Allyn Cioban, MHs.B, ERYT 500, Mind-Body Mentor

Allyn has studied the mind-body connection extensively and is currently working on her Doctorate of Metaphysical Humanistic Sciences with a specialty in Holistic Life Coaching and Hypnosis. She has been dedicated to coaching clients through the transformation process for nearly fifteen years.

Allyn wants you to live a healthy, happy and loving life, fully awake and aware of your power, and deeply connected to your highest good. She feels honored to share the tools and techniques she’s studied, synthesized, and uses herself to do just that. Her method will show you how to connect with Your Essential Self, that divine part of you that is always guiding and loving you. She’ll take you through practices to help you discern between the loud, negative ego voice you’ve followed much of your past, and the softly inspiring voice of your desired future – both of which are everpresent within you.

Holding a nurturing and safe space for you to face yourself, your false beliefs, and your unconscious habits, Allyn mentors you through personal and professional reinvention using her mind-spirit-body reconditioning process, which causes the most delightful effect: healthy lifestyle choices become easy to make and are inspired from within.

Allyn is also an expert yoga teacher certified in multiple yogic lineages, a dedicated yoga practitioner, and a proud member of Naam Educations’ international Teacher’s Training team. She leads classes and courses with great clarity, precision, compassion, and motivation. When taking class with Allyn, you will experience her passion for leading students through the process of consciousness, creation and transformation, as she sees each practice as an opportunity to embody the divine laws of the universe.

The mind-body practices of yoga and divine wisdom or laws of the universe have played a significant role in teaching me how to like myself. Liking ourselves seems simple in theory - but for many of us, it is not easy or automatic. 

I was a competitive gymnast from age 7 through 14. Nicknamed “Thunder Thighs” and told weekly at the team's weigh-ins that I needed to lose another pound to be better, so I assumed I was fat. Eight years later I had formed a deeply rooted belief that “I’m fat and not good enough.” 

I was not fat, but believed I was. I saw obese family members around me every day and learned from them that food was the enemy, uncontrollable, and more powerful than we humans. I set out to prove them all wrong. I became anorexic the summer I quit competitive gymnastics, just before starting at a new school. I was accepted into the “cool kids” clique and the cutest surfer boy in school asked me to go steady. Once I realized “they” were not playing a joke on me, it confirmed my belief that “I have to be skinny to be good enough.” 

Then a girl taught me how to throw up in the school bathroom, so I wouldn’t die of anorexia as her friend had. She said I could eat anything, throw it up, and not get fat. So I ate “like a truck driver” and earned myself a new nickname of, “bottomless pit.” Although I was very good at vomiting up what I ate, I gained weight, my parents found out, and sent me to see a therapist. I convinced that man and my folks that I was healed after a few sessions, and concealed my bulimia even better. Atleast until I was 22 and a boyfriend discovered my dirty secret. Mortified, I quit cold turkey! 

My eating disorder appeared to be gone, but nothing had changed internally. I managed my weight by over-exercising instead of purging. I felt fat and inadequate most of the time, regardless of what I weighed, who I dated, or how successful my career was becoming. This went on until I was 39... 

By the time I learned about the mind-body connection, I calculated that I had repeated the false beliefs that I was fat and not good enough to myself over four million times.

Then events of 9/11 left me feeling depressed, anxious, and hopeless. I also developed a great fear of flying. And these words I had heard in my head as a child, “you are here to do good” seemed to be louder than ever before. I was eating too little and drinking too much wine trying to numb the stifling emotions I was experiencing: worthlessness, imposter syndrome, fear, fat, achy, old, stuck, and no idea what “happy” felt like. I was at what felt like my rock bottom. 

Not wanting to sit in that state for long, I knew I needed change. I decided to study everything I could about the mind-body connection and practiced all of the tools I discovered: brain retraining exercises, positive affirmations, mindfulness, meditation, yoga and more. Twelve months later I realized that my body had changed. But more significant were the changes I had created in my mind and belief system, and the shift in the emotions I was now experiencing: centered, inspired, self-accepting, hopeful and happy.

This year of educating and transforming myself sparked a decade and a half of continued education in the field of metaphysical humanistic sciences, mysticism, hermetic sciences, and higher astrology, as well as certifications in several yoga, meditation, and breathwork lineages. This lead me to develop my online coaching course and coaching methodology, Your Essential Self | a transformation.

I’ve had the honor of coaching hundreds of students and clients to making profound transformations for themselves. I love helping others discover their unconscious habitual patterns and guiding them to create new conscious patterns that become their chosen habits. Through my coaching, courses, and yogic classes, I teach mindfulness, self-inquiry, how to slow down and observe yourself, how to have self-compassion when facing your stuff, how to love yourself and others unconditionally, and how to wake up and live consciously and purposefully.

Because, it takes consciousness and a strong, balanced and flexible brain to utilize the power we have to choose the thoughts we want to think, to choose to speak words that will uplift ourselves and others, and to take actions that feel inspired from within, in service of ourselves and others. And this is how we create the lives we dream of.

If my story resonates with you, and you feel ready for true and lasting change - I’m happy to share my toolbox with you!