As the founder of Belly Guru LLC I have been a catalyst in promoting holistic women's health for almost fifteen years . Although I opened up as a brick and mortar yoga themed wellness studio, my intension was always to be the creator of a learning space where any mother could learn how to maintain the title of CEO of her life.

My focus was always on empowerment of body , mind and mentality. I fused ancient mental, behavioral and body centric practices with modern integrative tools and rehabilitation to create my brand as "The Belly Guru". I began my health business as a mom of young kids in my thirties and now, as a mom of aging teens in my mid forties,I am very happy Belly Guru LLC was adaptable for the changing seasons of my life, the financial ups and downs of my market and the recent drastic change in health education and delivery systems. Although I have shifted a majority of my impact to coaching and consulting, because I strategically grew a personal brand (instead of my...

Hello Lovely Leader of HER Own Financial Destiny!

So I woke up this Saturday thinking really hard about what I want to be known for when I die. I decided 3 things:

1. LISSETTE is a beautiful Goddess name so I should align with it more in 2019. 
2. I really want my children to hear about me changing women's lives all over the world. I want to do that by inspiring them to gather, connect with their superpowers and birth a healthier next generation.
3. I used to hate this time between Thanksgiving and Christmas. It is because this is the time of year that a scarcity mindset tries to set up shop in my head. Why? Because somewhere deep inside I used to have an unresolved childhood memory that is attached more to the bad self value feelings and family dynamics that went on than the joy during the holidays. That is how secretly a money story can hit. For me in my business, "being too busy" at home to care that my clients was my way to not own they were skipping out on sessions and forcing me...

So according to an article published on USAToday.com by Christina Jewett for Kaiser Health News and Mark Alesia from IndyStar, there is a  bit of evidence the public might want to be alerted to. I believe that if you are serious about doing no harm and being more transparent at the same time, you may want to take a weekend to mull over a couple of feelings and facts.

The Present Cost Containment IS Changing The Process

According to the authors, an investigation of the cited large healthcare organizations uncovered "more than 260 patients have died since 2013 after in-and-out procedures at surgery centers across the country. Dozens — some as young as 2 — have perished after routine operations, such as colonoscopies and tonsillectomies.”  ( Jewett and Alesia, 2018) 

I have to say, I feel for those families. Earlier this year I went on a FB page rant after my son's "routine nasal surgery" HERE .  My patient experience was...

Do you believe feeling beautiful every day of our messy life is our Right?

You will be getting the raw video on this Vlog and some behind the scenes chat because I believe there is such wisdom in the casual woman to woman conversation and that how it rolls is how it rolls.

I wanted to share this Goddess chat with Jaclyn Harris. That is something I can't share on the podcast nor can I share the expressions on our face or the funny times our kids' barge in or when my dog starts to bark but sometimes, while keeping it real as a podcaster, I want to. 

In today's Vlog I share my face to face chat (despite the perfectly placed drop at the end of our call) because I love Jaclyn's lipstick. I just did not think keeping that bright smile all to myself by just sharing the edited podcast version HERE was adequate. Especially since we are discussing how her #TheMeFirstMovement is reclaiming those little shares of our womanly charm. 

Jaclyn Harris is Reclaiming Our Beauty Power...

Kali, Goddess of Time

So maybe you won't watch the entire 20-minute video here.  Maybe you want to wait for the podcast version but if you are into overlapping yogic studies with real-life ups and downs, then this is the episode share for you.

1. With my Yogi hat on you get my excited symbols of Goddess Kali. I see many of her attributes in these rising young maiden fires that are out there now.
2. With my, Mama Guru concerned parent cap on, I discuss my ignorance on who will lead this Medicine Woman Revolution and a renewed faith we might not be so far away from a New Earth just yet.
3. A HUGE calling and gathering of the Medicine Woman Tribe. Are you in???

Sure Kali Can be Scary but She Is Always Birthed out of Necessity

I get it. She makes people uncomfortable. She looks absolutely mad but I want you to know that she is not mad in the way we would expect insanity, aggression, and anger gone bad. 

