What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• Why Isabel started work parties and inner work parties
• How Isabel reconnected with her family roots and found Ayurveda school
• What Isabel’s one-year goals are for her program

Links Mentioned in Episode:

• The Inner Work Book
• Isabel’s facebook
• Isabel’s website
• Have a conversation
• Join Body Thrive last call for 2019 pricing!

Show Highlights:

• Isabel talks about her time living on a biodynamic permaculture farm in Costa Rica
• Isabel describes the sense of calm that comes about for her group members from living the habits
• Isabel describes how and why she started work parties and the benefits of inner work parties
• Isabel and Amy discuss the benefits of the kaizen approach and how it helps build trust in yourself.

Favorite Quotes:

• “I always liked the group sports better because of the social aspect.” – Isabel
•  “I’m also pretty passionate about empowerment and people feeling into their own tools and natural strengths and I feel that in the group we can really offer that… Everyone can support in their ways” – Isabel
• “It’s an opportunity for people to be able to connect to a community outside of time and space.” -Isabel
• “A lot of times we can learn from our own challenges.” -Isabel
• “When we are so in something, it’s hard to see outside of it. But when we get to be that outside, that third person and see it objectively, we can see it in a different perspective and then relate it to our own experience … and it’s just so beautiful!” -Isabel

Guest BIO: 

Isabel Castro is an Ayurvedic Health Practitioner and Yoga Health Coach, originally from California. After getting a bachelor’s in Liberal Studies-Elementary Education, she moved to her parents’ homeland, Costa Rica. Living there on a farm, she reconnected with both her family’s roots and with nature’s rhythms. The adventure then invited her to teach at an alternative high school in New Zealand, and to work on more Permaculture farms.

As she sought more health for the land, she struggled to find that balance within her own body. Her curiosity to get to the root of her own health issues led her to the holistic sciences of Ayurveda and Yoga. They finally drew a fuller picture of her health and dis-ease. They also gave her simple tools to embody more balance and vitality.

Through surviving an abusive relationship, she also experienced first-hand the many stresses women and marginalized groups face. She believes that true healing happens in a relationship, as it allows members to feel a connection through both vulnerability and triumphs. In her groups, she blends art, Ayurveda, Yoga, and habit science. Together, these support digestion of mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual experiences.

She’s passionate about empowering others to take charge of their health through increased awareness, and commonsense tools. Her path is a windy one and she’s grateful for the adventures. Outside of work, you may find her dancing, playing music, Improvising, painting, catching a frisbee, bike commuting, or bumping into someone she knows in downtown Bellingham, WA, where she now lives. Connect with Isabel on her website and facebook.

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• How Colleen’s first YogiDetox changed her life
• How her miscarriage led her to teach prenatal
• Why backbends are so therapeutic
• Why the YogiDetox transformed her daily rhythm
• How teaching 15 classes a week taught her a lot of lessons
• Why she had to stop teaching so much

Links Mentioned in Episode:

• Colleen’s website
• Colleen’s facebook
• Have a conversation
• Discover more about Body Thrive 
• Join October Yogidetox

Show Highlights:

• Colleen shares her experience of her miscarriage
• The lessons from teaching prenatal yoga

Favorite Quotes:

• “What a great place to work through the trauma of miscarriage”
• “How have I evolved as a human being to live with the sun and the seasons and the earth and that I can lean into that, there’s an energy in the day. Leveraging that to my benefit. I’m not trying to be fiery and work and be in a real driven place at midnight. But that would be super common to me. On some level you can, but you’re paying a price.”
• “I don’t care to learn more about asana”
• “The inescapable time boundary, you can’t snooze it”

Guest BIO:

Colleen Hieber lives in Newport Beach, CA when she’s not adventuring through Canada or Mexico on foot or bike! She started YHC 3 years ago and never wants to leave. Her background is in professional dance and yoga teacher training but she’s always been obsessed with how to experience mind-boggling endorphin-gushing health that makes you scream, “It’s good to be ALIVE!!!” Connect with Colleen on her website.

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• How to trust your intuition
• How Carmen incorporates energy healing into her course
• Why Carmen goes to a live event every year, and how she prepares to show up!

