Thrive With Marina

Founder of Thrive With Marina

Fitness First Middle East

Assistant Fitness Manager and Personal Trainer

Assistant Fitness Manager and personal trainer

FlowCode Coaching Academy

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Somatic Healing Expert | Emotional Processing Mentor | Humanitarian | I help high-achieving executives, leaders, and entrepreneurs heal trauma and reconnect with their authentic selves through somatic healing

I support visionary women to rise into a new era of leadership, rooted in Nervous System Energetics™, Somatic Expansion, and Quantum Embodiment.
My work guides women beyond survival, control, and performance, helping them embody their true presence, energy, and creative power.

Through a deeply body-centred approach, I help women rewire their nervous systems, expand their emotional and energetic capacities, and remember how to lead, love, and create from a place of safety, truth, and alignment.

My methodology is built on the understanding that real transformation is not a mindset-first approach.
It is body-first, frequency-first, and energy-first.
It is a return to coherence with the natural intelligence of the body, and a reprogramming of the nervous system to hold more joy, more visibility, more wealth, and more intimacy without collapse or burnout.

When a woman feels safe within her own body, her leadership, relationships, and creations are no longer driven by fear, scarcity, or exhaustion.
They are led by presence, truth, and grounded energetic expansion.

This work creates lasting internal change, expanding a woman’s ability to thrive in her business, relationships, and personal life.
It also initiates a ripple effect that extends into her family, community, and the collective energy of our world.

Grief, transformation, and deep emotional evolution are not obstacles in this work.
They are sacred portals that deepen our humanity and expand our capacity for love, vision, and contribution.

Through Nervous System Energetics™, women no longer have to sacrifice themselves to succeed.
They learn to create, lead, and live from their embodied frequency, building businesses, relationships, and legacies that are sustainable, fulfilling, and true.

This is not just healing.
It is reclamation.
It is the building of the new feminine architecture of leadership, rooted in authenticity, sovereignty, and embodied wholeness.

I walk this path alongside the women I support, holding space for their evolution with deep care, presence, and unwavering belief in their true power.

If you feel called to create your next chapter from a new paradigm, one led by energy, truth, and embodied leadership , I am here to walk with you.

The Invisible Dialogue Between Body and Mind

Most people think emotions live in the mind. But emotions are felt, processed, and stored through the body.

Every breath, every heartbeat, every subtle sensation is part of a conversation happening within you, a dialogue between your nervous system and your emotions.

And this dialogue shapes everything.
How do you think.
How you connect.
How you lead.
How safe do you feel in your own skin.

I’ve seen this over and over again in my work with founders, creators, and visionaries, brilliant women who have achieved so much but feel like something inside isn’t matching the external success.

Their nervous system is still running on survival mode.
The body has learned to be on alert even when life looks “good.”

This is why emotions are not random mood swings.

They are intelligent feedback.

They show you where your system feels safe and where it doesn’t.
When we begin to understand the nervous system not only as biology but as the bridge between body, mind, and consciousness, everything changes.
You begin to recognise that what feels like anxiety might be a body that’s forgotten safety.

That burnout might not be about doing too much but feeling too little.
That healing isn’t about fixing yourself, it’s about remembering the dialogue that was always happening beneath the noise.

This is what my latest blog is about:
 ✨ “Emotions and the Nervous System: The Invisible Dialogue Between Body and Mind.”

It’s a deep exploration of how your body and emotions communicate and how understanding that relationship changes the way you lead, love, and live.

If you’ve ever wondered why you “know” something logically but still feel different in your body… this will help you see why.
🩵 Read the full blog here: https://lnkd.in/dwhNcPZQ

 and let me know what resonates most.

Because when you learn to listen to your body, you stop surviving life 
and start living it with coherence, presence, and power.

 Marina Savic-Baines
 Nervous System Energetics™

💚 When I guide women and men legacy leaders and visionaries, to regulate their nervous system and reconnect with their body,
I’m helping them retrain that invisible communication channel between the limbic brain and the body so they can lead with clarity, create with coherence, and live from the power of embodied safety where intuition and leadership no longer compete, but collaborate.

Because when the body feels safe, the mind expands,
And life begins to flow in ways the nervous system can finally hold.

Marina Savic Baines

♾️Building the new era of women’s leadership through Nervous System Energetics™ | Mentor to Women Returning to the Wisdom of Their Bodies and the Earth ⚜️ Let’s connect 🜃 Join the Somatic Breathwork Challenge Below ⬇️

The Paradox of Stillness and Movement ...

We live in a world that worships movement.

