Deep Rest

at Work

Unlock Deeper Ease and Greater Capacity

What would it be like to lead from a place of embodied presence, radical clarity, and inner coherence?

Welcome to Deep Rest at Work

How do you want to experience yourself at work and in life?

Deep Rest at Work reconnects you to your embodied intelligence and rewires your nervous system's relationship to stress, overwhelm, exhaustion, and burnout, so you can experience greater ease, freedom, flow, and aliveness in your life.

Burnout is cumulative nervous system dysregulation.

Burnout is a physiological signal from an overwhelmed nervous system that's become dysregulated and depleted after being in a prolonged state of chronic stress activation without adequate restoration and recovery. Powering through exhaustion and burnout doesn't work; it's counterproductive and no longer sustainable. Your nervous system is designed to handle short bursts of stress followed by adequate restoration and recovery.

A regulated nervous system requires a balance between activation (stress/activity) and recovery (‘rest and digest’) to avoid chronic exhaustion, burnout and emotional dysregulation. When teams operate under chronic, cumulative stress and urgency without deep rest, cognitive capacity, efficacy, innovation, and creativity decline, emotional reactivity increases, and the quality of decision-making and strategic thinking deteriorates, undermining collaboration and overall team resilience.

Deep Rest is a physiological reset that shifts your nervous system into a restorative, parasympathetic state, restoring capacity and inner coherence, emotional regulation, and resilience.

Less urgency. Greater clarity.

When we slow down, breathe, and reconnect with ourselves, we become more centred and present. By balancing our autonomic nervous system, we shift our physiology from states of high stress, threat and chronic tension to spacious ease and flow. In states of deeply rested ease, we're better able to regulate our emotional responses and access a radical clarity that guides our decision-making. By cultivating embodied awareness, we become more attuned to unprocessed emotions, limiting beliefs, behaviours and thought patterns underlying chronic stress, habitual tension, and resistance held in our nervous system, which diminishes our capacity to be fully present and available for what really matters.

Reduced tension. More ease.

Ease doesn't imply a lack of effort; it's a way of being that expands our capacity to respond to challenges and uncertainty with emotional steadiness, spaciousness, clarity, curiosity, connection and the right amount of effort. With ease, your nervous system learns to hold space for complexity, ambiguity, paradox, and uncertainty during times of change and transition without feeling the need to grip tightly or control the situation. You'll discover how to pause and centre yourself in the space between 'stimulus and response', so you're no longer communicating or making decisions from a place of reactivity, anxiety, overwhelm, stress, and fatigue. Spacious ease allows you to be regulated, responsive and resilient under pressure, embrace discomfort and trust your inherent embodied intelligence to guide you through difficult conversations and challenging decisions.

Presence over performance.

When you choose greater ease and spacious presence, you reduce the risk of burnout, exhaustion, and overwhelm. You meet yourself and your experiences as they are, without over-efforting or adding further friction through over-performance, overthinking, urgency, resistance, perfectionism, fear, judgement or tension. When you ease into your felt, embodied leadership presence, you expand your nervous system capacity and create meaningful impact in the workplace.

The Deep Rest at Work approach

Deep Rest at Work fosters a culture of embodied leadership, connection, belonging, growth, and innovation. Drawing on science-backed tools and practices, Deep Rest at Work offers a more grounded, connected, and sustainable approach to embodied self-leadership presence in the workplace.

Our collaboration will focus on four key areas: embodied self-leadership presence, nervous system regulation and reorganisation, radical self-inquiry, and Deep Rest. Together, these areas create a foundation of embodied safety, emotional resilience, and centredness that will enable you to evolve and transform, and to lead from a place of integration, connection, deeper alignment, and intentional action—guided by purpose and meaning for sustainable impact.

Rest is not the opposite of work, nor is it a competitor to work, but rather a partner. Rest enhances the capacity to work, and each one gives the other meaning and purpose.

- Alex Soojung-Kim Pang

What you'll experience working with me

Let's Work Together

Online Deep Rest at Work sessions

Well-rested, well-regulated teams experience greater resilience in the workplace

What is Deep Rest?

