A new language for your nervous system
A science-based system to rewire how you think, feel, and respond — through your body.
The Body Mind Method integrates behavioral science and neuroscience to unlock your full potential — mentally, emotionally, and physically.
This isn’t fitness, yoga, or meditation.
It’s a new kind of training that helps your nervous system break old patterns, build resilience, and restore clarity. Each session activates neuroplasticity through purposeful movement — helping you shift your inner state, sharpen focus, and boost emotional intelligence.
Your body is your most powerful tool for change.
Movement isn’t just something the brain controls — it’s how the brain learns. From early development to adult decision-making, movement shapes perception, attention, emotion, and resilience.
Unlike top-down techniques that rely on mindset or willpower, this method works bottom-up — by engaging the dynamic dialogue between brain, body, and environment.
Through structured movement and guided attention, the method helps you:
– activate neuroplastic change
– restore nervous system adaptability
– retrain attention, perception, and emotion — through the body
– shift patterns of stress, reactivity, and mental fatigue
This isn’t fitness.
This isn’t just relaxation.
This is a behavioral upgrade for how your brain handles stress, focus, and change.
Collective rewiring — through structured movement and real-time engagement.
Lasting Transformation
- Grounded in science
Every practice is based on neuroplasticity and behavioral research — creating measurable shifts in how you think, feel, and move. - Multidimensional results
Strengthens your physical, mental, and emotional systems — all at once. More clarity, more energy, more balance. - Personalized to your state
Whether you’re feeling tense, scattered, or stuck — the method adapts to support what you need most. - Play is a part of the method
Fun isn’t extra — it’s essential. Playful movement is proven to enhance learning, motivation, and retention. - Growth that stays with you
You’ll build practical tools for clarity, regulation, and resilience — that evolve with you long after the course ends. - Real connection, beyond words
Shared movement builds embodied trust, presence, and a sense of belonging — even in silence.
The Body Mind Method rewires patterns at the root — not just how you move, but how you think, feel, connect, and respond. By working with your nervous system, you unlock new clarity, energy, and resilience — in the moments and areas that matter most:
- 87%More creative problem solving
- 75%Faster decision-making
- 75%Easier focus
- 69%Stronger daily desire to move
- 67%Greater confidence
- 57%Feeling overall relaxation
- 83%Increased joint mobility
- 76%Improved reactions and agility
- 74%Better balance and coordination
This is what happens when movement isn’t just physical — but rewires how your brain and body work together.
Yana Nakhimova, Ph.D.
Founder and CEO
Behavioral Scientist | Innovator | Speaker
Yana Nakhimova is pioneering a new field: rewiring the brain through movement.
For decades, behavioral science and neuroscience tried to change the mind through thought. Fitness focused on muscles — not mental adaptability. The powerful link between movement and brain rewiring remained largely untapped.
Yana bridges that gap with the Body Mind Method — a science-based system that activates neuroplasticity through movement, reshaping how we think, feel, and respond.
Her scientific journey began at age 20, when she designed a national drug prevention program for the Russian Federal Service. Her Ph.D. research on cognitive distortions and health behavior earned over 10 national awards and reshaped public health policy.
As a visiting researcher in Europe and the U.S., she studied why people start, sustain, or abandon healthy habits. Whether it was drug use or physical activity, the same core questions kept emerging:
What enables resilience? What drives lasting change?
Her turning point came in 2016, after her father’s second stroke. Searching for tools beyond traditional therapy, she discovered the untapped power of movement as a neuroplastic intervention — not just for recovery, but for transformation.
Watching athletes, dancers, and everyday movers, she realized: most physical training ignores the brain’s adaptive potential. This insight — and her personal story — led to the creation of the Body Mind Method.
Now based in San Francisco and awarded a U.S. Green Card as a scientist of extraordinary ability, Dr. Nakhimova leads programs for individuals, teams, and organizations. Her mission:
To make transformation not just possible, but embodied — and scalable.
Edward Boyden, Ph.D.
Boyden brings his deep expertise in neuroscience to help refine and validate the Body Mind Method. His guidance helps our approach be not only innovative, but also grounded in rigorous scientific principles, enhancing the effectiveness of our programs in promoting brain health.
| | Let’s find what fits you best Whether you’re here to explore the method, bring it to your team, or go deeper as a practitioner — choose the path that resonates most: |
- "Body Mind was different from anything I had ever tried. Neither yoga nor strength training gave me that effect. I came to Yana with fatigue and burnout. What I got was a more stable emotional state, tools to manage my emotions, improved cognitive and physical abilities, and a greater sense of control and confidence."Mark ClenowSr. Scientist
- "it was such a great experience. Starting the day with energy, fun and focus was inspiring.
We're very inspired by you and your work, Yana, and are so grateful that you have brought your talent, insights and compassion to the Bay Area."Lisa ZuegelLeadership Development Program Manager
