Instructors

Gabriel is Director of the Silva Method in Great Britain, he is organising and teaching classes of the Silva programs both in English and in Hungarian.
He says: "The Silva Method gave me the opportunity to heal my life on many levels and I am determined to help many more people in this country to experience the same"

Gabriel has a degree in Computer Science and Mathematics.
He worked as a software architect and project manager for the last 30 years in the UK financial sector.

He uses the Silva techniques during his work and thinks that the Silva Method is the best tool to tackle stress and self-limiting believes, and is the real secret behind The Secret of positive thinking and acting. The Silva Method is a force for help and co-operation.

His mission is to make people in Britain aware of The Silva Method and its many applications and benefits; Give people readily available training courses to acquire this knowledge to help themselves; Support their practicing and sharing experiences; Promote Silva-Friendly businesses; Promote strategic partnerships with complementary medicine; Introduce Silva into education and communities.

Gabriel's Silva teachers have been Dr. László Domján MD PhD, Costas Kounnis, Karin Barnes, Laura Silva, Ken Coscia and eventually became a Certified Silva Method Instructor in May 2012.

He also trained at Oxford University Mindfulness Centre, gaining a certificate in MBCT (Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy) and he is also a level-1 Kriya Yoga Practitioner, training with Siddhanda Sita at Babaji's Kriya Yoga.

During his spare time Gabriel enjoys travelling, history, books, theatre, music...positive thinking and sunshine.

Email him at gabriel@silvamethod.uk.com Mobile: +44 754 008 4458

Click to see what courses Gabriel is teaching now
in English  and also in Hungarian  

Karin became a Certified Silva Method Instructor in 2004 and has since regularly presented The Silva Method courses in Cambridgeshire, Manchester and recently in London, UK.

Karin first became a Silva Method Graduate in 1993 and followed with the Ultra and Graduate Seminars.

For over 30 years Karin has run her own clinic working as a Nutritional Advisor (B.C.M.A., C.M.A., F.I.A.) and Biomagnetic Therapist (M.B.B.A.) using medical Dowsing, vibrational medicine, and hand healing.
Alongside, Karin has worked closely with disabled children using techniques from the Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential in Philadelphia.
For Karin it is an honor and a passion to teach people from all walks of life to recognize and achieve their amazing potentials, to make this a better world for us all to live in.

See her professional website www.karinbarnes.co.uk
Email her at karin@silvamethod.uk.com
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Ildikó became a Certified Silva Method Instructor in 2016 and has been presenting The Silva Youth Lecture Series to Children since then in the UK, in English.
As an English Tutor and Study Skills Mentor she started to integrate the Silva Method Techniques with her creative methods during her sessions with all ages after becoming a Silva Method Graduate in 2013.
She is a firm believer in lifelong learning and has reviewed the foundation, follow-up and children courses since then several times. She cultivates yoga and mindfulness practices, also reiki, and combines elements of these while dealing with kids, teens and parents.
During her classes she aspires to demonstrate how awareness, positive attitude and relaxation improve our mental and physical health, not to mention our creativity and self-esteem.

She is fond of playful and imaginative methods when coaching online and teaching groups in person, and knows from firsthand experience how great impact the Silva Method Techniques have had on her students, friends and family.

It is an honor for her to see how these easily acquirable methods have changed her clients’ lives for the better.

See her Facebook page www.facebook.com/veszpremi.ildiko
Email her at ildiko@silvamethod.uk.com
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Maciej jest Międzynarodowym Instruktorem Metody Silvy od 2016 roku. Obecnie wykłada Metode Silvy dla Polaków zamieszkałych w Wielkiej Brytanii.

Pierwsze kwalifikacje zaczął zdobywać już 2005 roku kiedy to ukończył pierwszy kurs podstawowy. W 2008 roku zamieszkał w Londynie i od tego czasu kilkakrotnie powtórzył kursy Silvy zarówno w Polsce jak i w UK, miedzy innymi, Graduade Seminar, Silva Ultra Seminar oraz Silva Mastery Seminar.

Maciej jest Międzynarodowym Trenerem Metody Silvy, Mistrzem Bioeneroterapii oraz Trenerem Mentalnym. W czasie 11 lat swojej pracy jako Terapeuta i Life Coach, z powodzeniem pracował z wieloma mistrzami zarówno Polski jak i świata w sporcie. Korzystając z technik Metody Silvy opracował specjalny rodzaj treningu, co przyczyniło się do pobicia rekordu świata w Mistrzostwach Europy w kolarstwie torowym UCI w 2016 roku.
Jest także założycielem Life-Mentor, organizacji, która tylko w 2016 roku z powodzeniem zorganizowała blisko 100 zorientowanych na samorozwój kursów i warsztatów. Organizacja wspiera również bezdomnych. Maciej jest autorem ukazującej się w 2017 roku książki na temat smorozwoju i możliwości ludzkiego umysłu.

