Betsy Weiner is a contemplative coach and Inner Life Guide specializing in coaching for people at thresholds. She is a Board Certified Health & Wellness Coach (NBC-HWC), a graduate of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, and holds certifications in Co-Active Coaching, Internal Family Systems (IFS), mindfulness, meditation, and Yoga Nidra. Her work is rooted in the Himalayan and Sri Vidya traditions, drawn from over twenty-five years of practice and study.

How I came to this work

I came to this work from a place of quiet desperation and quiet inspiration, both at once.

Somehow I found yoga, and yoga found me. Deep spiritual practice has been a pillar of my life for as long as I can remember. The invitation to go deeper always stood like an open door I kept returning to.

I knew there was something more.

Years of struggling with anxiety, with my relationship to my body and food, taught me exactly what it costs to be lost in your own house. To know, somewhere underneath, that you've stopped trusting your own signal. That struggle is what sent me looking for how I had gotten lost in the first place. Not to fix myself from the outside in, but to relearn my own map from the inside out.

I had to learn my own terrain before I could help anyone else read theirs.

As I walked through my own inner landscape, I had the good fortune to meet incredible teachers who had been walking the path much longer than I had. Through multiple traditions, practices, and teachings, I found a perspective that is varied, multi-faceted, and always growing.

As I met myself in new ways, I was able to meet others in new ways.

Twenty-five years later, I am still here. Still practicing. Still being taught. Still coming home. What has kept the work alive for me is knowing there is always something more to learn, and that the learning never happens alone.

I have watched people come alive. I have watched people return, as I returned. I have watched people reclaim who they are and who they know they can be.

If you've ever had to relearn how to trust your own signal, this is the work I know how to walk you through. Not from a distance, and not because I read it in a book. Because I've walked the terrain myself, and I still am.

I remain in love with the world. And in awe of it.

What I Return To

We are the mapmakers of our own inner terrain.

Remembering — the work is not about becoming someone new. It is about returning to who you have always been.

Listening — the wisdom is in the quiet.

Curiosity and Wonder — the practice of asking "what happens if I just do it?" instead of "what if I do it wrong?"

Mapping the Inner Landscape — only you know the way back to yourself. This work is walking the terrain together.

Living from Your Place of Truth — truth has a frequency. When we tune to it, we stop living against ourselves.

Podcasts: Legacy, Art of Living Well, Mind Body Spirit: A Transformation Podcast, The Optimization Toolbox, Creating Ripples, Well Connected Twin Cities, Rise to More