The Power of Presence
Nonduality-informed coaching for self-realization and inspired action
Beyond the Dream of Self-Improvement
Despite what you may have been told, you do not need to raise your frequency or think more positive or heal all your trauma before you can realize the freedom and power of your true nature. Who you are is aware presence. In this presence, all things are made whole and all seeking comes to rest.
I offer nonduality-informed coaching to support you in recognizing your true nature as pure being or awareness, already possessing the essence of everything you seek. Peace, happiness, abundance, wellness and strength are indivisible from who you truly are. When you rest in this knowing, you will find your questions answered and your actions being directed from a simple inner sense of what needs to be done or left alone.
Is this for you?
This is for you if you have:
- grown weary of self-improvement and efforts to fix yourself and be a better person
- watched nonduality teachers or read their books, only to be left feeling you’ll never quite get it
- feel like a failure because you are still troubled by dark emotions, even after doing a ton of meditation and inner work
Spiritual Awakening
Support on your journey into higher consciousness and self-realization. Mentoring through the initiations, dark nights and crises brought on by natural awakening or psychedelic experience.
Creating from Presence
Coaching for creativity and manifestation by connecting with pure awareness (open intelligence) beyond the ego. Aligned with Eckhart Tolle’s Conscious Creation principles.
Nondual Experience
Meeting in presence to explore the stateless state beyond thought and concepts. Practical, non-theoretical direct experience through gentle inquiry and the holding of presence.
Structure of a session
Tell your story
You relate the issue you are bringing to coaching and I listen and reflect without judgement. Pure listening and reflection creates the first entry point to presence.
Relax into presence
We begin focusing more on the present moment and whatever emotion or sensation arises as you relate your story or become more still. Experiencing the present moment exactly as it is (including any resistance) opens the door to the next level of presence.
Deepen and explore
I support you in recognizing presence when it arises, and we allow this immersion to deepen. Then, where appropriate, we can look at your original question or issue again and explore what your heart truly longs for. Or we can deepen yet further into pure being (nondual suchness).
Return with the gold
Having been in touch with the ‘gold’ of source intelligence and ultimate worth, we direct attention to your daily life and consider actions or further explorations to bring this wealth into lived experience.
What makes this nonduality-friendly?
Softening of coach & client identities
In the process of deep listening without judgement, the division between coach and client softens and there is just aware space. There is a structure to a session and I perform a role, but there is no fixed agenda about what the outcome should be. Presence does the work.
No need to think positive or drop your story
It is nondual in that we don’t see your story or any so-called negative emotions as opposite to love and freedom. The ego self, with its associated emotions, is recognised as arising in the space of knowing awareness. We don’t need to get rid of any afflictive states – the simple witnessing of them without opposition brings immediate ease and reconnection with underlying peace. Suffering diminishes when we know we no longer have to get rid of suffering.
Awareness is the medicine
It is nondual in that while we may employ coaching tools where needed, we acknowledge that the medicine is awareness itself. We always return to the simple experiencing of what is happening now and allowing that experience to be as it is. In this allowing, there is ease, and this ease is the nature of your being. Contemporary nonduality teacher Rupert Spira describes the nondual understanding as knowing that, “the nature of your being is happiness itself, and you share this being with all people and all things.”
In this work we mainly focus on the first part, the discovery that your nature is happiness itself. Over time, this understanding may deepen to include all beings and all things.
Book a session
Sessions are 60 to 75 minutes and we meet on Zoom or Microsoft Teams.
Cost: $90
I am in Cape Town, South Africa, GMT+2. Mail me or whatsapp to arrange a suitable time. Use the floating Connect button on the bottom right of the screen for easy email and whatsap, or mail using the contact form.