See his Facebook page www.facebook.com/maciej.bedkowski.7
Email him at maciej@silvamethod.uk.com
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Maciej became a Certified Silva Method Instructor in 2016. He is presenting The Silva Method for the Polish community in London, in Polish.

Maciej first became a Silva Method Graduate in 2005 in Poland. He moved to England in 2008. Since then he repeated Silva Method courses several time in Poland and England, followed by the Graduate Seminar, Silva ULTRA Seminar and Silva Mastery seminar.

Maciej is a Master of Bioenergy Therapy. During 11 years of his service as a Therapist and Life Coach, he successfully worked with multiple Polish and the world champions in Sport. Using the Silva Method techniques he has developed a special kind of training, which helped to break the world record at the European Championships in the UCI Track Cycling in 2016.

He is also a founder of Life-Mentor organization which in only 2016 year successfully organized about 100 mindfulness oriented courses and workshops. Organization supports also orphans and homeless people. He is an author of upcoming mindfulness book for disable kids and for the parents of those kids.

Here are just a few words about your future Silva instructor, so that you know, at least a little bit, what kind of a person you are going to spend some of your most interesting days to come with if you choose to take the course, which I recommend wholeheartedly, of course!

Actually, you will not be spending this time primarily with me, much rather with your own self, discovering your own hidden abilities, knowledge and beauty, and developing new skills that will help you to live a better and better life day by day.

My name is Andrea Domjan and am Hungarian. (Therefore the ’j’ in the middle is pronounced as ’y’.) I learnt English in an international setting at a very young age, because my father worked for UNESCO in Kuwait, and I went to the New English School there at the vulnerable young age of 12. I had hardly learnt any English beforehand, so the first few months were undescribably difficult, as I didn’t know how to handle the loneliness which my lack of English knowledge and therefore my life without any normal means of communication entailed.
I only wish I had known the Silva Method then, because I would have been able to spare myself a large proportion of the suffering, I’m sure…
Luckily, I did manage to surmount these difficulties and ended up having a fun time in Kuwait, making great friends, some of whom I’m still in touch with, and, last but not least, learning English so well that later on in life I decided to become a language teacher. I graduated from Budapest University as a teacher of English and French and, after spendig about a year in Paris as an au pair, I settled down to teaching both languages at several universities and colleges in my beloved home city, Budapest. I also got married and had four children in a row, which was the most wonderful experience in my life.

It was at this point that I first came into contact with the Silva Method. My brother, László, was going through a very difficult period in his life, and my sister, Elizabeth, who lives in Australia, sent him a book on the Silva Method to help him out and give him hope, even though she herself found the message of the book rather difficult to believe, to say the least. However, having an open mind and really wanting to help my brother, she decided to send the book anyway. László only managed to read the first few pages before flinging it down himself, also in disbelief.
But he, too, was of an open mind, so he asked me to go through it first, and tell him if it was worth reading. I was at home with my kids, having a ball and all the time in the world to read at my pleasure, ( ;P ) while other people were busy making a living, so I read the whole book in practically one go, and was flabbergasted. I told László that if this was true, our whole concept of the world and ourselves within this world could be changed for the better. There was, of course, the word ’if’… I hadn’t become an unsuspecting believer overnight, either. So László decided to take the course, and borrowed money to travel to Geneva, which was the closest city to Budapest that offered the course. (László worked as a physician, and doctors weren’t particularly well paid in Hungary at that time. Neither are they well paid today, unfortunately…) He came back totally overblown. All he could think of was how this wonderful new knowledge and experience could be passed on to others. He translated the book and published it, again taking out a loan. He was prepared to take practically any kind of risk just to get the good news out to as many people as possible.

Naturally, marketing was a key issue. At that time, for a short period (this was right after the system change of 1990) it was allowed to sell your own products in the street from your own car without any legal procedures. So László started doing that, but not many people stopped to look at the books, let alone buy one. How was he supposed to reach the public? What ideas could you come up with in such a situation…? Not many, I suppose.
But László didn’t give up. Using the very methods he was advocating, he spent a lot of time programming for a good solution, and the idea of writing a letter to the host of one of the most popular TV shows came up. Luckily (could it have been just sheer luck?) he answered and said that he would be happy to interview László. The show was an immense success. The morning following the night it was aired, László started selling his book again, and in next to no time there were long rows queueing up. Everybody wanted the book. People were talking about it in the street. I personally overheard quite a few conversations about it on buses and trams. It was a glorious period, and the enthusiasm hasn’t really died down ever since.

There are 210 000 Silva graduates at present, and there are also about 30 000 children who have completed the children’s course in Hungary. Graduates are sending us success stories by the dozen daily, some being so surprising, that László decided some of them could only be read by Silva graduates, because if people who haven’t completed the course read them,they would definitely think we had gone out of our minds. Which we have, actually, but in a different sense…

This is the kind of enthusiasm, joy and success I would like to share with you. I hope you will enjoy taking the course just as much I enjoy giving it.


My email is andrea@silvamethod.uk.com
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