My journey
How I got here (and why I sit with people now)
- December 2018
Meditation — the door
I sat my first Vipassana retreat. Ten days of silence. The technique didn't fix me. It taught me to notice — to watch a thought without becoming it, to watch a sensation without running. I've been sitting daily since. Imperfect. Honest. The most useful thing I've ever picked up.
Early in the daily practice - After the breakup · still going
Day 100. Day 160. Still running.
When my last relationship ended, I didn't dramatize it. I just started running. Day 100 came and went — that's the milestone in the reel below. I'm still on the streak: 160+ days now, ~70% consistency. Some mornings honest, some mornings just stubborn. Nothing about it is Instagram-tidy. But it's taught me — viscerally, with breath in my throat — that small, daily, ordinary discipline is the kindest form of self-repair.
From the day-100 milestone — the streak's still on. · view on instagram The most useful thing one human can give another — unhurried, non-judgmental attention.
What my coaches taught me - Now
Practising in public, holding space in private
I work from the Co-Active Coaching framework — studied closely, applied with twelve people so far, and reflected on with my own coach. But the real training has been seven years on the cushion, the runs, the surf, the open mics, the solo road. I post raw 2-hour Vipassana sits on @sitwithsavan to keep myself honest about the practice. And in private, I sit with people one-on-one — not as a guru, but as someone who's walked through the noise and learned how to listen at the speed of your actual thoughts.
Now — practising in public, holding space in private
