"Through the 'Beyond Performance' experience, I help athletes, teams, organizations, and groups develop the capacity to be fully present and connected to themselves, and to consciously self-regulate and restore, both in performance and in daily life."

Three Layers of The Work

My work integrates three interconnected layers:

Emotional Integration
Learning to recognize and experience emotions without automatically suppressing, resisting, or being controlled by them. Participants will develop the capacity to stay present with "difficult emotions" and respond with greater freedom rather than being driven by automatic reactions.

Nervous System Regulation
Rather than always trying to “calm down,” athletes learn practical ways to work with activation, stay present, and move more flexibly through stress. By understanding in more depth the nervous system, they will be able to "regulate" without suppressing the energy and foster a different relationship with their body, mind and nervous system that will increase their ability to respond to stressors.

Conscious Restoration
Learning that recovery is more than stopping or resting; it involves intentionally creating the conditions for the mind and body to transition out of performance mode and restore, giving the space needed for deeper emotional integration and nervous system regulation.

Why They Work Together

The nervous system is multi-dimensional, every layer continuously influences the others.

How you relate to your emotions affects your nervous system, your nervous-system state influences how you experience and process emotions, and your ability to truly restore yourself determines how effectively you can integrate both and return to the next challenge with greater capacity.

The goal is to develop the capacity to meet whatever state you're in, move through it, recover from it, and perform and live from a place of greater presence and flexibility.

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What Participants Experience

Understand

Learn how stress, the nervous system, and unconscious patterns influence performance, recovery, decision-making, and well-being.

Reset & consciously regulate

Experience evidence-informed somatic practices and breathing techniques that help the body shift out of survival mode and into a state of regulation and presence.

Restore & Connect

Develop a deeper awareness of the body, connect with the body and learn how to access deep conscious rest.

Integrate

Integrate the work into your life and you mind with mindset work and daily integration practices

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What Participants Leave With

A better understanding of their state

Understanding how stress, perception, emotions, and the nervous system influence their ability to stay present and access their capabilities during critical moments.

Tools for real-time self-regulation

Learning simple practices to pause, reconnect with the body, navigate physiological arousal, and return to a state of presence when facing pressure, stress, frustration, or any "difficult" or "negative" emotion.

Greater capacity to perform under pressure

Developing the ability to experience discomfort without being automatically controlled by it, allowing them to remain connected to themselves and the task at hand at all times.

A new relationship with rest

Cultivating an approach to rest and recovery that goes beyond simply stopping movement, enabling the nervous system to achieve genuine restoration.

Greater freedom in how they live and perform

Creating more space between events and their reactions, allowing them to choose how to respond rather than operating on autopilot under the influence of stress, fear, or pressure.

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The Experience

Core Experience (90 Minutes)

A powerful introduction to nervous system regulation and conscious recovery.

Includes:

• Brief explanation of safety, connection and the nervous system
• Guided reset somatic practices
• Deep restorative & conscious rest experience
• Supporting e-book to understand what we did and continue your own journey.

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Immersive Experience (3 Hours)

A deeper transformational experience designed for teams seeking greater impact and integration.

Includes:

• Everything from the Core Experience

Plus:

• Expanded teaching and understanding of conscious rest, the nervous system and the art of "being"
• Deeper embodiment of the practice
• Mindset work & reflective journaling exercises
• Group discussion and Q&A
• Practical integration strategies

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Integration & Coaching Support

For teams who want deeper and lasting results, I offer a coached version of the experience that includes preparation, a specific workshop tailored to the team's needs with the integration afterwards.

Before

Team Alignment Session (45 min)

A preparation call with the leader(s) of the group to identify key challenges, team dynamics, stress patterns, and desired outcomes.

During

Customized practices to the specific pain points and needs of the team

After

Integration Session (60 min)

A guided follow-up session with the leader(s) of the group designed to help participants apply what they learned to everyday performance, leadership, and well-being.

Participants also receive practical tools and protocols to support ongoing integration.

Ideal For

• Athletic organizations
• Leadership teams
• Corporate wellness initiatives
• High-performing professionals
• Groups navigating stress, pressure, or change

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Investment

Core Experience (90 min)

Custom pricing available upon request.

