About me.
When I am asked « Why ? », I tell the following experience. It remains symbolic for my why and contains the essence of a neurophysiological state of safety and entering the Play Zone. And it tells you a little about me and my love of driving.
Driving alone. On a frozen lake. Night shifts slowly in. The track narrowed to the width of the beam of the car’s headlights.
I become aware that I am no longer driving in a conventional way.
My senses are highly active and yet I feel very calm and focused. My body senses the car’s movements acutely and my actions arise from deep within, mind and body working together. I am not executing driving instructions anymore.
There is no fear. But a quiet joy, curiosity and playfulness. Let’s do this !
I feel the car intensely, its movements and forces acting, almost intuitively. My driving is embodied.
The track is coming towards me. Time seems to slow down. The car touches the snowbanks lighty as I use the whole width of the track. I am faster than I have ever been with this car, yet I feel calm, centered and in control.
I am pushing each lap a little more, with no fear but very subtle perception and a feeling that I could do a little more, without any overdoing.
Slowly edging towards a limit I have no idea of but sensing it. And wanting to get to it.
The car in balance, myself in balance. Observing, completely present and pushing. Playing with equilibrium in search for perfection, the optimal performance.
In that moment I realise that I have access to all my potentials, ressources, faculties and aligning them with all I am, mentally and physically. And it results in being fast. And a deep and calm centered joy and serious play. Relaxed intensity.
All of me merged into this sequence of actions that make this car go fast on this icetrack. The time on the stopwatch is only the result of all of that. The result of my performance. It feels like art, like creating a sculpture from my inside-out through the car on the track. And I want to get it done even better.
I let my horses run. Being calm, without restraint but in control.
With no limit in learning and inching not just towards the limit of the car on this track in this moment in time, but my own limit of optimal performance. There is still some room left. Let’s do this !
Swedish Lapland 2020
The essence from this experience is what happens when mind and body align in the Play Zone : offensive without anger, defensive without fear, playing with energy, focus and presence; energy efficient; all senses at their optimal intake allowing optimal and fast action thanks to clarity on all levels of my environment; being serene, aware and in control without restraint. Intense and relaxed. In connection. Consciously shifting from activation into recuperation, ramping up, calming down, stabilizing, recuperating, connecting. At the wheel of my own neurophysiology ! My own pilot !
The neurophysiological approach of yourself is what I offer to accompany you with in tailored coaching sessions, to understand, learn principles and techniques and to train their implementation with the possibility to intensify in tailored driving experiences and workshops.
So you can learn to let your horses run, serenely !
Be. Your Own Pilot.
In a nutshell.
Astrid Weis
Born & living in Luxembourg
Education
DipHe Mechanical Engineering, Cardiff University, Wales, UK
BSc Physics with Astrophysics, Kent University, Canterbury, UK
Play Zone Pro Polyvagal-Informed Certificated Coach, Polyvagal Institute
Oxygen Advantage® Functional Breathing Instructor Training, Oxygen Research Institute Ltd
Life Kinetik® Coach, certified, LiKE GmbH
Experience
Worked as Assistant Manager and Directing Manager for more than 10 years
Integrated PTSD reaction working with Somatic Experiencing, Brain Spotting, EMDR and Polyvagal theory
Identified as HIP (Hight intellectual potential/Highly gifted) at university; intensive research and experimentation into how to access my potentials, how to learn, managing high intensity and high visual & auditive sensitivity and on how & what I need to access and perform with my potentials and not against/despite them
Following a burn-out intensive work on energy management and recuperation
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Interests
Rally, Motorsport, Classic Cars, Sailing, Astronomy, Travel, Music, Impro Theater
Languages
Luxembourgish, French, German, English