MASTER YOUR STRESS IN 8 WEEKS
State Shift helps you address what’s under the hood so you can feel more like yourself and less hijacked by the stressors in your life.
Through breathwork, survival pattern recognition and rewiring, and somatic work, this program creates change in the body, not just your mind so that you can get relief and move through life with more clarity, steadiness, and resilience. These tools will last you a lifetime.
You may look high-functioning on the outside, but underneath it all you feel a lot of pressure and you’re feeling the physical effects of it. You know your poor sleep, chronic pain, and symptoms that won’t go away are tied to stress and your nervous system.Your body knows the truth and you know its time to address it so that you can get your mojo back.
If stress is starting to run the show, this work is for you
State Shift is for people who are:
high-functioning on the outside
feeling off
ready for something deeper than information and mindset work
willing to invest in real change when it feels relevant
This may be especially resonant if:
you are a go-getter and highly motivated
you provide a lot
you have been experiencing physical symptoms that persist despite supplements and pushing through
you know your current way of handling stress and unwinding is not working for you and others
What The State Shift helps you do
Feel less hijacked by stress
So you’re no longer experiencing physical symptoms tied to stress, no longer at the mercy of old reactions, shutdown, overthinking, irritability, or overwhelm. So you can make better decisions.
Recover faster
So when life gets intense (as it does), you can trust yourself to meet it. You’ll be able to find peace instead of spiraling, snapping, numbing out, or staying activated for hours.
Expand capacity
So you can hold more of life (finances, work, family, decisions, life) without your nervous system and physical body taking the hit.
What makes The State Shift different?
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Therapy can be incredibly supportive, but a lot of it stays in the head. Stress responses and survival patterns are not rational. They don’t live in the logical brain. This work goes beneath that. It’s a training system for your nervous system. Less overthinking, more working with the body and interrupting the pattern where it actually lives.. It can absolutely complement therapy, but it’s doing something different.
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Executive coaching is often focused on strategy, mindset, performance, and decision-making. The State Shift is focused on the survival patterns underneath the stress. It’s not about becoming a better thinker. It’s about becoming someone who can actually hold pressure differently, with more ease and clarity. It’s body-based. Somatic and practical. This practice complements executive coaching so you can do the thing without frying your system in the process.
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Meditation is beautiful. It’s been game changing in my own life. But for a lot of people, meditation gives relief from the pattern without actually rewiring the pattern. State Shift is designed to help you get to the root of what keeps getting activated so you can respond to life with more clarity, precision, and choice. It doesn't mask the symptoms, it addresses them at the root.
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You can absolutely try free breathwork on YouTube. While it can be great for quick relief, it won’t get you to the root to create lasting change. These resources lack a framework, lack a witness, and a coach.
It is not the same thing as transformation. The State Shift is a structured process. Repetition matters. Coaching matters. Practice matters. The goal is not to have one powerful experience or reduce stress in the moment. The goal is to build a different baseline and create lasting change in your nervous system.
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Because eventually that strategy starts costing too much. Your sleep, your health, your relationships, your energy, your joy. A lot of high-functioning people are incredibly good at overriding themselves. Until they can’t. Information alone usually doesn’t change behavior. Real change takes support, accountability, and practice. The people operating at the highest level almost never do it alone. Athletes have coaches. CEOs have coaches. High performers use support because pressure distorts perspective, and skill under pressure has to be trained.
What’s inside
Live Call Schedule
Week 1 - Coming Out of Overdrive: Learn how stress has been running in the background and begin creating safety in the body.
Week 2: Regulating Faster: Build: the foundations of nervous system regulation so you can calm your system more quickly when pressure hits.
Week 3: Releasing What You’ve Been Carrying: Use somatic work and breathwork to start moving stuck activation, stress, and emotional residue through the body.
Week 4: Understanding Your Survival Patterns: Identify the deeper patterns underneath overwhelm, shutdown, control, or over performance.
