We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Kc Baker a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.
KC, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. Let’s start with the story of your mission. What should we know?
In my 30’s I ran fast and hard and with a lot of joy to build WomanSpeak, a multi million dollar international company supporting women’s public speaking and leadership. And then in my early 40’s, coming out of divorce, suddenly being a single parent and also stewarding my beloved property in Sedona at Red Rock Crossing…I hit a wall. I was absolutely exhausted and stressed beyond belief. I felt like I had to hold and manage everything, and I wondered where the free spirited, fun and joyful woman I once was went.
I prayed for a solution as medicating my stress with alcohol, cannabis or food were not healthy alternatives. I had a meditation practice…but it just was not doing it for me. That is when I discovered Feminine Qi Gong – an ancient form of meditative movement and healing. After only a week of practicing, I started feeling changes in my energy and stress levels.
After three years of consistent practice, my life had entirely changed. I became the healthiest, most energized, creatively inspired version of me I’d ever experienced. Old traumas and fears were healed, and I was no longer living my life from stress but from a deep place of serenity.
Though I still ran WomanSpeak (and still do), I felt deeply called to share this practice with others and went on multi year journey to get trained in this style of Qi Gong.
I founded Velvet Flow to help others create a nervous system that feels like velvet, as that is exactly what Feminine Qi Gong does! The fulfillment that flows from this place is extraordinary and it is my deep joy to share this gorgeous practice with those who seek to live and tend their lives, work & relationships with deep serenity, radiant health & feminine embodiment.
Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers.
Velvet Flow’s Feminine Qi Gong is an ancient healing modality that feels absolutely gorgeous to practice. Qi Gong is actually the predecessor of acupressure and acupuncture so it works in the same way to clear stagnant energy that is at the root of dis-ease. It also fills you with potent life force energy so you feel both deeply energized and calm at the same time, and benefit from improved health.
One thing most people don’t know about Feminine Qi Gong (Qi Gong specifically geared for women and women’s sexual health & vitality) is that it is extraordinary for supporting women as they go through hormonal shifts during peri-menopause and menopause.
Women who practice Feminine Qi Gong have way fewer challenges with things like hot flashes, poor sleep, low energy, breast tenderness, decreased sexual desire and mental fog.
Instead, practitioners of Feminine Qi Gong experience hormonal balance, better sleep, mental clarity and great energy. I feel very passionate about people understanding this because I have so many friends struggling with their hormones…and I also used to struggle with a lot of these symptoms. But now as a result of this practice, even though I am in my mid-late 40s, I no longer do and my students also report big shifts in this area of their energy and health.
Any advice for growing your clientele? What’s been most effective for you?
I run an online Practice Community for women to practice Velvet Flow together and go deeper into the practice & benefits of Feminine Qi Gong. It is a monthly membership that invludes on demand Velvet Flow practice videos and the option to practice live weekly with me and our Practice Community of students.
This community is filled with women around the world and in every decade of life from the 30’s to the 80’s. The best way I have found (so far) to enroll new members is to host free online special events where women get to experience Velvet Flow and learn more about it. From there, we invite people to join our Practice Community and usually provide an incentive to do so that lasts a couple of days.
I also have a free Velvet Flow video practice that I invited people to opt into via social media. This is a fantastic way to organically build our list. From there we email people who opt-in to the video to see how they enjoyed the practice and invite them to join our Velvet Flow Practice Community.
What’s a lesson you had to unlearn and what’s the backstory?
For years I ran my company WomanSpeak with a lot of fear and stress. I grew up that way and watched my parents living and working that way too. I though it was the only way to really get things done! Sure, I had a lot of joy and inspiration also running the show, but stress was my fuel and the fire under my a$$ to get things done.
However, that had consequences over time for my health, my hormones, my relationships and my happiness.
I had to unwind that pattern from my nervous system and cultivate deep internal safety within. Velvet Flow’s Feminine Qi
Gong practices did this for me. It has been utterly life changing, and has done wonders for my health, my hormones, and my relationships.
I have had to learn how to run my business from a place of calm – something entirely new for me! That has meant leaning in deeper into planning practices and improving my leadership of my team. Running my businesses (I have three!) is now so much easier and more enjoyable and I’m making better, wiser decisions as a result.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://velvetflow.co
- Instagram: kc.baker
- Facebook: kcbaker007
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