The Wellness Intelligence Collective Interview
I sat down to chat with Lisa Borden from The Wellness Intelligence Collective. Lisa and I met through a mutual friend and she has been a key mentor of mine in structuring myself in my growing, evolving business. Lisa asked me a series of questions to help you all get to know me and some elements of what I share a bit more.
What do you want to ripple out into the world?
I am focused on rippling out the frequency of love into the world. Assisting humanity with remembering their connection to the innate divine essence within each of us, using vibration, music and sound and experiences that create connection.
I love educating, empowering and guiding you with my experiences, music, classes, courses and programs.
Are music and sound different?
This can be explained very simply by a professor I highly respect: “All music is sound, but not all sound is music. - Dr.Lee Bartel
What do you love about being a performer?
It’s more than just what do I love about it…it’s a path that chose me. Like if I am not on stage, I am only operating with a small percentage of my ability and gifts. It’s a main reason why I came here. So performing is like breathing to me. I need to do it to be living fully on purpose and feel fulfilled and alive.
I become a pure channel for God consciousness to move through me and activate through my voice and words so easily. I transmit the essence outward like a conduit for the energy. I have been chosen to share in this essence in this way. (among other ways of course, but this one really lights me up).
I totally transport energetically and am aware of the divinity moving through me to be shared with the audience. It not only feels energizing and activating to me, I can feel how important it is to activate others this way and that gives me great humility, purpose and joy.
Why is calling you a Yoga Teacher limiting?
Yoga Teacher is a title that doesn’t nearly capture the experience my students have when in class with me. Because teaching in a way is performing for me, I channel energies that assist people at shifting their frequency in my classes. I infuse curated music to bring people deeper into the energetics and share channeled words of love and guidance that move through me. Sometime I sing and add the frequencies that wish to come out too. I am highly conscious of the role a teacher/leader carries and so I choose to start my classes by tuning into the divine light as a group and always ending in the energy of deep gratitude for the Earth, our ancestors who walked the Earth before us, the Divine energies and our beautiful body temples (this life’s vessel). Gratitude is the gateway to love. To be grateful for where we are presently allows us to receive and be more love.
I care deeply about curating powerfully held energetic containers in all my experiences or classes. That space allows people to feel, to connect and to go deeper than the surface. This is where the magic happens.
How do your limiting beliefs affect you as an entrepreneur?
Like all of us, my mind can play tricks on me, and I can trip over myself and get caught up in fear or overwhelm that can sometimes make it feel hard to complete tasks and put me into freeze mode. (This is especially true in monumental growing pain phases, where it all feels SO new and like I’m drowning in the deep end with no end in sight).
What has been helpful over the years is to pause and acknowledge just how much I have learnt and how much I have grown as a business owner and leader in the music and wellness space. I also have a daily mantra I repeat in my head to myself that goes like this: “I can do anything.” Simple I know, but really, the more I say it, the more I believe it and the more I push through the blocks and limiting beliefs to strive for my dreams with pure belief.
Who is your ideal client?
I love bringing this light into spaces where it isn’t easily or normally found. Being the bridge into companies, venues, environments that need this energy more than they even know. Sometimes this can be tough, because there is some educating and value that needs to be understood by companies before they invest in supporting their teams wellbeing.
On the other hand, I love diving deep into expansion and supporting the evolution of souls who are ready and know the value already. Though I know my mission lies in impacting the collective with all the layers that are present. And so I find myself educating and shifting the energetics of spaces and places that need it most.
To sum it up, my ideal client must be drawn to or, have some kind of “calling” if you will, to expand. Then a willingness to practice and commit to the daily exploration of self.
This is how we become more in tune with ourselves and become more of ourselves in our daily lives and have more to give to our work life and person life.
Do you prefer virtual or in-person events?
As we have all experienced, there is value and transformation that can occur with virtual interaction, however we are human, and deep connection is so powerful in person.
My preference is in person, however I still love and work a lot in the virtual space. It has proven to connect the dots globally and allow me and my team to support people and companies across the world.
Why are large companies invested in wellness now?
The pandemic has really brought to the surface the human anxiety and struggle that was already there. Now we just see it more clearly. And companies have begun to recognize this more and more. When companies invest in the wellbeing of their team, it not only demonstrates that they care for their employees, it also supports the company and its work flow and overall business in the long run. If people are happy and balanced in their body, mind and soul, they function with more clarity and alignment overall in all areas of life.
Why are your breath work and meditation programs better than simply using a free app?
We offer a fusion program of on demand, pre-recorded videos and weekly live virtual sessions with my vetted team of guides. Our on-demand space is focused on multiple modalities such as: sound healing + guided sound mediations, guided meditations, breath work/pranayama, yoga and mediation music. I also have a section dedicated to sharing education on the holistic space. Providing more insight on different modalities and how to use wellness tools like sage, crystals, palo santo etc). I am the guide on the on-demand space and curate all the content there (new content every week).
We care deeply about supporting people on their journey into connection with the self and the soul. So, we work closely with our clients to match guides and curate the live sessions based on the team’s needs. We are hands on with feedback and do our best to track the progress of the company’s employees. We aim to shift the culture of the company to become more wellbeing focused and cultivate community among the team by creating these mindful moments, both on lives and offering at-home, daily, on-demand access.
You are so young, how do you already have so much experience and such a beautiful reputation?
Some may say that I started my spiritual journey young. Even though this path in many ways has had more challenges to overcome, I always chose to listen to my inner voice.
In the unknown, I trusted in my guidance and followed the path that has led me here now. I invest in learning, singing, expanding my consciousness and I put in the daily work to remain a clear vessel to share my voice and magic from the heart. I am building this business with the same energy and integrity to that mission and vision.
Is it easy to find qualified guides to work on your multi-modality offerings?
I am very picky with who I bring into my guide family. The integrity of the energy and quality of the guide holding the vision, and being coachable to learn my methods of how to create a safe space is of the utmost importance to me. We go through a vetting process, interviews and demos to really feel into the energy and style of guidance before we welcome someone into the family to support our global mission.
What does “sacred” mean to you?
Sacred to me means connecting to, and acknowledging the divine in every moment, in all living being and in all objects.
When you know and feel that all life is sacred, you carry a poise and reverence for life. A devotional energy with yourself and the world around you becomes your way of being. Your perspective on life shifts to seeing life as a whole as sacred. Seeing beauty and vibrating love becomes your default mode.
