You’ve Done the Work…
So why doesn’t it feel like it?
You are not alone in this. No one taught us to slow down and listen. We were told to push, to achieve, to do more. Throughout our busy lives we stopped listening to what we needed. And once you start listening again, you see your patterns and then you get to choose what you do with them.
The philosophyWhat if the answer was to
do less more fully?
I'm Austin. I work in clinical intensive outpatient programming and I help people discover that the body and mind are inseparable. The more we help the body feel calm, the more we help the mind feel calm. And vice versa.
Most people I work with have already done the hard part. They've sat in therapy. They've tried medications that helped, medications that didn't, and some that did both on the same day. They've read the books. They know their patterns.
What they haven't had is someone help them see how those patterns are living in the body. In the food they reach for. In the sleep they can't get. The company they keep. In the way their mood starts shifting before the seasons do.
We do the best we can with what we can, as best as we can, until we learn better. And when we learn better, we see our patterns clearly. Seeing the patterns clearly is the work. Everything else is the choice we make from knowing more about ourselves.
What to Expect
How We Work Together
Everything in your environment is a stimulus. The ice bath everyone swears by. The fun foods we reach for at night that we know we shouldn't be eating but we're going to eat anyway. The way we start anticipating seasonal affective disorder before the leaves even change. You and I will assess all the things you are digesting physically, mentally, and emotionally — and figure out what's working for you and what isn't.
Everything around you is information. Your body is already responding to all of it. You and I figure out what it's actually telling you.
What Work For Someone Else May may You Worse
Ice plunging works brilliantly for some people and makes others more anxious. That's not a failure of willpower. That's your body responding rationally to a stimulus that isn't right for you. What your body needs changes with the season, with your history, with what you ate this week. I don't hand you a protocol. I help you build the ability to read your own signals and adjust as you change — through the seasons of the year and the seasons of your life.
There's no universal prescription. We find what your body is actually asking for, and it changes as you do.
You can't remove the foundation and expect the roof to hold
A lot of people come to me trying to fix everything at once. The intentions are right. The timing creates a new crisis. Real change is sequential. We start with sleep, food, movement, rhythm — the foundation — and let the rest follow from something stable. Three months of steady work changes more than three weeks of everything at once. We do less, more fully.
Lasting change happens over time. We build the foundation first and let everything evolve from stability.
one of the most engaging practitioners, Austin really makes me reflect.
Life saving.
Thankful for the insights on movement, and feeling without words.
useful shit.
Supportive, enlightening, insightful, and uplifting.
Austin has made yoga insanely helpful to me.
