Meditative guidance · one on one
From dim to dawn.
I walk with you along the path of growth, healing and awakening. We train one core ability: to play with your state and the way you see the world, in any situation. Whatever you are going through right now becomes the ground for practice.
What people come with
Often the path begins with a transition.
A business, a relationship, a familiar chapter of life. The old ground no longer holds, and the new one hasn't appeared yet.
You carry a team, a family, money. Inside there is less and less room for yourself.
You know you want to act differently. In a familiar situation the old pattern switches on anyway.
On the cushion it's calm. You want that state with you in conversations, at work, in decisions.
Something bigger than before is ahead. It feels exciting and unsettling at once.
Moments of clarity, silence, oneness. It's unclear what to do with them and how to go on living an ordinary life.
Why play
Growth, healing and awakening can be play rather than an ordeal.
We're used to thinking that growth only comes through suffering: earn it, endure it, survive it. I teach walking this path through play. Much of it is already in you. You just haven't played it yet.
Scared, bored, overwhelmed. In play, a state is something you can work with. You choose what to add right now: more ground, more warmth, more curiosity.
A game exists only in this moment. You can't play yesterday or tomorrow. So play brings you back into presence on its own.
In a state of play, intuition switches on: the deep wisdom that has always been with you. The compass points toward joy, curiosity, interest and the unfolding of your strengths.
The path we walk together
From “meditate me” to your gifts alive in the world.
These are stretches of one path. Some people arrive at the very start, some in the middle. I meet you where you are, and we go on together.
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A place to practice“I can't meditate on my own. Please meditate me”
Creating a practice by yourself is hard, and that's fine. Here I lead: you show up, I guide you through the meditation, and once a week you have an hour to exhale and be with yourself.
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Skills“I want to be able to do it myself”
Gradually you learn to create that space yourself. We build the basic skills everything else rests on.
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Playing with state“I want this to work in real life”
A skill from meditation becomes available in the moment: before a hard conversation, in the middle of chaos, when it all hits at once. You learn to choose and shape your state for the situation.
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Transition“Something frightening is ahead of me”
A conversation with someone you're afraid of. A decision you keep putting off. The end of something important. Inside meditation we train exactly the skills this transition needs, and you walk through it, arriving at a new level.
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Presence“I want to be here and now”
When you connect with your presence, intuition, curiosity and joy wake up. You start to feel the rhythm of life, the synchronicities, the sense that life answers you. Your gifts begin to show.
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Awakening in life“Something bigger is happening to me”
Flashes of awakening, strange spiritual experiences, the sense that you are more than your story. We learn to turn flashes into a stable state, to recognise your spiritual gifts and to ground them in your life and in a new sense of yourself.
The stretches don't come in strict order. A transition can happen on any of them, and presence can flash up in the very first week. We work with what is happening for you now.
What we train
Four skills the game is made of.
Feeling what holds you: your body, the ground, the people around you. Trusting that support and relaxing into it.
In life: less fear when much is unknown.
Meeting strong feelings without being swept away. Giving them room and coming back into balance.
In life: you notice a reaction before it carries you off.
Holding attention through interest rather than force. When attention wanders, adding curiosity.
In life: deep work without forcing yourself.
Being here and now with all of yourself. Presence opens intuition, clarity and a sense of life's flow.
In life: decisions come from stillness, not from rush.
What stays with you
You unfold the person who is already in you.
My role is support, mentor and training partner for these states. I create a safe space for play inside your life, and we walk the path together.
- The skill of playing with your state in any situation.
- The skill of presence, through which curiosity, interest, joy and the rhythm of life return.
- Inner ground you can stand on in a hard moment.
- Trust in your intuition and your own way of seeing the world.
- Your own practices that you use on your own, without me.
How a session goes
One hour, three movements.
Conversation
What's happening now: a challenge, a state, an event of the week. We find which skill you need most right now.
Practice
I guide you in meditation. Through attention, body and imagination we train that skill on the material of your own situation. You can talk along the way and change the pace.
Return
We name what you're taking with you and where it will help during the week.
How to begin
We go as far as you need.
The guidance doesn't end after a month. The path lasts as long as you want to walk it. Sessions are paid in blocks of four: when one block ends, you take the next, and we continue from where we stopped.
- Step 1Intro call, free
A 20-minute conversation. You tell me what's going on, I tell you how I work. We see whether we're a good fit.
- Step 2Four sessions
You pay for the first block and we begin. We usually meet once a week.
- Step 3The path
Between sessions you try what we trained in your own life, and bring to the next session what worked and where it was hard.
- ThenThe next block
When you want to keep going, you take four more sessions. No six-month contracts.
If a recording suits you better than sessions
A star journey.
A personal meditation based on your star chart. In its pattern I read the talents, tensions and trials that live in you at the same time, and I guide a journey through them. The audio stays with you, so you can return to it at your own pace.
This is my contemplative, symbolic way of looking at a chart. You decide what in it is yours.
- You send your date, time and place of birth and the question you want to bring in.
- I explore your chart and record a meditation for you.
- I send you the audio. We agree on price, length and timing in advance.
Want to look at your sky first? Build your star chart on Alcharion: date, time and city of birth, free, in about a minute.
Build your chart on alcharion.com →Where else I guide and what I build
My projects.
A program for personal change and growth. I meditate there with participants. In Russian.
evolution.new → I guide meditationsGround New“The Ground Game”: audio practices by element for body, feelings and habitual reactions. In Russian.
Open the bot → FounderAlcharionYour star chart, personal readings and conversations with AI to get to know yourself better.
alcharion.com → FounderÆthyrA Telegram bot: chart readings, relationships and the questions you bring.
Open the bot →Who guides
Iakov Levin
I've been meditating for eight years. I guide meditations at Evolution New and Ground New, and I founded Alcharion and Æthyr. I build every meditation anew; no two of mine are the same.
Before this I founded Midas Investments. At its peak the company managed more than $200 million in client assets, and in 2022 it closed with losses. My practice ran alongside all of it. So in our conversations there's room for inner experience and for money, teams and responsibility for decisions. Hard times don't scare me; I know them from the inside.
Stars, games and imagination truly light me up. I love seeing who a person can become when they allow themselves to be bigger. And I want you to leave each practice with tools you can play with in your own life.
Before we start
Questions
Do I need meditation experience?
No. If you can't meditate on your own yet, that's exactly the first stretch of the path: I lead, you just show up. You can ask for an explanation, change the pace or stop at any moment.
Is this psychotherapy?
This is meditative guidance with a coaching conversation. Treatment of mental disorders and psychotherapy are not part of this format.
How are guidance and a journey different?
Guidance is live weekly sessions, a path we walk together. A journey is a single recorded meditation based on your chart that you listen to on your own.
How do I start?
Message me on Telegram about what's happening for you now. We'll begin with a free 20-minute intro call, see whether the format fits, and agree on times and payment.
First step
Tell me what's happening for you right now.
A couple of lines is enough. I'll answer myself, and we'll set up a free 20-minute intro call.