What is the Spiral?
What Is The Spiral™?
The Spiral™ is a structured emotional clearing and nervous-system-based method designed to help people safely process emotions, dissolve unconscious stress patterns, and restore clarity, presence, and choice. It is used in coaching, leadership development, and personal transformation to support emotional healing and sustainable performance.
The Spiral Explained
The Spiral works by guiding awareness inward, rather than pushing for behavioural change or positive thinking. Instead of overriding emotions, the method supports the nervous system to complete emotional responses that were previously interrupted, allowing the body and mind to naturally return to regulation.
The process is gentle, precise, and client-led, making it suitable for high-functioning individuals who want depth without overwhelm.
How The Spiral Works for Emotional Healing
The Spiral™ helps individuals:
Identify emotional patterns beneath stress, reactivity, or burnout
Safely feel and process emotions without reliving trauma
Release stored emotional charge from the body
Restore access to calm, clarity, and grounded decision-making
Build emotional intelligence through lived experience, not theory
Rather than “fixing” emotions, the Spiral supports integration.
The Spiral vs Traditional Mindset Coaching
Traditional mindset coaching often focuses on:
Thoughts
Beliefs
Habits
Motivation
The Spiral™ works at a deeper layer:
Emotional regulation
Nervous system responses
Somatic awareness
Embodied emotional intelligence
This makes it especially effective for people who already understand mindset concepts but still experience emotional friction.
H2: Who Is The Spiral For?
The Spiral™ is used by:
Entrepreneurs and business leaders
Coaches and therapists
Health professionals and carers
High-achievers under sustained pressure
People seeking emotional mastery rather than emotional suppression
It is not therapy, but it is trauma-informed and ethically applied high performance healing that produces immediate and lasting results.
Who Created The Spiral?
The Spiral™ was developed by Dane Tomas, who synthesised Spiral Dynamics, Vedic Chakra Model, and David Hawkins Levels of Consciousness into a powerful map of evolution. In 2001 Master NLP Trainers Mei Ouw & Kylie Ryan bought the business and took over leadership and practitioner training of the globally recognised modality, with 450 practitioners world wide. Kylie has developed the advanced coaching method of Heart Alchemy to support healing the Drama Triangle and relational conflict dynamics. Kylie’s work includes:
Emotional intelligence
Nervous system regulation
NLP and coaching frameworks
Conscious leadership principles
Spiritual intelligence & personal evolution
Is The Spiral Evidence-Informed?
The Spiral™ is informed by:
Emotional intelligence research
Somatic psychology principles
Trauma-informed coaching practices
Neuroscience of regulation and stress
It is designed to be practical, ethical, and experiential.
Find a Spiral Practitioner.
You can book a consult to apply to work directly with Kylie here.
Or explore the Spiral Practitioner directory here.
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This morning I had a kick-ass coaching session with Kylie Ryan. We’ve been working together for a couple of months, and she’s the perfect person to help me integrate the rapid transformations I go through regularly. I’d been getting this vision of my fully mature creative and entrepreneurial self. His discipline, commitment, and command of wealth was 10x what mine is now, but it wasn’t really about money for him. Our coaching sessions usually roll with me saying, “Kylie, I want to be, do, and have EVERYTHING” and Kylie helping me find the archetypes and parts that aren’t integrated and bringing them together. MAGICK HAPPENS EVERY TIME.
- Dane Tomas - Creator of The Spiral
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