About me
I have always felt called to help others learn, heal and grow. When I was a young man I first discovered the healing powers of yoga and massage while I was an inpatient at a drug & alcohol rehabilitation center in West Palm Beach, FL. I'm grateful to say that I've taken those tools that I learned when I was just 20 years old and used them along with others I've picked up along the way to transform my life. During my early 20s, I completed my degree from Princeton University, attended a massage training program, and continued my ongoing dabbling in yoga studies. When I next met difficulty during my late 20s due to a serious back injury from a car accident, I strengthened my connection to these healing modalities. Yoga, massage, and meditation helped relieve my significant physical pain that limited my activity for nearly 18 months. This journey through healing during my early years inspired me to offer what I'd learned to others so that they may live their best possible lives, free from the physical burdens and emotional hurdles that life often presents. Since then I have devoted myself full time to being a healer, a guide, a teacher, and a mentor for others in need. I've treated thousands with massage or private therapeutic yoga and trained dozens of yoga teachers and found more and more that what people truly wanted when they arrived at my door and needed more than anything was partnership with a coach to handle life's challenges. As a result, I've shifted the focus of my practice to this type of holistic life coaching: offering traditional coaching services alongside the enduring power of therapeutic yoga. I am ecstatic everyday that my job is to help others be the best they can be, and even better than they dreamed.
Coaching with me
RESULTS & GOALS
I use techniques from pure coaching as well as yoga to help clients identify and overcome obstacles and move toward their life goals. My clients feel empowered and supported by my style of active listening and deep questioning.
HOW I LIKE TO COACH
I tend to "lead from behind" by allowing the client to walk in front of the session. My role as the coach is to be a perceptive and intuitive set of eyes and ears that can point out elements of our conversation the client might have missed. Without being directive I'm still a strong leader that encourages my clients to challenge themselves and move forward into a feeling of freedom and fulfillment.
OFFERINGS
PRIVATE COACHING
As your coach, I will not provide you with all of life's answers, but will offer full partnership as you uncover your own deepest desires and action steps to realize those desires. I will also offer accountability to mark your progress and results. Coaching offers this type of unique support through the effective coaching tools of listening actively and attentively, asking powerful questions to deepen awareness and insight, and communicating directly and clearly without judgment or agenda. With your permission, I sometimes also use tools from the yoga tradition such as breathwork, meditation, and mindful movement to add depth to our sessions. This type of coaching experience is different from mentorship or therapeutic sessions because the session is driven by the client with your wants and needs always at the center of our focus. Coaching sessions take place via phone or Skype and generally are scheduled once per week at your convenience during regular business hours (M-F, 9a - 6p). Sessions outside these hours may be available by request and at additional charge. Your first session will last 1 hour, including more time to establish our coaching relationship. Subsequent sessions will last 45 minutes. Once you sign up for your first session online, you'll be given the number to call for your session at the designated time.
ONLINE COACHING
As your coach, I will not provide you with all of life's answers, but will offer full partnership as you uncover your own deepest desires and action steps to realize those desires. I will also offer accountability to mark your progress and results. Coaching offers this type of unique support through the effective coaching tools of listening actively and attentively, asking powerful questions to deepen awareness and insight, and communicating directly and clearly without judgment or agenda. With your permission, I sometimes also use tools from the yoga tradition such as breathwork, meditation, and mindful movement to add depth to our sessions. This type of coaching experience is different from mentorship or therapeutic sessions because the session is driven by the client with your wants and needs always at the center of our focus. Coaching sessions take place via phone or Skype and generally are scheduled once per week at your convenience during regular business hours (M-F, 9a - 6p). Sessions outside these hours may be available by request and at additional charge. Your first session will last 1 hour, including more time to establish our coaching relationship. Subsequent sessions will last 45 minutes. Once you sign up for your first session online, you'll be given the number to call for your session at the designated time.
Experience, Certifications and Training
CERTIFICATIONS AND DEGREES
- Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher from Yoga Alliance
- PCC from Goal Imagery Institute
- BA in Communications/English from Princeton University
- Licensed Massage Therapist from Cortiva Institute
TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT TAKEN
- Ongoing study in Kundalini Yoga with Donna Davidge
PROFESSIONAL AND LIFE EXPERIENCE
I have always been empathetic and drawn to being a teacher and guide for others. This has manifested in many ways in my life: as a physical healer of the body through my massage practice; as a yoga teacher to thousands of students; and as a coach & mentor working with individuals one-on-one to live their best life. I've faced personal obstacles as well: growing up in a single parent home in a tough neighborhood, graduating from an Ivy League school against all odds, overcoming personal addictions to drugs and alcohol, establishing several successful businesses from scratch, overcoming the physical pain from a car accident, and overcoming the emotional pain of a divorce. As a coach, I bring my whole self to the session. While each session is about you and not my path, I feel my diverse life experience and intensity with which I approach life helps me be a better coach.
Fee description
Fees:
from $80 USD to $100 USD
For 12-week package, cost is $960. For 4-week package, cost is $400.
