● About
Although my career has been built in sports performance and the wellbeing industry, my life has always been shaped by music, art and the creative world.
Those two paths ran alongside each other for years, and eventually they merged. Now I bring the depth of performance science together with the lived experience of a creative life.
My Story
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Founder & Coach
My Career
Tom Colville
2016-present Across a decade of coaching, I’ve supported everyone from CEOs to elite dancers, professional footballers and touring DJs, helping them perform at their highest level while staying grounded and healthy. That blend of high-performance insight and human understanding now shapes the way I work with creatives navigating demanding, fast-paced environments.
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Personal Trainier & Educator
Third Space
2018-2022I delivered specialist training and taught education modules to a diverse client base, developing systems for strength, mobility and long-term health. Working in this environment taught me how to translate complex training principles into simple, effective programmes that slot into busy lives.
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Sports Scientist
The Royal Ballet School
2019-2020I supported young elite dancers, monitoring their physical development, recovery and performance markers. The role demanded precision, compassion and an ability to balance artistry with athleticism. This depth of understanding helps me guide creatives who rely on their bodies to express ideas and sustain their work.
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Strength & Conditioning Coach
Fulham FC
2020-2021I worked with young footballers, building their physical foundations through strength, movement quality and long-term athletic development. Coaching emerging athletes taught me how to meet people where they are, simplify complex ideas and create structured systems that support growth over time. This same approach now helps creatives build resilience, consistency and the capacity to perform well under pressure.
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Head of Academy Sports Science
Milwall FC
2021-2024I led the physical development strategy for the academy, managing staff, systems and long-term athlete pathways. It required clarity, structure and the ability to create environments where people could grow consistently. This background now informs the way I design coaching frameworks for creatives who need sustainable systems, not quick fixes.
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Founder
Balance
2023-present Balance is a community and coaching platform supporting wellbeing in the electronic music industry. We run parties, wellbeing events, festival activations and work 1-1 and with agencies to support mental and physical health. This work lets me bring together performance science, creativity and culture - helping artists and industry professionals stay healthy in an environment that rarely slows down.
● My Story
Do Hard Things
Growth comes from discomfort. As cliché as it sounds, anything meaningful in life-whether it’s a new creative project, a side hustle you hope to turn into a career, or a personal goal you’ve been avoiding—will always require some level of sacrifice and hard work. Leaning into discomfort has carried me through some of my hardest moments.
Running has played a huge role in managing my mental health, and training for marathons has become a metaphor for the journey of life: long, challenging, unpredictable, and incredibly rewarding. Doing hard things builds resilience. It shapes your capacity to stay present, to stay committed and to move forward even when things feel uncomfortable. It’s a mindset that has shaped both my life and my coaching.
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Strong Body, Strong Mind
“Strong body, strong mind” was the mantra that carried me through my first marathon in London in 2023. It’s something I try to bring into everyday life too. We all face challenge, discomfort and the natural ups and downs that life throws our way-and for me, training and meditation have become the anchors that help me navigate them.
Building physical strength and developing mental steadiness go hand in hand. When I train, I’m not just training my body; I’m strengthening my capacity to stay grounded, present and resilient. These practices have shaped how I live and how I support the people I work with.
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Sharing Music
Over the last eight years I’ve played at a wide range of events-from my first Balance party to meditation and wellbeing experiences, and most recently at LoveTrails Festival in Croatia. DJing has always been a way for me to connect with people, create atmosphere and share something meaningful.
My passion now sits in the more introspective side of electronic music. I love exploring and playing the full spectrum of ambient and experimental sounds. These textures invite people inward, creating a different kind of experience-one rooted in presence, emotion and connection.
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Music is my life
My life revolves around music. Each month I’m at events of all kinds, and every year I find myself at four to six festivals - some for work through Balance, others purely for the joy of it. I wouldn’t have it any other way.
These experiences give me hope. They connect me with people who think, feel and move through the world the way I do. The dancefloor, the shared energy, the creativity- it all reminds me why community, expression and play are essential parts of a balanced life. Music continues to be the thread that ties my personal world and my work together.
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Bring People Together
Over the past two years I’ve curated, promoted and organised five parties in London, creating spaces where people can connect, express themselves and feel part of something bigger. What started as a small idea grew into a community—artists, dancers, friends and strangers coming together around music, energy and shared experience.
These events aren’t just parties; they’re a reminder of how powerful it is when people gather with openness and intention. In a world that pulls us into isolation, bringing people together has become one of the most meaningful parts of my life and work.
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Community First
Capitalism conditions us to believe we’re isolated individuals who should always be striving for more – more success, more output, more achievement. It quietly breeds suffering because it disconnects us from what we actually need as human beings. We’re not built for relentless self-optimisation; we’re built for community, belonging and shared experience.
As Robert Sapolsky highlights in Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers, one of the strongest buffers against stress is social connection – being part of a group that supports and regulates you. Our biology is still tribal, but the systems we live in pull us away from each other. Rebuilding community, even in simple everyday ways, is one of the most powerful paths back to balance and a healthier life.
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Nature & Finding Stillness
A recent article showed that our connection to nature has decreased by almost 60% in a single generation. Growing up partly in London and partly outside the city meant I had access to both worlds – the energy of urban life and the grounding presence of the natural environment.
Nature has become one of the most important anchors in my own life. It’s where I reset, find clarity and reconnect with what actually matters. With the people I work with, reconnecting to the natural world is often one of the most powerful shifts we explore – not as an escape, but as a way of restoring balance, calm and perspective in a fast-paced creative life.
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10-days of silence
One of the most transformative experiences of my life was completing my first 10-day silent meditation retreat at Dhamma Sukhakāri. The process is often described as a “surgical analysis of the mind” - ten days of going deeper into your unconscious patterns, reshaping old reactions and seeing yourself with far more clarity than normal life ever allows.
The retreat is rooted in Vipassana, the Buddha’s technique for “seeing things as they really are.” Over those days you develop qualities like equanimity, an understanding of impermanence, and the ability to see how suffering arises from craving and aversion. These teachings changed the way I relate to myself and the world, and they now form the foundation of the meditation practices I share with creatives.
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Wellbeing vs Wellness
I believe most of the modern wellness industry is bullshit. It’s built on commercialised fear - the idea that you need this product, that supplement or the latest trend to be healthy, happy or “balanced.” The truth is you don’t need anything except the fundamentals.
Real wellbeing comes from the foundations of health: sleep, nutrition, movement, meditation and community. These are the practices that actually shift your life. Almost everything else you see in the wellness space is a distraction - another company selling the illusion that you’re incomplete without whatever they’re offering.
My work is about stripping all of that away and bringing people back to what genuinely matters.
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What balance means to me
In ancient Chinese philosophy, the yin–yang expresses the natural duality of life, while Indian Buddhism speaks of the Middle Path – a life lived with moderation and steadiness. My own experience sits somewhere between the two. It’s a balance of opposites, moving between extremes, learning to surf the spectrum of what a full life can be. From peak experiences on the dancefloor to the quiet stillness of meditation, both matter to me. Both shape who I am.
Stoic philosophy, especially memento mori – the reminder that life is finite – has also had a profound impact on how I live. It isn’t morbid; it’s a call to courage. When you carry this truth into each day, it becomes a reason to act, to create, to pursue the life you genuinely want rather than the one you feel pushed into.
Balance, for me, is the constant practice of holding these truths together: energy and stillness, discipline and play, ambition and presence. It’s how I try to live, and it’s what I aim to share with the people I work with.