Berlin  Yin  Yoga

IFS Coaching

A compassionate way to Come Home to yourself

Internal Family Systems (IFS) is a tender and empowering path into wholeness — a gentle, liberating way of being fully present with all that you are.

IFS coaching is an invitation to meet yourself — in all your complexity, beauty, tenderness, and edges — with curiosity and care rather than pressure or judgment.

It is a spacious way of being with what is alive within you, honouring the many parts that have learned to protect, adapt, survive, express, or shelter your heart — each part doing the best they can with what they have at the moment. 

 

We are complex, messy, wonderful, multi-layered humans.

In this work, all parts are welcome. Nothing needs to be pushed away or fixed. Over time, parts can begin to experience safety and belonging within the inner system, creating room to move, relate, and live with ease, humour, and curiosity.

In IFS coaching, we learn that we can rest in presence. In doing so, we find out that we can care for it all: tenderly, compassionately and with an open, curious heart.

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What is Internal Family Systems (IFS)?

IFS understands the psyche as an inner system made up of different parts, often grouped as:

• Protective parts (Managers & Fire Firefighters) that manage daily life or guard us from pain

• Exiled parts that carry vulnerability, emotional wounds, or unmet needs

• The Self — a core presence within us that is calm, compassionate, clear, connected, and curious

 

At the heart of IFS is the recognition that everyone has a Self. Healing does not come from force or analysis, but from creating the conditions for the Self to naturally lead the inner system.

When Self is present, parts feel seen, respected, and less burdened by the roles they have been carrying — sometimes for many years.

 

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IFS, Yoga, and Buddhist Practice

— A Natural Meeting Place

My way of working with IFS is deeply informed by decades of yoga and mindfulness practice, steeped in Buddhist philosophy.

There is a beautiful resonance between IFS and contemplative traditions:

• The Self in IFS mirrors what Buddhism points to as Buddha Nature — our innate capacity for awareness, compassion, and wisdom

• Mindfulness supports the ability to notice parts without becoming overwhelmed or identified with them

• The yogic emphasis on embodiment allows inner work to be grounded, felt, and integrated through the body

 

In our sessions, we may gently draw on mindfulness, breath awareness, and somatic noticing — not as techniques to achieve something, but as supports for presence, safety, and inner listening. IFS becomes not just a therapeutic model, but a lived practice of awareness and relationship — both inwardly and outwardly.

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