Stepping out of my comfort zone

Recapping my trip to Lenox, MA for work....

I have been anticipating training on the Ayurvedic treatments since I begun my position with Tara Spa Therapy one year ago. I have done all the education for these treatments, studied and am well versed with the products. But I have not practiced them on an actual person outside of the original classmate that I practiced with in school. So when my first experience as a Educator was booked at Canyon Ranch, Lenox I couldn't have gotten a tougher team to train. These therapists are some of the best in the country. And yes, they don't know what I know, nor have they had one year of product knowledge training and time to work with this line...they do still touch the human body daily and I do not.

So I get to Canyon Ranch, one of the best facilities for Integrating health, fitness, nutrition and Spa in the country last Tuesday, March 1st. The training was all day Tuesday and Wednesday and it went pretty good. Of course I would be the toughest critic. After reading the evaluations it seemed that the group was happy with me as their trainer, but frustrated in Canyon Ranch's lack of preparation (15 people in their couple's room and no room to move around) and there protocol was not quite reflective of what was really being preformed in the treatment rooms, (as was told to us by their senior most therapist when she came in the training room to assist).

I was able to enjoy the Canyon Ranch facility on Friday and I took a yoga, a spinning class and swam in their pool. The food was amazing and healthy which I was able to enjoy the whole time I was there.

Onward to Kriaplu.....

Kriaplu is a really cool place. I fell in love with it when I visited last year and luckily with my perseverance I gained them as an account so that I could go back to and train. I started off this experience with a great weekend workshop for myself with an experienced Vinyasa Yoga teacher from Boston, Natasha Rizapolous. She was truly amazing. After a satisfying yoga weekend and again great healthy food, I had two days of training their massage and retail teams on our aromatherapy line. These are not hands-on classes where I am teaching a technique like at Canyon Ranch, but a lecture style class with handouts and power points. Though keeping an audiences attention for two hours, and standing up on front of 10-20 people is still daunting. So I taught three two classes at Kriaplu and they went quite well and we had fun.

Moving on to Cranwell Resort and Spa.....

Another new account that I found in Lenox, MA. This account is more of a typical resort spa with not much focused on nutrition or health but pampering and beauty. Cranwell does have a decent gym and a indoor pool which I used twice. Cranwell is historic hotel and has a lot of character. I came right into Cranwell on Tuesday teaching a night class and then did two more yesterday. These again went really well and we even had some fun and lots of laughs. By the time the last one was over I didn't want to say another word for the rest of the night.

Three accounts in one town, two full day Ayurvedic trainings, six two hours classes....check...check...check....
These past few days have allowed me to push to a place that is uncomfortable, but a place where growth is possible. And right now that is what I am striving for....growth. Didn't someone say "do one thing every day that scare you?" Well I definitely did that.

And today.....

I am on a Peter Pan bus headed to NYC with two large duffel bags in a rain storm.....scary! Tomorrow I visit another account, the Trump Soho. I will be hanging out with my parents and family this weekend...so excited. Next week is a big PA push of accounts to visit and train. Eight more days and I am home!

XOXO

ACA