- If you’re:
- Feeling overwhelmed, anxious or irritable...
- Living a busy life full of stress, and chances of 'me time' come last on your list of things to do….
- Trying to cultivate a sense of vitality and gain clarity on your purpose...
- Simply too busy putting out fires and surviving each day to do anything about it…
- Looking for a way to effectively overcome the limiting beliefs and stress in your life and pave a path of vitality...
Then this might be the most important decision you make on your journey to your optimal self. The truth is, if you don’t prioritise your physical and emotional wellbeing over time you ‘don’t have’, there is a high-chance of time being taking from you later on…
In fact, if you are already feeling burnout you are not alone.
Interrupted sleep, digestive issues, neck tension and headaches are common among those not prioritising their health and wellbeing. You might find yourself feeling increasingly irritable, snapping at loved ones, or dropping the ball on important deadlines and events.
And there is every chance you know you should be doing something about this, but you don’t know how, where or even why to begin. I’m here to help.
Yoga Brain 101:
My 8 Week Yoga Brain 101 teaches you the modern-day psychological tools you need to seize control of your life. To feel like you are living deliberately and thriving (not just surviving!). When you commence Yoga Brain 101 you’ll get access to weekly training modules with a series of psycho-educational lessons (strategies and skills) that you can listen to on the run, coupled with a specially designed 30-minute yoga class, plus a bonus bite-size meditation.
Are you ready to unlock your heartfelt purpose?
By the end of this program you will:
Have A System In Place To Manage Life Stressors Without Sacrificing Your Health
Challenges are always going to come up, I won't claim that I can teach you to get rid of them completely (although we will also look at some lifestyle shifts that might help!) but I will teach you skills that leave you confident managing life's stressors that are sabotaging your success.
Know How to Cultivate Peace and Contentment in the Present Moment
Be able to cope with overwhelm, think clearly and make choices easily. Experience fewer late nights, less jaw clenching and more brilliance in each moment.
Develop A Yoga-Based Mindful Practice that You Can Stick To
It is so hard to start a new practice... and then more so to keep it going. I will help you establish a committed yoga practice that ensures ongoing energy, vitality and stress-resilience.
Gain Clarity On Your Purpose and Journey To Living A Meaningful Life
How we spend our life is how we spend our days, so let's take ownership of your time! Once we remove the inner conflicts on what you 'should' be doing, you'll be able to find the path intended for you to be on and spend your time in a meaningful way.
Have Systems and Practices in Place to Enhance Your Focus and Creativity
When you have this area of your life on point, things flow. When it's chaos... your attention is on putting out the next 'fire'. Let's get things organised and focus on the path ahead.
People can use the [Psychological] Flexibility skills to do yoga. They can use yoga to learn the [Psychological] Flexibility skills. And, we’ve done some randomised trials comparing these things and combining these things.
Yoga is a dance between control and surrender — between pushing and letting go — and when to push and to let go becomes part of the creative process, part of the open-ended exploration of your well-being.
Yoga is at the core of my health and wellness routine … it helps me to re-center and to focus as well as improve my overall core strength
A lot of people who like yoga find that ACT [Acceptance and Commitment Therapy] empowers the work, and [the psychological research indicates] they both have something to contribute.
Yoga did not just help me with my body, I became fitter from within. It helped me to focus better
Yoga has been the best tool for managing stress and life’s challenges.
The eulogy virtues are the ones that are talked about at your funeral – whether you were kind, brave, honest or faithful. Were you capable of deep love? I want to foster eulogy virtues when I’m in a yoga class or meditation session or any spiritual gathering. Especially if I’m lying in corpse pose. It just makes sense.
The whole thing about meditation and yoga is about connecting to the higher part of yourself, and then seeing that every living thing is connected in some way.
The yoga pose is not the goal. Becoming flexible is not the goal. Standing on your hands is not the goal. The goal is serenity. Balance. Truly finding peace in your own skin.
Yoga Brain 101:
You'll gain confidence and clarity in the results you are seeking, and you'll feel supported exploring the psychoneuroimmunology relevant to understanding your mind-body connection - I promise I make science fun and meaningful!
Module Highlights:
- Why what you’ve been doing to manage the overwhelm hasn’t worked (and how to fix it!)
- Learn how to understand your pain and your purpose
- Gain knowledge of your psycho-physiological system (the mind-body connection)
($75 Value)
High levels of psychological flexibility predicts emotional wellbeing and can align you with the life you dream of. Over the course of these 6 modules, you'll cultivate the three components of transformation, firstly, awareness.
