Building your Personal Foundation @ The Yoga Place

What is a Personal Foundation ??

Virtually everyone who works with a coach, and in fact most people, want more from their lives. For some people this "want" is expressed more in material terms and for others it is more in emotional or spiritual terms - such as living an authentic life.

Yoga and personal coaching - which are sciences of Self development - focus on the development of a strong personal foundation as the key to Self development. Your Personal Foundation is the essence on which your life is built - it is the way you live your life, your values, what is important to you, your standards, who and what you have around you, and your personal boundaries.

The higher you want to go in life the deeper and stronger your foundation needs to be. Tall buildings which are built on weak foundations lack integrity and eventually crumble. Taoist philosophy and Chinese medicine agree with this. In their Yin / Yang theory of life, it is understood that the amount of Yin (Self expansion) that anyone can express is determined by the amount of Yang they have ( contraction, or personal foundation)

If you choose to work with a coach who has been trained at Coach University a major part of their focus, at the beginning of your relationship, will be on coaching you to develop your own strong Personal Foundation. Untill this is developed the coaching will not work very well because you will be loosing energy to things like unmet needs, unneccesary tolerations and unfinished business. We can think of these sources of energy loss as "cracks" in your foundation. One of your objectives in the course will be to identify and permenantly repair the cracks in your foundation.

I have developed a "live" Personal Foundation Course to support my coaching clients, my Yoga students and Ayurvedic clients, coaching clients of other Coaches and anyone else who is interested in a more fulfilled authentic life.

This course is based on a synthesis of The Yoga / Ayurveda Personal Foundation and the Coach University Personal Foundation. The addition of Yoga and Ayurvedic knowledge add a personal and spiritual focus to the Coach U model as well as providing you with the means to develop a lifestyle which will support your constitution.

Timing & Dates

We will meet over 12 Tuesday evenings for two hours: 7.30pm - 9.30pm.
Because of Christmas I have divided the program into two parts. The first six weeks will start on the 103rd November 1998 and end on the 15th December. The second six week block will commence on the 2nd Feb 1999 and we will finish on the 9th March 1999.
This course also includes two half hour coaching sessions which we will organise at mutually agreeable times.

Costs

The cost of the course is $500. This excludes the prescribed reading material and other things which you will be buying to experiment with - food, essential oils / incense etc.
Included in the course are two free half hour coaching sessions to support your development.
Coaching clients - your cost is $200.

Course Style

The "style" of our work will be inter developmental and experiential I will be acting as a guide and facilitator to coach your own Wisdom out of you. I will be requesting that you experiment and try on what you learn and uncover between our sessions. This means that the majority of what you get from this course will come from what you do between sessions. Once you truly "get" this work and who you really are this learning will continue for the rest of your life. Self responsibility is a key word.

Coaching Support

When you get your Personal Foundation workbook and materials you will find constant reference to working with your coach. Hiring yourself a coach to work with is an optional extra which I recommend. A coach will be an extra help , will keep you on track, and will help you with other issues you may wish to work on. If you want to use a coach I may be available to help depending on my availability and our matchability. Most Australian coaches are registered on the Coach University web site referal service. Ask me if you need some assistance.

Prescribed reading



Course Content

For the Coach University component we will be working directly with the Coach University Personal Foundation material. Once you register I will send this to you (about 160 pages). The ten sections we will be working on are described below. I am still in the process of developing the material from Yoga and Ayurveda.

Included in the course are two free half hour coaching sessions to support your development.

The 10 stepping stones of a Personal Foundation (Coach University definition)

Step	Description
1	A past which you have fully completed
2	A life which is based fully on integrity
3	Needs which have been identified and fully met
4	Personal boundaries which are ample and automatic
5	Standards which bring out your best
6	An absence of tolerations
7	Choosing to come from a positive place
8	A family which nurtures you
9	A community which develops you
10	A life fully orientated around your true values

The objective of the Ayurvedic component is to help deepen your understanding of who you are and to give you an experiential understanding of your nature / constitution. From this understanding you will be able to design a lifestyle to support your individual nature.


Joining the program

You will need to reserve a space. You can do that by contacting me either by phone or e-mail




Teleclass format in the future
Yoga - PF yoga
Ayurveda - personalising - understanding yourself and designing a lifestyle to support yourself