I spent over twenty years in corporate America, most recently as a Principal Product Manager at Microsoft, working on Copilot and Windows Search.

I have also been the woman sitting in a parked car at 8:52am, engine off, deciding which version of herself to carry through the door.

What got me back wasn't a productivity system or a better calendar. It was Ayurveda, somatic work, breath, and a stubborn refusal to accept that the only two options were bounce back or drop out.

It started with a warm drink in the backyard at dawn. The weather on my skin, a dog under my hand, my children asleep inside. Nothing had been fixed. I just didn't want to be anywhere else.

Out of that I built the NARI Method™: eight weeks, four movements — Nurture, Awaken, Renew, Ignite. It starts with the body, because the mind will not negotiate with a nervous system that thinks it's still in danger. We also use raga — Indian classical music mapped to specific hours and specific states, the way it was designed to be. Sound is the only door into the nervous system that asks nothing of you first. You don't have to believe in it. You have to listen for four minutes.

I'm an IAPCP-accredited hypnotherapist and certified Ayurvedic Practitioner. I didn't study these things to add letters after my name. I studied them because I needed to understand why they worked.

The women I work with are not trying to want less. They're trying to find a way to want what they want without it costing them their bodies.