Who is Alistair Hart? 

Alistair Hart is an Australian wealth, vitality, and fulfillment coach and founder of Hartspace. Alistair has over a decade of direct experience in personal transformation, detoxification, and inner engineering - of mind, body, and spirit.

As a surfer, entrepreneur and self-identified mystic Alistair walks between two worlds.

Actively spending time in remote places, in contemplative self-study, he has a thirst for living a colorful life of embodied spirituality and practical mysticism.

Alistair's vision is to create an intergenerational wellbeing service that can last one thousand years.

Talk about a big vision! This clarity of purpose has come after much trial and error.

As Alistair explains it;

"I spent the first 20 odd years of my life going external and seeking the truth. Searching for my purpose, and chasing after the recipe for 'the dream life'. Then it all changed when I looked within.

Then these last 10 years of 'inner actualization' have brought me into a place of greater presence, connection, and fulfillment. It's what has allowed me to live my dream. This grounded vitality is what I want to share with others while I continue to create and express myself authentically.

The secret is happiness, success, health, and relationships are real wealth, and that is an inside game."

This is the mantra of Hartspace, that wealth is an inside game.

There are plenty of financially abundant people who are miserable, unhealthy, and unfulfilled. Therefore their true wealth has dramatically been reduced.

Finances are fundamental to life, but not at the expense of equally important matters like relationships, health, fulfillment, and happiness.

By focusing on the inner foundations first, the outer foundations will take care of themselves. This is known. Time and time again the ancients knew it and the hyper-successful know it.

Yet why are so many people struggling with it?

Prior to launching Hartspace Alistair's vocational arena was in technology investment, private equity, and sales.

Having worked alongside many high net worth people Alistair shared how confronting it was to see how just how many are unhappy, lost, and out of integrity. 

"Any impact they were making was colored by their personal ambition and internal desires. Like most of humanity, even the financially abundant people were still grasping and needy for the external validation when their internal world was suffering.

Some were vital, grateful, and fulfilled, but many were seeking to have more 000's in the bank account, more investments, and exits on the books. Faster cars, younger girlfriends, more houses, and yet they were failing to be content with what they had. 

Many had poor health, crap eating habits, and were suffering from stress, anxiety, and various forms of addiction with failing relationships and problematic family lives. 

It was as if they had dominated the 'rat race' but were beaten down by it."

Hartspace aims to empower those trapped in the early stages of this compressive system to free themselves.

All by recovering their sense of self, so that they can embody their wealthiest expression and potently create their life. 

Why now?

The world we live in today has placed economic dominance as the centerpiece of the human experience.

When the truth is, human beings are multifaceted and multidimensional. Beings that require a whole and balanced existence in order to thrive and flourish.

Who and what human beings are, is a unified connection that has many sources and all of them lead within.

Our health, our relationships, our love, and happiness, even our sex life, are just as fundamental to our basic needs as our finances. All of it is an energy that supports your human energy system.

Deep down people know this, yet often they distract themselves from softening into this inner work because of the outside work rewards force, strategy, and dominance. 

Even those that are masters of the 'inner work', those who commit to the personal development path operate in it from this willful and force-driven mentality.

This striving will only get you so far. What is also required is a surrendering, a gentle relaxation, and trusting into the unknown. In doing so tapping into your inner limitless potential.

In the Western world, we have not placed a lot of energy and awareness into the unknown. It is as if we have separated ourselves from that which can't be immediately measured and have great trouble trusting what we can't see.

Yet, humans only see 0.01% of the visible light spectrum. With some of the most fundamental aspects of reality unseen, such as the air, chi and the internet. Yet it is there.

Hartspace is an organisation that supports leaders and future leaders in cultivating robust holistic wellbeing.

Creating a greater quality of life, ensuring sustainable happiness, health, and awe, which leads to more impact and more financial abundance. 

As a qualified tantra, Hatha and Vedanta yoga and meditation teacher and soon to be Hypnotherapist Alistair lives at the intersection of metaphysics, quantum physics, and high performance.

Having developed a diverse toolkit as an intuitive healer his focus has been on self-empowerment and mind, body and spirit connection. Work he describes as 'internal relations'. 

A natural evolution from his academic experience in International Relations and World Politics. A shift he states as the only progression for a more meaningful life in a world with endemic corruption.

"I thought I was going to change the world in politics, diplomacy, NGOs, or journalism. I have a lot of respect and admiration for those working in the core and in the organizations and bodies that seek to maintain harmony in the international system.

However, it became clear early on, that not all actors, big and small, are invested in harmony. The ability to impact the world through such political and organizational bodies becomes weakened by the structure of the system itself.

