The Five Rings Coaching Program

"I have found the Five Rings distinctions and techniques extremely useful for my personal growth and the needs of my coaching clients. The concepts are concise and elegant, and are intuitively obvious once they have been explained or shown. The practices are easy to teach and easy to execute, and produce immediate results.

"The practices can be abbreviated so they can be used in any situation whether alone or in a social setting, and the abbreviated practices work as well as the original ones. Five Rings methods are as effective as anything I have studied, and every coach should have them at hand."

Hugh Clark
Coach, Georgia

“I am a business and personal coach and I use the work I learned through Stuart and Carol Heller with every client that I have. Whether it's creating awareness with Centered Presence, offering new ways to approach a challenge with the Defending Spirits, or discovering new ways to approach an endeavor with Moving-as-a-Whole, I find this work broad and deep. At the same time, I found it accessible to use from the very first day I worked with it.

Carol Roller

Certified Newfield Coach

"The Five Rings certification program is a highly nuanced and pragmatic approach to working with the non-verbal. The practices are simple, powerful and generate immediate results for my clients and myself. At the same time, there is a lifetime of exploration possible with this material.

The most valuable part of the training was becoming a more astute observer of my own and other’s movement patterns and how these correlate with the results one gets in life. Beyond that, Stuart and Carol are both delightful human beings to learn from and with. I highly recommend this training for learners who bring a depth of curiosity and passion for deepening their understanding of the human condition.

Colette Herrick
Executive Coach and Organizational Consultant

“My experience working with Stuart and Carol and their team has been profound. From a personal perspective, the work was transformational for me: I was prepared for the experience to change me but was truly amazed at the depth of understanding and knowledge I found hiding within myself. These experiences led me to see with crystal-clarity what was holding me back in certain areas of my life – Ahaa moments x 10!!!

“From a coaching perspective, my clients very quickly “get” the models we work with and find it easy to make a physical change in themselves. Clients quickly become comfortable with different “body dispositions” (and their associated moods, energies and language), resulting in changes to both working and personal relationships. They rapidly gain new distinctions around their own behaviour and that of others, creating understanding and resulting in new outcomes.

“As a coach, it is a complete delight to witness the “getting” of it and the speed at which the potential for a different future is understood, and then realised.

Liz Austin
Executive Coach and Consultant, Switzerland

"The non-verbal learning gives me an edge and something very different to offer my clients which sets me apart from other coaches in and around my area. Easy to use, simple, and you see and can begin to understand the power of this work instantly. It's transformational.

"If it is any testimony of my belief in this non-verbal work, I am continuing my studies with Stuart Heller, working toward my certification and currently taking the Non-Verbal Emotional Intelligence Webinar, which is tremendous. ”

Dana Zamolyi
Integrative Certified Professional Coach

“Since the completion of The Five Rings Program, I have continued with almost daily movement exercises. Recently, in my personal life I had to make some very important health and family decisions. I used exercises that I learned in the program to define the boundaries of each of the issues I faced, make critical decisions about my health and future, open a space where my family, friends and I could share our anxieties and fears, let go of unnecessary stress, and keep myself grounded and centered throughout the process.

“I am finding what I learned to be an invaluable support to me, both personally and in my business. As a result of this work I have also developed and am offering a new seminar series, “Dealing with Difficult People.

"To attempt to describe what I learned in The Five Rings Program about transformational change cannot be easily accomplished using our more familiar verbal language thinking. With a seemingly simple change in the way we move, the essence of our natural humanness begins to manifest. Many thanks to you, Carol, Linda the entire staff for your commitment to bring your work to all of us."

Pete Petrouski
Executive Coach and Consultant

"The executives and leaders that I work with are bright, well-ready and very savvy. Already viewed by their bosses and colleagues as highly successful, they look to me to bring them new approaches to take their personal best to the next level."

"This program gave me the foundation to bring them that powerful new way of thinking and operating. In one instance, we uncovered and dealt with a habit that had been previously unknown, so therefore unreachable.

"Even though we've just begun our experiments in the realm of the non-verbal, my clients are already reporting significant breakthroughs in their performance. And they enjoy stretching with a new way of seeing and moving that's different from what they've done before!"

Terry Kozlowski
Rich and Rowdy - Professional Reinvention

"The major excitement for me was learning how deep this work really is. I think this has been sinking into the cells of my body all this year. After the final conference, I went to a silent meditation retreat and was able to sink deeper into meditation than I had previously. Not holding onto experiences, letting everything flow. Being in the moment. Returning there. I can cry with the joy of it. The relief. The challenge is here.

"I just reread the July training notes, the story about the farmer gently pulling on the new shoots. Sometimes you have to let things grow and develop. Even gentle pressure can be too much at certain points in the growth cycle."

Cynthia Brown
Newfield Coach

"What was a routine hour walk for me, has become a rich playground for life after learning the language of movement with Stuart and Carol Heller. I was able to observe just how I was impacting people walking by me as I changed my pace, my body postures, and my gestures.

"On this walk, I discovered a new territory for listening to music with my body that allowed me to imagine the place from which the musicians were speaking in their melodies and words. The music on my iPod hadn’t changed, but my ability to observe was so much richer in the way I felt the music, thought about the music, and moved to the music.

"What has always been there, is now available for me to play with and learn from. Just think how much more territory is accessible in my exploration with my coaching and consulting clients! Thank you for sharing yourselves so deeply with me."

Jane Kerschner
Educator and Coach

"After 25 years of intensive daily training in the meditative practices of Tibetan Buddhism and 28 years of Qi Gong, Stuart and Carol's exercises were able to identify the "holes" in my practice that have been plaguing me for years. Not only was I able to recognize the energetic patterns, but also I was given exercises to make my energetic body whole. No other teachers have been able to show this to me. This completely unique practice is the most fundamental and useful medicine we can ever learn and implement ... and it's so easy!!!"

The Venerable Lhundup Nyingje
Paula Chichester, Tibetan Nun and Teacher

"I was at a class on trauma, and the presenter/researcher said, 'Don’t bother doing intensive psychotherapy, if you don’t work first with the body', especially with processes that regulate arousal and promotes state change. I realized that the practices I learned in your program, especially, Centered Presence, the Eight Flows, and Here and Now Breathing are now recognized as very very relevant. And actually better than meditation and even yoga, which is too anxiety provoking for a lot of people.

Judi Goodman
LCSW and Ontological Coach

"I wish you could be there to see how I evolved from the past two years. I really appreciate your support. You helped me to get to know myself better and to grow. I am in control of my extreme Fire and I believe people see me more solid this way. Of course I know my Fire is my strength so I use it when ever I need it. The bottom line is that 'I am in control'. I believe another important thing that I learned through this process is dealing with ambiguity. Unknowns don't bother me as much any more. Thanks for all of these.

Lily Bashar
NASA Systems Engineer
Graduate of the NASA version of our professional training