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Transform High Pressure
into Calm Power

At Kira Rising, we empower high-performing professionals and teams to regulate their nervous systems, realign their circadian rhythms, and rise to the new model of performance: stress and recovery coexisting.

Kira Rising bridges science and inner stability for measurable transformation.

The Reality of High-Pressure Work

Wired but tired isn’t just a feeling – it’s measurable physiological stress that reduces focus, energy, and performance–and most successful professionals experience it.

The data tells the story of what your body already feels:

  • 71% of leaders say stress has increased since stepping into their current roles.
  • High-stress employees are 11× more likely to make errors, miss deadlines, or cut corners
  • The average cost of a highly stressed employee is ≈ $12,000 per year through absenteeism, presenteeism, and turnover.

Traditional Solutions Focus on Information

Wellness apps, one-off workshops, or fragmented programs are failing employees.

Studies show that over 70% of corporate wellness programs fail to produce lasting behavior change because they address symptoms, not systems – and rarely the nervous system itself.
(McKinsey, 2022; Harvard Business Review, 2023).

We need real methods that integrate into daily life, restore biology, and transform performance.

Imagine leading with clarity, calm, and sustained focus

  • Make high-stakes decisions calmly and confidently.
  • Align work, rest, and nutrition with your natural rhythms to optimize focus and energy.
  • Schedule your tasks and meetings strategically, so your day flows instead of feeling chaotic.
  • Sustain presence, empathy, and resilience, even when your environment demands everything from you.
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How We Deliver Results

Decades of Science, Wisdom, & Real-World Impact

Small, intentional daily habits can reduce up to 80% of chronic disease risk, boost energy, sharpen focus, and stabilize emotions.
Aligning life with natural rhythms improves cognitive performance by up to 20% and reduces burnout.
Strengthening vagal tone enhances calm decision-making and empathy.
Ancient rhythms and insights support long-term clarity, presence, and wellbeing.
Techniques drawn from sports psychology and flow science to train sustained focus, composure, and adaptive leadership.

The Kira Catalyst Method

We restore the foundation of sustainable presence and impact through a 3-phase approach.

Regulate

Phase 1

Focus: Nervous-system awareness and emotional regulation.

Learn to calm your system, not just your mind. Move from constant alertness to grounded clarity. Regulation is the foundation for sustainable focus, recovery, and performance.

  • Calm the nervous system and HPA axis through evidence-based techniques in breath, somatic awareness, and focused presence.
  • Train the body to recover rapidly after high-stress events.
  • Apply micro-practices that stabilize the team during meetings, conflict, and deadlines.

Outcome: Immediate physiological calm, restored energy, and clearer decision-making.

Realign

Phase 2

Focus: Work rhythms, chronobiology, and cognitive performance cycles.

Once your system is steady, we help you realign physiology, mindset, and daily patterns so your energy supports you–not drains you. Align biological and natural timing, integrating circadian science and Vedic principles, to rebuild habits that support focus, rest, and emotional steadiness.

  • Structure workflow, meetings, and focus/recovery blocks according to circadian and ultradian science and environmental rhythms
  • Integrate lifestyle medicine pillars into daily routines.
  • Design seasonal strategy initiatives informed by Vedic timing principles.

Outcome: Higher team energy, consistent focus, and measurable gains in creativity, clarity, and emotional steadiness.

Rise

Phase 3

Focus: Embodied leadership, awareness, and high-performance culture.

Transform regulation and realignment into sustained leadership presence and cognitive clarity. Lead from a calm, grounded center while creating systems and environments where performance and wellbeing reinforce each other.

  • Practice Phase 1 & 2 techniques and attention exercises in awareness labs.
  • Integrate biophilic design into current workspaces to support stress regulation and cognitive performance.
  • Track customized KPIs to measure short- and long-term performance gains and resilience.

Outcome: Leaders and teams operate from stable clarity, embodied presence, and sustained performance, producing measurable improvements in collaboration, decision-making, and resilience.

Kathleen Dwyer, founder of Kira Rising

Meet the Bridge Between Corporate and Healing

Kira Rising was born from experience – not theory.

During law school, I was a high-performer with unmanaged stress. What looked like success from the outside was, on the inside, a slow decline in health.

Years later, life delivered another breaking point – one that required rebuilding everything from the ground up, while becoming a mother on my own.

These were initiations into the truth I now teach. What began as survival became a living practice and the foundation of Kira Rising.

Through the Kira Catalyst Method, I teach the new model of high performance—where excellence is not exhaustion, and calm is your greatest competitive edge.

Our Programs

For Organizations & Teams

We partner with forward-thinking organizations committed to sustainable performance—cultivating resilient, emotionally intelligent teams who stay clear and composed under pressure.

Program Formats

  • Executive Intensives (1–2 days): In-person or virtual training introducing core concepts and strategies.
  • Corporate Cohorts (6–12 weeks): Extended weekly sessions that embed practices into daily routines for sustained change and measurable results.
  • Working Retreats: Off-site, nature-immersed experiences that fully integrate the Kira Catalyst Method while maintaining work productivity.

Optional Add-ons

  • Vedic alignment & personal timing sessions with partner consultants
  • Ecotherapy sessions with partner therapists
  • Lifestyle medicine appointments with partner practitioners

For Individuals

We guide individuals who want to perform at their best while staying grounded-developing clarity, resilience, and presence through science-informed practices and nature-based strategies.

Program Formats

  • 1:1 Nature Integration Consulting — personalized process to design an environment and daily habits that reconnect you with nature.
  • 1:1 Coaching Series (8–12 weeks) — Customized to your energy, goals, and life stage, using the Kira Catalyst Method.

Optional Add-ons

  • Vedic alignment & personal timing sessions with partner consultants
  • Ecotherapy sessions with partner therapists
  • Lifestyle medicine appointments with partner practitioners

Take the Next Step Toward Calm Power

Schedule a Discovery Call

  • 30-minute consultation to map your current obstacles, stress patterns, and performance bottlenecks.
  • Determine the best program format for your goals

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  • Monthly insights on neuroscience, circadian alignment, and lifestyle strategies.
  • Tools and practices that integrate into your daily life.
  • Stay inspired, informed, and connected to a community of high-performing professionals who are rising to calm power.
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