Self-Discovery Through Discomfort
A Yogic Approach to Deep Self-Awareness
A yogic approach to self-discovery 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. You want to be able to see the unconscious commitments that have been producing and re-producing your anxieties, rumination, and reactive tendencies under pressure.
What problem are you trying to solve? What result do you want? How would you know if you succeeded? What would be different? And what would this different thing do for you? What do you really want?
Our Private Leadership Composure Intensive is conducted from a yogic perspective on 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 has no choice but to engage more fully in/with yourself and with life, and this means being able to recognize your own intrinsic motivations and being fearless enough to confront what you’ve been avoiding in your life. Deepening your connection with yourself allows you to connect with (and pursue) the things that make your life most meaningful without the fear, doubt, insecurity, and self-sabotage (which may mean that what has become an insurmountable problem need never be addressed). This isn’t about “fixing” your life/self. It’s about finally seeing your life/self.
Yoga prescribed practices precisely because theory wasn’t enough. Without practice—without implementation—change is near impossible. Self-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 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 spent a lifetime avoiding.
Of course, while we always remain open to miracles, we don’t rely on them; if all we do is wait for a miracle, we run the risk of spending years feeling like we’re not any happier or that we’ve simply been wasting time.
A Balanced Approach to Self-Awareness
Self-Esteem, Self-Criticism, and Avoidance Anxiety
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 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 allows us to pursue our most meaningful projects and a life of meaningful freedom.
Self-awareness changes what we see—and when what we see changes, so do we.
Half-Day Private Leadership Triggers and Instincts Intensive: A Personalized Self-Leadership Experience
Your Self-Awareness is Tangled Up in the Emotions Connected to the Things That You Avoid
A Private Leadership Composure Intensive with Balrāj functions like a kind of mirror: it shows elements of (the habitual, unconscious) you to (the conscious) you. By making your implicit, unconscious habits more explicit, you see how these habits have been determining your life.
The resulting inner clarity creates the conditions for you to experience freedom from the powerful grip of your compulsions, anxieties, and rumination (and any related destructive and self-sabotaging behaviours). Effective self-leadership requires being able to carefully confront your anxieties, not continue to avoid them. What can then emerge is something like a more focused path towards accomplishing goals that you are intrinsically motivated to accomplish.
In your 4-hour Private Leadership Composure Intensive, you will identify and address the most significant ways in which your unconscious patterns have shaped your life so you can stop reacting in familiar ways and start engaging with life more intentionally. This allows you to see yourself with greater clarity so you can experience a deeper connection to yourself, your choices, and what truly matters to you.
This is not a corporate leadership program. The objectives of an executive or leadership development programs offered by employers tend to be based on the employer’s needs, not yours. Furthermore, corporate leadership programs pre-define leadership and the so-called characteristics of a good leader, and then attempt to see where/what you are lacking in their leadership framework/model. Our approach to development emphasizes freeing yourself from yourself, from unconscious limitations so you can experience greater clarity and responsiveness to the real demands of your life. (When you free yourself from yourself, what remains are the qualities that leadership programs often encourage you to develop.)
Our Private Leadership Composure Intensive is also not intended to produce good feelings and false confidence or a false sense of control over one’s circumstances (with no attending meaningful changes to your life). Our Intensive is not therapy/healing.
This is also not a group program, a course, or a set of video modules. 100% of our session is live, private, and personalized. A group program will not adequately address your own specific avoidance patterns, inner conflicts, traits/skills, and circumstances.
The purpose of this Intensive is to produce results. 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 and/or self-help books/courses/retreats: insights with little/no action or results.) For this reason, we don’t pursue leadership skills without self-connection. We don’t encourage generic assessments and skill development (e.g., personality assessments, 360-degree feedback, “leading change” training, simulations, goal setting, etc.). Instead, we want to get to the heart of what’s stopping you from being more effective, which never fits neatly into a leadership program’s pre-defined categories.
To facilitate self-awareness, we offer psychological astrological insights. And to facilitate change, we provide a conversational hypnosis session. Our Private Leadership Composure Intensive is deeply personalized, so it is unique to you and helps you establish a more meaningful connection to your self and to your current situation, and helps you feel deeply seen, heard, and understood. It dedicated to your personal success, which may or may not be equivalent to your employer’s vision for your leadership development.
In your Private Leadership Composure Intensive, you will also receive suggestions that are unique to you and meant to be integrated and utilized in a direct and concrete way. Awareness and courage are enough.
Please note that this 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 Clarity Call. This Intensive also contains a conversational hypnosis session, for which there are no requirements. We recommend that you set aside four hours of uninterrupted time for your Intensive in a private, comfortable location.
Private Leadership Triggers & Instincts Intensive
A Private, Half-Day, Online Intensive for Leaders to Understand and Refine their Instincts Under Pressure
Even the most capable leaders have instinctive reactions—patterns of thought, emotion, and behavior that shape their presence under pressure. Some sharpen their leadership; others weaken their influence, often without them realizing.
This one-time intensive is designed to help leaders see and confront their reactive patterns—so their emotions don’t subtly dictate their judgment, tone, or presence in critical moments.
Through conversational hypnosis and psychological Vedic astrology, this session brings unconscious tendencies to the surface, helping you recognize where pressure triggers your strongest instincts—and where those instincts serve or sabotage you.
This is not long-term coaching—it’s a focused, half-day experience for leaders who want a clearer understanding of how they respond under pressure.
For leaders who want to go beyond awareness—sustained coaching and advisory provide ongoing refinement, support, and application.
Half-Day Session + Follow-Up
$1997+