One Year of Priya

One Year of Priya

My year at Boo – Priya’s reflections on her first year with Team Boo

It all started with a conversation with Becci, Founder and Director of Boo Coaching and Consulting and a joint passion for creating healthy, happy people and places….

I would often check in with Team Boo on their social media pages, and always connected with their message and ethos as a business. I’d like their posts and champion what they do, I had attended past events hosted through their social value arm and really valued everything Team Boo stood for. As a qualified Yoga Teacher and having an established practice, I have always been fascinated by the connection between our body, our mind, and our emotions, they are strongly related, and can be seen as a journey to the self.

“Yoga is the Journey of the Self, through the self, to the self”  – The Bhagavad Gita

In life we have to take the time to appreciate and train ourselves to form new habits, change behaviour, reconnect with ourselves to create these changes and this is where I could see a connection with Team Boo – we shared that vision in a unique kind of way.

We were at the start of Covid-19 in March 2020 when I joined the team as an Associate and in June that year I was invited to be a part of Team Boo. In such uncertain times I could see the value and love from everyone at Boo which, for me, is priceless. It was this kind-hearted spirit that people in the world needed and, as Team Boo, we stepped up and supported so many individuals and organisations through these changing times from a place of values: kindness, compassion, love and trust – these values which I hold I could see shining through the organisation and I knew straight away this was so right for me. Having being self-employed for over 4 years I was now a part of a team and this in-itself gave me a sense of belonging.

At Boo we deliver wellbeing programmes – Caring For Yourself and Caring For Your Teams. I completely felt at home as I listened to my first webinar that Becci and Helen facilitated and kindly invited me to be a part of “I connected to each aspect” and felt this wave of excitement for myself starting a chapter a new journey with Team Boo.

I was Invited by Becci to complete a strengths finder assessment and I enrolled on completing my CMI Level 7 in Coaching and Mentoring and could really appreciate the tools that Coaching offers to practice self-care daily and using these tools to help people is, for me, utterly magical.

At Boo I am supported in practicing my own self development in a way that works for me and use my own strengths, I have never had this opportunity in previous employment and it is so refreshing.

I am looking forward to continuing to be my best self as this job allows me to do just that.

My Highlights:

• I am a ‘Health and Happiness Coach’ when I introduce myself, I feel so happy and proud it has been a dream in the making.
• I enjoy facilitating and being able to share some ancient Indian practices such as Pranayama / breath work, guiding people through mediation and body scan meditations is a joy.
• I am supporting individuals and groups with wellbeing coaching and delivering our Caring For Yourself Programme is simply perfect for me.
• Becci has supported me with a local charity who I support called Bolton Hindu Forum for International Women’s Day 2021 this was through Boo Social Value hours “At Boo we Give Back” we held a webinar talking about mental health and wellbeing. breaking down stigma at a grass roots level.

I have so many highlights but what I’d like to say is ‘I am embracing all things Health and Happiness’

From my heart to yours I would like to thank the whole team In supporting me over the 12 months

Priya x

Leading with love, creating light