hi i'm be any prior and welcome to spotlight on pittsburgh spotlight on pittsburgh is a program about pittsburgh most fascinating people and what they do to make our city an amazing place to live and work when we come back i'll introduce you to our first gues who recently opened the indigo yoga locked in south bay at with her partner matt baker after that will bring on alyssa cavalera o regional v p for our bon international who will give you tips on how to stay looking fresh and  here's something we bet you didn't know nearly half of all cancers can be prevented mostly by making changes in your diet controlling your weight and of course by not smoking does it prevent fifty dot org and get a free thirty day planner filled with tips recipes and more thank you for coming back and now we have jill here with indigo yoga laughs so can you tell me a little bit about the loved i'd love to do that so we opened indigo yoga loft in march this year we took over from a prior studio name up dog and it's a yoga and wellness studio we have an infrared sauna we have essential oils we have reference materials so we're trying to be more than i dare say just yoga because that's important enough in itself but we wanted to encompass a little bit more of that community health feel so we partnered with a organic farmer that we offer c s a memberships with them and we're a drop off location so what we're doing with that i we're also partnering with another woman who we do classes every other week on how to prop store and produce great menu options for the fresh produce that's coming in so we offer different yoga classes styles we have he did and he did we have gentle we have a more powerful vinyasa flow we have it in different levels it is so we can have beginners or people who have more seasoned practice can come in as well we're trying to have a little bit of everything so that people feel very comfortable coming to us and what made you decide to open your studio i think it was a lot of travelling and getting a sense of teaching at different places and i just really wanted to put my efforts into one place and matt and i really decided it would be fun to incorporate those talents into one location and so where does that come into play so matt it's amazing he's not practicing yoga every day but he does come in practice and he's big on the health and wellness and community feel and he does all the behind the scenes when you see new paints when you see different things talents come in from him so he's really the anchor for me to be able to be there so often did yoga and self he does practicing yoga he does great and so can you describe for anybody out there who might be a beginner i know it can be a little bit scary when you first go to a class what do they need to come in and what are you know a brief overview of like what the different types are which are so we offer maps so if somebody doesn't have a map they want to come in first of all they can just come in light comfortable clothing maybe water we do have water if they don't have that and what they can expect is a little brief overview on how do just connect to their breath and be a little bit more mindful com so you know people always think it's really flexible but they they can sit down a little bit of movement is a good way to start like i said we have a basics class that will give you the highlights of just starting to get into a practice and then more of a season practice is a more vinyasa flow which is really just linking your breath and movement so wonderful and so you come to a class how long do they usually take an hour that an hour no you you have that and then you also have an infrared sauna what are the benefits  i think the infrared does something different correct also the infrared sun is really noted for detox vacation and inflammation so it's if you look up like chronic conditions and different ways to help your body whether it's through food nutrition different things in for a sauna comes up a lot so the benefits of that there's there's a bucket of them but really information mood that detox the cation factor people just feel calm i guess after they get out and a lot of people don't want to have to get their heart rate up so high to get to a point of sweating and they can have that in this in the in for it's on is a lot less hot than the traditional what's honest so you run in about one hundred and you can with a hundred one hundred five about hundred  thirty and you're in there fifteen twenty forty five minutes and you're still getting the benefit absolutely even for fifteen to thirty minutes afterwards said that you're still detoxifying afterwards so not to take a shower but still let your body sort of process and so what what would you say are the main benefits of yoga for anybody who's trying to get into that definitely getting a sense of calmness you know reconnecting with their breath realizing that they can gain so many health benefits just from calming  down flexibility strength power those are all inherent you hear that because you can gain this as well but a lot of it's just that rest reset getting back into that health you can actually increase your metabolism by more rest tablas i'm right betty that's a good thing where you can tell me more so it's you know i know a lot of people myself and included i've practiced yoga before but i'm a very stressed high speed strength running around kind of person shadow i imagine would help  people like myself in all age groups absolutely absolutely we do have all ages i'd say in some people now especially summers out there bringing their kids we've had ten twelve thirteen year olds come in and that's a nice way to get people to realize just taking some longer deeper breaths you know is helpful but certainly the exercise component of it is a benefit as well and we're asking about different classes some of the