Looking into the mirror

Personal Coaching & Teaching

 

To give classes to groups and put them on Youtube is just by way of introduction. As the application of the teachings in life must be adapted to the student, the true teaching is personal.

 

Personal coaching means to discover together the path that suits the personal desires, needs, abilities and duties of the student. It does not matter whether you just want some practical advise on personal issues or seek to enhance your already deep meditation practice. It is also not about only sticking to one teacher - you can have as many as you want. It is about finding together certain spiritual practices that make growth more easy, assuring that no steps are skipped in the process so that the transformation is durable. Anyhow, without your cooperation nothing can happen, so you are always the one to decide. I can only act as a mirror.

 

Also in terms of how often you want to connect and when, you are entirely free. Who knows, one session may give you enough opportunity for change to last a year. Or you might find a more regular connection really valuable in your life, and book that in the online agenda. Or you might find nothing specific of value to you, which is entirely possible and acceptable. This is all about You.

 

I cannot promise what such more personal coaching might bring you. I can promise to be there for you. Whatever understanding, experience or energy I have to help you on your path, is at your service. I especially hope to help people find more happiness, healing and deeper meditation.

 

Peter.

 

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COACHING IN BELGIUM OR THROUGH VIDEOCALLS

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Personal coaching from a distance with videocalls

Fortunately, modern communication technologies provide the means to also have a more personal relationship with my students worldwide. Especially video calls through skype, whatsapp, facebook, etc... can allow us to communicate in a personal way that somewhat approaches the old-school one-on-one approach.

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Personal coaching in Belgium

For those living sufficiently nearby the city of Gent where I live, a meeting can be arranged. Also foreign students have visited me in Belgium before, usually when anyhow visiting Europe. Contact me by phone at +32 475 73 32 78, or through my Facebook page.

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TYPES OF COACHING SESSIONS :

• First coaching session (meet & greet)
• Follow-up coaching sessions
• Tailor-made coaching programs
• Mantra-Havana sessions

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FIRST COACHING SESSION - MEET & GREET

Any long-distance personal coaching starts here, with a video call of one hour. Here we can get to know each other a little better and see what might come next. We may talk about any subject, such as meditation and other sadhana issues, various aspects of spiritual growth, relationships, emotions, sleep, health, etc... Already in this first session I can provide insights from the perspective of yoga and offer clear methods to move forward. These methods may be targeting any issue directly as well as promoting personal growth through attitude and excercise. Often excercise is needed to offer the direct approaches to any issue a better chance of succeeding. At the end of this first session we may decide on a follow-up session or a more long-term tailor-made coaching program, where a fixed number of sessions can be booked anytime as it suits. It is all up to you and this session can also be just a pleasant meet & greet.

Fee : 45 €/hr.

📅 Book online

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FOLLOW-UP COACHING SESSIONS

After applying excercises, attitudes or other solutions as proposed during a previous session, it may be useful to give and get some feedback. This can lead to a finetuning of the coaching or a change of program.

Fee : 65 €/hr or 35 €/30mins
Fees per session are strongly reduced if you enter the more long-term coaching package described below ( a fixed number of sessions that can be booked anytime as it suits) - please contact me through my Facebook Page.

📅 Book online

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TAILOR-MADE COACHING PACKAGES

These coaching programs organize long-term teaching. They are aimed at students that are seeking to strongly improve their practice and state of being. By nature, this includes daily practices and particular sadhanas. A step by step process leads the students to profound changes in their personality, supported by deeper meditation experiences. Everything is tailor-made to fit the student and mutually agreed upon. These programs include regular video calls as needed, as well as a free package for exchanges by email or chat. Students can be admitted to these programs only after attending at least a first coaching session as described above.

Fee : to be individually determined - for a fixed number of sessions that can be booked anytime as it suits.

📅 Booking : please contact me through my Facebook Page.

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MANTRA HAVANA SESSIONS

These originally Tantric fire rituals (called Yajna, Homa or Havana) are meant to connect a person to a specific mantra, supporting the ability to concentrate on and relax through the mantra. Concentration on one mantra is a well-tried technique to learn meditation and in the vedic and tantric traditions fire rituals are used to start and end a specific meditation period. This kind of fire ritual is not meant to give access to a particular groep or bind you to a particular belief or guru. It does not concern the giving of any "personal" mantra. Rather we chose a mantra suitable for the person and for learning how to meditate, like many of the mantras available on this website. Performing a fire ritual is not a necessity to learn how to meditate. It just gives energetic help to those that really want to learn how to meditate, but have difficulty in reaching deeper stages of meditation or in establishing regular meditation practice. The fire ritual happens together or from a distance. Afterwards the one receiving the energy starts a specific sadhana - a meditation sequence mutually agreed upon. Such need might be discovered during any of the other coaching sessions, so at least a first coaching session must be held before such fire ritual can be decided upon.

Fee : to be individually determined.

📅 Booking : through an introductory or follow-up session

 

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The old school yoga teaching mostly happened in a one-on-one relationship between teacher and student. This way, the teaching could be fully adapted to the personal needs, abilities and Dharma of the student. The teacher would act as a mirror, allowing the student to see more clearly where there is need and room for personal growth. Traditionally, this process would take many years, during which the student would live at the Gurukul, the house of the teacher. Most teachers would guide only one or a few students in this highly personal fashion and they would earn their keep at the Gurukul by helping out in the household or on the farm attached to the house. While I still have hope to be able one day to provide that kind of great service to Sanatan Dharm, today this is not possible and fortunately today there are also other ways available - see above...