Paige was set on joining Yoga Health Coaching, but when she thought about the investment, she felt anxious. Nonetheless, having set her mind, she took out a loan, borrowed some money, and went for it!

Now, a year later, she could not be happier with her decision. She has successfully completed her pilot program and is looking forward to increasing her prices.

Listen to learn more about transitioning from yoga teacher to coach, developing the skills you need to evolve, and enrolling with ease.

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• How habits sustain you through difficulties
• How to get your first members
• How to transition from your job to coaching

Links Mentioned in Episode:

• More about the Find the Money Course
• Watch the Masterclass
• More about Paige’s program

Show Highlights:

• Overcoming the fear of investing in yourself
• Becoming your best selling point
• Increasing the price of your program

Timestamps:

• 2:14 The audacity to want more
• 5:24 Attracting and engaging clients
• 11:39 Adjusting to online communication
• 15:22 Identify the skills you want to have

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.

After completing Body Thrive, Lisa, a Yoga teacher and Ayurveda practitioner, new Yoga Health Coaching was the perfect program for her. Now in her fourth quarter of YHC, she has successfully led her first program.

Leading both a basic and premium 3 month program, Lisa is now focused on developing a yearly program. To do so, she is developing the necessary skills to offer a high ticket program and maintain her enrollment success.

Listen to the podcast to learn more about the Yoga Health Coaching marketing and enrollment training, what metrics you should be using and what skills you need to develop to make your yearly program a success.

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• How to develop your program
• How to get specific about metrics
• How to get more members for your program

Links Mentioned in Episode:

• Visit Lisa’s website
• More about the Find the Money Course
• Watch the free Masterclass

Show Highlights:

• Developing a yearly program
• Prioritizing lifestyle design and freedom
• Understanding human design

Timestamps:

• 1;41 Individual evolution in a group program
• 6:13 Developing a basic and premium program
• 14:42 Having a high ticket program and the necessary skills
• 22:36 YHC’s Marketing and enrollment training

Guest Bio:

Throughout her life, Lisa has always felt drawn to health and wellness. However, it wasn’t until college — when she was introduced to yoga and yoga philosophies — that she found a health practice that really stuck and worked for her.

When she graduated from college, her interest in yoga grew. At that time she was building solar farms and would work well over 50 hours a week. One day, on her way home from work, she discovered a yoga studio just off the highway and figured, rather than sitting in traffic, she could go to a yoga class for an hour.

This practice aligned her mind, body and emotions. Lisa’s well-being flourished and her career goals shifted. She realized that she needed to share the shifts she was experiencing and expanding into. It was in this very yoga studio that Lisa discovered Ayurveda for the first time.

After going through her yoga teacher training in 2016, Lisa made the commitment to pursue her certificate as an Ayurveda Health Counselor.

She is now on a journey to help other women feel better than they ever thought possible.

Alexandra Kreis is an extraordinary example of how much you can achieve if you are willing to really give it a go. Since beginning her journey with Yogahealer, five years ago, Alex has become a Yoga Health Coach with an impressive track record. Not only is she killing it in her business, but she has also become a thought leader in her European community.
The secret to Alex’s success? Diving deeper into yourself and your body. Listen to the podcast and learn how Alex has been overcoming self-sabotage and has flourished from the darkest parts within her.

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• How to overcome beliefs that keep you from growing
• How honesty paves the way to breakthroughs
• How to propel yourself by sinking deeper

Links Mentioned in Episode:

• Learn more about the Find the Money Course
• Watch the Masterclass

Show Highlights:

• Alex talks about the importance of an accountability partner
• Alex shares her experience with social background from different countries
• Alex explains how she still struggles with self-sabotage

Timestamps:

• 1:07 The impact of the 5 point system of Master of You
• 8:45 Coming forth with what you need to say
• 15:19 The method of circling and establishing a body conversation
• 20:05 Experiencing the water element and sinking to grow

Guest Bio:

Alexandra Kreis has always been passionate about helping people to reconnect with their nature and understand they have the right to be happy and feel fulfilled. It is no coincidence that her professional career has brought her into the deeper layers of self-awareness and self-discovery, whilst assisting others on their own path.
A Yoga teacher since 2002, and an ayurvedic consultant for over a decade, in her mid forties, Alex realized that in order to provide people with tools to explore themselves, she couldn’t be a Yoga teacher forever. That’s when, five years ago, she started her Yogahealer journey.
Believing in empowering people to heal what lies within them, Alexandra has created an overwhelming impact. Especially in Europe, where she has steadily become a thought leader.

