What You Want Will Set You Free
Mindfulness coaching and workshops for those who are done with midlife dread and ready to feel alive again.
There’s a way of moving through your days lit up from the inside, feeling deeply connected and energized by your longings.
You take up space. You look people in the eye. You feel confident, sexy, and alive.
And since nobody handed you these feelings, nobody can take them away.
Midlife is exactly when this new aliveness becomes available, with your desire as your guide.
You don’t have to get there alone.
I'm Yael Shy. I’m a meditation teacher and author with more than twenty years of experience, the founder and CEO of Sefira Wellness, and faculty at NYU. I was the former Senior Director of NYU’s Global Spiritual Life Center and Mindful NYU, and served as the Chief Mindfulness Consultant for Procter and Gamble and the Fotografiska museum.
When I was 38, I found myself in the middle of my life, confused about where all the joy went, bereft at the loss of attention in the public sphere, exhausted by all my obligations to family and work, and terrified that the best, most exciting days were behind me.
Here’s how we begin:
Step 1 - Start with the Free Guide
Download Flip Your Fear — a free four-step guide to finding the desire underneath your anxiety, with a guided meditation to bring you back to yourself.
Step 2 - Join the Community
When you're ready for more, join The Power of Desire — a community for those who suspect this next phase of life might be the best one yet. Every week brings essays that make you feel seen, guided meditations to drop you out of your head and into your body, and journaling prompts that help you hear what your longing is actually saying.
Step 3 - Fall Back in Love With Your Life
Feeling alive — to desire, to your body, to life itself — doesn't have to be a fleeting accident. It doesn't depend on the right partner, job, or body. No matter your age, it's not too late to step onto this path.
The time is now.
You have spent years, maybe decades, putting yourself last.
Your joy, your desires, your own aliveness deferred again and again for everyone else’s needs.
The world wants to call this time a “crisis.”
But what feels like death in mid-life is actually a rebirth. You are being born as the subject rather than the object. You are being born as the driver of your life, rather than the passenger.
You are being born to shine.
You don’t have to blow up your life. You don’t have to choose between yourself and the people you love.
You do have to choose yourself, fully and without apology, or another decade slips by exactly like the last one.
Your desire is not selfish. It’s the signal calling you to who you need to become.
And the time to follow it is now.
What others are saying…
“Yael has taught me more about what it means to look for and find life energy — the idea of living life as opposed to life living you. Deep gratitude.”
“Yael Shy’s teachings have transformed not just my approach to mindfulness, but to my everyday life. I can think of no one better to guide people through moments of shakiness, change, and life transition.”
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Your fire is still there. Let's find it together.
Start with Flip Your Fear — the free four-step guide to finding the desire underneath your anxiety.
Want to go deeper?
The Find Your Fire Private Retreat might be exactly what you need. This is a day that could change everything.
