Roots of the Work

Returning to Your Body & Inner Alignment — Lynda Caesara

Lynda is our main teachers and guides - one of California’s most revered teachers of embodiment, presence, and subtle awareness, with over 40 years of experience. Her teachings invite us to slow down, come home to the body, and build profound inner alignment. Through focused attention, body wisdom, visualization, and energetic boundaries, we train the nervous system to rest in presence. This lineage supports your ability to listen deeply — not just to your thoughts, but to the very felt sense of being alive.

Nervous System Resilience — Peter Levine & Somatic Experiencing

When we understand how our nervous system moves through different states — from rest, to stress, to collapse — we begin to notice our internal shifts in real time. This approach, grounded in Peter Levine’s work, teaches us how to track these shifts and meet them with choice and care. We practice tools for co-regulation, release stored tension, and build long-term capacity for vitality, connection, and calm. As the Somatic Experiencing school reminds us: “Trauma is not what happens to you. Trauma is what happens inside you in response.”

Reclaiming Presence in Overwhelm — Raichian Patterns

When we’re overwhelmed — by fear, pressure, or urgency — our body has learned to cope in automatic ways. This work helps us see those instinctive reactions clearly, and return to grounded presence. Drawing from insights similar to Steven Kessler’s, we track where attention in the body goes under stress (e.g., outward to please, inward to analyze, downward to disappear), and learn to respond from choice, not default. These exercises deepen self-awareness and improve how we relate to others and ourselves.

Releasing Thought Patterns — The Hoffman Institute

The Hoffman Process is one of the world’s most respected modalities for transforming self-limiting thought patterns. It helps people uncover the unconscious beliefs — perfectionism, over-giving, self-criticism — that run their lives, and offers a path toward freedom. We draw on Hoffman’s approach of combining movement, voice, and reflection to interrupt these patterns somatically — so participants can return to their own truth, rather than old conditioning.

From Insight to Integration — Behavioral Science (Harvard & Stanford)

With a graduate focus on behavioral science from Harvard Kennedy School, this work is grounded in the science of how humans actually change. We integrate the latest evidence on habit formation, decision-making, and nudges to help participants build real routines that stick. The goal isn’t inspiration for a weekend — it’s practical, ongoing transformation in your day-to-day life.

Designing Your Dream Life — Leadership & Design Thinking

We combine the art of personal leadership with the science of design. Drawing from Ronald Heifetz’s work on adaptive leadership at Harvard, we explore the “voices in your head” — the internal patterns and mental models that guide your behavior — and learn to work with them consciously. From Stanford’s “Touchy Feely” and Design Your Life programs, we borrow prototyping, creative experimentation, and reframing to help you design, test, and step into your next chapter with courage and clarity.

Real-World Wisdom — Health, Mental Health & Women’s Wellbeing

This approach is deeply informed by over a decade of experience designing health and mental health programs — from women’s health products to mental health apps to executive leadership journeys. We don’t just work with theory. We’ve helped build solutions that serve thousands of people, and we know what truly supports sustainable growth and wellbeing.