After flirting with Yogahealer for about six months, in May 2020, Shea Lehnen decided to go all-in and join Yoga Health Coaching.
Now, only a few months after, she has enrolled 18 people into her Pilot Program. It just goes to show that investing in yourself does, truly, payoff!

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• How to enroll in a conservative community
• How to build your confidence with coaching
• How to invest in yourself in order to grow

Links Mentioned in Episode:

• Find the Money Course
• Watch the free Masterclass

Show Highlights:

• Shea talks about building trust in a conservative community
• Shea shares what advice Cate gave her about confidence as a coach
• Shea talks about her enrollment goals

Timestamps:

• 2:02 The Fast Tracking path in YHC
• 7:31 Structuring your Pilot and Course
• 16:18 Using the step by step YHC system

Guest Bio:

Shea Lehnen started Yoga Health Coaching in May 2020. With a background in psychology, and as a yoga teacher, Shea created Balanced Warrior of Wyo, and is ready to crash the scene with holistic wellness!
Her desire is to help people, Rooted in Ayurveda and Yoga, become the best they can be by making small changes over time, leading to health and becoming their most vibrant selves.
Based in a conservative community in Wyoming, Shea was looking to deepen her Ayurveda experience when she found Yogahealer. Choosing to fast track her YHC experience, she has been able to enroll 18 people into her Pilot!

Good Morning Yogis Big & Small

Good Morning Yogis Big & Small

This kids book gives children and parents a sweet way to talk about morning routines. Mornings can be stressful! Rhymes, beautiful illustrations and handy checklists walk the reader through body habits in a fun and engaging story. Bedtime, drinking water to poop, family hugs and sitting quietly in meditation are all part of the daily routine.

What I love best? The book’s pages alternate between engaging and warm pictures that show the child what to do- and a facing page where the “how” and “why” is explained in more detail for mom and dad.

If you are keen to introduce your children to healthy body habits this one is for you.  

Body Thrive – Ebook & Audiobook

Body Thrive Audio Book and Body Thrive E-Book

Body Thrive is a top-selling paperback- and now you can find it in ebook and audio form.  

My health coaching clients love this read. Cate Stillman shares her top tips for the 10 daily habits of Ayurveda– and modern habit science tips to help you find ways to make them part of your daily routine.  Each habit chapter clearly outlines what to do, why you want to do it, and how to start. Real-life stories and examples help us to understand how much of a gain we can make when we begin to make small, consistent changes.

One of my favorite Body Thrive chapters is all about creating a mindful kitchen. Planning and organizing food preparation practices in a way that makes your kitchen functional and your food intentional is made easy with the Body Thrive approach.

Pick up an ebook so you can have it with you wherever you go. Or load up an audiobook so you can listen in from home, your car or out on your walk.

7 Audio Lessons to Uplevel Your Wellness Career

7 Audio Lessons to Uplevel Your Wellness Career

This is the perfect way to give yourself the boost you need to uplevel your wellness career.  In this 84-minute downloadable audio Cate Stillman shares her big learnings with you so you can get a head start on your own career evolution. Cate’s insiders scoop into how she has transformed her career helps us understand how we can grow our income and how we can learn to work with time so we can expand our systems, grow our teams, and make a bigger impact in the world.

In 7 lessons Cate talks about everything from lead generation to hiring a virtual assistant and tribe growth.  A lifelong learner, she translates her business training and practical experience growing Yogahealer into an inspiring and easy to listen to offering.

Listen time again to this offering.  Get inspired to find the perfect client, build your tribe, and lead your people through a dynamic transformation in a group setting.

Yesterday, I finished writing this “love letter” to myself and a small groups of friends who’ve shared similar challenges surrounding food. I thought I’d share it here with the hope that it might be helpful for someone here in this group, someone in this fantastic, life-changing course that’s helped me over the last few years evolve into the person I’ve always wanted to become.

