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Before Theory of Slow existed, I spent time working with Kiran. Through her thoughtful questions, clarity, and unwavering presence, she helped me reconnect with my own inner compass and find the momentum to take the next steps.
Kiran’s work is rooted in helping women come back to themselves—through the body, through lineage, and through the deeper intelligence that often goes unheard in the noise of everyday life. As a conscious leadership coach, she brings a grounded lens to feminine awakening, inviting women to lead from clarity and their inner truth.
What has always stood out to me is the sincerity behind her path: her commitment to her own practice, her connection with her roots, and the humility with which she speaks about growth. This feature is a chance to step behind the framework of her offerings and understand the real journey that informs them—the breakdowns, the rituals, the teachings, and the spaces that shaped her into who she is today.
Q Can you recall the first moment you truly recognized the feminine as a living force in your life, and how did it influence your relationship with the feminine wisdom you carry today?
A Thank you for this, it’s actually so beautiful to look back in this way because it shows me she was always there. There are a few stand out moments, when I was 19 I met a sincere, enlightened Himalayan Master who used to travel the world teaching about meditation rooted in Kashmiri Shaivism. This encounter and years of practice after were a deep feminine awakening as I fell in love with Her, the Divine Mother. This was the phase I began to know Her in ritual and rooted in culture, yet still not truly touching all of my life. There was still this fragmentation. My life looked very different back then, I was a lawyer and very anxious, not rooted in my body and quite troubled to be honest with little clarity on my life. Yet as someone put it back then, when I sang or meditated the Mother came (and I was showing up to this with intensity) and so there was this grace that was quietly integrating in the background.
This led to a series of unexpected guided leaps into the unknown, first moving to Kenya, then calling in a job that was super supportive for that phase of my life and then beginning to take coaching certifications for fun. The next big moment was a calling to begin coaching full time and it’s when I noticed how internalised a hyper masculine way of being was in how I navigated my work and life. It becomes painfully obvious once you don’t have a boss and you realise you’re doing things in a way that are forceful or rooted in scarcity. This led to a deeper feminine awakening. So alongside my practices I started to work with my female nervous system and get closer to feminine wisdom as a way of being rather than just a devotion in my practice.
The shift, which only keeps deepening, is this anchoring in the body, this trust in self, life and receptivity where I could actually stop grasping, striving and forcing and allow my business and life to unfold in ways that feel true. It’s incredibly nourishing for women to come back to their native state as embodied abundance, and I have greater and greater access to this feminine remembrance.
Q You often speak of India with a sense of reverence and belonging. Are there particular places, people, or landscapes that have shaped your becoming—spaces that continue to call you back to yourself? What have they revealed about the feminine that can only be learned through presence, relationship, and lived experience?
A Gosh such beautiful questions! Yes, my journey India gives me an undeniable grace like nothing else. A simple and profound part of this I believe is that your ancestral land has something for you if you are receptive to it. There is a homecoming and access to parts of self that comes from simply being in India with reverence (and my trip to Pakistan too), it takes no effort on my part. It’s swimming in a river or a morning walk and something is anchoring. I feel this the most when I go to Ganeshpuri, a little village outside of Mumbai where the root of my spiritual lineage began (where the teacher I met when I was 19 learnt).
You’re right to recognise that these trips are beyond a book, course or training. I think any place where there are wisdom keepers who are preserving ancient ways of being (actually knowing how to village) and tending to altars in ways that draw out the potency of sacred spaces are so, so transformative. It’s also easy to miss though if you don’t have the right access points (people, places and practices). But if you do, it’s all these layers, the motherland, the preserving of ritual, the wisdom keepers and being in practice here which make the entire trip a receiving portal. There’s just so much of Her grace overflowing in India (and a lot of trickster energy which means you can easily miss it all).
Q Looking back, was there a breakdown, breakthrough, or pivotal moment that fundamentally changed your relationship with your path? How did that journey reshape your understanding of power, moving it from something measured by achievement and output to something rooted in embodiment?
A Part of my own maturation process has been to move away from the idea that a big moment is going to change everything and instead just stick with the process as the entire point. But if I had to pick a defining lesson it would be just recognising how much we neglect and under-resource ourselves as women by being attuned to everyone else or trying to perpetually be the good girl. If you recognise yourself in this, I want you to know it’s actually natural. The female nervous system is more sensitive to the social nervous system. There’s so much unintentional self abandonment from looking outward rather than turning inward, opening up to receive and consciously cultivating yin energy. It takes practice to attune to your own needs, desires and voice.
Mistaking productivity for power comes from not being in touch with the power of your beingness. The first step is often recognising where you are trying to earn power or love or validation through productivity. The more you anchor in your true power and rest here in your inherent power, the more you can unwind from the ways you strive to prove your worth no matter the cost. This ends up being incredibly extractive. A more specific answer of something that has been helpful is being in relationship with my menstrual cycle and being able to surrender to what consistency looks like when I am attuned to my body rather than this hard line of productivity no matter what.
Q You often speak about embodiment as a source of wisdom and abundance. How has your relationship with your body evolved as a guide on your path? What does embodied abundance actually feel like for you? As someone who holds space for others, how do you honour those signals while remaining open and receptive to the world around you?
