Integrative Yoga Health Coaching

with Melissa Kerr

Health Coach, Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher, Yoga Alliance Certified Education Provider, Trained in Mind-Body Medicine & Lifestyle Medicine

Welcome to a client-centric model of understanding your state of well-being. Integrative Yoga Health Coaching creates a thought-partnership where the coach’s role is to help you, the client, see and observe your thinking and behavior patterns. Your role is to decide if you want to re-think and re-design your process or path. The coach actively listens to the story you bring to the session, and together, we develop goals and strategies to enhance your well-being.

Coaching is a non-clinical service focusing on personal evolution and empowerment through goal setting, exploration, action steps, and accountability. Coaching is not intended to diagnose, treat, or cure medical or mental health conditions. Coaching is, however, an excellent supplement to well-being and offers tools and support to foster behavior change. This is a forum to hear where you are and discover how to get where you want to go based on your values and goals; a self-directed method of creating change, utilizing a coach as a facilitator and/or guide.

What to expect from an Integrative Yoga Health Coach experience session?

Health coaching can be confusing. There are many different “types” of coaches, all offering different experiences. The Integrative Yoga Health Coach uses yoga philosophy, chakras and koshas (energetic layers related to our body, mind, soul…) and the science and principles of lifestyle medicine to help you, the client, find optimal wellness by considering how you are influenced by movement, nutrition, sleep, socialization, stress management, and responsible use of substances and prescriptions. Utilizing the chakras as communication tools, a typical session may include talk-based exploration or movement-based techniques to investigate what blocks may be present in the body and/or mind, helping you consider the framework for conceptualizing yourself. How are you choosing to engage in the world? How is your lifestyle? What is your state of well-being?