Adam Cole Shapiro - mind-body healer, whole-life guide, and transformational facilitator

Hi, thanks for visiting.

My name is Adam and I am a mind-body healer, whole-life guide, and transformational facilitator. I absolutely love helping people, partners, and groups make huge leaps in their lives and am at your service if you're looking for some major healing, serious insight, deep inspiration, and amazingly impactful tools to affect positive change in your life and all the lives you touch.

I appreciate the way my efforts unlock essential secrets for people in joyous ways weaving physical possibilities and meta-physical impossibilities into sessions that leave you feeling powered-up and clear about the work ahead. In this process it is my goal to help open you to your highest self and rejoice in witnessing it manifest throughout your life.

I work with young and old, people of all backgrounds, and a myriad of professionals and organizations. My ideal clients are...

engaged on many fronts including family, community, career, and self, and want to get better at all of them
working to harness their gifts for the betterment of people and planet
aware that they need allies
open and authentic
committed and resilient

If that's you, here's how we can work together:

1-1s: I really enjoying meeting in-person (SF/Marin) and I really appreciate the power of technology in keeping us connected locally and around the world via video and phone. For 1-1 clients I have limited enrollment into a monthly membership program that we can discuss in an introductory call.

Partners and Groups: Often in conjunction with 1-1s, I like to work with partners, families, and community groups as both a facilitator, healer, and visionary activator. Please contact me to discuss how this might look in your situation.

Professional Organizations and Teams: Organizations and teams can really benefit from taking time to come into alignment around purpose and how to best work together in a way that honors unique talents and perspectives. I am available for in-house programs, as well as leading off-site retreats.

Please email or call to discuss ways to work together, in-person if you're in the San Francisco Bay Area, or via online video chat and over the phone if out of town.

Let's Talk!

A little about my style of engagement and focus of work:

I am deeply rooted in a desire to do good by sharing what I do best, which is helping to liberate individuals and empower them in all facets of their lives. This process begins with a commitment by you to seek guidance and take action. The greater your commitment, the more I want to work with you! Here's the flow:

First step is getting to know you so that all our work is aligned with your values and mission. Asking good questions and truly listening are the keys to getting it right in the beginning and throughout.

Next I may seek to validate what I've heard and felt by voicing it back for both of us to hear. At this point some clarity may be offered and further inquiry made.

Once a feeling of togetherness arises, I seek permission to share with you my findings and, if these findings resonate, we work on a forward-thinking holistically-minded approach that is both easier on you and more effective for everyone. I like to include practical tools and demonstrations that may include role playing, project work, and even mini Taiji ("Tai Chi") lessons to go along with more traditional engagements rooted in inquiry, deep listening, and consented feedback.

More about my modalities:

As a "mind-body healer" the focus is on your health. The mind is a powerful activator and body provides the ability to get things done. Throughout our lives, we have the greatest influence when we are of in an optimal mental and physical state. I help you discover, expand, and sustain these states of being! Things we work on include:

Energy and Stamina - this is all about getting the right nourishment and your body doing maximizing it's absorption and distribution. breathwork is a key ingredient unlocking a hidden treasure of sustainable energy.

Foundation and Strength - proper positioning enables a whole-body strength that is way more powerful and stable. through years of taiji and yoga, I have cultivated this power and know how to transmit it to you.

Mobility and Flexibility - from a good foundation comes the ability to be more agile and graceful. Most people experience gradually limited mobility and flexibility throughout their lives. This tightening affects the mind and becomes a hoarding place for stuck emotions. Opening our body and increasing our flexibility does the same for our outer world.

Recovering from Injury or Sickness - Recovery is a lost art. We race to get back to work and fail to allow proper time and the right kind of nourishing energy to enter. We often harden in places that need softening and end up further behind as we try to stay ahead. I help reverse that and by harmlessly aligning imbalances recovery is much more swift and complete.

Releasing Past Trauma and Grief - Perhaps rather than releasing, it's a re-lease on past traumas and grief. Trauma is not something you can simply release, let go of and never see again. Trauma is something you learn to live with and, with a little luck, becomes one's ally. As a culture we are not good a grieving and that has caused a lot of stuck trauma. In working with people, I'm often graced with feeling these pains in the body and helping to release their hold replaced by hope and trust. This is the part that brings me to tears everytime.

Reshaping Future Anxiety and Fears - The stories we tell and beliefs we hold shape our future. It is normal and healthy to have worry, doubts and fears. What we do with them and they do with us is where I like to intervene. The body gives clues and through deep listening we come to shine a light on these anxieties and through a visionary activation reshape them and our future into something more beautiful are hearts know is possible.

Optimal Wellness - Optimal wellness takes the longview valuing sustainability and knowing that optimal is a relative term based on where we start, what challenges lie ahead, and what our personal vision prioritizes and desires.

As a "whole-life guide" the focus is on empowering and liberating you toward knowing and being your highest self. Things we work on include:

Relationships - I believe that healthy relationships are core to one's wellbeing and success. Relationships at home, work, and community, as well as the relationship with oneself. I teach non-defensive communication and help reframe relationships in a more dynamic, loving way. This is one of the greatest gifts I can give.

Career - A big part of our happiness is giving our gifts to the world. No matter the profession there are opportunities to develop yourself and be that person. I help you identify and take advantage of these opportunities.

Self - I teach people how to cultivate power in a balanced and sustainable way by instigating the development of healthy habits of thought and action. I love seeing how this manifests in the quality of our offerings, while giving back to us a lasting sense of gratitude and joy.

Others - Purpose and fulfilment are often found in serving others. Whether caring for the environment so others may receive it's bounty or managing a team that loves and respects each individual, the effects of putting your talents to good use can be found in those places and persons you've benefited.

As a "transformational facilitator" the focus is on clearing space and moving into a higher functioning individual within higher functioning organizations. Things we work on include:

Communication - Non-defensive, deep listening, and consented feedback tools are taught and practiced. Participants come away seeing how their words may be misunderstood and even triggering, and how this can be improved.

Collaboration - Aligning mission and methods early in the process will greatly improve results. Executives and management teams have a chance to connect and share opening channels of cooperation and collaboration.

Conflict Resolution - Conflicts arise all around us, as well as inside of us, and learning to respond rather than react opens us to the power of generosity and goodwill, even when things didn’t work out. In the end only a lasting win-win solution will do.

Community - We thrive in community. As a facilitator I help create community by working with you in developing relevant topics and suitable forums for your community. Together the world will change for us.

I welcome you to email or call to discuss ways to work together, in-person if you're in the San Francisco Bay Area, or via online video chat and over the phone if out of town. If you're ready to jump in...

Let's Begin!

p: 415.390.6196
e: adam@adamcoleshapiro.com

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Yield without giving up your root - adam.i.am - Medium
Taijiquan ("Tai Chi") is translated as "Supreme Ultimate Fighting" and for good reason I believe. It has a long revered heritage originally said to have arisen from watching a crane and snake fight and has survived the millenia by adapting and diversifying to today's more esoteric and health promoting aspects.

Good Student - adam.i.am - Medium

Make it beautiful - adam.i.am - Medium