Private Crisis Composure Intensive
Introduction: A Yogic Approach to Self-Awareness
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 to see the unconscious commitments that have been producing and re-producing their anxieties, rumination, and reactive tendencies under pressure.
This Private Crisis Composure Intensive offers an opportunity to observe these patterns as they relate to pressure and perception—and to experience the deep composure that emerges once they loosen—especially in moments that influence your reputation, decision-making, or relationships. It 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 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 has no choice but to engage more fully in/with one’s life and oneself, allowing them to recognize their own intrinsic motivations and to confront what they’ve been avoiding. The resulting clarity often reveals how seemingly insurmountable problems were patterns we couldn’t see.
Yoga prescribed practices precisely because theory wasn’t enough. Practice gives you a live reference‑point for composure, so you recognise it later under fire. 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. (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’ve not made any real progress or that we’ve simply been wasting time.)
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 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.
Awareness changes what we see—and when what we see changes, so do we.
Half-Day Private Crisis Composure Intensive:
A Personalized Composure Experience
Your Composure is Tangled Up in the Emotions Connected to the Things That You Avoid
A Private Crisis Composure Intensive with Balraj 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 your presence under pressure. By making your implicit, unconscious habits more explicit, you see how these habits have been determining your life.
The resulting inner clarity isn’t a concept—it’s a felt steadiness that loosens the grip of 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 Crisis Composure Intensive, we will identify the unconscious patterns that shape your behaviour under pressure—including your decision-making, tone, and how others experience you—especially when stakes are high and time is short.
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 Crisis 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.
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 play out under pressure—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, we offer psychological astrological insights. And to facilitate inner clarity, we provide a conversational hypnosis session. 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. There are no prerequisites. Awareness and courage are enough.
Please note that this Private Crisis Composure 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 Crisis Composure Intensive
A private, half‑day experiential intervention for leaders to restore composure during periods of high-pressure, crisis, or profound ambiguity.
Even the most capable leaders have instinctive reactions—patterns of thought, emotion, and behavior that shape their presence under pressure. Some of these reactions sharpen their leadership whereas others weaken their influence.
This half‑day Crisis Composure Intensive surfaces avoidance patterns that usually stay hidden. 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 emergency composure and a clearer understanding of how they are already responding to challenges (and why previous solutions may not have been effective).
This Intensive is designed for urgent situations. For non-emergency challenges that require strategic clarity, astrological strategy readings may be available. Our central work remains our executive composure advisory retainers.
Half-Day Session + Follow-Up
$1997+