Authentic providers don't often resonate with conventional "marketing." Yet as small business owners, you still need to engage others and communicate—clearly and with integrity—how you support them.
Enclosed: thoughtful considerations for an authentic way forward + support tools for meaningful engagement.
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Contents
Identifying & Bridging the Divide with Potential Students & Clients
Non-Negotiable Context
An Authentic Way Forward
Helping You Focus on Authentic Engagement
Sampling of Support Tools with Quick Links
Boost Your Impact — Premium Resources Just a Click Away from $19
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Identifying & Bridging the Divide with Potential Students & Clients
Whether you teach yoga, provide nutritional counseling, do clinical work, body work, or energy work, or create yoga therapy plans, herbal remedies, or nature retreats, you do what you do because something in you was activated to make it happen. You experienced an inner pull that led you to devote vast amounts of time and attention to serving others using modalities that earned your trust.
What sparked that activation for you? What moved you to commit so deeply to new ways of living and serving? And why haven’t some others — who could benefit from what you offer — felt that same level of readiness or inspiration to take the steps that could lead to meaningful healing and transformation?
You trust the techniques because you’ve seen the evidence — through your own experience, your study and research, and your work with others. I propose that this same kind of evidence has the power to move people toward more consistent, positive action in their own lives and professions — but it likely needs to be communicated differently than the way that inspired you to commit with such fervor.
Non-Negotiable Context
Information Overwhelm, Trust Crisis, Discernment Pressures
No one alive today can rely on past experience as a guide for how to make decisions in the current information landscape, because we have never before faced such overwhelming complexity and volume. It’s a given we can’t control. We’re inundated with fragmented information, strong opinions, exaggeration, commercial agendas, propaganda, and corrupt influences — alongside genuinely valuable knowledge and meaningful research that can improve lives.
As a result, each person is navigating a never-before-seen, personal journey of determining how they approach and discern what is true and relevant for them.
An Authentic Way Forward
Trust & Connection, an Abundance of Evidence, Lived Experience, Accountability
Within this information landscape and the discernment pressures it has provoked, we can only imagine and stress-test ideas for how to walk our way through this time sustainably, and with integrity.
Here are some considerations as you navigate this territory:
Build Personal Connection, Trust — Some of the issues arising in this landscape are issues of trust, meaning-making, and shared understanding. It’s likely that the way through will be shifting focus away from maximizing audience numbers and “likes” to building communities based on personal connection and trust. In this vein, telling your story and inviting others to tell theirs may be a way to restore authentic human connection and service.
Provide Neutral, Verifiable Evidence — The days of relying solely on an “expert” or a single study are, in my view, long gone—not because subject matter expertise or research lacks value, but because both can be influenced by bias, funding, or selective interpretation, as that is now widely recognized. A way through this challenge, I think, is to draw from a broad base of evidence across multiple forms: randomized controlled trials alongside other well-designed studies, especially those with transparent or low-conflict funding; real-world and lived experience; and balanced reporting from neutral sources in multiple disciplines. When this range of evidence is made clearly accessible, verifiable, and thoughtfully contextualized, it becomes easier to understand both its meaning and its limits, supporting more grounded and informed discernment.
Offer a Personal Experience — Learning something just isn’t enough to change behavior. Interactive, full-body experiences are far more likely to shift behavior. Body-based experiences including yoga are key to providing brief, accessible experiences that shift the nervous system and provide relief from stress, overwhelm, mental overload, and physical pain. Key considerations: nervous system state, self-observation of the lived experience, grounding and embodiment, inner sensing, recognizing emotional suppression and engaging in practices that develop a healthy relationship with emotions.
Demonstrate Accountability — I propose that truth and accountability can serve as the perfect touchstone for guiding our relationships and renewing society. Imagine the ripple effects if we consistently demanded truth and held one another accountable. How much healing could result, both individually and societally? You can try it for yourself: in every interaction, you can choose to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth and see if that helps to distinguish you and draw to you the clientele you seek. I’ve expanded on this topic here.
