“What if the body could help the brain change?”
That question has defined Yana Nakhimova’s work as a behavioral scientist and the creator of the Body Mind Method™ — a pioneering science-based system that uses embodied neuroplasticity to retrain stress responses, sharpen focus, and build lasting adaptability.

Her work integrates neuroscience, somatic practice, and real-world behavior change, offering a new way to train emotional resilience, clarity, and performance through the body. For decades, behavioral sciences tried to change the mind through thought, while fitness focused on the body. The powerful link between nervous system, movement and neuroplasticity was overlooked. Yana is changing that.

Her journey became personal after her father’s strokes, which left him partially paralyzed. During her PhD research, she studied how people under stress turn to alcohol and substances, and as a dancer she saw how others pushed their bodies to injury. Different contexts — the same survival pattern. It led her to one question: Can we train ourselves to handle stress, recover, and thrive without burnout, medication, or harm?

The search for that answer became the foundation of the Body Mind Method™.

Based in San Francisco and recognized by the U.S. with an EB-1 talent green card, Yana's mission is to make human transformation embodied, science-backed, and scalable building a new category of measurable, non-invasive interventions that retrain the brain through the body.