Pauline Pruggmayer — Present Growth

Somatic Mentoring·Entrepreneurs·High Performers·DJs & Musicians

Functioning is not the problem.

I work with people who create — whose nervous system reacts faster than their mind ever could.

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The Morning

You wake up — and you are already tense. Before the first thought is even finished. Not because something bad is happening today. Your body has simply been in one mode for years: ready.

The Performance

You give a lot. On stage. In meetings. In everyday life. You carry responsibility — for your art, your business, the people around you. And when everyone has left, you no longer know how to come down.

The Understanding That Is Not Enough

You know your patterns. You know where they come from. You have understood, reflected, worked. And in the moment that matters — your body is already back in the old mode. Not because you don’t want to. Because understanding alone has never changed anything in the body.

The Quiet Exhaustion

It is not dramatic. Nobody sees it. You function remarkably well. It just costs you more than anyone sees. And more than you may admit. Not dramatic. But constant.

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The Morning After

You wake up. And your first thought is not already the next task. Your body knows: no alarm is needed today. Not because nothing is coming. But because your nervous system has learned to know the difference.

In Performance

You stand on stage. Sit in the meeting. Make a difficult decision. And you are truly there. Not on autopilot. Not already in the next thought. Present. In yourself. In the room.

In Relationships

Someone says something that would have triggered you instantly before. You notice it. You stay with yourself anyway. Not because you pull yourself together — but because your body no longer automatically jumps into the old mode.

At the End of the Day

You come home. And you can arrive. Truly arrive. Not another hour of working in your head. No guilty conscience that you were not enough. Simply: being here. That is enough.

What Fundamentally Shifts

You don’t have to achieve less. You don’t have to slow down. But it may feel different — from the inside. Less fighting against yourself. More capacity for what truly matters to you.

Pauline Pruggmayer — Present Growth
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I don’t know pressure as a concept. I know it as a state.

I grew up with high expectations. Learned early that achievement means love. That functioning creates safety. So I functioned. Very well, in fact. On the outside.

Inside, it was a different story. Losses I never processed. Relationships in which I preferred to lose myself rather than risk the bond. Pain I worked away for so long — until my body decided it would no longer play along.

In that moment I had a choice. Do what everyone expected of me. Or what I truly needed. I chose myself. It was the first time.

What came after was not a straight path. It was a slow learning — that change does not come from more pressure. Not from more understanding. But from safety. In the body. In relationship. In yourself. I stopped trying to repair myself. Only then did true mastery begin.

Today I work with people I used to be. People who create. Who give. Who lead. And who at some point realise that the source is not infinite — if you never learned how to refill it.

I am Pauline. I don’t work with methods. I work with presence.

What my clients describe most often is not a particular method. It is the absolute calm in my spaces. The clarity. And the feeling of, for the first time, not having to perform.

I hold spaces in which radical expansion becomes possible. You are not broken. You don’t need a new mind. You need a different access — to what is already within you.

The Mentoring
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What it is

I don’t work from a fixed agenda or rigid modules. I work with what is there. With what shows itself — in your mind and in your body. Precise. Direct. At your pace.

What emerges in the work

Inner Stability

You begin to feel calm and reliable within yourself — regardless of what is happening outside.

Emotional Regulation

You can hold feelings without being ruled by them. You act — instead of reacting.

Clear Relationships

You stay with yourself — in closeness, in conflict, in responsibility. Without losing yourself.

What is concretely included

Every mentoring begins with a single session — so we both see whether we are a match. After that, if it feels right: a container of 3, 6 or 12 months. Individual. No standard program.

at a glance
  • Single session · 60–75 min · Online or in person
  • Ibiza · Berlin · Zurich
  • Container · 3 · 6 · 12 months
  • Bodywork · Breathwork · Somatic Mentoring
  • Myofascial Energetic Release · Integration · Action Steps

What this mentoring is not

Not for you if you are looking for a quick fix. Not for you if you only want to understand — without truly walking the path. No promises of healing. No dependency on me. No truth I hand down to you.

I help you see yourself more clearly — not through my lens. But through your own.

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I feel very comfortable with you and truly understood. I now see my sensitivity as a strength — and much more consciously. I am ready to look at and let go of some themes.

Client, 1:1 session

This is not a promise. This is what happens when you stop working against yourself.

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"I have already tried so much. Therapy, courses, coaching. Why would this be different?"

Because we don’t start where you have already been. Many women and men who come to me have already understood a lot. They know their patterns. They can explain them. And still the body stays tense. Because understanding alone has never changed anything in the nervous system. That is exactly where we begin — not with the mind.

02

"I actually function quite well. Do I really need this?"

That is the question almost everyone asks who comes to me. Functioning is not the problem. The question is what it costs you. If the answer is honest — you already know whether you belong here.

03

"I am afraid that everything will change after this work."

That is the most honest question. And it deserves an honest answer. Yes — some things will change. Not because I change them. But because you begin to see more clearly what truly serves you — and what no longer fits you. That can mean: different decisions, different boundaries, a different relationship to performance. Some of my clients changed jobs afterwards. Re-evaluated relationships. Redefined themselves. Not because they had to. But because they could.

04

"How do I know whether we are a match?"

You will know after the first session. That is why we start there — no commitment, no pressure. One hour. One topic. A real insight. Then you decide. Not me.

One more question?

I answer personally.

Write to me directly
Ankommen — Present Growth, Ibiza
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The first step is a single session. 60–75 minutes. One topic that is currently at the surface. No commitment afterwards. No pressure. Just an honest insight — into what becomes possible when you stop carrying it all alone.

What awaits you

A space in which nothing has to be achieved.

An encounter at eye level.

And the feeling of being truly seen — for the first time.

Saying yes doesn’t feel like pressure. It feels like arriving.