A Embodied abundance is the somatic baseline of anchoring in your innate nature as abundant and creational and feeling how life, God, the earth and your own nature wants to pour into you, if you are open. Everyone’s system is different, for me it feels like this fullness and satiation of being deeply met and nourished by life force in ways that I believe every woman craves but has forgotten how to reach. Then it’s allowing this to invite you into right relationship with everything - your body, money, God, relationships, partnership, leadership and so forth.
Again every system is different which is why I usually take the women I work with through the language of their body to recognise their particular yes and no. A super simple somatic recognition is tuning into a memory of when you were in deep alignment and noticing what that felt like and tuning into a time of dissonance and noting what that contraction feels like. For me, when I am not in alignment I feel the dissonance as this feeling of uneasiness and my mind getting a little scrambled. Then I can slow down to feel into what exactly is creating this dissonance. But at the core of my body of work is being nourished, so as much as this is important, I am very focused on your yes and being able to open to life to receive in ways that makes a lot of what you are a no to naturally fall away.
It takes practice to stay open and not hold everyone’s stuff as a facilitator. Some of it just comes with practice. Then there are 2 very important pieces here - one is I trust the women I work with, I am not saving them or carrying too much for them. This means it’s a little lighter on me but also, I’ve heard again and again that this trust is palpable and so supportive for women to step into their own leadership. The second piece is anchoring in the womb and body has actually made me more sensitive in many refined ways but in a way where it takes much more for me to get dysregulated. Somatic practice tailored to the female nervous system increases your energetic capacity and I’m so grateful. Finally, I am always receiving support so that my work is integrous and this makes a difference too.
Q Looking back, what are the quiet influences that have shaped you most deeply? Perhaps it's a small, almost invisible ritual woven into your daily life, or a book, scripture, or teaching that fundamentally changed the way you see yourself, the feminine, or the world. What continues to stay with you from those encounters?
A Something about me, I love ritual. I love serving at my altar with all the works, not because I have to but because I love it, it’s so fun for me. But if I were to pick something small it would be a practice of contentment. A question I am always asking myself is ‘what is already working?’ or ‘how am I already receiving?’ - this practice of receiving what is really helps me cut through perfectionism and is such a vibrant cornerstone of opening to more.
There is a frame from the Heroine’s Journey by Maurine Murdock which I share often in my work because I find this arc to be accurate and illuminating and has given me a really useful map to give language to what a lot of women are experiencing and to redirect to a homecoming and meet yourself in your process.
Q Through your work with women across different cultures and contexts, what patterns do you see emerging again and again? Do you sense a collective fatigue around achievement, striving, and constant doing, and if so, how is this showing up in the bodies, relationships, and lives of women today? And as women begin to heal and reconnect with themselves, how do you see that transformation rippling outward into families, communities, and the collective?
A I often see the ways women (myself included) tend to be under-resourced and are oriented to neglecting themselves. This manifests in different ways including not being able to anchor in self trust and their authentic vision for their life or business, and feel this despair of being a victim or a savior that comes with people-pleasing. It can also show up as this reluctance or resistance to surrender to the ways that life wants to call you forward. So women will come to me with a dream that has been in their field for years but they can’t act on it or they are going about it in a way that is extracting from themselves in a way that is just not sustainable.
Yes, I have such a visceral sadness around the collective fatigue and the havoc it’s creating in women’s bodies, lives and the world. We're the generation of women who were told we can have it all, and in that we forgot our rhythms and how to move from our wisdom, how to attune, track and listen. It left some women anxious, some burnt out and others chronically sick. It left so many of us disconnected from our bodies and true essence. You see it everywhere - the exhaustion, the rise in autoimmune disease, the dissatisfaction, the anxiety, depression and loneliness and the challenges around reproductive health. But the feminine is also rising because more and more women have had enough and are coming back to a baseline of their inherent value and the courage to do the paradigm shifting inner work which is going to nourish them and be culture shifting for their communities and the collective. I believe in our interconnectedness so I see the work women do as rippling into collective consciousness.
Q When you imagine a future defined by embodied leadership, what does it look and feel like? What becomes possible when women lead from devotion, body-wisdom, and wholeness?
A I often wonder if we get to see the fruits of this work at a big overarching collective level in our lifetime. I’m not sure. I have had the opportunity to witness big dramatic shifts that bring to fruition true desires like babies, houses, relationships and business and money expansions while centering the feminine. But honestly, a lot of it is so much more subtle, it’s women feeling more at peace, sensually alive, feeling in coherence and vitality with embracing their life rather than being at odds with a system which doesn’t support them. My hope is for more people to experience this and the vitality and aliveness that comes from here. There’s this lightness of being that comes from living from this.
One day this will be the norm and the result is more connection to self, community, the natural world and humanity. I sometimes feel it, it’s that feeling you get when you sit in the middle of an art gallery or a rain forest and everything is pulsing with life force in ways that are ever deepening and delightful. The more people who say yes to the journey to their authentic success and wholeness, the more it will become possible for us to remember our nature and live from here rather than move further and further away from truth. In the meantime, I’m here for the leader who is longing for a version of life and/or business that she recognises as her own, where she isn’t getting lost in her roles and comes home to her feminine wisdom (in nourishing and vital connection to her body, desire, knowing/nature and the Divine).
