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.

Paige Bradley-Pecoul is in her second year of Yoga Health Coaching, and getting ready to enter her second year leading her own coaching program. After surveying her first year members, she got a couple of negative reviews and is struggling with them.

In a conversation with Cate, Paige opens up about how she feels about negative feedback and talks about how to integrate feedback into her program and develop a co-creating system.

Listen to the episode to learn more about collaborative intelligence, utilizing liberating structures, and the importance of deep listening.

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• How to improve your systems
• How to integrate feedback
• How to start co-creating

Links Mentioned in Episode:

• More about Liberating Structures 
• Connect with Paige 
• Find the Money Course
• Watch the Masterclass

Show Highlights:

• The effectiveness of negative feedback
• Tapping into Collaborative Intelligence
• Automating email reminders

Timestamps:

• 1:37 Improving systems based on member feedback
• 10:12 Liberating structures and 1-2-4-All
• 20:17 Teaching vs. Coaching
• 26:17 Getting people into your coaching gyms

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.

Want to become a Yoga Health Coach, but stuck on How to Pay for it?

Watch our YHC Presell Strategies Workshop. You’ll learn:

• Who will fill your pilot
• How to get those people engaged
• How to get those people enrolled
• Ideas for Kickstarter Tiers
• How to pay off your entire YHC Tuition in your First Quarter!

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Another great thing to reflect on is our habit evolution. It is natural for the regularity of our habit commitments to change over time, and reflecting on this can teach us a lot about what is working and what is not. Cate and Talya discuss their different methods of written reflections that allow them to form more coherent thoughts. Whether it be in the form of organized lists or the simple flow of words on paper, writing down what is on our mind can really aid in the act of reflection.

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• How to do written reflections
• Why reflection pairs naturally with the manifestation
• Why reflection is so powerful at the end of the year

Links Mentioned in the Episode:

• Talya’s website
• Talya’s holiday recipes
• Discover more about Body Thrive 
• Body Thrive Book

Show Highlights:

2:45 – Talya discusses the impact of her past year’s focus on the word “commitment.” While she found that it motivated her, she also reflected on how she could have applied the idea to other areas of her life in order to have a better impact.
7:20 – We are all wired into a cycle of both reflection and manifestation. However, if we only use manifestation without reflection, we cannot digest those lessons learned, which causes us to be out of balance.
14:00 – One way to improve the negative impacts of holiday food is to provide balance through adding in herbal teas or powerful herbs in order to aid digestions and balance in the diet.
15:15 – Cate discusses her wavering meditation habit. She emphasizes the benefit of reflecting on what is working for her and the changes she observes depending on her commitment impact her life.
20:55 – Talya encourages utilizing morning pages in our morning routines. This involves at some point in the morning writing three full pages of whatever your mind conjures. It is great for emotional healing and having such tools can hold you in place long enough to have some kind of presence or experience with yourself.
28:45 – Talya explains the word she has chosen to play with for the new year, and why. By directing our focus based on our reflections, it helps us to turn a new page.
38:25 – There is a serious power in deep reflection and deep digestion. These processes allow us to realize our assets and how they plug-in with strengths and weakness that themselves plug-in to meet our obstacles head-on.

Your Favorite Quotes:

• “I’m committed also to feel good and being happy and joyful and knowing when it’s time to let go.” – Talya Lutzker
• “We are wired into a cycle of reflection and manifestation.” – Cate Stillman
• “We don’t know what we don’t know.” – Talya Lutzker
• “This is where I didn’t show up as a visionary, this is where I didn’t show up as a leader, this is where I showed up wanting someone to do it for me.” – Talya Lutzker

Guest BIO:

Talya Lutzker is founder of Talya’s Kitchen – an Ayurvedic kitchen about so much more than food; it’s a place to drink up deep nourishment for the heart and soul of who you are. Talya helps women reclaim their radiance through food, nutrition, Ayurveda and self-care.

She found her passion and purpose in Ayurveda when she turned to it for her own healing in 2001. Since then, she’s authored three cookbooks, founded the RAD Cleanse (Radiance Ayurveda Detox) and opened doors to Nourishment School. Connect with Talya on her website, Facebook  and Instagram.

