Embodied Success® LIVE
YOUR MONTHLY RESET FOR HIGH-PERFORMANCE LIVING
with Teresa Kay-Aba Kennedy, Ph.D., MBA, RYT, CPC
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Every month, high-achieving professionals from around the world gather for Embodied Success® Live, a 45- to 60-minute immersive experience designed to elevate your mind, body, and performance. This is where neuroscience meets ancient wisdom… where you recalibrate your nervous system… where clarity replaces overwhelm… and where powerful insights turn into real-world results. Based on the Embodied Success® Coaching System created by Teresa Kay-Aba Kennedy, the sessions are designed to cultivate grounded power and an expansive mindset -- particularly for high achievers, leaders, and changemakers. Are you ready to unlock your innate potential?
The benefits
What Will You Gain In The Program?
This program bridges embodied wisdom with high-performance leadership in a grounded, accessible and consistent way. Led by a Harvard Business School-trained strategist and long-time yoga teacher, the sessions build progressively for a professional audience unfamiliar with meditative practice and the topics are chosen to be relevant to high achievers who may be embedded in the old paradigm of success. Whether you’re leading a team, building a business, or juggling a full life, Embodied Success® Live is your monthly re-alignment.
Expand Your Mind
Explore principles and practices that cultivate an expansive mindset, mental resilience, and unshakeable confidence even in the face of change and chaos.
Harness Your Energy
Practice breath and meditation techniques consistently to manage stress, up- and down-regulate the nervous system, and tap into your innate creativity.
Embody Success
Integrate the principles and practices through reflection and mindfulness exercises to embody your intentions and success on a daily basis.
Join The Movement
Step into the new paradigm of success and join others who are living, working and leading with intention, aligned action, and an expanded consciousness.
Working harder and longer while sacrificing your health, relationships and dreams is an outdated path to success. Join the new paradigm of Embodied Success®.
Topics & Schedule
Below are topics and schedule for 2026 (subject to change). Sessions are held at 6:00 PM EST / 3:00 PM PST. With annual membership, you have access to ALL content current and past. Note schedule change due to Travel.
Ep7: Jan. 11, 2026, Rewriting Success – From Achievement to Alignment
Ep8: Feb. 8, 2026, Presence Is Your Platform – Building Influence From The Inside Out
Ep9: March 22, 2026, Rooted In The Storm – The Embodied Leader's Response to a World in Crisis
Ep10: July 12, 2026, The Neurobiology of Innovation – Cultivating Breakthrough Thinking
Ep11: Aug 9, 2026, Beyond Imposter Syndrome – Owning Your Seat Without Overcompensating
Ep12: Sept 13, 2026, Liberating Your Voice - Speaking With Authority
Ep13: Oct 4, 2026, From Control to Co-Creation - Collaboration Without Collapse
Ep14: Nov 15, 2026, The Gratitude Advantage - How Appreciation Elevates Performance
Ep15: Dec 6, 2026, The Long Game - Impact Beyond The Moment
Upcoming Sessions
Sun, July 12, 2026
Cultivating Breakthrough Thinking
Innovation isn’t just a strategic capability—it’s a brain state. The Neurobiology of Innovation explores the neuroscience behind breakthrough thinking and why our best ideas often arise when the mind shifts out of pressure and into a more open, creative state. You’ll learn how the brain generates insight and experience a guided practice designed to quiet mental noise and activate innovative thinking. In the age of AI, understanding how to unlock human creativity may be one of the most important skills of all.
Sun, Aug 9, 2026
Owning Your Seat Without Overcompensating
Imposter syndrome doesn’t disappear with experience or success—it often evolves. Many accomplished leaders don’t feel like frauds so much as they feel the need to prove, perform, or over-deliver to maintain credibility. Beyond Imposter Syndrome explores this topic through an embodied lens, revealing how self-doubt lives in the nervous system, not just the mind. You will learn how to recognize subtle patterns of overcompensation, regulate fear responses in high-stakes moments, and access a grounded sense of authority that doesn’t rely on perfection or performance.
Sun., Sept 13, 2026
Leveraging Your Inner Compass Under Pressure
In complex, fast-moving environments, more data doesn't always lead to better decisions. The most effective leaders know how to integrate analysis with intuition, especially under pressure. Intuitive Decision-Making explores this as a trainable embodied capacity, grounded in neuroscience and ancient wisdom traditions. You will learn how stress disrupts access to insight, how to recognize the body's subtle signals of clarity versus fear, and how to use breath and attention to return to your inner compass when the stakes are high. This is not about guessing -- it's about learning to trust and act from a deeper, more integrated intelligence when it matters most.