Immersive Experience (3 hours)

Custom pricing available upon request.

Integration & Coaching Support

+30% of the agreed-upon price. Available as an enhancement to either experience.

It is believed in many performance areas that toughness means pushing through discomfort and emotion. How do you respond to that without dismissing their experience?":

Toughness is a key concept in life and performance, and I would never want to dismiss the value of being able to push through discomfort. But I think we have to ask: what do we really mean by toughness?

From a nervous-system perspective, I prefer to think in terms of resilience and capacity. Resilience is the ability to meet stress, adapt, recover, and return to functioning. Capacity is the amount of stress, emotion, or demand a person can meet while remaining sufficiently flexible and functional.

Toughness can sometimes mean simply being able to push through. But I believe there is another dimension to it: being able to work hard and work intelligently, with an understanding of your own stress responses and nervous system.

So I like to ask: Is the person who pushes through discomfort by suppressing their emotions necessarily tougher than the person who can remain present and regulated under maximum pressure, someone who can feel fear, doubt, or even intense emotion without being completely defined or hijacked by it?

And even if your answer is yes, I think there is another question worth asking: At what cost? Because the goal isn't simply to tolerate more and more stress. The goal is to develop the capacity to meet demanding situations while still being able to recover, adapt, and function over time.

Sometimes pushing through is exactly what the moment requires. Other times, continuing to push when the system is already overwhelmed may come at a cost. If that pattern becomes chronic, the accumulated stress can contribute to exhaustion, reduced performance, emotional difficulties, and impaired recovery.

To me, true toughness is the capacity to remain present, adaptable, and engaged when things become difficult.

What makes your approach different from sports psychology or standard mental performance coaching?

Most mental performance work focuses on mindset (confidence, focus, motivation, goal setting,etc) What I address is the nervous system and emotional layer underneath mindset. With this workshop, I am working with the signals & control center where the mental works can add on top of it. As far as I am concerned, the nervous system, and with it the emotional component of the nervous system is at the root of every action, behavior, choice and reaction in our life and performance.

When you are triggered or dysregulated, you have neurologically less access to certain region of your brain, so no matter how much you know your goals and how prepare you are, you no longer have the same access to all that preparation. My work addresses this specific gap, through nervous system regulation, emotional integration and conscious restoration, so that people have access to their full self on the important moment, and can truly recover from stressors afterwards.

Will this make the participant soft, too emotional or less competitive?

No.Trying to suppress or control emotion under pressure actually maintains the physiological activation it is trying to eliminate and may lead to accumulation over time, therefore diminish the capacity of the system and increasing the stress load. Research from Stanford's emotion regulation lab has confirmed that suppression keeps cortisol elevated, not reduced.

Yes emotions might arise, but that is part of the human experience and learning to be with them will only make you a better human, worker, athlete, parents, etc

What I bring in this workshop is the capacity to feel activation fully, let it move through quickly, and return to optimal state faster than before, emotional integration by developing emotional granularity, interoception and mindful awareness and be able to truly rest unconditionally only with your self, without external tools.

What happens if this opens something up that affects short time performance?

This is possible, when the nervous system begins processing what it has been carrying like emotional residue from unprocessed stressors, accumulated stress load, patterns that have been managed rather than resolved, there is sometimes a transitional period before things stabilize at a new level.

This can look like: increased emotional sensitivity, temporary fatigue, slightly disrupted sleep, or a brief period where performance feels less automatic than before. 

Indeed, it is possible that suppression was doing real work in your day-to-day results. Many high performers have built part of their competitive intensity on unprocessed emotional activation. As the nervous system learns to process rather than channel that energy, there is a brief adjustment period.

Also, our awareness might increases before regulation does. As participants become more attuned to their internal states, they notice more, including things that were previously running below the surface.

This is not a sign something is wrong but a sign the process is working,  you can see it as like physical flexibility training, the day after a stretch session, the muscle can be tighter and weaker before it adapts and creates beneficiary adaptation.

