Self-Awareness, Action, and Choice
A yogic approach to self-awareness requires that you establish enough distance from being consumed by your habitual ways of seeing, thinking, feeling, and acting; it requires that you establish distance from yourself. This allows leaders and professionals in high-stakes roles to see the unconscious commitments that have been producing and re-producing their the hesitation, rumination, recoil, and over-control in situations that matter.
This Private Executive Execution Intensive offers an opportunity to surface these patterns as they relate to action and avoidance—and to loosen them enough that actual choice becomes possible—especially in moments that influence your reputation, relationships, or follow-through. This is not therapy, coaching, or wellness. It is a structured half-day session for leaders who want to examine their instincts directly, with enough clarity to change how they engage.
Often, the first casualty of a crisis is the ability to ask one or more fundamental questions; focus narrows on self/ego-preservation and essential (and simple) strategic questions aren’t engaged: What is the specific problem I’m trying to solve? What specific result do I want? How would I know if I achieved it? What would be different? And what would this different result do for me? What might I really want?
This private strategic intensive is structured around a yogic approach to self-awareness. Traditionally, yoga wasn’t concerned with solving the ego’s problems. Instead, it was concerned with freeing awareness from the limitations imposed by the ego’s desire for permanent security. Freed from these limitations, one becomes more able to confront what they’ve been avoiding and why they may have been avoiding it. The resulting clarity often reveals that what looked like a strategic or practical problem was, at least in part, a pattern of recoil, delay, compulsion, or over-control that had gone unseen—how seemingly insurmountable problems were results of patterns we couldn’t see.
Yoga prescribed practices precisely because theory wasn’t enough. Practice gives you a live reference‑point for choice, so you recognise when your habits have begun to narrow it. Without practice—without implementation—change is near impossible. Awareness changes what we see—and when what we see changes, so do we. We can delay meaningful action and wait for change to occur spontaneously, or we can begin the process of re-habituation using courage and awareness. In other words, we can spend years hoping for clarity, or we can turn and look directly at what we’ve perhaps spent a lifetime avoiding.
A Balanced Approach to Self-Awareness
Avoidance, Anxiety, and Misplaced Self-Improvement
Mining for gold requires digging up some dirt. But we don’t dig up dirt for the sake of digging up dirt. Self-improvement does not require sanitizing our inner lives of whatever (we think) causes our sense of inadequacy. It doesn’t require ‘fixing’ all our weaknesses so that we are immune to all forms of criticism. It doesn’t require achieving perfect mental health or the elimination of every source of discomfort. In fact, the quest for any kind of personal perfection can reinforce our sense of inadequacy inner lack (the source of our deepest anxiety).
We inherit and develop a range of habits that help us avoid the people/situations that produce our difficult feelings and thoughts. These intrusive thoughts and overwhelming emotions determine so much of our lives because we avoid them (and our tendency to continue to avoid them means that they will continue to prevent us from having choice—from being free).
Our fulfillment is often precisely in these tangled emotions connected to the very things we avoid. Confronting what we avoid replaces our meaningless stress with meaningful stress, the kind of stress that makes us resilient and makes action possible where delay or compulsion had taken over.
Awareness changes what we see—and when what we see changes, so do we.
Half-Day Private Executive Execution Intensive
How Action is Often Tangled Up in the Emotions Connected to the Things That You Avoid
A Private Executive Execution Intensive functions like a kind of mirror: it shows elements of (the habitual, unconscious) you to (the conscious) you. It reflects back the unconscious instincts that shape not only your presence under pressure, but also your willingness or ability to act. By making your implicit, unconscious habits more explicit, you see how these habits have been determining your life.
The resulting inner clarity isn’t just insight—it is a lived shift in your relationship to the issue itself. Effective self-leadership requires being able to carefully confront your anxieties, not continue to avoid them. What can then emerge is something like a cleaner path toward taking the step you were perhaps already intrinsically motivated to take.
In your 3-4 hour Private Executive Composure Intensive, we will identify the unconscious patterns that are interfering with your ability to follow-through on an imminent, real-world situation—especially when stakes are high, time is short, and the decision has already been made.
We don’t use a corporate leadership training model. The objectives of an executive or leadership development programs offered by employers tend to be based on the employer’s needs, not yours. You are asked to fit a pre-existing framework, develop leadership traits, or perform trust exercises. Our approach is based on a different assumption: your most meaningful presence doesn’t emerge from adding leadership skills, but by subtracting distortion—by becoming aware of what is already affecting your perception before becoming consumed by it. And ironically, when you stop striving to become a “better leader”, the very qualities prized by leadership programs (and the qualities that attract trust and produce influence)— presence, discernment, responsiveness—emerge on their own.
Our Private Executive Composure Intensive is also not designed simply to produce good feelings, false confidence, or a false sense of control over one’s circumstances (with no attending meaningful changes). Our Intensive is not therapy/healing. It is meant to help restore enough choice that action becomes possible where something in you has been refusing, resisting, or overcomplicating it.
This is also not a group program, a course, or a pre-established methodology. The session is live, private, and tailored to how your avoidance patterns organize themselves around one specific issue—patterns no group format can reliably surface or resolve.
A simple intellectual understanding of your deeper and unconscious habits is rarely enough to affect your lived experience. (In fact, you may have experienced this in previous stress-relief or self-help books/courses/retreats: insights with little/no action or results.) For this reason, we don’t encourage generic assessments and skill development (e.g., personality assessments, 360-degree feedback, “leading change” training, simulations, goal setting, etc.). We don’t build on top of your habits; rather, we illuminate them—not so that you behave how we think you should—but so you have choice, a chance to intervene in the momentum of your habits, and so you can decide which habits belong.
To facilitate self-awareness and behavioural change, we provide astrological insights and conversational hypnosis. Conversational hypnosis does not require a trance state and the client remains aware and in control throughout. What emerges over the coming weeks may be insight, or it may be a decisive shift in tone, focus, or action—unpredictable and usually noticed by others before being noticed by yourself. The session also includes a personalized meditation protocol and a private follow-up call 30 days after your Intensive. There are no prerequisites; awareness and courage are enough. We recommend that you set aside four hours of uninterrupted time for your Intensive in a private, comfortable location.
Please note that this Private Executive Execution Intensive contains personalized astrological insights. For this purpose, your birth time is required. If you are not sure if your birth time is accurate enough, please let us know during your Initial Consultation.
Private Executive Execution Intensive
A private, half‑day, strategic, experiential intervention for leaders facing an issue being avoided, delayed, overthought, or approached with too much compulsion.
Even the most capable leaders can find themselves unable to act cleanly in relation to one particular issue. The decision may already be made. The need may already be obvious. But something in them is still organized around hesitation, recoil, delay, or compulsion.
This half-day Executive Execution Intensive surfaces the patterns that usually stay hidden beneath delay, overthinking, and strategic self-interference. It helps you recognize where avoidance, pressure, or compulsion have begun to govern your action—and where more choice can become available.
This is not long-term coaching—it’s a focused, half-day experience for leaders who want to act on what they already know, and a clearer understanding of why previous solutions may not have been effective.
If the same pattern recurs across multiple high-stakes situations, our executive composure advisory retainers are likely the better fit. For non-emergency challenges that require strategic clarity, strategic astrology readings may be available.
Half-Day Session + Follow-Up
$2397+