AN APPROACH TO WELLNESS THAT INVITES YOU TO RECONNECT WITH YOUR INNER, OUTER, AND HIGHER SELF IN A TRANSFORMATIVE AND SUSTAINABLE WAY.
If you’re exhausted by the constant churn of wellness trends, hacks, and conflicting information, then join us in slowing down and moving towards a more sustainable and long lasting rhythm of self-care that cultivates intention and anchors us in the present.
Here, we show up for ourselves, rather than fix ourselves. The invitation is to reconnect with ourselves and celebrate the practice as the achievement. Through engaging with the Soma (living body) Slow Wellness is an opportunity to move emotional energy, self regulate, and create rituals that honour your humanity, not override it.
Informed by somatic psychology, Slow Wellness™ takes a body-up approach to mind-body care. More than a science, it’s a felt sense — a living, evolving experience that unfolds over a lifetime.
THE FOUNDATION: PATHWAYS OF SLOW WELLNESS
Built on three pathways that work together to support your journey toward authentic wellbeing, each pathway is interconnected; care for one inevitably nurtures them all. Start anywhere, with whatever time you have, using whichever focus feels most accessible. Dive deeper to discover which pathway calls you first.
INNER SELF
The subtle terrain of your thoughts, feelings, intuition, and nervous system.
OUTER SELF
Return home to your physical body, not just as a machine for productivity, but as a source of wisdom, connection, beauty, and power.
HIGHER SELF
Our sense of belonging to Self and the collective. It explores how you orient to meaning, intuition, creativity, rest, and energy.
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THE METHOD TO THE MOVEMENT: R.I.T.U.A.L
R.I.T.U.A.L. is a simple 6-step repeatable technique you can apply to any of the three pathways and any self-care practice. It's a gentle structure that helps you move with intention and make your wellness work with you not against you.
R.I.T.U.A.L. deepens your awareness and returns you home to yourself. Apply it when making choices about food, movement, rest, and self-care. The method becomes a way to pause, regulate, and choose what is in your highest good.
RECOGNIZE where you are
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This is your honest starting point, observe and acknowledge your current state and which pathway is calling for attention, without judgment.
INTENTIONAL SPACE created for authentic presence
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Set a boundary around this moment that says "this time is mine" however brief it may be. Once you make space, set a clear intention for your practice.
TUNE IN to your senses to be more present
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Engage one or more senses. Use scent, touch, sound, taste, or sight as anchors for your attention and invitation to sense your practice.
UNWIND let yourself slow down and return to sensation
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Notice what surfaces when you quiet the mind and listen to yourself without trying to control or improve. Move from optimization to sensation. The data is in what you notice.
ALLOW integration without forcing outcomes
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Notice shifts without forcing outcomes.
LIVE the practice
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Take small consistent actions that build bridges between your practice and everyday life. Create sustainable transformation through gentle consistency.
YOUR GUIDE: MELISSA NKOMO
I started Kunye as both a calling and a counter-movement to oppose the optimization and hyper-consumption culture of wellness.
Drawing from neuroscience, somatic psychology, and mindfulness practices, I developed the Slow Wellness approach to help people regulate their nervous systems, rebuild trust with their bodies, and restore a sense of ease and meaning in daily life.
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The Slow Wellness Club
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Feel better with evidence based strategies and actionable advice guided by Melissa Nkomo. The Slow Wellness Club meets virtually on Substack. What’s waiting for you there?
Digital Rituals: Dive into curated mindfulness and beauty practices that seamlessly fit into your busy life. with guided video and audio sessions via the substack app.
Expert-Led Sessions: to help you learn (and unlearn) habits, beliefs and strategies for self-regulation.
Rewire: Develop a sustainable wellness practice and that aligns with your vision and values for your life
Community Connection: Courses, workshops, and collective learning experiences that teach the science and spirit of sustainable well-being with like-minded individuals