About Adrian Cox

Background

I grew up in and around Seattle, coming to age in the 90′s in the days of grunge, the internet boom, and espresso stands. While working in restaurants and going to school, I taught myself how to build computers, hack them, and hook them to the internet- which was a mostly unheard of thing in those days. This made me quite employable, and I leapfrogged into work for video game companies, Microsoft, and Compuserve, being quite in demand despite not having a formal education in computing.

After four years of corporate work in Seattle, I accepted a position with Canon company and they relocated me (and several friends who tagged along) to New York, to implement medical imaging systems technology in local hospitals. By this time I had a steady yoga practice going, but I kept going back to the office, and increasingly started to question the monotony of corporate work and the poor postures and health that seemed to come with it. Gradually it became evident that yoga had become an all-consuming passion for me.

Whenever I could, I would take trips to India and Thailand and study yoga and meditation. On one particular trip to Thailand, in 1997 while practicing Vipassana meditation In a temple, I had a literal flash of insight that inspired me to change my life completely. It was a pre-cognitive vision of myself, a few years in the future, teaching yoga at a yet to be built studio in Bangkok. It was the clearest thing I had ever seen. It inspired me to quit my job, enroll in a yoga teacher training course at OM yoga in New York city and change my life forever. I followed this with a year of study in India at the Bihar School of Yoga and with BNS Iyengar in Mysore city as well as study and practice with many other teachers, swamis, yogis, and monks.

I’ve followed my initial vision for years, leading to opening one of Bangkok’s first, and subsequently most successful yoga studios. This has brought me so many good things into my life, some amount of fame, world travel, meetings with celebrities, my own TV show, and Shiang Ying, a woman I married and now co-teach with. I have met, studied with, and befriended many of the world’s top yoga teachers who regularly come through and teach at yoga elements. Indeed it has proven wise to follow my intuition!

My passion for NLP is also an example of my lifelong fascination with self development and personal evolution. I first became intrigued with NLP when my first NLP teacher (Kurt Weirheim) reframed a limiting belief I had in less than a minute, and to my surprise, the positive changes stuck and are still with me to this day. I have gone on to become qualified as a clinical hypnotherapist with training under Stephen Gilligan, a master practitioner of NLP under Robert Dilts and Judith DeLozier, and a certified trainer with both Dr. John Grinder (co-developer of NLP) and the Society of NLP under Christina Hall, who is the developer of the SWISH pattern.

Currently my work is focused on integration of yoga postures, breathing, language, metaphor, and trance states. I am particularly passionate about cognitive linguistics and embodied cognition and feel there is much we can discover about human potential by connecting ancient wisdom with modern research and knowledge.

As I teach, train, and coach people, I keep in my mind the understanding that everyone already has all the personal resources inside them to be able to make any desired changes. I am passionate in my work with people to trigger the ‘Aha!’ experience, the insights that trigger personal evolution. My philosophy is that each person connects with and affects so many others, knowingly and unknowingly. By being at our best, psychologically and physically, we do our part to help make this world a more beautiful place to be in because we never really know how far our influence extends, and in this way, our words can affect eternity!