Answers About Nervous System Intelligence

Nervous System Intelligence (NSI) is the measurable capacity to recognize your nervous system's state and change it on purpose — in individuals, and in the organizations they work inside. It has four individual capacities (Signal, Shift, Recovery, Capacity) and three organizational conditions (load, recovery design, and co-regulation).

Dysregulation is contagious, and leaders have the widest transmission range. Nervous systems co-regulate whether or not anyone intends it, so an activated executive becomes an organizational input. NSI gives leaders the capacity to stay clear under pressure, recover faster, and model regulation for their teams.

Meditation asks you to quiet the mind. Somarae works with the body — your nervous system — to shift your physiological state directly. When you are already in fight, flight, freeze, or fawn, body-based practices signal safety to the brain far faster than mindset alone. Somarae is built for in-the-moment dysregulation.

The pilot begins with a confidential NSI baseline audit, followed by a founder-led immersive training, live virtual sessions, biweekly check-ins, and personalized somatic practices delivered through the Somarae app. It closes with a post-pilot assessment measuring stress, burnout risk, recovery capacity, engagement, and leadership effectiveness.

Burnout, disengagement, and leadership volatility are nervous system problems, not mindset problems. Corporate wellness spend often treats the wrong system. NSI training targets the physiological layer that determines whether people can access their skills under pressure. Pilots are designed to show measurable change within one fiscal quarter.

Somarae adapts practices to your energy, stress patterns, and — for women — your menstrual cycle, perimenopause, menopause, and post-menopause. Regulation pathways, stress response, and recovery capacity shift across these life stages, and Somarae's recommendations are grounded in peer-reviewed research that accounts for sex as a biological variable.

Body scanning and state check-ins build Signal. Cyclic sighing, extended-exhale breathing, vocal toning, tapping, and shaking build Shift. Recovery is built by brief practices distributed through the day rather than one long session. Capacity is the compounding result of the other three, expanded by co-regulation.

Yes, across several channels: heart rate variability trend as a recovery marker, pre/post state change around specific practices, interoceptive accuracy for Signal, and performance under load for Capacity. Somarae pilots begin with a baseline and close with a post-pilot assessment so change is measured rather than reported.

Heads of People, CHROs, L&D leaders, DEI and Belonging leaders, Wellness & Benefits leaders, founders, CEOs, and COOs who want to develop resilient leaders, healthier teams, and sustainable organizational performance. Pilots run up to 25 participants.

Yes. Somarae's practices are grounded in peer-reviewed research, including Stanford's 2023 cyclic sighing study (Balban et al.), the largest breathwork meta-analysis to date (Fincham et al., 2023), Polyvagal Theory (Porges), and heart rate variability research (Thayer & Forte).

Individual practice data, journal entries, and cycle/health information are encrypted and never shared. For corporate pilots, organizations only see aggregated, anonymized cohort metrics — never individual sessions or transcripts.

Download the iOS or Android app and start a 7-day free trial. You can also take the free 2-minute Stress Archetype Quiz at somarae.co/quiz to learn how your nervous system responds to stress and get personalized practice recommendations.