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Become the man
worth following

An 8-week online initiation for men ready to develop real leadership,
in their work, relationships, family, and community.

 

Your work.
Your relationships.
Your life.
All of it is asking more from you than you’re currently giving.
And you are tired of holding yourself back. Everyone wants you to stop holding yourself back. It`s time to break free.

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Most men were given responsibility - not leadership.

You’ve been expected to lead…
In your work.
In your relationships.
In your family.
In your life.
But no one actually showed you how.
No clear framework.
No healthy, grounded example.
No real training in what leadership actually requires.
So you figure it out as you go.
Sometimes it works.
Sometimes it doesn’t.
But underneath it, there’s a quiet knowing:
You could lead at a much higher level than you currently are.
And you just don`t really know how.

Everybody sees it.
Everybody feels it.

It shows up in ways most men don’t talk about:
🜃 You hesitate when leadership is required

🜃 You overthink instead of act

🜃 You avoid difficult conversations

🜃 You struggle with consistency and follow-through

🜃 You feel unclear about direction or purpose

🜃 You carry responsibility - but not certainty

 

You’re not lacking capability.

You’re lacking a foundation.

No one is coming to lead your life for you.

Not your partner.

Not your boss.

Not your circumstances.

If you’re not leading - something else is.

Distraction.

Comfort.

Fear.

Other people’s expectations.

And every time you avoid stepping up, you reinforce the same pattern:

You don’t trust yourself to lead.

This is where that ends.

Rites of Embodied Leadership - The Foundations is an 8-week training designed to build the internal foundation required to lead - across every area of your life.

It`s not here to motivate you.

It’s here to confront you.

To strip back the excuses.

To expose where you’re out of integrity.

To build the internal structure most men never develop.

Not through theory.

Through practice, structure, and embodiment.

Before you lead a team, a partner, a family, or a community…

You learn to truly lead yourself.

WELCOME TO Rites of Embodied Leadership - The Foundations

This is not theory. This is training.

  • 8 weeks of live, structured leadership development
  • Weekly 2-hour sessions - combining teaching + practical application
  • Structured development across core leadership capacities
  • Real-time practice in communication, presence, and decision-making
  • Daily practices that build discipline and consistency
  • Small group work where you can’t hide
  • A final leadership assessment where you step forward and lead

Built on real structure, not fluffy dreaming

 

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This is for you if…

 

🜃 You want to lead more effectively in your work or business

🜃 You want to be stronger and clearer in your relationships

🜃 You want to show up more solidly as a man in your family

🜃 You feel capable of more, but aren’t fully living it

🜃 You struggle with consistency, discipline, or follow-through

🜃 You avoid or second-guess leadership decisions

🜃 You want to build real presence, not just confidence

🜃 You want to have more control of your life

This is not for you if…

 

🜃 You want motivation without responsibility

🜃 You’re looking for comfort instead of challenge

🜃 You avoid pressure and accountability

🜃 You’re not willing to be seen where you feel not enough

The 7 Pillars of Leadership

This isn’t mindset work.
This is the foundation you’re currently missing.
Each week builds a core capacity required for leadership in the real world.

Week 1 — Safety & Presence

If you’re not grounded and present, no one trusts you. Become the rock that others can rely on.

Week 2 — Emotional Control & Integrity

If you can’t handle pressure and intensity, no one wants to follow you. Learn tools to handle chaos, emotion, and relationships without losing yourself.

Week 3 — Purpose & Discipline

 If you don’t move with direction, you drift and become a victim of circumstances. No one likes a victim. Learn to create clear and solid direction and follow through consistently.

Week 4 — Courage & Accountability

If you avoid hard conversations and decisions, you lose respect. Learn to make hard choices that might disappoint others. Hold standards. Lead with strength and care.

Week 5 — Direct Communication

If you don’t say what’s real, people overstep your boundaries, and you don`t get what you want. Learn to speak directly, honestly, and effectively - especially when it matters.