Much love to all of you, Michelle

Fellow Travelers,

What Are You Hungry for?

We’re on a hero’s journey, you and I. We’re far from what we thought of as home. We’re exploring our relationship with food and what we truly hunger for. We have the focus, determination, and will to plan our trip accordingly, driven by a shared yearning to live in alignment with what we’ve learned is true: freedom from obsession comes from paying attention to our current-moment experience and investigating it with kindness and curiosity.

Make a Personal Pledge

We are committed to healing our most potent samskaras and vasanas so that we can go home again as masters of our domain, not slaves to old fear patterns that push us to numb and punish ourselves with food.

The Distracting Voice that Says, “You are Never Enough!”

We’re ambitious, you and I. We know our path is not easy. We know that our greatest obstacle is our own mind, our own tendency to focus on how we haven’t lost enough weight yet or made enough progress yet.

We also know that this kind of thinking is exactly what slows our momentum. Focusing on these types of thoughts leads to misalignment with our highest desires and intentions to listen to and inhabit our bodies in the here and now. It steers us away from experiencing ourselves in present time.

When You Get Lost, Make A U Turn Back to Witnessing

We’re perceptive, you and I. We understand what prompts such thinking. In one form or another, it’s the Voice of Fear or the Voice of Anger or the Voice of Sadness or the Voice of Joy. All of these emotions take us for a ride, a detour away from the direct route of Witnessing what we’ve mapped. All of these voices intoxicate us with false beliefs based on past or imagined future “failures” with food, each one causing its own type of pain and exhaustion, either because we act as though it’s chasing us, or we’re chasing it, or we are it.

That Still Small Voice Within
We’re wise, you and I.

We have enough experience in our meditation seats to remember that there’s another voice, the Voice of Stillness. The Voice of Stillness reminds us that Steady is the new Sexy. The Voice of Stillness reminds us that Balance, Equanimity, and Contentment hold the answers to our success and well-being. We remember that we are able to feel open and spacious again with a wide, clear perspective—not jacked up or buried by regurgitated thoughts provoked by the Voices of Emotion. We remember that we don’t have to be flung off course by them or manipulated by them: We don’t need to eat to encourage or stop them.

Have Faith in the Goddess Within

We’re trustful, you and I. We sit every day because we know that when we choose silence, we will ask and hear what the Voice of Stillness has to say. Every woman’s Stillness will speak in Her own voice, but She will deliver a similar message to all of us if we listen. She will nudge us to return to our true home: the still spot at the center of our own heart, where the ups and downs of the other voices can’t exist, where there’s calm, peace, and relief from the limiting, fear-based question underneath all these voices, “How is this going to affect me?”

Inhale Deep Acceptance

We’re free, you and I. We know that in the absence of this limiting question that shrinks and disempowers us on every level, Suffering cannot breathe here. The only thing left here at the center of our own Heart-Home is Acceptance of What Is. Acceptance walks hand in hand with Trust: Trust in our decision to use our relationship with food as a pathway to healing, a pathway to our dharma, and a pathway to knowing our highest Selves. In this space, we trust Divine Will, that all events are conspiring for us and our own expansion rather than against us. Only when we allow our Voice of Stillness to guide us back home regularly will we have the fortitude to complete our hero’s journey by learning how to feed our true hungers and thereby live in integrity with our highest Selves.

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• How do the Body Thrive habits help us to thrive?
• How to find more time in your day.
• How working in a group helps growth.

Links Mentioned in Episode:

• Body Thrive Book
• YHC Have a conversation
• Davina Clauer’s website
• Davina’s Facebook
• Watch the Masterclass NOW

Show Highlights:

• 1:20 – Davina talks to us a bit about her Yoga Health coaching background, how she found Cate and Yogahealer, and where it has led her.
• 6:00 – The addiction to saying ‘I don’t have enough time.’ In reality, with the BT habits we are opening up so much time and space for ourselves and we have the capacity to handle more.
• 12:00- The importance of group dynamics and how accountability helps our exponential growth in life. We don’t have to do it alone!

