About me.
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
The Play Zone© Pro Polyvagal-Informed Certificated Coach, Polyvagal Institute
Oxygen Advantage® Functional Breathing Instructor (Level 1), certified, Oxygen Research Institute Ltd, Ireland
Oxygen Advantage® Advanced Instructor (Level 2), certified, Oxygen Research Institute Ltd, Ireland
Life Kinetik® Coach, certified, LiKE GmbH, Germany
Experience
Worked as Assistant Manager and Directing Manager for more than 10 years (SME/PME)
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
Zen
Interests
Rally, Motorsport, Classic Cars, Sailing, Astronomy, Travel, Music, Impro Theater
Languages
Luxembourgish, French, German, English
Driving, piloting and Being: my winding road so far.
« …The awareness that you are here, right now, is the ultimate fact. … » Shunryu Suzuki
The following experience is a description of my "why", on different levels.
It contains the essence of a neurophysiological state of deep safety combined with activation, the PlayZone. The experience of being at the own wheel, while at the wheel of a car in a high-intensity context. In calm, focus and complete presence.
Hence, this experience gives you an insight into my professional approach, as well as to my passion for driving/piloting.
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 !
Astrid Weis, Swedish Lapland, February 2020
The essence of this experience lies in what happens when you are aligned with yourself and with what is, in a hybrid neurophysiological state of safety and activation: the PlayZone.
Intense and relaxed. Connected. Consciously moving from activation to recovery, accelerating, calming, stabilizing, recovering, connecting…
At the wheel of your own neurophysiology! Your own pilot!
This is what I offer through my coaching: understanding and respecting your neurophysiology, reconnecting your mind and body, your awareness, and developing your own approach, in harmony with yourself, to pilot your neurophysiological states.
In calm and recovery, as well as in energy and performance. Allowing your energy, in all its intensities, to be aligned with you, your desires, ambitions, goals, and wishes.
Tailor-made sessions and coaching programs offer you the opportunity to learn, experience, intensify, and explore your personal piloting.
Piloting experiences and workshops allow you to intensify the experience and development of your ability to modulate your neurophysiological states and therefore your consequent reactions in the moment.
Source Quote: Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind, Weatherhill, Edition 1995, p.40