Week 6 — Decision-Making & Discernment

If you second-guess everything, others won’t follow you, they will follow someone else. Develop clarity, judgment, and trust in your direction.

Week 7 — Meaning & Responsibility

If you’re only serving yourself, your leadership stays small and you don`t get the love and respect that you deserve from those around you. Learn to lead from something bigger than yourself - not just personal gain.

Week 8 — Leadership in Action

No more hiding. You step forward and lead. In a real-time environment. With real world feedback.

HOW IT WORKS

 

🜃 Weekly live sessions (2 hours) - Recorded for continued mastery

🜃 Practical exercises, not passive learning
Leadership Log and Guidebook

🜃 Breakout groups to apply skills in real time

🜃 Daily practices to build consistency

🜃 Weekly challenges to create real-world change

🜃 Final leadership assessment

 No hiding. No coasting. Just showing up.

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Where this shows up in your life

Work / Business

  • Leading teams
  • Making decisions under pressure
  • Communicating clearly
  • Taking ownership

Relationships

  • Holding emotional stability
  • Leading conversations
  • Setting boundaries
  • Creating trust

Family

  • Being dependable and present
  • Providing structure and direction
  • Leading by example

Community

  • Taking initiative
  • Holding responsibility
  • Becoming someone others rely on
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Look at your life honestly.

 

🜃 Where are you not leading?

🜃  In your work?

🜃  In your relationship?

🜃  In your body?

🜃  In your decisions?

🜃  Where are you tolerating things you know shouldn’t continue?

🜃  Where are you waiting instead of acting?

🜃 That gap you feel?

🜃 That’s not confusion.

🜃 That’s avoidance.

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What happens when you step into leadership

 

You become:

  • More decisive
  • More consistent
  • More direct
  • More respected
  • More trusted
  • More attractive


Not because you try harder.
Because you’re finally operating at a higher standard.

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This is just the beginning

 

This is the Core Foundations.

This programme is the first step in a larger leadership pathway through Rites of Passage:

From here:

  • Deeper leadership work
  • Advanced training
  • Facilitator pathway


But none of that matters if you don’t build this first.

Steve Shiva

BSc (Hons) Psychology, GMBPsS
Masculine Embodiment and Truth-Based RelatingŠ Coach

Steve Shiva is a man who is on a lifelong journey to embody the sacred masculine. A coach, leader, and father of two, he is the founder of multiple organisations devoted to human transformation through psychological, sexual, and embodiment practices. His work is a call to men who are ready to step into their power, confront their shadows, and live in alignment with their truth.

Since 2008 , Steve has walked the transformative path of Tantra, a practice that not only invites self-awareness but demands it. First introduced to its teachings at the OSHO International Resort in Pune, India, he discovered a way of living that honours the full spectrum of human experience: the divine and the raw, the light and the shadow. This holistic understanding of the miracle of union of feminine radiance and masculine power and purpose forms the foundation of his work.

Steve Shiva believes that true masculine power is not about domination or control, it’s about integration. A man who has faced his shadow, embraced his vulnerability, and found his edge is a man who can be trusted, not just by others, but by himself. His teachings are an initiation into this trust: guiding men into their full embodiment so they can show up in the world with presence, purpose, and unwavering strength

Steve’s partnership with Amanda Biccum, a powerful tantrik priestess and the facilitator of the Women’s Initiatress Training, exemplifies what it means to meet the feminine in her full power. Amanda embodies the feminine essence, wild, devotional, sacred, and untamed. To hold space for a woman of this caliber requires a man who has done the work.

The feminine will call the masculine to rise. She will reflect his shadows, challenge his edges, and demand his presence. A man who hasn’t faced himself will falter under this pressure. But a man who is walking his path, confronting his fears, and integrating his shadow will not only hold her power but rise through the challenge she represents.

Steve Shiva`s work is always designed to take men to their edges, and this Rite Of Passage is no different, challenging men to:

Integrate their shadows, turning fear, shame, and insecurity into sources of strength.
Expand their capacity to hold more intensity, love, and power.
Step into their truth, aligning their actions with their deepest values and purpose.
This work is not comfortable, and it is not easy. But it is the only way to embody the sacred masculine and fully meet the feminine.

