As mentioned above, I became highly skeptical of anything related to religion, spirituality, and self-help while being raised in India. After having a direct mystical experience that required no belief or ritual, I realized my resistance was towards the theoretical preaching and righteous morality that is the signature of spiritual and religious systems. This style of talk and knowledge was never appealing to me, even at an early age.

I was fortunate to come across a teacher that had developed an experiential approach to the development of consciousness. I instantly realized that I had found something of truly immeasurable value and knew that I wanted to learn more and develop myself, without any clue of where this path would take me — certainly with no intention to become a teacher one day. My journey in Consciousness naturally evolved over time, taking me through the deepest layers of unconscious conditioning and beliefs, not just in myself, but also watching others.

My training exposed me to group work with thousands of individuals over the past 8 years, where I got to learn about patterns of behavior, group dynamics, and most importantly, seeing through the surface to uncover the roots of the manifested symptoms.

There are a few significant differences I found in my training as compared to what I have read and heard about from dozens of coaches, therapists, and healers:

• Most trainings teach you a lot of tools, but teach you nearly nothing about applying those tools in depth. In my training I learned fewer tools relatively speaking, but the level to which I learned to apply them made them immensely powerful, and made redundant the need for a massive toolbelt. Travel light, go deeper.
• Most teachers / therapists / coaches focus on treating symptoms. What they identify as the problem is only a symptom. And they may have effective strategies to deal with the symptoms, but this only resolves the symptom. Because the root cause is never identified and dealt with, the symptom can manifest again or appear as a different symptom.

  The most common and obvious examples of these are “anxiety management”, “anger management”, and depression. Anxiety, anger, depression — these are symptoms. Finding strategies to “manage” them is not going to heal them.

  You just find a way to control or bandage the symptom. In my training I learned how to identify the root wounds and heal at that level. It is incredible the number of symptoms that are misdiagnosed as problems. Sleep issues, health issues, mental illness, emotional wounds — all these have deeper roots which mostly go untreated. I have written extensively on this topic in a blog post and spoken about it in a podcast episode.

Apart from this, I have also been learning and developing different techniques for Consciousness exploration and development. I have experimented with modern technology such as mind machines, light and sound devices, resonance inducers, bio-feedback devices, frequency tuning and modulation devices, which have helped me greatly and opened up possibilities that were previously inaccessible. I have developed my own methods which I now use for training others including Study of Self, Unschooling the Unconscious, Consciousness Nomadism, and The Yoga Beyond.