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!

No matter what is happening in the environment, your body can always be an anchor to keep your mind in the present and your feet on the ground. Your body moves you, nourishes you, and gives you a home. It can also be a safe haven when things are just too much.

An Ancient Technique For The Modern World

By practicing this simple relaxation technique, you can gently remind your body to let go of tension and just be here, in the present moment.

This technique is known as Yoga Nidra. It’s often described as “sleeping while awake”, or putting the body into a sleep-like state while the mind is still alert. According to yoga philosophy, with repeated practice you can train the body to “surf” between the states of wakefulness and sleep, inducing a deep state of relaxation and calm.

While Yoga Nidra is purportedly an ancient technique, it is highly relevant today. Because the world outside is highly changeable and unpredictable, it’s a beautiful gift to yourself to create a place within that you can always come home to.

Learning To Let Go

While meditation can often be challenging because the mind has nothing to do, Yoga Nidra is different because it gives the mind a “job”. By focusing first on the body, the mind can settle and go into a deeper state of relaxation.

Many of us feel challenged to fully let go, even during a massage, yoga class, or as you drift off to sleep at night. Our thoughts can keep us focused on the future or the past, causing our nervous system to remain alert.

When you practice Yoga Nidra, the physical relaxation of the body is the first step in truly letting go of our need to focus on anything other than the present moment.

Through Yoga Nidra, we can give ourselves permission to just be. This means you don’t have to control, you don’t have to strive, you don’t have to fix or accomplish, you can simply exist. Even if it’s only for a little while.

How To Practice Yoga Nidra

The best way to introduce yourself to Yoga Nidra is to follow along with an audio or YouTube recording. There are a lot of online options that are free, and you can search around to find one that suits you best. There are also several options in other languages.

Once you’ve practiced a few times and can remember the sequence, you can guide yourself through from start to finish.

Another option is to purchase a Yoga Nidra book, which often have several versions of Yoga Nidra scripts that you can record yourself reading. It can be especially helpful to listen to your own voice, as eventually this will train you to lead yourself through the exercise without any recording at all.

If you want to get started right away, I’ve included simplified instructions below. You can use these instructions to record yourself or ask a friend to read them to you. This is a great way to share your relaxation practice with your community.

1. Get comfortable – Start by lying on the floor with a blanket or thin cushion behind the head. Open the feet slightly wider than hips distance apart. Bring the palms of the hands six inches from the side of the body, facing up. Allow yourself to completely relax, sinking deeply into the floor.
2. Soften the mind – Allow yourself to press pause on your mental stream. As thoughts arise, as they always do, imagine them floating away in a bubble. No need to linger with them. There is nothing to do now, there is nothing to remember, just this time to let go.
3. Set an intention – Decide what you want to get out of your Yoga Nidra. This can be something like, “I am calm, peaceful, and steady.” Repeat this intention to yourself three times.
4. Watch the breath – Begin shifting the attention to the breath, simply watching the breath rise and fall in the belly. Let it be natural. No need to control it. Feel the body relax more deeply with every exhale. Do this for a few rounds.
5. Focus on the body – Now you can begin to focus the attention on the right side of the body. Bring the attention from body part to body part, allowing the mind to jump from one body part to the next without lingering. Let each body part relax as you focus on it.
   Start with the right thumb, second finger, third finger, fourth finger, fifth finger. Palm of the hand, back of the hand, wrist, forearm, elbow, upper arm, shoulder, chest, side waist, hip, buttock, top of thigh, back of thigh, knee cap, back of knee, shin, calf, ankle, heel, ball of foot, top of foot, big toe, second toe, third toe, fourth toe, fifth toe.
6. Repeat on the left side – You can do steps 4 and 5 as many times as you’d like to until you feel relaxed. When you’re ready, reverse the muscle relaxation from the right toes to the right fingers, then the left toes to the left fingers, moving up the body this time.
7. Bring in visuals – As you inhale, begin to imagine a stream of gold light entering the body from the top of the head, streaming through the body all the way down and out the feet. As you exhale, imagine a stream of gold light entering the body from the feet all the way up the body and out of the head.
8. Return to the senses – Begin to bring the attention back to your body. Allow the mind to focus on the sounds in the room around you, and then bring your attention to sounds beyond the room. Maybe you hear birds chirping or cars passing.

