Life is not something to control. It is something to learn to ride.
I teach the art of self-mastery: how to meet the inner and outer turbulence of life with resilience, adaptability and self-trust, and transform what challenges you into wisdom, strength and a deeper way of being.
Ride the Dragon. Return to the Pure State.
I teach what life first asked me to learn.
My work grew out of my own long journey through chronic illness, a period that stripped away certainty, identity and the life I thought I was supposed to have. For years I fought what was happening. Eventually I began to ask a different question: what if this obstacle was not only here to stop me, but also to teach me?
That question changed my relationship with healing, adversity and life itself. I came to understand self-mastery as a form of inner alchemy: learning how to work with what life gives us, transforming fear into self-trust, resistance into awareness and difficulty into wisdom. Today I bring together lived experience, contemplative wisdom, modern psychology and years of teaching to help others do the same.
The dragon did not come to destroy me. It came to wake me up.
Self-mastery is not about controlling what happens around you. It is about how you meet what happens.
Riding the Dragon is my philosophy of self-leadership in an unpredictable world. The dragon is life itself: powerful, beautiful, turbulent and impossible to control. We can spend our energy trying to tame it, slay it or run from it, or we can learn to ride.
Riding means staying connected to yourself through fear, change and uncertainty. It means adjusting without abandoning yourself, recovering when you fall, and learning to use the energy of challenge as fuel for growth.
You do not defeat the dragon. You learn how to use its power.
Beneath the noise, there is a part of you that has never been lost.
I call it the Pure State: the inner ground beneath conditioning, fear and constant self-management. It is not a permanently calm or perfect state. It is the capacity to stay present, connected and responsive to life without losing yourself inside it.
You do not become the Pure State. You return to it.
A philosophy you can live: Regulate. Recalibrate. Embody.
Regulate
Return to the body. Create steadiness before asking for change.
Practised monthly inside the Living the Pure State program.
Recalibrate
See the pattern beneath the pattern. Transform the beliefs and protective strategies that no longer serve you.
Gone deepest in private 1:1 sessions, bookable online.
Embody
Turn insight into how you actually live, decide, speak, relate and lead.
Lived fully on the Bhutan retreat.
Three ways to do the work.
Whether we work privately, over time in a group, or through an immersive journey, the work is the same at its core.
Private Mentorship
Deep one-to-one self-mastery work with Dominique, shaped entirely around you, in Zürich or online.
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Living The Pure State Program
A year to practise returning to yourself, especially when life gives you every reason not to: structure, rhythm and a group walking beside you.
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Bhutan Pilgrimages
Riding the Dragon in Bhutan and future transformational retreats: small groups, sacred places, and the annual journey to the Land of the Thunder Dragon.
Walk the Pilgrimage
Riding the Dragon in the Land of the Thunder Dragon.
Bhutan awakened something in me that no classroom could. In a land known for its reverence, harmony and deep relationship with happiness, I encountered a way of living wisdom rather than merely understanding it.
Eight codes. Eight lived experiences. One unforgettable journey inward.
Walk the PilgrimageI recommend this course for anyone looking to upgrade their spiritual knowledge. Dominique’s teachings go beyond the ordinary boundaries to give you wisdom and knowledge to change and restore your life.
“From the second I met her, she has helped me with anxieties and fears that were holding me back in everyday life. I come away from the sessions with renewed faith and energy. I think she is a totally unique woman!”
“I met Dominique more than 2 years ago... Her wisdom and knowledge are amazing. I really feel her kindness and care, in every session she gave me tools to grow and to arise. She’s MAGIC!”
Field notes from the work.
A growing journal:reflections, not content.
Keynote Speaking, Workshops & Transformational Events.
Bringing self-mastery, inner alchemy and the Pure State to audiences worldwide.
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