Daniel’s Story

It had been 5 years, I was in an amazing committed relationship with a beautiful partner.  We inspired each other creatively, had great conversation + lots of fun, possessed mutual attraction, and a shared greater purpose. Not only had we built a loving romantic relationship but we had also built a thriving business together in the yoga + wellness industry. We were of service to many people in our life, in our relationship & in our business - holding space for others to connect, heal, and be together. We were also part of a yoga + spiritual community that helped us gain clarity, depth & greater connection in both our individual lives and our lives as partners.

But with all this bounty, all this love + connection, all these healing practices, and amongst this relationship that was very very happy, there were - nonetheless - these ongoing, sideways moments of what I will call “stuckness.” Certain conflict would arise and we just couldn’t gracefully move through it. We triggered one another in ways we didn’t understand. And at times, during these triggered moments, it felt like all the goodness, purpose, connection and togetherness just flew out the window.

At least that’s how it felt for me.  And frankly, it was disturbing.  It was scary How could such an AMAZING relationship contain such landmines!?

I realized that with all my yoga wisdom + spiritual practices, I was still at a loss to improve things.  They had been powerfully helpful & transformative in my life, but at the same time were not providing the tools I needed to navigate this space - in fact, ironically, at times they only acted as ways to bypass or rationalize bad behavior

Something inside of me was saying:

“you have lessons to learn here - this “stuckness” this conflict is present to teach you something

about yourself, about your own blind spots”

But, on my own - and on our own - we just couldn’t see how

This began the next crucial stage in my own journey

I decided it was time to reach out for help & to do some new work on myself. I started finding coaches to work with, reading books, and eventually I dove into my own deeper education + awareness by taking numerous coaching trainings - studying with world experts in relationship + life wisdom - and setting on a consistent course of self-growth, introspection & accountability.

I was turning a corner - and in doing so I realized that if I was experiencing this call to learn and grow & move past roadblocks in my own self & in my own relationship, tons of others out there were feeling the same. My aim became to continue in my own journey, and to give back to the others - individuals & couples - the tools that I have learned & continue to learn each and every day…

Furthermore, I started to see how my experience teaching yoga, spirituality and the wisdom of the east could actually be dovetailed & synthesized into my relationship + life coaching offerings, deepening them profoundly & creating more space for my clients & myself to grow, heal & become empowered!