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.

Apart from body detox which people think is most important, there is also the inner purification aspect which I find equally important. As one teacher said “Don’t think so much about what you are putting in your mouth. Focus more on this what is going out from your mouth”. Following the fasting season, I am feeling better as a vegetarian.  I have been what I call a “grasshopper” for the past 13 years. After all those years, my face still hasn’t turned green. Being vegetarian is unusual where I come from. In my home country, Serbia, we can’t have a good party without roasted pork with an apple in the mouth.

 “Don’t think so much about what you are putting in your mouth. Focus more on this what is going out from your mouth”.

– Master Choa Kok Sui, founder of Pranic Healing and Arhatic Yoga.

Discover Thrive by Listening to Your Inner Voice

Being vegetarian doesn’t guarantee optimal body shape, weight and inner peace. I am finally partying with my body after riding a dieting rollercoaster since
my teenage years… there’s more to it than calories counting I have found. In 2015 wasn’t the weight I wanted to be,  but I decided to face with my personal challenges in different way through~by listening to my inner voice. 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering My Weight Forever provided the answers for my quest. I found that we get what we need in the moment we are ready to accept it. I believe there is no such thing as luck. And then I got the chance to dive in a world of subtle energies through a technique called Pranic Healing which introduced me to meditation practices as an important part of my daily routine.

Ask For Support from your ‘Peeps’

Sounds simple, but in practice it was a challenge to send my monkey mind on vacation.

I did it by becoming aware, then recognizing and connecting with my true nature.  Besides the support of my sister, hubby, family and friends, I asked the Universe for an additional boost. That’s how I think the Yogahealer body thrive tribe came into my life. I became a Business manager for Yogahealer. I joined a multicultural team, that works remotely. Our business team tracks business performance and also keeps track of our Body Thrive habit success rate and goals. All team managers choose one Body Thrive  habit which they will embrace for a quarter of a year reporting progress on our weekly team meetings. Check out the spreadsheet image below. Or read more about it in our Yogahealer Business Team  Body Thrive blog post. This is how we support and inspire each other.

Choose One or Two Critical Habits to Focus on

I used to get overwhelmed and often fail when I tried to change my habits. Now I have committed to only changing two habits at a time. First for me is, Earlier, Lighter Dinner and then second is Regular Daily Breath Body Practice. I am actually running 4 miles a day. Instead of late night snacking and long evening lap-top sessions, the family knows the new rule is “Kitchen closed by 6pm”.

I wake up early every morning and have a run in the local football stadium. Organic olives harvesting is also a good “sport”  for me but it’s more for entertainment.  I am so into Breath Body Practices and I am thinking about making a Treadmill Desk like some of the other Yoga Healer team members.

Choose evolution and body thrive as a lifestyle

Thrive as a daily choice for me is challenging, especially when I am traveling. But I have learned to grow in my zone of genius with patience, step by step and a go with the flow attitude. We are responsible for the lives we lead, I believe, so we can’t accuse our parents, partners, friends or a newly elected president for our choices.

Every day I am rewarded with great energy and an inspired mood. I feel good because I am a bit better version of myself today than I was yesterday.

I am lucky that my personal and professional THRIVING are both on track and then some.

I am blessed with gently building habits and trying to treat myself in the way that I would like to be treated by other people. I choose to THRIVE and evolve in my own Mediterranean way!

Have you been feeling some movement from deep inside to make a leap in your work? Maybe to a new position within the same organization? Or maybe into a whole new career?

It took time to build the confidence, systems and support to make my own leap. After almost twenty years with the same company, I was able to make the leap by establishing a clear pathway towards my love for yoga, aligning with nature’s rhythms and habit evolution. Here’s a summary of my journey and a few tips that may help you on yours.