Tools taught to alumni at Harvard Business School and Young Global Leaders at the World Economic Forum offices in Geneva, Switzerland.
Program Elements
Unlimited Access Benefits
LIVE Monthly 45 to 60-Minute Group Session
Once a month, usually on a Sunday at 6:00 PM EST / 3:00 PM PST, we gather for a LIVE group session via Zoom. After tuning in, Dr. Kennedy leads a 15-minute discussion of the monthly theme. Then, she leads the group in a 20- to 30-minute breath and meditation practice related to the theme, harnessing the power of our collective focus. The session ends with a 10- to 15-minute Q&A to answer any questions that arise. If you are unable to attend live, you will be able to watch or listen to the recordings of the sessions, as well as ask questions in the course hub.
Monthly Practice Guide
Every month, you’ll receive a written practice guide summarizing the month’s theme and core practices and offering reflection prompts for journaling. The practice guide will also include suggestions for mindfulness practices related to the month's topic. In combination with the guided audio, the practice guide will create a potent support system for your daily practice and a gateway to grounded power and an expansive mindset.
Monthly Mindset Audio Training
Every month, you’ll receive a new mindset audio training elaborating on that month’s theme. The guided audio will bring additional depth and subtlety to the monthly focus, enabling you to deepen your understanding and accelerate your growth. A mix of motivation and evidence-based cognitive techniques like meditation and visualization, the training will help to prime the brain for success.
Access to Media Library
Every month, videos and audio trainings will be added to the library related to the theme creating a growing knowledge base. You will be able to go directly to specific topics and/or practices, as well as recordings of the full live sessions. Regardless of when you join the group, you will not miss anything because you will have access to the previous sessions (though being there live offers the greatest benefit).
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Top athletes have coaches to help them see blind spots, polish skills, and play at the top of their game. Learn insights from Teresa Kay-Aba Kennedy's 20+ years of teaching these tools, and join a community of practice with other participants who are committed to experiencing sustainable success in all areas of life and playing full out without burnout. If you want even more support, you can add one-on-one coaching to complement the monthly sessions and/or bring the Embodied Success® training to your organization.
Missed A Session?
Want to buy a single past session? Remember, with an annual membership you receive ALL content current and past. However, perhaps you are interested in a specific topic that we've already covered and want to focus on that. Buy a single session and receive the LIVE Replay Video, written Practice Guide, and Mindset Training Audio.
Fulfillment From The Inside Out
We begin with a topic at the core of everything we're exploring in this series—The Feeling of Success. For years, I've asked a simple but powerful question: How successful do you feel? The truth is, success isn't a number or a job title. It's not something you arrive at-it's something you embody. Success is a state of being. The more you practice generating that feeling from within, the more empowered, energized, and expansive your outer world becomes. Open your mind to the new paradigm and learn tools to feel successful on a consistent basis.
A Superpower for Visionaries
This month’s theme is one that sits at the heart of every meaningful transformation: Beginner’s Mind. We live in a world that praises expertise. Yet the paradox is that the more we accumulate knowledge or experience, the more likely we are to lose our openness to new insights. We start to see through filters—of expectation, judgment, habit. Beginner’s Mind invites us to remove those filters and approach life with curiosity, openness, and a lack of preconceptions—no matter how knowledgeable we are. It’s the mindset of a child exploring the world.
The Art of Aligned Effort
Grasping vs. Allowing speaks directly to one of the most subtle and powerful shifts we can make in both our inner and outer lives.
We live in a culture that celebrates the hustle, the grind, the push. Striving is rewarded. But when does healthy ambition become inner tension—mental, emotional, even physical constriction? In this session, we explore how the subtle energy of grasping and chasing can block flow, and how allowing can open us to greater success, creativity, and ease—not through passivity, but through the art of aligned effort.
A Superpower for Visionaries
This one practice — The Power of Pausing — can change everything. It’s the difference between reacting out of habit… and responding from wisdom. Between being hijacked by your nervous system… and reclaiming your presence. We live in a world that values speed. We reward quick answers, fast decisions, instant replies. But in this urgency, we often lose connection — with ourselves, with others, with what truly matters. The pause is not a delay. It’s not weakness. It’s power.
Breaking Free From The Rat Race
This session dives into a common, and often invisible, drain on our energy, confidence, and clarity: The Comparison Trap. We’ve all felt it: Scrolling through LinkedIn, you see someone’s career leap. Opening Instagram, you witness someone’s seemingly perfect life. Hearing a colleague speak, you suddenly question your own voice. Comparison shows up as: “I should be further along.” And without realizing it, our grounded presence is replaced by self-doubt, contraction, and misalignment. How would you like to flip that script?
