Burnout Be Gone!
with Imogen Roy
In this free class, learn three powerful tools you can start using today to radically reduce the experience of burnout in your life
But I don’t want you to stop there.
My intention is not for you to just overcome burnout. I want you to expand way past that. And those are the practices I’ll be teaching in my 29-day programme, Align + Flow. We begin on May 11th.
Read on for more details…
A 29-day live, online journey. Revolutionise your productivity, banish burnout and flourish in life and work by letting your body lead.
Class begins Tuesday 11th May
Do you ever beat yourself up for your supposed lack of stamina, feeling like there are never enough hours in the day to complete everything you want to get done? Even though you follow every time-management system and own every productivity planner?
And do you ever wonder why, despite always feeling overstretched, overwhelmed and so goddamn drained at the end of the day, you can never truly switch off? As if you’re constantly stuck in ‘on’ mode?
Maybe you even think ‘rest’ is a dirty word?
You are not crazy.
You are not failing.
You are a cyclical being trying to fit into an industrialised society that wasn’t made for you to thrive.
One that demands machine-like, linear performance no matter what the cost to our health, joy and relationships.
For too long we've been told that we just need to improve ourselves, “be more focused” or work harder in order to be more creative, productive or successful...
...But the game is rigged.
The real enemy isn’t you. It’s not lack of willpower or bad time management.
It’s not even your demanding boss or your inattentive partner who doesn’t share the load.
Workplace norms and mainstream productivity advice don’t support everyone to thrive.
Here’s just one example: did you know that the standard working day perfectly caters to the male hormonal cycle in which energy peaks at 9am and drops off after 5pm? That’s no coincidence.
When we find ourselves trying to be productive — to bring things forth, to birth visions — in compliance with a culture that wasn't designed to help us achieve our dreams, we can inadvertently spend all of our best energy serving others and their goals, ending up with nothing but crumbs for ourselves.
This has to change.
Are you working in ways that are out of alignment with your mental or physical health simply because it’s “the normal” way?
What’s considered “normal” and what’s actually natural for human beings have nothing to do with one another.
We all need to pay more attention to nature.
Start with yourself.
Start with the nature inside you.
What’s the solution?
You don’t need to “keep up”. You’re going to need to break the rules and wield radical tools to make your own game.
These are the tools I want to share with you — tools to get back into your body, and reclaim your energy so that you can access levels of energy, creativity and power you may last have experienced as a child.
You need to align and flow.
And these are the principles I teach in my 29-day group programme of cyclical productivity: working with, not against, your natural cycles and energy.
Any investment you make in understanding your own body and reclaiming power over your energy — your lifeforce — is a priceless investment.
When we let our body lead, incredible things happen.
It’s possible for you too.
Your natural cycles of energy are your superpower, not your weakness.
With the world slowly preparing to go “back to normal”, this unique window in time is the perfect opportunity for you to experience the life-changing power in harnessing your cyclical energy and transform your lifestyle for good.
“Normal” was never good enough. Let’s not go back to it.
If you’re interested in joining the May 11th Align + Flow cohort, I’d love to see you in class.
“I really wanted to learn how to use my time and energy in more useful and regenerative ways. I have felt a certain type of surveillance lifted off of me since Align + Flow. I take breaks throughout the day and when I do I don’t feel guilty because I know it shifts my energy and my brain and body need it and it’s intentional.
I celebrate being able to forecast when my energy might be spent (after teaching, big pitch or presentation, etc) and buffering the days after with ways I can fuel myself, like scheduling acupuncture, sleeping in, ordering yummy food, calling a friend who loves me, etc. So much permission!"
– Lauren, founder Afirma
Your energy matters. Your lifeforce matters.
The world needs you lit up and radiant, not burnt out and running on empty.
I have a vision for a new reality in which every individual is so deeply connected to their own body’s sense of right timing, so well-fuelled, and their resources so consciously well spent, that they are absolutely unstoppable in their pursuit of a well-lived life.
Can you imagine how magical you'd feel if you had the power to use even your darkest moods and moments as a source of energy? As your compass?
How unstoppable you’d be with tools and strategies to channel all your feel-good energy into the projects and relationships that matter most to you?
Knowing how to use both your high-energy ‘expanded’ states and your low-energy ‘contracted’ states to radically nourish yourself is a game-changing key to playing more powerfully in all areas of our lives.
But we aren’t taught any of that.
