Discovering Your Authentic Being--5 sessions with Shayla
- Tuition: $ 450.00 CAD
One payment of $450.00 CAD or three payments of $160 CAD
A coach is someone who sees you, who hears you, and who offers you an unconditional space in which to rest, discover, inquire, express and create. There is no way of knowing what this will look like. Sometimes it is inquiry, sometimes it is weeping, sometimes it is dialogue, sometimes it is just sitting in stillness, sometimes it’s celebration, sometimes it is the hard work of bringing things to completion.
Why should we grieve that we’ve been sleeping.
It doesn’t matter how long we’ve been unconscious.
We’re groggy, but let the guilt go.
Feel the motions of tenderness
around you, the buoyancy.
---Rumi
I remember when I had my first coach. I had worked with teachers before, but never with my own coach, It was amazing.Someone to walk along beside me, someone to have in-depth, radically honest conversations with, someone who speaks to the one in me who is much more than the mind. I encourage you to try it, to call on a coach, a mentor, to help you bring your inner and outer life into alignment with your wide awake being.
I will say there has been a feeling of becoming “unstuck”; simply that, “unstuck”. And that started happening immediately after our very first conversation.
Unstuck? Hmmm. Able to keep growing, deepening, relaxing, opening, accepting… with a new CONFIDENCE. Kathy Berndt, Vancouver, BC
What is your Authentic Being?
If you stop right now, and just open to the whole feeling of your existence, right in this moment, without grasping it, or defining it, or using language to describe it; this is presence or authentic being. It is the openness of who you are: the alive, awake spaciousness that is not separate from anything. It is your core, the essence of your being.
When you rest in this awareness or presence, you cannot find a fixed and solid self. In the natural freedom of awareness, you begin to express yourself in a way that is open, alive, and fully engaged with life. You discover a very different sense of your own being. Who you are is fluid, dynamic, no longer fixed or limited by what has happened or not happened in the past. All of this reveals itself, bit by bit, through resting as you are, and through the power of inquiry.
Presence transmits a well-being that is natural, intrinsic and obvious. Sometimes it feels very ordinary.
The Good News
You can feel the dynamic aspect of this presence as a transparent and creative spirit that is waiting to express itself in you, through you, in each moment. The good news is that presence is not something you have to create from scratch. It is already alive in you, as your most natural state. But it has not been recognized, called forth, and encouraged to reveal itself.
That’s what we will do in our work together. It’s a bit like fanning a flame, a movement of consciousness, a flow that moves instinctively towards liberation, towards embracing reality as it is.
The more you rest in each moment, the more freely you engage in inquiry, the more you will come to rely on the ease and the clarity of presence or awareness as an ongoing source of integrity, stability and courage.
This is one of the greatest gifts I’ve had in a long long time. (Lea D. California, April 2010)
What is this coaching & mentoring relationship?
The Evolutionary Conversation
Coaching is a container for a life-changing conversation, a conversation in which you discover renewal and resilience, in which you are deeply nourished and also challenged. Nourished by an unconditional acceptance, that respects you just as you are. Challenged to demonstrate that you can be truly responsible for your life, for what you care for, for being in good relation, and happy to hold yourself accountable for all of this.
Such conversations dissolve anxiety, doubt, rage, and grief. We do have the power to awaken each other, to call forth a loving, fearless presence, in the midst of all we struggle with daily.
Why hold back? Why sit alone in the night when our challenges are enormous, and the times are full of turbulence?
Shayla came to me during a time that was very difficult, and was exactly the person I needed coaching me through that. I do believe that when I stop, am still, and listen, the right answer comes to me. Sometimes, that answer is in the form of another person. That form was Shayla and for that I am very grateful. She is very clear, direct, and listens with great compassion.
(Lianne B. Vancouver)
A Natural Intimacy with Yourself
This is not about traditional or therapeutic ways of ‘working’ on yourself. This is about the power of awareness/presence, of acceptance, of meeting yourself and your own experience exactly as it is. In this embrace, this space of openness where struggles fall away, you discover another way of being, of perceiving, and of relating.