Taking your time, begin to wiggle the fingers and toes. Once you feel ready, roll over to your right side. Press the hands into the floor, and bring yourself to sitting.

Your Yoga Nidra is now complete!

Pro Tips

It can sometimes be difficult to settle into practicing Yoga Nidra, so it can be helpful to do physical exercise before you start to help wind down the nervous system.

As you prepare, make sure you give yourself permission to experience the sweetness and juiciness that a practice like this has to offer. Turn off your alerts, your phone, and limit any input from external sources. Treat yourself as if you were a mother putting a baby to sleep.

And if you fall asleep, don’t sweat it! It’s common to fall asleep when you first begin practicing Yoga Nidra. If you do, it most likely means that you need some extra rest. The whole point is to give your body and your mind what it needs to be more resilient, calm, and ready to face the world.

If sleep is what does it, by all means go for it! If you notice you do fall asleep often during Yoga Nidra, it might be useful to practice before bed or to set a timer so you don’t sleep through anything important.

By practicing Yoga Nidra regularly, you are training your mind and your body to relax more or less on cue. This is a valuable resource in a time when stressful events are commonplace.

No matter what is happening around us, the body is always here to keep us grounded. It helps keep us connected to ourselves and to the simple but extraordinary gift of being alive.

• You are your personal brand
• What you’re selling vs. service delivery
• Sell what they want… give them what they need
• Business development is Spiritual Development
• Primary Benefits vs. Secondary Benefits
• What is Your Unique Transformation

Links

• Active Your True Message – Video Training

Guest Bio

Ronda Renée has helped 1000’s of Souls come into alignment for over the last 10 years. She’s the founder of the transformational modality of Divine Navigation®️ and creator of the Divine Coordinates®️process. In 2009, after over a decade of service and generating over 22 million in sales, Ronda embarked on an intense inner exploration that led her to discover her life’s work of teaching people how to live, love, and work from their Soul. She experienced first hand how a successful life can still feel empty, leaving her constantly seeking for something unknown. Now she’s referred to as the modern-day mystic with “x-­ray vision for the Soul” who guides entrepreneurs, creatives, and service professionals as they embrace their unique energetic qualities to finally reach the success and fulfillment they’ve been seeking – making the difference and the money they were meant to.

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• Why Yogahealer Live Events are a transformative experience
• How upping her price point shifted her brand, internally and externally and tripled her income
• Why evolutionary relationships are so powerful

Links Mentioned in Episode:

• Have a Career Conversation with one of our Coaches!
• Alexandra’s First Coach of the Month Interview
• Order Cate Stillman’s new book “Master of You”
• Join our FREE Coaching Masterclass to EVOLVE your Career

Show Highlights:

• Alexandra shares her transformation during the Berlin Live Event
• Alexandra describes her relationship with pain during her life
• Alexandra and Amy discuss evolutionary relationships

Timestamps: 

• 3:00 – 7:30 Alexandra’s journey to Cate’s community
• 7:30 – 13:00 How she upped her price point and it changed her on every level
• 13:00 – 23:00 Alexandra’s insights from the Berlin Yogahealer Live Event
• 23:00 – 30:00 Alexandra and Amy discuss evolutionary relationships 
• 31:00 – 35:20 Alexandra shares how powerful distance relationships can be
• 32:50 – Alexandra gives advice to Yoga Health Coaches

Favorite Quotes:

• “I tripled my income at this point between September and December” – Alexandra Kreis
• “I do not care whether they get it or not, it’s the total conviction that there is a lot of value behind what we are offering with the coaching and where the whole society is heading. Seeing myself as a leader is a new thing. I feel that I can be a leader in a leadership position. That is a new embodiment for me.” – Alexandra Kreis
• “Since I upped my price point, people take me more seriously.” – Alexandra Kreis
• “It’s the readiness that you come with.” -Alexandra Kreis
• “What is the one thing you are still turning away from that is stopping you from breaking through?” – Alexandra Kreis
• “The body is so precious, and we only get the gift of this body and the way we shine right now, we only get that once. We might return in a different form, but we only get the chance now.” -Alexandra Kreis
• “Life is full of paradoxes… The paradox is: if you don’t raise your price, you are not going to get all of the people that want to spend that kind of money.” – Alexandra Kreis
• “It’s all about perseverance and not giving up… And listening to all of the insights everybody has. To trust yourself in listening to what you need to listen to.” Alexandra Kreis