Week 5: Interrupting the Old Scripts: Learn how to catch your stress response in real time and start making different choices
Week 6: Rewiring Your Stress Response:Create new responses through practice, repetition, and nervous system training.
Week 7: Building Capacity:Strengthen your ability to hold more without collapsing, reacting, or burning out
Week 8: Creating a New Baseline: Integrate what you’ve learned so the work becomes something you live, not just something you know.
The Details
Weekly live calls (8am PST / 10am CST / 11am EST on Thursdays)
Integration tools throughout the week (voice notes and exercises)
Lifetime access to live recordings so you can go back or do the work at your own pace
Q&A and personal guidance during live sessions
Signature breathwork practices created by Aleks
This container uses our signature Embodied Freedom Method™ which is rooted in neuroscience, breath physiology, and polyvagal theory.
Bonus: A Daily Support System
Includes weekly voice notes from Aleks to help deepen your live practice
Includes access to our Detox House self-paced content:
Guided 1 to 15 min breathwork sessions, meditations, sauna sessions, and cold therapies for various phases and needs:
Rest
Release
Reprogram
Reinforce
Why This Works
Why This Works
All physical symptoms have an underlying emotional root cause that rarely gets addressed.
You may already know you’re stressed. .
You may already have insight into why.
You may already have tools to address it when it comes up.
But your stress responses and survival patterns are not rational. They do not live in the logical brain. They live in your subconscious (otherwise known as your autonomic nervous system).
That’s why The State Shift is a body-based training system designed to help you interrupt old stress patterns where they actually live.
Instead of using tools as a bandaid, we get to the root so you can stop experiencing it altogether.
Something needs to change.
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you can feel that life pressure has exceeded your current capacity
you cannot afford for your body, mind, relationships, or leadership capacity to break down under this pressure
you’re tired of running on overdrive
you want support that is practical, embodied, and rooted in real transformation
you’re ready to stop living at the mercy of your stress patterns
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instability
strained relationships
sleep disruption
chronic stress accumulation
health consequences
less joy
less presence
less clarity
bad decision making
You do not have to wait until everything falls apart to get support.
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stop running on pure survival
recover faster when life gets hard
meet pressure with more steadiness
feel less anxious and overwhelmed
make better decisions
have healthier relationships
increase capacity without sacrificing your health
create real change from the inside out
A little about Aleks….
I’ve been a high performer my whole life (because I had to be). I’ve built a great career in marketing and tech: I’ve been part of three exits: Digital Impact sold to Acxiom, Yammer sold to Microsoft, ShopStyle sold to Rakuten. I worked my butt off to be in the right rooms. But my body wasn’t loving it. What this looked like for me was: chronic fatigue but pushing through with coffee, poor sleep but mitigating with supplements, a lack of presence (I couldn’t remember what I did last weekend), constant distraction by filling my calendar with plans, and numbing out by scrolling,
I was high functioning (and doing a great job hiding all of my symptoms) so it all seemed ok, until it didn’t.
I didn’t want to just quit and go on a sabbatical. I didn’t want to go become a monk. I wanted to expand my capacity to hold my life. I wanted to fully live in it without getting hijacked by stress and constantly feeling activated. That motivation sparked my journey in trying anything and everything to find my freedom and my joy. Ten+ years of trying all the biohacking, ancient rituals, new technologies I finally found something that really works — a unique combination of things to be exact.
In 2016, I met Wim Hof and tried breathwork for the first time — it was this moment that showed me the real time effects of breathwork. There was no “wait 3 months for this to kick in”. It was immediate. It was an aha moment for me. After that, I took a deep dive into all things nervous system health and studied polyvagal theory, the science of breathwork and contrast therapy, and trained under my mentor Lihi Benisty, from whom I received my breathwork certification. I devoured the works of Dr. Sarno, Dr. David Hawkins, Joe Dispenza, and more while I studied Functional Nutrition at MBG which gave me access to Dr. Mark Hyman, Dr. Stephen Gundry, Dr. Will Cole, and Dr. Frank Lipman as examples.. I combined all of this to create the Embodied Freedom Method™ which is what I share with you in my signature 8 week program: The State Shift.
