Paula found Yogahealer and went through Yogidetox with Cate. It piqued her interest in yoga health coaching, and she started YHC in 2016. Despite feeling like a fish out of water, Paula started to see a different path for herself, one that was better for both her and her family. Through YHC, Paula regained the connection with mindfulness and spirituality that she had lost with her dad.

In YHC, Paula learned numerous tools to help her structure her busy life. By dialing in her morning and evening routines, and architecting her day to put her self-care first, Paula has found the flow. She is proud to be gifting her children with a strong foundation of self-care. She now offers programs to other creatives in Los Angeles, with a deep, personal understanding of the need for structure in the lives of those who wear many hats.

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• How to focus and amplify your creativity through structure and self care.
• Why working on your self is crucial to the success of your career.
• What you can do reduce overwhelm and increase flow in your life and in your career.

Links:

• Have a Conversation with Grace
• Detox with us this spring
• Body Thrive
• Catch Your Dream to Live Your Life at the Next Level
• Connect with Paula on Facebook

Show Highlights:

• 2:30 – Often wellness pros, and people in general are just running around in a state of overwhelm, trying to juggle career and family and trying get things done with no real plan and no set schedule.
• 6:30 – When loss occurs in the midst of daily overwhelm, it can cause us to re-evaluate our current path and find a new, better way of living.
• 10:40 – For yoga teachers, work is often disjointed and time consuming, and the income isn’t enough. By contrast, yoga health coaching provides a structure that leverages your time so that effort and income start to align.
• 12:15 – Learning the ten habits of Body Thrive and structuring your day around them allows you to prioritize and fine tune your to-do list, while allowing time for creativity and expansion that creates a sense of ease and reduces stress and overwhelm.
• 17:15 – Taking care of yourself teaches your kids healthy self-care habits.
• 20:30 – The Awake Living course expands on YHC, teaching scheduling integrity and finding routines that work for you and your family.

Favorite Quotes:

• “It’s loving for ourselves. We’re taking care of ourselves when we’re not putting ourselves deliberately in those situations where the stress response is triggered.” — Paula Pister
• “Now I see a different path for myself. And it’s healthier for my family.” — Paula Pister
• “We’re still a work in progress, but at least we’re working on it.” — Carly Banks
• “Your story is a gift to others, and your transformation is knowledge for others. And by not sharing that, you’re really doing the world a disservice.” — Carly Banks

Guest BIO:

Yoga Health Coach Paula Pister-Eliott began acting as a teenager in Vancouver, BC. When her heart spoke, she listened and moved to New York city to further pursue her career in acting. While living in New York in her twenties, Paula found yoga and met her husband. After 9/11 she and her husband moved to LA where she continued to teach yoga, and act. Along the way she became a mom. The sudden and unexpected death of her father brought everything to a screeching halt. Now coping with the loss of her father who had been an inspiring and motivating force in her life, Paula went looking for something. The loss ultimately led her to profound personal transformation and a discovery of “solid ground” in hot habits of Body Thrive and Yoga Health Coaching. Now Paula mentors other coaches and embraces daily habits that enable her to live a fuller, more connected life. Paula uses what she’s learned to structure family time and  her schedule as well.

Her story inspires professional healers to follow their heart’s calling. Paula did this over and over throughout her life. She now coaches actors, musicians and artists in the habits of Body Thrive. In her words, “Artists are the most courageous people. You have to lay your heart out on the line.”

Connect with Paula on Facebook, Instagram, watch out for her Website COMING SOON- Please feel free to keep the conversation going through Email.

Prior to YHC, Heather was leading an overscheduled life, much like many wellness pros. She was running a yoga studio, teaching yoga, trying to build her business, and working a part time job. In June, when she realized the income from her part time job did not match the amount of stress it caused her, Heather started reducing the number of hours she was working at her part time job, and she let go of it completely in January.

