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THE WELLNESS ALCHEMIST WORKBOOK

27 Threads for Radical Root-Cause Healing

You have been treating the symptoms. This workbook finds the root.

A structured coaching workbook drawing on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali and twenty-five years of frontline mental health practice — for anyone who is ready to stop managing and start healing.

There is a particular kind of exhaustion that does not show up on any test. It is not depression, exactly. It is not burnout, exactly. It is the slow accumulation of years spent solving the wrong problem — treating the anxiety without asking what is generating it, addressing the sleep without looking at what the mind is doing at 3am, managing the mood without ever reaching the belief underneath it.

You are not broken. You are working very hard on the wrong level.

This workbook works on the right one.

WHAT THIS WORKBOOK IS

The Wellness Alchemist Workbook takes twenty-seven Sutras of Patanjali — threads of wisdom from one of the most sophisticated psychological frameworks ever written — and puts them to work in the context of your actual life.

Each of the twenty-seven chapters follows the same structure. It opens with the Sutra in its original Sanskrit, with its English rendering. It unpacks the teaching — what Patanjali was pointing to, and why it still applies with precision to the way the modern mind suffers and the way the modern body holds that suffering. It then grounds that teaching in contemporary clinical and lifestyle science — neuroscience, psychology, lifestyle psychiatry, breathwork research. And then it puts it directly to work, through reflection exercises, coaching prompts, and practical daily tools you can use the same day.

Ancient in its source. Rigorous in its science. Immediately usable in your life.

THIS IS NOT A YOGA BOOK

There are no postures here. No requirement to sit cross-legged, to have a spiritual practice, or to believe anything in particular before you begin. The Yoga Sutras are a map of the human mind — how it creates suffering, how it perpetuates it, and how, with the right understanding and the right practice, it learns to do something else. That map is as accurate in 2026 as it was when Patanjali wrote it. This workbook simply makes it navigable.

WHAT IS INSIDE

Twenty-seven chapters, each built around a single Sutra and a single root-cause theme — from the nature of mental noise and the mechanics of anxiety, through the physiology of stress and the neuroscience of habit, to the deeper questions of identity, purpose, and what it actually means to live well.

Reflection exercises designed not to produce the right answer but to surface the honest one — the one that has been there all along, waiting for the right question.

Coaching prompts drawn from motivational interviewing, CBT, NLP, and lifestyle psychiatry — practical, evidence-based, and grounded in twenty-five years of clinical experience.

A daily practice framework that builds progressively across the workbook, so that by the final chapter you have not just read about change but begun to live it.

A Sanskrit glossary and full bibliography for those who want to go deeper into the source material.

THE BEFORE

You pick up this workbook carrying something you have not been able to put down. Perhaps it is anxiety that sits just below the surface of an otherwise functioning life. Perhaps it is a creeping sense of disconnection — going through the motions, productive but not present. Perhaps it is the exhaustion of having tried everything and found that nothing quite held. Perhaps you cannot name it precisely, only feel its weight.

THE AFTER

You put this workbook down — or more accurately, you stop needing to carry it, because what it contains has become part of how you live. You understand, at a level that goes below the intellectual, what has been generating the pattern. You have a daily practice that is yours — simple, sustainable, and built from what actually worked for you across the chapters. Your nervous system is steadier. Your mind is quieter. You are responding to life rather than simply reacting to it. You are not a different person. You are more fully yourself than you have been in years.

WHO THIS IS FOR

This workbook is for you if you are a professional carrying more than you show. If you are drawn to both the scientific and the contemplative and have never found something that honours both. If you have tried therapy, coaching, mindfulness, or wellness programmes and found something missing. If you are ready to go deeper than symptom management. If you want a guide that takes you seriously — clinically, intellectually, and as a whole human being.

It is not for you if you are looking for quick fixes, positive affirmations, or a five-step formula. The work here is real. So are the results.

FROM THE AUTHOR

"I wrote this workbook because I could not find it anywhere else. After twenty-five years of clinical practice in mental health — and three decades of personal practice in yoga, pranayama, and contemplative study — I kept meeting the same person in different consulting rooms. Intelligent. Capable. Exhausted. Working extraordinarily hard on the wrong level. The Sutras of Patanjali gave me the framework. The clinical science gave me the tools. Twenty-five years of sitting with people in their most difficult moments gave me the understanding of how to bring the two together in a way that actually works. This workbook is the result."

— Ruben Seetharamdoo, Fellow of the Royal Society of Public Health, Senior Lecturer, Registered Mental Health Nurse, Lifestyle Psychiatry Coach

WHAT READERS ARE SAYING

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THE INVESTMENT

Print edition: £24.99

Workbook and three-month coaching programme: See coaching page