Now booking Q3 · Executive retreats at The Istana, Uluwatu

Corporate Wellness · Meditation · Performance

For the LOVE of work,
With VISION.

David Hans-Barker meditating at The Istana

A consultancy for corporate wellness. Masterclasses, on-site keynotes and executive retreats, built on the foundation of the two books For The Love Of Work and Vision by meditation teacher and eight-figure entrepreneur David Hans-Barker.

17+
YEARS EXPERIENCE AS A TEACHER
400K+
Students worldwide
MULTIPLE
7 AND 8-FIGURE BUSINESSES CREATED AND RAN

The Market Truth

YOUR TEAMS ARE BURNT OUT, DISTRACTED, AND QUIETLY CHECKED OUT. NO CORPORATE PERK WILL FIX IT.

77%* of professionals report burnout at their current job. Focus windows have collapsed to minutes. What used to be a wellness nice-to-have is now the difference between a team that ships and a team that stalls. We rebuild the inner conditions for performance.

* Deloitte Workplace Burnout Survey, 2024.

Three ways to work with us

Master your inner world.

01 · On-site

FLY OUR TEAM IN

David delivers his keynote and hands-on meditation workshops directly at your office or offsite. Ideal for leadership summits, kickoffs, and culture weeks.

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02 · Retreat

The Istana, Bali

Fly your leadership team to The Istana in Uluwatu, a cliffside biohacking retreat with meditation halls, cryotherapy, hyperbaric chamber, and endless ocean.

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03 · 1:1

Executive Coaching

High-level one-to-one coaching for creative leadership. David works directly with founders and senior executives to sharpen vision, focus, and creative command.

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The Classes

Two courses.
One THREE-PART arc.

Every engagement, masterclass, on-site, or retreat, is built on one of two courses. Each course runs in three parts: introduce the core concept, apply it to your team's specific case, and bind it together as a company.

Course 01 · Based on the book

For the LOVE of work.

Transform every team member's relationship with their work. A method for focus, congruence, and group cohesion.

Structure · Three parts
  1. Chapter 01
    Alchemise the work

    We open with a systematic approach to transforming negative work mindset, freeing people to fall back in love with what they already spend their days doing.

  2. Chapter 02
    TEAM INTEGRATION

    Our work turns 'have to' into 'want to.' We coach individuals, managers, and the systems between them so it sticks where it actually matters.

  3. Chapter 03
    ONGOING IMPLEMENTATION

    Every engagement is designed to leave the organization stronger than we found it, sharper in focus, tighter in cohesion, and clearer in how it works. The value isn't delivered once; it gets inherited.

What your team walks away with
  • Access the full potential of your team
  • Clarify the internal processes that block focus at work
  • A method to build sustained focus and productivity
  • Internal congruence for each team member
  • Group cohesion and congruence across the team
  • Transform every team member's relationship with their work
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Course 02 · Based on the book

VISION.

Clarify company vision and direction. Align personal and company values. Get full buy-in from staff and members.

Structure · Three parts
  1. Chapter 01
    See the vision

    David delivers a highly effective visualisation methods to leadership teams, bringing companies to their highest goals.

  2. Chapter 02
    SHARE THE VISION

    We turn personal breakthroughs into group momentum, building significant charge around a common vision.

  3. Chapter 03
    FOLLOW THE VISION

    With a new level of coherence and buy-in to the companies common goals, David leaves organisations, and individuals, with a greater ability to track towards their goals.

What your team walks away with
  • A more clarified company vision and direction
  • Alignment between personal and company values
  • Individual Mission and Vision synced with the group Mission and Vision
  • Full buy-in from staff and members
  • More clarity in workflow, communication, and outcomes
  • Activated creativity and productivity across every team member
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WATCH DAVID SPEAK BEFORE YOU BOOK.

Watch highlights from some of David's work, meditation classes, courses and speaking events.

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The Source Material

Two books.
One OPERATING SYSTEM for work and life.*

For The Love Of Work book cover
Book 01 · The Masterclass

For the
LOVE of work.

The secret formula for falling back in love with your work by reversing your mindset. The backbone of the three-hour corporate masterclass and every on-site keynote.

Mindset · Performance · Meaning
Vision book cover
Book 02 · The Retreat

VISION.

A field guide for leaders learning to master their inner world in order to shape their outer world. The philosophy that runs every executive retreat at The Istana.

Meditation · Clarity · Leadership

* Both books will be available to the wider public soon.

Buy the Books
Jay Kaizen
JAY KAIZEN

INFLUENCER

"It's rare to find a mentor who can masterfully navigate both high-level business strategy and deep internal work, but that's exactly who Dave is. Working alongside him these past 6 months has completely shifted my trajectory as an entrepreneur, a creative, and a person. As a meditation teacher who has also been through the school of hard knocks, his foresight and clarity of vision are unmatched. He has this incredible ability to see the exact path you need to take, while simultaneously helping you reframe your internal world so you actually have the strength and clarity to walk it. He puts you back in the driver's seat of your life."

