The body knows before the mind is ready to act.
Since June, I’ve been taking time to pause, reflect, and realign. To sit with questions about what I want to build next — not just in my work, but in how I want to feel while building it.
I’m learning to listen before I leap.
Last week, I was in Bir, Himachal Pradesh, surrounded by the Dhauladhar range, clouds close enough to touch, and sunsets that staged a new drama each evening. But I wasn’t just there to take it in. I was there to return to my teacher and my practice.
Guided by Navtej’s gracefully assertive voice, I spent the week immersed in somatic exploration. His practice — a quiet yet potent blend of yoga, dance, and embodied awareness — has shaped my understanding of movement for over a decade. What began as a dancer’s obsession with captivating presence has become something much deeper: a way to stay in conversation with the body, not just the mind.
As a founder and someone who works creatively, we often speak of instinct — gut calls, intuitive leaps. But what if that instinct doesn’t live in the mind at all? What if it’s the body speaking long before the mind catches up?
Through years of design, storytelling, and entrepreneurship, I’ve returned again and again to this idea: that the body holds embedded desires, unspoken insights, and a rhythm of knowing that can guide us — if we let it.
This past week in Bir replenished that trust. It reminded me how to listen to what hasn’t yet become language. How to trace the edges of an idea through sensation. How to wait for clarity to arrive not as noise, but as a signal that returns, again and again.
I’m still listening. And this time, I’m not rushing to fill the silence.
In the coming weeks, I’ll be sharing reflections — ideas I’m gathering, provocations I’m sitting with, and thoughts that are slowly beginning to shape the next chapter. Not just to speak them out loud, but to think and imagine with you.
To unpack what it would mean to build with poise and intention, with a voice that is — gentle yet sharp, clear in its direction but soft in its delivery.
To conversations between body and mind, between instinct and insight, between desire and opportunity…