Links Mentioned in Episode:

• Carmen’s website
• Carmen’s facebook
• Have a conversation
• Discover more about Body Thrive 
• Yogahealer Live Experience in New York

Timestamps: 

•  1:25- Introduction to Carmen’s story and journey with Yogahealer
•  4:30- Family lifestyle changes that have occurred since her journey as a Yoga Health Coach
• 13:00- How to approach the marketing aspect of the health coaching service

Favorite Quotes:

• “I get to practice asking good questions. They have the answer and know exactly what they need to do, so it feels like I’m connecting them more with their intuition.” -Carmen
• “I just love the depth that my cells have when it comes to surrender now. I just do the work, take the action steps, and be available for what shows up.” -Carmen
• “Teaching the habits keeps me on track, and when the course members watch me live the habits, they are reminded that I’m real.” -Carmen

Guest BIO: 

Carmen is the founder of Spherical Healing and Shine Through Habit Mentoring. As a former schoolteacher she has firsthand experience of the overwhelm and anxiety that can show up when people get lost in all that goes on. She has also witnessed this in her students, their families, and colleagues.

As a conscious woman, she has spent the past 15 years shifting her life to be more aligned with the gifts that she has to offer the world. In the past year, Carmen stepped out of teaching in a classroom and into mentoring and supporting people who are tired of struggling and want to experience easeful living and joy in their lives. By combining her love of self-healing and awareness with her knowledge of Ayurveda, Body Talk, Reiki, and Access Consciousness, she inspires people to unapologetically show up as themselves and shine their light in the world. Connect with Carmen on her website and facebook.

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• Why it’s important to identify and understand your unique gifts as a health coach.
• How a Yogahealer retreat can help you evolve personally and professionally.
• How to use collective leadership to help your coaching groups coalesce.
• How to transition from coaching in person to coaching online.

Links Mentioned in Episode:

• Neve’s website
• Be a coach
• Have a conversation
• Discover more about Body Thrive 
• Yogahealer Live Experience

Show Highlights:

• Neve describes her signature course – “Love Alchemy.”
• Neve gives her best tips for yoga health coaches.

Favorite Quotes:

• “I help other people connect with their spirit. If you’ve lost your spirit, I’m the health coach you’re looking for.” — Neve Grace Fletcher
• “Before, was I connected to my spirit? Yeah, I was. AND I was in conflict with myself because I wasn’t doing everything that I knew I should be doing. Now that conflict isn’t there, so I can just own . . . I am connected to spirit, and I can help you connect to your spirit.” — Neve Grace Fletcher
• “I feel very “me” and able to serve others, which is the whole point.” — Neve Grace Fletcher
• “As long as I’m living the habits, I wake up feeling like the richest girl in the world.” — Neve Grace Fletcher

Guest BIO:

Neve is a wellness provider. She helps others find, revive and connect with their spirit. She does this by guiding groups of people into their potential using the ancient wisdom of Ayurveda, modern habit science and identity evolution. She is passionate about spirituality, sacred sex and relationships. Her health coaching program focus on loving yourself and living a healthy lifestyle in rhythm with nature so you truly connect with yourself and those in your life.

Neve knows we evolve faster as community and her dynamic groups to create a community which makes being healthy fun! Neve publishes fun, informative and interesting videos on her instagram, facebook and youtube channels. She also writes on her blog. She is currently running two courses for individuals focused on health, self-care, and sacred relationships. If you are interested in joining her tribe of dynamic individuals on a growth path reach out to have a conversation!

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.

Following the birth of her second child in 2016, Carly found herself in the depths of postpartum depression. A visit from her long-time friend, Grace Edison, put her on the path to yoga health coaching and transformed her body, mind, and life. Embracing the 10 habits of Body Thrive triggered a chain reaction in Carly’s health and wellbeing.

The key to Carly’s success has been her willingness to show up in a real and authentic way that values connection. She loves that the Yoga Health Coaching model allows her to show up and be vulnerable not only with her YHC colleagues, but also with the people she coaches.

Carly’s transition into coaching started with mentoring first for Grace’s members and then for Cate’s. She loves that she was able to start coaching without having to face her fear of selling right off the bat. By the time she ran her pilot, she had been through Body Thrive six times and felt comfortable stepping into her authority.

Carly’s best advice to new yoga health coaches is to lean back and lead with your heart as opposed to your head. Adopt a beginner’s mindset, always. And don’t forget how far you’ve come already.

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• Why you don’t need to be an expert to be a coach.
• How authenticity and vulnerability can make you a better coach.
• Carly’s best advice for new or prospective yoga health coaches.

