Why Nai Do
The Inner Path
Nai Do means the inner path, a principle, one that runs through everything we do, everything we teach, and everything we ask of the people who walk with us.
The inner path is the understanding that real transformation, whether in therapy, in education, or in life, begins within. Not as a slogan, but as a practice. Not once, but continually.
Our Vision
The vision of Nai Do Transpersonal Academy is a world in which inner awareness and ethical action are understood as expressions of the same consciousness.
We envision a new generation of practitioners, educators, and leaders capable of working across personal, relational, and transpersonal dimensions with integrity, humility, and depth, individuals whose inner coherence allows them to serve with presence rather than authority, and wisdom rather than ideology.
At Nai Do, personal healing is inseparable from collective wellbeing. The academy exists to contribute to a culture in which belonging, social interest, and responsibility toward the greater whole are naturally embodied in therapeutic practice, education, and service.
Our long-term vision is not expansion for its own sake, but depth, continuity, and responsibility, supporting work that endures, serves across generations, and remains rooted in ethical consciousness.
Our History
Nai Do emerged through a process of maturation and integration, earned through years of clinical work, teaching, supervision, publishing, and community building.
The academy was originally founded as The Inner Arts Academy, a space dedicated to professional training in transpersonal hypnotherapy and related therapeutic disciplines. Over time, this work deepened and expanded, both in scope and in understanding of what it truly means to educate ethical, conscious practitioners.
As the academy evolved, it became evident that its mission extended beyond training alone. Therapy, education, publishing, and service were no longer separate expressions, but interconnected dimensions of a single path.
The name The Inner Arts Academy, while meaningful, no longer fully reflected the holistic, transpersonal vision that had emerged through practice. The transition to Nai Do, meaning the inner path, marked a clarification rather than a departure. It signified a shift from a primarily educational identity to a more integrative framework, one that honours inner growth, ethical responsibility, collective belonging, and service to the greater whole as inseparable aspects of the same work.
Nai Do embodies the understanding that transformation arises through integration, not accumulation; through presence, not authority; and through lived responsibility, not technique alone.
Today, Nai Do carries forward the foundations of The Inner Arts Academy while holding a wider horizon: a living field where inner work, professional excellence, and responsibility toward life unfold together.
What Makes This Work Different
There is no shortage of training programs, therapeutic offerings, or self-development paths in the world. So why Nai Do? What is it about this particular space that draws people across borders and backgrounds?
The answer is not one thing. It is an integration of several things that, taken together, create something rare.
Depth Over Breadth
We do not teach many things superficially. We teach a few things deeply. Our curriculum is built on the conviction that a practitioner who truly understands the foundations, who has done the inner work, who has sat with uncertainty, who has practiced under supervision until skill becomes second nature, will serve their clients with a quality that no shortcut can replicate.
This means our programs take time. It means they ask a lot of students. And it means that what graduates carry into the world is not just a certificate, but a genuine capacity to hold space for the complexity of human experience.
Integration as a Living Practice
Nai Do integrates multiple therapeutic and philosophical traditions, Ericksonian clinical hypnotherapy, Adlerian psychology, Psychosynthesis, Parts Therapy, regression work, Life Between Lives, Quantum Consciousness, and transpersonal approaches to healing and growth.
But integration here does not mean eclecticism. It does not mean picking and choosing from a buffet of techniques. Integration means weaving these traditions into a coherent framework where each informs and deepens the others. Adlerian psychology provides the relational and developmental foundation. Hypnotherapy provides the clinical tools. Transpersonal work provides the spiritual context. Together, they create something more complete than any of them alone.
The Practitioner's Inner Development
This is perhaps what distinguishes Nai Do most clearly. We believe, and our entire structure reflects this, that the quality of a practitioner's work is inseparable from the quality of their inner life.
You cannot guide someone into the depths of their subconscious if you have not explored your own. You cannot hold space for grief, fear, or spiritual experience if you are not willing to meet those things in yourself. You cannot teach belonging if you have not done the work of learning to belong.
At Nai Do, personal development is not an elective. It is the foundation on which professional competence is built.
Ethics as Backbone
In a field that touches the most tender and vulnerable aspects of human experience, ethics are not a formality. They are the ground on which trust is built and maintained.
We take informed consent seriously. We take boundaries seriously. We take the responsibility of working with altered states of consciousness seriously. And we ask our students to do the same, not as a set of rules to follow, but as a lived orientation toward care, humility, and integrity.
Belonging as a Healing Force
Drawing from Adlerian psychology and from Sanela's own research on belonging in therapeutic practice, Nai Do is built around the understanding that healing happens in connection. The therapeutic relationship, the student cohort, the practitioner community, these are not incidental to the work. They are the work.
When someone feels genuinely seen, genuinely welcome, genuinely held, something in them begins to soften. And from that softening, real change becomes possible.