Do more. Become more. Achieve more.

We measure worth by motion.

Yet the deepest transformation happens in stillness.

Not the stillness of doing nothing but the stillness of presence.

Stillness is not the absence of movement.

It’s the space that gives movement meaning.

When your nervous system finds calm, life doesn’t stop; it reorganizes.

Your heart begins to beat in rhythm with what truly matters.

Your breath deepens.
Your awareness widens.
And suddenly, what once felt heavy begins to move again gently, intelligently, without force.

This is the paradox:

You don’t create flow by moving faster.
You create it by becoming still enough to feel what’s already moving through you.

On a brain level, stillness brings coherence.
The mind, heart, and body synchronise and communication between them becomes clear.

This is when creativity awakens, intuition strengthens, and clarity returns.
You begin to move from alignment, not from reaction.

Stillness is not passive.
It’s active awareness.
It’s the quiet pulse of life when you stop trying to control the rhythm.

Movement is how life expresses.
Stillness is how it listens.
And both are sacred.

The art is not choosing between them, it’s learning to dance with both.
When your body can hold stillness and movement together, you become the bridge between heaven and earth, grounded, alive, and deeply at peace.

Can you feel the quiet pulse beneath your thoughts right now, the rhythm of your own aliveness?
That’s stillness.
Can you let it move you today?

Marina Savic Baines
Nervous System Energetics™


💙 If these words resonate with you and you’re ready to experience what it means to live in harmony with your body, not against it, I invite you to connect with me directly here on LinkedIn or through the link in my bio.

What if “normal” is what made you sick?

I wanted to share an example of a client I’m currently working with, and I know many women will deeply resonate with this.

I see this pattern almost daily in my work, and I’ve lived it myself. That moment when you start wondering, “What’s wrong with me?”

When rest doesn’t restore you, and even a holiday ends with exhaustion.
But what if you’re not broken? What if your body is protecting you in the only way it knows how?

One of my clients, a woman in a leadership role, told me, “Marina, I’ve always been the one who gets things done. If I decide something, I’ll make it happen. But now I don’t feel like doing anything.”

Her doctors ran all the tests. Everything looked normal. They advised her to rest and continue her normal activities.

But her “normal” was overachieving, proving herself, never slowing down.

Upon further exploration, we discovered the emotional root. As a child, she was celebrated only when she did something good and she made others proud. Her nervous system learned that love and safety come from performance, not presence.

So as an adult, she kept running. Her body was trying to earn safety the only way it knew how. And when it couldn’t anymore, it froze.

Freeze isn’t laziness or lack of discipline, it’s survival. It’s the body saying, “I can’t keep going like this.”

In real life, freeze can look like this:

 • You stare at your screen but can’t start.
 • You go through the day feeling detached and flat.
 • You overthink decisions but can’t act.

Over time, it becomes chronic:

 • You wake up tired even after sleeping.
 • You lose joy in things that once inspired you.
 • You rest but never feel restored.

After our first session, when her nervous system finally slowed down, she felt so tired she had to leave work early. That wasn’t weakness; it was her body finally exhaling after years of holding.

This is what I see in so many high-performing women. We lead with love and purpose, but often from a system trained to perform for safety.

It’s not about doing less, but doing differently. Creating from regulation, not pressure. From peace, not proving.

When we reconnect with the body and rebuild safety from within, the system stops defending and starts creating again.

💡 What if your body isn’t failing you, but freeing you from the way you were never meant to live?

Marina Savic-Baines
Nervous System Energetics™

💚 If these words resonate with you and you’re ready to experience what it means to live in harmony with your body, not against it, I invite you to connect with me directly here on LinkedIn or through the link in my bio.

The Nervous System of Success...

We are taught to chase life.

To move faster, push harder, and measure worth by output.
But success, like the ocean, cannot be grasped by force.
The tighter you hold the wave, the faster it slips away.

Real success is not born in striving. It arises in stillness.

It comes when your nervous system is at peace, when your actions are an echo of inner harmony, not inner war.

When the body is calm, the mind becomes clear.
When the heart is open, direction appears.
You no longer chase. You respond.
You no longer force. You flow.

THE BODY, AFTER ALL, IS THE FIELD WHERE SUCCESS IS EITHER SUSTAINED OR DESTROYED.

A nervous system in survival cannot create. It can only defend.
And yet most people build their dreams from that place:
tight jaw, shallow breath, lack of sleep, mistaking tension for drive and anxiety for ambition.

