No spiritual bypass. No fluffy frameworks. Just your nervous system, doing what it was always capable of.
A FREE AUDIO SERIES FOR PROFESSIONALS
You’ve mastered performing. Now find out what your body has been trying to tell you about the rest of your life.
Three audio sessions for professionals who suspect there’s more to life — and want a proven way to find it.
The strange thing about getting to the top
You’ve built the career. You’ve mastered the pressure. You’ve probably even found tools that help — breathwork, maybe some somatic practices, things that keep you sharp and regulated through the long days.
And yet.
There’s a question that keeps surfacing. Not loudly. Not in a way that disrupts the diary. Just quietly, at the edge of things. In the gap between one task and the next. On a Sunday evening, just before the week starts again.
Is this it? Is this what all of it was for?
Not because something is wrong. Because something is missing. And you’re not quite sure what.
Here’s what no one in your world is likely to tell you. That question isn’t a problem to solve. It isn’t a sign that you need to change careers, or that the last twenty years were somehow wrong.
It’s a signal. And it’s been coming from your body — not your head — for longer than you might think.
This series is about learning to read it.
Three audio experiences. One completely different question.
Beyond the Boardroom is not a relaxation programme. It isn’t therapy. And it isn’t another framework for being more productive.
It’s six short audio experiences — three teaching sessions and three guided practices — that use your nervous system as a precision instrument for a different kind of question.
Not this:
✕ How do I manage stress better?
✕ How do I perform at a higher level?
✕ How do I get through the hard days?
This:
✓ What does my body actually know about what I want?
✓ What has it been trying to tell me, underneath all the performance?
✓ And what becomes possible when I finally start to listen?
That’s a harder question. And your body has been sitting with the answer for longer than you might think.
The Performance Body
We start in familiar territory — a somatic practice that works quickly and proves, physically, that your nervous system is more capable than you’ve been using it for. The debrief lands somewhere you won’t expect. A seed is planted.
The Signal Beneath the Schedule
Your nervous system isn’t just responding to your life. It’s been navigating it. Registering what resonates and what doesn’t — what expands you and what quietly contracts you — every single day. Today we start to read it.
The Body Knows Before You Do
This is where everything changes. Using a technique called somatic prototyping, you’ll use your nervous system — deliberately and precisely — to generate a felt, physical experience of the life you actually want to create. Not as a thought experiment. As a real, embodied event.
Is this for you?
Honestly — it isn’t for everyone. Here’s how to tell.
This is for you if:
✓ You’ve done body-based or somatic work before and you know it’s real — you’re not starting from scratch
✓ You’re high-performing and outwardly successful, and there’s a part of you that suspects the metrics you’ve been optimising for aren’t quite the right ones
✓ You’re not looking for spiritual answers — but you’re genuinely open to the intelligence your body has been carrying, quietly, your whole career
✓ The question ‘what do I actually want?’ is one you’ve been avoiding — because if you let yourself really ask it, you’re not sure what might change
✓ You’re willing to spend thirty minutes — ten at a time — to find out what that question sounds like when your body answers it
This probably isn’t for you if:
✕ You’re looking for another productivity or performance framework
✕ The idea of slowing down, even for ten minutes, genuinely doesn’t appeal
✕ You want motivational content or positive thinking tools
✕ You’re not curious about what your body might know that your mind has been overriding
If you’re still reading:
You already know which category you’re in. Your body told you as soon as you read the first line.
What happens when professionals actually slow down
”I've done breathwork, mindfulness, the lot. I thought I knew what somatic work was. This was categorically different. Session two stopped me in my tracks. I hadn't realised how much I'd been ignoring.
Kat Dewey
”I went in thinking this was a wellbeing thing. I came out having had a genuine realisation about the direction of the next ten years of my life. In three audio sessions. I'm still slightly surprised by that.
Marcus Wood
”I'll be honest — I pressed play on session one with fairly low expectations. By session three I was using the prototyping technique every morning. It's become part of how I think about decisions.
Kate Garnett
A note from Damian
I’m Damian Appleby, founder of Tranceformations and host of the Abundance Frequency podcast — where somatic tools meet the realities of executive life.
I’ve spent years working with high-performing people who are brilliant at their jobs and quietly uncertain about the direction of their lives. Not because anything is broken. Because the version of success they’ve been building toward was designed by someone else — and their body has been registering that disconnect for years.
What I’ve found, consistently, is that the tools most executives use somatically are only pointing in one direction. This series is what happens when you turn them around.
My work is grounded in somatic practice, nervous system science, and twenty years of working with people who have everything — and are ready to ask a better question.
I made this series because I believe that question deserves a rigorous, physical, felt answer. Not a framework. An experience.