Yoga Health Coaching |

Coach of the Month: Monica Biasiolo

Cate Stillman — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 14:04:07 +0000

For Monica Biasiolo Yoga Health Coaching changed everything. Suffering from a chronic illness, Monica refused to fall into victim mode and decided to invest in her health by joining the Yogahealer community. She experienced firsthand what changing your habits can do for your health, and brilliantly transitioned from student to mentor, leading her own health coaching business.

Monica believes difficult journeys can be done with ease and believes that anyone can start healing themselves and find their dharma while they are at it.

Listen to the episode to learn more about Monica’s inspiring journey from self healer to professional health coach.

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

How to get out of victim mode
How to motivate people to change
How to be patient with yourself

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Show Highlights:

Healing yourself from a chronic illness
Experiencing the habits in your body
From self healer to professional healer

Timestamps:

1:26 Finding your dharma from a place of discomfort
7:59 Transforming the difficult into easy
15:07 The journey from student to mentor
25:34 Being successful and experiencing ease

Guest Bio:

Monica is a certified Yoga Health Coach who loves to give back to the Yogahealer community. Being a Body Thrive Assistant first and a YHC peer mentor, an opportunity to give back to the community that changed her life.

Monica is also a Forrest Yoga and Mindfulness teacher. She recently moved back to Rome, her hometown, after living as an expat for 20 years in four continents. Traveling with her family, visiting new places, and learning from different cultures is what her kids and herself love. In her free time, she likes to read books, paint, use her hands to create handcrafts or recycle materials to make a piece of art, dance with the music of the 70 and 80 and walk in nature.

Monica has two grown children (a son 23 years old and a daughter 21 years old) and a son 9 years old. Her identity evolution is centered on nurturing herself so she can be present for her kids, lead with integrity and enjoy good connections in her relationships. She is responsible, always ready to listen and help others, and loves to honor her commitments.

Her growing edge is time management and project management so she can work more productively and have free time to do things she loves with her family and learn new tools for my identity evolution. The role of leadership of YHC empowered Monica and taught her how to connect with people at a deeper level to help them manifest their dharma.

Responding to Client Feedback with Paige Bradley-Pecoul

stef — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 20:45:10 +0000

Paige Bradley-Pecoul is in her second year of Yoga Health Coaching, and getting ready to enter her second year leading her own coaching program. After surveying her first year members, she got a couple of negative reviews and is struggling with them.

In a conversation with Cate, Paige opens up about how she feels about negative feedback and talks about how to integrate feedback into her program and develop a co-creating system.

Listen to the episode to learn more about collaborative intelligence, utilizing liberating structures, and the importance of deep listening.

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

How to improve your systems
How to integrate feedback
How to start co-creating

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Show Highlights:

The effectiveness of negative feedback
Tapping into Collaborative Intelligence
Automating email reminders

Timestamps:

1:37 Improving systems based on member feedback
10:12 Liberating structures and 1-2-4-All
20:17 Teaching vs. Coaching
26:17 Getting people into your coaching gyms

Guest Bio:

Paige took her first yoga class from Alvina Haverkamp in 1998. She studied closely with her for many years and went on to pursue a teaching certification in 2004. Paige is a graduate of the Temple of Kriya Yoga Home Study program, the Swan River Yoga Advanced Teacher Training program, the Ananda Seva Mission Yoga Therapy program, and Judith Lasater’s Experiential Anatomy Program and Back Care Course. And has over 500 hours of yoga training and taught over 2000 classes.

Lately, Paige has been drawn to work with individuals, and focus on stress relief and the kind of deep nervous system reset that is required when living in such a chaotic world.

In addition to being a yoga educator, leading weekly ongoing classes, annual workshops, and trainings. Paige is a mother to 3 and knows what it means to be a caretaker and the importance of filling the well with self-care practices.

Coach of the Month: Jessica Drago

Cate Stillman — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 23:42:54 +0000

Intermittent fasting is becoming increasingly popular, but for all the yogis and yoginis out there intermittent fasting is not a new trend. In Ayurveda, we call it space eating and it is one of the pillars for a healthy life. Recently science caught up with the 4 millennia wisdom behind space-eating, and several studies have supported the health benefits of this practice.

For the past month, Cate has been joined by several members on the Yogahealer Challenge, a fast track program, specially designed to help people overcome mediocrity to become an exceptional person and lead an exceptional life. How? By reviving the habits that make us smarter and more vital humans, such as Intermittent Fasting.

Listen to the podcast to learn more about the Yogahealer Challenge, the benefits of intermittent fasting, and what foods you should be eating when breaking your fast.

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

How to communicate clearly online
How to develop a relationship with clients
How to make the most of your skillset

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Show Highlights:

The loneliness of leadership
Overcoming money trauma
Evolution and easeful living

Timestamps:

1:15 Communicating directly with your ideal client
5:16 Sales and developing relationships with clients
10:40 Understanding different communication styles
16:18 Utilizing your unique skillset

Guest Bio:

Jessica’s journey started in 2009 with an attempt to nurture a rock-climbing injury. While taking yoga classes, she experienced an endless adventure towards self-awareness aligned with nature’s rhythms. Having suffered and recovered from various sports injuries, Jessica has an understanding of how to offer what the body needs to recuperate.

