You don't need to work less.
You need to stop running on fumes.
You deliver. You execute. You show up for your team, your goals, and the people counting on you. What you don't do: sleep past 5 am without your brain turning on, close your laptop without checking Slack one more time, or make it through Sunday without that familiar knot in your chest.
Your drive isn't the problem. Your body just never learned how to come down. I teach tech leaders how to regulate that, so you can keep delivering without it costing you your evenings, your patience, or your sense of how much longer you can hold this. I do this through somatic work and yoga.
The ALIGN Method
A 6-week program that teaches you to regulate your nervous system, structure your energy, and stay in your career without burning out.
You nailed the presentation. You ran the standup. You handled the escalation from your VP at 4:47 pm
And you're exhausted in a way that sleep doesn't fix. That's not about discipline. It's about energy.
The ALIGN Method teaches you how to regulate your nervous system and structure your energy so you can keep showing up for your career without resenting the life you've built.
On paper, you look fine. Promotions. Ownership. Results.
But in your body:
Tuesday, you're crushing it. Thursday, you're staring at your screen with nothing left by 2 pm.
You close your laptop at 5 pm, and your brain keeps running the same loop about tomorrow's roadmap review.
You're one passive-aggressive Slack note away from quitting.
You've tried productivity hacks, morning routines, and mindset shifts. Maybe they helped for a week. But nothing stuck, because better systems were never the missing piece. The work itself is draining you. When your nervous system is regulated and your energy is actually managed, the systems finally start working.
ALIGN walks you through six focused weeks of nervous system regulation, energy mapping, and boundary building. You're not just learning concepts. You're changing how your body responds to stress. This is the exact method I used to go from constantly on edge to feeling grounded, clear, and in control of my day.
This is for you if:
Your calendar says "Focus Block," but you're answering Slack DMs anyway
You've tried the Pomodoro technique, the 5 am club, and three different meditation apps, and you're still exhausted
You're lying awake replaying conversations from three days ago
And when you do this work, here's what becomes possible:
You stop checking Slack at 10 pm. Not because you set a phone boundary (though you did). Because your brain actually believes the work will still be there tomorrow.
You tell your boss a realistic timeline. No apologizing. No over-explaining. Just "I can get that to you Thursday," and then you close your laptop.
You sleep past 5 am without your mind turning on. Your body figures out it's allowed to rest instead of running contingency plans for Q3.
You remember what you actually like. You read a book that has nothing to do with leadership. You go for a walk without your phone. You exist without optimizing.
What’s Included:
40-page PDF guide that breaks down each component of the ALIGN Method across six weeks, so you have a complete roadmap for sustainable energy management rather than a fragmented collection of tips.
Comprehensive self-assessment and reflection tools that help you identify your actual energy patterns, not what you think they should be, so you stop guessing and start working with how your body operates.
3 guided yoga flow videos designed to regulate your nervous system when you're dysregulated, so you have a physical practice that brings you back to baseline rather than one more thing to think about.
Templates for every module (plus extras) that give you ready-to-use structures for:
Anchoring your day — morning routines that stabilize instead of stress you out.
Leading your energy — tracking what drains and sustains you so you can design around it.
Implementing boundaries that hold — saying no without the guilt spiral or three-paragraph explanation.
Grounding your body — nervous system regulation practices that actually fit into your life.
Nourishing your night routine — winding down so your body knows it's safe to rest.
This won't add more to your plate. It builds a foundation that makes everything else easier.
FAQ
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It varies by week, but plan on 10 to 20 minutes a day. Some days it's a quick check-in. Other days you'll have more to work through. The point is consistency, not perfection.
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Because real change doesn't happen overnight. Each week you focus on one component of the ALIGN Method rather than everything at once. You work with it, integrate it into your life, then layer in the next. This isn't about cramming. It's about building something sustainable that sticks.
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If you're constantly behind despite doing everything right, if you can't switch off even when you're "off," if you've tried productivity systems and they didn't stick, this is for you. This program is for people who are tired of managing their time and ready to start managing their energy. If you want quick hacks or surface-level fixes, this isn't the place. If you're ready to do the work and build something that lasts, you're in the right place.
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You pick up where you left off. This isn't a race. The program is self-paced, and you have lifetime access to the materials. Life happens. The goal is progress, not perfection.
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No. This isn't about holding a headstand or meditating for an hour. The practices are simple, accessible, and built for people who are busy and skeptical. If you can breathe and move your body, you can do this work.
