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What happens when you've achieved the success you thought you wanted, but your body, intuition, and soul are telling you something isn't right?
In this episode of The ThriveWorthy Podcast, Alicia sits down with her friend and healer Vinni Taneja, founder of Chakra Wellness, for a deeply personal conversation about career reinvention, intuition, nervous system regulation, energy, and what it really means to come back into alignment.
Alicia and Vinni share a fascinating parallel in their stories. Both spent decades building successful corporate HR careers and ultimately reached CHRO roles, something each once saw as the pinnacle of professional success. And separately, both came to realize that the lives they had worked so hard to build were no longer where they were meant to stay.
Vinni shares what it was like to know for years that corporate life wasn't truly aligned for her, yet continue following the path she believed she was supposed to follow. Eventually, the signs became too loud to ignore.
She left her executive role without a perfect plan, followed a long-standing pull to Nepal for yoga teacher training, and returned home ready to create Chakra Wellness.
Together, Alicia and Vinni explore how our conditioning can disconnect us from what we actually want, why our bodies often recognize misalignment before our minds do, and how slowing down can help us hear the quieter voice of intuition.
They also dive into the chakra system, simple practices for feeling more grounded and balanced, our relationship with energy, manifestation and gratitude, and why Vinni believes intuition is a skill we can strengthen with practice.
And stay with the episode through the end, when Vinni guides you through a beautiful chakra-balancing meditation designed to help you feel calmer, more grounded, and reconnected to yourself.
In This Episode
• How conditioning can lead us toward careers and lives that look good but don't feel right
• Vinni's journey from accounting and auditing to HR executive, healer, and entrepreneur
• Reaching the pinnacle of your career and realizing it isn't where you're meant to be
• The physical and nervous-system signals Vinni experienced when she was deeply out of alignment
• The discomfort of moving from the familiar into a completely different way of living
• Leaving corporate without a perfect plan and following the signs that led Vinni to Nepal
• How to tell the difference between the louder voice of ego and the quieter voice of intuition
• Why Vinni considers intuition a skill that becomes stronger the more we use it
• Chakras 101 and how Vinni thinks about energetic imbalance
• Simple practices for coming back into balance through breath, meditation, yoga, nourishment, and self-awareness
• Vinni's perspective on manifestation, gratitude, and dreaming bigger
• A guided meditation through the seven main chakras
Timestamps
04:53 – Vinni's story: intuition, childhood conditioning, and choosing a traditional career path
08:01 – Reaching the top of the corporate ladder while knowing the path wasn't truly aligned
10:31 – When Vinni's body and nervous system began signaling: “abort mission”
15:24 – Leaving corporate and Vinni's “Eat, Pray, Love” journey to Nepal
18:32 – Realizing how deeply the corporate pace was still living in her nervous system
21:46 – Walking away without a plan, asking for a sign, and finding her way to Nepal
27:33 – How to trust your body, intuition, and the path you can't fully see yet
29:32 – Ego vs. intuition and why intuition gets stronger with practice
33:02 – Chakras 101: recognizing where you may be out of alignment
37:24 – Practical ways to come back into balance
42:04 – Energy, sensitivity, and the energetic exchanges happening around us
45:25 – Manifestation, gratitude, and why Vinni says to dream bigger
50:39 – Guided chakra-balancing meditation
59:51 – Vinni's closing wisdom: emotions, slowing down, and making time for meditation
1:01:50 – “I can't meditate”: why your mind doesn't need to be completely quiet
A Guided Practice for You
Beginning at approximately 50:39, Vinni leads listeners through a guided meditation moving through the seven main chakras.
Through breath, visualization, color, and affirmations, she guides you from the root chakra through the crown, with intentions around feeling safe and grounded, making space for creativity, connecting with your wisdom, giving and receiving love, speaking your authentic truth, trusting your intuition, and connecting with your higher self.
Come back to this part of the episode anytime you need a few minutes to pause, breathe, and reconnect with yourself.
About Vinni
Vinni Taneja is the founder of Chakra Wellness and a former corporate HR executive who left her traditional career to pursue work centered around healing, wellness, and spiritual growth.
Through Chakra Wellness, Vinni brings together modalities including yoga, meditation, Reiki, sound healing, chakra balancing, breathwork, and other healing practices designed to help people reconnect with mind, body, and spirit.
Connect with Vinni:
Visit Chakra Wellness to learn more about Vinni, her services, events, retreats, and healing offerings.
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