About
Hello. I'm Gavin.
Reiki Master Teacher, breathwork guide, cold water enthusiast, and a fairly stubborn advocate for the idea that mindset is the bit that makes the rest work.
I live in Cowes on the Isle of Wight, I run a search business with my wife Sarah, and I found all of this out of necessity rather than curiosity. I spent a lot of years being very busy and calling it fine.
The honest version
It started in October 2018.
That’s the month everything stopped, and it’s the best thing that ever happened to me. It just took me a good while to work that out.
From the outside I’d ticked most of the boxes. Bigger house, faster car, a family I adored. I’d also got very good at not noticing that I’d been running on empty for years.
What came next wasn’t a neat recovery arc, because those only exist in books. It was messy, and it took a lot longer than it should have. Reiki, which I was deeply sceptical about and which worked anyway. Cold water, which I hated and then couldn’t do without. Breathwork, learning to run my own nervous system rather than be dragged around by it.
But the thing that genuinely changed everything wasn’t any of those. It was mindset. Learning to stop reading a bad week as proof of something, and start reading it as information. The practices gave me the tools. The change in how I thought is what made them stick.
I still get it wrong. I still take on far too much and pay for it afterwards, usually while telling everyone I’m fine. The difference now is that I spot it sooner and I don’t make it mean anything about who I am.
That’s the whole thing, and it’s messier and more ordinary than most people selling wellness will admit to. Progress isn’t a straight line and it isn’t tidy. It just has to keep going in roughly the right direction.
So I’m not a guru and I’m not finished. I’m a work in progress with some hard-won lessons and a decent wifi signal. But I know exactly what it’s like to be the bloke who thinks none of this is for him, because I was him.
If any of what I share helps you feel a little less alone, or a little more clear, then job done.
Progress isn’t neat. Anyone telling you otherwise is selling something.
What it is
What From Stillness to Power actually means.
Most of us are told that power comes from pushing harder. More hours, more output, more grip. That works right up until it doesn’t, and then it takes you apart.
Stillness is the other route. Not sitting cross-legged for an hour a day, but the ability to stop, land in your body, and choose your next move rather than react to it. That’s where the strength comes from. It isn’t the opposite of power, it’s the source of it.
From Stillness to Power is what I’ve built around that idea. It starts with mindset, because that’s the foundation and it applies to absolutely everyone. Then three practices, breathwork, cold therapy and Reiki, taken up only as far as you want to take them.
Get the mindset right and the practices compound. Get it wrong and they become one more thing you’re failing at, which rather defeats the object.
How I can help
Four kinds of people usually find me.
Burnt out or heading there
You need to stop, but can't
You know something has to change. You don’t need a lecture about self-care, you need two or three things you’ll actually do. That’s where we start.
Curious but sceptical
You think this isn't for you
Usually blokes. Usually convinced Reiki is nonsense. I was too. Come and try it, decide for yourself, and I promise not to make it weird.
Already practising
You want to go deeper or teach
Reiki training through to Master Teacher, with the professional standards and support that should come with it, and none of the mystique.
Stopped and started before
It keeps falling over
You’ve done the course, bought the ice barrel, meant it every time. Then life happened. This is a mindset problem rather than a discipline one, and it’s fixable.
Background
Where I come from, and who I answer to.
I’m not freelance and unaccountable. These are the bodies I work within, and they keep me honest.
Reiki Master Practitioner and Teacher
Usui lineage, practising and teaching since 2018.
Chief Operating Officer, UK Reiki Federation
Previously Vice Chair for around five years.
President, European Reiki Group
Elected September 2025.
Co-founder, Cold Therapy Association
The UK professional body for safe cold therapy practice.
Get in touch
Say hello.
Whether you want a session, some training, or just to ask whether any of this would suit you, send me a note. I answer my own email.
Phone
Where
Isle of Wight, and wherever the energy takes me