Applied in high-performance, health, and innovation environments

Who this is for

Train focus, regulation, and adaptability through movement-based protocols.
Repatterning Lab in San Francisco
1:1 with Yana
Workshops that support focus recovery, clarity, and nervous system regulation in real work environments.
Focus Protocol for Organizations
Protocol-based training for therapists, coaches, and professionals who want evidence-based tools for regulation and behavioral change.
Practitioner Training (waitlist open)
How It Works
Notice
We identify how stress, tension, or overload shows up in your attention, movement, and behavior.
Train
You use body-based protocols to restore focus, regulate overload, and adapt more effectively under pressure.
Track
We look at shifts in focus, recovery, and regulation over time — so progress becomes visible, not just felt.
What people say
  • I used to think I couldn’t work after lunch because of anxiety. It turned out a big part of it was difficulty refocusing. We trained my brain to recover within a specific window of time — and I learned to feel a cognitive crash before it fully hit.
    Polina M., Software Engineer, Google
  • After working with Body Mind Method™, I noticed clearer thinking, more stable energy, and practical tools to manage cognitive fatigue. The effects felt distinct from yoga or strength training.
    Mark Clenow, Sr. Scientist
  • I would come in cognitively depleted after a long work day, and leave feeling as if my brain had rebooted. I felt clearer, fresher, and more connected to my body.
    Lyubomir U., Fractional Head of Strategic Partnerships
  • It’s a practical, eye-opening experience that helps you understand how you think and behave, and gives you tools to improve it in real life.
    Hatice, Nurse
Why this matters
The problem is not only what you know.
It is the state from which you act.
Most adults today live under chronic stress, cognitive overload, and too little meaningful movement. As a result, attention narrows, recovery slows, and behavior becomes more automatic.
Body Mind Method trains what happens between overload and response — the patterns that shape how you focus, adapt, and function under pressure.
These patterns are not only mental. They live in the nervous system, and movement can help retrain them.
Selected talks and features
Watch the demo Focus Protocol
Read the article
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Yana Nakhimova, Ph.D.
Behavioral Scientist | Creator of Body Mind Method™
As a behavioral scientist, I studied why people often fail to change even when they know what would help. Under stress, uncertainty, and pressure, the capacity to act differently can collapse.

I saw the same problem in movement. Most physical training develops people in fragments — improving one capacity while neglecting adaptability, regulation, or recovery. Different domains, same problem: a system that struggles to adapt under pressure.
That question became personal when my father had his second stroke. Watching him relearn movement changed how I understood the body — not as a machine to condition, but as a system that learns.

Around the same time, my own movement practice shifted through somatic work. I began to see that some patterns could change through the body before the mind could fully explain them. When they changed, the effects were not only physical, but cognitive and behavioral.

That insight became Body Mind Method™ — a science-based movement methodology that helps people change the patterns behind overload — so they can recover focus faster, regulate stress, and adapt with more clarity and less effort.
Advisors
  • Ed Boyden, PhD
    Scientific Advisor, MIT
  • David Maltz
    Business Advisor, Founding Head of Product at Fareon
  • John Zweig
    Strategic Advisor, Chairman at Neuro-Insight
  • Maria V. Ruiz-Blondet, PhD
    Neuroscience & EEG Advisor, Senior Research Engineer
  • Vineet Sinha
    Technology Advisor, Data & AI Specialist, Co-Founder & CTO, Cone Technologies
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