instructors like to meis these music maybe on a support it and get to feel really grounded in your classes wonderful and so let's talk a little bit of that out this nutrition these nutrition classes that you also incorporate so i'm an integrated health nutrition health coach as well just graduated so that was really important to me to balance not just the exercise component but also the what you're putting in your mouth the secondary food your relationships your career all of that sort of feeds who you are as well so we wanted to have a place that offered a little bit of variety of all of that so the nutrition classes are more right now on meredith's heart ledge is assisting with that and she's doing a lot of the menu sort of preparation for that really what to do with your vegetables howdo wash clean store prep and then how to integrate them into some meals quickly you know without a lot of a lot of time and effort in the kitchen so that's important because then i know that that's a chicken nuggets over  is if you're getting tired of your vegetables are starting to turn and turn into soup you know you can always go to soup so that's great and you also are a local drop so we are what does that mean exactly it means that instead of driving to kind of burger town once a week they come to us so every wednesday the box is there a label with the individual name and you can come in after three o'clock and pick your box up and then recycle it of course and so what's in the box it's whatever they were growing sort of that week and was ready for harvest so did you people need like ordered ahead or you know they're nearing the amount or is it kind of a free for all so it's a membership apologize i don't know if they're still memberships available he started selling those detax occasion and yoga and nutrition and do these all go together is this kind of like you know how does it when they come in there to do yoga are you are you helping them to see what else they can do that kind of what you're trying to pick i hope so it's without really throwing it in anyone's face but allowing them to have their bio individuality and decide what they need at the time that they need it we have a reference section with a lot of different books blood type diet  diets different things and people are encouraged to take the book al you know sit down read it if they're curious they start asking questions and then the community grows they learn each other's names somebody will talk about something they ate and it just sort of grows and that's what we're hoping to have is that community feel and how long you've been doing it for i've been practicing for about seven or eight years and i've been teaching for about three that's great and you're going to do yoga poses right now are you i mean i'm not what is your favorite yoga pose you know it's a great question i was thinking that this past week i don't have a favorite one i really don't i i could tell you which ones are coming on thank you for joining us today by the way you can find out more about jill and matt and the indigo yoga laugh at indigo yoga life dot com when we bring jill back for a special food focused challenge  and when we return we'll meet our buns very own are sometimes it's hard to see where you're going but you have the power to change your problems all it takes voice welcome back all right we are here with the lissa regional vice president of our bonn can you tell me a little bit about what are bonded so we are a thirty seven year old swiss based health and wellness and personal care company so we have everything ranging from skin care for anti aging sensitive skin acne babies just a basic skin care line we have body care we have a full line of nutrition we have protein shakes energy drinks we have vitamins and everything is vegan gluten free everything's being tested right now going through the non g m o process and our motto is pure safe and beneficial so if an ingredient is not pure if it's not safe for you or the environment it does not go in our products and you actually benefit from the results wonderful and how did you get involved in this so i was introduced through the product about six years ago i was waitressing in a comma down in the south side and the girl that got me involved had been doing our on for about five years at that point and she just gave me some things to try and i fell in love in just knew that it was something that i was meant to share with other people and so what do you think the best thing that people can get out of the company and their products that what would you suggest to them whenever they first looking at what you guys are so i always like to start with nutrition a lot of people that are having skin issues that typically starts with internally in the gut so i like to start with our thirty day clean eating program just to kind of get all the toxins other body kind of do a reset of their body and that typically helps with any skin conditions that people are having and then i like to get them into the skin care and then are cosmetics and is it easy to do the cleanser is it i mean is it a what goes into that it's very simple but it does take a lot of planning so for thirty days we eliminate gluten dairy soya sugar caffeine and alcohol so a lot of it is very tough but if you prepare then it can be very simple and we give  recipes we give you a grocery shopping list i'll even go grocery shopping with you if you have you know trouble figuring out what to buy at the grocery store but we give you a ton of different recipes we have recipes for meters we have recipes for people that are reagan and we have a very simple system for success so it really just such you up not to fail and that's primarily for your skin that's for your whole entire body ok great and so you also have sun products obviously summer and people are looking for something to protect