Stop living reactively.

Learn to return to the present.

Instrumental Living teaches breath-led techniques that bring you back to the present, enabling you to create positive change – in your work, your relationships, and for your health and wellbeing.

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Modern life drives us to react

  • Always ‘on’, easily triggered, rushing through the day
  • Work commitments, challenging targets, hectic schedules
  • Balancing family life,  busy food times, end of day chaos
  • Battling with health, stress and striving for mental wellbeing
  • You know how you want to live, but struggle to achieve it

The method: The 3 core principles

Return to being in the present through the breath and live instinctively
using the three unique principles of Instrumental Living.

Breath Awareness

Breath Awareness

Learn to become consciously aware of your breathing and be present.

AAR Techniques

You can’t expect to move forward, if you don’t acknowledge the current moment you are in.

Body System Intelligence

Re-connect with your body’s natural and instinctive systems of intelligence.

Apply it to real life

The hectic pace of modern life leads us into a reactive and rushed daily routine, while digital distractions leave us disengaged and disconnected. Instrumental living enables you to be in the present and restore your connection to your instincts and intuition, tapping into your own natural instinctual awareness.

  • Work: rebuild your relationship to your work, managing your environment to better fit your needs.
  • Family: become instinctively led, the real way to communicate with family and love ones.
  • Health: learn how stress forms in your body and intervene early to avoid tension and ill health.
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The benefits are endless

The benefits are endless

  • Mind: create a centred, calm focus, stop over-thinking, build emotional regulation
  • Body: reduce stress responses, strengthen
    recovery, increase energy, improve everyday health
  • Life: stronger relationships, clearer decision-making, healthy personal boundaries, greater confidence

These aren’t short-lived motivational tricks – these are teachable ways to build long-lasting and life-changing skills.

Choose your pathway

We have devised a range of Instrumental Living courses – alongside informative
podcast and regular blog posts – that explain how to bring Instrumental Living into
your life, and the lives of those around you.

Academy

Courses that teach the principles of Instrumental Living, broken down into easy-to-digest levels that make it easier to embed into your everyday life.

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Corporate

Supporting your business to bring Instrumental Living to the workplace and reap the benefits of enhancing your team’s work-life balance.

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Academy

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Instrumental Living to
everyday life. Courses
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Health

Understand health from a different perspective. Implementing Instrumental Living is a whole life change

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Corporate

Bring Instrumental Living to the workplace. Invest in your staff for the best work life balance.

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  • I found Steve to be an excellent teacher who is very
    passionate about sharing his knowledge and skills.
    He is very patient with a calm and relaxed approach.
    The session itself was amazing and I experienced a
    calmness during the meditation I never felt before.
    Janet
  • I found Steve to be an excellent teacher who is very
    passionate about sharing his knowledge and skills.
    He is very patient with a calm and relaxed approach.
    The session itself was amazing and I experienced a
    calmness during the meditation I never felt before.
    Janet

Frequently asked questions

Instrumental Living was inspired by the founder Steve Lashley realising the unique pressures of modern life in the digital age that impact all areas of our lives. Inspired by a health and wellbeing practices from all over the world, Instrumental Living is grounded firmly in recognising that for many of us, our fast-paced daily lives are fundamentally reactive. Our principles and methods help bring you back to the moment, giving you time to make the right choices for you.

The three core principles all draw on elements of meditation, particularly focusing on the breath. However, Instrumental Living goes far beyond meditation through its response to, and emphasis on, the practical stresses of daily living, e.g. in your work, relationships, family, and health.

We find this is different for everyone, but most people feel a difference within the first session. The pace at which people learn, alongside your willingness to practice and apply the lessons will be an important factor, as will the unique circumstances of your life and the changes you are seeking to make.

Yes, this is the one of the primary aims of Instrumental Living. Our method works to decrease reactivity and internal stress, which brings immediate benefits to your body, mental and emotional mind – the basis of many health-related problems.

Yes. Instrumental Living reinforces the relationship between your physical body and energy body, whereas reactive living depletes them both.

Humans are instinctive beings by design. Instrumental Living uses breath-led techniques to rebuild the relationship between your physical and energy body along side the environment, allowing you to reconnect with yourself. Living instinctively as intended creating the basis for you to live your body was designed to but not dictated to by the modern world.

This will be different for everyone, depending on a number of factors but most people do feel a difference within the first session. Please keep in mind that this is all about how much you can apply yourself to you.

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