Recently I’ve seen questions from our beloved clients about sliding scale and pay what you can pricing. I interviewed my friend Tad Hargrave, and he said the most cogent things I’d ever heard on the topic.
Briefly, you can’t use sliding scale and pay what you can approach to avoid your own money issues. But you *can* use it really effectively if you’re willing to do it consciously, as a client of ours has, filling his schedule with well-paying clients.
After a lot of prayer and let’s say “spirited” debate back and forth, we’ve discovered that we want to offer our Community on a pay from the heart basis. It was the elegant and healing solution after a lot of other ideas between “free” and various price points. Why not let you decide for yourself?
We’re not ready to open it yet. There are some back-end administration and technical issues to be worked out to make Pay From the Heart work really well. But I wanted to let you know it’s coming. We’re excited about it, because the spiritual and business resources in our Community have been so nourishing and effective for so many people, and we want many more people to benefit.
So just keep your ears peeled.
Two more quick things before Yollana’s video.
#1 Last year I was a guest teacher for Bari Tessler’s Art of Money.
Although I haven’t done the program myself, we did have her family in our home a few weeks ago during her Art of Money roadshow. You get a sense of someone sitting in their presence, and she and her husband are doing incredible work in the realm of money. It starts THIS WEEK, like now. 🙂 Take a look at the Art of Money. (That is not an affiliate link.)
#2 We’ve been having some fantastic conversations with folks in our Readiness Assessments.
If you need help discerning where you need help in your business, why don’t you get one? I’m working on a really clear 10 minute self-assessment, which should be available later. But in the meantime, get an assessment with us.
Okay, time to get to Yollana!
Video: Body Awareness and Mangoes
Yollana is away for two weeks on a trip to India to hear Sufi music- I’m so jealous, and can’t wait to see what she shares from that trip. Amazing!
Before she left, she harvested the mangoes she talked about here, and today we see the ripe mango and she talks somatic awareness for business owners.
Do you lost awareness of your body while working? How do you think that affects you?
Where is Mark?
I’m also proud to say that I’ve recently appeared a few places, including the Ruzuku podcast with Abe Crystal and the Creative Giants podcast with Charlie Gilkey.
With love from all of us,
Mark, Yollana, Steve, Lincoln, and Jason
7 Responses
Always spot on as usual, Yollana.
That’s one of my main struggles in my business right now, how to be more aware of my body.
Since I’m seeing more clients now and giving Shiatsu to all of them, I get quite bad back pain.
I’m trying to solve it in a few ways. One is to exercise and get physically stronger. Another is to be aware of my body when I’m working, but unfortunately most of the time I get distracted by other things, like being focused on the patient’s body, getting distracted by my own thoughts, or by talking to the patient. And so I end up with back pain, again..
The third way is to have someone treat me, which I may have just found someone today to swap treatments with!
Anyway, sorry I don’t have any good advice or insight to share, just wanted to say how relevant this video is to my business.
Blessings,
Inbal
Hi Inbal
It takes some mental discipline to be able to work and think about what you are doing with your body! But one thing you could start with is to picture what you are just about to do with your client and then quickly work out which joints you need to move in order to carry out the treatment.
I guess you know where your hip joints are! They are sadly neglected by most people, but they save your back by allowing you to move your whole torso as one unit. So rather than bending in the middle of your back or in fact any part of your back, try and use the hip joints instead.
Same with the arms, they are not the same as your shoulders and can move separately.
If you do this sort of thinking as often as you can, you may well start to move differently. This will initially feel wrong, but try to ignore these feelings.
I hope this helps!
Veronica (Alexander Technique Teacher)
Thanks a lot Veronica! It’s very kind of you to offer some advice. I’ll do my best to implement it.
I did think of asking someone to watch me work so they could tell me what I’m doing wrong. Do you think an Alexander Technique teacher would be a good option? If so, do you know anyone in London? 🙂
It’s so helpful to be aware of our bodies as we move through the world. I’ve now been practicing yoga for four years and found that a positive side effect of yoga (which crept into my life without me even being conscious of this at first) was a better awareness of how I’m moving in my daily life. I’m an acupuncturist now and the yoga has helped me be better at actually inserting needles, and of being aware of how my hands are as I touch another human. When I’m relaxed, my patients can relax better with me. I also find that it’s simply easier to feel (in times of stress or when I am vulnerable and threatened) when I am crunching up my heart by physically crowding my chest. Feeling this helps me to catch on that I need to open up again, when appropriate.
Thanks for sharing, Monica. That’s exactly what I’m talking about 🙂
(ps – sorry for my late reply, I was overseas right after this blog was submitted and just returned!)
Thanks Yolana for this lovely simple story about how your body was enlivened by challenge, by reaching for something beautiful and delicious! I could write a whole book about what I do to stay in my body during working hours…..I probably SHOULD write that book! An example would be the 3 part processI teach all my clients, which can be done very quickly – say, 4 breaths for each element – or longer, say one minute for each element: 1) QUIETING (not sending messages to your body to DO anything, but just asking your whole self to quiet) 2) Orienting: noticing the supporting surfaces you are touching, the earth (“down”), noticing the sky (up!), noticing the view 360 degress around you; and 3) MOVE! just move – stand up, turn around, shake out, just do something that pleases you. Then go back to work.
Right on, Clare.
Yes, perhaps you should write that book?
Love Yollana
(ps – sorry for my late reply, I was overseas right after this blog was submitted and just returned!)