What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• How to turn trauma, turmoil, and transitions into opportunities for insight, growth, integration, and evolution.
• How the habits of Body Thrive help us thrive through trauma.
• How Yoga Health Coaching is more than just a business model.

Links Mentioned in Episode:

• Body Thrive Course
• Body Thrive Book
• YHC Have a conversation

Show Highlights:

• 0:30 – One week post-op major abdominal surgery, Grace Edison is glowing! Prior to her surgery, Grace made sure that her Body Thrive habits were solid, especially the ones she would be able to do post-op. Professionally, there wasn’t much to be done. Her annual planning was complete, and the structure and support for her courses was already in place. The YHC business model allowed Grace to relax and focus on what was most important – healing.
• 4:30 – When we put the “pro” in wellness pro, as we do in Yoga Health Coaching, it’s important for us to model ease and flow no matter what life throws at us. For Grace, that was simply a matter of getting really clear on what needed to be done while she convalesced. Because the structure and support that provides her ease and flow was already there, she was able to relax and enjoy a sense of relief while she recovered.
• 7:54 – Grace’s keystone habit through her convalescence has been Earlier, Lighter Dinner. Start the Day Right is a close second, particularly with regard to drinking water and pooping, which is a common problem after surgery. She’s also practicing self massage. She’s enjoyed time for reflection and deeper integration.
• 10:35 – Trauma, turmoil, and transition open the liminal space, a space beyond the threshold of your own patterns and programming, that allows opportunity for new insights and growth. Case in point, Grace is already thinking about how she can help other people prepare for and recover from trauma.
• 15:55 – As we engage in a growth journey and step deeper into dharma, we require a stronger energetic container. The habits of Body Thrive help us ground and build that stronger container that can withstand higher and weightier vibration. On a growth path, we’re in transition a lot more, yet with that stronger container, that groundedness, we’re much more available to our experience.
• 19:55 – Yoga Health Coaching is more than just a business model. It creates a lifestyle and structure that allows us to turn trauma, turmoil, and transitions into opportunities for insight, growth, integration, and evolution.

Favorite Quotes:

• “I’m seeing a whole other level of how Body Thrive and how Yoga Health Coaching allowed me to move through a situation or experience that could have been a break down and could have been very traumatic, and it really was the complete opposite.” — Grace Edison
• “It’s so funny to think about how . . . really learning a proper business model was going to help me go through major surgery. . . . But it isn’t just a business model, Cate. . . . It’s the lifestyle and the structure and the conversations I was able to have with my family and how present I’ve been able to be through all of this.” — Grace Edison
• “Get awesome at transitions by getting super grounded, and expect miracles with trauma.” — Cate Stillman

Guest BIO:

Grace Edison lives in British Columbia, Canada. She’s a mom of twin 8 year olds, a Yoga teacher, studio owner, and Yoga Health Coach — and she also works for Cate Stillman in Admissions at Yogahealer! More than anything, she loves to make people laugh and has a not-so-secret dream of doing stand-up comedy. Grace has a strong passion for empowering others to take their health and wellness into their own hands. She loves building authentic relationships, making people laugh, and creating supportive communities. After a long-standing relationship with severe depression, Grace has found deep relief through the habits of Ayurveda — and much credit is due to Cate and her Body Thrive program. After taking Body Thrive several times and jumping into Yoga Health Coaching, Grace came aboard the Yogahealer team.

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• How Yoga Health Coaches become wellness leaders in their communities
• How recognizing and utilizing our natural talents makes us better leaders
• How mesh networking and collaborating are the new leadership models

Links Mentioned in Episode:

• How to Build a Tribe webinar
• Body Thrive Book
• YHC Have a conversation
• Rachel’s website
• Rachel’s Facebook page

Show Highlights:

• 2:30 – What is the difference between community building and community leading? Rachel has been building a yoga community for years, and she talks about how she made a mindset shift and got comfortable stepping into the role of leader.
• 5:00 – Rachel recently felt sparked to step into leadership and is now making an impact both locally and with her online national (soon to be global!) community.
• 8:00 – When we recognize our natural strengths, we lead others with more ease. Rachel talks about showing up as her authentic self and focusing on her strengths and desires, which, in turn, leads the right people to find her.
• 11:00 – For many of us, leadership starts at home. When we live in integrity, the first to notice are those closest to us. They often pick up the reins and take the lead, as Rachel’s husband Dan likes to do. He’s now an avid forager!
• 16:00 – What Yoga Health Coaches do has a ripple effect. We touch others in many ways. As people learn what we do, we become a face of holistic wellness in our communities and often end up helping people who aren’t even our clients.
• 19:30 – What does the next step of leadership look like? Collaboration and mesh networking. Rachel talks about how she works with other wellness leaders in her community.

