Customizing Your Coaching to Serve Your Community
Still riding the “high” from the Yogahealer Mexico retreat in March, Carly chats with Gin Burchfield, who has taken her Yoga Health Coaching training and certification and created her own unique programs that serve kids and families.
Gin has been a successful massage therapist for 16 years. For the last 12 years, she has also been providing Ayurvedic consulting on a one-on-one basis. What she’s found is that the one-on-one model is exhausting and not very successful in terms of long-term impact.
As a certified Yoga Health Coach, Gin is serving parents with the Body Thrive model and children with her own unique program called “My Body is Science,” which combines anatomy, yoga, and the habits of ayurveda. The intergenerational aspect of her work emphasizes that vibrant health is both your birthright and your legacy.
The flexible structure of Yoga Health Coaching provides us with the opportunity to create custom programs like Gin’s. As the YHC community grows, we see more and more coaches becoming empowered, recognizing their strengths, and utilizing their unique interests to offer a habits-based program to their niche populations.
What you’ll get out of tuning in:
- How the one-on-one coaching model is limited in its ability to effect long-term change.
- How the flexibility of the Yoga Health Coaching model allows us to deliver programs customized to our own unique strengths and interests.
- How the Yoga Health Coaching community supports our endeavors regardless of our niche markets.
Links Mentioned in Episode:
- Body Thrive Course
- Body Thrive Book
- YHC Have a conversation
- Stay Hydrated with Copper H20
- Gin’s website
- Gin’s facebook page
- My Body Is Science
Show Highlights:
- 0:00 – Carly and Gin met in person at the Yogahealer retreat in Mexico in March, and they are both still riding the high from that.
- 3:25 – Both Carly and Gin are serving families in their versions of the 10 habit program. Both are transitioning out of the jobs they’ve been in for years. Gin has been a successful massage therapist for 16 years. For the last 12 years, she has also been providing Ayurvedic consulting on a one-on-one basis. What she’s found is that the one-on-one model is exhausting and not very successful in terms of long-term impact.
- 6:00 – Gin is a certified Yoga Health Coach who is serving parents with the Body Thrive model and children with her own unique program called “My Body is Science” that combines anatomy, yoga, and the habits of ayurveda. The intergenerational aspect of her work emphasizes that vibrant health is both your birthright and your legacy.
- 7:50 – The structure of Yoga Health Coaching provides us with the opportunity to create custom programs. As the YHC community grows, we see more and more coaches becoming empowered, recognizing their strengths, and utilizing their unique interests to offer a habits-based program to niche populations.
Favorite Quotes:
- “It [the retreat experience] takes you to the next level of what you think is even possible . . . and then exponentially further.” — Gin Burchfield
- “Vibrant health is your birthright and your legacy.” — Gin Burchfield
Guest BIO:
Gin began her career in massage, Ayurveda, yoga, and wellness in 2001, and has been in private practice in Raleigh and Cary, NC since 2008. She now specializes in Medical Massage Therapy and Ayurveda. Gin has also served as faculty in the Therapeutic Massage program at Wake Technical Community College since 2009 and enjoys her work as a Montessori Yoga and Anatomy Instructor through her self-developed “My Body is Science” program. She is currently studying to become a Certified Yoga Health Coach and is offering her new group-coaching formatted, 10-week program PURE HEALTH four times per year. Prior to this, she had the distinction of working at the Chopra Center for Wellbeing, founded by renowned physician and author Deepak Chopra. Here she learned Ayurvedic Massage Therapy and Panchakarma (detoxification) administration. She served as Assistant Supervisor in the Chopra Center Spa before being recruited to work as Therapeutic Bodywork Team Lead at Wellspace, a large integrative healthcare center formerly located in Boston, MA. Check her website and facebook page.
