Work With Desmond
Currently offering free founding sessions in exchange for honest feedback and a short testimonial.
Direct, personalised engagement with the full Sunya framework — applied to your specific life, your specific situation, your specific system.
Book Free SessionThis is not generic life coaching.
It is a diagnostic session rooted in the complete Sunya framework. The aim is not to make you feel better for an hour. It is to find the one place your system is actually stuck — and to leave you with something precise enough to work with.
Most people arrive assuming they know what their problem is. Usually the thing they name is downstream of something else. Finding what is actually upstream is most of the work.
Five precise movements.
Full diagnostic across the five links and the seven layers of being
Identification of where your system is actually contracted — which is rarely where you think
The single lever that matters most for you right now, and why the others can wait
A personalised protocol built for your actual life, not a generic programme
ongoing support if needed.
Most people are stuck in one of five places.
Every system has a single point of greatest friction at any moment. Address anything other than that and it quietly defeats every other effort. Much of a session is simply finding yours.
Survival crisis
The material ground is unstable — money, housing, safety. No inner practice takes root here until that is addressed directly.
Nervous system collapse
Exhausted, dysregulated, sleeping badly, tense in a way that never fully releases.
Emotional accumulation
Stable on the surface, but carrying grief, resentment, or numbness that has not moved in years.
Mental fragmentation
Scattered, overthinking, self-critical, mentally exhausted despite physical rest.
The hollow seeker
Everything works. Nothing satisfies. Successful by every external measure and persistently empty.
If you recognise yourself in more than one, that is normal — and identifying which one to address first is exactly what the session is for.
Free while I take on my first Sunya clients. This will return to €150.
- Full Sunya diagnostic
- Personalised practice protocol
- Applied to your specific situation
- Follow-up voice note within 48hrs
Pick a time that works.
Pick a time below. No payment required.
- Full Sunya diagnostic
- Personalised practice protocol
- 48-hour follow-up voice note
Desmond works with a small number of people at any given time to ensure full presence and depth with each person.
Prefer a group? Gatherings happen monthly, in Dublin and online →
Desmond Olubunmi
Spiritual teacher. Visionary.
Everything humans do is an attempt to be happy.
We earn degrees, build careers, raise children, enter relationships, pray, meditate. Every act — however it appears — is aimed at one thing: reducing suffering and realising happiness. This is the most universal human truth there is.
We have more comfort, more information, and more options than any generation before us. But can we say we are happier?
Born in Nigeria, raised in Ireland, I was exposed early to radically different cultures and ways of understanding life. Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists, scientists, therapists — all essentially trying to create human well-being. I wanted to know the truth of human life. Not what people believed. What was actually true.
That curiosity was always in me — even as a child I had a deep sense of reverence for something sacred in life, even before I could name it.
But it was suffering that made the question urgent.
In my teens, my nervous system was constantly dysregulated. My mind wouldn't stop. I couldn't sleep. The inner chaos became intolerable — and that intolerance became the catalyst. I found mindful breathing practices — and for the first time, I experienced inner peace. Not by believing in something, but by working with the natural mechanics of my own system.