Favorite Quotes:

• “Your day now flows around the habits instead of being another thing that you have to find time for.” -Davina Clauer
• “The most successful people start before they’re ready.” – Davina Clauer
• “Sometimes we compare ourselves to people who are in chapter 20, or they are in a different book, and we forget that they were on chapter 1 at one point.” -Davina Clauer

Guest Bio:

Davina Clauer is the proud mother of two amazing girls and is really into practicing & teaching Vinyasa Yoga. Her specialized practices are focused on supporting mothers, babies and children through significant moments of life. The techniques used in prenatal and children’s yoga can provide countless benefits for the overall well-being for the entire family. Davina took her first yoga class with her then 6-month-old in 2013 and her life changed forever. This led her to start teaching yoga in 2015 after completing my RYT-200 certification. Towards the end of 2015 Davina’s life was shattered when she suffered a devastating loss of a pregnancy at 11 weeks. She was searching for anything to feel better and decided to turn back to her yoga practice. She was pulled toward the ancient wisdom of Ayurveda to heal herself emotionally and address the physiological cause of her miscarriage. She found Yogahealer and entered into her first Body Thrive during this time, which then lead her on to Yogahealers’ Yoga Health Coaching Course, that she is currently enrolled in.

Davina is now happy to report that after some major changes in lifestyle, she conceived and carried a healthy baby girl who graced us with her presence in Feb. 2017. Since giving birth Davina has been bound and determined to continue down her wellness path and decided that she wants to help others on theirs; she hopes to help people design the healthy life that they deserve to live! Conect with Clauer 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!

Y’all, this is New Orleans. The Early Bird Special starts at 8 pm and the band doesn’t go on before midnight. That’s not just a rumor. Those are the rules.

The good news is that every hour is happy hour. The bad news is that the late nights and rich food of this city will do you in. Many a soul has regretted that 3 am daiquiri and fried pickles run, myself included.

The other bad news is that late night food and liquor become so habitual that you don’t even notice the grey pallor of your skin and the extra ten pounds until you go to someplace crazy, like California or Idaho, where people have tans and eat organic chickpeas or whatever.

I gave up the really late dinner habit almost a year ago, the first time I read Body Thrive. I lost 15 pounds in three months. Yes, I also made other changes, but ditching the midnight pizza was major.

So, when I made Earlier, Lighter Dinners my adventure of the month, I thought, “no problem. I already have this down. Now all I have to do is think of something interesting to say on the blog since I actually have nothing to say.”

Except that I do. Because, somehow in the past year, earlier has gotten later and later and lighter has gotten heavier and heavier. And I gained seven pounds, which, I think, is no coincidence.

Once I started actually tracking my dinner times, I realized that earlier has become 6:30 to 7:30 instead of 5:30-6:30, so I set the goal of eating at least six dinners a week by 7 pm.

Because kaizen, y’all. Small steps are do-able.

Aaaaaand…I did it every week except one. Despite the fact that I had numerous evening social engagements and my father visited from out of town for a week.

Here’s how I ate lightly before 7 pm and still had a social life in a twenty-four hour town:

1. I offered to cook. When I had guests over, I invited them to come at 5:30 or 6:00 and made sure we ate before 7:00, dessert included (which I never skip). I love to cook, so it’s no big deal for me to offer to hostess if it means I get to set the terms.
2.  I ate before I went out. I met people for drinks or hangout time after I had already eaten my quinoa and spinach salad. A side bonus of eating before you go out is that it makes going out A LOT less expensive.
3.  If I couldn’t eat early, I ate light. When my friend Claire came over for our crafting coven (it is what it sounds like) and made homemade vegan pizza at 7:30, I just didn’t gorge myself. I wanted three pieces and I just had two.

                                          Hanging out AFTER dinner.

So, then, what happened?

1. I lost weight. I don’t know how much because I don’t keep very close track, but I’d guess about 3-4 pounds.
2. I went to bed earlier. I hate going to bed with a full stomach, so sometimes if I eat late I end up binge watching until I feel settled enough to sleep. My screen time for the month went down dramatically because I wasn’t trying to find a way to wind down from a late meal.
3. I slept better. If my stomach is empty when I fall asleep, I sleep better. And I don’t have nightmares. Incidentally, I had nightmares five out of the five times I ate late during the month. Crazy ones with snakes and exes. Yuck.

                         Earlier light dinners are totally metal.

