Stress Management & Personal Development
from a Yogic Perspective

Your experience of stress and anxiety is preventing you from acting in ways that you know will benefit your personal or professional life. You know you should be more successful but you’re struggling to get yourself to do the things you know you need to do achieve your goals.  

Your attention is taken up by relationship struggles (and/or by an imaginary—ideal—relationship that you don’t have), and this is costing you your connection to your own personal needs, inspirations, and vision for the future. You may even feel that you’ve wasted years of your life doing this (and some recent occurrence in your life has recently made you starkly aware of this).

You feel that you should be fulfilled but aren’t, and you’re not sure what to do about it. Perhaps you’ve experienced success in some area(s) of life, but your anxieties remain and you can’t seem to enjoy any kind of lasting happiness. You want clarity in yourself about how to move forward in a way that allows you to feel grounded and that you’re living a meaningful life.

You’re missing opportunities because of anxiety: you question your own competence and you don’t trust (and are frustrated with) yourself. But even though you know that you’re smarter than your current earnings suggest, you feel stuck in cycles of anxiety and self-sabotage.

Your experience of stress and anxiety is affecting your productivity, cognitive functioning, problem-solving, time management, etc.

Your experience of stress and anxiety is affecting your personal and/or professional relationships. Interpersonal conflict leads to excessive irritability and affects your ability to connect professionally (networking, delegation, management, etc.) or personally (feelings of disconnection, poor work-life balance).

You are wasting time in not addressing self-destructive behaviours/addictions and/or pursuing opportunities for growth.

Your experience of stress and anxiety is preventing you from connecting with yourself—your deepest values, some sense of meaning/purpose—and, as a result, life feels empty when you’re not busy avoiding the feelings of emptiness.

Your experience of stress and anxiety is preventing you from drowning out all of the noise in your life, preventing you from setting boundaries and achieving a sense of stability and direction amidst the uncertainty.

Your experience of stress and anxiety is preventing you from simply being more present and feeling “connected” (to yourself, others, and to life itself).

Your experience of stress and anxiety is preventing you from feeling that you are making an impact.

Your stress responses are primarily cognitive (excessive worry, panic, self-criticism, insecurity, negativity, inability to cope, fear of failure, difficulty concentrating, etc.)

Your stress responses include physical/somatic (including sleep disorders, muscle tension, poor digestion, etc.). 

You aren’t sure how to break your cycles of stress/anxiety and self-sabotage. You know you need something deeper than “anxiety hacks”, and want to understand the root cause of your stress.

You are unhappy about the way(s) you react to stressful thoughts and feelings.

You feel left behind.

You’ve been unable to address your stress and anxiety and it is affecting your work-life balance: you can’t seem to build habits of self-care, establish boundaries, and/or figure out how to use technology more mindfully.

You’ve solved some of the material problems that you assumed were causing your anxiety and realized that solving it didn’t produce the relief you thought it would.

You are interested in astrology but past readings have been dissatisfying, leaving you with no plan, not knowing what to do next. You feel astrology can be helpful but your past experiences have been missing something.

Your anxiety / stress levels are becoming unmanageable. You realize that (1) something has to change, (2) what has to change is you, and (3) the change has to happen right now.

You want to maintain your dignity as you confront your struggles.

Stress management techniques have been ineffective. You need a plan that helps you address how stress/anxiety is functioning in your life; you need individualized stress management coaching. In fact, the very attempt to reduce stress seems to be producing more stress rather than producing stress relief.