them from the sun and do you just sell suntan lotion there are different we have a sunscreen for babies and adults and then we also have a self tanner tanner which i like to recommend for a lot of people i was avid tanner tanning bed tan or whenever i was in high school and i didn't really know the i think we all spent time in but i didn't know the effects that tanning and sun exposure can have on your body and obviously it's good to get a little bit of vitamin d every every once in a while but  i love the self to enter well not to mention it can can age you absolutely that starts to catch up with you you never you don't believe it's going to happen to you yet the sun is the number one cause of aging actually and so talk about a little bit more about the skin care line or any favorite anything that you would suggest for people with some different ailments maybe did so for people that have acne we have a clear future line that's our acne line and it's good for any type of acne so i always say that people should start using anti aging at around the age of twenty one some people might think that's a little bit young but it's better to prevent aging then try to turn back the hands of time definitely so just starting out i would recommend you know a good eye cream good it's very important to moisturize and then obviously a toner to help balance the ph of your skin and we have a full baby lines we have a diaper rash cream we have a hair body wash we have a lotion and we have a sunscreen for babies we have a man line as well and that's for men that are aging or that are kind of younger and just kind of want to start taking care of their skin and we have wives want to start them taking care of their skin yes my boyfriend does her skin care and so does my  dad and then we have a call in line for sensitive skin so anybody that has sensitive skin is allergic to s p f or has any skin sensitive because we have a line for that as well and so there's so many different companies out there you know as a vice president obviously your rep at one time why would you suggest somebody become an i would say because of our long so we've been around for thirty seven years in from day one we've always been gluten free so we've been doing that before it was even trendy like it is now so for thirty seven years we've just always stood by our product philosophy that pure safe and beneficial we formulate everything over in switzerland and if you know anything about the swiss they have the best of the best of everything you know knives chocolate everything and so we firmly everything over there but everything's made right here in the u s and we have what people are looking for you know we have a little bit of everything so maybe someone's not interested in skincare but they're interested in nutrition and we have something that we can offer everyone and are you able to  shop on line or is it direct through the reps or how does that work you can shop online so each consultant has their own website and you can just go right to that website and shop online and the products are delivered directly to you that's nice with everything changing over i mean it's just hard to get out of the house to go shopping to pick up one thing at the stores that you're running out of i cream yeah it would be nice to have a chance to buy online and there's other perks too i hear there's travel and you can you know there's the vehicles and like that what have you what have you achieved or what do you believe you or other reps can achieve so i've been doing our own for five and a half years in about three years into the business i did in the company car which is a white mercedes benz it's not easy to get there it definitely takes some time it's not something that you're going to do overnight but it's absolutely possible with some hard work and then does launch an incentive trip every year so i just are in my fifth incentive trip  they've taken me to the bahamas they've taken me to we're going to riviera maya they've taken us to a full all expenses paid trip to manhattan and so this october my boyfriend i will go to the hard rock and then they just launch another trip as well in california so they'll take us out to beverly hills rodeo drive they give us a thousand dollar gift card to go shopping at that is they really do take care of their wraps and for how hard we work great and so i hear you have an interesting story about somebody getting a particularly interesting perk that isn't a typical are buying part yes so i'm assuming you're talking about martha i am talking about martha so let her share so when you get to the regional vice president level our bond gives you a white mercedes benz and there is a girl not on my team but she's in october and i've met her in ohio she's  a bunch of times she's amazing and she's amish and she reached the result regional vice president level and obviously she has no need for a car and so this is never happened in the thirty seven years that our bond has been around but obviously they wanted to do right by her and make sure that she was gifted something you know what along with her beliefs so martha is getting a black stallion from the netherlands so her horse has just arrived and it's in quarantine right now but they're doing a big present like we typically do a car presentation but they're doing a presentation for her in august and she's having a custom built kerridge built it's going to be white and it's going to have an r bomb logo on it so are bonded and gift the star her you know at that level you get a stipend in your paycheck to make your payment for that the car so martha still held to the same standards that we are to earn that stipend every single month so she had to get that horse per pay for that every single most incredible i mean not only that she's out there selling our brand to community but also that she meets