Clive Prout

Clive came to this work the long way around. Before he ever called himself a coach, he had been practicing yoga since 1993 and meditation since 1997 — including a five-year residential apprenticeship in an ashram — learning firsthand how attention, breath, and the nervous system shape a person’s experience of their own life. He opened his coaching practice in 2000. In the years since, his work has run along two tracks. As a leadership coach, he helps executives grow into larger, more demanding roles without being run by the stress that comes with them — teaching them to regulate their nervous systems, steadying down when a situation calls for calm and mobilizing when it calls for energy and drive. And as faculty for the Co-Active Training Institute for the past twenty years, and now for the Psychedelic Coaching Institute, he trains other coaches in the craft. Breathwork was a natural extension of that focus, and Elemental Rhythm appealed to him precisely because it was rigorous — structured and methodical in a way breathwork often isn’t. He found it could reach beyond the rational mind to release stored emotion and loosen the limiting subconscious beliefs that quietly govern how people live and lead. He treats breath as a precise instrument: for settling the nervous system, moving what’s been held, and opening the door to genuine change. In session, Clive guides participants through breathwork journeys that release buried emotion and bring a quieter kind of clarity. But he sees the breathwork as only half the work. His coaching picks up where the breathing sessions end — scaffolding the shifts in awareness and self-perception that follow, so they take root as lasting change in how a person regulates emotion, sees themself, and how they relate to their old stories and future potential. Underneath all of it is a steady respect for each person’s agency and innate wisdom. Clive doesn’t position himself as the source of anyone’s transformation; his role is to hold a grounded, attuned, warm space where people can safely explore, release, and evolve. Clients tend to describe the work the same way — as a reclaiming of their own clarity, capacity, and potential.