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EMOTIONAL FITNESS IN NYC

A WORKOUT FOR YOUR
NERVOUS SYSTEM

Music-driven breathwork that helps you regulate stress, build resilience, and feel more like yourself.
Vinyl record floating underwater above a person breathing out
Show Up · Breathe · Leave Different · Show Up · Breathe · Leave Different · Show Up · Breathe · Leave Different · Show Up · Breathe · Leave Different · Show Up · Breathe · Leave Different · Show Up · Breathe · Leave Different · Show Up · Breathe · Leave Different · Show Up · Breathe · Leave Different ·

WHAT IS NERV?

A NEW CATEGORY. EMOTIONAL FITNESS.

You train your body. You see a therapist. But nobody taught you how to maintain your nervous system, the thing that runs every emotion, every decision, every reaction you have all day long.
nerv is breathwork built for modern life. High-energy. Music-driven. And flexible, because we believe powerful breathwork doesn’t need a candlelit hour. Twenty minutes can shift your day. A full class can reset your week.
Not a retreat. Not a healing circle. A training ground for people with sh*t to do.

WAYS TO

WORK WITH ME

01

AT WORK

FOR TEAMS

Bring intentional resets into the workday to help employees regulate stress, stay engaged, and perform at their best without running on empty. From one-time experiences to ongoing programming.

02

FOR YOUR PEOPLE

PRIVATE EVENTS

Private breathwork experiences for wellness gatherings, brand events, birthdays, retreats, friend groups, and more.

03

JUST YOU

PRIVATE 1:1S

Personalized breathwork sessions designed around what you’re navigating — stress, transition, feeling stuck, emotional release, clarity or simply creating space.

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OPEN TO ALL

UPCOMING SESSIONS

Experience nerv at upcoming classes, collaborations and pop-ups across NYC and beyond.
n

NOTICE

See what’s happening before it controls you.
e

EXHALE

Release what no longer serves the moment.
r

RESET

Begin again. Break the stress circuit.
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VIBE

Regulated, present, fully yourself.
Zena Margolis, founder of nerv, in a breathwork studio

MEET ZENA

I BURNED OUT AT AMAZON.
THEN I FOUND BREATH.

I spent 13 years in corporate. My last role was at Amazon. I was pregnant with my second daughter, running on empty, and eventually knew something had to change.

So I left.

During my year off, I walked into my first breathwork class. I lay down, closed my eyes, and 45 minutes later felt like someone had cleared a browser with 400 open tabs.

My first thought: why isn’t this everywhere?

The practice clicked immediately. The experience around it didn’t. The spiritual jargon, woo aesthetic, and ceremonial feel seemed to alienate the exact people I thought could benefit from it — people like me who were stressed, overstimulated, overthinking, and constantly “on.”

So I built what I wished had existed.

Breathwork for people who don’t think breathwork is for them.

nerv is the thing I needed and couldn’t find. I have a feeling I’m not the only one.

ZENA MARGOLIS

Founder, nerv

IN THEIR WORDS

“
Thanks for this amazing class. I felt the anxiety leaving my body and it made my day so full.

NINA

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