About Vital Switch

Vital Switch provides a unique package. Vital Switch combines principles of meditation, without being about contemplation, and principles of martial arts without a focus on physical exercise.

The crossover between the disciplines of meditation and martial arts within the Vital Switch work can be summarized by two words. Energy and Awareness.

At Vital Switch we work with energy – as they do in meditation and martial arts. Here energy is to be understood as a force or reality of experience, that cannot be cognized with the 5 senses. Take vitality. You know when you feel more vital – but you can’t see it, touch it taste it or smell it or hear it. All you can see is the effect of it - a spring in your step, more animated expressions perhaps a more enthusiastic demeanor.

First and foremost you need to be able to reliably perceive energy in order to work with it – so Vital Switch emphasizes developing the tools of ’subtle’ perception (ie that which is beyond what can be observed by the physical senses).

Awareness is a huge key. But for it to be effective it has to be more than purely mental. For it to be more than mental you have to be able to anchor your awareness so that it has a tangible reality. Awareness becomes an active principle that awakens latent functions of human consciousness – but again only when the awareness has actually penetrated that which you are focusing the awareness on. Think of the Vital Switch work as a way of developing heightened awareness of energy.

Energy is like money, everyone wants more of it and many of us are unconscious about how we spend it. Our energy is leaking all the time and many of us do not know how to change that. Vital Switch work teaches you how to seal your energy and build more vitality. Energy leaks – Vital Switch techniques give you the power to stop the leaking. When you can anchor yourself in a solid place inside – not by imagination but through a grounded experiential method - then you can reduce drainage from stressful or emotional situations, improve your ability to focus and increase clarity and well being.

In March 2008, Matteus Levell and Samantha Keen joined their expertise, which includes Matteus’ degree from a prestigious MBA school in Sydney, Australia and Samantha’s 12 years working as a financial journalist, in order to prepare Vital Switch for its New York debut. Samantha and Matteus have also practiced meditation for the last 10 years plus. They both studied at the Clairvision School of meditation in Sydney, Australia. After a phase of business development, including running talks and workshops all over the country, Vital Switch was made ready to launch in New York in 2009.

The team is very excited to bring its unique suite of techniques to people living in one of the most dynamic cities in the world.