Guest BIO:

Hi, my name is Alexandra, and ever since I was a little girl, I have been passionate about helping people to reconnect with their nature to understand that we all have the right to be happy and fulfilled. I believe that providing people with tools to explore themselves, gives them the power of healing that lies within us.

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

I’m a yoga teacher since 2002, an Ayurvedic Lifestyle consultant for 13 years and in 2016 my life changed 180 degrees when I became a Yoga Health Coach.

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• How Tania found Yogahealer and her path to personal healing to help her family heal
• Why Tania is an advocate of community-based programs
• What healing work Tania does with families with children with diverse neurological needs

Links Mentioned in Episode:

• Body Thrive
• Yoga Health Coaching
• Living Ayurveda
• Order Cate Stillman’s new book “Master of You”
• Join the Changemaker challenge!

Show Highlights:

• Tania shares her work supporting parents of special needs children
• Tania and Amy discuss the importance of healing ourselves to help others heal
• Tania discusses her personal struggles with raising special needs children

Favorite Quotes:

• “It’s so much fun. And it’s been such an honor to be able to be part of the community. And that place and safety that Cate created so that as we’re doing this work and learning the habits and moving into coaching, we get to grow and practice in the safety of a community and with our peers. And everybody is leading and supporting each other.” — Tania Milliken
• “In Cate’s community, in 17 months, I just had so many breakthroughs in my health, my emotions, communication skills . . . really finding what I really love to do in the world.” — Tania Milliken
• “When I came to work with Cate, it was in the Living Ayurveda course as a family healer. And after I’d worked with her and done the Body Thrive program, I HAD to become a health coach because there are so many people who need the services that Cate’s offering.” — Tania Milliken
• “I didn’t want Cate’s program [Living Ayurveda] for me, but I could see some of the health and wellness benefits for my kids . . . and so I joined her family healing program. And in doing so, of course, figured out that there were other things that I also needed to be doing, that there was a level of self care I thought I was doing that I wasn’t. And inadvertently, I’d become part of the problem.” — Tania Milliken

Guest BIO: 

Tania Milliken is a Certified Yoga Health Coach, with 20 years of experience as a family Support Specialist, who supports families with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder and similar Neurodevelopmental Disorders such as ADHD & Autism, when they are ready to focus on finding health and ease in their daily lives.

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• Why Isabel started work parties and inner work parties
• How Isabel reconnected with her family roots and found Ayurveda school
• What Isabel’s one-year goals are for her program

Links Mentioned in Episode:

• The Inner Work Book
• Isabel’s facebook
• Isabel’s website
• Have a conversation
• Join Body Thrive last call for 2019 pricing!

Show Highlights:

• Isabel talks about her time living on a biodynamic permaculture farm in Costa Rica
• Isabel describes the sense of calm that comes about for her group members from living the habits
• Isabel describes how and why she started work parties and the benefits of inner work parties
• Isabel and Amy discuss the benefits of the kaizen approach and how it helps build trust in yourself.

Favorite Quotes:

• “I always liked the group sports better because of the social aspect.” – Isabel
•  “I’m also pretty passionate about empowerment and people feeling into their own tools and natural strengths and I feel that in the group we can really offer that… Everyone can support in their ways” – Isabel
• “It’s an opportunity for people to be able to connect to a community outside of time and space.” -Isabel
• “A lot of times we can learn from our own challenges.” -Isabel
• “When we are so in something, it’s hard to see outside of it. But when we get to be that outside, that third person and see it objectively, we can see it in a different perspective and then relate it to our own experience … and it’s just so beautiful!” -Isabel

Guest BIO: 

Isabel Castro is an Ayurvedic Health Practitioner and Yoga Health Coach, originally from California. After getting a bachelor’s in Liberal Studies-Elementary Education, she moved to her parents’ homeland, Costa Rica. Living there on a farm, she reconnected with both her family’s roots and with nature’s rhythms. The adventure then invited her to teach at an alternative high school in New Zealand, and to work on more Permaculture farms.

