Hi! I’m Augustus, and I stand for…

I can remember a time in my life when I felt the rarity of these values in the world around me. A time when my value came from my ability to out-do another or engage in competition for the right “to be better” in a self-defeating moralistic hierarchy where fear and failure was the driving force behind action. A time of ignorance, where others had more say and power than I did over my experience and choice. A time when I allowed the perception of others to define my value. I failed at these, and so I succeeded.

Throughout this challenge, success was in listening to my own voice. Standing in the power of free will, I found a beautiful life shared with others in a journey led by a deepening perspective of interconnectedness with nature and compassionate inquiry into the nature of self.

My vison is to bring together a network of coaches, practitioners and self-masters focused collectively on serving their community.

People who make up the foundation of a resource center. A virtual container for growth in all directions, re-evolution, and resilience from the perspective of emotional, psychological and spiritual connection. The Collective will contribute to embodied living for person and community, with virtual containers that model retreat spaces to deepen intensive practice, connect in community, let go of pain, grow and create peace across the globe.

The Collective: I envision people linked virtually with peer groups (interest-based containers) as well as with individual coaching and group/retreat containers. Where effort for one becomes growth for all, linked by the desire to recover the beauty and balance of nature within the fabric of our lives, and for the life we wish to create.

In addition to individual and group/retreat containers, my deepest passion is in creating transformational spaces to enhance the home and deepen family connections-- including group and individual containers available for single and multifamily retreats.

When we focus on the needs, connection, and inspiration within a single person we naturally bring them back to community, home (family) and self. What if an individual in this process could access a container for their family as well? And what if that family container also included the needs and connection of self with a deepening individual practice that can be collectively experienced? What might it be like to live amongst a self-aware, connected and communicating family?

To transform this vision into a reality, I continue to engage with a global community in deep self-study, integrating continuing education courses in Ayurveda, Yoga, Reiki, Sound Therapy and Non-violent Communication from practitioners all over the globe. Over the past 10 years, what started as the beginning of learning to listen and speak from a compassionate heart, is now a journey through cultures, sexuality, gender and the constructs of global health. One of home, self and family.

Through that which I have learned, and that which I continue to refine, are personal practices that enable me to integrate the experience of self with the methods of ancient health traditions and the support of modern therapies. From this place, I enjoy a life of natural wonder where authentic expression becomes social activism while living life transgender.