Masculine power is not about perfection, it’s about presence. A man who can own every part of himself, from his animal, to his human, to his divinity embodies the sacred masculine. He becomes a man who can hold the feminine with unwavering reverence, strength, and devotion, creating a space where she can surrender fully.

This is the work: to face yourself, to rise into your power, and to become the man who can meet the feminine, the world, and yourself in truth.

Steve Shiva is calling men who are ready to step into this sacred initiation. This is not for the faint-hearted, it is for those who are prepared to face their shadows, challenge their edges, and rise into their full potential.

This is your chance to reclaim your power and embody the man you were born to be. A man who can meet a woman in her full radiance. A man who can hold himself and the world with integrity, strength, and heart.

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Mikkail Handby

Men’s Work Facilitator | Somatic Practitioner | Breathwork Leader | Fight Therapist

After twenty years navigating high-pressure environments as a world-class private chef in the super-yachting industry, leading elite teams and serving high-profile clients across the globe, Mikkail turned his focus inward into the realms of men’s work and embodied transformation.

Mikkail has a unique approach to men’s work that is rarely seen. As the lead facilitator of Fight Club in Bali, he uses fight therapy as a powerful tool for emotional release, presence, and empowerment. By integrating somatic awareness, nervous system regulation, and conscious confrontation, he helps men move from disconnection to embodiment, from suppression to expression, and from chaos to calm clarity.

Through Fight Club, men’s circles, and one-on-one mentorship sessions, Mikkail guides men to reconnect with their physical power while deepening emotional awareness. His approach blends structure with freedom, strength with sensitivity, and discipline with heart.

Men who work with him describe feeling stronger, clearer, and more confident. They reclaim direction and the courage to live from truth rather than from the expectations of others.

Mikkail is the co-founder of Surrender Sanctuary, a retreat center in Bali dedicated to personal development, Tantra, and conscious relating. He is also a highly sought-after support in the international Tantra field, regularly invited by top-rated facilitators to anchor and assist in advanced trainings for men and women worldwide.

At the heart of Mikkail’s mission is a simple truth:
The world doesn’t need men who try to be perfect, it needs men who are real.
Men who can hold power with presence.
Men who lead with heart.

Connect more deeply with Mikkail here

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If you’re ready to lead at a higher level,
this is where it starts.

No more waiting.
No more figuring it out alone.
Time to build the foundation properly.

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Where this shows up in your life

"If I had this knowledge earlier in my life it would have been another kind of life"

ROP training participant 

"It was powerful and transformative. I feel more deeply developed as a complete human being by it."


— Ivar van Peer

"Go for it brothers. It Change your life."

— Jürgen Wiehl

"The work has brought some much over the last years. I am who I really am. It helped me to build real relations with my wife and friends. Should have started earlier!"

— Marc Schuurman

"This work opened doors in me I didn’t know were closed. It challenged me to face myself with honesty and courage. I discovered strength in vulnerability and clarity in confusion. The brotherhood and guidance gave me trust to go deeper. I leave with more freedom, purpose, and heart than I came with."

— ROP training participant

"In this world, as a man, I sometimes feel very lonely with my problems, doubts, and fears. And having a place like the one Shiva has created has made my life so much better, it has made me more confident and stronger. I realized that the problems I face, the fears I carry, and the wounds I hold are also present, in one way or another, in other men. This allows me to feel part of something greater, rather than an isolated individual with his own struggles and fears. Ultimately, it allows me to feel human, not some flawed being."

— Dmitrii Andriukhin

"This was my first introduction to the world of tantra - and men’s work. I arrived with no expectations but a list of wishes. Every wish was met, and then some! It has truly been a life-changing experience."

— Ben

"Doing men’s work and creating brotherhood is among the most important work men can do nowadays."

— Mark Berkovics

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