As she sought more health for the land, she struggled to find that balance within her own body. Her curiosity to get to the root of her own health issues led her to the holistic sciences of Ayurveda and Yoga. They finally drew a fuller picture of her health and dis-ease. They also gave her simple tools to embody more balance and vitality.

Through surviving an abusive relationship, she also experienced first-hand the many stresses women and marginalized groups face. She believes that true healing happens in a relationship, as it allows members to feel a connection through both vulnerability and triumphs. In her groups, she blends art, Ayurveda, Yoga, and habit science. Together, these support digestion of mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual experiences.

She’s passionate about empowering others to take charge of their health through increased awareness, and commonsense tools. Her path is a windy one and she’s grateful for the adventures. Outside of work, you may find her dancing, playing music, Improvising, painting, catching a frisbee, bike commuting, or bumping into someone she knows in downtown Bellingham, WA, where she now lives. Connect with Isabel on her website and facebook.

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• How Colleen’s first YogiDetox changed her life
• How her miscarriage led her to teach prenatal
• Why backbends are so therapeutic
• Why the YogiDetox transformed her daily rhythm
• How teaching 15 classes a week taught her a lot of lessons
• Why she had to stop teaching so much

Links Mentioned in Episode:

• Colleen’s website
• Colleen’s facebook
• Have a conversation
• Discover more about Body Thrive 
• Join October Yogidetox

Show Highlights:

• Colleen shares her experience of her miscarriage
• The lessons from teaching prenatal yoga

Favorite Quotes:

• “What a great place to work through the trauma of miscarriage”
• “How have I evolved as a human being to live with the sun and the seasons and the earth and that I can lean into that, there’s an energy in the day. Leveraging that to my benefit. I’m not trying to be fiery and work and be in a real driven place at midnight. But that would be super common to me. On some level you can, but you’re paying a price.”
• “I don’t care to learn more about asana”
• “The inescapable time boundary, you can’t snooze it”

Guest BIO:

Colleen Hieber lives in Newport Beach, CA when she’s not adventuring through Canada or Mexico on foot or bike! She started YHC 3 years ago and never wants to leave. Her background is in professional dance and yoga teacher training but she’s always been obsessed with how to experience mind-boggling endorphin-gushing health that makes you scream, “It’s good to be ALIVE!!!” Connect with Colleen on her website.

Jenny is a spiritual guidance practitioner who has been teaching Enneagram since 2009. Until now, her work was more of a hobby than a career. There was very little structure to what she was doing, and she always felt like she didn’t have enough time. Now in the second quarter of Yoga Health Coaching, Jenny is learning and applying the YHC business structure to her own signature program.

She’s blending the group model with her one-on-one model and loving it!

With more structure to her weeks, Jenny is excited about her work and feels like she now has the time to do all that she needs to do. Her income has tripled. Her workshops are lead generation for her course. And even though she doesn’t teach the habits of Body Thrive, what she’s learning in YHC is directly applicable to her work: how to coach, how to lead dynamic groups, and how to enroll.

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• How the YHC business structure can benefit anyone offering a wellness course.
• How to adapt the YHC coaching model to your and your clients’ needs.
• How the YHC course provides plenty of opportunities for members to share ideas.

Links Mentioned in the Episode:

• Yoga Health Coaching
• Body Thrive
• Enneawake

Show Highlights:

• 2:00 – Jenny is in the second quarter of Yoga Health Coaching. She is learning and applying the YHC business structure to her own signature program. Jenny is a spiritual guidance practitioner who has been teaching Enneagram since 2009. Until now, her work was more of a hobby than a career. There was very little structure to what she was doing, and she always felt like she didn’t have enough time.
• 6:35 – Through the habits of Body Thrive, yoga health coaches learn how to structure their days to be more easefully productive. Like many wellness pros, Jenny felt drained by one-on-one sessions with clients. In YHC, we learn how to maximize our time and our impact by working with groups.  Jenny is blending the group model with the one-on-one model and loving it! With more structure to her weeks, Jenny is excited about her work and feels like she now has the time to do all that she needs to do.
• 10:20 – Jenny offers a 9-month group course. Her income has tripled. Her workshops are lead generation for her course. And even though she doesn’t teach the habits of Body Thrive, what she’s learning in YHC is directly applicable to her work: how to coach, how to lead dynamic groups, and how to enroll.
• 15:18 – YHC content isn’t limited to the course work. Live calls and an online forum provide plenty of opportunities for members to share ideas.