Especially for women, it often looks like holding your breath while holding everyone together, writing emails at midnight with tears you never let fall,
feeling powerful yet invisible in your own body, performing “fine” while quietly falling apart inside. You wake up already in motion while a quiet thought whispers:

There must be another way.

A way where success doesn’t require self-abandonment.

Where strength doesn’t mean suppression.

Where your nervous system isn’t an afterthought, but the foundation of your expansion.

When stress becomes constant, blood leaves the parts of the brain that imagine and innovate and rushes toward the parts that prepare for danger.

We stop evolving and start reacting.
We stop creating and start controlling.
And so, what the world calls success often becomes an elegant form of exhaustion.
We reach the mountain only to find the view feels hollow.
The great paradox is that the more we slow down, the faster life begins to move.
When the nervous system feels safe, energy returns, clarity deepens, and synchronicities appear not by magic, but by coherence.

You become a tuning fork for opportunity.
What once required effort now arrives through presence.
Success, then, is not a destination. It is a frequency a rhythm between doing and being, movement and trust.
 And when that rhythm settles into your body, you realise: prosperity was never something to achieve. It was something to remember.

Can you feel where your body still confuses effort with safety?
And what might happen if success no longer required you to push, only to align?

Marina Savic-Baines
Nervous System Energetics™

💙 If these words resonate with you and you’re ready to experience what it means to live in harmony with your body, not against it, I invite you to connect with me directly here on LinkedIn or through the link in my bio.

Yesterday in one of the conversations with an amazing Leader and Founder , he told me tha he is  afraid breathwork will make him “too slow.”


I didn’t laugh  because I’ve heard this from almost every high-achiever I’ve ever worked with, men and women as well.

This person runs a 7-figure company. Leads a big team. Gets results like it’s an Olympic sport.

He said:

> “I move fast. I make decisions quickly. I thrive under pressure.
What if slowing down my breath slows down my results?”



I get it. Because I had the same fear.

I thought nervous system regulation would make me passive.

That calm meant losing my drive.

But what actually happened?
I became sharper. More focused. More grounded.

I didn’t lose my edge I just stopped using it to cut myself.

One of my clients recently launched a second business that had been waiting for years.

She said, “Marina, I finally have space to act from what feels right  not from pressure.”

That’s what regulation does.

It doesn’t make you slow. It removes the noise.

It helps you access your true intelligence the one that doesn’t burn you out to create.

You don’t lose ambition. You just stop chasing what doesn’t matter.

You don’t become less driven. You become driven by clarity.

The most powerful leaders I know have regulated nervous systems.

They’re calm and fierce.
Driven and present.
Successful and sustainable.

They didn’t have to choose between performance and peace.

They integrated both.

So big  NO, breathwork won’t make you too slow.

But it might turn you into the leader you were always meant to be .

The one who builds, leads, and thrives with ease.

Marina Savic-Baines
Nervous System Energetics™

💙 If these words resonate, connect with me here on LinkedIn or through the link in my bio to learn how nervous system regulation can amplify your performance , not silence it.

Control vs. Surrender...

We spend much of our lives trying to control what we were meant to experience.

We control outcomes, emotions, people, and timing, all in the name of safety.

Control feels powerful, but it’s often born from fear. It’s the body saying, “I don’t feel safe to trust life yet.”

When the nervous system is in survival mode, the brain searches for predictability. 

It wants certainty. It tightens, plans, and rehearses possibilities, believing that if it can anticipate everything, it can stay safe.

But control is a temporary illusion of safety. 

It’s the mind trying to do the body’s job. 

And the more we grip, the less life can move through us.

Surrender, on the other hand, is not weakness. It’s not giving up. It’s giving space.

When the body feels safe again, the brain naturally releases its need to control. 
The heart opens. The breath deepens. You shift from managing life to being in a relationship with it.

On a physiological level, surrender activates the parasympathetic nervous system, the part that says “You’re safe now. You can rest. You can receive.”

This is when intuition awakens, creativity expands, and healing begins, not because you pushed, but because you stopped resisting.

True surrender is intelligent. It’s the nervous system remembering its rhythm with life.

It’s the art of allowing, not forcing. The quiet confidence that you are supported by something much larger than your plans.

Control shrinks your world. Surrender expands it.

And the deeper you trust that expansion, the more life begins to flow through you effortlessly, gracefully, in ways you could never have planned.

💡 Where in your life are you trying to control what actually wants to unfold naturally?

💡 What might happen if you replaced effort with trust for just one breath?

Marina Savic-Baines
Nervous System Energetics™


💚 If these words resonate with you and you’re ready to experience what it means to live in harmony with your body, not against it, I invite you to connect with me directly here on LinkedIn or through the link in my bio.

