A MODERN PATH. ANCIENT WISDOM.
Sacred Experience brings together physical training, coaching, reflection, education, community and nature within one integrated journey of development.
About Sacred Experience
Sacred Experience is a Canberra-based health, well-being and personal development program. Since its inception in 2018, founder Adam van Apeldoorn has drawn upon his diverse coaching, psychology and fitness qualifications to help clients overcome the various challenges they face living in the modern world. Unlike other gyms and personal trainers, we offer a more holistic approach to wellness, focusing on psychological, emotional and physical evolution. We look forward to welcoming you into our inclusive, supportive community.
- Greater Balance Across Different Life Domains
- Improved Health, Well-Being and Performance
- Better Funtionality, Mobility and Resilience
- Improved Psychologial, Emotional and Spiritual Integration
- Greater Commitment to Training through our Flexible Delivery Model
- Greater engagement in training and less boredom through intelligent session programming
- Build relationships and networks through team breakfasts, dinners and social activities
- Train and socialise outdoors. Get time away from screens
- Tie it all together with our exclusive end of week 10 retreat
- Grow your knowledge through weekly seminars
- Deepen your self-knowledge through structured meditation, shadow work and reflection activities
- Identify, set, and make progress towards goals that are meaningful to you through coaching
our manifesto
FOUR SERIES. ONE JOURNEY.
Adam van Apeldoorn
Adam van Apeldoorn is a Cert III and Cert IV qualified Personal Trainer and is a registered Level 3 Fitness Professional with Fitness Australia. He has completed several learning modules pertaining to fitness, such as Kettle Bell training, Medball Training, Training Pre and Post Natal Clients, Battle Rope Training and First Aid Training. Adam possesses two masters degrees in Organisational and Coaching Psychology and is well equipped to assist clients on the psychological aspects of training and fitness. He is a spiritually knowledgeable and can guide others in the spiritual space with things like mindfulness and meditation. Recently, Adam has also completed his qualification as a Corrective Exercise Specialist in the Biomechanics Method and completed 100 hours of yoga teacher training in 2023.
Adam created Sacred Experience in late 2017 / early 2018 to tie all his learnings together into a coherent framework. He had previously had careers in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors but failed to find peace, meaning and balance in the corporate world and would often suffer burnout as a result. There was a need for greater autonomy, freedom and meaning in Adam’s life and so he went into business as a sole trader to achieve this. The current offering of Sacred Experience represents the culmination of a life of education, experience and suffering. It ties everything together into an integrated, unified framework.
In terms of style, Adam is a very direct person with a strong, penetrating intellect. Born an empath, he has sensitivity, compassion and an ability to see beneath the surface in people. He possesses both clair sentience and clair cognisance and is highly intutive. This sensitivity and perceptual depth is both a blessing and a curse. It can provide deep insight and help for people as well as trigger them! Adam is known to challenge and confront his clients at times and can be disagreeable!
The work of transformation, healing and growth is not always easy, and ongoing growth and development of the coach and trainer is as important as the ongoing growth and development of the client. Adam maintains a philosophy of continual improvement which he endeavours to uphold for himself as well as something he recommends to clients.
THE PATH IS STABLE. THE PRACTICE EVOLVES.
Sacred Experience is designed as a living system — grounded in enduring principles while remaining open to learning, evidence, experience and refinement. The architecture remains coherent while the practice continues to evolve. We live the system alongside those we guide, continually testing, learning and refining it through practice.
- Coherent core structure
- Evidence-driven progression