Yoga Teachers in Integrity: Personal and Professional Evolution with YHC

In this Changemaker Challenge Career Clarity Session, Carly Banks chats with fellow Yoga Health Coach Marcia Wilson. Marcia is a newly certified yoga health coach running her second pilot program and starting YHC Mastery.

Marcia has been in the wellness industry for a long time, but she feels she has never had the level of impact on the people she has worked with as she has had with yoga health coaching. As a studio owner and yoga teacher, she knew by the interactions with her students after class that her students wanted more contact with her. As an occupational therapist, Marcia feels she didn’t have the tools she needed to make a difference in her patient’s day to day lives until yoga health coaching.

Yoga Health Coaching is a great fit for yoga teachers who want to make a bigger impact without burning themselves out. Often yoga teachers are so busy running around from class to class, and maybe even working a side job, that they miss out on yoga’s sister science, ayurveda. They aren’t taking care of themselves and they’re out of integrity with what they’re teaching.

The habits of ayurveda that Marcia has learned in Yoga Health Coaching have benefitted her personally in how she shows up in her personal life, and the business training she received in YHC has been significant and impactful on her professional life. She now sees herself as a community builder with the skills of a savvy business woman.

What you’ll get out of tuning in:

• How Yoga Health Coaching is a great fit for yoga teachers who want to make a bigger impact without burning themselves out.
• How YHC helps yoga teachers shift into integrity with what they teach.
• How wellness pros can blend what they’re already doing and what most interests them with yoga health coaching.

Links Mentioned in Episode:

• Body Thrive Course
• Body Thrive Book
• YHC Have a conversation
• Stay Hydrated with Copper H20
• Marica’s website
• Yoga Loft
• Watch the Masterclass NOW

Show Highlights:

• 0:41 – Marcia is a newly certified yoga health coach running her second pilot program and starting YHC Mastery. Pilot programs are run during YHC training. Marcia has been in the wellness industry for a long time, but she feels she has never had the level of impact on the people she has worked with as she has had with yoga health coaching. As a studio owner and yoga teacher, she knew by the interactions with her students after class that her students wanted more contact with her. As an occupational therapist, Marcia feels she didn’t have the tools she needed to make a difference in her patient’s day to day lives until yoga health coaching.
• 8:43 – Yoga Health Coaching is a great fit for yoga teachers who want to make a bigger impact without burning themselves out. Often yoga teachers are so busy running around from class to class, and maybe even working a side job, that they miss out on yoga’s sister science, ayurveda. They aren’t taking care of themselves and they’re out of integrity with what they’re teaching.
• 11:30 – The habits Marcia has learned in Yoga Health Coaching have benefitted her personally in how she shows up in her personal life, and the business training she received in YHC has been significant and impactful on her professional life. Marcia has appreciated the clear examples and guidelines set forth about how we’re expected to show up in YHC, and she has applied those to her yoga studio.
• 15:00 – Yoga Health Coaching combines so well with any health and wellness niches that wellness pros don’t have to stop what they’re doing to be a yoga health coach: Yoga Health Coaching can be another component of the services we’re already providing. Marcia has set an intention to be more innovative and more responsive to what is happening in her community. At the same time, our course members are curious about what we’re interested in, so we get to bring our own interests into our courses.
• 18:25 – Like many yoga health coaches, Marcia has found that course members naturally start to step into leadership roles. Course members from her first group are now organizing monthly “living labs” for her current group.

Favorite Quotes:

• “This type of process where we’re supporting people over time in a conversation is massively impactful.” — Marcia Wilson
• “I actually see myself more as  a teacher, learner, and provider of ayurveda, starting at the base with dinacharya, the habits.” — Marcia Wilson
• “The habits that we teach are so simple. That does not mean that they’re easy, but they’re worth it.” — Carly Banks
• “The skills that I’ve learned through this program have given me a completely different way that I can step into conversations and projects.” — Marcia Wilson
• “I’m a community builder. That’s what I do.” — Marcia Wilson

Guest BIO:

Marcia Wilson is an Occupational Therapist, yoga studio owner, and Yoga Health Coach (in training) in Kamloops, BC. A life-long learner, she’s navigated career changes, motherhood, health issues and marital breakdown with increasingly refined skills gleaned from the world of yoga and ayurveda. Her current passion? Supporting others on their journey of evolution by sharing the simple self care practices that have shifted her into a consistent space of clear energy and deep connection. Connect with Marcia on her website.