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What feels like falling apart usually has a pattern.

Stages. Direction… a logic that's invisible from the inside.

The hardest part isn't the crisis.

It's not knowing whether you're breaking down or breaking through.

How this works

Something is pulling at you that you can't quite name.

It shows up differently for different people. A tightness in the chest when the day is going fine. A restlessness that has nothing to do with your schedule. A conversation you keep having with yourself at 2am that never quite resolves.

Or something louder: things are actually coming apart. Relationships, career, your sense of who you've been.

No matter how hard you try to steady yourself, the unease won't go away.

You've probably already tried to address it: therapy, meditation, a retreat or two, maybe plant medicine, maybe a teacher you sat with for a while. Maybe just years of reading and thinking on your own. Some of it helped, genuinely. You're not starting from zero.

But here you are, with that same unease humming underneath everything.

Each of those approaches grabs one piece of the picture and does real work inside it. Therapy works with psychology. Meditation works with awareness. Yoga works with the body. Career works with public purpose.

But when the whole ground is moving and your foundation can no longer hold the weight, the thing that needs attention usually isn't inside any one of those pieces. It's in the way they interact with each other.

That's why you can do good therapy for years and still feel something untouched sitting under it.

Why a retreat cracks you open, then drops you back into a life that no longer fits.

Why a deepening meditation practice doesn't stop you from snapping at your kid on a Tuesday morning for reasons you can't explain.

There's a larger process underneath all of it.

People have been describing this terrain for thousands of years. Modern life just doesn't have much language for it.

So it gets called depression. Burnout. A midlife crisis. Or simply, "Something's wrong with me."

How this works

What this is

A mentoring practice that reads three dimensions of your experience at once: where your awareness sits, how you relate to your emotional world, and how aligned your outer life is with who you're actually becoming. From there, we find the place where focused attention can move the whole system.

Sessions are 90 minutes, 1:1, online. We open with breathwork, move into deep conversation, and close with a grounding practice. Every session ends with a daily practice tailored to your stage and something specific to experiment with during the week. Twelve sessions is enough for real movement.

For those who want it, there's an optional fourth dimension: body, movement, and nutrition. Because the inner work tends to land deeper in a body that's actually being tended to.

How it works

Who this is for

People who've already done some work — and sense it only goes so far.

  • You're not starting from zero

    Therapy, meditation, plant medicine, or just years of serious living. You can see your own patterns from a few angles — and something still hasn't shifted.

  • You sense something deeper

    It doesn't matter whether you'd call it "spiritual." Some have had experiences they can't place; some would rather never use the word. Same pull underneath.

  • You're curious, not looking for answers

    This works best with people who treat their inner life as territory worth exploring, rather than a problem to manage. We'll try things. Some land. Some won't.

  • You want it said straight

    The approach is direct. Patterns get named. If you want someone to mostly nod while you circle for a few more years, this probably isn't the fit.

Some are experienced seekers. Some have never used the word "spiritual" in their lives. The common thread is a willingness to go where the work needs to go.

Andrey Derevyanko in Bali — natural light, grounded, no performed serenity.

About

About me

Hey, I'm Andrey. A mechanical engineer by training. A scuba diving instructor by accident. For the last fifteen-plus years, I've worked in tech, building ecommerce companies, mobile apps, and AI products.

Thirteen years ago, in the middle of all of that, I had a kundalini awakening I didn't plan for. It unraveled much of what I thought I knew about myself and took most of a decade to integrate.

This work grew out of learning how to navigate both worlds without abandoning either one. When I was going through it, there wasn't much guidance for the territory I found myself in. I had to find my own way through. Much of this work is an attempt to offer what I wish had been available to me then.

I was born in Russia during the Soviet Union and spent the first 13 years of my life there before I moved with my family to the USA where I spent my teenage and college years. I then traveled the world for many years. I am a blend of many cultures, East, West and everything in between.

I now live in Bali with my wife and daughter. I work in English and Russian.

A conversation is the place to start.

Fifteen minutes. No charge. Enough to get a sense of what's going on and whether this work is a genuine match. It's important that it feels right, for both of us. Just a real conversation.