We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Kelly Vogel a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Hi Kelly, thanks for joining us today. Was there a defining moment in your professional career? A moment that changed the trajectory of your career?

My career has been an ever evolving journey 1st as a certified massage therapist, private yoga instructor, Craniosacral therapist, Declutter coach, Somatic guide, Sound healer. Essentially all of these things work to help bring the mind and body back to balance hence the title mind-body integration specialist. I help people tune into their body, mind and living spaces and clear what they no longer want to hold onto that is usually affecting them in some negative way (physically, emotionally, mentally).

One of many defining moments in my career was how the pandemic shut down the in-person bodywork part of my business and forced me to go deeper into the virtual realms of yoga and coaching that I had starting dabbling with a few years prior. I continued to coach people virtually in decluttering their living spaces and teaching 1:1 and some group yoga. I also dove deep into multiple NLP trainings and learned how to weave these techniques and processes into the somatoemotional release work from the Craniosacral therapy work I had done for years and how to bring it all into helping people heal and clear past traumas and tune into the parts of themselves (usually child parts) that have been wanting to be heard.

The ability to flow with what is happening and allow it to shape me and my life has been helpful in getting me where I am today. I am still doing bodywork, but working with the mind has definitely come to the forefront

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

I’ve been in the wellness field for over 20 years. It started as I was ending a job and had no idea what I was going to do next. I made a visioning list of everything I wanted in a job: (to be my own boss, to help people in some way, to be creative, to make really good money, to make my own schedule, to have time to work on my art etc). I remember driving down to LA with the guy I was with at the time and looking at my hands and asking the universe what am I going to be doing with my hands in the next two months? It was an odd question I thought, but when we got to LA the friend we were staying with happened to be a massage therapist she gave us massages and talked to me about her business. As she talked it sounded like she was reading off my visioning list! I got this spark lit up me and she even found me a couple massage schools back in the Bay Area. I was enrolled the next week and then it was like riding a wave of doors opening. People I didn’t know went out of their way to help me get started. The first person I worked on bought a package of 10 sessions even though I was sure I was shaking the 1st whole session from being nervous. And it went like that, people buying packages left and right spaces opening up for me to work out of that supported me as I grew my practice. Everything aligned. I feel like that flow has continued to happen as my practice has evolved from massage to 1:1 yoga, to Craniosacral, to Declutter coaching, to Somatic guide/NLP coach, Sound healer. All of these modalities help to create peace in my clients mind, body and living space. My tag line in my business is
clear space •clear mind • clear body
Each of these affects the other. When we are truly clear there is a feeling of peace and clarity in how to move forward in our life. When we discover what is blocking us (usually a blindspot) we can then use different kinds of process work to clear it. Doing this work on our own is challenging (I tried). I’ve had many practitioners that I have paid a lot of money to to help me move forward on my own healing path so that I could in turn help more people on this planet.
In order to hold the kind of space I do for my clients I had to and have to continue to be clear in myself.
That’s what sets me apart is my ability to be clear, present and intuitive in such a way that it feels like magic happens when people work with me that are open to the process of healing what wants to heal. My logo has a gold heart in the middle symbolizing my work being heart centered and that I do actually care about the clients I work with. I am honored and grateful when people come to me to hold sacred space for their healing process in whatever form it takes within my multiple modality business.
Also haven’t mentioned it much, but I do also make and sell art. That was part of my vision in being my own boss to have time for other creative outlets. That has come in the form of painting and more recently music with my Sound Healing endeavors. I’m excited to continue to expand this part of my business and do more group sound healings in the LA area!

Other than training/knowledge, what do you think is most helpful for succeeding in your field?

Continuing to stay clear in my own mind, body and living space. How do I do that? Over the years it as has been many different things but lately the list looks like this:
By mediating, self massage, getting bodywork and energy work, intention setting, journaling, smudging, energy clearing visualizations, working out daily, eating clean foods, avoiding things that bring me down or make me feel bad in my mind/body, cleaning and clearing my space daily, staying hydrated, staying connected to supportive loving people, boundaries around people who are not supportive and loving, singing, sound healing, coaching myself and getting coaching, getting at least 8 hours of sleep most nights, and spending as much time as I can in nature.

When I am clear everything just works better. I also take what I learn from my own experiences into my work. If I hadn’t gone through the traumas I’ve been through and done the work to heal them, I would definitely not be as equipped to hold the space for what my clients generally come to me with. So in a way I’m grateful that the pain I’ve gone through is now helping others heal their own pain.

Do you think you’d choose a different profession or specialty if you were starting now?

I definitely feel like this healing path is what I’m supposed to be doing in this lifetime for my work. I love how it continues to evolve change and grow, but still weaves in all prior experiences in some way. So yes, I would choose this same path. I’m excited to see where it will continue to take me and my clients over the next however many years.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.kellyvogel.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kelly_creates_space?igsh=MTlyZ2tqZWR6ZHUxeQ%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
• Youtube: https://youtube.com/@clearyourpathcoaching?si=HuMkj0IkCcuV27fu
• Yelp: https://yelp.to/EJTgjh-JUD
• Other:
  Coaching website:
  https://www.clearyourpathcoaching.com/

  Bodywork reviews Yelp:
  https://yelp.to/tH9YpQtU7v

Image Credits

Vinicius Faria Zinn
Kelley Lotosky
Aydra Jenson