Heather is currently in Q3 of YHC. She has coached her pilot and her annual pass is in progress. Although she has reduced the number of hours she is working, she has been able to maintain her income level, and her stress level is much lower.

While Heather was nervous about coaching, once she started, she was surprised that because of her YHC training, she was more prepared than she had realized. Heather works the habits of Body Thrive along with her groups while she is coaching, so in a sense, she has made a job out of her own self care. Heather credits the 10 habits, as well as the theory of kaizen, with the successful realignment of her values, her career, and her schedule.

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• Why the habits of Body Thrive are a prerequisite to a successful wellness career.
• What you need to do in order to align your career with your own self care.
• How Yoga Health Coaching allows you to design the life you want to live.

Links mentioned in episode:

• Yoga Health Coaching
• Body Thrive
• Visit Heather’s website 

Show Highlights:

• 4:30 – Stress levels that exceed your income level can start to take a toll on your health. Yoga Health Coaching can reduce your stress, reduce the number of hours you work, and help you improve your health while maintaining or increasing your income level.
• 5:50 – The structure of YHC allows you to start earning income right away.
• 6:45 – Learning and adopting the ten habits of Body Thrive actually create more time in your day and accomplish more in a shorter amount of time.
• 7:45 – Utilizing “kaizen,” small steps that lead to big change, can be applied to both the Body Thrive habits and to Yoga Health Coaching to help you steadily move in the direction  you want to go.
• 10:00 – Teaching the habits includes practicing the habits, which means you’re turning self care into your business. You evolve along with your clients.
• 13:35 – A short morning meditation is a gift of time later in the day. You operate from a place that is much more grounded, so your thoughts and decisions seem clearer and unhurried and more “tapped in.”

Favorite quotes:

• “In second quarter, you could be running your pilot. And a lot of people just hit the ground running and just get going right away, because you take Body Thrive first, and that is the most important part.” — Carly Banks
• “Every time we teach the habits, we’re going through them. So, it’s like turning self care into your business.” — Carly Banks
• “Honestly, the ten minutes I take [for meditation] in the morning somehow helps me have enough clarity that I’m not actually wasting as much time later in my day.” — Heather Hodgson

Guest BIO:

With over 25 years experience in the Healing Arts Industry, Heather brings a deep connection towards healing into her work: teaching weekly yoga classes, working one-on-one and in groups, and coaching members and students in the Daily Habits of Yoga & Ayurveda. Connect with Heaether on her FB page Heather Hodgson Yoga & Wellness.

Mentorship can also be a two-way street. When you act as a mentor, you often find that you’re learning and growing. You receive support from those you mentor. When you surround yourself with people who are making big steps, you are contributing to your own growth.

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• Why you need a mentor
• Why you should be a mentor
• How to use mentoring to propel your career forward

Links:

• Have a Career Conversation with Grace
• Find your YHC Coach

Show Highlights:

• 2:02 – The type of mentor we’re talking about today is someone who is just a few steps ahead of you on the same path that you’re on.
• 5:35 – Yoga Health Coaching offers so many options for connecting with your mentor.
• 9:40 – There is no one person knowing more than another. Everyone’s experience is valid.
• 9:55 – Take some time to reflect on who you’re spending your time with. Are you surrounding yourself with people who inspire you?

Favorite Quotes:

• “When we’re feeling like we’re going it alone, it can be really, really difficult.” — Carly Banks
• “Through teaching, you’re learning.” — Rikki Frances
• “Rikki and I both have experienced such phenomenal expansion in our ability to learn and move forward thanks to the power of having a mentor.” — Carly Banks

Guest BIO:

Rikki Frances is a yoga practitioner, health coach, and perpetual student of the human spirit. In November 2016, she began her Yoga Health Coaching certification with Cate Stillman and Ayurvedic Studies with Elham Ansari. Rikki offers an 11 week Inspired Living intensive at Wise Owl Yoga and Ayurvedic Wellness in Comox Valley, British Columbia.