Module Highlights:
- Capacity to connect with the present moment in an easeful accessible manner (i.e., not adding something else to your ‘to do’ list)
- An understanding of flow states and building a connection with a broader sense of yourself to ensure calm when you are navigating stressful situations and events
($150 Value)
Secondly, openness.
Module Highlights:
- Develop skills in distancing from unhelpful thoughts, feelings and sensations to support you in suffering less as you navigate your life journey
- The ability to examine challenges and practice acceptance to support you moving gracefully forward into the life you choose to live
($150 Value)
Thirdly, engagement.
Module Highlights:
- Dive deep into what you really love and solidify your ‘why’ to ensure you engage in activities that build energy and vitality, rather than deflating you
- Get clear on your heart-centred goals and learn strategic ways to action their success
($150 Value)
Learn some day-to-day tweaks that you can make to maximise your energy and emotional health. You'll learn of the eight lifestyle pillars, which are evidence-based and can be connected with other practices to offer you maximal mood benefits.
Module Highlights:
- Refine your self-care practices to ensure you access amplified benefits
- Get clear on why you need to schedule lifestyle medicine practices into your week (and how to)
- Clarify your wellbeing and lifestyle plan going forward to ensure you feel empowered to create your most loved life!
($75 Value)
Your Special Bonus Package
$95 Value
We know 95% of people who lose weight will gain it back over time. In this video tutorial with Dr. Anika Rouf (Practising Dietician), you’ll learn a non-diet approach to improve your relationship with your body and food through the principles of intuitive eating.
What You’ll Get:
- Video tutorial with Dr Anika Rouf empowering your understanding of important nutritional considerations to optimise your health
- Video tutorial with Dr Anika Rolf introducing you to the principles a non-diet nutrition and intuitive eating
$55 Value
Being pregnant and having a new baby is a wonderful yet highly vulnerable time. Sleep is interrupted, hormones change, well, everything in life changes! Research has demonstrated that physical activity post-partum is actually one of the most beneficial things you can do to improve your mood (a time where postnatal depression and anxiety is at a higher-risk).
What You’ll Get:
- Guided 30-minute prenatal yoga class with Dr Kaitlin
- Guided 30-minute postnatal yoga class with Dr Kaitlin (feel free to bring your bub!)
- Both classes can be practised regardless of pregnancy status, offering you more restorative options in your yoga library
$75 Value
You are breathing every moment of everyday, so harness it as one of the most cost effective and efficient tools for decreasing anxiety and improving your mood! Learn breathwork exercises along with the underlying science that explains why breathwork can reduce the symptoms of stress, anxiety, insomnia, depression, PTSD and ADHD.
What You’ll Get:
- Video tutorial with Dr Kaitlin introducing you to the psychoneuroimmunology and evolutionary science explaining breathing as a practice for physical and emotional wellbeing
- A tutorial series of 10 breathing exercises to support your emotional and spiritual health
$60 Value
Bullet Journaling is a “mindfulness practice disguised as a productivity system.” Learn this empowering method to implement effective habits and build excellence into your day. You’ll clarify your values with modern psychological science and know the steps of heartfelt action.
What You’ll Get:
- Video tutorial with Dr Kaitlin introducing my ACT-based bullet journaling method alongside prompts to start simple yet soulful practice.
- A specially designed instruction manual and Mandala-Based Bullet Journaling workbook (Mandala templates are included!)
When you enrol in Yoga Brain 101 you’ll get:
8 Training Modules
Teaching you how to transform your anxious overwhelm into peace and purpose using mindfulness and acceptance-based strategies all drawn from the evidence-based Acceptance and Commitment Training (ACT) system, coupled with a library of trauma-sensitive yoga classes and mindfulness practices.
A Personal Yoga Shala
8 x 30-minute trauma sensitive yoga class instructional videos. Gain access to a new class each week, which will align with the teaching theme of the module. Shala means house, essentially we'll be creating a sacred sanctuary for movement and breath in your home. Each yoga class will offer you an introduction to a different style (e.g., hatha, yin, flow and yoga nidra) and at the end of the training you'll have a library of classes to come back to.
Guided Meditations
8 x brief audio guided-meditation exercises. Gain access to a new exercise with each module, which will align with the week's teaching theme.
Lifetime Access To Everything!
Life is busy and it constantly changes. I want to make sure you can access these resources at any point you need them.
