That phrase landed in my psyche two weeks into a Yoga teacher training in Indonesia, and it has been my compass ever since. I know what it’s like to live in survival mode. I also know there is a path through.
As a teenager, I struggled significantly with my mental health. I remember the feeling that everyone else had been given a handbook for life and mine had gone missing. Other people could just do things. Get up, go out, get on with it. Why was it so hard for me?
Looking back, I feel grateful for those years, strange as that might sound. Life clearly wasn’t working and so I questioned everything. I questioned the system. I questioned the models of therapy I was offered and why none of them seemed to reach the part of me that actually hurt. That questioning led me to begin practicing Yoga at 15, and it kept pulling at me through the years that followed, through a career in finance, until I eventually left that job to train as a Yoga teacher in Bali.
It was there that everything sort of, started, to make sense. It all had to happen exactly the way it did. I had a responsibility. My dharma, a Sanskrit word for purpose, was to heal my own depression. To sit with the grief. To understand it and transmute it. To express myself to the world as honestly as I could. When that phrase about the mountain arrived, I felt it land in my body: a heart of service and a genuine desire to leave the world a little better than I found it.
I took that responsibility seriously. Over the past few years I have recorded more than 60 podcast episodes, shared content that has reached millions of people, started training as a Psychologist and completed over 1,000 hours of applied training in the wellness space, including qualifying as a Trauma-Informed Breathwork Facilitator. Alongside that, I have grown a community through workshops and international retreats. Now I am expanding that work to individuals, one to one, using Conscious Connected Breathwork.
If Breathwork is new to you.. when you breathe fully and continuously in this specific style, the level of carbon dioxide in your blood gently lowers. As that level shifts, your body moves out of its everyday mode and into a different state. It is in that expanded state that the body has the ability to release what it has been holding, sometimes for years. You don’t need to relive or analyse anything or find the perfect words for it. The body knows what to do when we finally give it the space.
That is why the Mayura Method exists. A holistic path helping people reconnect to themselves, blending Breathwork, movement, and the mindset work that makes change actually happen.
If you have ever felt like you’re standing at the foot of your own mountain, I want you to know something: it can be moved. I’m living proof.