I am currently partnered with Soho House, where we have a weekly residency in Nashville, I’ve also hosted workshops at Onsite and other healthcare providers.
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
“I can say without hesitation that Aleks has been more invaluable to me than any other coach or support system in my life. As a high-achieving entrepreneur who lives a very full life, I came to her high-functioning on the outside but carrying so many things underneath that I couldn't quite name or untangle on my own. What Aleks does is nothing short of extraordinary: she consistently identifies the big things I miss amidst the thoughts and feelings in my own brain. I couldn't see where things happening in life across areas like work and finances are actually connected to deeper areas around family, relationships and my sense of identity and self-worth. Most importantly, she sees these layers with such clarity and helps me pause, recognize what's coming up and taking shape, and then helps guide me to ask the bigger questions that have led to incredible breakthroughs that have stayed with me. I have had more aha moments working with her than I can begin to count.”
“Working with Detox House has been pure magic. This experience has helped me acknowledge my blocks and intentionally move through them so I can truly live in joy.
The breathwork may be my favorite, and most transformative part for me. I love that there’s an app to help me stay consistent. Working with Aleks has honestly been one of the most impactful things I’ve done in my life.”
Rose Carter, Owner of James Rose Studio
“From when I started working with Aleks a lot has shifted. Each session has been different. I walk away each time with things to look at. It doesn't feel too deep or dark, it feels curious. When we started, I was up against some very old patterns and old anxious reactions. Lately I am anxiety free and easily letting go of outdated versions of myself. The expansion is real.”
Carlisle Hodges, Founder of Meditation with Carlisle
“Aleks’ breathwork is one of a kind. She created such a safe, nurturing and supportive environment to allow me to go deep and access deeper states of consciousness. I was able to see certain life situations with more clarity and get inspired for action during the practices. I can’t recommend her program enough!”
Kayce Laine, Founder of The Sound Healers Society
“What made this program so impactful was not just the breathwork itself, but the way the lessons, journaling, and breathwork worked together to create real inner shifts. It felt meaningful, worthwhile, and deeply transformative. I really trusted Aleks and respected her lessons. She has a very calm cadence to her voice that is powerful.”
Rich SImon, VP at Assured Guaranty
✺ Frequently asked questions ✺
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All sessions will be recorded and you’ll have lifetime access to the recordings.
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Our weekly calls will include 30-40 minutes of breathwork so I highly recommend you take them from a quiet space where you can be comfortable and fully drop-in.
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We use a three-part conscious connect breath in our work. Aleks was trained by Lihi Benisty (at Open in Venice, CA) and uses a similar approach while also borrowing inspiration from Stanslav Grof, the founder of holotropic breathwork.
Breathwork helps you access deeper patterning and build new responses (you’ll learn about the mechanism of theta/neuroplasticity in the program).
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You shouldn’t enroll in this program if you’re not willing to invest time in yourself and push yourself outside of your comfort zone to achieve real change.
You should not enroll in this program if you are not willing to take accountability for your inner state.
The type of breathwork in our program is not suited for anyone who is pregnant, has recently had heart surgery, or suffers from seizures or epilepsy.
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Embodied Freedom Method™ combines breath + somatic processing with subconscious rewiring and ritual-grade integration so your body doesn’t just understand change, it becomes it. Most approaches only do one piece (regulation or deep emotional work or mindset). This method does all three in the right order: stabilize the nervous system (safety first), access and release what’s stored, update the pattern at the root, then reinforce it through daily repetition and real-life integration. And because sequence and safety matter, you’re guided through the process so you don’t get stuck and feel supported in the practice. Aleks is also trained in energy clearing and intuition and will be using these tools in our sessions together.