Deep Rest is a guided hypnagogic practice that induces profound relaxation and restoration, shifting high-stress physiological states, or 'fight-or-flight' sympathetic nervous system dominance, to deep, spacious calm flow states, or 'rest-and-digest' parasympathetic activation. This nervous system reset unwinds and releases deeply held tension and accumulated stress in the body, leading to a profound sense of inner peace, centred calm and well-being.

Deep Rest is practised lying down in a comfortable position, making it accessible to people of all ages and abilities. You are gently guided into a hypnagogic state of consciousness between wakefulness and sleep, whilst remaining conscious and aware throughout. Deep Rest can induce a state of relaxation deeper than sleep. One hour of deep restoration can feel like four hours of blissful sleep, leaving you feeling grounded, refreshed, revitalised and restored.

Deep Rest is accessible, inclusive and effortless to practice. No previous experience is required. There's no special technique to learn and master over time. The rest is easy. The impact is immediate.

Each 60-minute Deep Rest Experience includes:

• Guided sensory, somatic/embodied and emotional awareness

• Nervous system regulation and breathwork

• Radical self-inquiry

• Intention setting in the subconscious mind to create new habits and behaviours.

• Integration

Tension is who you think you should be.

Relaxation is who you are.

- Chinese Proverb

The Science-Backed Benefits of Deep Rest at Work

Mental and Emotional Wellbeing

• Stress reduction.

• Emotional regulation and resilience.

• Reduces risk of burnout and overwhelm.

• Reduces anxiety and depression.

• Increases sense of calm and inner peace.

• Increases mindfulness by developing greater self-awareness and presence.

• Empowered mindset and restored sense of agency.

• Rewires self-limiting beliefs.

• Increases self-confidence, self-esteem, and motivation.

• Increases capacity to navigate major life changes with ease, presence and awareness.

• Cultivates self-compassion and self-acceptance.

• Fosters Embodied Leadership Presence.

Cognitive Wellbeing

• Improves overall cognitive capacity.

• Promotes focus, concentration and attention.

• Improves decision-making.

• Increases creative problem-solving, curiosity, lateral thinking and psychological flexibility.

• Improves memory.

• Greater mental clarity.

• Improves learning, integration and consolidation of new skills.

• Renews perspective and provides deep insight.

Physical Wellbeing

• Nervous system regulation.

• Reduces exhaustion and fatigue.

• Profound relaxation.

• Improves sleep quality and symptoms of insomnia.

• Pain management- improves overall pain tolerance and reduces inflammation.

• Relieves muscular tension.

• Boosts immunity.

• Improves heart rate variability, lowers blood pressure and reduces the risk of heart disease.

• Reduces cortisol levels and improves blood glucose fluctuations.

• Raises low dopamine levels associated with poor motivation and decision-making.

• Supports the body's innate capacity for self-repair and self-healing.

Client Feedback

Navreet holds a safe and welcoming space. She has a beautiful delivery that is engaging and makes the practice so easy to follow. She’s a great storyteller. I loved her voice, tone and pacing. I would definitely recommend this experience as a nurturing time-out from life's hectic busyness, a chance to rest and regulate your nervous system.

Raggi Kotak, Human Rights Barrister, London, U.K

That was wonderful! Thank you so much!

Kathy Poole, Director of People, The Wellcome Trust, U.K.

Navreet was brilliant, kind, welcoming, open and inclusive. Her intuitive pace mirrored everything I was feeling. The visualisations and images she used were amazing. I felt clear-eyed, peaceful, enlivened and energised. I would highly recommend this nurturing and powerful Deep Rest experience. To say I felt relaxed after the session is an understatement. It's an hour when you're detached from your own circumstances just to be with yourself, which in itself is completely freeing.

Sharon, Solicitor, U.K.

I would recommend Navreet to anyone in search of doing something special for themselves! Her warm, gentle way of leading the practice, combined with her soothing voice, would take me to a place of complete relaxation, which has never been easy to achieve before. Thanks to Navreet, I’m able to get to that place, and I know how great it feels to be there.