There is always going to be self-interest, however personally I saw that my ability to change the world had to be by changing myself.  Cleaning out my inner projection and being clear on my ability to make a meaningful impact in the world in my own unique way. This sentiment was espoused by greater minds than me, like Rumi. It just makes sense."

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” - Rumi

Growing up

As a child, Alistair was drawn to nature, advanced yoga postures, and would often find himself perceiving things that were not visible to the naked eye. Intuitively aware that there were energies present beyond what was shown in physical form.

Moving into a schooling system that identified him as having ADD. Alistair was placed in special needs classes and despite being easily distracted Alistair managed to adapt to the programming of the schooling system and excelled in the mental arena of academia. 

Qualifications:

• Alistair has a Masters of International Relations and a Masters of International Communications, as well as a Bachelor of International Studies from Macquarie University, he is bilingual in Spanish.

Alistair has successfully completed;

• Hatha, Tantra, Vedanta Yoga Teacher Training (Yoga Alliance Certified).
• Meditation Teacher Training
• Life Coach Training.
• Hypnotherapy (December 2020 Completion)
• Surfing Instructor + Water Rescue

Alistair's path into wellbeing as a way of life was the result of extensive rehabilitation throughout his teenage years and most of his twenties. Resulting from health issues and illnesses that were hard to detect and even harder to diagnose.

In the processes of overcoming these aliments, Alistair completed and experimented with various therapies, conventional medical and specialist assessments and protocols, innovative surgeries, alternative medicines, and lifestyle practices. 

Medical History:

• Broken right arm, broken right ankle, left shoulder reconstruction, right hip bursitis, eye (sclera) transplants x 2, sinus, and septum reconstruction, a tonsillectomy, frequent sprains, yearly courses of antibiotics and the contraction of a parasite resulting in IBS, leaky gut and allergies.
• All of which, he has acknowledged impacted him mentally and emotionally, yet his lighthearted humorous approach has always been optimised that victory lives within.  

Modalities

Throughout the years Alistair has also completed various Vipassana mediation retreats (10 day silence with 10 hours of meditation a day), practiced martial arts, yoga, and studied vast amounts of metaphysical esoteric texts.

Having conducted various intermittent and extended fasts, undergone seasonal detoxification practices and cleanses, completed regular ceremonial plant medicine journeys, sweat lodges (inpis), and supported in Vision Quests.

Alistair is sitting his first vision quest in 2021, a process of initiation for the Lakota peoples of North America. A four day, no food or water process of being alone in nature. Before returning to sweat lodge and teepee ceremony until sunrise the following day. A path that requires a four-year commitment, sitting each year to cover the four directions.

This path is required before committing to Sun Dance, a remarkably profound right of passage, traditionally for the Native American peoples and now open to those that share the values of humility, courage, fortitude and wisdom.

Alistair's commitment to walk this path of the North and South American Indian traditions started with his university exchange to Peru as a 19-year-old in 2009.

A journey that connected him into the thriving traditions of the first nation's peoples that continue to show an unbroken connection to the land and spirit realm.

At a time when many of these cultures consider this the age of the Rainbow Prophecy. A period in which humanity and its people from all classes and creeds are awakening to the spiritual nature of life on Earth.

Alistair is also an active team member of YARN Australia. An organisation bridging indigenous and non-indigenous Australian's to share a collective story. 

As a descendant of Irish free settlers who arrived in Australia in the late 18th Century, Alistair is committed to the path of healing, reconciliation and the re-establishment of respect and dignity to the First Nation Australian's and their elders, both past, present and future.

Alistair's ancestry is primarily Celtic (Irish, Welsh, Scottish, English) with Lebanese heritage. Alistair has actively sought his ancestral lineage as a means of knowing himself and the path of his forbearers.

A descendant of the O'Sullivan, Hart, Weldon, Lyons, and Joseph lineage, much of Alistair's healing styles leverage on the early traditions of the Celtic people and the little known modalities of the Druidic culture. Knowledge that is often considered a myth more than history, yet the traditional culture of the Celtic Isles live on within its descendants.

Alistair is a student of the Himalayan Master's Tradition and the ISHTA yoga tradition following his teacher's Mark Breadner's lineage. 

 By the age of 30 Alistair has healed himself of the majority of his aliments, pain and developed his abilities as a teacher, healer, and wellbeing coach. Living a life of ongoing practice and self-improvement. 

This path is the path of beauty and one that asks each participant to surrender into the divine mystery, within all the striving.

A journey that requires one to never give up, and to keep letting go.

By walking with him you receive the support of his lineage, his history and his future.