In the last decade, she has completed workshops certifying for Physical Therapy Aide, Massage Therapy Aide, Certified Nursing Assistant, Yoga Heath Coaching, and over 200 hours of yoga teacher training. Coupling her love of habit evolution and body mechanics, she is passionate about coaching others through Ayurvedic principles towards their unique pursuit of an active and balanced lifestyle.

Outside of coaching, Jessica either spends family time in nature with her loving partner and son, creates wildcrafted art, tends to her plants, or dances.

Following Your Bliss with Michelle Gross

Cate Stillman — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 19:10:42 +0000

As the full-time director of an international development non-profit, Michelle Gross felt she couldn’t fit the Yoga Health Coaching program into her busy traveling schedule. But that all changed when she watched a Masterclass by Cate, and experienced the urgency of stepping into her zone of genius.

Armed with a strong “why” and supported by the YHC community, Michelle has been able to fill and run her pilot successfully in a few months, despite the fact she didn’t have an established wellness business.

Michelle is focused on getting her members to overcome social conditioning and achieving beauty from the inside out. Listen to the podcast to learn more about how Michelle is leading a culturally diverse group, her ambition to have a spanish speaking course and overcoming self-doubt.

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

How to step out of your comfort zone
How to keep your motivation
How to coach different cultures

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Show Highlights:

Dealing with course members who are stressed
The benefits of having an accountability partner
The importance of the culture that surrounds you

Timestamps:

1:48 Having the courage to step into your zone of genius
8:28 The stagnant feeling of unworthiness
14:29 Overcoming social conditioning
23:33 Adjusting your course to different cultures

Guest Bio:

Michelle Gross is a Yoga Health Coach and Trauma Informed Yoga teacher based in Orlando, Florida.

Michelle guides dynamic groups of people through transformative change using the habits of Ayurveda. She specializes in guiding groups and getting things done in a fun and positive way. She also manages an international development program, Sharing Smiles.

Fast Track to Pilot with Emily Glaser

Cate Stillman — Wed, 16 Dec 2020 19:46:04 +0000

As a clinical practitioner of Ayurveda, with a background in clinical nursing, Emily has dedicated her life to bringing together Eastern and Western medicine. To do so, she has split her time between her center in New Mexico and India. But that was before the pandemic.

Having to close her center due to COVID, Emily decided to start Yoga Health Coaching and pivot online. She has been on the fast track of YHC, transitioning her business to the new model.

Listen to the podcast to learn more about the support Emily has found in the YHC community, how she is organizing her business and learning how to sell high end tickets.

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

How to pivot your existing wellness business
How to sell a high end coaching ticket
How to brainstorm your course bonuses

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Show Highlights:

Bring East and West together
Organizing your mind with the Lead the Journey Course
Helping your members make lasting changes

Timestamps:

2:55 Splitting time between New Mexico and India
11:49 The dynamic energy of having a community
17:51 Implementing YHC in an existing business
26:53 Vata overload and overwhelm as a Coach

Guest Bio:

Emily is the founder of Agni Ayurveda, in Santa Fe, NM. She is a clinical practitioner of Ayurveda specializing in Panchakarma cleansing, and a wisdom keeper of Vedic Astrology. Emily was trained by mystical doctors and healing masters who guided her to fine tune her capacity to perceive the many levels of reality that make up our human experience. With a background in clinical nursing, Emily is continually engaged in the process of learning and personal development. Her whole-being enrichment approach to healing bridges the East-West paradigm. She teaches and lectures internationally and currently resides part of the year in Vaidyagrama Ayurveda Healing Village, in Coimbatore, India.

Use a Facebook Group to Find Future Clients

Cate Stillman — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 20:11:24 +0000

Jenn is having trouble managing her Facebook group. As a seasoned YHC member, Jenn has been successfully running a high end coaching course, but not without its struggles. Lately, managing her Facebook group has become time consuming, with few leads transitioning into sales.
But why are people on Jenn’s Facebook group hesitating to start being coached by Jenn? And how can you effectively balance your marketing strategies and enrollment with your coaching?
Listen to Jenn talk to Cate about how to get a systematic flow of leads towards the end result, how to transition people from Facebook to email, and much more.

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

How to get the right people into your facebook group
How to convert your facebook leads into sales
How to have more impact with less effort

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Show Highlights:

Jenn talks about the difficulties of balancing marketing and coaching
Jenn shares how her journey has taken her from contraction to expansion
Jenn explains how she blossomed in the YHC community

Timestamps:

0:59 Facebook Groups and the effectiveness of their leads
7:39 Overcoming people’s objections to joining your course
16:07 Understanding what is keeping you from making the necessary changes
21:29 The impact vs. effort grid

Guest Bio:

Jennifer Allen teaches alignment-based yoga with an emphasis on finding ease in the body, coaches people on developing healthy habits and guides people into their unlimited potential through Ayurveda.

She discovered Ayurveda in 2013. Her Ayurvedic studies have been influenced by John Douillard, Sarah Hutchinson and Cate Stillman. Jennifer completed an 18-month Yoga Health Coaching certification program to deepen her knowledge of Ayurveda and habit evolution techniques in 2018. She has been leading hikes at the Grand Canyon since 2013 and is an outdoor educator and Certified Interpretive Guide for the Grand Canyon Conservancy.