Favorite Quotes:

• “I lead from my strengths, rather than having to cultivate new ones” ~Rachel Peters
• “A sometimes unintended consequence of becoming a Yoga Health Coach is that we are becoming community leaders.” ~Alex Biondo

Guest BIO:

Rachel’s – As a Certified Yoga Health Coach and the Founder of Embody Ease and the Easeful Living Community, Rachel leads women on a yearlong journey to dissolve perfectionism and embody daily habits that promote clarity, ease, and inner connection. She is a wife, mom, and lover of wild places and contributes to her local community as a yoga teacher and teacher trainer in Prescott, AZ she also serves as the leader of the Coaching Team at Yogahealer. Check her website and facebook page.

Prior to YHC, Jamie was a birth and post-partum doula, a mom, and had a part-time admin job. What she loved most about her work as a doula was taking women through a transformation. What she didn’t love about it was being constantly on call and staying awake for labors that could last 24 to 36 hours. With a family of her own, being a doula left her feeling ungrounded and unsettled.

Jamie started Body Thrive in January 2015 and continued on to Yoga Health Coaching. She saw YHC as way to continue leading people through transformation but with a lot more structure and rhythm while being more present to care for her family. She ran her first YHC pilot program in January 2016, and she’s been coaching ever since. Her program continues to build momentum and the transition to an annual pass has allowed her members to feel deeper transformation while not feeling pressure to  get it right the first time.

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• How Yoga Health Coaches guide their tribe through transformation with a structure and rhythm
• How the annual pass and Kaizen create a sense of softness and ease among course members
• How Yoga Health Coaches stay more present in their life

Links Mentioned in Episode:

• Body Thrive Book
• YHC Have a conversation
• Jamie’s website
• Jamie’s FB page
• How to Build a Tribe webinar

Show Highlights:

• 1:30 – Prior to YHC, Jamie was a young birth and post-partum doula, a mom, and had a part-time admin job. What she loved most about her work as a doula was taking women through a transformation. What she didn’t love about it was being constantly on call and staying awake for labors that could last 24 to 36 hours. With a family of her own, being a doula left her feeling ungrounded and unsettled. Jamie started Body Thrive in January 2015 and continued on to Yoga Health Coaching. She saw YHC as way to continue leading people through transformation but with a lot more structure and rhythm while being able to be present and care for her family. She left her part-time admin job even though she was making good money because she knew it was not the best use of her gifts. As a doula, she stopped attending births and focused on post-partum work, which could be scheduled. She ran her first YHC pilot program in January 2016, and that’s what she’s been doing ever since. Her program continues to build momentum and the transition to an annual pass has contributed to that momentum. 
• 4:30 – The annual pass presents unprecedented potential for community. It allows for deeper transformation and alleviates pressure for her members. 
• 7:50 – Accountability partners create connection that can last for years. Jamie went through Body Thrive in 2015 with her current accountability partner, and they have spoken once a week for the last three years. She considers her one of her best friends, yet they did not meet in person until March of this year (2018). She feels that their partnership has “kept her in the game.” 
• 9:30 – There are so many structures and “lifelines” in YHC that help keep us on track: coaches, mentors, accountability partners, Facebook groups. These structures create a support system and a shared context with people we wouldn’t find in our day to day lives. The shared context allows for quick access to deep communication. 
• 12:15 – As a YHC Certification Coach, Jamie’s advice is to build relationships within the community (with mentors, coaches and other course members) so that you don’t feel like you need to figure everything out on your own or walk the path alone. Because of the screening and acculturation that course members undergo prior to enrollment, it’s hard to go wrong when you reach out to other course members. Each individual also brings specific expertise to the group dynamic. 
• 16:00 – As Yoga Health Coaches, we sometimes wonder about the efficacy of what we offer. Jamie shares a case in which one of her course members, whose main concerns were weight gain and bringing more fun into her life, was only having bowel movements every 4-5 days, which she thought was normal. Three weeks into the course, she started drinking warm water in the morning and started experiencing healthy, daily eliminations. The result was she felt lighter and her pants fit better. She felt that that alone was worth the cost of the course. 
• 22:00 – The coaching skill Jamie finds most effective is kaizen, and the combination of that with the annual pass creates a sense of ease with her course members. Kaizen helps build momentum toward making more aligned choices.

Favorite Quotes:

• “When we take ownership of the structure that gets people to the results, it changes things. We get more grounded.” — Cate Stillman 
• “This is the whole thing about subtle body exploration and subtle body anatomy: it’s somewhat exponential in nature. And the more we align to it, the more it opens and reveals levels of undulating bliss and interconnectivity and higher levels of consciousness and deeper insight . . . .” — Cate Stillman 
• “I think that’s what many people are going for – an opportunity to lean back and soften and see the little places where we can shift.” — Jamie Lynn Worster

Guest BIO:

Jamie Worster helps conscious people create radiant health.

Based on her knowledge of yoga and Ayurveda she offers classes that expand your overall wellness and joy.

Check her website and facebook page.