Thor Aarsand
THOR AARSAND

INFLUENCER

"Working with Dave is an absolute joy. I did not know work could be as funny and also productive as it has been connecting with Dave. He has this way of turning what feels serious light, but at the same time staying locked in and productive. He's an incredibly sharp individual and knows where he's going, knows what needs to be done. You can always rely on him to have clarity. He is the most clear person I have ever met. He redefined my perspective on what clarity means. He's a fantastic leader. Whenever I felt a bit uncertain about maybe the direction of where we're going as a team, Dave always knows and he's always very, very grounded in that. There's a feeling of safety and certainty working with Dave that I've never felt working with anyone. Before I met Dave, I'd never met somebody that believed in myself more than I believed in myself. Dave sees the potential in people and he has a beautiful and unique and creative way of bringing that out. And sometimes that will make you uncomfortable because it's your growth edge, but it's also everything that you want. I have grown faster than I have grown ever in my life working with Dave and being in his field. He is an incredibly powerful individual and his devotion to meditation as well shows. He's very, very collected, very calm, very, very meditated. And it's inspired me and motivated me and impacted me to also find that stillness within myself and incorporate meditation more into my workflow. Because truly when we can operate from a place of stillness, everything becomes easier, everything becomes lighter, everything becomes a bit more fun and playful. And that's also a thing that the workplace is missing. And Dave brings that back in the most hilarious ways that I couldn't even begin telling you about."

Sascha Haert
SASCHA HAERT

DATING COACH

"Having worked alongside Dave for 8 years now, I can confidently say he didn't just help me optimize & scale my business. He helped me survive and conquer the most intense personal tragedy of my life. When my father passed away unexpectedly, I was overnight thrown into a completely new reality while simultaneously carrying the weight of my business. Dave was the steady force that helped me get ahead of the transition. He guided me through the profound shift of stepping into a new more integrated version, all while ensuring that strength translated directly into how I lead my company. He has an unmatched ability to help you reframe your internal world so you actually have the power to handle the heaviest seasons of life. Dave puts you back in the driver's seat when everything else is spinning out of control. It's been an absolute honor to working with him."

Cerise Lily Nana Asmah
CERISE LILY NANA ASMAH

AUTHOR AND SENIOR MANAGING EDITOR

"DAVID’S TEACHINGS SET ME ON A PROFOUND COURSE OF SELF-MASTERY. AS A MENTOR, DAVID NOT ONLY TRANSMITS MEDITATION AND PRODUCTIVITY PRACTICES WITH WARMTH, WISDOM, AND PRECISION, BUT ALSO HAS A SHARPENED ABILITY TO PERCEIVE AND DRAW OUT PEOPLE’S UNIQUE BRILLIANCE. THROUGH INTEGRATING THESE PRACTICES INTO MY EVERYDAY LIFE, I’VE ANCHORED MY SENSE OF PURPOSE AS A CREATIVE LEADER, AND I NOW HAVE THE VISION, ENERGY, AND FOCUS TO BACK IT UP. MORE THAN THAT, THOUGH, DAVID’S DISTINCTIVE TECHNIQUES AND APPROACH HAVE ENABLED GROWTH IN ALL MY RELATIONSHIPS, BOTH PROFESSIONAL AND PERSONAL. I HAVE LEARNED THAT WHOLEHEARTED PRESENCE IS A SUPERPOWER, AND MUCH NEEDED IN A WORLD WHERE SUSTAINED ATTENTIVENESS IS A RARE COMMODITY."

In their words

Voices from the cushion.

OUR TEAM

Portrait of David Hans-Barker at The Istana in Bali

David Hans-Barker · Uluwatu, Bali

FROM POVERTY
AND SUFFERING,
TO A MONK'S LIFE, 
TO EIGHT FIGURES.

David, known as "Meditation Dave" was raised in borderline poverty, surrounded by abuse, addiction, violence and suicide. For the first half of his life, day-to-day suffering was the norm.

At seventeen, he had a dream: to build spaces where people could come together and share the skills that had begun to change his own family's life. He fell in love with the search for knowledge, and for three years lived as a monk, meditating up to eighteen hours a day.

He came out of that phase with a vow: if he ever made enough money, he'd build a place where anyone could access the best of what humanity has learned about growth. That place is The Istana. Today he is the founder of The Istana and of YogiLab, an eight-figure entrepreneur, and the author of For The Love Of Work and Vision.

His mission is simple, and it's the reason he took this work to the corporate world: one million meditators.

Portrait of Maxim Lewis in traditional practice attire

MAXIM LEWIS · ULUWATU, BALI

A Shared Struggle, and a Common Solution

Maxim and David met as teenagers, growing up in the same city, shaped by similar hardships. Even then, they shared a conviction: that there was more to life than the world around them seemed to offer. For years, they explored transformational techniques together, searching for further proof of that conviction.

Maxim went on to travel the world, living in yoga ashrams, meditation centers, and martial arts schools, studying with masters in various disciplines. He competed professionally in Muay Thai, becoming the 185-lb Bangla Stadium Muay Thai Champion, and went on to study deeply with masters of ancient Thai martial arts in the mountains of northern Thailand.

It was in Thailand that he first discovered Vipassana meditation and instantly knew that his friend had to try it. What David did with it changed him completely, a story now known to hundreds of thousands of students from around the world.

Now the two of them work together, driven by the same conviction that brought them together as teenagers.

Executive Retreats

The ISTANA.

The Istana retreat perched on the cliffs of Uluwatu above the Indian Ocean
Cliffside yoga hall at The Istana overlooking the ocean
Meditation practice at The Istana

A luxury meditation and biohacking retreat on the cliffs of Uluwatu, Bali. Wake up to an endless ocean. Practice yoga and meditate on the cliff-side. Optimise performance, in paradise with the latest tools.

  • Cliffside yoga shala
  • Whole-body cryotherapy
  • Hyperbaric chambers
  • Infrared sauna and spa
  • Sound dome sauna
  • Luxurious private suites
Whole-body cryotherapy chamber at The Istana
Master suite accommodation at The Istana
Dining at The Istana
Master your inner world
to shape your OUTER world.
David Hans-Barker · Vision

Bring it in-house

Let's TALK.

Tell us about your company and what you want to change. We'll respond within 48 hours and arrange a time to explore your goals.