Bonus
#1 Intuitive Eating Training $95 Value
#2 Moving Mamas Yoga Class $45 Value
#3 Breathwork for Mental Health $75 Value
#4 Mandala-Based Bullet Journalling $60 Value
Still thinking about it?
- You are willing to explore the anxiety, self-doubt, and critical thoughts that have been holding you back, in order to overcome the overwhelm
- You’re open to learning psychological strategies and tools to enhance the quality of your life
- You want to cultivate a more healthy, helpful and connected relationship with your body
- Your self-care cup is empty and you know something needs to change
- You want to gain clarity on your values and reconnect with yourself to find your most divine path
- You are ready to invest in yourself, take ‘me time’, and to show up on your mat and in your life in a purposeful manner
- You are interested in yoga practice or what it can do for you (or you’re a seasoned yogi!)
- You are not ready to take committed, values-based action in order to create change
- You are not committed to spending at least one hour a week engaging with the course material
- You have been advised by a health practitioner not to practice yoga, mindful movement, or meditation
- You are currently experiencing moderate to severe mental illness or are currently suicidal. At these times in life it is most important to access and engage with individualised therapeutic support from a professional mental health care provider. Yoga Brain 101 cannot consider your unique experiences and circumstances.
The Research Behind Yoga Brain 101
Evidence Base of Mindfulness and Acceptance-Based Interventions
Psychological flexibility tools established by 1000+ randomised controlled trials (the scientific gold-standard). Shown to support positive outcomes for everything from challenges with anxiety and depression, to occupational outcomes and weight loss, and workplace and academic performance.
Evidence Base of Virtual Mindfulness and Acceptance-Based Interventions
Effectiveness of online course benefits shown by 40+ peer-reviewed studies, examining ACT in the self-help format when training on a virtual platform.
Evidence Base of Mindfulness
Meta-analytic studies (reviews of all the research) show that yoga is an effective intervention for emotional wellbeing and stress reduction. These studies indicate yoga improves sympathetic nervous system regulation (stress reactivity), along with supporting Positive Mental Health.
My own story from Yoga 101… I was looking for some ‘organised stretching’ and found yoga as a fluke. I kept practicing because it transformed my relationship with myself, supporting me to move through mental health struggles to a place where I felt like I was able to finally thrive in life, not just survive each day. Unsurprisingly, many of my yoga students have shared the same experience.
The research supporting the use of yoga for stress relief and mood enhancement keeps compiling. In fact, I completed my PhD in Clinical Psychology studying just that!
Yoga as a mindful-movement practice; supporting your learning in evidence-based acceptance and commitment training (ACT) as an effective way to cultivate psychological flexibility and emotional wellbeing. ACT is as close to my heart as yoga and if you are looking to manage stress, improve your mental health and flourish as your most optimal self, then you are in the right place!
Of course, if it turns out that Yoga Brain 101 is not a good fit for you, there is a 30 Day Money Back Guarantee – it is important to me that I am only offering a service that is fully supporting you on your journey to wellbeing.
I’m so excited to see your optimal self awaken and support your mind and body connection, I’ll see you inside.
-Dr. Kaitlin
Frequently Asked Questions
I totally understand those concerns and am committed to offering you lifetime access to the material. This way, if one week things go pear shaped, you can take the space you need to navigate life without any additional pressures.
Ideally, you will schedule time in each week for practice, something we will actually troubleshoot in Yoga Brain 101 anyhow. But truthfully, life does happen and rigidly holding to these times may not actually be of value to you.
I recently enrolled in an online evening course for pleasure. I thought having it booked would mean I attended, no questions…
Alas, life happened and one week I was trying to participate while making a screaming toddler dinner and the final week I was unable to attend as the family was sick and I knew my priorities needed to shift.
I want you to be able to priority-shift without missing any part of this course. Plus, I want you to be able to come back and refresh it, anytime. Hence, lifetime access!
Look – something needs to shift, and Yoga Brain 101 offers a contained space to explore what is and is not working for you in your life.
We will start with small shifts – manageable shifts. As your clarity improves and stress levels decrease, other changes may follow.
This said, if you really cannot make the space to engage with the Yoga Brain 101 material right now, you have a few options.
You can enrol now and start before you feel ready. What would that bravery do for you in your life?!
Or, you can enrol and complete the material later, as you get lifetime access.
The last option is to wait until you’re ready to enrol, though there is no guarantee that that ‘feeling’ will ever come. Remember, you control your actions, not your feelings.
