Eternity Yoga Video 2 - About Me

Hello everyone, this is Gisele Toner and this is the next page of the EternityYoga.com website that I'm going to be doing in a video format for you. So this one is the About Me, my Personal Journey here. The About Me page tells you a little bit about myself. So I will just scroll down and it just starts with, my name is Giselle and I practice and teach yoga on a daily basis. And here's a little about me and my journey here. As a child, I was always energetic, riding horses, dancing school and swimming. I loved horses and I rode nearly every day as a young girl and into adulthood. And by the way, I still am riding horses and I have two horses and they are with me every day on my property. So horses have such a wonderful healing effect on everyone and they had a healing effect on me. But I also found another passion too when I was younger. I discovered yoga at a young age, quite by accident. I was at the library looking at books and I came across a book on yoga. I didn't know exactly what it was at the time, but I thought the pictures were beautiful. I read and studied the book and started to practice the moves, which in Sanskrit, yoga moves are called asanas. A lot of you will already know that the pictures resembled some of the moves that I was learning in ballet at my dancing school. But yoga was special, and I soon realized that it was more than just physical moves or exercises. It centered me and it brought me into a state of awareness like nothing else. I remember when there were times of turmoil in my life and yoga seemed to be the key for my tranquility and grounding, even though I didn't really have the kind of understanding of it then as I do today. I spent my time between riding horses and trying my newfound yoga. Back then in the 60s, yoga was just starting to generate some interest here in the Western world. It was so obscure, but it became more popular when the Beatles started getting into it and I devoured anything I could find that would give me more information. Then a program on TV about yoga appeared. I remember trying to perform some of the moves as I watched the screen. And I almost destroyed my mother's furniture as I clumsily crashed into it. Luckily, neither the furniture nor I needed repairs. Soon I got better and better in my practice and felt a new sense of accomplishment as I got older. I needed to make more money, or actually needed to make money to survive as we all do. So I became a paralegal. It was good money, but the stress was overwhelming. I did that for 20 years. Actually now it's more like 30 years. It was close to 30 years, but I knew that it would leave me very depleted and I knew that I would leave it behind one day. I raised my daughter and worked hard as a paralegal and got by pretty well. But after my daughter was on her own, I had an opportunity to devote myself to what I knew was my calling. I became a yoga teacher full time and now I have my own practice. In addition to yoga, I also have a life coaching business and now an equine assisted coaching practice where I use my horses with my clients. And it is amazing. I have a full list of personal clients who I train on a one on one basis. And I do group coaching also. And I work for four different gyms. Well, at the time I was working for different gyms, but now I am basically doing it myself in my own studio on my own property. I had lots of requests to make a video from clients and students of mine so that they could practice at home. So I did actually three videos at the time. And I will have links to those videos which you can get in digital form if you would like some. Okay. So one of them is a beginner, one is an intermediate advanced and the other one is Pilates based. So I will send the links, or rather I will include the links in the description right under this video and then you can choose whether or not you'd like to see them and get them. So the first one that you're seeing here is the advanced video. And there is more also. Yoga Alliance. I am a Yoga alliance registered teacher at the 500 hour level. And I train my students how to become yoga teachers. So I have a yoga teacher training school and my teacher training school is Eternity Yoga's Power of Fusion Yoga. And I conduct the teacher training courses several times a year on my own property. So I will click here and we will be able to go to the page where the yoga school information is also the Chopra Center. I studied mind body courses with Deepak Chopra and David Simon at the Chopra center in California many years ago, well over 10 years ago now. And I am one of the Chopra Center's educators here on the East Coast. I am certified to teach Ayurveda and it's called the Perfect Health Program. And you could always go on to the Chopra center to see what they're all about. But I think pretty much everyone knows who Deepak Chopra is. I'm also a Pilates instructor. I have a Reformer, which is the Pilates machine. I have one of those in my studio and I use that for my clients. And also as a life coach, not only do I have a certificate in professional life coaching from the Life Coach Institute, but I also studied the Tony Robbins method which is the Robbins Madonnas training program. And I have my Core 100 certification in life coaching from them. So I also built this website that I am recording right now. This website which is eternityyoga.com is huge, but I will not be keeping it on for long and that is the reason why I am doing these videos because I want to be able to have it in video format now, which I feel like it will be much better for people to learn. So there's a copy of one of my horses or a picture of one of my horses many years ago that was Coco. I have two horses right now, a Thoroughbred and a Friesian and they're amazing. Anyway, this is the end of this page and we will go on now to the Power Fusion Yoga page. So I'm going to click here and here it is. So Yoga alliance teacher training is what I do and it is located here where I live in Naples, Florida. And it says have you ever thought of becoming a yoga teacher? Great. Yoga teacher training is available. You can get Yoga alliance registered. The world is full of stress and there are so many people who are trying to find ways to cope. So you can read all about it here if you like. You can also just pause your screen and you can take your time and read through this if you like. This is the Register Yoga School 200 hour designated logo and what I teach is everything that is recommended from Yoga alliance which is techniques, teaching methodology, anatomy and physiology, Yoga philosophy practicum. Upon the completion of the course, students will be able to teach yoga in a variety of settings with knowledge and credibility. Certificates will be given along with eligibility for the registration with Yoga alliance and the exact dates vary with the time of year. So this is the page on the teacher training. So we will go back to the About Me page and I will end this video. Now of course all the pages have a way for you to get the Yoga three step blueprint but that will be a link on the bottom of the description where you are watching your video, which is most likely YouTube. All right everybody, I will see you in the next video.