ABOUT DYLAN
I get it because I've been there.
This isn't theory. It's lived experience. Everything I teach, I learned the hard way first.
THE STORY
I grew up where healing was normal
I was born in the rubber plantations of North Malaysia. My grandmother was a medicine woman — couldn't read or write, but she'd walk into the bushes, pick plants, and heal you within a day or two. I grew up surrounded by rituals, healers, customs, traditions, and magic. To me, it was just normal.
I was the smallest kid in school. Got beaten regularly. My father put me into martial arts at a local YMCA at the age of seven. By 12, I had my black belt. By 13, I was in the Malaysian national squad, training for the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Full contact. Every day. No room for sensitivity or feeling. Just discipline, focus, and competition.
At the age of 15, my world came crumbling down with things I found out about my mum and dad. I spent the next few years in rage, because I fiercely wanted to protect the thing I loved most.
At 18, I quit the national team, moved to Australia, studied computer science, and climbed into a six-figure corporate career. From the outside, it looked like success. From the inside, I was empty, soulless. Every day, for the final two years.
One afternoon I watched my CFO standing at the bathroom mirror, so stressed he couldn't even function. I looked at myself in that same mirror and thought: in five or ten years, if all I have is a bigger six-figure salary and more stuff — if this is all I can achieve in my life — then shame on me. My body had been telling me that for years. I finally listened.
THE JOURNEY
From a rubber plantation to 6 programmes across the globe
A vision of London
Quit the corporate career in Sydney. Had a picture and a feeling — London. Arrived with a couple of backpacks and a few months’ rent. Started accidentally teaching yoga to friends while travelling. Wasn’t planning to teach. The body had other plans.
A vision of London
Quit the corporate career in Sydney. Had a picture and a feeling — London. Arrived with a couple of backpacks and a few months’ rent. Started accidentally teaching yoga to friends while travelling. Wasn’t planning to teach. The body had other plans.
Flyering at tube stations
Hiring dingy church hall rooms in Clapham, running around with two heaters. I looked at my spreadsheet and realised I was paying people to come and do yoga with me. That same year, I taught at the London Yoga Show for Yoga Aid — 300 people. Within my first year of teaching, I was on the biggest yoga stage in London. I’d arrived right at the front of the wave.
Flyering at tube stations
Hiring dingy church hall rooms in Clapham, running around with two heaters. I looked at my spreadsheet and realised I was paying people to come and do yoga with me. That same year, I taught at the London Yoga Show for Yoga Aid — 300 people. Within my first year of teaching, I was on the biggest yoga stage in London. I’d arrived right at the front of the wave.
93 people on a Monday night
Three years earlier I’d visualised 90 people from my dingy bedroom in South London. Then I stood in front of 93 at my Monday 6:30 class. Something was happening in those rooms that went beyond the poses. By now I was one of London’s leading named yoga teachers — on the biggest stages across London and the UK.
93 people on a Monday night
Three years earlier I’d visualised 90 people from my dingy bedroom in South London. Then I stood in front of 93 at my Monday 6:30 class. Something was happening in those rooms that went beyond the poses. By now I was one of London’s leading named yoga teachers — on the biggest stages across London and the UK.
Kicked out and into a nightclub
Got evicted from the studio. Lost two-thirds of members overnight. Hired a nightclub dance floor and kept going. If you came to practise with me back then, you did yoga under a disco ball.
Kicked out and into a nightclub
Got evicted from the studio. Lost two-thirds of members overnight. Hired a nightclub dance floor and kept going. If you came to practise with me back then, you did yoga under a disco ball.
Close to a million pounds
3,000 people through the doors every month. The studio hit just short of seven figures. Quadrupled the business from the nightclub days. Learned that the smartest people in the room were always the most stuck.
Close to a million pounds
3,000 people through the doors every month. The studio hit just short of seven figures. Quadrupled the business from the nightclub days. Learned that the smartest people in the room were always the most stuck.
AWAKEN was born
My father passed away. I spent three and a half months training in Montana. A mentor said: “Stop talking about it. When are you going to do it?” December 2018, a ballroom at Charing Cross. 80 people. 10 bullet points on a slide. No script. What was born was AWAKEN. By now I was flying around the UK, Europe, and beyond — teaching at studios, festivals, and conferences.
AWAKEN was born
My father passed away. I spent three and a half months training in Montana. A mentor said: “Stop talking about it. When are you going to do it?” December 2018, a ballroom at Charing Cross. 80 people. 10 bullet points on a slide. No script. What was born was AWAKEN. By now I was flying around the UK, Europe, and beyond — teaching at studios, festivals, and conferences.
Went virtual
The pandemic shut everything down. I refused to accept it. Hired an LED wall, cleared out my living room, and broadcast from home. Discovered the work goes deeper online. People cry in their own living rooms — and something about that safety makes it land harder.
Went virtual
The pandemic shut everything down. I refused to accept it. Hired an LED wall, cleared out my living room, and broadcast from home. Discovered the work goes deeper online. People cry in their own living rooms — and something about that safety makes it land harder.
The Inner Circle
Launched the Inner Circle — a year-long container for people who’d done AWAKEN and wanted to go deeper. Not a course. A community that holds you while you rebuild. The work that started in a ballroom became something people stayed for.
The Inner Circle
Launched the Inner Circle — a year-long container for people who’d done AWAKEN and wanted to go deeper. Not a course. A community that holds you while you rebuild. The work that started in a ballroom became something people stayed for.
The work continues
19+ years in. 6 programmes across the globe. Still facilitating every AWAKEN. Still holding space in the Inner Circle. Training the next generation of yoga teachers through Inspire. Still paying attention to what the body says when the mind finally stops talking.
The work continues
19+ years in. 6 programmes across the globe. Still facilitating every AWAKEN. Still holding space in the Inner Circle. Training the next generation of yoga teachers through Inspire. Still paying attention to what the body says when the mind finally stops talking.
THE METHODOLOGY
FEEL → HEAL → MANIFEST
Four modalities. One integrated approach. Not separate modules, but a unified methodology that works at the level where the patterns actually live.
Yoga
Not exercise. Half an inch of chest lift changes your breath, which changes your emotion, which changes your thoughts. Confidence and anxiety are half an inch apart.
Breathwork
Short inhale, long exhale — you’re literally giving more than you take in with every breath. Your breath pattern is your life pattern. Change one and the other follows.
Meditation
Not emptying the mind. Being in a room where you can stop performing and someone is still there. Learning to stay with what’s actually happening in your body.
Story Work
Something is said or not said. The mind assigns meaning: “it must mean I’m not enough.” We find the moment. You separate facts from interpretations. Everything loosens and heals.
WHO I WORK WITH
You're not at the beginning
The people who come to my programmes are not at the beginning of their journey. They've read the books. They've done the therapy. They can describe their childhood patterns with clinical accuracy. What they can't do is stop the patterns from running their lives. That's where I come in.
Most of the people I work with are women in their 30s and 40s. Smart, successful, high-functioning. Mid-to-senior in their careers. They look like they have it together. Underneath, they're exhausted from the performance.
If you're tired of understanding your patterns but not being able to change them — if your body is telling you something your mind keeps overriding — you're exactly who this work is for.
BY THE NUMBERS
19 years of showing up
From church halls in Clapham to programmes across the globe. Here's what the last 19 years look like.
If any of this sounds like you
AWAKEN is where most people start. 3 days. Live-virtual. Not a course — an experience. The one that shows you what's actually been running the show, and lets you feel it shift. In your body. For the first time.