Come as you are. I like the saying every body is a yoga body.
The nice thing about yoga is you can modify the shapes to find what feels most effective for you. There will be four different styles of yoga introduced in the Yoga Brain 101 modules, so you can see what style works best for you. Additionally, with the video player you’ll use for the Yoga Brain 101 classes, you can even slow down the class speed (if that feels more helpful for you).
Ultimately, moving your body is what brings the psychophysiological benefits and the best place to start with that is on the mat.
(Regardless of fitness, everyone is advised to make sure they have health clearance in their practice.)
Yoga Brain 101 integrates evidence-based psychological skills from a modern day mindfulness-based intervention, Acceptance and Commitment Training. The yoga practices are specially designed to offer you a playground where you integrate and practice these skills.
Look, there are lots of courses that tote wellbeing benefits, some of which may not actually be evidence-based. Yoga Brain 101 highly values integrity in ensuring the time and resources you invest in this course are honoured by insuring claims align with a body of academic research. No snake oil here.
No. Therapy is a safe container that you create with an individual therapist, or in a real-time group setting. The treatment you receive in such settings is individualised to you and your life circumstances.
The nature of an online program makes it generalised and educational in nature. You can think of it like self-help.
Please see the above section for further details about who Yoga Brain 101 is and is not appropriate for.
I want to make sure Yoga Brain 101 supports you in creating a meaningful and vital life. If the framework does’t end up aligning with you, that is completely fine. Just email me within the first 30 days of starting the course (before December 1st) and I’ll give you 100% of your enrolment fee back.
I am excited to share this again, firstly, you are getting Yoga Brain 101. And, you are not just getting it for 8-weeks, you are getting LIFETIME access, along with access to updates and new bonuses that may be offered in the years ahead.
Yoga Brain 101 is an evidence-informed Acceptance and Commitment Therapy/Training based program that is comprised of 8 Modules. Each module contains a number of bite-sized psychoeducational lessons teaching you practical skills and strategies, along with a specially designed trauma-sensitive yoga class and a guided meditation. The yoga classes form your Yoga Shala.
Additionally, you will also be given access to three bonuses:
- Moving Mamas Yoga Classes (a prenatal and postnatal yoga class)
- A Live Yoga Workshop (it will be recorded and uploaded to your Yoga Shala)
- A Bullet Journaling Tutorial (to support you in keeping that Yoga Brain of yours healthy)
- An Intuitive Eating Training with Practicing Dietician Dr. Anika Rouf (to ensure you’re supported in bolstering your nourishment)
- A Pranayama Breathwork for Mental Health Training (including 10 breathwork practices to enhance attention and emotional wellbeing)
And of course, you also have access to a 30-Day Money Back Guarantee. I want to ensure Yoga Brain 101 is the right fit for you, and you may only know this once you’ve jumped in.
Anything else?
30 Day Money Back Guarantee
I want you to be sure that Yoga Brain 101 is the right course to support your wellbeing journey!
To ensure Yoga Brain 101 is a good fit, I offer a 30 Day Money Back Guarantee.
Within the first 30 days of Yoga Brain 101 you will understand yoga science, and have been introduced to several mindfulness and acceptance-based strategies for addressing the challenging situations in your life. You’ll also have experienced yoga as an experiential playground for psychology techniques.
If you do not experience enhanced focus, concentration, and peace, alongside a decrease in perceived stress from these practices, simply email hello@drkaitlin.com anytime within the first 30 days of Yoga Brain 101, stating that you would like a refund. I will process your refund within three days – no strings attached. In fact, I’m going to leave your Yoga Brain 101 account open for at least another 30 days so that you have access to the entire course material.
My intention in this extended access is to ensure you walk away with the tools and techniques you need to cultivate more energy, improved resilience, better relationships and superior health. I truly believe Yoga Brain 101 can be a valuable resource for navigating the stress and suffering of this human experience, and I want to make sure there is no risk to you in exploring if Yoga Brain 101 is a good fit for you.
-Dr. Kaitlin
May All Beings Be Free From Pain and Suffering
It feels good to engage in altruistic action. So perhaps it is not so altruistic to chase that oxytocin hit?
But in all seriousness, there is a large body of evidence linking happiness to giving. This is also an opportunity to lean into the values of compassion, human dignity, and social progress, so 5% of the program profits will be going to support the effective giving work of The Life You Can Save.
(Effective giving means the charities have evidenced their efficiency in supporting a large number of individuals with the dollars invested.)
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