About me Yoga helped me maintain balance throughout my life, while competing in fitness competitions, building businesses, establsihing healthy pregnancies and balancing motherhood. After childbirth I incorporated exercise and yoga to get back in to shape and feel strong again through a balance of Strength training, Yoga, and Meditation. I have been practising Yoga consistently for twenty five years and became certified Personal Trainer, Iyenger Yoga, Birkram Hot Yoga and Power Vinyasa Yoga Teacher. I am the director of Nicky Arthur 10 week Mind Body Transformation Coaching Program that is a structured 1-1 Lifestyle program for anyone who is looking to change their lifestyle and reclaim their health and happiness. My program is unique by taking a more balanced approach on all my tools and techniques I personally use in my everyday life that keeps me healthy , Strong, Balanced and happy within. I run retreats all over Australia, Bali and New Zealand. With my fourth Published book in the process I am also developing and easy to use App to download my online yoga and launch The Yoga Business Coach Model for 2020, a retreat for Yoga Teachers and anyone wanting to take time out to reignite their own Yoga Practice and develop their own business around yoga or other creative careers. Check out Retreats. Read MY STORY www.nickyarthur.com.au/my-story.html |
The CallThe Call
I was around 16 years old, my Dad was sitting on the couch with his hands in his head, depressed… he had been made redundant and fallen into depression. I handed him the book ‘BEING HAPPY’ by Andrew Mathews an Australian Cartoonist author I loved. Dad looked at me as I handed him the book and said ‘What you think a book is going to help me!!!!” He pretty much through it back at me. I knew in my heart if I could get him to change his mind and how he was thinking it would help him. Thankfully Dad did find a new job and he did regain his happiness. I became obsessed with the power of the mind from that day forward. I read every book under the sun on positive thinking, the power of the mind and quickly became passionate on goal setting. I wanted to help my dad feel happy and as a young teenager it was the most painful experience to see my dad so depressed and down. My mum was so patient and a great support for him, and still is today. Thank fully over time he found a new job and pulled himself slowly out of his depression, but I know that moment of losing his job, he loved changed him for the rest of his life. I wanted to do something fast to help him, but there is no fast fix to depression. I also wanted to desperately prove to my Dad dreams are free and you can achieve anything you put your heart and soul into if you want it enough. In that moment I made my mind up I was never going to be made redundant and I would build my own empire one day. The Pit. Not long after, I decided to fast track my career, and become my own boss.I had no idea what I wanted to do but loved fashion. I knew as long as I chose something that would be forever changing, and innovative I would be free for the rest of my life. I chose hairdressing, as I could get an apprenticeship without school certificate. I had a dream to get through training and begin working formyself. I left school at the tender age of 16 years old and signed my five year 8,000 hour apprenticeship. I became a top senior stylist by 19 years of age and was made a manager at of one of the six leading hair salons of the Jo Douglas of Headquarters, Dunedin. I loved and hated every moment with Jo Douglas. We worked extremely hard and long hours. I worked 3-4 late nights a week and every Saturday, our day off we had staff training, it soon became my entire life. I was forced to sell my horses, because the lack of time. I hardly saw my family and could only make time for my hairdressing friends as we would often hang out together. I was involved in the industry on all levels, and at a competitive level, a top senior stylist making and earning good money for my boss and my pay packet was back in those days abundant with ‘over hours.’ But I couldn’t stop dreaming if making this kind of money for myself, and building my own empire. I saw an empty building at the tender age of 22 years old, me being me, no fear, I knocked on the door of the owners building, and asked if they wanted to rent the empty shop out. I got the lease and started to build from scratch, my empire. It was amazing. My father gave me a small loan as a deposit and I borrowed the rest, I built and designed a shop and made it a huge success, I had paid off my loan my Father gave me, and paid the bank back within the first six months, it was a great feeling and a great success. I felt so powerful, and successful at 22 years old. I had built myself a house hold name in hairdressing and became New Zealand Judge on The Judges Panel, living her own dream life. Five years later, I fell deeply and passionately in love, got married and went on and built a second more up market salon with higher pricing services. I stepped right out of my comfort zone and was the first salon in my city to go up market and increase my pricing structure. I felt so confident and powerful in many ways, having my own teams, and two successful salons, but over the years I did fall out of balance. Reaching burn out is easy when you physically work in your business, not on your business. The business began to control me. With working over 80 hrs every week, and falling sick every time I went on holiday. I became unfit, and little overweight and could see my body changing as I was aging through my the years of 20’s and 30’s. I was drinking and binge eating, mostly because of no food throughout the day. I always had energy as we were always too busy to worry about being hungry or tired. I was gifted with a determined and positive mindset, but it wasn’t until I would stop, I didn’t know how to relax without food or drink. I wasn’t happy and slowly began my own journey to a lifestyle change. I hired a Personal Trainer three times a week. I was the corporate client back then spending over $200 a week on training and a weekly massage. My life was busy I had a cleaner, massage therapist, Personal Trainer, eat out most nights, when I wasn’t competing for a fitness competition, and a husband loved to massage my tired aching feet at night and often massage my body to sleep, if I hadn’t already fallen in a heap. I should have been the happiest girl alive. BUT I was always sore, tired, and not