How to Slow Down to Speed Up with Yoga Nidra with Rod Stryker (Part 2)

On today’s show, Rod Stryker and I continue our conversation on the deeply healing and transformative practice of Yoga Nidra. Yoga Nidra essentially translates to the ‘end of all thoughts’ because it is a process in which we learn to let go, to relax and restore, to diffuse our awareness, and to just BE. We’ve […]

Breaking Your Glass Ceilings

I’m writing from the plane heading to Rapid City. Batool Merali, co-author of The Divinity Within happens to have a phat pad of a hotel in downtown Rapid City. And as a longtime Yogahealer course member + later mentor (see Yogidetox, Living Ayurveda Course, Yoga Health Coaching, Body Thrive), she has been offering her phat pad […]

Mentoring Teens on the Habits from Yogis from Ayurveda

About 12 years ago I witnessed Maya’s birth. I was there in the role of birth doula, but I wasn’t much help. It was my first birth. Maya being stubborn, was a little stubborn about coming out. Twelve years later, Maya is fired up to test the habits in Body Thrive. She wants to see […]

Corporate Coaching + Instant Implementation with Angus Nelson

I met Angus Nelson at Podcast Movement. I was super curious because he coaches corporate leaders who are suffering in the corporate environment and I’m starting to match Yoga Health Coches with companies to run our 10 week Body Thrive program. We jumped right into the reality of the current employee lifestyle and how to […]

Exposé On What Motivates Me

I’m not a holy person. I was talking with Acharya Shunya Pratichi Mathur a few days ago on the phone. (We met when I interviewed her for the Ayurveda Summit last fall.) Shunya, I said. I’m not a holy person. I’m a merchant. I bring the market to the holy person and the holy person […]

Yoga Health Coaching

When Yoga Teachers Become Yoga Lifestyle Coaches:

You Accelerate the health evolution of yourself, your students, and clients
You become a Wellness Provider
You give structure to your public class curriculum.
You add workshops and courses
Subtly teach a plant-centric diet through your yoga classes and in your households

3 Tips for Yoga Teachers for 2011

This top 3 list is totally slanted towards 2 of  my impersonal drives. To make what we know as yoga teachers more accessible to those we haven’t connected with …yet. Many of you, like me, have captured more than a few opportunities to learn from the greatest (or the greatest students of the greatest). Most […]