I grew up in an environment that didn’t support my emotional well-being. I struggled with attention issues and anxiety.

Looking back, many of the questions that would later shape my work began there: Why do we repeat patterns we want to change? What shapes the way we think, feel, and behave? What gives life meaning and direction? And what actually helps people create lasting change in their lives?

At 19, I left my homeland and moved to the UK in search of a new life. I started out working in factories and restaurants while attending university. Gradually, I moved forward — from sales into teaching mathematics.

At 25, my life took an unexpected turn.

It wasn’t just an experience — it showed me that the mind can open in ways I hadn’t thought possible. During a Buddhist meditation retreat, I experienced an extended state of unconditional love unlike anything I had encountered before.

The experience changed the way I saw myself, other people, and life itself.

It awakened something in me and sparked a lifelong interest in consciousness, awareness, and direct experience.

It set me on a new path. While my formal education was in economics, I found myself increasingly drawn toward self-inquiry and consciousness exploration. Lucid dreaming and meditation became central to my inner work.

What fascinated me most was exploration.

I wanted to understand how far human awareness could develop, what could be experienced beyond ordinary waking consciousness, and where the boundaries of perception, identity, and the mind might actually be.

Dreams, meditation, psychology, and contemplative traditions became different ways of exploring those questions firsthand.

Again and again, I found myself drawn less to beliefs and theories, and more to what could be observed and explored directly.

Direct experience became the common thread running through everything I studied and practiced.

Over the years, I worked as a live-in tutor for high-profile clients, supporting both learning and personal development in a close one-to-one setting. Later, I had the opportunity to collaborate with mental health professionals and begin facilitating Council and group-based work — creating spaces for deep listening, shared reflection, and authentic human connection.

My journey also led me into more traditional spiritual contexts. I received initiation in Tibetan Dream Yoga — a rare opportunity for Westerners. One of my greatest honors was being invited by Chogyal Rinpoche to teach lucid dreaming at his Mahamudra retreat. Later, I led a lucid dreaming club in my home country.

Dreamwork has become one of my deepest tools. It holds up a mirror to the mind and offers direct access to what is happening within us — not as theory, but as experience.

Through dreams, we can encounter emotions, patterns, fears, desires, and aspects of ourselves that often remain hidden during waking life.

In the beginning, my interest was primarily exploration.

But as I began teaching lucid dreaming, guiding people through altered states, and working more closely with students, I noticed that the conversation almost always returned to the same place: the person themselves.

Questions about dreams often led to questions about fear, relationships, identity, emotional patterns, life direction, and the ways we relate to ourselves and others.

I realized that exploration and self-understanding were not separate paths.

The deeper we explored consciousness, the more psychology seemed to appear naturally along the way.

Wanting to better support the people I worked with, I began training in therapeutic approaches and studying psychology more deeply.

This gradually led me into dreamwork, coaching, and a deeper interest in how awareness can be used not only for exploration, but also for transformation.

Over time, I also discovered that some of the deepest shifts do not happen only through solitary practice.

They happen in relationship.

Again and again, I witnessed what becomes possible when people feel genuinely heard, understood, and connected.

My first experience of Council left a deep impression on me. I remember feeling that this kind of connection could genuinely make the world a better place.

Since then, I have taught more than 35,000 students worldwide, created best-selling courses, and spent over 15 years refining these practices through teaching, mentoring, dreamwork, and group facilitation.

These experiences continue to remind me how much remains possible when people approach themselves with greater curiosity and openness.

Much of this work is not only about understanding, but about learning to relate differently to your own experience — with more clarity, honesty, awareness, and sometimes compassion.

And this is what I now share through my work.