that level and get something extra special so you have a great story and what i love about her story is she has no technology she has no electricity she doesn't use social media so she is building her business purely by relationships and going out there and talking to people about the products and that's really what this is all about that's that's incredible i mean most of us just think of direct sales the number one way to build your business is to build those relationships and too many people do rely on social media too much and i love her story that she doesn't have that to rely on and i you know that just gave me a whole new respect for the company that i'm a part of because they really just want to make sure that everybody's taken care of and you know just make them feel really loved and really special and your local to the area as well so i think and purchase from you know if i worry about it i'm not washington but i do have clients all over the united states i even have a team in the u k so over in london we're a global company so i can have a climate where wonderful well again thank you so much for sharing all of this valuable information as well as the story call out the calories challenge see you in a moment our family was drifting apart until we found the connection you have the power to change your child's life the boy's town national hotline can help thank you so much for coming back so jill in a list that you guys are both a little bit focused on the same thing whether it's detoxing and overall health wellness and being you're more into the body and mind and nutrition  you're into skin body all kinds of stuff i mean is there anything that you guys are wondering about each other or obviously you're from the same area and kind of focus on summer so yeah actually i didn't know that you did the nutrition classes at your studio and i think that that's awesome especially because when i'm you know coaching people through this challenge one of the big things is they don't know how to cook healthy food even though we're going on the recipes and we take  things like even like the sugar buster and going into the gut parts really your immune system like alyssa said always to do with your skin etc you can do whatever you want on the top but internally you need to address some of that so tips would be i think sugar's a big thing when you agree yeah absolutely and trying to really teach people to identify and look at their labels like going through the grocery store and people get stuck you don't realize even things like salad dressing you know catch  process like if you can go to whole foods i think that's really the nugget to whole foods eat the whole thing that i've said to people i'm like well i'd rather eat my calories than drink them because they're always getting proper chinos and all that i'd rather if i'm going to sugar like i think are born uses some of those ingredients as well player base that you're getting the fiber and all the nutrition from them and you can still get that sweet part in your in your day so and it's crazy whenever you of limon it fat from your diet for you know twenty one to thirty days and then you start to reintegrate it back into your diet it tastes so much sweeter that you actually don't even enjoyed anymore oh i don't even think about right and sugar  are some studies out there and of course i understand they've been done on certain routes but that sugar is eight times more addictive than certain drugs yes i'm so that's really the scary thing and i'm so glad that you brought up  i have a little calorie count challenge that since you both are very knowledgeable about foods and i'm assuming you have some some knowledge of calories i have some surprising surprising calorie counts for you guys so you're going to have to pick  don't i'm going to let each one of you pick one so don't say which one you pick right away or don't answer back you'll see ok ok john are you ok ok ok so which has more calories pecan chicken salad i didn't write that to say yes you can go first i would say watch has more calories yes the salad say the salad definitely ok so the second one would it be a chicken deluxe sandwich or a cobb salad is cheesy gordita or the fiesta taco salad i'm not sure what either of those really does so i'm going to go with let's just keep it on the salads were i would say the mocha probably some ok this is surprising it's actually the hot carmel sunday three hundred eighty calories or three hundred i know so we don't count calories we don't i don't  don't either but it was a little you know original chicken sandwich or the w to tell you guys a little bit more about what's out there nutritionally so you guys know thank you both so much for participating and having a little fun with are call out the hellery challenge we're going to take a short break and when we come back i'll tell you about two great events happening in our area here's something we bet you didn't know nearly half of all cancers can be prevented mostly by making changes in your diet controlling your weight and of course by not smoking does it prevent fifty dot org and get a free thirty day planner filled with tips recipes and more leading the upcoming north shore excursion on july fifteenth follow rob on facebook a group coached three rivers to find out more about this wonderful event series also i wanted to mention another great event that i will be hosting coming up this september which will benefit dress for success save the date for the platinum party presented by power of south philly which will take place at the southland golf club on september tenth you can find more info on n p marketing and p r dot com thank you once again for watching spotlight on pittsburgh please follow us on facebook and on instagram at spotlight on pittsburgh and join us again next time when we shine the spotlight on two new get