Jenny is a spiritual guidance practitioner who has been teaching Enneagram since 2009. Until now, her work was more of a hobby than a career. There was very little structure to what she was doing, and she always felt like she didn’t have enough time. Now in the second quarter of Yoga Health Coaching, Jenny is learning and applying the YHC business structure to her own signature program.

She’s blending the group model with her one-on-one model and loving it!

With more structure to her weeks, Jenny is excited about her work and feels like she now has the time to do all that she needs to do. Her income has tripled. Her workshops are lead generation for her course. And even though she doesn’t teach the habits of Body Thrive, what she’s learning in YHC is directly applicable to her work: how to coach, how to lead dynamic groups, and how to enroll.

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• How the YHC business structure can benefit anyone offering a wellness course.
• How to adapt the YHC coaching model to your and your clients’ needs.
• How the YHC course provides plenty of opportunities for members to share ideas.

Links Mentioned in the Episode:

• Yoga Health Coaching
• Body Thrive
• Enneawake

Show Highlights:

• 2:00 – Jenny is in the second quarter of Yoga Health Coaching. She is learning and applying the YHC business structure to her own signature program. Jenny is a spiritual guidance practitioner who has been teaching Enneagram since 2009. Until now, her work was more of a hobby than a career. There was very little structure to what she was doing, and she always felt like she didn’t have enough time.
• 6:35 – Through the habits of Body Thrive, yoga health coaches learn how to structure their days to be more easefully productive. Like many wellness pros, Jenny felt drained by one-on-one sessions with clients. In YHC, we learn how to maximize our time and our impact by working with groups.  Jenny is blending the group model with the one-on-one model and loving it! With more structure to her weeks, Jenny is excited about her work and feels like she now has the time to do all that she needs to do.
• 10:20 – Jenny offers a 9-month group course. Her income has tripled. Her workshops are lead generation for her course. And even though she doesn’t teach the habits of Body Thrive, what she’s learning in YHC is directly applicable to her work: how to coach, how to lead dynamic groups, and how to enroll.
• 15:18 – YHC content isn’t limited to the course work. Live calls and an online forum provide plenty of opportunities for members to share ideas.

Your Favorite Quotes:

• “I think it’s totally adaptable. I’ve just been plugging in my thing. It’s been easy for me.” — Jenny Faulkner Campbell

Guest BIO

Jenny has a Psychology degree from Middlebury College. She has been teaching the Enneagram since 2009, and has been Certified and Authorized by Don Riso and Russ Hudson of the Enneagram Institute.

She also has a Certificate in Spiritual Guidance from Rowe Camp and Conference Center. Jenny offers Enneagram teaching and Spiritual Guidance over the phone, via Skype, or in her office in Holliston. Jenny is available to travel and offer a program designed specifically to meet your needs.

Mariko is a yoga teacher, yoga therapist and yoga health coach who has been running her own business since 2006. The habits of Body Thrive have made it easier to strike a balance between work life and home life, between caring for others and self care. By waking before dawn to practice self care, Mariko is able face each day with a positive mindset.

Body Thrive and Yoga Health Coaching help us understand who we are and get grounded in our being. We refine our days and find time for learning and creativity. And there is no endgame. We continue to grow and deepen our practice. We’re not satisfied with “good enough.”

Our goal is “extraordinary.”

If you’re done with “good enough” and ready for “extraordinary,” have a conversation with one of our coaches.

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• Why “good enough” is no longer good enough.
• How the habits of Body Thrive make it easier to strike a balance between self care and caring for others.
• How Yoga Health Coaches find time for learning and creativity while working and caring for their families.

Links Mentioned in Your Episode:

• Yogidetox
• Mariko Yoga
• Yoga Health Coaching
• Awake Living

Show Highlights:

• 2:00 – Since going through Body Thrive, Mariko has aligned her daily activities with the Ayurvedic, or “dosha,” clock in order to maximize her days. She wakes before dawn to practice self care and do some creative journaling. This enables her to face each day with a positive mindset.
• 8:45 – Mariko has been running her own business since 2006. Ayurveda, and particularly dinacharya, makes it easier to strike a balance between work life and home life, between caring for others and self care.
• 11:04 – Having a predominantly vata constitution and having moved from Tokyo to Singapore to London, establishing a daily routine was key to Mariko feeling grounded and focused.
• 13:47 – Body Thrive and Yoga Health Coaching help us understand who we are and get grounded in our being. We refine our days and find time for learning and creativity. And there is no endgame. We continue to grow and deepen our practice.