The Dopamine Loop We Don’t Even See Anymore!

You know, I often stop and look around. 

I love observing people, energy, and the pace of life.

I love detaching from this Matrix we’ve built, just watching how we move, breathe, talk to ourselves and to others, and fill every silent second.  It’s something I’ve always done, observing without judgment, but lately, what I see breaks my heart.

And I think about this a lot, especially when parents reach out and tell me their kids are addicted to video games or screens. It’s not just about the games, it’s about the void we’ve all learned to fill with stimulation. 

As families, as adults, we need to pause and reflect: where are we missing connection? Where are we modelling disconnection? What are our kids mirroring from us?

Every day, through my work and conversations, I witness how addicted we’ve become to stimulation and constant reward. 

This nervous system overstimulation, this disconnection from the body, from essence, from truth, it’s not just a personal issue, it’s a systemic one. We’ve built a society where distraction feels safer than presence.

A few days ago, a friend said, “Marina, I don’t understand. People spend thousands eating out or shopping, but hesitate to invest in their well-being.” 
And that conversation stayed with me, because absolutely i can witness that as well.  Because it’s not about money, it’s about what we value. And what we value is shaped by the reward system in our brain.

There’s a famous experiment where rats with no dopamine would eat food only if it was placed directly in their mouths, but would starve if it was a few inches away. 

That’s how vital dopamine is for movement and desire. The problem is that every time we scroll, snack, overdrink, overshop, overwork, or chase validation, we trigger the same reward system. And the more we stimulate it, the less sensitive it becomes, so we need more to feel less.


Dr. Anna Lemke explains: “The same parts of the brain that process pleasure also process pain. The balance wants to remain level.” 

When we push pleasure too hard, the brain compensates with pain, which is why, after the dopamine rush comes anxiety, emptiness, or sadness.

Real change begins when we stop escaping discomfort and start feeling again. When we reconnect with the body, we return to balance and to ourselves.

I don’t have all the answers, but I know this: real change begins when we turn the gaze inward, when we learn to sit with discomfort instead of escaping it, when we reconnect with the body and start feeling again. Because awareness is what heals. And healing starts with one simple pause.

💙 If these words resonate with you and you’re ready to experience what it means to live in harmony with your body, not against it I invite you to connect with me directly here on LinkedIn or through the link in my bio.

Marina Savic-Baines
Nervous System Energetics™

My Dear Josee Madison 🎤 is Leading her Retreat in Costa Rica in January. Please check everything on her Profile. I know Josee not just in LinkedIn Space, but much deeper than that, and I can tell you that Retreat with Josee will be pure Magic. 💚

Speaker | The Science & Soul of Self-Leadership | Helping Midlife Professionals Shift from Pressure to Presence | Lucky on Purpose - The Neuroscience of Intentional Success | 3× Founder

I got in trouble for telling the truth when I was 8.


Our teacher used to hit us on the head with her pen when we got answers wrong.

One day, I went to the principal and told him.
I thought I was doing the right thing.

But instead of being thanked, I was told I was “causing trouble.”

That moment taught me something I carried for years.

> Telling the truth makes people uncomfortable.

Especially when it exposes what others would rather ignore.

It took me decades (and a deep dive into neuroscience and self-leadership) to realize something powerful:

The truth isn’t the problem.
Our brain’s perception of threat is.

Your brain’s primary job is to protect you, not perfect you.

That’s why it spots danger before it sees possibility.

It’s why people resist feedback, leaders avoid hard conversations, and teams stay stuck in survival instead of growth.

But when we understand how the brain works, we can lead SMARTER.

We can train it to see opportunity where it once saw threat.

That’s where innovation, clarity, and connection begin.

That’s SMARTER Living.

It’s about decoding the human side of performance so your people stop reacting from fear and start responding from trust.

Because truth-telling doesn’t break teams.

Avoidance does.

And sometimes the bravest thing we can do as leaders is pause long enough to hear the truth our own hearts are whispering.

That’s what we’ll explore in Costa Rica, how to lead with purpose instead of pressure, presence instead of performance.

Through the SMARTER Living blueprint, you’ll learn how to align your logic with your intuition, so leadership feels less like control and more like flow.

I’ve rented the entire retreat; a private, intimate reset for leaders ready to breathe again, think clearly, and reconnect with what truly matters.

A week to reset your nervous system, remember who you are, and return ready to lead, not from fear, but from truth.

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💬 Curious what could shift when you give your brain space to breathe?

You’ll know if this is for you.

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