We teach the seven spiritual practices of Essential Spirituality, using Roger Walsh’s book as a guide to inclusive interspiritual exercises from the world’s religions and spiritual traditions:

Practice 1: Redirecting Motivation

Practice 2: Transforming Emotions

Practice 3: Living Ethically

Practice 4: Training Attention

Practice 5: Refining Awareness

Practice 6: Cultivating Wisdom

Practice 7: Serving Others

Spirit Gym is open to those of any religion and none. We are not affiliated with any organised religion but affirm how the above shared practices can facilitate deeper interfaith dialogue and build a community of mutual spiritual support in secular contexts beyond differences of belief.

We learn how to use the Enneagram map of nine modes of personality to personalise exercises and spiritual practices for ourselves in our own work and life:

1: The Perfectionist

2: The Giver

3: The Performer

4: The Romantic

5: The Observer

6: The Loyal Skeptic

7: The Epicure

8: the Protector

9: The Mediator

Spirit Gym recognises the importance of identifying your main ‘enneatype’ from the above nine but also the need to blend different modes of being for rounded transpersonal development beyond ego.

We practise the principles and methods of Co-counselling which is a self-directed form of reciprocal peer support :

1:Self-directed: co-counsellors focus on their own agenda and what matters to them

2: Reciprocal: co-counsellors take it in equal turns to be client and counsellor.

3: Peer: everyone is equal, there are no “experts” trying to “sort out” other people.

4: Counselling: it is a bit like other forms of counselling in that one person listens while the other talks (or “works” in other ways), but the person being client always remains in  charge of the session.

Spirit Gym uses Co-counselling as its main form of coaching support for wellbeing, resilience and sustainability. Please note Co-counselling does not involve any professional psychotherapy or clinical counselling.