It’s a pleasure to welcome back to the podcast Claire MacEachen, a graduate of my IAYT-accredited yoga therapy program and an accomplished yoga teacher. Today, she is sharing her journey to becoming a healer.

Tune in to learn how Claire evolved to become a confident health professional. She’s also sharing how she forms healing connections with her clients and the ways in which she provides them with movement awareness. 

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As part of my mini-series, Safety in Selling, today’s episode features a Yoga Nidra practice designed to help you achieve self-regulation and reconnect with your body. But there’s a twist: this practice is business-focused.

Find a safe place to settle in as I guide you, step by step, through this 20-minute Yoga Nidra practice to help you relax and down-regulate your system. This includes setting an intention for your business and using the method of opposites to explore your thoughts and feelings about it.

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Today, I’m talking about imposter syndrome and the bundle of thoughts and beliefs that come with it, hindering your ability to sell yourself in a calm, steady manner. Fear and doubt are the biggest culprits—pushing you into a sympathetic fight-or-flight response when leaving your comfort zone.

Listen in as I share actions you can take outside of my program to support the sales process and move forward with a down-regulated nervous system. This includes simple steps, such as practicing non-sales conversations and engaging with others to build connections.

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In the next part of my mini-series, Safety in Selling, I’m speaking with two previous guests of the From Pain to Possibility podcast, Nona Jordan and Karin Rossi—current members of my certification final module. And you guessed it: we’re talking about getting comfortable with selling.

As both Nona and Karin share, increasing and refining your technical skills is always the first step in the sales process. 

We’re also exploring how my concept of pain-free range of motion can be applied to selling. The idea is to start small and take incremental steps to offer your services to more patients. 

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Today’s episode is especially powerful because it includes a special guest: Lory Newmyer. She’s here to share her experience in selling—and doing so by calming her nervous system.

We begin our conversation by discussing Lory’s unique background and her decision (and discomfort) in transitioning from a free yoga teacher to a paid yoga therapist. Lory shares how she shifted her mindset from selling a product to providing others an opportunity to invest in their well-being.

Tune in to hear Lory open up about her ability to calm her nervous system—a skill she learned as a teacher—and how she has used that state to sell herself comfortably.

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Welcome to part two of my mini-series, Safety in Selling, designed for health professionals who want to seamlessly integrate yoga into their practices while embracing a sales process that feels aligned and authentic.

Tune in and learn what it means to create a sales process that feels safe, empowering, and confident—not by “chasing the yes,” but by understanding and grounding yourself in the thoughts and emotions that arise. You'll discover how to embody safety while guiding clients to say yes naturally.

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Today, I’m tackling a different topic—one that many health professionals may find somewhat uncomfortable: selling. But here’s the thing: whether you like it or not, in order to garner clients, you have to go through a sales process.

To help, I’m launching a new mini-series designed to help you sell your service of supporting people in reducing and eradicating physical pain. Listen in to hear why, now more than ever, people need the ability to down-regulate their systems and how you can help them by effectively showcasing your professional abilities. 

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In this episode, I’m welcoming back Austin Chason, a graduate of my IAYT-accredited yoga therapy program. Austin is sharing how he has continued using yoga to support his mental health and how we can all broaden our perspectives on healing.

Tune in to discover how we can help clients become more mindful of the stimuli they’re exposed to and explore the benefits of creating stability to avoid overwhelming the nervous system. This episode is packed with insights to help you and your clients build a stronger foundation of resilience and resources.

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This episode is short and simple, designed to connect you to your body and breath. Tune in to bring awareness to nearly every part of your body while simultaneously embracing a simple intention, or sankalpa. Even more than that, you’ll see how that intention resonates within you before enjoying the rest of your day feeling renewed and refreshed.

Find a safe and quiet place where you can sit or lie down as I guide you, step by step, through this 20-minute body scan and breath awareness practice to down-regulate your nervous system.

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Today’s episode is the second and final part of my Neck Relief Toolkit, where I share the two key compensatory patterns I most often see in clients with neck pain. Even if you’re not a health professional, I guarantee that understanding these will improve your rehab journey.

Listen in to hear how simply bringing awareness of these two patterns to your clients can help them change how their tissue functions, regardless of age. I’ll also provide detailed examples of how to do just that (even over video calls), along with ways to calmly and compassionately help clients cultivate their own curiosity.

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