somatic life purpose coach

Alex Tzinov

As a software engineer by trade and a spiritual wanderer by choice, I’ve spent over 10 years exploring technical puzzles and nearly my entire life exploring human ones.I believe that most of us have a quiet and neglected voice deep inside that is begging to be heard.I help clients answer that inner calling by exploring what I believe are the biggest barriers in the way - the burdening beliefs we carry about ourselves.Behind our darkest experiences - doubt, anxiety, apathy, loneliness - I believe exists a deep longing to return to oneness and to ourselves. I help guide those looking to embark on that journey back to themselves and their deepest purpose.I offer 60 minute virtual coaching sessions - first two sessions free of charge.

The Work

I've always seen this nebulous thing that is often known as
"The Work" - whether we call it self-awakening, healing, finding our purpose - as a pilgrimage through our conditioning. A voyage through years of deeply instilled beliefs that have become cemented into the story of who we believe to be.

This voyage can often be frightening and disorienting as we explore and come back into contact with parts of ourselves we have avoided for a long time. The process of uncorking bottles of our past and pouring out painful experiences can be excruciating, yet I believe it as the bottom of each one of these bottles that we find the truest bits of ourselves, and the pieces of our deepest callings. I do not see our life purpose as something to be found out there but as something that is to be found and uncovered within.

I approach this work with clients as a guide; not a pusher, fixer, or corrector. I serve as a guiding beacon, a safe presence, and reflective mirror to help cultivate that which is already there. I have walked and continue to walk many of my own dark catacombs and look forward to being a lantern for those looking to walk theirs.

My Approach

My work is heavily based on somatic and mindful inquiry - slowing down, entering a more mindful state, and trusting the bodies wisdom to guide our process. I interweave somatic work - getting into contact with and naming physical sensations in our body - with meaning making - inquiring what about this experience is important or relevant given our history, and what it's trying to tell us. The foundational modality I work through is Hakomi and it's 5 principles:

  • Mindfulness: Arriving deeply in the moment and witnessing all that is unfolding and cultivating self awareness. I incorporate guided meditations and breath awareness as part of cultivating mindfulness.

  • Organicity: Trust in the bodies inner wisdom and its natural tendency to unfold towards healing.

  • Non Violence Embracing resistance that comes up and having a deep reverence for how our systems show up, regardless of how messy. My approach here is "everything makes sense, everything is here for a reason" and respect our system's defensive mechanisms.

  • Mind Body Holism: An understanding that our physical experience and inner held beliefs are deeply interwoven. We will ebb and flow between unpacking beliefs and exploring their origins, and, inquring about what's showing up in the present moment in the body.

  • Unity: A systems-based view of how the various aspects of our selves organize in ways that make sense.

I bring deep mindful presence, loving compassion, and a playful energy to every session. I approach every client and the work to be done the way I approach the universe: there's not a single thing that isn't where it's supposed to be, in this moment. I meet clients exactly where they're at - akin to sitting together on the same park bench - and serve as a thought partner and friendly challenger as we work towards goals.

"There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy" - Fredrich Nietzsche

"The longest journey you will ever make in your life is from your head to your heart" - Sioux Indian saying

"The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change". - Carl Rogers

"Deeper nature is what is left when we put down the endless tasks of trying to be somebody" - Unknown source

What A Session Looks Like

Sessions start with what I call "landing in the moment" - a 3 to 5 minute mindfulness exercise to slow down to meet what's here in the moment. Often I will walk through short guided meditations to help us arrive and leave behind the rush of past, future, thinking, or theorizing. Quite often, just this very act of slowing down into spaciousness helps illuminate that which is most pressing for us, even if it was outside our conscious awareness prior to slowing down.From here, I allow you to guide where you want to go over the next 50-55 minutes and offer reflective mirroring as well as timely invitations to slow down and deepen your awareness around major themes I notice.Over the course of the session you can expect to feel deeply noticed, listened to on many levels, and seen as a complete and belonging human being.