The Nervous System Intelligence Platform for Human Performance
Develop resilient leaders, healthier teams, and high-performing organizations through personalized nervous system training.
Corporate wellness is treating the wrong system.
Burnout, disengagement, and leadership volatility aren't mindset problems — they're nervous system problems. Webinars, meditation apps, and EAP hotlines can't move a body that's stuck in fight, flight, freeze, or fawn.
of employees experience burnout at least sometimes
annual cost of burnout-related turnover and lost productivity
leaders report being too dysregulated to lead well most weeks
Sources: Gallup, Deloitte, McKinsey research on workplace burnout.
Dysregulation is a P&L problem.
Burned-out employees are 6× more likely to leave within 3–6 months.
Source: McKinsey Health Institute
Estimated annual cost of disengagement and attrition at a median-size S&P 500 company.
Source: McKinsey Health Institute
Average return per £1 invested in workplace mental health — highest for proactive, scalable, tech-enabled programs.
Source: Deloitte
Cost of replacing one mid-level employee, as a share of annual salary. One avoided regrettable departure pays for the pilot several times over.
Source: SHRM / Gallup
Nervous System Intelligence
The capacity to notice, regulate, and recover your physiological state — so you can lead, collaborate, and perform from a regulated body, not a hijacked one.
Self-regulation
The ability to notice and shift your own state before it spills over into decisions, meetings, and messages.
Co-regulation
How regulated humans calm rooms. The science behind psychologically safe teams and non-defensive feedback.
Recovery
Completing the stress cycle so the body lets go. Without recovery, performance compounds into burnout.
Capacity
Expanding the bandwidth to stay clear, present, and creative under pressure — not just survive it.
Why somatic — not cognitive — moves the needle.
You can't think your way out of a stress response. You have to move through it. That's why most cognitive-only programs don't shift the metrics that matter.
What cognitive-only tools do
Meditation apps, EAPs, and mindset training help people understand stress. They operate on cognition — they don't change the physiology stress actually runs on. That's why most corporate wellness programs don't move engagement, retention, or leadership effectiveness.
What somatic work does
Breath, movement, and vocal toning work directly on the autonomic nervous system — the layer where the stress response actually lives. That's why somatic practice produces felt, measurable change in mood, recovery, and decision-making capacity.
Stanford breathwork RCT (2023)
Five minutes/day of structured breathwork — especially cyclic sighing — produced greater improvement in mood and larger reductions in physiological arousal (respiratory rate, heart rate, HRV) than mindfulness meditation.
Balban et al., Cell Reports Medicine
Breathwork meta-analysis (2023)
Across randomized trials, breathwork interventions significantly lowered self-reported stress vs. controls.
Fincham et al., Scientific Reports
HRV ↔ leadership capacity
Higher vagally-mediated heart rate variability is linked to better executive function, decision-making under uncertainty, emotional regulation, and working memory — the substrate of leadership.
Thayer et al.; Forte et al., Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2022
What Somarae delivers to your organization
Personalized somatic wellness, delivered as in-the-moment nervous system support across the workday — not another portal nobody opens.
Personalized voice & chat sessions
An emotionally intelligent AI guide that meets each person where they are — confidential, available, and tuned to their patterns.
In-the-moment micro-practices
1–5 minute somatic resets between meetings, before hard conversations, and after pressure spikes.
Leader-specific protocols
Regulation tools built for the decisions, feedback loops, and high-stakes moments leaders actually face.
Team rituals
Lightweight, optional group practices that build co-regulation without adding another standing meeting.
Outcomes you can measure
For leaders
- •Clarity and composure under pressure
- •Faster recovery from setbacks and conflict
- •Non-defensive feedback and communication
- •Sustained focus across high-stakes weeks
For teams
- •Lower burnout and absenteeism
- •Stronger psychological safety
- •Better collaboration after hard conversations
- •Higher engagement and retention
The 12-Week Pilot Program
One fiscal quarter. Pre/post measurement. Real nervous system change you can bring to your leadership team.
Baseline
Confidential pre-assessment: perceived stress, burnout risk, recovery capacity, engagement. Kickoff with leaders.
Active practice
Personalized somatic sessions, in-the-moment micro-practices, leader-specific protocols, and team rituals.
Measurement & readout
Pre/post deltas, qualitative themes, leadership effectiveness shifts, and a rollout recommendation.
Metrics we track together
Confidential, aggregated cohort metrics — never individual sessions.
Option to extend to 24 weeks for org-wide rollout.
How it works
Discovery call
We learn your team, current wellness stack, and the outcomes that matter.
Pilot design
We tailor the 12-week pilot to your org — cohort size, rhythms, and metrics.
Launch
Onboarding, leader briefings, and ongoing personalized somatic support.
Quarterly readout
Pre/post data, themes, and a clear path to org-wide rollout if it's a fit.
Who it's for
Decision-makers investing in employee retention, leadership development, and modern wellness benefits.
Request a pilot conversation
Tell us a bit about your organization. Someone from our team will be in touch within 1–2 business days.