In other news, taking control of my late eating habit gave me the confidence to take control of some other habits that have been sliding (like grabbing whatever food is around instead of actually cooking) and made me think carefully about what I eat, at least during dinner time. I ended eating much more nutrient rich, satisfying, and beautiful meals as a result.

So, did my social life suffer? Nope. Not a bit. Actually, I think that I ended up having more interesting conversations and interactions with people when I invited them over for dinner instead of meeting out. Plus, eating early gave us more time to enjoy each other’s company before we got tired.

So, if you think that the early bird special is just for shut ins and retirees, think again. Early is the new late.

That’s one of our core values here at Yogahealer. Our business and coaching teams spent time this past summer, coming up with a list of values that exemplify what we are all about.  As such, we decided to have everyone who works here on Team Yogahealer, to go through the Body Thrive course. Since I’ve been through Body Thrive numerous times, and am a Yoga Health Coach, as well as a business team member, I had the honor of leading the team through the 10 Habits.  My gal Grace Edison, fellow admissions specialist and Yoga Health Coach, assisted me. We had a blast. We evolved. We shifted into thrive.

We’re a small, but global team here at Yogahealer. The cast of characters includes Irena, our operations manager, in Greece; Liza, our IT wiz, in the Philippines, June, our marketing expert, also in the Philippines, Sunil, our graphic designer in India and Maria, our customer service specialist, in Canada. As well as Grace in Canada and me in the good old US of A. This was our first go at having a work team go through Body Thrive together, but it will definitely not be our last!

The Power of the Posse

When we take on a new endeavor, we’re excited, we’re pumped. We’re confident of our success. After a while, though, that excitement can fade. This is evidenced by the multi-billion dollar diet industry that leaves 50% of Americans still overweight. Then there are the millions of self-help books out there, and many millions of people who are still disorganized, chronically late or just plain unsatisfied. What’s up with that?

It’s the lack of peer support, the lack of a like-minded posse giving support and guidance along the way. The members of Team Yogahealer supported one another like champs. Liza quit drinking coffee, June got to bed before midnight and Sunil’s headaches cleared up. We helped each other troubleshoot our challenges – lack of fresh produce in the Philippines, late dinners in Europe, long hours on the computer, which are tough on the eyes. Before the group, these problems seemed insurmountable. Together, we found solutions.

The Body is the First Step

We all want to thrive in our lives, in all aspects. We want thriving relationships, families, work that fulfills us, organization in space and time. In short, we want to live awake lives. Here’s the thing though – we can’t have those things if we are suffering in our bodies. The body is the vessel that carries us through this journey. You can’t cross the ocean and discover new worlds in a leaky boat. That’s why the Body Thrive Habits are so important. When we are thriving in our bodies, we are able to thrive in our lives.

I’m one of those foodie-geeks who likes to take pictures of my culinary creations. Here are a few of my earlier, lighter dinners:

Each of our members contributed to this post, sharing their personal Body Thrive experiences. Read on and hear first hand, about the power of shifting habits.

June, Marketing manager:

I slipped into earlier lighter dinner habit quite easily, which is quite surprising given that in our culture dinner is actually the heaviest meal of the day. I love being able to prepare earlier. Then a few weeks later earlier bed time naturally followed. It’s amazing how small habits can have such great impact on you overall. I feel the support of the team and it’s such a great feeling going through the habits together and knowing I am not alone with the struggle. Thanks so much Cate and especially to Alex for leading the group, you are awesome!

Sharing a photo of my daughter with one of our plant-based meals 😀

Irena, Business manager:

I was having a ride on the body thrive path, but I was missing out the destination because my focus was on “being perfect”, large goals and unreal expectation.

The biggest discovery for me is “kaizen” approach in a habit building. Less is definitely more, with small steps in new nurturing habit building. For the first time I wasn’t overwhelmed, I was more motivated and my label “perfect or nothing” was in shadow.

Guided calls with experienced Alex and Grace were more than inspirational for the weekly thrive orientation with great sharings from Yogahealer team which were all attending this program. Even more tailored thrive profiling and focused support we were getting on 1-1 discovery sessions with Alex and Grace.

If you need creative experience exchange, share your voice on Body Thrive FB forum with world wide based Body Thrive tribe.

