Hi Folks,

Below you can read a little about my experience mentoring others, gain insight into how I work, and better understand my methodologies. There are a lot of people offering all sorts of mentorship and coaching now a days. So below I’m offering a little insight into my background.

Mentoring General population

Sometimes the language of Yoga can be alienating and exclusionary! I have worked with several people and some groups who just don’t want to do Yoga. They do, however, want to have a more harmonious relationship, experience, or lifestyle. How many of us can code shift? Can you take your practice and speak it in a way that is inviting? It’s interesting and also pretty fun

Mentoring Students of Yoga

For over ten years, I have been teaching students. My class and workshop offerings have evolved as time has gone on. Initially, I taught alignment and strength focused yoga. Now, I teach Yoga as a means to personal energetic liberation from the need for external approval. Speaking frankly, my work is to support others in unlocking, circulating, and using their pranic power to become less dependent on the competitive, capitalistic, scarcity mentality, and create a more welcoming, accepting, and nourishing (think Inhale) community for each other.

Mentoring teachers of Yoga

For the past five years, I mentored around 100 up coming teachers, both 200 and 300 hour certified. These folks were courageous, conscious, and hungry to get out of their box and support others in doing the same. But what is it that actually makes a teacher? This is the question that often bewildered new teachers. During this time period, I worked diligently with teachers and supported them in:

• Developing a dedicated personal asana, meditation, and pranayama practice

• Discussing and developing language around their own personal experience in practice

• Building bridges of language between internal experiences and teaching those experiences to others

• Being embodied while teaching others

• Trusting their experience and wisdom of practice in the face of dissent, disapproval, and melancholy

• Create peer groups where they could safely discuss triumphs and challenges of teaching

• Understanding that teaching is really just the next level of being a student, staying humble, and continuing your education.

Mentoring Blossoming Entrepreneurs

On a yearly basis I worked with 3-5 entrepreneurs who were building supplemental business for their Yoga studios. They had purchased a license from our Yoga School to bring either a 200 or 300 hour Yoga Training to their town and studio. For 8 to (preferably) 12 months, I worked with these individuals on their personal apprehensions and tendencies that disengaged them from goals and desires.

Together, we identified and called into council those parts of Self. Often we identified contrary intentions that were held as world view beliefs that generally needed a lot of the individuals energy to continue surviving… within this work we would scaffold and support the evolution of these contrary intentions and in doing so be able and willing to work towards accomplishing goals.

Areas most commonly worked through together:

• Fear of Being Seen: Being big, perceived as too much, breaking from status quo “you”, who everyone already knows.

• Imposter Syndrome: an inability, unwillingness, or fear of trusting one’s knowledge and experience resulting from one’s perceived lack of skill, talent, ability, and comparison to others who are “better”. (this is something to be aware of and earnest about AND it’s also a great strategy to keep the people down and those in power strong).

• Co-dependence: The tendency to need external support to succeed combined with transferring blame of failure and inaction onto someone/something else.

• Procrastination: The deep desire to avoid or distract one’s self from taking ownership of goals, deadlines, and perceived unachievable markers.

• Overconfidence: The protective side of fear that often severs an individual from their willingness and joy to connect with others, be vulnerable, and make choices that are in alignment with one’s purpose/calling.

• Mischievous Deception: Oftentimes, this character is an armored form of fear of failure that also protects the procrastinator from criticism. This part of our Self can be challenging to gain contact with, over powering, and self sabotaging.

I’ve dedicated myself to a practice of living and look forward to continuing to spend my years of living support the journey inward and the building of bridges from the depths out into our world. May we all feel deeply that our deepest yearns are purposeful and have a right to be here.

My intention with Evoking Reverence is to support and scaffold folks as they name, own, and weave together their calling, passion, and experience from the inside, out in to the world and its systems.

Shadow Work

Rachelle’s work is rooted in Shadow Work. Shadow Work entails identifying the parts of yourself, your perspective, and the world around you that you are averse to sitting with, enraged and threatened by, and made uncomfortable by accepting. Rachelle works to get to know the origin of these beliefs and emotions intimately.

As we identify these shadows and become familiar with their stories, beliefs, and power we can begin the work of coming back to ourselves and to society. We can be of better use as we work towards embodying and enacting our calling.