I am a lifelong learner and someone who is always seeking new avenues for personal and professional development. While working full time, teaching yoga, and running a yoga studio, I began participating in the educational courses at Yogahealer.com. I began with my first Yogidetox in 2010 followed by the Living Ayurveda Course in 2011. This would launch my family and I on a multi-year journey towards greater health, vibrancy and connection. It would also project me personally and professionally towards a new level of confidence, a renewed clarity of my own desires and connect me to a supportive tribe, which would lead me towards the creation of my own business.

In 2014 I began the Yoga Health Coaching program. I had a 3 month old and was juggling being a new mom, embarking on a new learning path and working full time. I would kiss my son on the head as I left him with loving childcare in our home and find myself arriving at my office thinking, “Really? You’re going to leave that ball of LIGHT to come in here and do THIS?”  The first time I had this thought I broke down in tears between emails and phone calls. The second and third time it happened, it became more and more obvious I needed to do something about it.

But what was I going to do? I was terrified.

Some days the idea of leaving seemed so simple. It was a small reorienting of my life’s purpose, no big deal.  Right? In the relative domain, all I had to do was write a letter of resignation. Piece of cake. All of the details felt soooo BIG!! For weeks I found myself paralyzed with resistance. The pulsation of fear and possibility would move with a force that would somedays drive me to tears. I would later learn these two emotions, uncertainty and possibility are on the same energetic spectrum and have similar responses in the physical body.  They feel the same, it was how I was framing the feeling. What if I could reframe the feeling I had defined as fear or uncertainty in my body as a feeling of possibility or excitement? What if I could begin to build a relationship with both the uncertainty and the possibility in a way that would no longer be so paralyzing?

This launched me into a series of practices that would help build my confidence and reset my mind to taking the leap, write a letter of resignation and step into the next chapter of my life. Here are three practices that significantly helped me:

1. Build Awareness Around Uncertainty

Begin to recognize your own voice of uncertainty or fear. Spend a week writing down all the fears, fixed thoughts or limiting beliefs.  Start noticing how you are talking to yourself around making a shift.  The talk that surfaces when you begin to think of yourself in a new role, new chapter or new way of being.

2. Cultivate a Relationship with Possibility.

Start making a list of affirmations to replace the limiting thoughts. For each one of the limiting thoughts you have written down, tap into your Highest Self for the perspective from the place of possibility. You may find the limiting thoughts flow more naturally and turning your thoughts into affirmations of what’s to come, might be hard. You may need to sit quietly, bypassing your mind as you ask your Highest Self if the limiting thought is even true?

3. Replace Uncertainty with Possibility

When your mind starts playing the old story, actively replace it with the voice of possibility. Use this as an affirmation when the voice of fear presents itself and start to carve a growth mindset around the conversation, one that is in the field of potentiality and possibility.

Through this exact practice I realized I had an old belief that I needed a job with a benefits package and I wouldn’t be able to afford it as an entrepreneur. Given the organization I worked for was well-known in the community for having a great benefits package, why would I leave when it was so sought after? The funny thing was, when I began untangling my story around the benefits, I realized I didn’t actually “benefit” from all aspects of the so called benefits package. They were benefits to some people, but not me. The more I sat with my story, I tracked it back to advice I had been given when I graduated from college and going off on my own to “get a job with benefits.”

By revealing the old story of needing my work to have a great benefits package, I realized the real benefits were working in greater alignment with my purpose, having more time with my family and creating my own schedule. It was clear my outdated belief and story had become a true obstacle and it was holding me back from the life I desired.

I rewrote the story and aligned with my higher truth. I re-framed the physical sensations I had once associated with fear and uncertainty to “possibility” and “excitement”.

The gap between the two extremes lessened. My mindset shifted, I gained clarity in my vision for my future and I was able to take the leap with a renewed sense of myself. I now benefit from more time with my family, being in charge of my schedule and working daily in alignment with my higher purpose.

And most of all, I learned that the distance between uncertainty and fear was up to me, and wasn’t such a big leap after all.