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Self-Guided gives you the full program to work through on your own. Guided adds three 1:1 coaching sessions so you can troubleshoot in real time, talk through what's coming up, and make the work fit your actual life. If you want support turning insight into action, go Guided. If you prefer to figure it out yourself, Self-Guided works.
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That's exactly who this is for. The practices fit into a real life, not a fantasy schedule. You're not adding hours to your day. You're restructuring how you use the energy you already have.
ALIGN Self-Guided
Move at your own pace, revisit whenever you need it. Start making small shifts that change how you show up day to day.
ALIGN Guided (Most Popular)
Private 1:1 60-min sessions with me and email support throughout the program. Apply what you're learning in real time. You won't have to figure it out alone.
Private Sessions
One-on-one sessions designed around your body, your schedule, and what's actually draining you.
Private sessions aren't just yoga. They're integrated nervous-system work, combining somatic techniques with trauma-informed movement, built around your patterns, your stress responses, and the specific ways your body holds tension from the work you do.
Maybe you're dealing with:
Shoulders and neck locked up from back-to-back Zooms
A nervous system stuck in fight-or-flight, even when you're "off."
Crashing by 3 pm, no matter how much sleep you get
Sunday anxiety that starts creeping in on Saturday afternoon
Private sessions give us space to work with what's actually happening in your body, not what a drop-in class at the gym assumes everyone needs.
What Makes This Different
I'm not here to push you into shapes your body doesn't want. I'm here to help you regulate your nervous system so you can actually rest, set boundaries without guilt, and show up for your life without running on fumes.
That might look like:
Somatic tracking and nervous system regulation before your executive review, so your body knows it's not actually under threat
Restorative movement sequences that teach your system how to downregulate after a hard week
Trauma-informed yoga or breathwork that doesn't wreck your joints or add another thing to optimize
Body-based work to release the tension you didn't even know you were carrying
Some sessions might be 80% somatic talk and nervous system work. Others might be 80% movement and breathwork. Most are a blend. I follow what your nervous system needs that day.
We meet where you are. We build from there.
“Carrie meets you exactly where you are, no matter your experience level. After working with her, I started noticing the shift outside of sessions too — I'm calmer, more present, less reactive. That's not something I expected.” - Recent client
How It Works
Sessions are 60 minutes, either virtual or in person. For in-person sessions, I'm based in Walnut Creek, CA, and travel within 5 miles. We start with a conversation about what's showing up in your body and your life: where you're holding stress, what's not working, what you've already tried. Then we build a practice that addresses it.
You'll leave with tools you can use on your own when you're activated at 10 pm and need to calm down, or when you're about to walk into a tense conversation and need to ground first.
About Me
I'm Carrie!
Trauma-informed movement teacher. 2x Chief of Staff in tech. Currently completing my Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner certification through Somatic Experiencing International, the leading authority on the SE method of trauma resolution, founded on the work of Dr. Peter Levine. 10+ years living the pressure you're trying to recover from.
In 2023, seven years into back-to-back leadership roles in tech, I wasn't sleeping past 5 am. My stomach was a wreck. The Sunday scaries started Saturday afternoon. I showed up to standups sharp enough to deliver, but inside, I was one passive-aggressive Slack thread away from quitting.
The harder truth: I had built my entire identity around execution. I didn't know how to exist without a roadmap to optimize or a problem to solve. I didn't know who I was outside of a performance review.
So I did the work. Slowly, messily, through yoga philosophy, nervous system regulation, and a lot of trial and error. I learned how to actually rest. How to set boundaries without spiraling about whether I was committed enough. How to stop carrying stress that was never mine to carry.
Today, I sleep through the night. I close my laptop at 5 pm and don't think about work until 9 am the next day. I show up grounded to the people I care about, not just whoever's left when I run out of capacity.
That shift didn't come from working less. It came from learning to regulate my nervous system rather than run it into the ground.
Now I help tech leaders do the same, through the ALIGN Method, private somatic sessions, or both. Sustainable performance was never about grinding harder. It's about building the capacity to work hard and actually recover.
Credentials
Trauma-informed yoga teacher (RYT 200) with a bachelor's degree in Human Performance (Kinesiology) from USC and 10-plus years in tech leadership, including 2x Chief of Staff roles at the fastest-growing cybersecurity company and recognition as one of the World's Top 100 PLG Operators. I'm currently completing my Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner certification through Somatic Experiencing International, founded on Dr. Peter Levine’s pioneering trauma work. I bring together nervous system regulation and real-world execution because I've lived both sides.
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