about wellness coaching

What is Wellness Coaching?  Wellness Coaching is Coaching with a focus on your physical wellness.
 
I approach Wellness Coaching in three easy steps:
1.  You Decide
2.  I listen and Point
3.  We Create
 
YOU DECIDE
Here are some of the categories that are often addressed as part of Wellness Coaching: Nutrition, Exercise, Weight Control, Stress Management, Relationships, Sleep Quality, Disease Management, and Life Balance. During the intake process, we will highlight your wellness interests and you will take a fitness test. This will be a simple 3 minute "step test", as well as a 1 Minute "sit-up" test, and 1 minute "push-up"
test. You will also be required to get a physical from a medical doctor so that we have a great launching point of information. Another part of the intake will be accessing your relationship to your body, mind, spirit and emotions.
 
I LISTEN AND POINT
My job as your coach is to ask powerful questions.   These questions will be the backbone of pointing, as well as empowering you on your wellness path.  The result is, you seeing clearly your strengths and obstacles, and choosing clearly the next empowering goal and action.
 
WE CREATE
During this step, you will develop a specific and highly individual plan with goals, actions and outcomes.  This plan will be the map that we use to
tailor specifically toward the goals that matter to you.  We will contract a design and end date.  This will be unique to you alone.
 
Your job in this experience is to listen to your body, make powerful choices and commit to your goal.
My job is to use my 20 years of a fitness background, as well as, the experience of training hundreds of clients of all ages and background, toward your best life.
 
And oh yeah, together we can make it loads of fun.

Here is another perspective of the process from a book called "Why Movement?" by Nicole Potter- "Movement For Actors".

 

"Feldenkrais observed that within us there is a continous stream of thinking, feeling, sensing and moving or acting. We may not be aware of these things going on at times, but if we really focus our attention, we will find out that these aspects of the self potentiates a change in others. It is certainly possible to change how we think, how we feel, how we sense, and how we move. The question becomes, how can changes be accessed and sustained? To change how we think presumes we know how we think. It can be done, but since the evolution of how we think is through our thinking, it is easy to trick ourselves. To change how we feel presents a different kind of dilemma. We first have to know what we are feeling and how we come to feel it. Our feelings are quite changeable from moment to moment. Do we really understand how a change in them takes place? To change how we sense is probably the most obscure. To understand how information comes into us and how we process it, requires a lifetimes study. The stimuli that influences this kind of processing are so varied that it is almost impossible to keep track of them and their interrelationships. To change how we move is immediate. we know it in that moment. It is something concrete, something that is observable, not only to others but to ourselves as well.