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 Umar Ali Nawab

"The teacher opens the door, but you must enter yourself."

Chinese Proverb

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The Call to Adventure

  • I left the U.K in 2016 to teach internationally — in China, the U.A.E, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Belgium. Alongside this, for over ten years, I dedicated myself to Yoga and Breathwork, quietly honing skills for a calling I didn't yet understand I was being prepared for.

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Crossing the Threshold

  • The threshold came in Bali, in 2023 — the land of gods and goddesses. What began as a trip became an unravelling. I crossed from the world I knew into a world I didn't: the interior one. It was there I first understood how much of my life had been lived in my head.

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The Belly of the Whale

  • The lotus flower — the very symbol of my own growth — had kept me disconnected from my body, carrying unresolved trauma, suppressed emotions inside like a wound, and a dysregulated nervous system became the dragon that lived, quietly, in the body itself.

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The False Elixir

  • Shadow work, I mistook the fight for the healing, chasing big releases, vanquishing the dragon in one blow — would be the thing that finally closed the story, but without stillness, grounding, integration, none of it landed in the body. Now, I am a warner to others. 

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Allies and Tests

  • The road less travelled deepened: Breathwork, Yoga, EMDR, Therapy, Energetics, Ruqya, whenever upheavals rose, these tools came to my rescue. When the old stories returned, I did as Odysseus did: I tied the body to the mast, whilst the Sirens sang to my mind. 

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The Return

  • Sharpening the saw, again and again, these tools allowed me to truly connect with my body increase safety and capacity, and complete the odyssey, from Bali, around the world, and back home again. Now, I'm not here to lead — only to walk beside others on their journey.

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The Elixir, Shared

  • Its a journey from the head to the heart, inspired by science and the sacred traditions. The connection to God is a felt-sense experience in the body, the heart remembers what the mind forgets, healing begins when we learn to remember again, in the body.

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Qualifications 

  • Trauma-Informed Somatic Breathwork Facilitator — Rewild Breathwork, Dublin
  • Trauma-Informed Body and Energy Work - Trauma Alchemy, Algarve
  • Reiki Level I & II Practitioner — Rebecca Nichol Holistic Training, Oxford 
  • 200-Hour Certified Yoga Teacher — Fit Flow Yoga School, Mexico City
  • Qualified Trauma-Informed Somatic Practitioner — Inner Wellsprings Academy
  • Postgraduate Certificate in Education (Social Sciences) — University of Birmingham
  • MA in History — University of Warwick
  • BA in History (Honours) — University of Warwick
  • BA in English Language and Literature — The Open University
  • Permission (Ijaza) to Teach Quran Recitation (Tajweed)
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