Favorite Quotes:

• “We talk with Cate [Stillman] about the difference between having a life that’s good enough and having a life that’s extraordinary, and I feel like this Ayurvedic shift is the difference.” — Carly Banks
• “Cate talks about spanda, meaning pulsation. . . . In my mind, balance is like this: an infinity mark. If you go to one extreme, you come back to center, and you go to the other extreme and come back to center. You need both, don’t you? All work is not good. All play is not good.” — Mariko Lavender Jones
• “I believe there is no really final end, you know? It’s always changing. We are always changing.” — Mariko Lavender Jones

Guest BIO:

 Mariko discovered her passion for yoga in 1995. After relocating from Tokyo to Singapore in 2002, Mariko gained her ‘Diploma in Teaching the Science and Art of Yoga’, certified by Svastha Yoga and Ayurveda, under the guidance of Sri A G Mohan. When she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2005, yoga was a key influence in her journey to recovery.

Mariko continues to study under guidance of her teachers and mentors and completed one the most comprehensive level of yoga therapist training at Functional Synergy Yoga Therapy in June 2016, which is accredited by the International Association of Yoga Therapists. Now living in London, Mariko teaches Therapeutic yoga privately, as well as Hatha and Yin group yoga classes, both in English and Japanese. Connect with Mariko on her website and Facebook page.

Body Thrive is the prerequisite to Yoga Health Coaching, and it is the model we learn to coach. Prior to Body Thrive, Colleen was overwhelmed – teaching a lot of yoga and bartending at night into the early morning hours and sleeping til noon. Dinner was often between 9 and 10 pm and getting out of bed in the morning was really difficult.

The first habit of Body Thrive (Earlier, Lighter Dinner or “ELD”) was the hardest habit for Colleen. ELD often involves a whole recalibration of family values and long-held habits and beliefs. To get it to work, she had to change her schedule, which is the case for a lot of us. There were also some emotional and compulsive eating factors that she needed to address. Her conclusion is that there is always a workaround for any of the habits that challenge us.

Each habit is very simple, but emotional issues and self-sabotage  issues often get in our was, which is why we need the support of group. If you suspect you might need the support of a group.

Have you experienced the ten habits? Check out the details here https://bodythrive.com/

Ready to dive in? Time to talk to the team.

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• Why we need to be in a group in order to successfully evolve our habits.
• Why and how yoga teachers are often living out of alignment with what they teach.
• Why the Body Thrive annual pass is so valuable.

Links Mentioned in the Episode:

• Colleen’s website
• YHC Have a conversation
• YogiDetox Fall

Show Highlights:

0:00 – Body Thrive is the prerequisite to Yoga Health Coaching, and it is the model we learn to coach. Prior to Body Thrive, Colleen was overwhelmed – teaching a lot of yoga and bartending at night into the early morning hours and sleeping til noon. Dinner was often between 9 and 10 pm and getting out of bed in the morning was really difficult.

6:48 – The first habit of Body Thrive (Earlier, Lighter Dinner) was the hardest habit for Colleen. To get it to work, she had to change her schedule, which is the case for a lot of us. There were also some emotional and compulsive eating factors that she needed to address. Her conclusion is that there is always a workaround for any of the habits that challenge us.

9:00 – Each habit is very simple, but emotional issues and self-sabotage  issues often get in our was, which is why we need the support of group.

11:15 – Because Body Thrive offers a year long pass, we repeat the course 4 times, giving us an opportunity to learn, rebel, return, and recommit.

12:40 – Because Earlier, Lighter Dinner (ELD) is such a keystone habit, Cate offers a free ELD Challenge.

14:10 – ELD often involves a whole recalibration of family values and long-held habits and beliefs.

