Wellness Pro Show

Hi I'm Annie Barrett. I am a certified Yoga Health Coach and Yoga Health Coach member, and enthusiastic participant of the most recent Yogahealer retreat that took place in October 2017, in Rapid City, South Dakota. In this podcast, I talk about what we experienced on the retreat: there were about 30 of us Yogahealer members, including members from Body Thrive, Yoga Health Coaching, Living Ayurved...

In this episode, Cate gives Alexandra Epple, one of the Top 3 YHC Bloggers, a platform to gain insight into growing her wellness business and ask Cate some of her most pressing questions:   As I explore business opportunities in Germany, I wonder if going fully online makes more sense than running my business locally. It is difficult to find places to give talks, but many local people are not inte...

Join Brooke, Grace, Irena and me for a YHC Podcast Training session, made for people on the podcast team or for people who will be on the podcast team in the future. Our topic is how to show up as an expert on your show. We talk about challenges and opportunities regarding podcast development. The conversation is led by Brooke and Grace, and some of their most pressing questions:   How do you use...

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 u...

In this episode, Cate gives Andrea Bachman, one of the Top 3 YHC Bloggers, a platform to gain insight into growing her wellness business and ask Cate some of her most pressing questions:   How can I build my podcast as an effective & sustainable wide mouth opening to my acculturation funnel? What are some specific ways I can maximize my skills as a writer, speaker and podcaster to reach more poten...

In this episode, Cate gives Yolanda DeCuevas, one of the Top 3 YHC Bloggers, a platform to gain insight into growing her wellness business and ask Cate some of her most pressing questions:   In two months' time, I am moving from the west coast to the east coast of Australia, to a place that is more densely populated, and where people live a typical unhealthy modern lifestyle, but where yoga and Ay...

Hello, it's Cate Stillman with yogahealthcoaching.com and yogahealer.com, and I've been asked to finish the series on overweight-ness in Vata, Pitta, and Kapha. So you may have heard the episode on overweight Vatas, or the episode on overweight Pittas, and not the episode on overweight Kaphas, because I hadn't created it until right this moment. Often, when someone is overweight, they assume they...

Learn the story behind the bitters revolution in modern cocktail culture — and see exactly what that has to do with Ayurveda — as two Yoga teachers and friends from New Orleans discuss the uses for bitters as part of a healthy, modern lifestyle. Bitters have exploded in the last decade, not only in the cocktail world but also as a tool for your Ayurvedic kitchen. Understand where bitters come from...

Rosie Tait talks to Yoga Health Coach Annette Shellenbarger about the Detox experience and how what's expected in terms of results shifts over time. Rosie and  Annette first bonded over midlife reinvention. Rosie left her career in law and moved to Bali. Annette left her nursing career and moved with her husband to California just a couple of years ago. As it turned out both had studied both yoga...

Grace Edison talks with Carly Banks, a mom and Yoga Health Coach who went from real estate/construction to habit coaching after taking the Body Thrive course with Grace. Carly talks about how the course helped her transform her postpartum depression into a healthy desire to teach the habits she learned to others. Both Grace and Carly talk about the group dynamics in the Yoga Health Coaching commun...

Johanie struggled with an eating disorder and other health problems including asthma since she was a child. She also lived in a violent household. Cate and Johanie discuss how internal stress and external health issues and how Johanie has overcome her own health crises through ayurveda and habit evolution. Through Cate's Body Thrive course, Johanie learned how to create healthy daily habits as wel...

As a woman approaching 50, Dr. Michele dispels the myth that it's a natural part of life to gain weight as we get older. It's important for men and women of all ages or hear this, but especially for women who have accepted this as truth in their life. As a Yoga Health Coach, Dr. Michele, along with hundreds of others, participates in seasonal detoxes within a group of like-minded individuals each...

Cate talks with Yoga Health Coach Veronica Maurel about her journey in becoming a Yoga Health Coach. Veronica was able to heal from a severe case of debilitating chronic fatigue to a vibrant life of living and teaching the principles of Ayurveda. According to Veronica, "Everytime you help somebody, you are helping yourself as well. You are opening up to new possibilities." Veronica enthusiasticall...