Over time, these practices will create lasting change for most people who apply them consistently over sufficient time. It is not a permanent immunity to stress or dysregulation, but it creates a genuinely different baseline  (a nervous system that is more flexible, more recoverable, more available for performance and presence than before the work began).

With the workshop, I do not do deep integration work during peak competitive phases and to manage this responsibly we can schedule it in function of your objective. This is why I always have a conversation with the group/team to see their objective, the timing/individualization is part of the protocol.

FAQ

Mikael’s sessions was a perfect combination of stretching and restoration. I left class feeling loose and calm. Thank you Mikael!”

-Jenny C., tech executive - California

"Mikael's sessions were a perfect opportunity to reset. Through his calm energy and the thoughts he shared, he created a place to just be and relax. It was always the perfect break and time to listen to my body and mind."

-Tabea K., physiotherapist - Germany

"I had the chance to participate in several of Mikael’s sessions in Costa Rica this year. His voice, words and spirit calmness helped me to dig deeper in myself. I highly recommend his classes! 🧘‍♀️🌞"

-Lola G., advertising - France

"I really enjoyed Mikael’s sessions. They were super relaxing and felt incredibly restorative, especially after surfing. It honestly felt like my body was getting a chance to recover and reset.

I never really connected with restorative yoga before, but something about the way Mikael teaches made it click for me. The classes were very mindful, and the poses flowed together in a way that felt natural and intentional.

One thing I struggle with is having a mind that never seems to switch off—I’m constantly thinking about problems, plans, or whatever is going on in the world. It can make it hard for me to truly relax. During Mikael’s restorative classes, though, I found myself settling into a really calm headspace. I was still aware of what was happening around me, but at the same time felt deeply connected to my body and much quieter mentally than usual.

I always left feeling refreshed, grounded, and a lot better than when I arrived."

Aysha., yoga teacher - Switzerland

"I loved Mikael‘s restorative yoga sessions. They were the perfect way to relax at any moment. His instructions were always clear and made me feel safe during the sessions."

-Mia R., architecture students - Switzerland

"Mikael provided a safe space that made me feel very comfortable and calm. His presence is very peaceful and I enjoyed learning about energy and recovery."

Juliette C., Vox Media - New-York

"I joined Mikael’s sessions several times and every session felt really special. Through his voice, he guided me into a completely different world and helped me fully disconnect from everything around me.

His voice is warm, calm and very natural. The way he speaks made it easy to visualize everything — like standing at the beach or being completely at peace.

The space he creates felt very unique to me because I had never experienced something like that before. But at the same time, it felt very easy to surrender to it and just let go. Everything felt non-judgmental, respectful and deeply calming. My nervous system genuinely slowed down every time.

I honestly think it’s a shame that I can’t continue joining his classes because I’m going back to Germany. Otherwise, yoga might actually have become something important for me."

Renée L., content creator & photograph - Germany

"Mikael gives us free rein to our thoughts, feelings, and moods, and pays particular attention to our bodies. I think that made all the difference compared to other, more standard classes. After his classes, we leave feeling relaxed, of course, but above all, we're more in tune with our bodies, less judgmental. He really finds the right words to soothe us. He also encourages gratitude. And that feels so good."

Pauline Q., physiotherapist, pilates teacher - France

In his sessions, I continually felt an ability to sit with my thoughts in a peaceful manner… something I typically struggle to do otherwise. I felt that grounding extend even past the session. Very grateful for his steady guidance. He is a rock!

-Ethan M., engineer - Colorado

I want to thank him. Even though I have practiced yoga for years, he introduced me to yin and restorative yoga in a new way. At home, I often feel restless and have the urge to rush through my practice. He helped me calm my nervous system and take the time to listen to my body. Mikael creates a welcoming, calm, peaceful, and safe space. It was so safe that my body and mind opened up to rising emotions, and I was able to take the time to feel through them. He is a beautiful soul.

-Leo., life coach & yoga teacher - Germany

From the very beginning of his first yoga classes, Mikael, 23 years old teaches with a rare wisdom for his age. He led his sessions without hesitation, calmness, passion and zero judgement. He played a big part in changing my perspective on life.🤍 Laura L., Teacher - Germany

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