16:40 – If you’re interested in learning the habits of Body Thrive or in Yoga Health Coaching, go to https://yogahealer.com/conversation/

Favorite Quotes:

“There’s always a workaround [for Earlier, Lighter Dinner], but the workaround was like a “come-to-Jesus” moment: That schedule does not work. I think that’s the hard truth. You hear people talk about what their schedule is and how they can eat dinner and you’re just like, ‘Well there’s a part of that that’s going to have to change.’ And we dance around it a little bit, but that’s what ends up happening.” — Colleen Hieber

“Every single one of the habits is so simple. . . . The reason we why we have to go through these programs in a group and have all this accountability is because of that emotional bit and that self sabotage bit and that discounting bit and our crazy amounts of justifications we come up with for why we CAN’T do the thing. When at the end of the day, something has to change.” — Carly Banks

Guest BIO

Colleen Hieber. As a professional dancer, I was first drawn to Yoga as a reliable method for physical therapy that I could practice on my own. Eventually, Yoga became so much more – I was hooked to its alignment principles, philosophy, mindfulness, and meditation. I also found a community of people on a similar path to personal growth. I made teaching Yoga my path in life, after experiencing the healing power of this practice, during a particularly traumatic event. I have never looked back. It is the greatest gift to share this practice with students and new teachers.

Currently, I am leading Yoga Alliance approved 200-Hour Yoga teacher trainings at Spectra Yoga in Costa Mesa, CA and 85-Hour Ma Yoga® Prenatal Teacher Trainings internationally throughout the year.

I have a deep and abiding call to bring the teachings of yoga to all different types of people. The lessons of yoga are universal. There is an innate intelligence and inherent power in the human body that is both accessible and transformational. I can give you the tools to dig deep and realize the power of grace. Connect with Colleen on her website.

Alec was trained professionally as a chef. For years, he led a very arhythmic lifestyle working as a chef and managing kitchens. He realized he needed to make a change. He went back to and dove deeper into his yoga practice and started to enjoy life a bit more. Around the time he started teaching yoga, he found the Yogahealer Real Life Show podcast and realized there were changes he could make in his lifestyle that would better support his wellbeing. He started making those changes and it made a huge difference, not only in how he experienced his day to day life, but also in how he was able to show up for others. So he enrolled in Yoga Health Coaching as a way to take control of his career as well as his physiology.

Alec weaves lifestyle lessons into his yoga classes, calling them “warm-ups for life” and reminding his students that while they refine their breathing, their attention, and their awareness during class, the real practice starts when they leave the studio. In this way, he differentiates himself from fitness instructors. The 10 habits of ayurveda that we learn to teach in Yoga Health Coaching assist in the implementation of taking our yoga off the mat. Implementing and automating the 10 habits is even more important for yoga teachers, who are often keeping arhythmic schedules and running from place to place to teach. Post YHC, Alec has been able to design a schedule for himself that helps keep him in a state of ease and flow.

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• How YHC makes you a solopreneur while providing you with a network of colleagues and “coworkers.”
• How yoga teachers differ from fitness instructors.
• How the 10 habits of Ayurveda are the tools that help us live our yoga off the mat.

Links Mentioned in Episode:

• Alec’s webiste
• YHC Have a conversation
• Watch the Masterclass NOW

Show Highlights:

• 0:00 – One of the benefits of being a yoga health coach is that while we are all solopreneurs, we have a network of colleagues or “coworkers” that span the globe.
• 2:26 – Alec was trained professionally as a chef. For years, he led a very arhythmic lifestyle working as a chef and managing kitchens. He realized he needed to make a change. He went back to and dove deeper into his yoga practice and started to enjoy life a bit more. Around the time he started teaching yoga, he found the Yogahealer Real Life Show podcast and realized there were changes he could make in his lifestyle that would better support his wellbeing. He started making those changes and it made a huge difference, not only in how he experienced his day to day life, but also in how he was able to show up for others. So he enrolled in Yoga Health Coaching as a way to take control of his career as well as his physiology.
• 6:35 – Alec weaves lifestyle lessons into his yoga classes, calling them “warm-ups for life” and reminding his students that while they refine their breathing, their attention, and their awareness during class, the real practice starts when they leave the studio. In this way, he differentiates himself from fitness instructors.
• 8:46 – The 10 habits of ayurveda that we learn to teach in Yoga Health Coaching assist in the implementation of taking our yoga off the mat.
• 10:14 – Implementing and automating the 10 habits is even more important for yoga teachers, who are often keeping arhythmic schedules and running from place to place to teach.
• 12:22 – In addition to teaching and coaching, Alec still works as a chef, cooking privately for people, in a more relaxed environment and with a sense of ease that helps keep him in a state of flow.

Favorite Quotes:

• “We can’t really gives something that we don’t have a full and true understanding of ourselves.” — Carly Banks
• “Over time, I’ve been able to create my own schedule to where it supports me in deeper ways. . . . So I have these really key points in my day that help anchor me into what I’m trying to create this day, who I’m trying to serve this day and how can I better support myself along this journey while supporting others.” — Alec Hurley
• “We can be doing our dharma . . . but stress and tension come from being out of alignment with self.” — Carly Banks

Guest BIO:

Alec Hurley is a yoga teacher in the San Diego area and a lifelong 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.

