Derrick Yanford
Derrick Yanford
Transformation Specialist · One Powerful Coach

You already have the power. Let's use it.

I'm Derrick Yanford, a transformation specialist. I help powerful people remember how powerful they are, and coaching is how we do the work.

Let's do this → The rest of me

In their words

Derrick is very present during the session and doesn't miss a beat of what's happening in my internal thought process. Masterful!
Vincent L.
He was able to sit with me and dig through layers of thoughts and emotions to find the point that was really holding me back.
Christian K.
If you are seeking a powerful coach who can disrupt your faulty mindset and connect you to a more honest mindset of your higher potential, then connect with Derrick!
Tony H.

Coaching · One Powerful Coach

Here's what shifts.

I work one-to-one with leaders, creatives, and entrepreneurs who've forgotten how powerful they are.

Clear under pressure

Have the uncomfortable conversation with a nervous system that has your back. Your decisions come from presence, and your fear stays in the passenger seat.

Stress Proof Leadership

Pressure, conflict, the decisions that keep you up at night. Leadership brings all of it. You get the tools to meet every bit of it rested, resilient and unshaken.

Fearless. Fully you.

Your instinct becomes your edge. Your voice carries real power. You stop playing it safe and lead as exactly who you are.

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Derrick Yanford
Clients worldwide

About Derrick

I've been preparing for this my whole life.

In every arena I've stepped into, I've led from the front of the room.

A competitive dancer with national titles, performing professionally by 15. Then NYU dance major, college ballet professor, adjudicator, artistic director and award-winning choreographer, with students around the world. The stage taught me presence.

I was about to buy a friend's dance studio when a college classmate turned real estate agent sparked something. I got certified, got hired and built a second career at Citi Habitats, Corcoran and Blackstone's Array Rentals. High pressure, high stakes. I watched brilliant people burn out, and I knew it wasn't my life's work.

Then meditation changed everything. Training took me to India, and 15 years of practice later, my method, Auto Transcendent Awareness (ATA), blends it with breathwork, nervous system regulation and somatic work.

That's the baseline my clients build on: presence, groundedness, awareness. Once you have it, everything changes.

Play, travel, laughterMy real-time signs that life is on track. I want them for you too.
Presence over effortThe deepest change happens when you stop forcing it.
PrideI am a proud, gay, bi-racial man, and I bring all of me to this work. You're invited to do the same.

The rest of me

Different stages. Same work.

Teacher, author, podcaster. If you came here for one of these, welcome. Here's where to find it.

Auto Transcendent Awareness · ATA

Settle your mind. Settle your life.

My method: a simple, eyes-closed practice for busy people with busy lives. Learn it online or in person, and you're supported for life. New courses go to the list first.

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Quiet Lies: The 10 Counterintuitive Truths About Meditation, by Derrick J. Yanford
The book

Quiet Lies

The 10 Counterintuitive Truths About Meditation.

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Podcasts

This Is NOT a PODCAST!

Raw, unedited and real.

Substack

Let's Play with Alessandra Wall

A podcast for serious and not-so-serious people doing big things.

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My big, hairy, audacious goal

The Great Awakening

100 million people, all over the world, closing their eyes at the same moment. A global experiment in what happens when we settle our nervous systems together. It sounds impossible, and that's exactly why I'm chasing it. Come with me.

Join the movement

A gift, from me to you

Come to your senses.

I'm a giver. I believe in this work so deeply that everyone who lands here gets something from me, whether we ever work together or not.

Come to Your Senses is a short guided practice. Close your eyes, move through your senses one at a time, and come home to yourself. Use it before a hard conversation, on a stressful day, or when sleep won't come.

Take it. Use it. Share it. I'm here to light other people's lights, and this is me lighting yours.

Take the gift →
  1. 01Touch
  2. 02Hearing
  3. 03Smell
  4. 04Taste
  5. 05Sight

I am not for everybody, and everybody is not for me.

If you're ready,
so am I.

Answer a few short questions and I'll reach out personally. We'll talk about where you are, where you want to be, and whether we're a fit. Sessions happen by video, wherever you are in the world.

Let's talk → Or write me directly: derrick@derrickyanford.com

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Let's connect.

Tell me what brought you here and I'll only send you what matters to you.

I'll never sell or share your information.

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Where I live online.