Meet Kristen Eykel of Kristen Eykel CHT in Calabasas and Woodland Hills

Today we’d like to introduce you to Kristen Eykel.

Kristen, let’s start with your story. We’d love to hear how you got started and how the journey has been so far.
My journey has been made of intertwining events, circumstances and experiences that have all led me to be the woman, and the teacher that I am today.

As a child, I wanted to become a veterinarian, but the Universe had other ideas. By 19, I was a Supermodel in Paris, and by 26, a top commercial actress & VH1 VJ in New York. This began my career in TV Hosting that would eventually bring me to LA where I started a family. The funny thing is, you would think that this would be the end of the story, right? However, the on-camera persona was only half of the picture.

In 1990, while I was still a jet-set model, I also began my study of spirituality. While the fashion world seems glamorous, it also exacts a heavy toll.

In the early 1990’s New Age Spirituality was booming in New York City, and so in between shoots and campaigns, I was also studying North & South American Shamanism with my teachers all over the world. From yoga trainings in Mexico, to medicine initiations in the Amazon Rainforest, along the way, I became a Certified Hypnotherapist and Reiki Healer, cementing the cornerstones that still continue to inform me today.

As a Kundalini yoga teacher, the planned home birth of my two children drove me to share what I had learned. Collaborating with Yoga Journal, I married my two loves of media and teaching to create the best-selling Pregnancy yoga video “Yoga for your Pregnancy”.

Becoming a Birth Doula gave me even more insight that eventually developed my signature training practice of “Transformational Birth – Pregnancy Yoga / Yoga for Labor” ™ Teacher Training.

Twenty-five years later, it was my students who eventually taught me what holding space as a Spiritual Teacher meant.

Today, my Mentorship Program – “Awesomeness Training”, and my “6 Weeks to Success” Course utilizing yoga philosophy, practice & discipline combined with daily meditations from my book “Planning for Success” allows me to support more students than ever before with a variety of my favorite Tools for Transformation.

As an Author and Public Speaker, I am excited to share the ever unfolding story of how we become conscious and dynamic members of our community. I take my task of “Teaching the Teachers” seriously and with great love and honor.

Has it been a smooth road?
Redefining ones’ Self is never easy. We become mired in ways of being and attachment to things that we outgrew long ago, but on some level still offer comfort. I have learned, as I grew more conscious of these tendencies within myself, to trust the letting go process. To see it as an opportunity of growth and a “leveling up” of what I can take on.

I have always loved to travel, but sometimes the most important journeys are the ones we make within, in silence and in challenge, alone on the mat with our own thoughts and fears. Coming to grips with letting everything go, with no exclusions, has been such a fantastic teacher for me! It allows me to continue to re-create myself as fresh and ever-evolving. And I have learned to share this honesty with my community as my gift reflected truth for myself.

So, as you know, we’re impressed with Kristen Eykel CHT – tell our readers more, for example what you’re most proud of as a company and what sets you apart from others.
I specialize in helping people, primarily women, get connected to who they truly are and what really matters in their lives from a deeper perspective. Using techniques from Shamanism, Reiki healing, Hypnotherapy and my training as a birth doula and yogi, I have synthesized a program of results based work that causes true breakthroughs to occur within my clients.

I create a “Soul Spa” experience, guiding my client to become deeply relaxed. I then use Reiki and energy work to deepen their relaxation and give them the feelings of melting out of the body. This in and of itself is a deeply satisfying journey, but I also add in it the work on a very deep psycho-spiritual level as well. I know that somewhere, my clients KNOW what they need, but often have either talked themselves out of, or rationalized that it’s not “the thing” that they need. However, when we give ourselves what we truly need from a core level, we begin to heal and shift our outer levels as well – easily! The trick comes down to truly owning what is really going on, without the fears of being right, or accepted or good enough that plague most people more often than not and cause them to hide themselves from themselves and a life that matters.

The truly awesome thing that also happens, is that as my client shifts, she begins to become exquisitely aware of her relationships ALSO shifting! Her marriage awareness evolves, relationship to kids and career, her self-image and body perspective- all of these places also begin to ripen into a greater place of peace and dignified satisfaction. It’s like my clients “grow up” in some key factors within themselves.

As well, some clients like to go much deeper and choose 3, 6 and 12 month mentorship program to work with me deeply for coaching and training to completely re-create themselves with these tools. I offer them more of who they are in one year, than they may have discovered in a decade before 🙂

I am most proud of my dedicated community and mentorship group. I call it Awesomeness Training because this is exactly what it is!

Let’s touch on your thoughts about our city – what do you like the most and least?
As a Florida girl, I love the weather and clear skies more often than not! I live in Calabasas, and have the most gorgeous views of mountains and hills from my home and daily life that I am grateful for.

I love love love my community of people that I am blessed to serve and support. We have such an incredibly diverse group of people and cultures, concepts and viewpoints in the LA area. It is satisfying to find this type of mental stimulation around me.

However, my European and New Yorker sensibilities miss the walking city aspects of cozy bistros and venues that are unique and captivating in their offerings. I LOVE open road, cross country driving, but thick traffic makes me want to avoid long hours in the car around town it if I can!

Pricing:

• Private one on one Soul Spa sessions are $200
• Reiki only sessions $100

Contact Info:

• Website: www.KristenEykel.com
• Phone: (818) 493-9688
• Email: [email protected]
• Instagram: @kristen_eykel
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Kristen-Eykel-50662217876/
• Twitter: @KristenEykel
• Yelp: Kristen Eykel CHt.

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