For 38 years, Lynda Spieser worked in facilities management for a national food company, leading a team of 20+ people in a deadline-based, high pressure environment. During that time, Lynda developed an autoimmune condition that manifested in her early 40s. She started to question the way she was living and working and took her first yoga class at the age of 55. The benefits were so profound that within two years, Lynda started teaching yoga so that she could share the benefits with others. From there, she went into yoga therapy training where she was introduced to the Body Thrive book. She read the book in one night and knew that it would shape the next phase of her career.

Lynda markets her yoga health coaching course to women 50 and over because she understands that transitional phase that they’re in and how the habits can help them mitigate that with grace and ease. Her program is called “CLAS: Clear Living Awake Space,” so named because the realization that she left no space in her day for herself was what led her to yoga and ayurveda. But that’s not the case anymore. Now in her 60s, Lynda is living her dharma on her own terms and she’s enjoying her journey!

Are you ready to support the growth of others by stepping into your dharma? Talk to Grace Edison

If you’ve never looked into the Habits of Body Thrive, and structure of the course – it’s well worth your time. Check out the details here

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• Why it’s never too late to change your career.
• How your past experience can lead you to and support you in your dharma.
• Why your niche is what you know.

Links Mentioned in Episode:

• Lynda’s website
• Lynda’s facebook page
• Body Thrive
• YHC Have a conversation
• Watch the Masterclass NOW

Show Highlights:

• 0:00 – For 38 years, Lynda Spieser worked in facilities management for a national food company, leading a team of 20+ people in a deadline-based, high pressure environment. During that time, Lynda developed an autoimmune condition that manifested in her early 40s. She started to question the way she was living and working and took her first yoga class at the age of 55. The benefits were so profound that within two years, Lynda started teaching yoga so that she could share the benefits with others. From there, she went into yoga therapy training where she was introduced to the Body Thrive book. She read the book in one night and knew that it would shape the next phase of her career.
• 5:33 – Upon joining the Body Thrive course, the first thing Lynda realized was how sleep deprived she had been. The difference in the way she feels now compared to how she felt before she started practicing the habits is profound. The skin condition caused by her autoimmune disease is 80% resolved, but it didn’t happen overnight. She’s learned to appreciate slow, small steps, and she’s learned to enjoy the journey.
• 9:20 – The longer we’ve been practicing “bad” habits, the longer it takes for us to get the full benefit of better habits. That’s why Body Thrive is a year-long course with multiple iterations. With each round of the course, growth occurs in both breadth and depth. Although Lynda is over 60 years old, she’s in awe of quickly the body responds to better habits.
• 11:20 – Behavioral science plays a big role in Yoga Health Coaching. Identity evolution is a huge part of Body Thrive. When you start to see yourself differently, you start to behave differently.
• 13:30 – In her previous career, Lynda had been coaching groups. Now she combines the skills she developed there with the skills she learned in Yoga Health Coaching to teach something that is meaningful to her. In fact, we all bring previously developed skills to our coaching, and it seems to many of us that everything we’ve done and learned up to this point has been preparing us to coach the habits.
• 15:37 – Lynda markets to women 50 and over because she understands that transitional phase that they’re in and how the habits can help them mitigate that with grace and ease. Her coaching program is called “CLAS: Clear Living Awake Space,” so named because the realization that she left no space in her day for herself was what led her to yoga and ayurveda.

Favorite Quotes:

• “YHC has very much given me permission to take my time and let it unfold.” — Lynda Spieser
• “Much of what pointed me in the direction of yoga and ayurveda was realizing that I left no space in my day. And I was preprogrammed the whole time. So I was living on the surface of feeling and sensing.” — Lynda Spieser

Guest BIO:

 I experienced overwhelm, a component of which was the corporate environment. Coincidentally, I designed, built and managed corporate office work environments for over 25 years. I am uniquely positioned to see the challenges through both lenses AND to coach individuals to a more spacious place and business to support that shift by enhancing their environments. I understand the pull towards success AND I know that getting there is facilitated by taking care, body and mind, today to be productive and thriving tomorrow.

I am excited to also bring clear living awake space to individuals in their homes. Connect with Lynda on her website and facebook page.