Today we’d like to introduce you to Ashur Bratt
Hi Ashur, we’re thrilled to have a chance to learn your story today. So, before we get into specifics, maybe you can briefly walk us through how you got to where you are today?
I’m a people-centric connector and communicator, experienced facilitator, active and reflective listener, and creative visionary. In my life I’ve prioritized relationships with people, new experiences, and self/interpersonal growth and discovery. As an avid explorer of the human experience, I’ve found myself in dozens of countries and contexts doing work as varied as teaching theater to heal trauma, building homes in Redwood forests, consulting on the organizational and social structure of new land projects, heading community & growth at a startup dedicated to creating gifting communities, and working as a backpacking instructor for multi-week wilderness courses.
Needless to say, I’ve done many things and led many lives. After working as a high school teacher at an “at-risk” charter school in the bay area, I recognized the deep need for healing and connection in so many people and opted to work to try and attend directly to that deficit. Thus, I began to immerse myself in the deeply reflective interpersonal and intrapersonal work of connection — both with myself and others. I’ve finally arrived at being able to provide this space and context for others after having done many years of this work, myself. My modalities of focus include somatic coaching, authentic relating and expression, and dance and embodiment. I currently work as a connection coach inviting people into authentic presence with exactly what they’re feeling in a particular moment and then guide them through the most raw and authentic embodiment and expression of said feelings. Additionally, I am in process to being a licensed board certified neurofeedback technician providing brain regulation via Neurofeedback.
I was born in Florida and raised in Overland Park. After attending Grinnell College in Iowa, I moved out to the bay area. My professional work is a reflection of my lived passions. In addition to reveling in pure authentic connection I am an avid paddler and outdoor enthusiast. I dance, hike, and kayak in my free time. While I spend much of my time now in Kansas City, I travel all over the world coaching and facilitating various events.
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
My work is about bringing people into direct presence with what they’re experiencing and much of the road has been full of quite difficult experiences. Most of the challenge I’ve encountered has been internal. It’s been a long road of overcoming internal blockages that limit me from receiving all of the abundance that the world offers. I am so blessed to now be on a path that fully embraces my natural skill set and desired energetic output. I have been moulded and shaped by many years of trauma, obstacles, and difficulties and my resilience in confronting and contending with each hurdle has enabled me to be able to offer this space and gift to others.
I’ve worked for a long time without ever believing that I deserved money or safety or security and now after having confronted that limiting belief head-on, I’ve recognized that I offer the invaluable gift of presence, aliveness, and truth. And now, I am able to receive security and well-being in exchange.
Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others?
I am a connection coach, inviting people into greater connection with themselves so they can connect with others from a direct and authentic place. Imagine you feel scared of telling someone something, I help you to find safety and strength in trusting that inner voice and then provide you with a set of tools to be able to express it. Additionally, I teach embodiment, contact improv dance, and authentic relating. I’m essentially a guide for the uncomfortable, uncharted areas of the human experience. I am known for holding a powerful and grounded presence. Even while smiling people often describe me as intense, but not serious. I am a living embodiment of what it means to be fully expressed, present and clear.
I am really good at compelling people to be truly honest with themselves. Whether in business, relationship, or life in general having a clearer and stronger connection with self enables you to connect fully with others. I can often give people the aliveness they seek.
I thrive in discomfort. It’s not that I like it or that I don’t feel it, but I don’t shy away from it. Thus I can remain present when many people opt to run away and I teach people to do the same. With love and compassion I guide people into presence even when its uncomfortable.
Additionally, I work as a neurofeedback clinician providing neuroregulation via neurofeedback for clients. Neurofeedback is biofeedback for the brain and offers a non-pharmacological route to a more stable life. EEG neurofeedback can offer a means of attending to anxiety, depression, sleep problems, chronic pain, and more without the need for pharmaceuticals.
Is there any advice you’d like to share with our readers who might just be starting out?
You are your only limitation. The reality before you is a pure expression of your perceptions and beliefs. Once you begin to truly believe the external world aligns itself in accordance with your beliefs.
Don’t be scared of vulnerability. Vulnerability is not weakness, it is just truth and truth is the most powerful of human experiences. Emotions are just a part of the human experience.
Contact Info:
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ashurellis/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ashur.bratt/
- Other: https://poplme.co/hQzg7Ad8
