. . . . It’s the lifestyle and the structure and the conversations I was able to have with my family and how present I’ve been able to be through all of this.” — Grace Edison
  • “Get awesome at transitions by getting super grounded, and expect miracles with trauma.” — 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.

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Community Leadership: The Next Evolution on the Yoga Health Coaching Path https://yogahealthcoaching.com/community-leadership-next-evolution-yoga-health-coaching-path/ https://yogahealthcoaching.com/community-leadership-next-evolution-yoga-health-coaching-path/#respond Thu, 03 May 2018 05:00:54 +0000 https://healthcoaching.wpengine.com/?p=19555 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:

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’s – As a Certified Yoga Health Coach and the Founder of Embody Ease and the Easeful Living Community, Rachel leads women on a yearlong journey to dissolve perfectionism and embody daily habits that promote clarity, ease, and inner connection. She is a wife, mom, and lover of wild places and contributes to her local community as a yoga teacher and teacher trainer in Prescott, AZ she also serves as the leader of the Coaching Team at Yogahealer. Check her website and facebook page.

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