Your Favorite Quotes:

• “I think it’s totally adaptable. I’ve just been plugging in my thing. It’s been easy for me.” — Jenny Faulkner Campbell

Guest BIO

Jenny has a Psychology degree from Middlebury College. She has been teaching the Enneagram since 2009, and has been Certified and Authorized by Don Riso and Russ Hudson of the Enneagram Institute.

She also has a Certificate in Spiritual Guidance from Rowe Camp and Conference Center. Jenny offers Enneagram teaching and Spiritual Guidance over the phone, via Skype, or in her office in Holliston. Jenny is available to travel and offer a program designed specifically to meet your needs.

Mariko is a yoga teacher, yoga therapist and yoga health coach who has been running her own business since 2006. The habits of Body Thrive have made it easier to strike a balance between work life and home life, between caring for others and self care. By waking before dawn to practice self care, Mariko is able face each day with a positive mindset.

Body Thrive and Yoga Health Coaching help us understand who we are and get grounded in our being. We refine our days and find time for learning and creativity. And there is no endgame. We continue to grow and deepen our practice. We’re not satisfied with “good enough.”

Our goal is “extraordinary.”

If you’re done with “good enough” and ready for “extraordinary,” have a conversation with one of our coaches.

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• Why “good enough” is no longer good enough.
• How the habits of Body Thrive make it easier to strike a balance between self care and caring for others.
• How Yoga Health Coaches find time for learning and creativity while working and caring for their families.

Links Mentioned in Your Episode:

• Yogidetox
• Mariko Yoga
• Yoga Health Coaching
• Awake Living

Show Highlights:

• 2:00 – Since going through Body Thrive, Mariko has aligned her daily activities with the Ayurvedic, or “dosha,” clock in order to maximize her days. She wakes before dawn to practice self care and do some creative journaling. This enables her to face each day with a positive mindset.
• 8:45 – Mariko has been running her own business since 2006. Ayurveda, and particularly dinacharya, makes it easier to strike a balance between work life and home life, between caring for others and self care.
• 11:04 – Having a predominantly vata constitution and having moved from Tokyo to Singapore to London, establishing a daily routine was key to Mariko feeling grounded and focused.
• 13:47 – Body Thrive and Yoga Health Coaching help us understand who we are and get grounded in our being. We refine our days and find time for learning and creativity. And there is no endgame. We continue to grow and deepen our practice.

Favorite Quotes:

• “We talk with Cate [Stillman] about the difference between having a life that’s good enough and having a life that’s extraordinary, and I feel like this Ayurvedic shift is the difference.” — Carly Banks
• “Cate talks about spanda, meaning pulsation. . . . In my mind, balance is like this: an infinity mark. If you go to one extreme, you come back to center, and you go to the other extreme and come back to center. You need both, don’t you? All work is not good. All play is not good.” — Mariko Lavender Jones
• “I believe there is no really final end, you know? It’s always changing. We are always changing.” — Mariko Lavender Jones

Guest BIO:

 Mariko discovered her passion for yoga in 1995. After relocating from Tokyo to Singapore in 2002, Mariko gained her ‘Diploma in Teaching the Science and Art of Yoga’, certified by Svastha Yoga and Ayurveda, under the guidance of Sri A G Mohan. When she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2005, yoga was a key influence in her journey to recovery.

Mariko continues to study under guidance of her teachers and mentors and completed one the most comprehensive level of yoga therapist training at Functional Synergy Yoga Therapy in June 2016, which is accredited by the International Association of Yoga Therapists. Now living in London, Mariko teaches Therapeutic yoga privately, as well as Hatha and Yin group yoga classes, both in English and Japanese. Connect with Mariko on her website and Facebook page.

