About Us
At The Embodied Business Institute, we integrate business strategy, cognitive and nervous-system research, and brain-based coaching to help leaders, educators, and entrepreneurs build fulfilling, high-impact businesses and LIVES.
Hi, I’m Anne Bishop
I’m a mentor, an entrepreneur, and an advocate for research-based practice - but above all else, I identify as an educator.
Since I was an elementary school student helping other kids in my math class with their homework, and other ballet students with their technique, I have always wanted to give people the skills they need to feel confident and be SEEN and HEARD.
Because there are so many humble, innovative, creative people...teachers, coaches, healthcare professionals, and small business owners who have focused on becoming experts in their crafts…but they haven’t had the chance to bring it to a wider audience.
If that’s you, it is my honor in life to SEE YOU, reflect back the profound value of your work, and then help you develop the skills you need to systematize and scale the life-changing work you do - so that you can maximize your impact, AND so that your work takes better care of YOU.
Because we ALL deserve to be successful.
Over the course of my career, my passion for democratizing success has led me to…
•Start teaching Pilates at 20 years old, and start my first business as a solopreneur at 21
•Build a brick-and-mortar studio business where I mentored my team and trained Pilates teachers for 20 years
•Pursue a Masters in Education from Harvard, where I studied brain-based approaches to embodiment and learning for adults and how to build businesses around this approach
•Found Brain Body Connect, an online business with a mission to connect folks working in the fields of cognitive and neuroscience research with movement teachers and practitioners
•Pricing Overhaul® Coach a Pricing Method that helps give service-based business owners 10-30% profit margins or more.
And now I’m bringing it to the life- and career-changing mentorship we offer at The Embodied Business Institute.
Hi, I’m Chantill Lopez.
I believe that I can have it all, and so can you...
I am a trained journalist, and in my early twenties, I left that career to teach.
Although journalism was stimulating and gritty and challenging it only satisfied one part of me - my intellect. I knew I needed a career that engaged me as a WHOLE PERSON - my body, my creativity, my intuition, my emotions, AND my mind, and so I shifted. As an athlete and dancer my whole life, I fell in love with the science and art of teaching movement, which is where I stayed for 20 years.
A mentor I once had said to me: “You know you’ll never make money teaching, right?” My response was instant and clear: “That’s not going to be me.”
Since then, I’ve been on a long and rich journey to empower others AND myself to NEVER SETTLE for anything less than the lives we want most, including all of the time, location, and financial freedom we desire WHILE doing work that has meaning.
In my career to help others move beyond what they’ve been told is possible in their lives, I have…
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Owned and run two boutique Pilates studios
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Founded and co-hosted two podcasts: The Thinking Pilates Podcast + Embodied Business, Inspired Brain Podcast
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Written and published the movement education book Moving Beyond Technique and hundreds of articles on teaching, functional anatomy, and the nervous system
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Founded Skillful Teaching, an international education company for movement and somatic-based practitioners
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Led and created advanced teacher trainings and international retreats
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Created more than 80 online educational courses
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And of course, co-founded The Embodied Business Institute
For the past 12 years my work in transformational education and motivational science has led me to become well versed and practiced in a myriad of nervous system frameworks that are the heart of the change work I do with individuals, businesses, and organizations.
I am a trained Brain-based coach through the Neuroleadership Institute, and certified by the Polyvagal Institute in a range of methodologies.
If you're looking for a way to amplify your work or your life, to navigate a transition in yourself or in your professional career, or make a difficult change, and want the results to stick, this work may be what you're looking for.
And...I can’t wait to get to know you!
Chantill holds a degree in Journalism and Creative Writing and has studied with and/or is certified by:
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Deb Dana, Creator of Rhythm of Regulation and Author of many books on the nervous system including "Anchored"
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Dr. Stephen Porges, creator of the Polyvagal Theory
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Michael Allison, Creator of the PlayZone - A Polyvagal-driven coaching certificate program
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The Polyvagal Institute
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Rhythm of Regulation
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The Neuroleadership Institute as a Brain Based Coach
Our Embodied
Builder's
synergy
The magic of having TWO mentors and coaches constantly collaborating on your behalf…
We each have a lot to offer.
But when we come together, something else happens.
The two of us have been working together for years, and we have a special synergy that you simply can’t get by working with either a single mentor or coach OR with two SEPARATE ones.
Yes, when you are a client in one of our containers, we talk about you!
Because when we do, we find ways to support you that neither of us would have imagined on our own.
This is the power of distributed cognition: wisdom that is not held within one human brain, but that we create together by combining our perspectives, our life experiences, and our knowledge.
And no matter which door you came in, we tap into this synergy through our signature three-part system: The Embodied Business System for Change.