feeling balanced within and possbibly anxious. Looking back I was anxiously thinking into the future, the next client, the next meeting, the next competition, I was not present, I felt moody and demanding. I couldn’t even wrap a present neatly as I was always in a rush. My staff use to do all of these things for me, knowing it would be rushed if I did it. I expected people to run around after me. Thankfully I had wonderful staff who looked after me well. I wanted everything on demand, because I had the power of my business to pay for it, and always felt worthy to receive it. I use to eat out every night, and eat desserts or chocolate at nights. The one thing I knew I was great at was educating my staff, motivation and inspiring my staff to be positive, happy and healthy. Over the years I wanted to transform my career to health and wellness, by doing a Personal Training Course, but the gym environment wasn’t really where I wanted to work, it never felt holistic for me with the loud banging music and the hyped up gym junkies, I was on the search for something else. I came home from the salon very late around 10pm, I went straight to the cosy music room and collapsed on the floor, exhausted out of balance and unhappy. I remember lying back and thinking there must be more to this life than working, and chasing my tail. I felt out of control, crying in a heap, it is a moment I will always remember. But I was married, living on a farm and had everything I could have dreamed of. I had a horse in the back yard to ride, but no time to enjoy it. I felt so out of balance and disconnected to my body, my head was spinning. Not long after I booked myself a business retreat in Queensland Australia, Noosa, for Hairdressing Business Owners Retreat, to develop their business strategies. I couldn’t believe it, we did yoga, tai chi, and spent and time around nature, we were taught on the retreat to develop daily rituals. The Business Retreat created a massive break through for me, I began clear on how I wanted to live my life, and begin to design it around all the things that were in alignment and congruent with me. I became a wife, a mum and booked in for my Yoga Teacher Training, around this time I published my very first book, How to be a Happier Mum. This was the breakthrough to my own happiness. Luckily while I was married I had found Yoga at the age of 27, but I had already started my own inner work journey on myself from the teenage years , I had always embraced self-development and self-healing work, and I still refer to some of my favorite authors today. The late Louise Hay, Tony Robbins, the late Wayne Dwyer, Deepak Chopra, Bikram Choudry, Bruce Lipton and Lisa Messenger, to name a few. I enrolled in courses along the way from Essential oils, coaching, naturopath, homeopathy, hypnotherapy, reiki, and more. I wanted to experience it all and work out how to bring my body, my temple into total alignment, harmony and inner happiness. The final collapse on the floor that night, was the beginning of my own breakthrough. I needed to change some old patterns and habits. I was burn out, impatient, impulsive and demanding, unhappy, I wanted everything to happen NOW. Yoga taught me to pause and to become in the present moment, it taught me to slow down and pause. The pause is in the practice of solitude, the power of silence, but I had to make time for this and make it a daily ritual. The Search: After attending the retreat, I made yoga part of my everyday life. I found an Ashtanga school and began my journey. It wasn’t always easy to get to a class being a business owner and a Mum but slowly over time all my deeply rooted goals and dreams have come to fruition. With goal setting, planning a having a business mentor slowly I began to strip back the layers to my authentic core self. While I was digging deeper in my Yoga Postures, unleashing tightness in my over worked body, and stilling my busy anxious mind, then, I was having this amazing transformation, a shift. The shift came at a huge cost, my marriage collapsed through the change, I was going in a completely different direction, I wanted nature stillness and simplicity. We decided to part and go our separate ways, it wasn’t easy but once I got myself set up in a whole new area by the ocean I found my core, my calm, my solitude to make the changes to my environment and who I began to circle myself around. The lifestyle I have worked so incredibly hard to create, is difficult to put a price to what it is worth, because it was time I wanted back in my life, the time to fill my days with the things I dreamed. Spending quality time with my two young daughters is the time I treasure today, to have had that gift in life is something I will treasure for the rest of my life. I was like, "I now know the authenticity truth of life." There's a truth that I've realized that I can share with people. Maybe the path they're going down isn't the way they should be going down, maybe their environment or work is causing suffering. I started filling out my own blueprint, and I went out after that, I became a teacher, ran my won retreats and created my first online 10-week Mind Body Transformation blueprint in 2010. If you've heard my story before, the story goes on, and now I get paid consulting clients 1-1 to create significant life changes. I have a few streams of income, earning me money while I build my and update my technology for my own users, I one on one coach, speak at seminars and events. I've created an amazing online lifestyle program, I'm a bestselling author now of three successful published books and about to publish the forth. That's an extraordinary thing. My whole life has changed and I have a whole new lifestyle and belief in myself. This moment of insight, of truth, that I am loved, I am good enough, becomes one of the core parts of my message. This whole inner transformation was my breakthrough. Then, from the inner transformation comes the reality of action. My credibility that I share is not just how one dynamic of my life changed. It's on all my different dynamics. I became more compassionate for mankind and passionate about creating change for the planet. My relationship changed, I found self love. My family life changed but I found began to feel peace with my family upheaval and appreciation with my New Zealand family that I travel back to see my family and we’re closer than we've ever been. I am blessed to have both parents still alive to witness my happiness and success. |