Hi there! I’m James Reeves.

Author, Coach, Teacher, Trainer and lover of a good lie down…

For the last 20 years I’ve been helping people uncover and rediscover their most rested self.

I specialise in techniques founded on ancient teachings and grounded in modern research and neuroscience. No woo-woo here, just good, honest and effective tools to help you be at ease within yourself.

It’s in my heart to help you find a deep ease and contentment amidst life.

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“I reached that ‘place’. That place between the breath in meditation, that place that only you could try and describe, that wonderful, wonderful place. It only took me about 10 minutes to get there!” — Danny Morris, Managing Director, Hanover Insolvency

My Story

More than 20 years ago I had a successful career in corporate account management, but was feeling lost, broken, burnt out and desperately ready for a change. I took off to Asia for a very belated  “gap year” of discovery (well, 6 years, to be exact).

Along the way, I shed some things I no longer needed, including a significant relationship, and a sense of myself as a do-gooder (I worked for Amnesty International, whose work I still deeply respect). I travelled from place to place, always on the move, searching for something I couldn’t name. Then, in one exotic locale, I was held up at gun point. This brush with death made me realise I was exhausted by the relentless pursuit of whatever it was I was seeking. Having experienced some moments of deep peace in India, I decided to go back there and explore the practices that had brought me the greatest sense of contentment.

I began in-depth practice of Hatha yoga, and I was terrible at it. I couldn’t touch my toes, and couldn’t calm my inner critic, which kept telling me I was the worst yogi in the room. Soon the instructor led us in the practice of something I hadn’t heard of before: Yoga Nidra.

I hated it. I felt sooooo restless. An intense sensation began to build in my forehead and I wanted to run out of the room flailing my arms and screaming. But I was a polite English boy, so I stayed. The sensation kept getting more and more intense and then, suddenly, ‘I’ was gone. I became the bird song, the lake, the sky – completely out of my body. I had no sense of time or location. This seemed to last an eternity.

It’s taken me a very long time to understand what happened during that peak experience in India. It affected me so deeply that I have spent the last 15 years studying yoga and practicing what I’ve learned. After many years of experimenting, several iterations of this work, and writing ‘The Book of Rest’, Deep Rest was born.

Along the way I’ve had other profound experiences of stillness, met amazing guides and teachers, explored my own unconscious conditioning through psychotherapy, become the father of two gorgeous children, and descended into the depths of despair, heartbreak and loss.

Through all of these ups and downs, one thing has remained constant: my relationship with deep stillness. It is the one and only place I have come to rely on as a perennial guide back home to my own inner knowing, calm and ease. And I’m honoured to be able to help other people find their way back to the sanctuary within themselves.

If only you stopped looking, you’d see there’s something fundamentally right with you.

I can teach you how to Rest into the part of you that is always OK, whatever’s going on in your life and the world around you.