Sacred Business Begins Here: Tiny Acts of Alignment That Change Everything
Hi everyone,
In our live session last week with Nikki Trott, I was struck by how timely the conversation about “sacred business” feels, both personally and collectively. So many of us are standing at the threshold of systems, roles and identities that can no longer hold who we are becoming. The old ways of working, as if we are permanently in the season of summer with relentless output, rigid masculine structures and disembodied decision-making, are cracking.
We can feel the shift in our bodies long before our minds catch up.
What Nikki offered was not a new strategy, but a new way of seeing and sensing that our work is not separate from our inner world, our cycles or our spirit. When we split those things apart, it costs us energy, health, clarity and truth.
For women especially, this lens is a reclamation. It allows us to stop contorting ourselves into shapes that were never meant for us, pushing harder, faster, louder, and instead lead through the intelligence we have been conditioned to downplay: intuition, relational sensitivity, cyclical awareness, embodiment, softness-as-strength.
Nikki shared some wonderful practices from her new book Sacred Business with our community. One simple practice you can use immediately is the expansion and contraction intuition check.
It takes 20 seconds and requires only honesty.
Ask yourself one clear question, for example:
- Is this role still right for me?
- Should I take this opportunity?
- Is this partnership aligned?
Pause.
Feel your body.
Notice whether there is a subtle expansion, a softening, opening, lift or lightness, or a subtle contraction, a tightening, closing or pulling away.
Expansion means yes.
Contraction means no.
That is your intuitive answer. No drama. No analysis. No spreadsheet.
Then Nikki invited us to ask: What does my mind say? The space between those two answers, the felt sense and the thinking, is where your real growth work lives. It is where conditioning, fear, inherited stories and old identities tend to sit.
This is just as true if you are an individual leader choosing whether to stay in a role, take a promotion, launch something new or walk away, or if you are a founder or executive weighing a partnership, a strategy shift, a restructure or a funding route.
In both cases, intuition does not replace rational thinking. It simply reveals what is really driving the thinking, so that mind and body can return to alignment.
This is how sacred business begins, not with grand declarations, but with tiny acts of alignment.
The more we practise this, the more we build an inner authority that is not swayed by noise, urgency or external expectations. It allows us to stop forcing clarity and start listening for it. For individuals, decisions become less about what looks impressive or what will please others, and more about what feels aligned and life-giving.
For organisational leaders, these practices open the possibility that businesses can be places of coherence rather than extraction, cultures where people work with their natural rhythms instead of against them, and where intuition sits alongside data as a legitimate source of wisdom.
And right now, at this moment in the world and in our lives, that feels not just helpful but necessary.
If this way of working appeals, please get in touch. Nikki and I will be running an in-person workshop and retreat in 2026, exploring related topics.
Lastly, I will be speaking with many other fantastic practitioners in our guest LIVES throughout 2026, so please do join us.
May we hold on to the sacred in what can feel like the seasonal madness - wishing everyone a blessed holiday season and Merry Christmas.
Remi xx