Anchor Awareness and State Shift
Breath As A Bridge is one of the most powerful tools we have for cultivating presence, clarity, and alignment. We often think of the breath as something automatic... and it is but it’s also intentional. That’s what makes it so potent: breath is the only physiological function that operates both automatically and under our conscious control. This means breath is the gateway between our subconscious body and our conscious mind: a bridge we can walk at any moment to reset our state. Learn the science and practice of breathwork.
External Validation to Internal Metrics
We grow up absorbing external definitions of success such as wealth, recognition, productivity, and power. Those markers aren’t inherently wrong but when we chase them blindly, without pausing to ask what they mean for us, we often find ourselves achieving goals… yet feeling empty. Many high performers may have hit extraordinary milestones and still don’t feel successful. Why? Because they’re chasing someone else’s version of success. In this session, we'll learn the neuroscience of Rewriting Success and practice shifting from external validation to internal metrics
Building Influence From The Inside Out
In a world optimizing for speed, visibility, and amplification, it’s easy to forget a fundamental truth:
your greatest platform isn’t your title, your followers, or your strategy. Your Presence Is Your Platform. Presence is the state from which your words land, your decisions resonate, and your leadership becomes felt—not just seen. It’s the difference between a leader who speaks and a leader who influences. Between a strategist who knows and a strategist who inspires. And in the age of AI acceleration, presence isn’t a “soft skill.” It’s a competitive advantage.
The Embodied Leader's Response to a World in Crisis
In a world navigating war, economic uncertainty, and the accelerating pace of change, the most urgent leadership skill isn't strategy — it's stability. Rooted in the Storm explores the neuroscience of leading under pressure, including what happens in the brain and body when stress becomes chronic and how to shift out of survival mode and back into your most capable self. You will learn a simple but powerful practice you can use personally and with your team to regulate the nervous system, expand collective capacity, and lead from groundedness rather than reactivity..
Meet Your Guide
Teresa Kay-Aba Kennedy, Ph.D., MBA, RYT, CPC
Teresa Kay-Aba Kennedy is redefining how we live, work, and inhabit the planet. A Harvard Business School-trained strategist, global transformational leader and speaker/moderator/curator at high-level events, she is the creator of the Embodied Success® Coaching System and the IAmPowerLiving.com empowerment platform. For over 20 years, she has been training people around the world in her "whole-person" approach to wellness, empowerment, and success—tapping into her unique multi-disciplinary background, real-world experience, and deep interest in human potential. She integrates neuroscience, leadership, and embodiment practices to help high achievers play full out without burnout, navigate change and uncertainty with ease and confidence, and be present for moment-to-moment joy. Former VP at MTV Networks and founder of VH1 Online and VH1@Work Radio at the beginning of the commercial Internet, she is an innovator who understands the journey of the high-performing professional and has personally experienced it all… from success to near death to full-system transformation. After almost dying in 1997, she left her corporate career and founded the first yoga studio in Harlem. She has since led hundreds of transformative programs for organizations and events, while also advising companies on digital strategy, leadership development, and change management. A Certified Professional Coach from the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching (iPEC), she has thousands of client-hours coaching executives and entrepreneurs.
She is seasoned at making contemplative practices accessible for a professional audience with deep credibility in both the business and yoga/wellness worlds. Considered a mind-body expert, she has over 1,000 hours of yoga teacher training and a comprehensive understanding of nervous system regulation (which she teaches in her State Shifting course and as a part of Embodied Success®). She served six years on the Board of Yoga Alliance (inc. Chair and Interim CEO) setting standards for yoga teaching in the U.S., and was one of the first African Americans featured on the cover of Yoga Journal. She has led programs on the mind-body connection for entities like the National Institutes of Health and Association of Black Cardiologists, and has even taught yoga to global leaders on a private section of The Great Wall of China. She is an advanced student of Sri Dharma Mittra and protégé of the late yoga master Tao Porchon-Lynch. Her initial teacher training was at Integral Yoga Institute and she participated in one of the last satsang gatherings (i.e., audience with a master) with Sri Swami Satchidananda (whose teachings inspired Dr. Dean Ornish's pioneering work on reversing heart disease). She is a National Spokesperson for the American Heart Association, and has written six books, including Tao's award-winning autobiography, Dancing Light: The Spiritual Side of Being Through the Eyes of a Modern Yoga Master. Called "smart with a heart," she has been a moderator at the United Nations, and was selected as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, including being a Discussion Leader for the Annual Meeting in Davos. She has received over 20 awards across disciplines, including the Women Who Dare To Be Different Award presented by Congressman Edolphus Towns and The Women’s Caucus. Her work has been featured in various media, from CNN to Oprah's book, Live Your Best Life!
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