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High-Performance Coach to Athletes & Teams 🤝
Featured on MindValley, GQ, Forbes, Vogue ++
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Shayamal Vallabhjee is a South Africa born High-Performance Coach with a Double Master's in Organizational & Clinical Psychology. He has spent the better part of two decades training Olympians and Championship Winning Teams on achieving Peak Performance and Flow States. Having lived as a monk for three years, his approach to performance succinctly interweaves mindfulness and meditation as a tool to cultivate a ‘Winning Mindset’. Shayamal is the author of four books, including his latest bestseller Breathe Believe Balance: A Journey in Self Discovery. He has been featured as an expert in four National Geographic Documentaries and has hosted shows on Star Sports and ESPN. When not pushing athletes out of their ‘comfort zone’, he challenges his own through ultra-marathon running and mountaineering.

02/10/2026

Six years later - seeing this on bookshelf’s still brings me to tears.
Especially when it’s reached corners of the world I didn’t even know existed.

Pan Macmillan India

30/09/2026

Just an observation: do you agree??

29/09/2026

Good leadership isn’t always about knowing what to say.

Sometimes, it’s knowing when not to say anything.

The right words at the wrong time can be just as ineffective as silence at the wrong time.

When do you think a leader should step in — and when should they step back?

( leadership, leadership lessons, emotional intelligence, team dynamics, decision making, high performance, sports leadership)

28/09/2026

I was blessed to experience his creative brilliance, and
even more fortunate to have been able to call him my friend.

Nathan Iyer - I will miss you my brother 💔

Thank you for all the memories and for teaching me how to see beauty in the simplest design forms.

May your soul rest in peace 🙏

25/09/2026

Read the caption⬇️

Stillness on a mountain-top is easy.

The view is quiet. The air is clean. The signal is clear and the noise is gone.

Now try finding it at 9am with 40 unread emails.
Back-to-back calls with no time to think.
A phone buzzing through dinner.
Traffic, deadlines, and a to-do list that grows faster than it shrinks.

That’s the real test.

We’ve built apps to make us calm. Breathe here. Tap there. Streak unlocked. But calm that only works inside an app isn’t a skill — It’s a DEPENDENCY

The question isn’t “can you find peace?”
It’s “can you carry it into the chaos?”

We keep making life easier. Fewer steps. Less effort. Zero friction.

But everything that grows needs resistance.
Muscles tear before they build. Seeds push through soil. Pressure turns carbon into diamonds.

✔️Remove the friction and you remove the growth.

Stop trying to escape the noise.
Train to hear the signal inside it.

(Signal Over Noise, Stillness, Mindfulness, Resilience, Peak Performace)

24/09/2026

We chase biohacks. But sometimes the best performance tool is simply 8 hours of sleep.

Before optimizing everything else, protect the foundation.

What would you choose: sleep or the next biohack?

(sleep, recovery, biohacking, high performance, sleep optimization)

23/09/2026

The Healing or Hooking Panel AI Summit Barcelona was definitely a mixed bag of thoughts and emotions which made me ask the question: how much of understanding is compressed with the speed of technological progress?

Truly honoured to share a stage with Beniso Katya de Freedericksz & Ghazaleh Samandari.

Ended with a fabulous meditation by Juliet Eve Levine SABDA

What are your thoughts on technology for healing and wellness?

21/09/2026

What if your best recovery tools aren’t the ones you’re buying?

- Nap vs sauna.
- Nap vs ice bath.
- Deep sleep vs magnesium.
- Deep sleep vs stretching.
- Deep sleep vs hydration.
- Deep sleep vs breathwork.

Again and again, the basics come out on top.

Because sometimes better recovery isn’t about adding another tool.

It’s about protecting the fundamentals: sleep, rest, hydration and recovery time.

So before you buy the next recovery gadget, ask yourself:

Have I actually mastered the basics?🤔

What would you choose first: an ice bath or a good night’s sleep⁉️

( recovery, deep sleep, sleep optimization, rest, hydration, breathwork, sauna, ice bath, performance recovery, biohacking, athletic performance, high performance.)

18/09/2026

The real story behind this picture ↓

The monastery became quiet at nine.
No traffic. No conversation. No glowing screen beside the bed.

I had imagined silence would feel peaceful. Instead, it felt very crowded.

Thoughts I had managed to outrun during the day arrived without invitation.

Unfinished conversations. Old fears. Questions that busyness had politely kept waiting outside.

My first instinct was to escape. But in the temple, there was nowhere to go. So, I used to lay there facing the demons in my mind.

It wasn’t peaceful, but I had to stay with it long enough to understand that silence hadn’t created the discomfort. It only revealed it.

We often reach for noise because noise asks nothing intimate of us. It fills the space before we can discover what the space contains.

Stillness is frequently sold as instant calm.
That has not been my experience.

Sometimes stillness begins as an encounter with everything that prevents us from being still.

Peace did not arrive when my mind became empty.
It began when I stopped abandoning myself each time something uncomfortable appeared.

👉🏻People speak to me about performance, and I shift every conversation to space and stillness.

This is the path life has shown me, and I trust it with every breath I take.

(stillness, meditation, silence, mindfulness, mental noise, emotional resilience)

16/09/2026

The best players don’t just execute. They read.

Their decision-making comes from how quickly and accurately they perceive the game — what they notice, what they anticipate, and what they choose to do next.

That’s true in tennis. It’s true in football. And it’s true in leadership.

Technique matters. But perception determines the decision.

What do you think separates elite decision-makers from everyone else?💭🤔

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