Stop Shrinking Yourself. Your Posture Is Undermining Your Power
3 Steps to Command a Room Without Saying a Word
In corporate spaces, we talk endlessly about executive presence.
Tone, clarity, confidence, gravitas, influence.
But no one talks about the part that actually precedes all of it…
Your physical presence.
Your posture.
Your gait.
Your energy.
Your nervous system.
Your embodiment.
Your body is communication.
You’ve experienced someone who was uncomfortable, shy, or unsure.
How could you tell?
Their walk?
Their posture?
Their body language?
Or the energy they carried?
You knew because we all know,
That our physical presence speaks before we open our mouth.
Even if it didn’t change your decision…
it changed how much mental energy you spent interpreting them.
So, what does this mean?
It means that your presence is a strategy.
It is messaging.
And when you do it right,
It is leadership in motion.
When you understand how to move through the world with embodied power,
You gain an unmatched strategic advantage.
Your presence begins influencing a room before you even take your seat.
And the irony?
We’re taught everything about leadership except how to inhabit the very thing that carries us into the room…
Our body.
Today you get to reclaim that.
Below are 3 ways to move in corporate like a powerful, embodied woman.
Grounded, magnetic, and impossible to ignore.
1. Power Poses Aren’t a Trend…They’re Neurology.
We all remember the viral TED Talk by Amy Cuddy on power poses.
Guess what?
The science holds.
Expanding your body (arms up, chest open, feet grounded) regulates your nervous system, increases feelings of confidence, and decreases stress hormones.
And don’t worry…you don’t have to do them publicly.
Try these micro-power practices…
Before a meeting or presentation, stand tall in the bathroom stall for 30 seconds.
Before a difficult conversation, take a grounding breath with your chest open, shoulders down.
Before you open your laptop in the morning, stretch upward and widen your stance.
These are not “woo-woo.”
It is biology.
It is leadership science.
Your body doesn’t know the difference between performing confidence and embodying it.
Change your posture, change your state, which changes your outcome.
2. Posture: The Plank You Perform All Day
I consider good posture the standing (and sitting) version of a plank.
LOL…I realize that may sound very unappealing, but stay with me.
It’s accurate…and it works.
Posture isn’t just structural.
It’s energetic.
When you sit or stand tall…
Your diaphragm expands.
Your breath deepens.
Your voice strengthens.
Your brain receives more oxygen.
Your presence becomes undeniable.
Your energy field opens and centers simultaneously.
Good posture communicates confidence, poise, and professionalism.
But more importantly, it creates internal confidence and calm.
Chi. Prana. Life force.
Whatever language you use, alignment matters.
Slumped posture collapses your energy.
Aligned posture amplifies your energy.
And I’ll say it…
Good posture in a boardroom is timeless, elegant, and unmistakably powerful.
3. Walk From Your Womb, Not Your Shoulders
This one is a reclamation.
Women have been unconsciously trained to walk like men in the workplace.
Head forward.
Shoulders tight.
Energy trapped in the upper body.
Mind buzzing with thoughts.
There’s nothing embodied about it.
But when you drop into your body…
When you allow your hips to lead and naturally roll…
When you walk from your womb space rather than your forehead…
Something ancient wakes up.
Something powerful.
Something undeniably feminine.
This is not sexual.
This is sovereign.
It is the movement of a woman who is connected to her instinct, intuition, and internal authority.
Walking from your hips…
Regulates your nervous system
Softens cortisol-driven tension
Grounds your energy
Increases confidence and presence
Signals embodiment rather than anxiety
Emits a frequency of self-trust that people feel before you speak
This is divine feminine leadership.
Not performative… but primal.
And yes, I know the corporate world pretends the body is taboo.
Trust me, I spent 20+ years in HR.
But the truth is…
Your body is what shows up at work.
Your body influences how others perceive you.
Your body impacts how you perceive yourself.
Executive presence is physical.
It always has been.
So what do you think?
Will you start paying attention to how you carry yourself at work?
How you sit, stand, breathe, walk, and take up space?
Because the reality is this…
Your leadership is not separate from your body.
Your power is not separate from your posture.
Your confidence is not separate from your walk.
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When you embody your leadership, you don’t just enter a room.
Your presence arrives first…
And announces you.
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