Our culture of Toxic Productivity doesn’t just cause burnout, chronic health issues and anxiety. It cuts us off from our greatest source of power: embodied energy.
That changes now.
“I knew there had to be another way that wasn't go-go-go! Dropping the guilt around permission to rest has been huge for me. I don't have to be busy all the damn time. If you’re thinking of joining, just do it. Align + Flow will recharge you and give you a gentler paradigm.”
– Katie
There are 1001 issues to fix and unjust systems to dismantle in our workplaces, relationships and communities. But we can’t fight the status quo when we’re burned out and worn down, so we have to start with the personal:
No more forcing yourself to fit into outdated systems, trying to meet industrial productivity expectations whilst losing your heart, health, and soul in the process.
No more saying yes, when your body and intuition are saying no.
No more rewarding yourself only when the to-do list is ticked off.
No more internalised guilt and shame around rest, and no more glamorisation of busy.
Align and Flow is a shame-free, life-affirming and radical approach to productivity.
We do this work in a group because we learn “normal” socially. So we unlearn it best socially too.
We’ll be celebrating, sharing, unlearning and inspiring each other in Align + Flow for 29 days — one whole lunar cycle. Class begins on New Moon and ends just before the next.
I hope you join us.
“Before Align + Flow, I was over-promising, people-pleasing and therefore putting myself and my own needs last, making me resentful and a bit demotivated towards my work and my clients. The penny-drop moment for me was the realisation that I totally COULD fuel myself first before I rushed to my daily to-do list. In fact, by fueling myself before I did anything for others, I was actually more productive when I did sit down to work. I'm now so much more conscious of my mind-body connection and the different needs I may have at more expanded versus contracted parts of my cycles. I no longer feel guilt around resting. If I need to nap in the middle of the day... NO shame! It's what my body needs. We are all running on auto-pilot and there is 100% a better way for all women to tap into their energy and live less frantic, burnt-out lives.”
– Emma, Copywriter
A 29-day group coaching experience
What does it mean to Align and Flow?
Understand your own body and what it needs from you in different cycles and seasons.
Create experiments designed to centre your strategy for success on your own experience, not an external method of productivity.
Begin to connect with and trust your natural instinct for “right timing” over endless hustle.
Let go of perfection and embrace flexibility.
Facilitate flow by radically defending stretches of your best energy and time to use for yourself, so your output is greater but less demanding.
Switch from an “effort and reward” mindset to an input-output energy balancing approach, where you fuel yourself first.
What’s included when you join Align & Flow:
We all learn and process information differently. Align + Flow contains three teaching modalities to honour these differences:
1. A strong container of 6 live online classes to open and close the 29-day experience for the duration of one lunar cycle.
2. Lifetime access to the self-paced online course (20+ video and audio lessons with transcripts) for you to digest the teaching materials in your own time.
3. Social learning through the online community on Telegram with your Align + Flow peers for the duration of the 29-day journey.
Six live classes will run as follows:
Live New Moon Opening Call with Imogen Roy on 11th May 2021
Live Closing Call with Imogen Roy on 9th June 2021
4 themed live classes with Q&A:
From Burned Out to Embodied – Learn simple, practical tools for healing sustainably from burnout, even when you can’t stop working
Menstrual Cycle Magic – A deep dive into using the ebbs and flows of your monthly cycle to serve your goals and desires.
9 – 5 Flow – Learn strategies for unlocking more energy at work, even if you don’t have control over your schedule.
Cycle Syncing for Non-Menstruators – How to connect with and harness the full power of your circadian and ultradian rhythms, plus seasonal cycles too.
(Class details TBC based on student time zones)
“I enjoy being in the community and knowing that I am not alone in this journey. Reading what other ladies shared made me feel like I am part of something bigger even though what we are dealing with is internal. This is a great investment in one’s self and truly a gradual step into learning more about your body, energy and cycle. I created a journal and have been keeping track of my cycle, my energies and also planning my days with it. Also, getting support from family by letting them know which part of the cycle phase I am at has been great especially after I have identified patterns.”
– Khai Lin
This experience is for you if…
You've been running on empty and heading for burnout by constantly pushing yourself to do or be more.
The idea of going back to the increased pace and pressure of “normal” life and work is making you feel anxious. You want to take steps to protect your energy and cultivate awareness of your mind-body connection.
You’ve been feeling disconnected from — or want to feel more in tune with — the signals your body’s sending you.
You’re sick of feeling like you can never catch up with everything you need to do, and want to try a new approach to productivity.
