The MindBody Institute's Integrative Approach to Total Wellness:
GOT COACHED?® Stress Management CoachingTherapeutic Yoga
Breathing Techniques (Pranayama)
Guided Imagery & Meditation
GOT COACHED?® Stress Management Coaching
Coaching is a powerful alliance designed to forward and enhance the lifelong process of human learning, effectiveness, and fulfillment. A Coach is someone who will help you articulate your goals, define strategies and plans, hold a vision of you in full expression and success, and challenge you to achieve that vision. So you and your coach become powerful participants on a team that is committed to deepening your learning and forwarding the progress toward your vision.
A Coach takes into account the whole you and through inquiry gains an understanding of the many aspects of your life that directly affect your personal performance such as your nutrition, exercise, stress, health, support system, sleeping habits, life and career satisfaction, etc.
The outcomes that clients most often attribute to their coaching are a higher level of self-awareness and self-confidence, a healthier and more balanced life, smarter goal setting and lower stress levels. Clients reported experiencing the following outcomes as a results of working with a coach:
Self-Awareness: 67%
Setting Better Goals: 62.4%
More Balanced Life: 60.5%
Lower Stress Levels: 57.1%
Self-Discovery: 52.9%
Self-Confidence: 52.4%
Improvement in Quality of Life: 43.3%
Enhanced Communication Skills: 39.5%
Project Completion: 35.7%
Health or Fitness Improvement: 33.8%
Better Relationship with Boss, Co-Workers: 33.3%
Better Family Relationship(s): 33.3%
Increased Energy: 31.9%
More Fun: 31.9%
More Income: 25.7%
Stopped a Bad Habit: 25.7%
A landslide of 98.5% of coaching clients said their investment in a coach was
well worth the money.
Therapeutic Yoga utilizes the principles and techniques of Yoga including Postures, (Asanas which are body positions intended to restore and maintain well-being and improve vitality and flexibility) as well as Breathing and Meditation to create and maintain optimal psychological, physiological, and spiritual health.
Breathing Techniques (Pranayama)
Pranayama is a Sanskrit word meaning lengthening of Prana (life force) or breath. These powerful breathing techniques include Three Part Breath (Dirgha), Ocean Sounding Breath (Ujjayi), Skull Polishing Breath (Kapalabhati), Alternate Nostril Breathing (Nadi Shodhana) and breathing during postures. Several researchers have demonstrated that Pranayama is beneficial in treating a range of stress disorders.
Guided Imagery & Meditation
Guided Imagery has been found to provide significant stress reduction benefits, including physically relaxing the body quickly and efficiently. Guided Imagery also helps participants to get in touch with deeper levels of wisdom, held on a subconscious level, that would help them to create what they truly desire in their lives. It can also stimulate peak performance and activate our natural healing powers.
Neuroscientists have discovered that people who Meditate
shift their brain activity to different areas of the cortex. Brain
waves in the stress-prone right frontal cortex move to the calmer left
frontal cortex. This mental shift decreases the negative effects of
stress that can eventually create disease in the body. There is also
less activity in the amygdala, where the brain processes fear.