Anna, Maryland, USA

I loved my Deep Rest experiences with Navreet! Every session was transformative, giving me time to rest, restore, and simply be. I could feel a quiet calm wash over me as I moved into deeper and deeper meditative awareness.

Upjeet Chandan, Deputy Director of Operations, Humanitarian Emergency Response and Relief Centre, New York, USA

The Deep Rest experiences have been a tremendous gift. The practices have been restorative and a source of calm, comfort and unconditional love. Thank you for the seeds of calm, peace, and connection you're planting with the Deep Rest sessions.

M.J. Kumahor, Vice President of Education & Community Engagement, The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, USA

Deep Rest has given me an ongoing calm and steadiness that has supported me through life's challenges.

The Deep Rest sessions left me feeling grounded and centred.
Your voice is so calming... like silk.
I felt utterly safe and nourished.

Exquisite storytelling...Your voice is soothing and calm…like caramel…I fell into the most deeply restful state.

It left me feeling refreshed and grounded. Thank you for your deep care.

I came away with a sense of lightness and energy.

I experienced a sense of calm... energy... a natural high that nothing or no one could touch.

A deeply blissful journey... Left me floating in comfort and joy.

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If my Deep Rest at Work approach resonates with you,

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I look forward to hearing from you,

Navreet

Let's Work Together 1:1

One-to-One Embodied Leadership Coaching or Deep Rest sessions (online only)

Real change doesn't happen in your mind—it happens when your body and nervous system have the capacity to do things differently. Long-lasting meaningful change requires a gradual approach to avoid overwhelming the nervous system. In one-to-one Embodied Leadership Coaching, we move at the pace of the body. When we move slowly with intention and ease, we go further. With conscious attention, we work with your nervous system to rewire your stress response and adaptive behavioural patterns, so that, instead of defaulting to shut down (detachment), avoidance, or overdrive, you're able to invite curiosity, calm, and connection. When you reorganise your nervous system, you transform the quality of your attention and renew your seeing—your perceptions and perspective will start to shift, and you'll open up to new ways of being. You'll begin to show up for what matters most. Your embodied leadership presence will feel more alive, centred, spacious, and coherent.

If this way of working resonates with you, I'd love to hear from you. You can reach me at Navreetchawla@gmail.com.

Navreet's background

I'm an experienced Deep Rest Guide and Somatic practitioner, with a strong background in nervous system trauma healing and training in embodied presence for live performance. My unique approach to this work draws on over 20 years of experience in holistic healing as both a pharmacist and homeopath, and through my personal experience of recovery from burnout.

I've spent most of my professional life at the borderlands between biomedicine and homeopathy—holding the tension between two opposing perspectives on healing, whilst guiding tender souls in the liminal space of uncertainty between the ‘two kingdoms of the ill and well.’ During my time as a homeopathic pharmacist at The Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine and in my own private holistic health practice, I listened and tended to many patients’ stories, developing a holistic awareness of how stress, and 'ease and dis-ease' develop and evolve in the body. I witnessed profound healing through the mind-body connection. I observed how patients’ beliefs and perceptions of their experiences influenced their health and healing outcomes, and how the subconscious and the nervous system express stories through symptoms and sensations in the body.

My interest in the neuroscience of storytelling led to further study and training in Narrative Medicine with Columbia University, Narrative Therapy, Medical Humanities and true storytelling on stage. I became a host for Spark, London's first true storytelling night. My stories have featured on BBC Radio 4, the Peabody Award-winning The Moth Radio Hour on PRX and The Moth podcast, which is downloaded 100 million times a year.  As a storyteller, I’m most interested in how our unconscious inner core narrative drives our experience of ourselves and our perceptions of the world. Nervous system literacy allows us to restore and reorganise ourselves from the inside out, so we can embody a more empowering narrative guided by our core values, intention, and deeper meaning through our Embodied Leadership Presence.

Thank you for being here.

Your presence matters,