Body Thrive and beyond, precious content, videos, daily planning sheets and much more useful tools were on daily plate navigation. One habit by week, without criticizing overview of the previous habit proficiency level. The best thrive rhythm is my thrive rhythm. My personal and professional thriving are happening simultaneously.

It is so relieving that we don’t need to walk on the thrive path alone…I am grateful to Cate Stillman and her visionary Body Thrive program.

I am blessed with tender habit building and thriving as my lifestyle!

Sunil, Graphic designer:

These small habits were really seems very small and may be we will not believe the power of these at first time. But as per my personal experience they worked a lot to me and really they changed my habits of eating and sleeping too. People in team were also having some habit problems they also helped me together. It was an awesome and life time experience to me as i was struggling with following early to bed habit.

Thank you for the group support by Cate and especially Alex who leads us and helped me in achieving some targets that were  impossible to me earlier.

“Checking menu to order only something healthy for me and my daughter.”

Grace Edison, Admissions:

It wouldn’t scratch the surface to say that Body Thrive has changed my life. Through itty-bitty micro-habit change, I have been able to achieve a 15 year old dream of coming off my anti-depressants (not to mention losing 40 lbs)! I went through the 10 habits for the first time in June 2015. In January 2016 I was hired as part of the Yogahealer team in admissions.

Having the opportunity to help Alex coach our team was such an honor for me. Opening sharing my story with my caring and compassionate co-workers was so connecting for me. The feeling of truly being seen and heard by the people you work with is so important.

Our team is spread out all around the world and it really gave us an opportunity to genuinely connect, grow together and get to know one another – to work toward a common goal and foster support on a much deeper level. I truly believe we became stronger as a team, caring about one another’s successes no matter how small. We were accountable as a team, each one of us wanting to lead by example to encourage and lift each other up. Hearing others achieving their goals inspired the rest of us and this created space to life one other up to higher and higher levels of health and wellbeing.

A team that Thrives together jives together. I made that up, but it’s totally true! I am grateful that Cate gave us this gift and that Alex was such a great coach!

Maria, Course Concierge:

I have had many challenges postpartum and I have been trying different things to survive. Two and a half years ago, I discovered yoga and its teachings. Yoga practice helped me with being content, meditation and most of all affirmation and thinking the best in every situation. This calmed down my dark thoughts, made me less angry. Although I am in the right path, I know that I am missing something. A year ago, my sister introduced me with Yogahealer. I subscribed with Yogahealer newsletter and whatever free resources available. And still it is not enough. Then I came to work for Cate and we started our own Body Thrive course and everything just click. By this time my yoga asanas is non existent because LIFE, my eating habits is out of whack and basically yo-yo dieting had me at my most overweight since being pregnant.  The 10 habits that Body Thrive teaches you appeared so simple but at the same time so complex. The challenge is in being consistent and that’s where Cate wins. The introduction of Kaizen. This may be popular somewhere but this is the first time I encountered it and it freed me of perfectionism. It liberates me from berating myself if I had a bad day and stuffed my face with junk foods and sugary treat. One of the glaring change that I had is successfully eliminating coffee and replaced with hot water with lemon. The things that I learn from this Body Thrive course has been incorporated in our family lives as well. My children who’s 5and4 years old, practice their ahh-ing before sleeping. This little tidbit of information is in Cate’s Body Thrive book and I know we can do it. All in all, Body Thrive revived my yoga asanas, my workouts and helped me get back to my feet both my mental and physical self.

Thank you Cate for creating Body Thrive and thank you Alex for leading the course. Namaste.

*this is pretty much what my yoga practice looks like lately.

Liza, Information Systems

Having Alex Biondo initiate the Body Thrive for the Yogahealer Team makes a lot of difference than trying to do it alone. The support is awesome and everyone else wants to do the habits. For me, it’s been a challenging first round of Body Thrive. Sticking it out and committing to the habits is difficult especially in a big family — 4 men (husband + 3 sons) and my daughter. A few of the habits that have been here everyday is drinking warm water with lemon in the morning, tongue scraping and pooping. Pooping from 2-3 times a week to everyday — just amazing! But this is not the end of it. I am committing myself to do the habits one step at a time, one habit at a time.

Super loud shout out to Cate from the Philippines for creating Body Thrive!