About Kirsty Macdonald

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I'm passionate about helping people to let go of the things that block and hold them back, and helping them to create ways of living, working and relating that are life enhancing, rather than life negating. I have a special interest in helping leaders, and often work with people in positions of influence, whether in entrepreneurial, political, creative or corporate structures. I also specialise in performance, burnout, stress, anxiety and sleep. All of which can be the turning point to a greater opening and awakening in a person's life. 

With over 10,000 hours of one-to-one client work and in leading trainings and workshops, my expertise includes a wide range of modalities focusing on unconscious mind change, body energetics, creativity, performance, breath, spiritual awareness and life mastery.

My client work and teaching is founded on my expertise in NLP, EMI, Cognitive Hypnotherapy and Coaching and has been deepened through more than 25 years of experience of various styles of meditation and yogic practices, intensive personal practice and work with some of the world’s leading practitioners and teachers of performance, spirituality and embodiment. Until moving to a largely online format, I ran my successful practice in Harley Street, London. I have presented at TEDx, and have been a regular contributor to The Huffington Post.

Your Inspired Self is closer than you think. As well as greatly enhancing your experience of your life, the world needs you at your best. If you are curious about how I can help, either one-to-one or in a group setting, do get in touch. 

Kirsty Macdonald
Transformational Coaching, Cognitive Hypnotherapy, Embodiment Training
HPD, DipCHyp, NLP MPrac, MNCH, RYT-200

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Education and Training
1995 - Stage Management and Theatre Production, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA)
2000 - Arts Management BA (Hons), University of Greenwich
2010 - QCH Diploma, Quest Institute
2012 - QCH Master Practitioner, Quest Institute
2013 - Project Me Coaching Training, Quest Institute
2013 - Confident Childbirth Practitioner Training
2015 - 4PC Coaching Cohort (Los Angeles, USA)
2017 - Workshops with David Deida (Denmark and USA)
2018 - Reiki Practitioner Training (London, UK)
2022 - YTT200 Hatha Yoga Teacher Training including Pranayama, (Mysore, India)
2025 - Yin Yoga Teacher Training (London, UK)

Alongside some of the more formal qualifications I have, some of my greatest influences and teachers include:
Trevor Silvester, founder of the Quest Institute and such a wonderful teacher (and where so much of what I teach began), the ancient art and science of Ayurveda, J. Krishnamurti, Adyashanti, Ram Dass, the mountains and valley of Ojai where the land talks such wise words, Buddhist teachings and practices, the Vedic texts, the work of Martin Seligman and the school of Positive Psychology, all who teach the Hoffman Process around the world, Soto Zen and the Tassajara Zen Centre. And of course my children and husband, Jon Macdonald, without whom I would only know part of myself.