When people hear compelling stories, see credible evidence, and experience results for themselves, they’re far more likely to move beyond the inertia of familiar habits and take the next step — whether that’s committing to a consultation or workshop or engaging more deeply in their own care. They can begin to shift their perspective toward something that is necessity for trying and committing to new things: openness.
From openness, if a person can then have experiences that gives them moments of symptom-free clarity — say as the result of a mindfulness practice or Restorative Yoga — then they can also begin to experience hope. Not everyone responds the same way, of course. Some people are more primed — by timing, circumstances, or perspective — to respond to new possibilities. Others, who may be less activated and more resistant to change have equally valid reasons for taking a slower or more circuitous path before they’re ready to engage in something new. That is simply how things are, and we can only do our best and be there for those ready to engage.
What do you think? Do you have more thoughts? I’m happy to add them here and you are invited to join us to share your thoughts with like-minded colleagues on May 5th.
Helping You Focus on Authentic Engagement
I don’t want you to have to face this chaotic environment at all — much less on your own. I want you to be able to focus on your good work. Nevertheless, while the world is uniquely challenging right now, it’s also providing a new opportunity. As old systems fail so spectacularly, more of us are devoted to helping shape a new world grounded in reciprocity and mutual thriving, in truth and joy, beauty and love.
So whether you’re creating a marketing piece, preparing for a workshop, training, consultation, or class, or writing a newsletter, article, or book, I want you to have what you need to do so authentically and in a way that frees you up to focus on what you do best. You can draw on the body of work we’ve spent more than a decade researching, refining, and making accessible.
Sampling of Support Tools with Quick Links
Below is a sampling of tools we’ve created to support you, and we’re glad to point you toward anything else you may need. As always, we welcome your feedback and requests as you navigate this evolving landscape.
Conditions
Cancer: Free Reference Portal — Research, Therapeutics, Testimonials, Protocols, Chemo, Root Causes, Covid Vaccines, and Treatment Suppression
Health Conditions Hub — Get right to what you need (in context) on any of dozens of conditions: arthritis, back, spine and hip conditions, diabetes, bone health, brain health, etc. See link for complete list.
Adapting Yoga and Movement — Select Yoga Adaptation Principles or see a particular condition for movement considerations.
Health & Healing Generally
Beyond Diagnosis: Healing Principles — Curated, organized approach to teach the subject of diagnosis vs. healing, from a big-picture perspective (free resource)
Health & Wellness Key Considerations — Pick your area of interest: mental & emotional well-being, nervous system & stress, chronic inflammation, toxins, oxidative stress & detox, nutrients, vitamins & minerals, placebo & noceobo effects, food system corruption & harms
Root Cause Index — Quick access to research papers verifying root causes of more than 50 classes of disease (free samples here and here)
“Conventional” Medicine: Failed Health Outcomes — Organized curation of drawing from more than 700 references for the full series, shown here
Yoga Teaching & Training
Use the following resource hubs and links to get to what you need:
Authorized Trainers: Free Benefit + Recognized Teachers Program
Well-Being: Mental Health, Emotions, Psychological Health, Stress, Trauma
Glossaries
Research Summaries & Presentations
All members have access to all research summaries, including quick links to all original sources. Navigate from the Research Hub, Pharmaceuticals Hub, or Study Library.
For customizable PowerPoint files or PDF handouts for distribution:
Versions with distribution rights available in the Download Library
Customizable versions available with Associate & Trainer memberships
Available as an add-on purchase for Provider & Teacher members — as low as $3 per credit with slide decks requiring 3 credits
Non-members, get PDF versions for distribution in the store
Boost Your Impact — Premium Resources Just a Click Away from $19
Since 2012, Wellness Resource Center and Yoga Teacher Central have been supporting teachers and wellness providers. We’re here for the helpers — yoga teachers, health providers, trainers, coaches, and educators who empower others.
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