Private Yoga
Philosophy
If you follow my work, you know that I often make the distinction between self-improvement and self-unfoldment. The drive toward self-improvement is a dominant thread in mainstream culture. The coaching industry owes a huge debt of gratitude to the self-improvement movement. This movement has produced the ever-growing self-help industry and the proliferations of books and YouTube videos showing yet more ways you can optimize your life and and improve yourself. In fact, the narrative of self-improvement is so dominant that most people don’t even know about self-unfoldment, which utilizes transmutation. Furthermore, most people don’t realize that true effectiveness and fulfillment are rarely the outcome of self-improvement and self-optimization. Instead, the drive toward self-improvement and self-optimization is, more often than not, a source of suffering. I sometimes call this the tyranny of self-improvement, but that’s another soap box.
The premise of self-unfoldment differs significantly from the premise of self-improvement. Self-improvement is usually initiated in response to self-deficiency. You don’t like the shape of your body. You are dissatisfied with your job performance. You are unhappy in your relationships. You feel overwhelmed and stressed out. It feels like you just don’t have what it takes, whatever that is. Experiences like this are what often bring clients to coaching. But self-improvement isn’t self-transformation. Through self-improvement can upgrade your skillfulness but that doesn’t necessarily transform your way of being. Such a profound shift requires self-transformation.
THIS IS NOT SELF-IMRPOVEMENT Practise. It is a Transmutation or self-unfoldment practise.
I frequently hear from students in our classes that they are surprised how coaching in this way feels effortless. Some will even say, “It feelings like I’m not doing anything.” How could this be an effective way to coach? Because meeting these needs requires that you stop trying to change the client. Even well-intended efforts to change the client will thwart this natural process from unfolding. Instead, you meet the client exactly where they are. You meet the client exactly as they are. You hold an open, accepting, loving, and appreciative space for them to meet themselves exactly as they are with no change agenda. In fact, the majority of the work is in helping the client relax their own self-improvement and self-optimization agendas, which themselves need to be seen, understood, loved, and valued exactly as they are. Paradoxically, as these conditions are met, the client spontaneously unfolds in profoundly transformative ways. That’s the power of transmutation!
To allow you to meet yourself
Prices & Packages
In-person (Central/South London Only)
Single Class - £70
Block of 5 - £325 (£65 per class)
Online (Zoom)
Single class - £50
Block of 5 - £225 (£45 per class)