Antidote Life

I’m a health & performance coach, yoga teacher, professional golfer, and the creator of Antidote Life. I guide busy professionals and athletes through a holistic approach to life and performance by incorporating my strong background in professional golf with an integrative approach to health and the ancient practice of yoga.

Even though I was born in Germany and spent most of my time in the West, being half Nepali and being raised with a strong eastern influence has perhaps shaped me the most. In many ways, the western and eastern philosophies and ways of life are total opposites. Without favoriting either, I have always tried to embrace both and take the best from each. I believe there is so much value to be learned from both and that they actually complement each other. With Antidote Yoga, I am merging the two cultures that I grew up in but also sharing what I’ve learned through my experiences, successes, and failures as a golfer.

As a professional golfer and someone who always had big goals and aspirations, I found myself always striving for something in the future. Striving hard. Too hard. After many years of grinding, pushing myself, and being desperately attached to my goals and expectations, I felt a large imbalance in my life. I was constantly and restlessly reaching for something — chasing perfection, wanting more information, overanalyzing, and standing in my own way. I went from one coach to the next, trying to find it in my swing, I saw sports psychologists trying to find it in my mind, but I was just creating more noise – in my mind and deep inside my body.

I have a crazy passion for golf, and while passion drives us to do what we love, it does not always allow us to love what we do. I reached a level of complexity, mechanization, and stress that created a big disconnect from my true nature. It did not allow me to “play” the game that I love the most. The more I tried to fix the problems where they had arisen, the bigger I made them. Driven to find a solution solely by thought, I looked in all the wrong places. Of course, you have to look at where the problem arises, but even more importantly, you have to look at the whole system behind it.

There is an undeniable link between true well-being and performance. My mission with Antidote Yoga is to bring awareness to it, honor it and bridge the gap between overall health and peak performance. With Antidote Yoga, I shift the focus from an outcome and goal-oriented approach to a system-oriented approach that cares for holistic needs and takes care of them first. Not because I don’t believe in goals but because systems are more important. Human being first. Professional second.

Along with the game of golf, the practice and philosophy of yoga has been my biggest teacher. I initially turned to yoga for lower back issues and flexibility but what I found as I studied and incorporated it into my life ritualistically was so much more. Yoga has helped me dive into the complex mind-body relationship. The practice gives me inner and outer strength, flexibility in my body and mind, creativity, and freedom. Every day it brings me back to balance. What brought me to it was the physical benefits, but what makes me continue to practice and want to share it is the inner work. In a world so focused on externals, yoga brings you internal. This is why I teach yoga. I want to give people the chance to step back, slow down, tune in and then go back out into the world and function from an aware and authentic place of strength.

I discovered yoga when I needed it most. It has allowed me to see the bigger picture of what true wellbeing really is. Combining the practice and philosophy of yoga with a holistic approach to my life really put the pieces together for me. Literally. I had lived a life so one-dimensional and one-sided for many years that it created a large imbalance in my being. As I learned more about holistic health and integrated all the elements into my life, I began to experience a shift within me.

Modern life, with technology and the fast-paced lives we lead, needs a counteraction. Today, our world is so focused on externals – obsessed about productivity and success, glorifying busyness, addicted to activity, and overloaded on information. The technology that was meant to connect us has us constantly distracted and more disconnected than ever. I firmly believe we need something to counteract, an antidote, if you will. This is why I created Antidote Life, out of a deep need for it in my own life, with the mission to share and empower those who sense this imbalance too.

– Sean