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

Raquel, appreciate you joining us today. We love heartwarming stories – do you have a heartwarming story from your career to share?

In my healing and growth journey of being an entrepreneur i ended in a bad hand couch surfing, basically homeless with my two kids. I remember clear as day a group of yoga students learning of it and at end of class a strong debate who was best suited to home us, or how to home us intermittently while my situation bettered. I was there smiling, how blessed I am that when most people say that when you are down, people leave and you find who your friends are, I was here witnessing a group of woman fighting who I ought to be homed with. It was truly one of the riches feeling moments of my life. One student I wasn’t really close to as she attended one of my other yoga teachers class gave me a note. Her address and an offer that she was solo in a 3 bedroom and half the month away. Bewildered being I knew her so little she shared that while going through a divorce i helped her out to keep her yoga practice, I didn’t remember yet it was something we did practice as a studio, to support as best we could making classes accessible to as many possible. That woman today is family and the god mother of my daughter. I once told her I would never try to repay her, that instead I would receive the love she has shown us. Often receiving someones love is the grandest thing we can do for the other and something rare we are used to doing for them and ourselves. To be a great receiver, as much as i give, I welcome today. That’s what Body Rituals Studio and V-SAGA journey have taught me. People credit me a lot for being loving and caring yet I am aware we get what we give. Body Rituals Studio built and created me and has built many others int heir hardest times and continues to do so, as we say play BIG.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

I used to work at Bally Total Fitness and Alamo. I was awarded JD Power for best customer service and top sales at both. Though I was always recognized for my performance, the pressure for sales was always the key from management. They failed to see that the time I took with clients is what made me so great at producing. I was highly referred and customer loyalty was at another level yet all they saw was could I cut my time with clients so i can return even more profits.

Those experiences had me promise myself that one day I would own my own fitness place and it would be about the people and their wellbeing not the sales. That is how the seed for Body Rituals Studios came to be. In 2005 I opened a yoga, fitness, and dance studio. Today it is mainly yoga, pilates and meditation for I chose the more holistic route for how we evolved. I was one of the first and few Boutique studios in my area and a pioneer to many of the offerings throughout the last 2 decades.

Our location created a lovemark. Many friendships and deep relationships of adults came to exist from the hub of beauty that was and is Body Rituals Studio. We deliver a space that supports not just in words the mind, body and soul service, it is palpable energetically when you take classes with us. It created such a birthing of renewal, healing and growing for its practitioners that it birthed V-SAGA a coaching services that today serves hollywood celebrities, professionals inthe psychology and psychiatry field amongst its everyday professional, teens, fortune 500 leaders and more.

Body Rituals is set apart because it doesn’t seek to sell you yoga or coaching it seeks to touch your heart that by being here you are left better for it.

If someone is overwhelmed, stressed, numb, apathetic and truly wants to shift, we are the place for you for we have expanded to expansive somatic modality offerings as long as mindset coaching and more. FOr almost 19 years we have been established and grown from word of mouth or often people paying for their loved ones to come experience what we can do for their mindset and heartset.

We are the most fulfilled with the amount of people we have been able to have connect and establish deep friendships in adulthood, when its so hard to do at this stage of our lives, We lead by rallyign behind our leaders and they respond by rallying behind each other. We have a saying that we are one and until all of us are oaky, none of us are, thats what we are the most satisfied and fulfilled with when it comes to what we do.

How’d you build such a strong reputation within your market?

Authentic care for their results and contribution to their well being. Operating from the place of pouring into peoples cups. Creating relationships where people know they are seen, heard and connect past a transactional exchange or fluff interests, the care has been deep at a soul level.

Putting training and knowledge aside, what else do you think really matters in terms of succeeding in your field?

The applied knowledge that we are all containers of emotions, thoughts and feelings. That we as individuals are infectuous and contagious and so when we make sure we are great and solid, lit up, people will come so that they can be lit up too. Spreading that it doesn’t take away from us to light up other flames, it actually only multiplies ours, our circle, our business. What we chose to do for a living can serve to be the salt of the earth, a light on a hill if we so decide to create versus respond to market trends and fads.

Contact Info:

• Website: www.v-saga.com
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