During our sessions we will engage in penetrating inquiry into deep structures of belief about yourself, others and your whole relationship to life. Our ongoing dialogue will reveal many things to you about hidden attitudes, and the relationship between thoughts, feelings and actions.
As a result, you will find yourself participating in a totally new kind of relationship with the people in your life, learning to say No when you mean No, to ask for what you want-- to communicate with clarity, kindness and deep respect.
A new relationship with difficult feelings
Bit by bit, you will gain great confidence in your power to deal with your afflictive emotions. Now you can see the beliefs and perceptions that create and sustain them. Your need to judge, label and control them will gradually disappear, and you will be able to meet each wave of feeling as your own life energy, a source of power that you can now reclaim.
Transforming the Matrix
The power of inquiry increases exponentially, the more we use it. In the beginning we need help, support and specific structures to awaken inquiry from within us. Even if we know how to rest in the openness of presence, even if we can let go and release the need to know and understand, we still return, again and again, to the basic structure of our conditioned identity. Until we allow inquiry to penetrate our core beliefs about who we are, what life is, and what relationship is.
When inquiry reaches this depth, it feels like the matrix of our identity is being transformed. All we need is the willingness to investigate, the humility to see what is going on in our life, and the persistence to keep going, not to give up.
This is my job, as your coach, to awaken the flame of inquiry, and to help you keep it burning, brighter and brighter, illuminating all that has been confused, distorted, and hidden away.
Well I must admit that life with you as my coach is sort of like falling down a mountain. The farther you fall, the faster you roll. I must say I am moving along at lightning speed.”
(Marian Hughes,Toronto, June 2010)
What is the Format?
Five 45 minute coaching sessions
One session a week,or scheduled at your convenience.
What do I receive?
You will receive practices,support and a connection that supports you in these ways:
-Recognizing and abiding in the openness and freedom of presence
-Discovering the power of inquiry, learning how to access the depths of your natural wisdom, insight and clarity.
-Beginning to inhabit your body from the core, and listen to its intelligence.
-Direct experience of the healing and liberating power of free expression.
-The natural integration of this awakening and transformation with your everyday life.
-You’ll receive information, inspiration and guidance about building a network of support for yourself, an evolutionary community of friends and allies.
I’ll also provide you with:
-Reading material designed to keep you connected to this work and your willingness to transform.
All of our coaching sessions can be recorded, if you want. To get a recording, we both use my Instant Teleseminar conference line. You can call in from your landline, or if you don’t want to pay long distance fees, you can call in with skype call phone. Then you’ll receive an MP3 recording after each of our sessions.
All sessions are completely confidential.
Endorsement
“Shayla is a master coach. The breadth of her coaching expertise is outstanding. Shayla guides people through the challenges of being human, creating a career, and living fulfilling relationships in an extremely sensitive, powerful and loving way. She works in many modalities and at every level, including bringing people the “ultimate medicine” of recognizing their true nature.
Every meeting with Shayla is informed by her wealth of life experience and her own uncompromising commitment to personal and spiritual growth. Shayla is an inspired and inspiring coach. I recommend her without any reservation.” (Peter Fenner, Phd, teacher and founder of the Radiant Mind Course)
What are the fees?
One payment of $450.00 CAD or three payments of $160.00 CAD
These fees do not include HST and paypal fees, which come to $60 total. ($48 HST, $12 paypal)
This is a discount from my normal coaching fees, which are $95 for a 45 min. session
How do I schedule an Introductory Session?
You can call me or email me to schedule a free 30 minute. Introductory Session with no commitment.
To get my contact information, Shayla’s email
How do I pay?
Option 1: When you register for the sessions, I send you an email invoice. You can click directly on the invoice, which will take you to my paypal account.
Option 2: If you prefer to pay by check, your check needs to arrive before our first session, and it needs to be for the full amount.
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