When your family notices the self empowerment that is the product of the habits of ayurveda, they start to get curious about what you’re doing. Alexandra’s partner started to embrace some of the habits that she teaches to her course members and she wanted to figure out how to involve their 11-year-old daughter. What Alexandra has found is that letting your family follow your lead works better than making rules or forcing your habits on others. For children, everything is still an exploration.

As they grow older and are more influenced by their peers, parents have to be consciously creative when it comes to redirecting their attention and values.

Alexandra’s family has embraced family meetings. Family meetings provide a format in which every family member has an equal seat at the table. For Alexandra’s daughter, that meant understanding that with an equal voice, she also assumed an equal level of responsibility and mutual respect. To Alexandra’s delight, she has observed her daughter exhibiting her own values, and she knows she is giving her a strong foundation from which to grow.

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• How to incorporate family values and family meetings into your home life.
• How to introduce your children to the habits of ayurveda.
• How couples can use the “family meeting” model to improve and strengthen their relationship.

Links Mentioned in the Episode:

• Alexandra’s website
• Body Thrive
• Yoga Health Coaching
• Values Workshop

Show Highlights:

• 0:00 – When your family notices the self empowerment that is the product of the habits of ayurveda, they start to get curious about what you’re doing. Alexandra’s partner started to embrace some of the habits that she teaches to her course members and she wanted to figure out how to involve their 11-year-old daughter. So they started having family meetings.
• 5:00 – Family meetings provide a format in which every family member has an equal seat at the table. When interest in the family meetings started to wane, Alexandra employed Cate’s values workshop to help her family see each other in a new light. For her daughter, that meant understanding that with an equal voice, she also assumed an equal level of responsibility and mutual respect.
• 10:00 – One of the values that Alexandra had identified for herself was nurturance. She recently found her daughter exhibiting that value. Alexandra also has weekly one-on-one values meetings with her partner that she feels helps recalibrate their relationship on a regular basis. Carly also prescribes one-on-one time with her husband that has saved her marriage.
• 15:30 – Carly is also involving her kids in the practices of ayurveda. What Alexandra has found is that letting your family follow your lead works better than making rules or forcing your habits on others.
• 20:10 – For children, everything is still an exploration. As they grow older and are more influenced by their peers, parents have to be consciously creative when it comes to redirecting their attention and values.

Your Favorite Quotes:

• “What an incredible gift that you’re giving your child. Your empowering her to make her own decisions and to reflect on what she really wants in life. And you’re letting her have a seat at the table. You’re inviting her to be seen and heard, and you’re letting her know that she has a voice.” — Carly Banks
• “It’s not about striving all the time, but about finding an even keel.” — Alexandra Kreis
• “To think that this is what my kids consider to be normal, versus what other kids consider to be normal in a day, it just fills me up. I feel like I’m really giving them a strong foundation to grow from.” — Carly Banks

Guest BIO:

Alexandra Kreis is a yoga teacher, ayurvedic lifestyle consultant, wellness masseuse, and yoga health coach. She lives in Berlin, Germany with her partner and their daughter. Since childhood, she has always felt happiest participating in the community while engaging in spiritual discovery in her private time. In the community, Alexandra experiences herself through the reflection of others, while ensuring that she makes time to connect inwards and maintain her roots.

It is, therefore, no coincidence that her professional career has brought her into the deeper layers of self-awareness and self-discovery, while assisting others on their own path.

Connect with Alexandra on her website and her facebook.

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.