Lying down, and going inside.
There is a quiet place inside you. It was there before the trouble started, and it will be there after. You have touched it — in grief, on a long walk, in the minute before sleep. IST is an easeful entry, with someone beside you who knows the way.
If you are new to sitting, start with a sitting hour; IST is where it goes next.
Inner Space Techniques are a meditation-based practice developed by Dr Samuel Sagan: a way of going inside, with someone beside you who knows the way. He built it with a team of doctors, homeopaths, naturopaths and other practitioners over some twenty years. The approach is practical and profound. It goes to the root of a thing, so the rest can settle.
IST isn’t therapy or counseling, and it doesn’t replace them. If you’re working with a therapist, it sits well beside that work.
You lie down, and you go in.
You lie down. You close your eyes. I ask you questions, and you answer from wherever the answers come from — which is rarely where you expected. What surfaces is already yours. My work is to hold the thread while you follow it.
Come as you are. People arrive as lifelong meditators and as complete beginners. Many arrive in the middle of something hard, which is often what brings a person to the door in the first place.
IST is beyond explaining. It is about lying down and going inside, and finding the unexpected that is waiting for you.
“Teo immediately helped me feel comfortable with a practice I am skeptical about. It took only minutes for me to trust him and fall into a deep sense of relaxation.”
from the testimonials
Samuel Sagan recognized me as a practitioner of Inner Space Techniques in 2014. The longer story is here.
Everything I have learned in that room is somewhere in the books. A lioness loses her mother, and a snake tells her stories in the dark — the same work, arriving as story instead of practice.
Meet the books