IIN Certified Health Coach, energy healer, and meditation guide Bianca Koyabe is one of our 2024 IINovator of the Year Award winners! She will be honored at our upcoming virtual summit, WellBeing 2024: Charting Your Path to Enhanced Health and Vitality. (Register for free!) Below is the story of how IIN helped heal Bianca, the incredible work she’s doing to empower women, the lecture that changed her life, and more.
Back in 2022, Bianca Koyabe was experiencing a great deal of pain and inflammation. She tried a whole host of things to alleviate it, from chiropractic to Chinese medicine to dry needling to acupuncture, but none of those made a significant impact. It was then that she came to the realization that she wanted to nurture her body from the inside out and really focus on what she was eating.
IIN’s Health Coach Training Program caught the South African’s eye, and she knew immediately that this was what she had been searching for all along.
“I decided to take the course because I wanted to learn how to heal my body,” says the former model, who currently resides in Cape Town. “I wanted to empower myself. It felt natural, easy, and effortless, and everything that was taught was very aligned with me. There’s one thing that will always stick with me to this day: It’s not about perfection. It’s about progress and moving forward.”
That progress-over-perfection mantra really struck a chord with Koyabe, and she continues to make it a focal point of her work and her overall approach to life.
Enrolling at IIN ended up being the perfect choice at the perfect time. It changed Koyabe’s life monumentally, both personally and professionally. After making wholesale changes to her diet, she says, she began to experience pain far less frequently. It went from chronic to occasional.
“I have IIN to thank for that,” she says. “My intuition guided me to start this course, and I’m very grateful. I’m so happy that I listened to the nudge.”
After graduating from the program in February 2023, Koyabe admittedly wasn’t quite sure what she wanted to do with the certification. But now armed with an extensive amount of holistic health and wellness knowledge, she took to her social media accounts to spread that wealth of knowledge. Her social media content took off — she currently boasts over 28,000 followers on Instagram @biancakoyabe — and the incredible response and engagement inspired her to take that knowledge and turn it into a fulfilling and meaningful career.
In 2023, Koyabe launched the Rose Health Method (named after Bianca’s grandmother, Rose, who sadly passed away a few years ago). Incorporating the teachings of the Health Coach Training Program, as well as her knowledge of Reiki and womb healing, she offers clients a combination of health coaching, energy healing, meditation, and breathwork. She works exclusively with women (for now), helping to heal limiting beliefs and blockages, and focusing on the root cause of whatever issue they’re struggling with and working through.
Her primary goal is to help women find strength within themselves and step into their power, just as she believes she’s been able to do.
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“Sometimes we lean more into health coaching,” she says, “because [a client] is in a very difficult space in their life, where they just want to be able to function. Then we'll look at getting into a good sleep pattern or incorporating more vegetables into their diet. Then, once they have a bit of a grip on their lifestyle and their day-to-day activities, we can go a little bit deeper. And that's when the energy healing work comes in.
“It’s a beautiful combination of all those different things, and it brings me a lot of joy. I really feel like I'm living in my purpose, and this is exactly what I'm supposed to be doing.”
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Koyabe recalls one Health Coach Training Program lecture from Dr. Deganit Nuur, DACM that had a profound effect on her. It was about psychic gifts and clairvoyance, and it was the first time that she had ever heard about energy work, or considered hearing or seeing things that we don’t hear or see in the 3D. It planted a seed and ultimately changed the course of her life.
“That specific lecture really stuck with me for a long time, even though I didn't know exactly what I was going to do with the certification,” Koyabe recalls. “The message in that lecture was so powerful, and I know that was part of my intuition guiding me. That lecture, specifically, is what created this interest in energetics, Reiki, and healing that goes beyond what we can see with our eyes.”
Just months after graduating from the Health Coach Training Program, Koyabe was able to launch and grow a successful business, doing meaningful work and providing life-changing services to clients across the globe (as well as invaluable, actionable health and wellness tips). The impact she’s made over such a short period of time, and her dedication and willingness to spread her knowledge with the world, is what prompted us to reward her with the 2024 IINovator of the Year Award.
So, what does the award mean to her?
“It means I’m doing something good in the world and I'm moving in the right direction,” she says. “It also means there's hope for many women to do something that feels good and is aligned with them. And even if it doesn't make sense to those around you, doing what sets your soul on fire is really important, and you can help a lot of people along the way.
“I'm feeling extremely grateful because I've always moved from my soul’s purpose. All the decisions I've ever made are from what my soul is telling me to do. It’s confirmation that I'm moving in the right direction.”
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