As Yoga Health Coaches and wellness professionals, we all make the mistake of spreading ourselves too thin and agreeing to things that may not make sense for us or even make a big difference for our clients. How do you know which opportunities to agree to, and which ones to decline?   In this episode, Cate gives advice about being honest about your terms with anyone who wants to use your services...

Two Yoga Health Coaches, wellness practitioners and mothers talk about how to raise a family, run a business and still create time for your own personal growth. Annie Barrett of Olympia, WA and Jessica Graham Robinson of Lander, WY discuss how the YHC program informs their parenting, how the values of homeschooling/alternative schooling relate to yoga and how to create support systems for ourselve...

The driven, ambitious, fiery nature of pitta can help us get a lot done, but it can also cause weight gain if we don't eat with the seasons and do and eat less as we age. Typically the reasons behind weight gain in a Pitta person have a lot to do with the intense nature of their constitution. Pittas generally have strong metabolisms when they're young, but that doesn't carry on through the seasons...

Two friends who on the face of it have it all. Successful careers, kids (eventually), and the slim bodies which signalled to the outside world that these are women in control and at the top of their game. Behind the apparent success there is extraordinary dysfunction. A disconnection from true needs, nutritionally and spiritually. Going to work early when it's barely light and finishing work as th...

Today's episode is about the power of the word, the power of the blog, and the power of advancing your writing: writing as a process of digesting thoughts and ideas into something that gains traction, something that is communicable, something that may save you time in the future. On today's show, you'll hear from a number of Yoga Health Coaches who joined the Yoga Health Coaching group blog, and t...

In this episode, Jamee Tenzer, professional speaker and coach's coach, shares the benefits of challenging conversations and how to have them successfully.   Jamee and host, Brooke Bailey, walk us through a four-step process for reclaiming our energy and embracing difficult conversations: Step 1.) Become aware of the thoughts stuck in your head, then determine which ones you can process on our own...

Kate O'Donnell shares the story of developing her cookbook,  Everyday Ayurveda , and how it's simplicity and beauty has made it such a success. Listen for tips to use in your home kitchen, everyday. She gives Yoga Health Coaches insight into helping their clients build healthy cooking habits. And shares about her next book,  Everyday Ayurvedic Cooking for a Calm, Clear Mind . Overall, Kate's appro...

Welcome Anna Welle as our newest Yoga Health Coaching Coach of the Month! Anna comes from an Ayurvedic background: she studied with the Kerala Academy to become an Ayurvedic Practitioner, and through her education had the opportunity to intern at an Ayurvedic hospital in Kerala, India, as well as Ayurvedagram in Bangalore, India focusing on panchakarma therapies. While her education led her deep i...

Grace is one of our amazing Yoga Health Coaches who has overcome so much to be where she is today, and as a Yoga Health Coach, she makes Dream Calls for the Awake Living course. In this episode, Grace and Cate discuss selling the Awake Living course to potential clients, and uncover secrets that will help other Yoga Health Coaches do the same for any Yogahealer course. Grace describes the three le...

Tune in and learn how to: Make time to do the things that really "light you up" Get into a state of flow where you can use your unique talents to boost your business Prioritize and use the 80/20 rule for time management to learn where to direct your focus Give yourself permission to take time when you're in a funk—progress will still happen!   In this episode I rap with Dana Skoglund about: Tips o...

A majority of Western society is overweight. As a practitioner and/or student of ayurveda, it is difficult to assess whether excess weight is a vata or kapha issue. Cate shares her advice on how to tell the difference between vata weight and kapha weight as well as how vatas can work to bring balance (and weight loss) into their lives. Self massage, sipping warm water, even chewing gum are some of...

In today's Yoga Health Coaching episode, Annie Barrett and I sit down to talk about what happens as you develop as a Yoga Health Coach. It starts with the initial phase of getting through your pilot program and certification. Then business evolution happens as you set up systems to leverage the certification as a new income stream and business model in your career. And finally, there is what is ac...