Links:

• Check out Carly’s free checklist of simple habits to support your thrive  
• Body Thrive Book
• YHC Have a conversation
• Watch the Masterclass NOW

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Show Highlights:

• 0:00 – Following the birth of her second child in 2016, Carly found herself in the depths of postpartum depression. A visit from her long-time friend, Grace Edison, put her on the path to yoga health coaching and transformed her body, mind, and life. The key to Carly’s success has been her willingness to show up in a real and authentic way that values connection. 
• 6:00 – Embracing the 10 habits of Body Thrive triggered a chain reaction in Carly’s health and wellbeing. She admits she’s still in process and sometimes falls back into old patterns, but she’s developed a mindfulness and curiosity that she didn’t have before. She loves that the Yoga Health Coaching model allows her to show up and be vulnerable not only with her YHC colleagues, but also with the people she coaches. 
• 12:30 – Carly’s transition into coaching started with mentoring first for Grace’s members and then for Cate’s. She loves that she was able to start coaching without having to face her fear of selling right off the bat. By the time she ran her pilot, she had been through Body Thrive six times and felt comfortable stepping into her authority. 
• 15:25 – Carly’s growing edge now is structure and automation. Her hope is that she’ll free up time and money that she can give back to her community. Growth and creating a container for others people growth lights her up. 
• 22:22 – Carly’s best advice to new yoga health coaches is to lean back and lead with your heart as opposed to your head. Adopt a beginner’s mindset, always. And don’t forget how far you’ve come already.

Favorite Quotes:

• “It was just the biggest relief I’ve ever experienced to stop looking outward for the answer, to stop looking for the pill, to stop looking for that supplement . . . that’s supposed to fix you. There is no Band-Aid. At first that was frustrating, and now it’s liberating.” — Carly Banks 
• “I have faced some demons by doing this, and so I can speak to it because I know that it works.” — Carly Banks 
• “You don’t ever stop learning from these little changes. There’s always another evolution around the corner. There’s always another layer of ourselves to be discovered. And there’s always a new horizon to be approached.” — Megan Pintus 
• “It’s been an honor to do a job where I am fascinated by the work. “ — Carly Banks 
• “I feel like you’re helping people see the things they already know about themselves but maybe just don’t believe yet.” — Megan Pintus

Guest BIO:

As a working mom of two, Carly Banks knows how easy it can be to put yourself last. For years she showered herself in “shoulds”, feeling guilty for not taking care of herself, and wishing she had more time.

Sometimes, there just isn’t more time. But there is always a different perspective.

Instead of focusing on how far away she was from big goals and big habit changes, Carly switched her focus to the little goals, and little habits she could create with ease. With this change in perspective, step by step, Carly’s changed her entire life. Connect with Carly on her website, Facebook and Instagram. 

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.

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
• Watch the Masterclass NOW

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.

Alexandra and Cate discuss how the program created ease for her and her students. Having a guru curriculum, or “gur-icula” actually hearkens back to the old model of mentoring, rather than the burn-out-guaranteed model in the West today.

Along with celebrating the structure and Alexandra’s new life of easeful career, Cate and Alexandra discuss the profound power of the habits on family and community.

For those in the health and wellness biz, the discussion on value and profound impact offers insights into connecting with potential clients and helping them better realize what investing in their health can do to their lives, families, and communities.

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• Why you want to balance focus between the business and coaching side of the YHC program
• How to tune more deeply in to the value of the habits for the benefit of your clients and potential clients
• Why you want to focus your wellness programs on community support and encouraging members to speak openly with each other

Links Mentioned Episode:

• Alexandra’s website
• Alexandra’s facebook 
• Watch the Masterclass NOW

Show Highlights:

• 2:13 – Alexandra’s initial training in her wellness career taught her ‘not to sell’, which led to burn-out and struggle to create a sense of community for her peeps.
• 6:28 – Out of her love of community and desire to create that for her students, Alexandra discovered the Body Thrive book club, which evolved into enrollment in the YHC program.
• 9:21 – Old guru communities, “guru-iculas” were community based…when the West adopted new wellness paradigms, they lost that value of community when they integrated those wellness paradigms.
• 15:17 – Cate and Alexandra discuss the differences between YHC 1.0 & YHC 2.0.
• 18:13 – There is no one-size-fits-all model for moving through YHC. Part of fully engaging with the program is deeply listening to how others are incorporating the YHC structure into their process, and being willing to listen to the data over our assumptions and biases.
• 27:19 – When our core people get pulled into the habits, we gain support and traction and culture is transformed.
• 29:57 – As wellness practitioners, a critical part of lead generation is understanding the profound impact of the rippling, life-positive effects of the habits of body thrive.