You feel like you never have any time or energy left over to pursue your own hobbies, passions and soul projects.
You’re fed up with other people taking up all of your energy and often find yourself saying ‘yes’ to things when it’s really a big, fat ‘no’.
You want to fall radically in love with the process of understanding and using your own unique cycles to be more productive, prolific and present in your life and work.
You want to join a lively, uplifting community of cyclical beings from all over the world to share experiences, get inspired and celebrate each other as you reclaim your cyclical superpowers.
“I was feeling the pressure of work and lockdown and had got jammed in 'on' mode, feeling stuck in my masculine energy. That was not good for a menopausal woman. I wanted to learn about another way of living and working that was more in tune with my natural rhythms and feminine flow. The opening call was super rich and overflowing with gems. That alone was worth the course fee. The biggest win has been permission to rest. The daily alignment questions and the way of sorting tasks by energy level have introduced more choice into the way I'm doing life.”
– Alison, founder of Feeling Colours
In Align + Flow you will learn:
The three hormonal cycles that influence your energy, brain and communication skills differently at various stages of life and how to harness them for success, plus an insight into lunar and seasonal cycles too.
How to build your own regenerative and sustainable productivity system that is both life-affirming and ingeniously efficient.
What they don’t tell us. The systems and societal conditioning that have women burning out at a faster rate than men, and what to do about it.
Creative approaches to play with resistance when it arises.
...And many unconventional tools and techniques for your energetic liberation.
Align + Flow begins May 11th 2021.
Single Payment: 197 Euros (save 10%)
Payment Plan: 3 x 72 Euros
“I was interested in discovering more about cyclical living and productivity when I enrolled for Align + Flow. Since then, I’ve been working with my cycle and energy levels and not how society tells me I should. Being more in tune with my body and my energy levels, knowing when to stop and take a break, organising my to-do list and schedule optimally according to whatever phase I am in have all been huge victories for me. I am experimenting with living more cyclically and trusting things will get done at the right time. I’m also planning my life around my menstrual cycle... as I am mapping out my year, I am not only putting goals and actions into quarters and months but also phases of my cycle.”
– Olivia Pasquali, yoga teacher
Who am I?
As a Strategy Coach (a discipline I invented at the intersection of Brand Strategy and Life Coaching) I help people to be more prolific, productive and present in their life and business.
I do this by developing and teaching unconventional strategies and tools that break cyclical beings free from toxic, unsustainable and disempowering narratives about work and business to create unstoppable success without burnout or compromise.
After experiencing a devastating burnout in 2018 whilst doing what I loved, I realised I’d have to take a much more proactive approach to protect and replenish my most precious resource: my own energy.
Align & Flow is the product of many years of personal de-conditioning from toxic productivity, my deep dedication to the study of our body’s infinite wisdom, and my transformative work on cyclical energy management with 1:1 coaching clients.
Following the principles in Align + Flow hasn’t just made me more fulfilled and productive at work, it’s actually returned me to myself. Now in my 30s, I feel I have regained connection to that lifeforce spark of energy and passion I had at 8 or 9 — with similar levels of imagination, fearlessness, cheekiness, hopefulness.
I want the same for you.
Do I need to be self-employed or a business owner to join?
No! The content in Align and Flow is designed to help you develop your own intuitive sense of natural right-timing, create a cyclical productivity system, and set boundaries for your time and energy, no matter what your goals. There will be a dedicated ‘9-5 Flow’ session for those who want to learn tools to gain more power, energy and agency over your productivity despite a rigid work schedule. So whether you are self-employed with lots of agency over your time, or work full-time for somebody else, Align + Flow offers you realistic, simple tools to start taking charge of what you can, where you can.
Is this class just for women?
As humans, we are all cyclical beings. Align and Flow is open to anyone interested in learning to understand and trust their body and work in a more cyclic nature. If you menstruate, I will be teaching about the infradian rhythm, and how this might influence your cyclic energy. If you don’t menstruate, I will also be teaching about the ultradian and circadian rhythms as well as natural seasons and cycles which can affect our experience of energy and motivation.
Is Align + Flow an online course or a live class?
It’s both! We all learn and integrate differently, which is why Align + Flow has three teaching components:
Live, online classes to open and close the 29-day experience plus 4 themed classes with Imogen Roy.
Self-paced online course (20+ video and audio lessons with transcripts) for you to digest in your own time.
Social learning through the online community with other students for the duration of the 29-day journey.
