Become strong, calm, and grounded again

Helping overwhelmed professionals reclaim their energy through strength training, mindfulness, and habit coaching. Based in London, available online.

This work is for you if...

  • You're overwhelmed, exhausted, and running on empty

  • Your mind won't switch off and your body feels unfamiliar

  • You wake at 3am and can't get back to sleep

  • You've tried fitness plans before but nothing has felt right or stuck

  • You want to feel strong, clear-headed, and genuinely like yourself again

  • You are done with quick fixes, generic plans, and being told to just push through

The approach

We live in a world that disconnects us.From our bodies. From our food. From nature. From each other. From ourselves. We spend our days in our heads, on screens, consuming things that cause us harm, and wondering why we feel hollow, anxious, lost and exhausted.This work is about returning. To connection, grounding, vitality, and joy. To feeling genuinely alive again. Not as a goal to chase but as a natural state to come back to.Getting physically and mentally strong, coming home to your body, and reconnecting with nourishing food are the foundations of an energised, empowered, meaningful life.This isn't an ego chase and it's not about self-optimisation. You are not a machine whose life revolves around stats. You are a human being, and this work is about helping you come fully home to that.

How I work

Strength Training

Resistance training designed for a busy life. Build stronger muscles & bones, improve hormonal health, develop confidence and resilience that carries you through the ups and downs.

Mindfulness & Yoga

Develop a daily meditation and weekly yoga practice. This is a core intervention for an overstimulated nervous system. Reduce anxiety, improve sleep, and come back to yourself.

Habit Coaching

Simple daily habits built gradually and tracked consistently. Mindful eating and food awareness, daily walking, time in nature, rest, and reflection. Small enough to start immediately, meaningful enough to compound into real change.

Grounded Strength - 12 Week Programme

Grounded Strength is a holistic transformation programme that uses strength training as the foundation.Over 12 weeks you will build genuine, sustainable physical strength, establish a daily meditation practice, develop a healthy relationship with food, and create the habits that keep everything in place long after we finish.Your progress will be tracked via an app, and every week you receive a personal video response from Nigel regarding your progress.Every month you'll have a 45-minute coaching call together. The programme is built around your life, your schedule, and your physiology.

What's included:

  • Full body 3-month strength programme (in the gym or home using kettlebells)

  • Weekly restorative yoga session

  • Progressive meditation guidance

  • Mindful eating approach and eating guidance (optional calorie tracking if desired)

  • Weekly personal progress feedback video message from Nigel

  • Monthly 45-minute coaching calls

  • Daily habit tracking and accountability

  • Built with an overwhelmed, busy life schedule in mind

About Me

I'm Nigel, Personal Trainer, Yoga Teacher and Certified Menopause Coach.I've spent almost a decade helping people develop their health and wellbeing... from fitness studios and yoga spaces to corporate buildings and mental health hospitals.This work is rooted in my childhood. Growing up with a parent suffering from debilitating depression, anxiety, and OCD planted a deep desire within me to understand how to help, and how to live a full, thriving life.Since then I've been a seeker. Looking for answers in different places... across the world and within, through eastern philosophy and western psychology and science. The study continues.I'm also dyslexic and dyspraxic. This has allowed me to see things differently and make connections many others don't. But being neurodivergent comes with its challenges, I know what it's like when conventional approaches feel overwhelming, when you feel like you don't fit in and when something more embodied and adaptive is what actually helps.My mission is to empower people to live with more energy, vitality, and genuine connection to themselves and the world around them.

Qualifications & Experience

  • Certified Menopause Coach - Menopause Movement 2026

  • Certified Personal Trainer at Priory Mental Health & Rehab hospital - 2020 to present

  • Certified Yoga Teacher at Hotpod Yoga Belgravia, Putney & Brixton - 2023 to present

  • 85hrs Yin Yoga YTT - Ishavasyam Yoga School RYS 2025

  • 100hrs Pranayama YTT (Yogic Breathwork) - Akshi Yogashala RYS 2025

  • Thai Massage 30hrs - ITM Chiang Mai 2025

  • Camino de Santiago (Way of St. James) - Spain 2025

  • Certified Tiny Habits Coach - Tiny Habits Method 2025

  • Vipassana Meditation retreat x2 - SN Goenka Tradition 2021/2025

  • Various Buddhist Meditation retreats and courses - London Buddhist Centre 2022-2025

  • 200hrs Yoga YTT - Hotpod Yoga RYS 2022

  • Mamorwa Sacred Retreat - The Arhuaco People (Colombia) 2022

  • Fight School Training Camp & Boxing Fight - 12 Rounds Boxing / Clapham Grand 2021

  • The Science Of Wellbeing - Yale Coursera 2020

  • Level 3 Personal Trainer, Padwork, Kettlebell Pro - YMCA Fit 2018


Testimonials

Nigel is an excellent coach. His sessions are thoughtful, engaging, and effective. His focus on mindfulness, both in training and in daily life, gave me a new perspective on exercise and healthy habits. He genuinely cares about his clients wellbeing, and I would recommend him without hesitation.

Harriet - Senior Lawyer

I came to Nigel struggling with distracted, emotional eating where I used food to avoid difficult feelings. Through mindful eating and a tiny habits approach, I found ways to make change feel gentle and sustainable, even when my motivation was low. The celebratory elements we used have transformed how I relate to food and my emotions, and I feel like our time working together has created life-long shifts.

Oli - Intimacy Coach

I was struggling with generic habit and brain coaching advice that didn’t fit how my often overwhelmed, neurodivergent brain works. Nigel helped personalise everything in a way that finally felt doable. What stood out most was the emphasis on kindness when things didn’t go to plan, and celebrating progress rather than perfection.

Mila - 1:1 Client

Get In Touch

Have a question or want to find out more about the Grounded Strength programme? I read and respond to every message personally.

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Grounded - a monthly letter on strength, mindfulness, and living well.

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