Coaching with Pablo Das

Coaching is available anywhere in the world via Zoom and FaceTime.

My Training

I am trained as a Buddhist teacher. I am 20 years sober in a Buddhist and trauma centered recovery model. I was deeply involved in the early development of a Buddhist approach to recovery from addiction. I am trained as a practitioner of a body centered trauma resolution system called Somatic Experiencing. I’ve had a holistic wellness coaching practice for almost two decades. I have been exploring various healing, recovery, wellness and spiritual models for 34 years.

My Work.

The nature of the work I do with my clients occurs on many levels including:
-Mindfulness and contemplative work.
-Developing and enforcing boundaries.
-General wellness work including sleep, exercise, water consumption and food.
-Learning to approach tasks and projects on your own timeline.
-Developing empowering mindsets and personal narratives.
-Choosing careers or work that fit your nervous system.
-Digital minimalism: Establishing limits with social media, news and media in general.
-Relational mindfulness.
-Emotional regulation skills.
-Trauma resolution and attachment work.
-Addiction and recovery work.
-Developing strategies for social interaction.
-Constructing a home environment that supports your nervous system.
-Making time to be in nature.

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My Ideal Clients.

I am best positioned to work with are those in the middle to advanced stages of their healing journey. My ideal client has some contemplative, therapeutic, spiritual and/or healing work under their belts.

If you are in recovery, I require at least 5 years of sobriety and that you are functioning relatively well in daily life.

You may even be someone towards the end of your healing journey who is redirecting your energy away from healing to building a life you love. People in this “post healing” phase can encounter a whole different set of challenges including feeling they are behind in life.

I also welcome “regular” folks who are interested in wellness work and work related to mindfulness and Buddhist practice



Training, scope of practice and media


bUddhist practice and principles

I support clients to meaningfully integrate Buddhist practice and principle into daily life.

As a former Buddhist teacher and lifelong practitioner, Buddhist practice and principles are central to all of the work I do. I offer a non-dogmatic and non-religious style of dharma which emphasizes the most practical teachings.

Chief among the practices I support clients to develop is Mindfulness. Mindfulness is an objective awareness of what’s happening within and around us. It deepens self knowledge and allows you to study your impulses and behaviors and their results. It creates choice in terms of how we respond to whatever is going on. It's an indispensable and deeply important skill.

Practical dharma is a path of presence and responsiveness which allows you to respond compassionately to whatever presents itself. I am particularly interested in the interface of dharma and the experience of trauma and helping people with sensitive nervous systems to integrate dharma practices into their distinct experience of living.

Hear Pablo talk about mindfulness in the video below:

 

Holistic Wellness Coaching

I have had a coaching Practice for over 17 years. I am trained in two models for holistically supporting my clients to create high levels wellbeing.

The experience of wellbeing is conditioned by identifying and appropriately engaging the variables in ones life that impact how you feel.

Sleep, physical movement, what we consume, the quality of our relationships, how we make a living, spiritual practice, contemplative practices, financial consciousness, our healing practices, creativity and recreation all contribute to a sense of wellbeing in life.

I work with clients to be present to these variables, practice with them and pay attention to the results in the laboratory of their own body, hearts and minds with the goal of a more fulfilling and realized experience of living.

Hear Pablo talk about the “causes” of wellbeing in the video below:

 

Somatic Experiencing

Somatic experiencing is a body-centered approach to working with Trauma.

Trauma is often misunderstood and there are different kinds which require different approaches. Technically speaking, there aren’t really inherently “traumatic” events. It’s very personal.

“Trauma” has to do with our nervous system’s response to whatever happens. A trauma is something that overwhelms our capacity for a self protective response. It disempowers us. Trauma can have a long term impact on the human stress response system, on emotional regulation, perception of the world, self image and relational capacities.

I work to support people to be more present and responsive to the experience of trauma so that they may better manage and resolve it.

Hear Pablo talk about Trauma in the video below:

 

Addiction and Compulsive Behaviors.

I have been part of the Buddhist recovery movement since it’s earliest days.

I was on the founding treatment team at Refuge Recovery, a Buddhist centered addiction treatment center in Los Angeles and my story is published in the book “Refuge Recovery”.

My unique approach to working with addiction patterns is rooted in a Buddhist approach to recovery and centered around an understanding of the central role Trauma often plays in addiction.

Trauma creates chronic regulatory issues in the nervous system. Addiction patterns can be seen as an attempt to regulate the dyseglation associated with trauma.

Recovery therefore, necessarily involves the management and resolution of the trauma which underlies it. I support people in an integrated model rooted in Buddhist Recovery, Somatic Experiencing and Holistic Wellness Models.

How I think about addiction and recovery Video below.