Next Level
In a Changing World, Step Into Your Peace, Power and Purpose
with Loraine Magda
Hello from Loraine!
My mission is to help people who are ready for a shift to step into the greatest version of themselves.
While I address all aspects of improving life and work performance e.g. stress management, rediscovering yourself, knowing what you want, developing your strengths etc, my most unique offering is the power of balancing our masculine and feminine energies.​​​
My Story
I was born and raised in South Africa, although I've also lived, studied and worked in the US and UK.
Around the age of five, I was struck by human suffering, especially through the lens of women's experiences including my grandmother and others. "There's got to be a better way", I thought. I felt that men and women were unnecessarily struggling with each other, and within themselves. Life could be simpler and better for everyone.
Another early, pivotal impression was a spiritually transformative experience. I can describe it as a spontaneous out-of-body experience that showed me that we live in a conscious Universe. It was life-changing.​
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Looking back, my path revealed itself as the intersection of these two areas: that we live in a conscious, purposeful universe, and the promise of a happier, more egalitarian world.
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Through my own life experience I came to understand that I had both masculine and feminine qualities, and that I was happiest, most productive and most fulfilled when I allowed both sides to step forward, to have their being. I believe that we as individuals, couples, institutions and society we can become happier, more harmonious and effective by freeing ourselves from age-old conditioning and moving into our power and authenticity.
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Careers and Studies
I've had two careers, one in science and the other in human development. My studies formally include an MS in Geology, MA in Consciousness Studies and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Business Administration.
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My first career was as a hydrogeologist in consulting engineering. I had a pretty successful career but ended up leaning so deeply into my masculine energies - my go, go, go, do, do, do - that it eventually led to burn out!
While in this career I learned a lot about myself, what I was capable of. I had no idea that I could cope with or succeed in the many challenges of the job. However, a stint with a relationship counselor showed me that I was totally out of touch with my feelings and even my body, as I'd been in a driven headspace for years. ​
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The course was a 3-year MA degree in Consciousness Studies in then JFK University in California. What a coming home it was. I could not have imagined this if I hadn't experienced it. It helped me reconnect with that "other side of myself", what I would call my feminine side, though not the disempowered version that society was stuck in. It was a coming home to my whole self, especially to my feelings, to healing old wounds, opening to my intuition and dream life, and rediscovering the magic of life. This included the Law of Attraction, life's sacred mysteries and conscious living. It was reconnecting with my deeper, spiritual side too.
Returning to South Africa, I gravitated into coaching and corporate training, always with an emphasis on life skills, stress management, team effectiveness, cross-cultural leadership and leadership effectiveness. From that point on, an element of "growth in consciousness" was added into everything that I created or presented. For example, later I added 'lecturer' to my portfolio as I created and taught a popular MBA leadership course called "Introduction to Conscious Business" at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University.
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My interest in personal growth and human potential was always there. It's what made me fall in love with the wisdom of near-death experiences at the age of 12. Inner Balance came later, and was born during the year I travelled. I began spontaneously receiving clear, concise information, concepts and even models of what balancing our masculine and feminine sides looks and feels like, and much more. There were many ensuing 'aha moments' as my life and the world began to make sense.
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Eventually I felt guided to write a book, and focus my energies on the wisdom of Inner Balance. I now have a podcast as well as coaching and training offerings that center on Inner Balance including my 7-step process to Inner Balance. I have been offering workshops, coaching and public speaking on these subjects since 2008.
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My necessary preparation for this work has been to balance myself, to integrate both poles (my masculine and feminine sides) with no biases or preferences. Not an easy feat! But crucial for the integrity of my work, and crucial for bringing out the best in individuals, couples, leaders and working teams. I now want to share this with the world as I believe that everybody benefits when we become more balanced. You can benefit from this too!
​All of this contributed to a decision to make a change.
Yup, I left my job, left an unhealthy relationship and sold my belongings in order go travel the world for a year. To find myself again. Ah, the joys...this in itself was balm for the soul and led me to a course that changed my life.