Favorite Quotes:

• “if you think to the guru communities of your past, they were built around long-term member sustainability. Get to know us, acculturate, become part of it. So the more we can mimic that, but have a financial structure to it that’s sustainable, and gives us career thrive, gives us financial thrive.“ – Cate Stillman
• “Those who feel like they need a little bit more time for themselves in the whole thing, don’t be shy to take that time, because the model works and it doesn’t matter how quickly it works for you, it’s the confidence you want to have with it.” – Alexandra Kreis

Guest BIO:

Since childhood, I have always felt happiest participating in the community in my external life and engaging in spiritual discovery in my private time. In the community, I experience myself through the reflection of others, whilst ensuring that I make time to connect inwards and maintain my roots.

It is, therefore, no coincidence that my professional career has brought me into the deeper layers of self-awareness and discovery, whilst assisting others on their own path.

Connect with Alexandra on her Website and on Facebook page.

In the Yoga Health Coaching evolution, we sometimes experience breakdowns. But those breakdowns are necessary in order to make way for new ways of being. They’re followed by breakthroughs. The YHC community provides the support and connection we need to see our way through the breakdowns. Anna’s activity on the YHC forum has become a keystone habit for that reason.

Anna’s advice to people in YHC is to practice good time management by investing time in learning and setting up systems, such as an annual calendar.

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• How to succeed in Yoga Health Coaching
• How the YHC community provides the support and connection we need to see our way through the breakdowns.
• How connection can be a keystone habit

Links Mentioned in Episode:

• Body Thrive Course
• Body Thrive Book
• YHC Have a conversation
• Anna’s website
• DIY Mindful Habits

Show Highlights:

• 1:00 – Anna lives in Melbourne, Australia, so connecting with the Yogahealer tribe often means waking at 4 am for conference calls. Her success in Yoga Health Coaching is due to her prioritization of connecting with the tribe as well as with implementing systems that support her family, her yoga studio, and her nursing career. Family meetings are key for her as are her practice of the habits.
• 6:50 – Yoga Health Coaching isn’t a cookie-cutter system. Coaches design their courses and systems based on their existing strengths, assets, and knowledge. For Anna, her nursing career and her own personal health struggles brought to light how disempowering the medical system is for patients while providing her with her own unique wisdom.
• 10:25 – While her vata constitution can often send her spinning off course, Yoga Health Coaching has taught Anna to focus first on on the people in her life and in her courses who need her help and knowledge.
• 13:20 – In the Yoga Health Coaching evolution, we sometimes experience breakdowns. But those breakdowns are necessary in order to make way for new ways of being. They’re followed by breakthroughs. The YHC community provides the support and connection we need to see our way through the breakdowns. Anna’s activity on the YHC forum has become a keystone habit for that reason.
• 17:00 – One of the biggest breakthroughs for Anna has been understanding the laws of nature. Breakdowns happen cyclically with the change of seasons, so adherence to the habits is particularly important during those times. It becomes a choice to align with nature, to align with thrive.
• 19:30 – Anna was able to connect recently with her YHC Mastery mastermind group in Australia. Their shared language and context made it seem like they’d always known each other, even though it was the first time they’d ever met in person. Connection with others in YHC is part of our skill building. We learn how to slow time down and deeply listen.
• 24:40 – Anna’s advice to people in YHC is to practice good time management by investing time in learning and setting up systems, such as an annual calendar. That was a growing edge for her that she had to kaizen her way into. Another lesson for Anna was learning what to let go of in order do the things she loved to do most.

Favorite Quotes:

• “When we really start to get that our habits aren’t our own, it becomes so important to model habits, knowing that then it actually starts to build the structure for us to falter. It builds the structure for us to have our times of going inward, our times of falling apart, of breaking down old systems and old identities so that a greater, deeper identity that’s more true and more evolved can emerge.” — Cate Stillman
• “We all are going to go through breakdowns because it’s an old pattern that is breaking down to make way for the new.” — Cate Stillman

Guest BIO:

People who connect with me often say that they enjoy an immediate sense of calm when we begin talking. As a Yoga Health Coach I enjoy the experience of deeply listening and affecting change in people. I cultivate the process of uncovering the root causes of feeling “out of control” with functional daily tasks or managing physical/emotional symptoms. I help people experience a daily rhythm with an easeful approach to time management and to strengthen connection in relationship to self, community and nature. Check Anna’s website and facebook page.