Five foundations. A few minutes a day.
Record how you feel, what you actually did, and anything worth carrying into the week.
For people who have carried responsibility, stayed productive, and kept going — while quietly drifting away from feeling and functioning as well as they know they can.
Already decided? Book the 90-minute Initial Consultation — £295
If you have tried to improve your health, energy or performance and still feel inconsistent, fatigued or not fully yourself, it is rarely useful to reduce the answer to discipline alone.
Most people do not arrive short of information. They arrive with fragments: things they have noticed, previous advice, changes that came and went, strategies tried at different points in life. Those pieces rarely sit side by side — and isolated snapshots are difficult to learn from.
Relevant background, what you have already tried, and the context you arrive with — brought together as a starting picture.
Brief Client Compass observations across sleep, energy, meals, recovery and digestion — without turning your life into constant tracking.
Weekly review builds a living record of what seems to help, what seems to cost you, and what is still genuinely unclear.
You are not buying a protocol or a stack of isolated sessions. You are building a coherent picture of what appears to support you — one that becomes more useful as the weeks add context.
Understanding comes first. Clarity supports informed choice. The decisions remain yours.
Twelve weeks is the intensive phase. What should survive it is not a plan you follow but an understanding you hold.
Brief morning, midday and evening touchpoints covering sleep, energy, mood, body state, meal timing, hydration and digestive rhythm. Weekly, you step back and ask what helped, what drained you, and what is worth repeating.
It is not a health score and it is not designed to diagnose anything. Its job is to turn ordinary daily experience into useful context.
Repeated observations and weekly conversations build a living record: reliable routines, early warning signs, useful recovery strategies, and the areas still genuinely uncertain.
Its purpose is not to claim that every correlation is a cause. It is to help you recognise patterns worth repeating, questioning or discussing — so the understanding lives with you rather than in someone else's head.
About information you already hold. Sharing previous reports or correspondence is entirely optional and never required to take part. Where you do share them, they are placed in date order only — not read for clinical meaning, not interpreted, and not used to form any view about your health. That remains the work of your GP or other appropriately qualified clinicians. Anything you send is held securely, used solely for your own programme, and deleted on request. Full detail is in the Privacy Notice.
A private, evolving record of where you have been, what you are working on now, and how your capacity is changing over time — owned by you and shared only when you choose.
The Compass turns the work between sessions into something visible and useful: daily observations, your agreed direction, weekly patterns, and an evolving Personal Blueprint that remains yours.
Not a diagnostic app and not a competition to generate data. The purpose is to help you notice, understand and discuss the patterns that matter — then gradually need less interpretation from somebody else.
Record how you feel, what you actually did, and anything worth carrying into the week.
The plan stays personal while the underlying structure stays simple.
Daily entries roll into a weekly picture so patterns can be discussed rather than guessed.
Choose what Russ receives before a coaching conversation. Nothing is shared simply because it exists.

“My background is in environments where reading the earliest signs was everything — not just recognising a problem, but recognising a system moving toward one.”
Russ MaherRuss Maher's professional background spans more than 35 years across frontline healthcare, critical care, complex rehabilitation, training and senior education. That career included ICU, cardiac high-dependency and coronary care, spinal-injury services, fifteen years as an ALS Instructor with the Resuscitation Council UK, and thirteen years as a senior instructor with A&A Training.
Those environments taught a particular kind of attention: listen carefully, notice patterns under pressure, communicate clearly, and avoid jumping to conclusions when the picture is complex. That habit of attention is what he brings to BeingVITAL — not the clinical role itself.
Alongside it, more than 25 years of ongoing holistic training and practice has broadened the lens. BeingVITAL does not force every person into one theory. It brings different strands of experience together to ask better questions.
The scope of this work. Russ's clinical career is described here as professional background. BeingVITAL.Me provides wellbeing coaching, education and structured self-observation. It is not nursing or medical care and does not involve clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment or prescribing. It sits alongside — never in place of — your GP and other appropriately qualified clinicians.
In their own words. Individual experiences, not promises.
“He genuinely cares.”
Alan talks about the time, attention and follow-up he experienced while working with Russ.
Alan Elvin · Former competitive strongman“I feel like I’ve learned so much in the last 18 months.”
Danny describes learning, changing routines and feeling more able to make sense of what he was doing day to day.
Danny Williams · Scaffolder, 33“It’s made a difference to my everyday life.”
Geoff describes what he noticed in everyday life and what mattered to him about the experience.
Geoff Harrington · Retired, 80These are personal accounts of working with Russ. They are not clinical evidence, medical claims or guarantees of outcome.
Every pathway is founder-led. What changes is the breadth of the work, the degree of access, and how much ongoing interpretation sits behind it.

Digestive rhythm, sleep, recovery and the daily foundations that support steadier function.

Weekly founder-led work, a coherent baseline, daily self-observation and an evolving Personal Blueprint.

For significant life transition, renewal and integration — scope shaped personally after consultation.

Not a programme. A relationship — continuity, discretion, and an advisor who already understands the context.
| Gut, Rhythm & Recovery | The BeingVITAL Method | The Second Renaissance | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Duration | 12 weeks | 12 weeks | 12 weeks |
| 1:1 rhythm | Bi-weekly | Weekly, opening 90 minutes | Shaped after consultation |
| Between sessions | Private messaging | Defined access on working days | Individually agreed |
| Client Compass | Included | Included | Included |
| Midpoint review | Structured reviews | Formal recalibration | Shaped to the work |
| Personal Blueprint | Foundation Blueprint | Full Blueprint and continuation plan | Blueprint and integration work |
| Follow-up | On request | Approximately 30 days after | Agreed individually |
| Investment | £2,250 | £4,500 | From £6,000 |
Twelve-week programmes may be paid in three monthly instalments. Fees cover BeingVITAL coaching, education and support; supplements, laboratory testing, medical appointments and third-party services are separate unless expressly stated. Full detail is discussed at consultation.
BeingVITAL is intentionally selective. The work is close and high-touch, so fit matters more than filling a diary.
BeingVITAL is not designed for emergency or acute medical care, quick-fix promises, or a one-off free consultation disguised as a discovery call.
A short application first. It gives Russ enough context to decide whether a Clarity Conversation is likely to be useful — without turning first contact into homework.
A short application if you are actively considering working together.
Up to 45 minutes with Russ, no charge, to establish fit and direction. Not a free assessment or problem-solving session.
A 90-minute, £295 conversation where the substantive work begins. Credited against a 12-week programme if you proceed within 14 days.
If there is a strong fit, Russ recommends the pathway and you decide whether to proceed.
Russ works with a limited number of private clients at any one time. The point is not manufactured exclusivity; it is protecting the depth and continuity the work requires.