Aileen and Rosie lived and breathed the corporate lifestyle until each found there was very little breath left. Aileen founded and ran a successful contract catering company, and Rosie was a partner in a law firm: each threw in the towel to change direction into health and wellness.

In this episode, the friends discuss how their journeys began with exploration of a plant-based diet as a healing tool, and how their food story has changed to become a story about holistic healing.

Rosie turned to the East, while Aileen stayed with a Western perspective, but the pair discuss how much common ground there actually is between the two, and how much mainstream support there is for Ayurvedic rituals of self-care.

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• Why getting the basics right is so important
• How stress influences health
• Why health is about much more than just food

Links: 

• Yoga Health Coaching
• Chopra Center 21-Day Meditation Experience

Show Highlights:

• 6:00 – While in the past, plant-based diets were hard to accommodate, both in the mindset of our culture and in access to healthy foods, healthy foods are now much more mainstream, which is really a win for everyone!
• 8:30 – It’s not just about the type and quality of food you’re eating: rather, it is about how your body systems are processing them and performing. If your body systems aren’t working together effectively, you can’t get the results you desire.
• 14:20 – It is important to meet people where they are in their nutritional knowledge: starting with the easiest possible steps is the best way to get people to create lasting, sustainable change.
• 18:30 – One way to improve eating habits is to create ritual around meal time: taking time and space for your meal, and sitting to appreciate it without distractions, makes your meal more enjoyable and your eating experience healthier.
• 24:00 – Stressful lifestyles not only keep people from giving themselves the time to make healthy changes in their lives, but actually also have negative effects on their hormones and health directly.
• 28:00 – Sleep is incredibly important for overall health: establishing a bedtime routine that focuses on getting to bed and waking early is hugely important, not only from an Ayurvedic perspective, but also a Functional Nutrition one.

Favorite Quotes:

• “It became about more than just the food.” – Rosie Tait
• “It’s not just the fuel that you put into your body, but how your body systems are working.” – Aileen Smith
• “Like a car…, you put in the fuel, but you also have to maintain the engine.” – Aileen Smith
• “It occurs to me that the modern world is trying to produce the science to support what the Eastern/Ayurvedic theories world has been doing for years.” – Aileen Smith
• “Stress stops people putting into place what they need… to support themselves.” – Aileen Smith

Guest Bio:

Aileen Smith is The Health Heroine, and is a former owner/director of The Catering People, Ltd., a hugely successful food and hospitality company in the United Kingdom.

When Aileen sold her contract catering company, she made a conscious decision to change direction and began to explore the role of food as a transformative tool in both a personal and professional capacity.

Now a nutritional therapist, she shares a rage of other therapeutic tools to keep her busy corporate clients firing on all cy

What you’ll get out of tuning in

• Why groups are important for personal growth
• What you’ll get from other Yoga Health Coaches
• Why it’s important to show up as yourself when you teach others

Links:

• Yoga Health Coaching
• Body Thrive

Show Highlights:

• 02:24 – Carly tells her story of how she came into Body Thrive YHC program with Grace
• 07:11 – Carly talks about her experience in the program; when she started she was suffering from postpartum depression, and afterwards she wanted to share what she learned
• 09:50 – Carly discusses how she went from not being involved in the wellness community to finding the people for her first Body Thrive pilot
• 15:39 – Grace and Carly discuss the importance of “being real” and showing up as ourselves when we lead groups
• 17:58 – Carly talks about running her first pilot
• 23:20 – Grace and Carly discuss the importance of the YHC forum and community and accountability partners and the opportunity to coach

Guest Bio:

The Body Thrive path led Carly to a new and exciting world where all can be accomplished with ease. Adding YHC certification training to work and parenting is proving to be easy, with the right tools. Carly’s shattering old patterns and false beliefs about herself, to become the person that she and her family deserve.  Connecting? Connect and hear more about how Carly juggles life as a busy mom at Nourished living.