Amarylis is a prenatal yoga teacher who was looking for a way to continue to work with her students after they delivered their babies and support them in the early years of motherhood. After watching Cate’s work for a couple of years, and with a passion for ayurveda, Amarylis took the plunge into Yoga Health Coaching, despite her doubts about whether or not she could afford the cost of the program.

Amarylis enrolled in YHC during a time of huge transition. Her marriage was dissolving, She didn’t have much of an income from her yoga teaching or her work with nonprofit organizations, and she knew she would have to figure out how to support herself and her daughter. She was done with the scarcity mindset and knew she wanted to make more money.

Amarlyis has enrolled nine members in her YHC pilot, and she has paid off her tuition. She knew she could serve others in a bigger way; she just wasn’t sure how to do it. Yoga health coaching is that way. Amarylis did the work and trusted that her members would show up, and they did. She has learned that the investment of money translates into an investment in yourself.

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• Why investing in Yoga Health Coaching sometimes involves a change in mindset about “spending” money.
• How Yoga Health Coaching is just the right combination of growth mindset and solid business practices.
• Why sometimes the only obstacle you really need to overcome is your mindset.

Links Mentioned in the Episode:

• Catch Yogahealer Black Friday Sweet Deal-EXTENDED!
• Yoga Health Coaching
• Amarylis’s website

Show Highlights:

• 0:00 – Amarylis is getting ready to launch her pilot coaching group. As a prenatal yoga teacher, she was looking for a way to continue to work with her students after they delivered their babies and support them in the early years of motherhood. After watching Cate’s work for a couple of years, and with a passion for ayurveda, Amarylis took the plunge into Yoga Health Coaching, despite her doubts about whether or not she could afford the cost of the program.
• 6:08 – Amarylis enrolled in YHC during a time of huge transition. Her marriage was dissolving, She didn’t have much of an income from her yoga teaching or her work with nonprofit organizations, and she knew she would have to figure out how to support herself and her daughter. She was done with the scarcity mindset and knew she wanted to make more money.
• 9:40 – Amarlyis has enrolled nine members in her YHC pilot, and she has paid off her tuition. She was enrolled in Living Ayurveda at the same time and was able to schedule her pilot during a time that made sense for her.
• 13:40 – Amarylis has learned that the investment of money translates into an investment in yourself. The power of yoga health coaching lies in the support and accountability of your group.
• 15:25 – Yoga Health Coaching is just the right combination of growth mindset and solid business practices. Amarylis knew she could serve others in a bigger way; she just wasn’t sure how to do it. Yoga health coaching is that way. Amarylis did the work and trusted that her members would show up, and they did.

Your Favorite Quotes:

• “I finally had a conversation with Grace. And I was like, ‘Yes, sign up!.’ And I remember distinctly telling her, ‘I’m signing up for this, but I want you to know that I am terrified.’ And she was like, ‘Good! You’re in the right place!’” — Amarylis Fernandez
• “I just decided that I need to make more [money]. Not just that I need to make more, but I want to make more. And I believe that I can make more; I just don’t know how. And I’m going to find those people who do know how . . . . I’m going to start surrounding myself with those people who do have that same mindset.” — Amarylis Fernandez
• “It feels so good. And it feels so fulfilling. And it’s creating a model for the people who you want to serve. And creating a structure that makes it available for them. . . . There’s just so much power in the structure of Yoga Health Coaching.” — Carly Banks
• “I knew that I needed the structure and the step-by-step model that Cate has laid out for Yoga Health Coaching so that every single week I know exactly what I need to be working on.” — Amarylis Fernandez
• “It’s very empowering when you get to step into your own dharma and your way of serving in the world.” — Amarylis Fernandez

Guest BIO:

Amarylis Fernandez is a yoga teach, a yoga health coach in training, and a mother. Not so long ago, Amarylis was totally frazzled, ungrounded, and desperate for change. And she realized things wouldn’t change until she did. So she did.

Now, Amarylis is on a path to guide women into vibrant living amidst the beautiful chaos children can bring. She spent a transformative month living at the Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health getting my 200 hour yoga teacher certification. She earned her 85 hour pre/postnatal certificate through the Bhaktishop in Portland, Oregon. She’s trained more than 200 hours in Ayurveda with Cate Stillman of Yoga Healer, and specialized in Ayurveda for pregnant mamas and new mothers through Sacred Window’s Ayurvedic Doula programs.