Alec was trained professionally as a chef. For years, he led a very arhythmic lifestyle working as a chef and managing kitchens. He realized he needed to make a change. He went back to and dove deeper into his yoga practice and started to enjoy life a bit more. Around the time he started teaching yoga, he found the Yogahealer Real Life Show podcast and realized there were changes he could make in his lifestyle that would better support his wellbeing. He started making those changes and it made a huge difference, not only in how he experienced his day to day life, but also in how he was able to show up for others. So he enrolled in Yoga Health Coaching as a way to take control of his career as well as his physiology.

Alec weaves lifestyle lessons into his yoga classes, calling them “warm-ups for life” and reminding his students that while they refine their breathing, their attention, and their awareness during class, the real practice starts when they leave the studio. In this way, he differentiates himself from fitness instructors. The 10 habits of ayurveda that we learn to teach in Yoga Health Coaching assist in the implementation of taking our yoga off the mat. Implementing and automating the 10 habits is even more important for yoga teachers, who are often keeping arhythmic schedules and running from place to place to teach. Post YHC, Alec has been able to design a schedule for himself that helps keep him in a state of ease and flow.

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• How YHC makes you a solopreneur while providing you with a network of colleagues and “coworkers.”
• How yoga teachers differ from fitness instructors.
• How the 10 habits of Ayurveda are the tools that help us live our yoga off the mat.

Links Mentioned in Episode:

• Alec’s webiste
• YHC Have a conversation
• Watch the Masterclass NOW

Show Highlights:

• 0:00 – One of the benefits of being a yoga health coach is that while we are all solopreneurs, we have a network of colleagues or “coworkers” that span the globe.
• 2:26 – Alec was trained professionally as a chef. For years, he led a very arhythmic lifestyle working as a chef and managing kitchens. He realized he needed to make a change. He went back to and dove deeper into his yoga practice and started to enjoy life a bit more. Around the time he started teaching yoga, he found the Yogahealer Real Life Show podcast and realized there were changes he could make in his lifestyle that would better support his wellbeing. He started making those changes and it made a huge difference, not only in how he experienced his day to day life, but also in how he was able to show up for others. So he enrolled in Yoga Health Coaching as a way to take control of his career as well as his physiology.
• 6:35 – Alec weaves lifestyle lessons into his yoga classes, calling them “warm-ups for life” and reminding his students that while they refine their breathing, their attention, and their awareness during class, the real practice starts when they leave the studio. In this way, he differentiates himself from fitness instructors.
• 8:46 – The 10 habits of ayurveda that we learn to teach in Yoga Health Coaching assist in the implementation of taking our yoga off the mat.
• 10:14 – Implementing and automating the 10 habits is even more important for yoga teachers, who are often keeping arhythmic schedules and running from place to place to teach.
• 12:22 – In addition to teaching and coaching, Alec still works as a chef, cooking privately for people, in a more relaxed environment and with a sense of ease that helps keep him in a state of flow.

Favorite Quotes:

• “We can’t really gives something that we don’t have a full and true understanding of ourselves.” — Carly Banks
• “Over time, I’ve been able to create my own schedule to where it supports me in deeper ways. . . . So I have these really key points in my day that help anchor me into what I’m trying to create this day, who I’m trying to serve this day and how can I better support myself along this journey while supporting others.” — Alec Hurley
• “We can be doing our dharma . . . but stress and tension come from being out of alignment with self.” — Carly Banks

Guest BIO:

Alec Hurley is a yoga teacher in the San Diego area and a lifelong surfer. He is the founder of Higher Self Wellness and an avid practitioner of ancient wisdom and spiritual practices which he infuses into his public yoga classes and group program “The Art of Connection”. He is professionally trained as a Chef and incorporates the ancient wisdom of “food as medicine” into his culinary creations. Currently enrolled in the Yoga Health Coaching program, Alec is adding the practices of personal and planetary alignment into his modern healthy lifestyle toolkit to help shift the collective into deeper states of connection. You can download a Free guided meditation here to get a deeper sense of what he is all about.