Our Partnership With the Michael Newton Institute
The Michael Newton Institute (MNI) Career Partner Program exists to help future practitioners make informed and aligned choices as they explore professional pathways toward the Life Between Lives (LBL) field.
Nai Do is a high-standard training academy preparing professional transpersonal hypnotherapists and regression therapists who feel called to support others through deep and transformational work. Our trainings blend spiritually informed perspectives with grounded therapeutic methodologies, supporting students in the development of competence, confidence, ethical awareness, and professional maturity.
Within this solid foundation, graduates who feel aligned may pursue further professional pathways, including specialisation in Life Between Lives hypnotherapy, approaching this work with the discernment, preparation, and integrity it requires.
Sanela Čović serves as Director of Publishing at the Michael Newton Institute and as Advisory Council Member for Europe, roles earned through years of dedicated clinical work, contribution to the field, and commitment to upholding the integrity of Dr. Newton's legacy.
In this way, Nai Do supports students not only in skill development, but in cultivating the inner readiness and professional responsibility essential for work at this depth.
Our trainings are approved by the Michael Newton Institute for Life Between Lives® Hypnotherapy and the International Association of Counselors and Therapists (IACT).
Our Community
Nai Do is not only an academy, but a living community of practice and belonging. Students, practitioners, authors, mentors, and collaborators gather within Nai Do as participants in a shared field of inquiry, committed to personal responsibility, mutual respect, and contribution beyond the personal self.
Community here is not founded on hierarchy or identity, but on shared values: presence, social interest, ethical awareness, and responsibility to the greater whole.
Through training cohorts, supervision spaces, publishing work, and the Oneness Initiative, members are invited to translate inner work into meaningful contribution, supporting individuals, strengthening communities, and participating in initiatives dedicated to the wellbeing of humanity.
Each individual walks their own inner path, yet all are held within a larger relational field, like roots nourishing a shared canopy. In this way, Nai Do cultivates belonging without conformity and unity without the loss of individuality.
Nai Do is a place to learn, to practice, to serve, and to remember together.
Our Publishing
Publishing at Nai Do takes form through Tatia Press, the academy's conscious publishing imprint.
Tatia Press was born from the recognition that some knowledge must be carried beyond the classroom and the therapeutic space, held, articulated, and transmitted with care, depth, and ethical responsibility.
Tatia Press exists to publish works that bridge psychology, spirituality, therapy, and lived experience. Its focus is not on production alone, but on preservation and continuity, ensuring that reflective, clinically grounded, and soul-centred knowledge remains accessible to practitioners, students, and future generations.
Publishing here is understood as a form of service: a way of giving language to what is often tacit, honouring lineage, and contributing to the collective field of understanding.
Who Nai Do Is For
If you are seeking therapy - Nai Do is for people who sense that their challenges have deeper roots. Who are drawn to understanding themselves not just at the surface level, but at the level of the subconscious, the soul, the patterns that have followed them through life. Whether you come for hypnotherapy, regression work, Adlerian counselling, or spiritual exploration, you will find a space that honours your complexity and meets you where you are.
If you are called to train as a practitioner - Nai Do is for people who feel called to this work and are willing to do what it asks. Our students come from diverse backgrounds, some are career changers, some are existing therapists seeking to deepen their practice, some are simply following a pull they cannot explain. What they share is a willingness to look inward, to be honest with themselves, and to grow. If that describes you, you will find your people here.
If you are already a practitioner - Nai Do offers advanced training, supervision, and a community of practice for those who are already working in the field and want to go deeper. Our Master Practitioner Program integrates Adlerian psychology, Psychosynthesis, and transpersonal consciousness work into a 24-month journey that will fundamentally expand how you understand and practice your craft.
The Name
In choosing the name Nai Do, we chose something intentional. In Japanese: Nai - the inner, Do - the path, the way. Together, they point to what has always been at the heart of this work: the understanding that the path to healing, to wisdom, to genuine service, runs through the interior of the self.
It is a path that asks for honesty. For patience. For courage. And for the willingness to keep walking, even when the way is not clear.
If something in you recognises this, you are already on the path.
We welcome you to explore what Nai Do can offer, whether through therapy, training, or simply a conversation to see what feels right. Your inner path is already unfolding. We are here to walk alongside you.
Nai Do Transpersonal Academy is proud to be partnered with the Michael Newton Institute as a Career Partner. This reflects our commitment to maintaining the highest standards of LBL® practice and to honouring the integrity of Dr. Newton's legacy.
Our training programs are certified by the International Association of Counselors and Therapists (IACT), a globally recognised accrediting body for professionals in hypnotherapy, counselling, and complementary therapies. IACT certification ensures that our graduates meet rigorous international standards of competence, ethics, and professional practice.