Amarylis believes the transition into motherhood is a wild and wondrous ride that can be aided by yoga in all forms: postures, breath work, meditation, mantra, and help from your tiny guru(s)! She also knows the potent life transformations that occur when the wisdom of Ayurveda is incorporated into daily rhythms. Connect with Amarylis on her FB page and get more info on Amarylis’s website.

Enrolling in Yoga Health Coaching was a big leap of faith. The financial investment was scary, but not as scary as her self doubt. As she prepared to launch her pilot program, she realized that all of the work she had done up to this point had prepared her for the work she would do with yoga health coaching. Hannah feels as though she is still in transition, but she sees the time coming to where she won’t be teaching as much yoga or seeing as many private clients, which will allow her more time to support her group and get back to pottery.

Although Hannah started in February of this year, by September, she had enrolled enough members to pay off her YHC tuition . . . and she’s not even certified yet! Even better, she’s having the impact she wants to have.

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• Why YHC is the business training every wellness pro needs.
• Why the YHC financial investment isn’t as scary as it seems.
• How everything you’ve done up til now has contributed to your potential success as a yoga health coach.

Links Mentioned in this Episode:

• Qualify yourself for a spot in Awake Living
• Yoga Health Coaching
• Heartfeltwellbeing

Show Highlights:

• 0:00 – Hannah just returned from the Yogahealer retreat in Salt Lake City where she discovered more opportunities for growth. Hannah started out as an art teacher. After going through yoga teacher training, she stopped teaching art became a full time potter and yoga teacher. She then went to ayurveda school and transitioned away from pottery to open a private ayurveda practice. Having a private practice was challenging prior to yoga health coaching. Hannah was ”scrambling,” teaching 10 yoga classes a week in addition to seeing ayurveda clients privately and working other jobs as well. She wasn’t having the kind of impact she wanted to have either.
• 6:00 – Enrolling in Yoga Health Coaching was a big leap of faith for Hannah. The financial investment was scary to her, but not as scary as her self doubt. As she prepared to launch her pilot program, she realized that all of the work she had done up to this point, including teaching art and leading outdoor programs, had prepared her for the work she would do with yoga health coaching. She now has 21 people enrolled for a year. Her growing edge now is being more location independent. She’ll be travelling over the next several weeks and will be running her coaching group online from different locations.
• 9:30 – Hannah still feels as though she is in transition, as she is still teaching yoga and seeing private ayurveda clients in addition to coaching her group. But she sees the transition coming to where she won’t be teaching as much yoga or seeing as many private clients, which will allow her more time to support her group and get back to pottery.
• 11:15 – Although Hannah started in February of this year, by September, she had enrolled enough members to pay off her YHC tuition . . . and she’s not even certified yet! Even better, she’s having the impact she wants to have. She knew her pre-YHC business model wasn’t working. Now she knows she’s getting the business training she needs to be successful.
• 12:50 – A happy by-product of YHC is that coaches get their own daily habits solidified, even those who were previously trained in ayurveda.
• 14:50 – Each yoga health coach brings his or her own particular strengths and interests into their coaching programs. Hannah includes quarterly art projects. Carly focuses on decluttering and creating “zen” spaces in her clients’ homes.

Your Favorite Quotes:

• “This is really the best business degree that I ever could have hoped for.” — Carly Banks

Guest BIO

Hannah grew up in an artistic/health-conscious family in the mountains of NC. She learned early on that health has many components.

As a young adult, she struggled with chronic sinus infections and digestive issues. Through changes in diet and lifestyle, and taking (and making) herbal medicine, Hannah rebuilt her vitality and realized that she was drawn to alternative health modalities. She became a yoga teacher, studied herbalism, and delved into exploring the body/mind connection.

Hannah has now dedicated her life to learning about individual health and empowerment through wellbeing practices and sharing them with others. She brings this integrated knowledge to working with each of her clients as individuals on a unique path toward integration and healing. Connect with Hannah 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!