No, Kali is more like Mother Nature when she whips up a hurricane and the...

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Can you imagine the shame of needing help with just getting out of bed "Your Time of the Month" and being told for years that you are crazy, lazy or way too soft for your periods or even that you are making it all up?

My featured Guru Goddess this week to decipher all this is the Voice that Walks the Walk herself, Dr. Sallie Sarrel, a licensed Doctor of Physical Therapy, Certified Athletic Trainer and private practice owner in New York and New Jersey who has been treating women with the disease but has also been suffering from the disease for two decades.

In this Goddess Chat, Dr. Sallie Sarrel and I discuss the current state of Lifestyle and Care plan in the world of Endometriosis and why she felt the need to take on the role of Medicine Woman to proclaim WOMEN WITH PAINFUL PERIODS MATTER.

• Dr. Sallie Sarrel is explaining how our reliance on Hysterectomy as a cure without a complete excision for this disease's...

How does a woman prove that through the vocation of motherhood and wife she is the ultimate Medicine Woman?

We are still evolving into another world based on social purpose and grandeur that lives beyond the home but what can we remember about that role of householder in a world that want's us to only feel successful if we are the CEO of a fortune 500 company?  So many mother's and wives who want something more like the others are isolated when learning about how strength to find a balance in their work lives can come from personal pain ?  

In this Vlog, I spoke with a former student of mine who is both a Belly Guru and Dharm Yoga inspired yoga educator,  former client and now a friend. Maria Griemel, RYT graduated from my Yoga Educator program in 2015 and is currently using the practice to launch a vocation of teaching and communicating intimately with people that she never thought she would have.

Social Structures and Socioeconomics Matter to a woman's Health.

One...

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Featured Goddess Laura Kupperman, CEO, Founder, Yoga Therapist and Business Mentoring Leader

This is the first podcast episode that I had the opportunity to talk shop with my lady biz mentoring hat on. We cover several important topics women who lead, whether at home or out in the world, need to know so for those of you who are struggling with that bolder voice, this will be an energetically lifting episode for you. 

This is also the first episode where my featured guest was talking from a place of such relevant loss as a woman, the loss of her own mother at ten years old which I found to be very inspiring. What I find most interesting is how early, after losing her first mirror for reflection of a woman in this world, Laura was able to flip that pain, make decisions that were not always popular and guide herself a couple of times to navigate her skill set and service points in this world.

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Ego, Logic, Fight & Flight

In one of my Instagram Mini Blogs I pondered why there was such an extraction of the feminine point of view as medicine evolved. Sometimes I really wonder what the collective health care provider minds could accomplish in 1yr if everyone’s titles and perspective were respected around a round table instead of dissected along a hierarchy model dictated by academic degree. Passing tests means health only if our inner knowing & the universal truths are valued for the sake of hearing ALL others more than the mass data consumption& regurgitation for the sake of hearing oneself. ‍‍

When academia set itself up as the only path to an elite society, they began to take a path of egocentric tunnel vision. When they decided the feelers, the natural healers, the visionaries, the moms, the old wives tales, the philosophers, the artists, the medicine women "witches" burned at the stake were crazy they closed themselves from Mother nature's...

So what did you think of yesterday's Love Bite on Breathing For Vitality HERE?

Today we are going to take another simple but high impact thing you use every day and start to bio-hack some healthier eating. The thing I want you to love is your tongue. WHAT? Think about it. The tongue is a highly sensitive organ. It has tons of nerve endings, connects and initiates good digestion, clear conversations, adds musical qualities to some languages spoken, is used to sexually arouse and yet some of us completely ignore its care. Watch Today's Tutorial 

Tongue abuse?

Think about how we abuse our tongue by overloading its nerves with chemical stimulation

In my classical yoga studies under Sri Dharma, I got to appreciate the simple softer and subtle things in life. In my functional medicine nutrition courses, I got to apply the book sciences to it all and really appreciate how our taste buds are a divine gift of pleasure and protection. Along with the smell and bright, fresh,...