Ashiyana BEST ME Coach Training - ‘The yoga teacher of the future’

OUR VISION

Our vision is to offer a training that will create the Yoga teacher of the future. Yoga today is often little more than a physical workout, which poorly reflects its ancient origins as the art and science of living a healthy and fulfilling life. Yoga was conceived as a support system which embraces all areas of our lives – the mind & emotions, sleep & relaxation, nutrition, exercise & movement, relationships, nurturing surroundings, creativity, financial abundance, and spiritual growth.

We are reaching back to the past in order to create the future. In so doing, we envision our coaches offering a personalised service which is tailored to the specific goals and needs of each of their clients. This will involve the creation of a client’s personal wellbeing program (PWP) that involves a consideration of the whole of their lifestyle. Given our ambitious vision, we need teachers who are ready to partner with us and create an entirely new way of seeing health, happiness and longevity.

‘Only about 20% of health and longevity is dictated by genes, while about 80% is influenced by lifestyle and environment’ – Danish Twin Study

Who is this training for?

This is a training for 200hr and 300hr registered yoga teaches who have already recognised the need to offer a deeper, more holistic service to their clients. Given that our BEST ME ecosystem supports both our Ashiyana coaches and their clients, there is the opportunity for creating a far more abundant and enjoyable career as a wellbeing practitioner.

The philosophy of Ashiyana has always been to hold our staff and customers in a loving embrace. This means having empathy, great listening skills, and a passion for supporting others on their wellbeing journeys. If you have these essential qualities, then our course will provide you with the rest.

Our approach to coaching and wellbeing

A client’s wellbeing goals and issues need to be considered from a holistic point of view and not through the lens of reductionist thinking which prevails today. For example, when considering weight loss, diet and exercise are essential components but there is also a mental/emotional element, and often root cause. The ability to embrace, and then maintain, changes in lifestyle is all about the mind and emotions, and this requires expert human support and guidance (as opposed to an AI bot).

BEST ME model –

Our training centres on understanding the fundamentals of behavioural change, specifically what enables and supports change. If your client wants to sustainably change their behaviour, whether this is calming their mind, alleviating joint pain, or managing a challenging relationship, then you will need to address their mind and emotions. It’s important to understand that what you think, feel and believe determines both what you attract, and also who you become. This is why we place so much importance on addressing calmness and clarity of mind in our coaching system.

Our BEST ME model underlies our coaching system –

H – Become clear about heartfelt goals & intentions
O – Recognise the obstacles – limiting beliefs that stand in your way
P – Create lifestyle change through small, achievable steps
E – Become empowered by relaxing and living your purpose

The first step is to support your client in realising what they truly want to achieve in terms of goals and intentions. This is facilitated by online intake forms which will help your client to introspect and sense their deeper, heartfelt intentions. The next step is to assist your client in recognising what stands in the way of them achieving their goals – the obstacles. Specifically, they need to become aware of their limiting beliefs and repetitive patterns of behaviour. We all live predictable lives until we become cognisant of our ego mind – the program that was created in our early childhood.

‘Belief shifts biology’ – Dr. Bruce Lipton

Once your client has clearly recognised the internal obstacles standing in their way, you can create a personalised program of support which guides them towards the best possible version of themselves. The most effective way to create sustainable change is a program of gentle, incremental steps – baby steps*. Your client’s personal wellbeing program (PWP) will therefore comprise of little, daily ‘Rituals’ which they are comfortably able to achieve, and which derive from our 9 Pillars of Wellbeing (see below under ‘Structure of the course’).

*Naturally there are times when big steps can be taken, or perhaps need to be taken. For example if a client is diabetic, extremely overweight, and chronically lethargic and depressed, then baby steps simply won’t cut. But in the main, manageable steps in a reasonable time will keep your clients motivated and willing to follow their PWP.

The final step is to guide your client towards the realisation that being relaxed will allow them to feel empowered. When empowered, your client will be ‘in their lane’ and living their life with purpose. This is the essence of BEST ME.

BEST ME platform –

While there are unquestionably significant issues with our dependency on today’s burgeoning digital world, there are also profoundly beneficial opportunities. We believe that the key is to design technology so that it catalyses and empowers the expert, human guidance and support. This way, there is synergy between the human and digital elements, and the overall offer is much greater than the sum of the parts.

So once you’ve been trained in our unique approach to wellbeing you will work with your clients through our BEST ME platform. The platform has been designed around you, the coach, so you will be able to recommend your own products and services (as well as those of other practitioners) that you have created within our BEST ME ecosystem. This includes creating content for the ‘Library’ in the form of classes, talks and programs (online workshops and retreats); creating ‘Experiences’ – offline courses, retreats and trainings; and creating ‘Groups’ focussed on specific goals and issues which enable peer group support both on and offline. Apart from the integrity of you being able to offer excellent and personalised content to your client, this also means that you will have multiple profit centres with our ecosystem.